Gemma Killen

What teachers need to know before using AI for Indigenous education If you ask ChatGPT to write a Welcome to Country, it might caution that only an elder can deliver a Welcome and instead offer you a template of an Acknowledgement of Country. There’s just one problem:...

Great to have the chance to talk about our research in this article for The Point! In it we emphasise the risks GenAI raises for Indigenous Education and what came from our recent study testing LLMs on Indigenous topics. 🦘🎓 #edusky #academicsky

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Former #ANU Vice-Chancellor, Genevieve Bell, will receive remuneration of more than half a million a year for the next five years - despite taking 12 months off.

For context, that's more than ANU hoped to 'save' annually by disestablishing the School of Music. 🫠 @nteunion.bsky.social

SA anti-abortion lobbyist in top three national social media spenders - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia Sarah Game’s controversial abortion bill lost in the upper house last night – as details emerged about big spends on Meta advertising.

Anti-abortion campaigner Joanna Howe spent close to $100,000 in one month on anti-abortion advertising on Meta, in the lead up to the anti-abortion bill debate in the SA Parliament. She outspent BHP!

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My son was stillborn in 2020. By allowing working parents time to grieve, Baby Priya’s bill will change lives | Gemma Killen I can hardly imagine how hard it would have been to return to a workplace that had declared that I was not a parent – and that my baby didn’t really count

Thank goodness for advocates like @gemkillen.bsky.social speaking truth to those in positions of power www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump aide freezes on live TV after controversial claim about president A Trump administration official faces criticism after allegedly claiming US President Donald Trump has "plenary authority" while on a live interview with CNN.

This would have been very funny if it wasn't also a terrifying part of the complete eradication of democracy in the states.
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At a time when some use the language of feminism to attack trans rights, it’s vital to see feminist activists and scholars counteract such attacks. Feminist Legal Studies is inviting papers for a special issue that will explore how feminist goals and trans liberation are connected. Check it out.

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I don't know how anyone is getting anything done while the world is the way it is. How to focus on writing my silly little policy briefs or my budget submission when SO MANY things are SO TERRIBLE.

Breaking: Embattled ANU vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell resigns Australian National University vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell has resigned from her position.

Australian National University vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell has resigned from her position.

Australian writers shocked and ‘disgusted’ by closure of 85-year-old literary journal Meanjin After 85 years of continuous publication, Meanjin, Australia’s second-oldest literary journal, is closing.

“If the most prestigious university in Australia will not fund our most prestigious literary journal, then it makes you question whether or not universities actually care about Australian culture.”
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Decision to close Meanjin criticised as act of ‘utter cultural vandalism’ Shutting long-running literary journal, which published emerging writers as well as the cream of Australia’s literary talent, described as ‘enormous loss’

Disgraceful decision.

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Here's fun.
The Business Council of Australia put out a press release and new report about how to make healthcare more efficient. One of the big claims in the press release:

"AI has the potential to free up 30 per cent of a clinician’s time, allowing them to spend more time with Australians"

'Disgraceful': Far-right marchers storm Indigenous group Confronting footage has emerged of protesters storming an Indigenous camp in Melbourne after Sunday's "March for Australia" rallies.

'Disgraceful': Marchers storm Indigenous group

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Extremely cool

To be clear, I feel strongly about safety in childcare, but it is understaffing and high turnover that creates signficant risk in ECEC, and CCTV - with no assurance for workers' or children's right to privacy - will make it worse.

CCTV trial for hundreds of childcare centres to be rolled out later this year Education Minister Jason Clare says the new measures won't be a "silver bullet" but they will help improve the safety of children in childcare.

Let's surveil the predominantly female workforce that is already underpaid and over-stretched and see what that does for staffing levels.

Even where they mention privacy it's in relation to children, not the workers - who are ignored in the whole conversation.

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Didn't you know it was ok to starve sick and disabled people?

When I tell you I screamed in my kitchen this morning Elinor...

‘We want women to have role models’: how Sydney University is enticing more female academics to engineering A mass recruitment campaign with roles reserved solely for women has been launched at a faculty where fewer than one in five academics are female

Dedicated recruitment rounds are becoming more commonplace! For example, this story is from last week:

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That definitely happens here too. Only 1 in 5 workers is in a gender-balanced occupation, and more than half of occupations are male dominated. Almost all (98%) of occupations in Australia have a pay gap in favour of men, even the ones that are predominately done by women.

The median income of a female pathologist is $71k. For a male pathologist, it is $275k. This is why I want to scream everytime someone tells me the pay gap is the result of individual career choices.

Of course, women work less hours than men in many jobs - but in most jobs, that doesn't explain the pay gap. @theguardian.com have made this helpful graph to show the difference btween the pay gap and the hours worked gap. Pathologists have a pay gap of 74% but an hours gap of only 12%.

Female dental assistants work 15% more hours and get paid almost 24% less. Female law clerks work 7% more hours and get paid 16% less. Female miners work 3% more hours and get paid 20% less! I could go on and on.

I am nerding out over the data in Jobs and Skills Australia's Gender Equality Study. Did you know that female truck drivers work 10% more hours and get paid 5% less than male truck drivers? Female family day care workers work 28% more hours and get paid 22% less than male family day care workers!

Australia’s potential surrender of creative content to tech giants for free is shocking. Labor must decide where it stands | Josh Taylor The Productivity Commission appears to have bought into tech companies’ brazen arguments – and caught the Australian government off-guard

Well done to Josh Taylor for sinking the boot into the Productivity Commission's risible report on AI. Rubbish like this suggests it's well past time to abolish the Productivity Commission altogether. Put the funding into actual research, not this nonsense www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The Productivity Commission is floating AI copyright exemptions – with worrying implications for Australian authors and publishers Exemptions to copyright legislation for AI would disadvantage Australian writers – and set a bad precedent.

The Productivity Commission has floated an idea to expand the fair use provision, which would make the kind of scraping AI companies do to train ChatGPT et al legal.

Authors and other creatives are rightly outraged.

NB: this isn't the first time the PC has come for book publishing.

The loss of the school of sociology undermines decades of intellectual investment It would be a big loss for the ANU

"If ANU is serious about preparing students to lead in the public interest as public servants, community organisers, researchers and analysts, it must retain an autonomous, standalone school of sociology."

@nteunion.bsky.social stands against #ANU job cuts.
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This was my list - four out of ten isn't bad!

A whopping 16% of the top THIRTY were women! Only FIVE songs! I don't think it's true that there aren't as many women in Australian music, I think it's just that many Australians don't think of the work of women as exemplary or iconic.

Literally screamed when Untouched started playing