Jilly MacKay @jillymackay.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Another great Animal Welfare Centre workshop today, this one on engaging with policy. Totally student organised too - I learned lots! 000
Jilly MacKay @jillymackay.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I had some kind of dream revelation about odds ratios last night, and I can't remember what it was now 020
Jilly MacKay @jillymackay.bsky.social · 13/05/2026hearing from @clemencefraslin.bsky.social on immunology I'm aquaculture - fascinating work 010
Reposted by Jilly MacKayDr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 16/03/2026It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose. 17115613257
Jilly MacKay @jillymackay.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Listening to 'If Books Could Kill' on the way to work and learned that @michaelhobbes.bsky.social posts thirst traps on Insta. I feel my world has been subtly rocked somehow, and I'm so curious as to what constitutes a thirst trap to this demographic, but by the same token . . .media.tenor.coma man wearing glasses and a tie says this better not awaken anything in meAlt: The Dean from Community wearing glasses and a tie says this better not awaken anything in me 000
Reposted by Jilly MacKayInternational Animal Welfare Ethics and Law MSc @msciawel.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Hello Bluesky! We're the official Bsky account for the online part-time MSc International Animal Welfare Ethics and Law at the University of Edinburgh. We're just getting our account up and running, but you can find out more about us here: vet.ed.ac.uk/education/po...vet.ed.ac.ukInternational Animal Welfare, Ethics and Law | The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies | The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary StudiesA fully flexible postgraduate programme designed to address the demand for online animal welfare education suitable for working professionals and others with an interest in studying a range of animal ... 032
Jilly MacKay @jillymackay.bsky.social · 16/10/2025While I DO think dplyr 'across' makes a lot more sense, I am FOREVER having to look up how to mutate a bunch of data into factors and I don't know why I can't get this in my thick skull #tidyverse #rstats 130
Reposted by Jilly MacKayDana Bui @theeddesigner.bsky.social · 15/10/2025When I first tried to generate images of health professionals they all came out male, white, in lab coats with stethoscopes around their necks. 😬 || theeddesigner.com/2024/12/19/t... 011
Jilly MacKay @jillymackay.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Did I miss the design memo that said all websites need to happen within frames now? Why can't I right click to open a link? Learn, and now OSF, two sites I use daily, who have now both decided I'll never need to open a new tab. Genuinely who is benefiting from this? 000
Jilly MacKay @jillymackay.bsky.social · 13/10/2025My laptop took pity on me and started an unskippable hour long update. 000
Jilly MacKay @jillymackay.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Back at work! Frantically googling things like "git commands?", "email signature?" and "what is a job?" 120
Reposted by Jilly MacKayAndrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 03/10/2025Just discovered the {gm} package, which lets you programmatically create sheet music (and audio!) with #rstats (with MuseScore as the backend) flujoo.github.io/gm/index.html 78021
Reposted by Jilly MacKayNick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 03/10/2025Counter-opinion: it’s a f***ing tragedy that corporate greed has broken the medium which facilitated Tahrir Square etc and is now doing its best to break the rest of the Internet. 715444
Reposted by Jilly MacKayMartin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 02/09/2025Expect your mobile to go off 3pm Sunday! Be prepared for a test of the Govt's emergency alert system. Full info... www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/09... LIVING WITH DOMESTIC ABUSE? If you've a hidden mobile, you the link above has details of how to opt out of the alert. Pls share 19391492
Reposted by Jilly MacKayMike Masnick @masnick.com · 29/08/2025To be clear: this is yet another reason why many of these laws are so problematic. If people want to run fediverse instances of any size, the fact that costly age verification requirements could put them in legal jeopardy, is very bad. Regulators make laws as if every website is Facebook. 241204335
Reposted by Jilly MacKayProf. Emily Nordmann @emilynordmann.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Very pleased to have this out in the wild now, @jillymackay.bsky.social, Hronska and I looked at how HE staff understand the terms blended, hybrid, and hyflex learning and whilst there is relative consensus regarding blended and hyflex (when known), the use of hybrid is a bit of a mess #AcademicSky 2102
Reposted by Jilly MacKayDarren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 07/05/2025A related issue: Make your higher ed system reliant on international students and the extortionate fees you charge them (how very colonial, Ireland) Now your entire strategy, despite any window dressing, must be to maximize your university "ranking" to supposedly attract said students... 2104
Reposted by Jilly MacKayFran Amery @franamery.bsky.social · 30/04/2025If you are a feminist academic, you should sign this letter. forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...forms.gleNot In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against TransphobiaWe call on all trans-inclusive feminist academics and educators to sign this statement: ‘Not In Our Name’ We are non-trans feminist academics and educators. We write in support of trans rights, tran... 13343251
Reposted by Jilly MacKayNathalie Tasler 🏴🇩🇪 @drntasler.bsky.social · 29/04/2025New Note Making System Part 01: Keep track of reading A journaling system for managing significant amounts of reading.nathalietasler.blogNew Note Making System Part 01: Keep track of readingA journaling system for managing significant amounts of reading. 032
Jilly MacKay @jillymackay.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Overheard at the Mod: "Don't touch that! It's art, it's thousands of pounds that mummy and daddy can't pay" "How is it art? It's just a lump of metal!" 020
Reposted by Jilly MacKaygamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Young people SHOULD “have it easier” than you did. I’m sorry you got the strap up hill both ways and paid your debts with pounds of flesh, but the reason we work for progress is to make growing up and growing old gentler, easier, kinder, freer. Struggle isn’t necessary in a healthy society. 9175472350
Reposted by Jilly MacKayStrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Two headlines in the New York Times today. 13723065610506
Jilly MacKay @jillymackay.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Gotta be honest, I feel much less safe now. A very poor show www.theguardian.com/society/2025...theguardian.comLegal definition of woman is based on biological sex, UK supreme court rulesJudges say Equality Act definition excludes transgender women, after gender-critical campaigners’ challenge 020
Reposted by Jilly MacKayKevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 11/04/2025A large study in Sweden found levels of autism *symptoms* were constant over time, even as autism *diagnoses* increased (implying broadening diagnostic criteria rather than real underlying increase) www.bmj.com/content/350/...bmj.comAutism phenotype versus registered diagnosis in Swedish children: prevalence trends over 10 years in general population samplesObjective To compare the annual prevalence of the autism symptom phenotype and of registered diagnoses for autism spectrum disorder during a 10 year period in children. Design Population based study.... 14667217
Reposted by Jilly MacKayFinancial Times @financialtimes.com · 14/04/2025Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0... 826264018500
Reposted by Jilly MacKayProf. Emily Nordmann @emilynordmann.bsky.social · 27/03/2025New paper from Zayba Ghazali-Mohammed on student experiences of decolonised psychology curricula. They present data on how students view decolonisation efforts & present three key changes you can make to your teaching. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #AcademicSky 01711
Reposted by Jilly MacKayDr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Elon Musk remains a Fellow of the Royal Society. Not taking action is in itself a political act. And a bad one. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comRoyal Society decides not to take disciplinary action against Elon MuskExclusive: Fellows argue Musk has violated code of conduct but council believes investigation ‘could do more harm than good’ 22311100
Reposted by Jilly MacKayHannah Robinson @hankumna.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Do you teach in HE? Whether you use lots of humour or none at all, I want to hear from you in my final PhD study!! #EducationalResearch #HigherEd #Research #HigherEducation #AcademicSky #PhDSky #devpsy #devpsyc #socialpsyc @bpsdevsection.bsky.social Link staffordshire.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 075
Jilly MacKay @jillymackay.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Meta likely used my book and many of my papers to train its AI. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...theatlantic.comThe Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books ProblemMeta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here. 000
Reposted by Jilly MacKayNeil Selwyn @neilselwyn.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Why the push for GenAI might well lead to teachers doing *more* work (rather than less work) ... we need to remain mindful of Ruth Schwartz Cohen's work on household technologies and women's domestic labour. I think there might be parallels?! criticaledtech.com/2025/03/20/m... 23819
Reposted by Jilly MacKayCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 07/03/2025Is everyone huffing paint? Crypto guy claims to have built an LLM-based tool to detect errors in research papers; funded using its own cryptocurrency; will let coin holders choose what papers to go after; it's unvetted and a total black box—and Nature reports it as if it's a new protein structure.nature.comAI tools are spotting errors in research papers: inside a growing movementStudy that hyped the toxicity of black plastic utensils inspires projects that use large language models to check papers. 692276569
Jilly MacKay @jillymackay.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Honestly 🙄media.tenor.coma man says but you are not serious people in a dark roomAlt: A gif from Succession, Logan Roy (Brian Cox) says "but you are not serious people" in a dark room. His children are out of view 000
Reposted by Jilly MacKayKate Gilliver @penarthkate.bsky.social · 26/02/2025A6. Turnitin! Because reliance on it has meant we could kick down the road being really critical of our assessment design. And because of AI 'detectors'? #LTHEchat 1101
Reposted by Jilly MacKayReuben Binns @rdbinns.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Every major UK newspaper - left, right, broadsheet, tabloid - is running a front page campaign against copyright carveouts for AI training. I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential. 5544011391
Reposted by Jilly MacKayedeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Going by observable patterns the only group this guy seems interested at mollifying at any given time is fasciststheguardian.comTrump has changed Ukraine debate ‘for the better’, says Downing StreetStarmer’s spokesperson says US intervention ‘could bring lasting peace’ as No 10 treads carefully before White House visit 2417
Jilly MacKay @jillymackay.bsky.social · 25/02/2025But it's job seekers, the long term sick, hybrid working and somehow something undefined about gender and immigrants that's the problem. I'm so baffled by Labour thinking any of this is going to support our economy, when our greatest success stories are IP (on.ft.com/3P0AlGs)on.ft.comWarhammer is weird. That’s why it worksMaking sense of London’s latest blue-chip stock 020
Jilly MacKay @jillymackay.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Labour is envisioning a future where no one writes the courses, no one sits the assessments, no one summarises their skills for employment, and no one chooses who'd be the best fit for a role. (UK develops AI CV-writing tool for jobseekers - on.ft.com/3XehE6E via FT)on.ft.comUK develops AI CV-writing tool for jobseekersPlan will free up work coaches for more ‘valuable’ employment as ministers seek to cut welfare bill 110
Jilly MacKay @jillymackay.bsky.social · 25/02/2025GenAI use is theft of intellectual property and I'm certainly listening to "Is This What We Want?" today (Creative industries protest against UK plan about AI and copyright - on.ft.com/3XhaxKx via FT), but it's the AI CVs that is currently blowing my mindon.ft.comCreative industries protest against UK plan about AI and copyrightGovernment’s proposals could make it easier to train artificial intelligence models using artists’ works 100
Jilly MacKay @jillymackay.bsky.social · 25/02/2025I've delivered some CPD on using genAI in teaching and my general conclusions are that use cases are extremely limited and not worth the ethical costs. If you can't be bothered writing the materials, why should students be bothered learning them? The UK govts current position on genAI concerns me 100
Jilly MacKay @jillymackay.bsky.social · 25/02/2025In the hay day of essay mills I went through a period of having YouTube advertise a service that would write my course for me. I found it very funny that I could pay someone to write my materials that students would then pay someone to answer. With generative AI we've achieved this #HigherEd 110
Reposted by Jilly MacKayPaul Singh 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @paulsingh.bsky.social · 24/02/2025These are the people that would have abandoned Poland to Hitler. 3236873
Jilly MacKay @jillymackay.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Yep - we might resurrect (heh) it one day, but I'd like to chat to the students about it first. Lockdown was a key part of our gameplay 😬 010
Reposted by Jilly MacKayLiz Cable 🎲 👾 🔜 UKGE @lizcable.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Games around study skills might be a good place to start, because every student and tutor can use them, and they can be held and maintained centrally. #LTHEchat 011
Jilly MacKay @jillymackay.bsky.social · 19/02/2025It was great fun - but doesn't feel appropriate post COVID 😅 www.journalofplayinadulthood.org.uk/article/id/7...journalofplayinadulthood.org.ukPlay in professional education: vets who horse around.Play in professional learning can be a disputed topic, with paradoxical frameworks such as ‘serious play’ being used to legitimise playful practice in these settings. Despite this, play be a valuable ... 120
Jilly MacKay @jillymackay.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Completely agree - I think there's a 'playful literacy' that we can't take for granted 000