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Lex Nederbragt @lexnederbragt.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I am in the weights. Are you? Via www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-bas...

Lex Nederbragt @lexnederbragt.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I guess Perl (the programming language is not dead yet. GPT-5.4 (through the Codex App) just used it to answer a question I had about a bunch of files... #perl #ai #codex

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Lex Nederbragt @lexnederbragt.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

New (bilingual!) blog post: summary of an experiment with a custom #AI chatbot for my course in beginner-programming for new bioscience students. It was curriculum-aware (week-for-week) and used a socratic approach to help students with their learning. lexnederbragt.com/blog/2026-02...

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A custom chatbot for BIOS1101 – Lex Nederbragt

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Lex Nederbragt @lexnederbragt.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Quick note on my blog about moving my website over to using Quarto as the backend technology: lexnederbragt.com/blog/2026-02...

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Moving my website to Quarto – Lex Nederbragt

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Lex Nederbragt @lexnederbragt.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

New blog post! In which I discuss what to call the 'Intelligence' created by LLMs. Inspired by Tom Chatfield's "AI and the future of pedagogy" I think using "Simulated Intelligence" instead of "Artificial Intelligence" makes a lot of sense. Read the full post at lexnederbragt.com/blog/2026-02...

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Artificial, or simulated intelligence?

What's in a name?

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Toby Hodges @tobyhodges.carpentries.org · 06/08/2025

Today's blog post is a call for @carpentries.carpentries.org Instructors to try out a new lesson that I hope will become official Software Carpentry curriculum in the near future: Building Better Research Software. Please teach it and provide feedback to the authors 💙 carpentries.org/blog/2025/08...

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Calling for Beta Pilot Workshops: Building Better Research Software

We recently published a new version of Building Better Research Software, a lesson in The Carpentries Incubator designed to serve as a “next steps” workshop after Software Carpentry. Previously known ...

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Lorena A Barba @labarba.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I just released a preprint reporting on my experiment with generative AI in my Engineering Computations course. TL;DR: It was a mess. The biggest issue? The "illusion of competence." #GenAI #education #edtech

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