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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Asked Google for a definition of AI slop. This is what I got. Love the irony of it! Asking other educators and developers... what are your thoughts on this? #AberPGCTHE #EduSky #AcademicSky

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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Someone brought this 5-minute clip from Harvard GS of Education on facilitating class discussion to my attention, and I thought it would be of value for others. Thinking time - fits nicely with think-pair-share as well. instructionalmoves.gse.harvard.edu/waiting-stud... #AberPGCTHE

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Waiting for student responses | Instructional Moves

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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Latest #WeeklyResourceRoundup dropped just now with loads on inclusive teaching, Gen AI, trauma-informed teaching, anti-racism, neurodivergence, group learning and more wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... #AberPGCTHE #EduSky #AcademicSky

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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

This looks great for embedding wellbeing in our higher education teaching! Even if you can't participate live, the blog post has loads of useful ideas and resources. #AberPGCTHE #AcademicSky #EduSky

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ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Did you know retrieval practice, or trying to recall previously taught material, is the single most robust learning strategy supported by research? Just thinking about the previous content can aid long term retention Take a look at our Covert Retrieval guide ⬇️ Contact us enquiries@impact.wales

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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Loads of online events in the #WeeklyResourceRoundup to help university staff develop our teaching practice: wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... #AberPGCTHE #AcademicSky #EduSky

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Neal Caren @haphazardsoc.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I've been testing the accuracy of LLMs in transcribing printed and handwritten historical texts stored as images. I put together a corpus of 400 pages from the Library of Congress. Current leader is GPT4.1-mini, which at 11 cents per 1K pages, is also the cheapest option. github.com/nealcaren/In...

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Bas Trimbos @bastrimbos.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Interesting read by @carlessdavid.bsky.social (2025) Feedback Literacy Concepts and Practices: Toward Academic Feedback Literacy, Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 57:5, 5-11, DOI: 10.1080/00091383.2025.2539038

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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Latest #WeeklyResourceRoundup with loads of resources to help you teach university (and other levels) effectively and inclusively. wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... #AberPGCTHE #EduSky #AcademicSky

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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Favourite article for #AberPGCTHE. In my seminar, they read Chew's article in advance. I start with quick retrieval practice of the 7 points. Then they type examples from their own experience into a shared doc and we discuss. My students are mostly new HE lecturers.

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Dr Carolina Kuepper-Tetzel @drckt.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Join our symposium on "Cognitive and Motivational Individual Differences in the Effectiveness of Desirable Difficulties" today at 12:15 in HS01.15. #earli2025 Looking forward to discuss the interesting work presented as part of this symposium.

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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Anyone feel uneasy about the methods we are required to use to prove that we're an adult? Just curious!

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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Love that feeling when I'm marking student projects and come across one that is spot on - deep analysis, great use of sources, reflective, and deep insights into how students learn. These are our golden moments! #AberPGCTHE

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 11/06/2025

Academic staff working at Cardiff University have been so traumatised by the management of a hugely controversial cuts programme that some have contemplated suicide or having an abortion ✍️Martin Shipton

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Cardiff University academics 'have considered suicide and abortion because of cruel cuts programme'

Martin Shipton Academic staff working at Cardiff University have been so traumatised by the management of a hugely controversial cuts programme that some have contemplated suicide or having an abortio...

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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Latest #WeeklyResourceRoundup another harvest of resources and online events to support teaching in higher education wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... #AberPGCTHE #EduSky #AcademicSky

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Essentially, "Here's your bespoke bot" should be read as, "Don't expect access to your professors or interaction with your classmates."

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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

“When you interact with an AI system repeatedly, the AI system is not just learning about you, you’re also changing based on those interactions,” said Hannah Rose Kirk, an AI researcher at the University of Oxford wapo.st/3Z9UBeg

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Your chatbot friend might be messing with your mind

OpenAI, Meta and others want people to spend more time with AI chatbots, but there is growing evidence that they can hook users or reinforce harmful ideas.

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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

New #WeeklyResourceRoundup packed with online events and resources to help us teach effectively in HE wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... #AberPGCTHE #EduSky #AcademicSky

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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Great, thanks Paul! I'll have a read and consider this as an item to link in the next #WeeklyResourceRoundup

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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Another useful article about how we can support the teaching staff in supporting their students' learning. Read the peer-reviewed article (link in blog post) for images of what the storyboarding technique looks like in practice #AberPGCTHE

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Juuso Henrik Nieminen @juusonieminen.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

How has scholarly research produced knowledge about self-assessment – and the 'selves' of self-assessment, students? Years in the making, our meta-review and discourse analysis of student self-assessment research with David Boud has been published www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Student self-assessment: a meta-review of five decades of research

Student self-assessment has received considerable research interest. While several review articles have mapped self-assessment studies, there remains a need to synthesise the insights from field an...

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Very good

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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

#lthechat sorry for typo on tag :-( not that great tonight.

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Kelly Trivedy @kellytrivedy.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

It’s today! Come along tonight at 8pm BST if you’re free! #LTHEchat #academicsky

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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Details available for #MYFest25, a summerlong festival supporting inclusive and effective teaching. @equityunbound.bsky.social The programme includes some great speakers. Useful source of CPD for #AberPGCTHE folks and others developing their teaching practice. Thanks, @mahabali.bsky.social

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

AI chatbots are stoking spiritual mania and supernatural fantasies, with consequences for real-life relationships, @milesklee.bsky.social reports. In AI, people “have an always-on, human-level conversational partner with whom to co-experience their delusions.” www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies

Marriages and families are falling apart as people are sucked into fantasy worlds of spiritual prophecy by AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT

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Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · 13/05/2025

LLMs reduce cognitive effort. Students like using AI because they make learning "easier", but that ease can lead them to avoid deeper thinking. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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James Bedford @jamesbedford.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The last thing I want is for us all to get stuck in an endless generative AI loop where AI does everything. This is not what I mean when I talk about using generative AI for research and writing. This is lowest common denominator stuff "AI Wheel of Death" by James Bedford (2025)

A circular infographic titled "The AI Wheel of Death" shows a repeating cycle in academic publishing involving heavy reliance on AI. The cycle includes six stages:

"Author uses AI to do research" (orange section)

"Author gets AI to write paper" (red section)

"Reviewer reviews the work using AI" (purple section)

"Author responds to reviewers’ AI feedback by asking AI to adjust paper" (blue section)

"Journal publishes the paper" (teal section)

"LLM scrapes internet during training (which includes this paper)" — leading back to the beginning

In the center is a black skull, emphasizing the critical tone of the loop. A smaller skull is at the bottom of the image. The graphic critiques the recursive and ethically questionable overuse of AI in scholarly research and publishing.

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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...

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The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It

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Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

“What all of these stories have in common is that someone oversold an automated system, people used it based on what they were told it could do, and then they or others got hurt.”

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