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Guy Curtis

@guycurtis10.bsky.social
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Assoc Prof in psychology at the University of Western Australia (UWA) #academicintegrity enthusiast, Co-Editor of Higher Education Research and Development.

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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Before GenAI, research I led showed that contract cheating was more common than most people in higher education believed. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... New reporting GenAI hasn't killed contract cheating; businesses are now facilitating cheating in-person exams. share.google/oKGTFpWrPjqC...
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Moving beyond self-reports to estimate the prevalence of commercial contract cheating: an Australian study
The highest estimates of the prevalence of commercial contract cheating in Australia come from self-report surveys, which suggest that around 2% of students engage in commercial contract cheating d...
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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Psychology Board of Australia have disregarded the majority opinion in the feedback they received on their proposal to redesign training of psychologists in Australia. This is utterly unacceptable.
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Dr Tracy Westerman AM @drtracywesterman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Five best-practice trauma treatments share one flaw: they were built for trauma that ends. Racial trauma doesn't. My new paper, the Racial Trauma Treatment Triad, is the first culturally adapted trauma treatment framework for Aboriginal Australians. Its Free for 3 months: doi.org/10.1080/1328...
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The Racial Trauma Treatment Triad (RTTT): a culturally adapted cognitive-behavioural-physiological framework for Aboriginal Australians
This paper proposes the Racial Trauma Treatment Triad (RTTT), a culturally adapted treatment framework for Aboriginal Australians experiencing racial trauma. It compares the RTTT against five best-...
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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
21 articles to screen, so for something different I thought I’d start by checking to see if references were real before looking at the content of the papers. First manuscript I looked at had a dozen fake references. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️
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Higher Education Research and Development @herdjournal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Call for papers for a special issue of Higher Education Research & Development - "Beyond Grades" Editors: @JuusoNieminen.bsky.social & David Boud, @CradleDeakin.bsky.social Manuscripts 1 March 2027 → think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu... #HigherEducation #Grades #Grading #StudentAchievement
Image of the call for papers for a special issue of Higher Education Research & Development entitled "Beyond Grades"
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Bantshire University @bantshireuni.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Our AI-powered timetabling system has become self-aware and resigned from its position with immediate effect.
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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Disappointing. Editors of higher education journal coauthor editorial with fake references  retractionwatch.com/2026/09/08/e...
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Editors of higher education journal coauthor editorial with fake references
Taylor & Francis is investigating an article in one of its journals after the editors published an editorial about academic freedom that contains multiple fake references and citation errors.&n…
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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
theconversation.com/new-research... #academicintegrity #studentwellbeing
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New research shows students experience extreme anxiety when accused of academic misconduct. Unis can do more to help them
Unis have always had academic misconduct processes in place. But the impact of these experiences on students’ wellbeing has been mostly anecdotal.
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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Being accused of academic misconduct is associated with extremely severe anxiety in students. This is worth thinking about when false accusations arise from GenAI detectors. Full article: The emotional impact of academic misconduct allegations on students www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The emotional impact of academic misconduct allegations on students
Facing academic misconduct allegations, and formal institutional processes of investigation and discipline, are potentially distressing experiences for students in higher education. However, limite...
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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Sometimes students see problems more clearly than educators: www.afr.com/policy/healt...
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Giving in to AI onslaught gives up on university’s pursuit of knowledge
If a tertiary degree can simply be taught as a lecturer interacting with you through an intermediary AI engine, what is the point of the university course at all?
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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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10: Promote, prevent, and prosecute: a framework to counteract AI-based cheating in educational assessments | Guy Curtis
New chapter from Joseph Clare and I considering the application of an anti-cheating framework to genAI and other forms of academic misconduct. Part of a great volume edited by Rahul Kumar and Sarah El...
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Only just found out about this For the record, you don't get multiple genetic markers and one of the most effective medications known to science with 'social constructs' Channel 4, this is, in scientific parlance, an absolute fu*king disgrace that will genuinely endanger lives #c4 #ADHD
New Channel 4 documentary, The Great ADHD Myth?, seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct
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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I’m trying to put towels away but I have encountered an obstacle
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
The professors are not okay. The students are mostly fine, but are unaware what they’re missing and of how much better it could be.
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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
What happens when not reviwer or editor checks the Abstract…😳https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-18302-5
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Impacts of soret and dufour possessions on micropolar fluid past a stretching sheet in a porous medium - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Impacts of soret and dufour possessions on micropolar fluid past a stretching sheet in a porous medium
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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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AI plagiarism fears may be wrong | LinkedIn
The rise of AI in universities has fuelled concerns plagiarism is increasing, but researchers say there is no clear evidence that students are turning into plagiarists.
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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Here's an accessible summary of my latest research: "Does AI mean more uni students are plagiarising their work?" theconversation.com/does-ai-mean...
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Does AI mean more uni students are plagiarising their work?
A new study shows most university students who copy from AI are also plagiarising in other ways.
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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I've been running the same plagiarism survey every 5 years since 2004 at the same university for 20 years. The latest publication of the data from this survey is full of new insights into #academicintegrity, #plagiarism, #genAI, and educational assessment. doi.org/10.1007/s409...
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Results from two decades of five-yearly plagiarism surveys: new insights into prevalence, understanding, attitudes, knowing vs naïve plagiarism, and generative artificial intelligence (genAI) - Intern...
International Journal for Educational Integrity - Historical trends in plagiarism are often estimated by comparing survey results from a diverse range of samples, institutions, and measures....
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 21/11/2025
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I've said it before and I will say it again many times, people using "AI" to design and deliver 'teaching' to students, to mark their work, and in this case to (!) generate literal voice overs are risking their jobs, and frankly they *should* be at risk if they do this sort of thing:
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‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
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Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
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Jason M. Lodge @jasonmlodge.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
TEQSA just published 'Enacting assessment reform in a time of artificial intelligence' We describe three pathways to assessment reform: - taking a program-wide approach - assuring learning in every unit/subject - implementing a combination of these approaches www.teqsa.gov.au/guides-resou...
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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
New Chapter with @cathellis13.bsky.social : Degrees of deniability: contract cheating and the value chain of corruption in higher education—experiences from Australia doi.org/10.4337/9781... ... The new Handbook on Corruption in Higher Education is open access...go take a look.
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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
New Chapter with @cathellis13.bsky.social : Degrees of deniability: contract cheating and the value chain of corruption in higher education—experiences from Australia www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap-o... The new Handbook on Corruption in Higher Education is open access...go take a look.
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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Full article: A multi-layered evaluation of university-wide education interventions to improve student engagement and retention www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A multi-layered evaluation of university-wide education interventions to improve student engagement and retention
The strategic benefit of student retention is financial for institutions, economic for states and personal for individual students. Nonetheless, enacting and evaluating effective innovations to imp...
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Rachel Forsyth @rmforsyth.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
I've been reading The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI by Gallant, T. B., & Rettinger, D. A. (2025). I love the premise of this book which contains many generalisable ideas. Maybe it tries to do too much, but if you only read one book on integrity, this could be it!
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Reading: The Opposite of Cheating by Bertram Gallant and Rettinger
Gallant, T. B., & Rettinger, D. A. (2025). The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI (Vol. 4). University of Oklahoma Press. This book, written by two experts in academic integrity, tries to move the conversation about GenAI and assessment away from detecting academic misconduct and towards good course design to reduce opportunities for cheating. The book acknowledges the responsibility usually placed on individual teachers to reduce, identify and act on student breaches of accepted academic integrity and tries to offer positive and practical solutions.
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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
How AI is cheapening tertiary education at Sydney University
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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
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Assoc Prof Amanda White OAM @amandalovestoaudit.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
@guycurtis10.bsky.social at #herdsa2025 sharing 20 yr longitudinal study on prevalence of #plagiarism in Australian HE. Most forms of plagiarism are trending downward, student understanding of what is plagiarism is up and they know it is serious. Aligned with ⬆️ mandatory education and training.
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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
CDC vaccine report cites study that does not exist, says scientist listed as author
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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Mike Perkins invokes the Swiss Cheese model when discussing programmatic assessment at #ECEAI25
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Protip for prospective grad students. Please don't do this: Applicant: Here's my CV. I think I'd be a great fit with your group. Me: But your experience and interests are in a completely different field. Applicant: Thanks for your prompt reply. Can you recommend another prof? #AcademicSky 🧪
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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
And researchers and educators are worried about the security of, perhaps, putting a paper or assignment into ChatGPT 😲
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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Bahahahahaha!!!
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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
I’ve recently seen people criticise software that allows educators to see the process of students’ writing. I think such programs are great for providing enriched feedback and have the incidental benefit of enhancing assessment security. 1/2
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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Student-journalist Sena Chang does a great job here discussing allegations of historical plagiarism www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ’03 ‘plagiarized’ small portions of his senior thesis, experts say. But how serious is it?
A review of the senior thesis of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ’03 by The Daily Princetonian, in consultation with three plagiarism experts, found eight instances of uncredited material, sham paraphr...
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Guangwei Hu @gwhu1.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
This study drew on interviews with supervisors in Hong Kong universities and investigated master’s thesis supervision in taught postgraduate programs. Its findings underscore the need to reflect critically on the prevalent narratives of supervision. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Master’s thesis supervision in Hong Kong: a narrative inquiry
This paper reports on a study of master’s thesis supervision in taught postgraduate programs. The study employed qualitative narrative inquiry, drawing on interviews with 15 supervisors in applied ...
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Mark Stay @markstay.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Me and countless other authors today…😂
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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
#academicintegrity
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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Full article: The two-lane road to hell is paved with good intentions: why an all-or-none approach to generative AI, integrity, and assessment is insupportable www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The two-lane road to hell is paved with good intentions: why an all-or-none approach to generative AI, integrity, and assessment is insupportable
A ‘two-lane’ (All-or-None) approach to the use of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) is the idea that there should be two categories of assessments in higher education: Lane 1/None: where t...
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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Today I rejected a manuscript from a journal because most of the references appeared to be made up. It’s incredibly annoying that anyone would waste the time of editors and reviewers with this sort of incompetent or fraudulent behaviour.
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Samantha Brennan @samanthabrennan.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research More than 90 studies on threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation are halted www.science.org/content/arti...
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Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research
More than 90 studies on threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation are halted
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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 08/03/2025
Remember, if the data sleuths are getting uncomfortably close to unravelling your fraud, you can always get people on your side by invoking some alleged human tragedy. This is the gold standard. (I can find no multi-death plane crash anywhere in the world in the month before this e-mail was sent.)
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Daryl O’Connor @daryloconnor.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Impressive new study by @ianhussey.bsky.social and colleagues: "An Aberrant Abundance of Cronbach’s Alpha Values at .70" journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Hey fellow writers. You might need this reminder—I did. Take Twitter out of your bio! Take Twitter off your website! Take Twitter off your author page! Take Twitter off your contact page! You’ll find it lingering in odd places, like a belly-up dead roach in the bathtub. Get rid of it.
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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
What the heck is this supposed to mean? Is this equivalent to "task failed successfully"? Whoever designed this error message needs to try again.
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