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Jon Mason

@masjono.social
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Academic at Charles Darwin University in the Northern Territory of Australia. Research interests spanning most things involving digital technology and education #sensemaking #wisdom #AIED #SOTL #inquiry #intercultural #learning #COIL #SDGs #OER #standards

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Jon Mason @masjono.social · 05/09/2026
web.archive.org/save/ “Save Page Now” a great way to preserve a website or page before it disappears
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Wayback Machine
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Jon Mason @masjono.social · 31/08/2026
For @olofspela.bsky.social
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Jon Mason @masjono.social · 25/08/2026
Richard Flanagan says what needs saying about the horror of Palestinian genocide & the fiction that criticism of Israel is somehow anti-Semitic m.youtube.com/watch?v=6XlJ...
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Richard Flanagan - Heresies (2026)
YouTube video by Festival of Dangerous Ideas
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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 23/08/2026
Attackers with no technical skills can now use AI models to find and exploit loopholes quickly and they can deploy them on a massive scale, raising fears that organisations without large budgets for cyber defence will be much more vulnerable
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Rogue hacking AIs have changed the cybersecurity landscape | New Scientist
Attackers with no technical skills can now use AI models to find and exploit loopholes quickly and they can deploy them on a massive scale, raising fears that organisations without large budgets for cyber defence will be much more vulnerable
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Tara Brabazon @tarabrabazon.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Reflexive Reading. So much more than critical reading, critical thinking and critical literacy. We read to enable our future selves. To enable a future world. Let's - together - read words to read the world with integrity, respect and defiance. New Post - youtu.be/5QZj3cg4Jo0
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Post 158 - Theoretical reading
YouTube video by Tara Brabazon
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Jon Mason @masjono.social · 19/08/2026
#aied #cognitivescience www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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Addressing longstanding challenges in cognitive science with language models
Cognitive science faces ongoing challenges in research integration, formalization, conceptual clarity, and other areas, partly due to its multifaceted and interdisciplinary nature. Recent advances in ...
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Jon Mason @masjono.social · 16/08/2026
apsce.net/events/apsce... #aied #apsce
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APSCE Webinar #65: Governance of AI in Higher Education: Perspectives from Malaysia and ASEAN University Network
APSCE Webinar #65: Governance of AI in Higher Education: Perspectives from Malaysia and ASEAN University Network
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 13/08/2026
"The internet represents hegemonic views. It does not represent [everybody] in the world." AI researcher Timnit Gebru untangles the deceptive nature of large language models like Chat-GPT, and explains how so-called "superintelligence" entrenches societal biases and inequality.
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Jon Mason @masjono.social · 09/08/2026
The beach keeps changing … sunsets look similar but always make me look
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Jon Mason @masjono.social · 26/07/2026
Sunset season in Darwin …
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Jon Mason @masjono.social · 29/06/2026
Happy to see our article published #aied www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Conceptualizations of GenAI and students’ professionalization: Within the multi-layered environment of learning for higher education
As Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) becomes increasingly integrated into higher education, there is a limited understanding of how students …
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Jon Mason @masjono.social · 23/06/2026
Early morning Casuarina Beach
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Jon Mason @masjono.social · 20/06/2026
Silence in colour
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Jon Mason @masjono.social · 14/06/2026
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Jon Mason @masjono.social · 09/06/2026
Casuarina Beach … early dry season … you have to imagine the breeze
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Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
“It necessary to begin a shared discernment process for identifying the spiritual and cultural roots of ongoing transformations. If we focus only on contingencies, we risk letting the succession of emergencies dictate the direction of our path.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
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Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)
ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [ Multimedia ] ___________________________
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Digital Science @digital-science.com · 01/06/2026
Maintaining researcher profiles is time-intensive work - some universities have reported averages of 20 hours to complete a profile for a single new faculty member. We've launched Symplectic's AI-Assisted Profile Curation to change that. 🔗 Learn more: ow.ly/B8jc50Z66bO @symplectic.co.uk
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AI-Assisted Profile Curation
AI-Assisted Profile Curation transforms how research information is captured and maintained in Symplectic Elements. Using AI-powered document-to-profile workflows, users can convert unstructured conte...
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Jon Mason @masjono.social · 01/06/2026
but it didn’t look like a micro moon to me early in the morning
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Jon Mason @masjono.social · 30/05/2026
Return of the smoky dry season sunsets
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Andy Norton @andynortondev.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Key findings of the 2026 World Inequality Report are worth a look - though profoundly and sadly unsurprising: blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...
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56,000 people own three times more wealth than half of humanity
The World Inequality Report 2026 notes how the world is extremely unequal, with wealth inequality still rapidly rising. Which policies could reduce inequality?
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Jon Mason @masjono.social · 14/05/2026
blog.aare.edu.au/the-castlere... #aied #edusky #academicsky #policy #australia
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The Castlereagh Statement gives us direction on AI. Now we need to talk about practice
The question is no longer whether AI will shape education. The question is whether education will shape AI use in return.
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Jon Mason @masjono.social · 13/05/2026
After the Streetlight Flickers I am a Witness Are you? #BlueSkyRemnant
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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’ www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme... #ai #artificialintelligence #genZ #genA
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Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’
A commencement speaker at the University of Central Florida was booed, with graduating humanities students yelling out, "AI SUCKS!"
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Dr. Szymon Machajewski (UIC, AIEdu) @smprof.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
MIT research: heavy AI reliance weakens neural connectivity. Cognitive atrophy is real. The answer is not banning AI. It is designing learning that uses AI to increase challenge. 🧠⚠️ #Education #AIEDU
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Cognitive Atrophy: When AI Does the Thinking For You
The AI Story for Education
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Jon Mason @masjono.social · 10/05/2026
But … “AI is closer to electricity or the internet than ordinary software.” … AI is not software
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Jon Mason @masjono.social · 08/05/2026
Sign Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday card! getup.to/xdJPgDSgC4EQFZ
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Sign Sir David Attenborough's Birthday Card
Sign Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday card!
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 07/05/2026
Accountability, research, and understanding are dependent on information, which must be preserved before it disappears. #VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #OpenAccess #Preservation @pbump.com @archive.org #OpenAccess #Preservation #MTVNews
Teal graphic quoting Philip Bump, Journalist & Author, for the Vanishing Culture series, with the quote "We are creating information, culture, and benchmarks for society faster than we can figure out how we're going to make sure they're preserved."Book cover titled “Vanishing Culture” on a teal background. Pixel-art style graphics show a VHS tape, open book, film reel, chain link, and vinyl record dissolving into digital fragments. At the bottom, a cursor icon points to the word “SAVE,” alongside an archive-style building icon, evoking digital preservation.
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Jon Mason @masjono.social · 07/05/2026
“while AI assistance may ease initial learning, it appears to undermine the effortful processes needed for robust learning. These results have important implications for how generative AI tools should be integrated into higher education” #aied www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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ChatGPT as a cognitive crutch: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial on knowledge retention
The rapid integration of generative artificial intelligence into higher education has outpaced empirical understanding of its effects on fundamental l…
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Jon Mason @masjono.social · 22/04/2026
#aied feps-europe.eu/publication/...
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The open future and its enemies - Foundation for European Progressive Studies
How we can protect free society from AI dictatorship
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Brady Licht @bradylicht.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Been thinking about the teachers who quietly redesign their lessons every summer versus those who attend three conferences a year but change nothing. The quiet ones never call it professional development. They just call it teaching.
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Jon Mason @masjono.social · 10/04/2026
The beach this evening
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Artificial Intelligence News @knowentry.com · 04/04/2026
www.axios.com/2026/04/04/a... #AI #artificialintelligence
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"They operate like slot machines": AI agents are scrambling power users' brains
Work with these tools is starting to look less like a fun quirk and more like a pathology.
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Scott McLeod @scottmcleod.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
This. 👇 👇 👇 👇 Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-... #edchat #edreform #edpolicy #edtech #edcolo #edutwitter #teachertwitter #k12 #edadmin #suptchat #edleaders #edleadership #principals #AIinEDU
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Jon Mason @masjono.social · 31/03/2026
www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto... #edtech #learningdesign #aied
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After edtech: From learning design to cognitive architecture
Educational technology has reached a structural turning point, shifting from frontier innovation to embedded infrastructure. In its place, AI is recon...
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Jon Mason @masjono.social · 27/03/2026
The evening beach …
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Jon Mason @masjono.social · 21/03/2026
Casuarina Beach … morning of the equinox
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Jon Mason @masjono.social · 17/03/2026
arxiv.org/abs/2509.22505 #aied #academicsky #research
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Mental Health Impacts of AI Companions: Triangulating Social Media Quasi-Experiments, User Perspectives, and Relational Theory
AI-powered companion chatbots (AICCs) such as Replika are increasingly popular, offering empathetic interactions, yet their psychosocial impacts remain unclear. We examined how engaging with AICCs sha...
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Jon Mason @masjono.social · 16/03/2026
#aied #research #academicsky doi.org/10.1080/1356...
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AI detectors, student anxiety, and authorial alienation: a qualitative study of affective control
In response to generative AI, universities are rapidly deploying AI detection tools to uphold academic integrity. However, the pedagogical impact of these flawed systems remains critically under-ex...
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Jon Mason @masjono.social · 14/03/2026
Rain receding … Rain returning
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Jon Mason @masjono.social · 14/03/2026
There’s history on the beach This place has been around Throughout and inside time The cosmos and grains of sand Bear witness
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⳽ⳑⲇⳕⲛⲉ @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
today's completely unsurprising news. this ban was never about child safety anyway. it was about getting australians to face scan for internet access so tech corps could harvest the data - which then by used for facial recognition in surveillance systems. same reason the uk wants to do it.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Heeeeeeeeyyyy, guess who wants to regulate This Fucking Guy™️ into oblivion, maybe tell your friends in California’s 72nd district to get involved in my race www.kluweoc.com
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Jon Mason @masjono.social · 11/03/2026
Morning beach colours
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Jon Mason @masjono.social · 10/03/2026
The beach this evening
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Jon Mason @masjono.social · 08/03/2026
Cockatoos in Aldinga, South Australia
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Jon Mason @masjono.social · 07/03/2026
Low tide
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Jon Mason @masjono.social · 04/03/2026
#aied #education #edusky #academicsky humanstatement.org
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The Pro-Human AI Declaration
The Pro-Human AI Declaration
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Jon Mason @masjono.social · 28/02/2026
Clouds
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Jon Mason @masjono.social · 23/02/2026
Another 4Cs … still about #curriculum but not 21st century skills #teaching
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Jon Mason @masjono.social · 22/02/2026
#aied #metaphor The illusion of thinking … & Large Reasoning Models ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-i...
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