Wikipedia claims one neutral article per topic, but the French, German and Spanish versions of the same page tell noticeably different stories. A look at what gets kept, dropped or reframed as facts cross language boundaries, and what that means for anyone who assumes a translated document reads the same as the original.
Scholarly publishing worries about what AI takes from journals, i.e. scraped data, chatbot-written submissions, and stolen IP. But as researchers turn to LLMs to find and synthesise the literature, some work stops showing up at all, and small, regional and specialist journals have the most to lose.
I’ve read a lot of scoping reviews this month as a reader, a reviewer and an editor. They shared more or less the same format. A brief intro, PRISMA-ScR flow diagram, a methods paragraph quickly noting how screening was done (often using Rayyan), a results section that mostly took the form of a table, and Continue reading "Should we stop doing scoping reviews?"
This post is probably more niche and falls into the category of “thinking out loud” than usual, but might be of interest if you’re involved in teaching. Many of us in higher education have been busy over the past year, mapping our degree-level learning outcomes to secured assessments (the kind designed so we can actually Continue reading "What does it actually mean to secure an assessment?"
Calls to cut tobacco excise in order to undercut Australia’s booming black market sound superficially plausible, but the numbers and evidence don’t stack up. Legal cigarettes would still remain far more expensive than illicit ones, the tobacco industry has a long history of absorbing tax changes into its own margins, and international evidence suggests black markets are driven more by enforcement…
A paper published in Nature last week described an AI system that can conceive, execute, and write up research with no humans in the loop - and get it through peer review. This isn't a distant threat to research jobs and the knowledge economy. It's already here, and institutions have no plan.
I want to share something I m trying in my teaching. I’m not sure it’ll work but I think the idea is worth putting out there, partly because the alternative approaches I keep seeing online undermine trust and seem, well, a bit gross. The prompt that prompted me If you ve spent any time in higher education Continue reading "From catching out to helping out: embedding transparent AI collaboration…
As many of you in the southern hemisphere are heading into a new teaching year, I suspect you re having the same conversations I was having this time last year: what are we doing about AI in our courses? Are we going to keep pretending we can ban it? Ignore it? Hoping someone else figures it Continue reading "What happened when I got 400 students to use AI for an assessment"
Solarpunk films depict ecological restoration, community-focused solutions, and hopeful futures. Through watching 37 movies I found that effective storytelling integrates technology and nature, emphasises collective action, and interconnects social justice with environmental sustainability, offering transformative visions of the future.
Our teenagers, and the communities they’re finding, deserve better than the harmful policy theatre of Australia’s social media ban.