Ashley Juavinett, PhD

As some may know, @analog-ashley.bsky.social & I both have books coming out! We're thinking of doing a "Book Exploder" style of episode of Change, Technically where we talk about the process and habits that help you write a book, science of creativity, and....? What would YOU want to hear??

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This is such a small thing, but after growing up with a clunky walkman I still think it’s magical that I can just plug in a pair of earplugs and listen to music while walking my dog like I’m in some high tech euphoric commercial

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Friends here who are scientists in San Diego, pitch us for our next SASSY show!

forms.gle/N17Dz8oMmoHQ3cPz5

I reward in-class work in teams and projects are team-based. But I also don’t entirely disallow AI (in my programming class). The lesson, I think, is learning how we lead meaningful, connected lives alongside these tools.

I really want to retain these learning communities too and I love meeting students at office hours. I don’t think the answer is avoiding AI entirely (just like it isn’t avoiding our phones entirely). I think the answer is teaching metacognition and self-awareness.

Ahh we haven’t watched this week’s yet but now I’m excited! 😬

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This was a plot line on For All Mankind, no?

The level of enthusiasm that @grimalkina.bsky.social has for lowering the barriers to using AI tools via "crafternoons" is truly, truly unmatched.

We have a choice to perpetuate or eliminate gatekeeping as new technology emerge; in this household, we say DOWN WITH GATES 😤

Ugh, yeah. Took long enough even for Watson who was blatantly a terrible person.

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For a second there I thought kiwi energy was a surprising insight about people from New Zealand

Ah not sure what happened there but hopefully my edit just now fixed it!

~ everything is metacognition ~

Aww thank you Terra! So glad this resonated with you.

This paper started as an exchange here in late 2024 and evolved over the next year into a tidy set of recommendations for labs hoping to build more collaborative coding communities. 🎉

Would love to hear if any of these (really not so "simple") rules resonate with you, and what else you've tried.

Proud to be a Californian and to have signed this letter. 🫡

UC faculty, please add your name!

www.fundcascience.org

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Ohhhhhhh I figured it out 👖

There are a lot of very disturbing things in this video but perhaps the most disturbing to me is how that man gives the finger

WE get to decide how we use AI. We can resist when it encroaches in spaces where we don't want it. We can welcome it for tasks and thought experiments where we would find it useful.

In the best kind of learning, the learner drives the bus. 🚌 And yes, you can do that with AI.

You can learn with AI - Change, Technically Can people learn in the AI era? Ashley and Cat think so. We talk about Ashley's experiences teaching programming and co-designing WITH students (not against them) to create shared classroom norms arou...

My favorite moment in our new episode is when @grimalkina.bsky.social calls me out on saying "it [the Claude skill] made me do X," and "it made me do Y," when really, it was *me* the whole time.

... and that's exactly the point.

www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/epis...

New — This was projected on the US Institute of Peace building this evening ahead of the first meeting tomorrow of Trump’s farcically-named “Board of Peace.”

Photo taken by person who was over there tonight. Unclear who’s behind the projection.

Get involved in something local you can do with others

This… is enticing. They may need to make it an auction!

DUDE. Anyone with a spare $6K-$50K to donate to oceanographic research gets to name a newly-discovered deep-sea creature! Annelids! Slugs! Sea stars! TUBE WORMS!

PS Oooooo potential sea slug namers, I don't think Sluggy McSlugface is taken yet!

scripps.ucsd.edu/giving/name-...

When we fight, we win.

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Just a room of humans trying to figure shit out

Confirmed AI hater but would kill to take this kind of intro to programming class

And I would love to have you in class!

@grimalkina.bsky.social and I have opinions as usual open.spotify.com/episode/07ve...