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Miriam Reynoldson

@miriamreynoldson.bsky.social

Learning designer, PhD candidate, writer, gardener, artist, part-time militant environmentalist. Bad at small talk, regular exercise, and maintaining my patience. I am tired of talking about GenAI. Longer rambles @ https://themindfile.substack.com

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Latest posts by miriamreynoldson.bsky.social on Bluesky

Show! What did you make? This is awesome :)

06.04.2025 00:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Tending my own garden I’d like to share a silly secret of mine today. I’m doing all this (eschewing full time work, enrolled in an extended academic project with social cred) because it gives me an excuse to garden a whole...

Sunday bloomscrolling

themindfile.substack.com/p/tending-my...

06.04.2025 00:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Lukewarm take: "friendly reminders" are passive aggressive

01.04.2025 23:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The two-lane approach has us veering further off track In the mad scramble to lock down assessment security and devalue the role of developmental assessment, have we lost the ability to trust students altogether?

Assessment in the AI age. Is it even their work? Do they even care? What are we to do?

USyd offers a two-lane approach: secure or open conditions. This doesn't sit well with me. Here's my attempt to explain why.

#assessment #AIineducation #evaluativejudgement

31.03.2025 01:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
“I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.” Hayao Miyazaki

“I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.” Hayao Miyazaki

www.euronews.com/culture/2025...

28.03.2025 22:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

23.03.2025 22:11 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

This is the strategy to follow right now. Keep doing the thing, but as a consultant. The world needs you.

02.03.2025 03:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

my sweet and gentle Jesus.

hard no, you salivating deathgrift morons

28.02.2025 20:58 — 👍 19    🔁 7    💬 3    📌 0

More dumb AI shit no one asked for while the world burns and people forget how to relate to each other 🙄

31.12.2024 19:49 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Third space topologies: A speculative renovation of university role architecture A recap (or perhaps a wishful revision) of the presentation I gave at the Third Space Symposium, Melbourne 2024

Sharing a writeup of the thinking informing my #ThirdSpace Symposium presentation. If you dwel in the university's third space, what are your expressions of this in-between imaginary. @eam0.bsky.social @davecormier.bsky.social @joanncattlin.bsky.social?

themindfile.substack.com/p/third-spac...

06.12.2024 02:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is that a bill and ted reference you just thought you'd slip in there quietly

05.12.2024 06:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Person with their open hand raised and spread in front of them. The word "no" is written in red on their palm.

Person with their open hand raised and spread in front of them. The word "no" is written in red on their palm.

Why is it not ok to say no to GenAI? Yeah, I know they're slipping it into our drinks, so a hardline policy of "none for me thanks" is not going to result in an AI-free diet.

But last time I checked, when someone ignored your choice not to consent, that didn't make your choice irrelevant.

05.12.2024 00:33 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

What is going on? I am not sure if I am awake, or on Earth.

24.11.2024 12:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Be there! Hosted at the Unimelb campus on Sunday 1 Dec.

19.11.2024 21:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

PS. I apologise for making Bluesky weird D:

19.11.2024 21:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Are you saying that less, or more, things are bleeding than I would expect?

19.11.2024 21:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I think it's only creepy if you're not into bleeding crucifixes.

19.11.2024 11:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

What if he named it X and then we dumped him

19.11.2024 11:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"Come to my church, where we can continue this conversation"

19.11.2024 11:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

They don't make dollars, either

19.11.2024 01:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

That's the way to do it!

19.11.2024 01:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sick of doomscrolling? Try 🔥BLOOMSCROLLING🔥

18.11.2024 21:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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A Speculative Third Space Renovation

Are you a university #thirdspacer? If it were a physical space, what would the "third space" actually look like?

Share your thoughts on the Third Space Slowposium collaborative mural here miro.com/app/board/uX...

@teledvisors.bsky.social

17.11.2024 09:28 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I note the subtle distinction in your phrasing: not "teach A chemistry class", teach MY chemistry class".

17.11.2024 06:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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bird sounds

16.11.2024 15:13 — 👍 29445    🔁 6015    💬 205    📌 228

Look today I feel like "X" was pretty apposite

17.11.2024 02:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I respect your position -- I feel the same about "vegan prawns". BUT try vegetarian duck it has changed my life

16.11.2024 23:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Perhaps the aggressive critic in me is driven by wild optimism 🥲 I make the "eating meat" analogy because even though carnivory (shh it's a word now) has been around a hella long time, we're still seeing social change in the form of meatless alternatives and growing acceptance for them.

16.11.2024 22:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

... I do object to your suggestion that critic-creator-consumer represents an "ideal scenario". The argument "it's not going away" isn't a case for eating meat or excluding minorities, and it's not a case for using AI despite moral objections. But yay for liminal identities and transitions! [2/2]

16.11.2024 22:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

So many three-pronged category lists of AI-orientation. "Doomster, booster, critic", "critic, creator, consumer", "apostle, atheist, agnostic". I always violently object to "there are X kinds of people" claims, so I love that you've emphasised the intersections. It won't surprise you that... [1/2]

16.11.2024 21:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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