Higher Ed investigator fellow, assessment security enthusiast, cheating non-enthusiast, dog father, record spinner, urban hillbilly. Views my own.

Sydney, Australia
Joined January 2022
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SOLT research is really "salting the earth" of the higher education Carthage, hey. Nothing good grows from colleges and departments where people pass off pedagogical thought bubbles as disciplinary research
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"Interbrigadisten vor Teruel" (International Brigades at Teruel) by Gerhard Kurt Müller  1966-67. The town and looming sky behind reminds me of El Greco's view of Toledo, as do the elongated characters. Criticised at the time in the GDR for unheroic portrayal of fighters. The feel of cold is patent. There were some 30,000 casualties from frostbite in this key battle of the Spanish Civil War. Dresden, New Masters Gallery.
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Lmao @ detector enthusiasts. Get a new job suckers.
Cambiar una coma por un punto ha hecho que el detector pasase de un 36% de IA a un 100% humano. Los detectores son una puta mierda. Así de claro. Una coma. He cambiado una coma de mi propio escrito.
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Kane Murdoch retweeted
I reminded my History students that at about their age another historian called E. P. Thompson was serving as a tank commander in North Africa and Italy during World War II. So could they please not call their sit-down blue book exam “traumatic”. They took it in a good spirit.
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Position statement. If Zionism were simply about establishing the right of Jews to live safely wherever they are, including in their ancestral homeland, I would be a Zionist. But this isn't what Zionism is about. It is, and always has been, about creating a Jewish-majority state in a land where the majority of people are not Jewish. This necessarily means either removing most non-Jews or denying them citizenship. Zionists have done, and are still doing, both. I believe in the right of ALL people to live safely wherever they are. I oppose every means used to drive people out of their homes and lands: mass murder, ethnic cleansing, systematic violence, denial of citizenship, violation of basic human rights. Zionism uses all these means to create and maintain its Jewish state. Therefore I am an anti-Zionist.
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Very silly, very untrue things that phds tell themselves. Spectacularly untrue.
If you properly did your PhD you’re prepared for any job, because you learned how to learn and research on your own
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In fact, this is "senior management" thinking. No need to know anything at all, ever. A generic set of "skills" is endlessly deployable, regardless of situation of circumstance. It explains a lot about the operation of universities, and why they're doing so terribly atm.
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We were told in our teacher education courses not to grade with red ink because its association with being wrong could cause the students to feel stigmatized. When I say there is no idea so stupid that someone with a PhD in education won’t advocate for it, I mean it.
I remember in teacher training reading a moronic paper that ended with teachers lining up to a garbage can to theatrically throw away the red pens they used to correct student writing. Unhelpful.
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Holiday leave view off the front deck.
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Kane Murdoch retweeted
The Turkish #papermill #fraud Fatih Sen just got another retraction!👇This idiot hasn't published a single legit paper. It's all fake! He made an entire career on fake science/publications. @universitemdpu however still supports their super star! doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2…
Hard to keep track with frauds like Fatih Sen! 2 extra retractions are in👇 Fatih Sen is one of the biggest Turkish frauds but @universitemdpu fully support #fraud! Sen only published fake #papermill stuff. He is a total fraud.
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Ouch. But also yes, this is absolutely true. Zero concern for total failure of assessment is just one indicator.
Replying to @0Beanie05923291
The answer is that the declines in learning as measured by testing are irrelevant. What matters to progressives is having an “authentic learning experience” not if it aids some future goal. The progressives are not goal-directed, they’re aimless, drifting deadbeats.
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Reading is one of the best things you can do and costs like $20 for six hours, tops. In many cases it's free. The people who make it possible live in penury and the whole modern economy is organized against it.
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Kane Murdoch retweeted
Replying to @DavidAstinWalsh
Change will never come from the core of the Academia or from the core of the profession/professors/teachers but from outside. It will come perhaps from the work done by professors at small community colleges, and from people who the core considers to be outsiders. It has always been the case.
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Strongly endorse these Univ. of Chicago committee recs: -Device-free reading spaces -Limited-tech writing labs -Computerized, asynchronous no-AI testing facilities -Innovative class cadences and schedules incorporating these
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So many are doing 8. Pro-tip: psychologists will say what you want them to say if you pay them money.
Millennials, it's time to choose your midife crisis 1. Date a 24 year old 2. Quit drinking and tell everyone you don’t drink anymore 3. Drink heavily 3-4 times a week 4. Train for a marathon and or Hyrox 5. Have a panic baby (with wife you hate) 6. "We're opening the relationship" (she bangs, guy tries too and fails? 7. Get divorced to feel something 8. Get diagnosed with adult ADHD/autism 9. Niche side quests like rock climbing, gardening, handstands 10. Get very into video games
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It’s going to get worse but we are rapidly becoming a society of two types of people, ones who can function normally the way people have for thousands of years, and the other who have intellectually neutered themselves in the delusional belief that it is to become more efficient
So the people that are anti AI, do you like, not use AI at all??? Like not using it for generative art, and paying artists, I understand, but you're behinnnndddd if you refuse to touch it
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Having to reveal to first-year college students that their K-12 education left them mathematically illiterate is so depressing.
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