Colin Simpson

ANU community members, please help complete this governance survey.

The organizers are seeking high volume of responses before the Senate hearing next Tuesday.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I'm bombarded by notifications about Moodle updates for my self hosted instance. Moodlecloud is another easier option.

Bugging out is therapy

One swallow does not a summer make. Blanket statements in either direction are, of course, foolish.

I play games to escape my reality thank you

I made an anti-AI post on LinkedIn and the people angry or defensive all have Visionary or Founder as their listed role, and everyone agreeing with me has a real job. Amazing how that is.

Oh the cookers are going to go ballistic, aren't they?

When you offend the space doctor, he just picks up his monkey and leaves

Current population of Tuvalu: 9,000+

Def botlickers, closely followed by sloppers.

Growing cotton in this country is a climate crime

You can take my em-dash from my cold dead hands.

A bare tree’s limbs, branches and roots come together to give the appearance of a human dancer.

“Jazz hands!”

Sounds like a problem taking care of itself really :)

🤣 Fix This Sign https://xkcd.com/3113/

Cartoon robot holding a tin can phone. Text says TELedvisors WA meetup - Meeting the challenge of AI in assessment. Fri 11 Jul 9am ECU Mt Lawley Campus

Today we have our first (hopefully of many) TELedvisors meetups in Western Australia. It's great to see that it is booked out! Huge thanks to Antony Tibbs for bringing this all together, to the presenters for sharing their expertise and to Edith Cowan Uni and ASCILITE also

Thank you, as always, for sharing from the conference Joanna

If only someone would hold that conversation

A US appeals court blocks FTC's "click-to-cancel" rule, which was set to take effect on July 14, saying it failed to conduct a preliminary cost-benefit analysis (Jody Godoy/Reuters)

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Why is learning faster a motivating concept? It's core marketing for pushing edtech tools. I know people want to qualify faster but most _learning_ theory is about the success of the slow burn.

Hang in there!

I think using GenAI to do peer reviews is probably the greater abuse of technology.

Based on the stories that gradually emerged about non-prompted voice recordings being stored from Alexas and housemaps from Roombas, it is hard to believe that any data is considered off-limits.

Very weird article - what is the deal with "She keeps her age to herself - and off Wikipedia, for example - because a date of birth would enable malicious people to find out too much. But she is in her late 50s"

Find out too much what exactly?

Always has been

patter research education, academic writing, public engagement, funding, other eccentricities.

I just saw someone said they couldn't find the academic writing community here. Here are the people I follow for academic advice @patthomson.bsky.social
#AcademicBlueSky
patthomson.net

He looks like he should be wearing a bow tie

Great read and a very valuable practical resource

Couldn't read the article due to the paywall :(