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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 · 02/10/2026
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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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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Amiga 500! I spent many happy hours playing Speedball 2, F/A-18 Interceptor, and many more games stored on 1.44 disks!
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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 · 04/09/2026
I’m with you. I remember how I got data for my studies from 20 years ago.
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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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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
I published research years ago in a fairly new journal, it was not even Q4 because it was not ranked. It was a great fit for my research. I was criticised by someone reviewing my department for not publishing enough in higher-ranked journals. Over the years, the journal has grown and is now Q1. 🤷‍♂️
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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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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
The exulansis is real.
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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Making it a requirement for PhD students to publish in order to graduate, as happens in many places in the world, is a terrible idea. Even when the motivation are pure, the time delays and arbitrary decisions in some reviews etc. are no way to evaluate educational learning outcomes.
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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
Hoping this link works doi.org/10.4337/9781...
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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 · 26/08/2025
I agree with this, don't weight Lane 2 assessments more than Lane 1 *or* make Lane 1 hurdle tasks. But, beyond this, my advice is that if there is a genuine educational reason to limit AI use in take-home type assessments, add as much security as you can rather than throwing away needed tasks.
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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
A company lost value for using actual human intelligence 🤦‍♂️
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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
Interesting. I find tools like Cadmus and Inktrail don’t feel that way to me. They let students write things over time and as a marker I look only after the assignment is submitted at the process of how it was done.
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Guy Curtis @guycurtis10.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
I find it amazing that some people say “this is terrible, students are being put under surveillance and won’t work like they usually do”, and the same people have as their solution in-class tests and exams….where students are put under surveillance and don’t work like they usually do 🤦‍♂️ 2/2
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