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Natalie Lafferty

@nlafferty.bsky.social
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Higher education, digital education, medical education … always learning.

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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
The scientist who predicted AI psychosis has issued a warning regarding AI eroding abilities to reason and leading to cognitive debt www.psypost.org/the-scientis...
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The scientist who predicted AI psychosis has issued another dire warning
Outsourcing your thinking to AI might be eroding your ability to reason. A new commentary warns that "cognitive debt" poses a critical threat to science, suggesting that bypassing mental struggle coul...
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Seeing AI transparency statements at the bottom of some education and AI related articles. Good to see these but would perhaps be better to publish at the start of the article so the reader can make an informed decision on whether or not they want to go ahead and read it.
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
AI Has Exposed Higher Ed’s Hollow Core — The University Must Reinvent Itself or Fade substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Higher Ed Is Sleepwalking Toward Obsolescence — And AI Won’t Be the Cause, Just the Accelerant
AI Has Exposed Higher Ed’s Hollow Core — The University Must Reinvent Itself or Fade
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
AI Has Exposed Higher Ed’s Hollow Core — The University Must Reinvent Itself or Fade substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Higher Ed Is Sleepwalking Toward Obsolescence — And AI Won’t Be the Cause, Just the Accelerant
AI Has Exposed Higher Ed’s Hollow Core — The University Must Reinvent Itself or Fade
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Stupidity www.platoscave.org/2021/10/bonh...
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Bonhoeffer on Stupidity (entire quote)
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Interesting data from a study of GenAI usage in studies amongst Scottish students saw no significant change in usage from 2024 to 2025. In 2025 more students highlighted concerns around ethical issues, copyright and desklling. #altc25
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
AI principles developed collaboratively by the Scottish AI Tertiary Education Network being presented at #altc25 sites.google.com/view/scaiten
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SCAITEN
Scottish Tertiary Education statement on the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Views amongst #altc25 delegates of the year ahead in edtech. Suspect these will resonate with others working across HE and FE.
Word cloud of responses from ALTC25 delegates to the question, what’s your prediction for the coming year in edtech?
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Students highlighting the need for a standardised approach to module design at #altc25 Why has it taken the sector so long to address this?
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
#altc25 the vle should be more like instagram. Does this highlight the challenge around attention literacy?
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
#altc25 The perennial question of how to communicate with students is posed to the student panel and the perennial response not email, use social media. Yet not all students are on social media and in the world of work you have to navigate email, Teams and multiple information channels.
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
The impact of the recent VS scheme at the University of Dundee on the art and design student experience. Unsurprising and no doubt similar challenges being seen across all academic disciplines. thejutejournal.com/2025/10/13/f...
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From Studio to Struggle: The Real Cost of Cuts at DJCAD
“There is at least a sense that the teachers and the students are sort of in it together in all of their confusion… There’s a disconnect not between student and teacher but betwee…
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Sad to see so many talented, creative and innovative individuals leaving the University of Dundee today. Collective wisdom and institutional memory being lost. Wishing everyone who’s left on VS all the best and hoping that fulfilling and fun new opportunities open up.
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Media Literacy: a case of policy failure - An interesting read hot on the heels of last week’s House of Lords Communications & Digital Committee’s report on media literacy published week davidbuckingham.net/2025/07/28/m...
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Media literacy: a case of policy failure
A new report from the House of Lords provides interesting reading on the current state of media literacy in the UK.
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
A round-up of some of this week’s headline news on AI from Graham Lovelace grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/trump-wins...
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Trump wins first round in copyright chief's job battle | Creators' champion preps new bid to ensure AI transparency | Anthropic CEO urges debate on 'AI jobs bloodbath'
#56 | PLUS: Sir Nick Clegg plays Charting bingo | NYTimes signs with Amazon's AI | Google news chief warns publishers as Pichai hits back |✨AND: Sam and Jony's 'coolest AI tech' ... but what is it?
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
The Dark Side of AI Companionship: A Taxonomy of Harmful Algorithmic Behaviors in Human-AI Relationships dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
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The Dark Side of AI Companionship: A Taxonomy of Harmful Algorithmic Behaviors in Human-AI Relationships | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
‘An existential crisis’: can universities survive ChatGPT? www.thetimes.com/article/4176...
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‘An existential crisis’: can universities survive ChatGPT?
Students are using AI to cheat and professors are struggling to keep up. If an AI can do all the research and writing, what is the point of a degree?
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
AI secretly helped write California bar exam, sparking uproar arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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AI secretly helped write California bar exam, sparking uproar
A contractor used AI to create 23 out of the 171 scored multiple-choice questions.
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas
Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continents
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
AI is out of control, we have the receipts | Copyright-denying OpenAI and Google pile pressure on UK | Angry authors to Meta: 'Get the Zuck off our books' grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/comment-ai...
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COMMENT: AI is out of control, we have the receipts | Copyright-denying OpenAI and Google pile pressure on UK | Angry authors to Meta: 'Get the Zuck off our books'
#48 | PLUS: Indy launches AI-enabled Bulletin | Music execs: 'watch out for quantum and agentic AI' | Musk's xAI swallows up X | ✨AND FINALLY: Matt Haig's new big hit, One April Morning
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Learning is hard. The learning pit player.vimeo.com/video/128462...
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The Learning Pit – Animated on Vimeo
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
#UCISA25 Reading developed this Digital Research Strategy in song the Roger L Martin 5 questions approach. This involved willed café style sessions. hbr.org/2010/05/the-...
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Five Questions to Build a Strategy
People make strategy much harder than it needs to be. For some, the problem is that they focus too much on the tools: environmental scans, SWOT analyses, customer analyses, competitor analyses, financ...
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
#UCISA25 Henrik Brogger from Reading outlining that when he joined the university, some disciplines received gold standard digital research services, others didn’t. Guessing this will be the experience in other universities too.
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
#UCISA25 @dkernohan.bsky.social mentioning the very real challenges around recruiting staff to specialist IT roles in higher education.
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
#UCISA25 Universities do so much more than teaching and research. Engines of social mobility, mental health service for young people, R&D for business, free labour for academic publishers. Also a convenient political punch bag.
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
#UCISA25 @dkernohan.bsky.social Talking about collaboration and competition in the higher education sector, opportunities to work together eg back office functions. Brings to mind this old HEFCE report from 2011, Collaborate to Compete focusing on online learning dera.ioe.ac.uk/id/eprint/19...
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Collaborate to compete : seizing the opportunity of online learning for UK higher education - Digital Education Resource Archive (DERA)
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Likely to be a continued shift to lifelong and later-life learning. Will the three-year residential model of university learning survive into the longer term future? #UCISA25
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
#UCISA25 David Kernohan highlighting that he doesn’t think AI will offer that much more in the next 10 years. Also that we’re not likely to see Govt giving universities more funding in the foreseeable future.
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Next up at #UCISA25 is @davidkernohan.bsky.social from Wonkhe on - What's happening in UK higher education, and what does it mean for IT professionals?
David Kernohan on the Plenary Dtage at the UCISA Leadership Conference 2025
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This talk on curriculum mapping at #UCISA25 brings back to mind the work done in medical education during the early 2000s particularly by the MEDEV team at Newcastle.
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The complexities of addressing degree programmes that are accredited by professional bodies being raised in relation to implementing a curriculum mapping solution. Also curriculum analytics. #UCISA25
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Hearing about the merger of the Universities of Adelaide & South Australia into the new Adelaide University and merging of curricula. #UCISA25 Process of curriculum redesign & looking for a mature yet fully flexible curriculum management system.
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Teesside adopted a creative and collaborative approach to developing their London campus with academics and IT working together to enable their academic delivery model #UCISA25
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Interesting to see Teesside introduce block learning module approach on their London Campus with students in for two days a week and enabling them to more easily take on part time work or fulfil caring responsibilities. Are other universities taking in this approach? #UCISA25
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Geoff Ramm highlighting we have management meetings, strategy meetings etc but how many university teams have customer service meetings to look at how we enhance our services to staff and students #UCISA25
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
First keynote of #UCISA25 Geoff Ramm on Celebrity Service
Geoff Ram takes the stage at UCISA Leadership Conference to talk about Celebrity Service
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
UCISA recognising members who’ve displayed leadership and resilience in dealing with the aftermath of a cyberattack with the launch of the UCISA Stonephish Member Club #UCISA25
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
UCISA Leadership Conference 2025 underway in Brighton #UCISA25
Plenary stage at UCISA Leadership Conference 2025 at Brighton Conference Centre
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Absolutely devastating news, 632 jobs going at Dundee University on top of the 237 frozen vacancies. So many great staff who don’t deserve to be in this position. Sad that the only solution seems to be to cut jobs, surely there must be other options that could be considered.
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Turnitn launches Clarity to “Help students use AI responsibly with educator-enabled guidance, ensuring appropriate and ethical AI integration into writing.” www.turnitin.com/campaigns/cl...
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Turnitin Clarity: Student writing transparency | Turnitin
Turnitin Clarity brings transparency and confidence into how students write, revise, and use AI—all available in Turnitin Feedback Studio
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
AI slop is overtaking the internet. www.techradar.com/computing/ar...
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AI slop is taking over the internet and I've had enough of it
Rushed, misleading and just plain bad AI content is everywhere – why?
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ALTUK.bsky.social @altuk.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Join us in celebrating Open Education Week 2025. This week, we will be sharing open resources to promote collaboration & knowledge sharing. Since 2012, organisations, institutions, & individuals come together every March to discuss & celebrate Open Education. buff.ly/3mvqHAD#OEWe... #altc
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Looking forward to attending some of these sessions running in Public Sector AI week psiweek.digileaders.com #PSAIWeek
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Public Sector AI Week 2025
AI first Public Services
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Scottish Gov has announced details of the next round of funding for CivTech 10. An interesting set of challenges all with an AI focus including monitoring puffin colonies www.civtech.scot/civtech-10-c...
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The Round 10 Challenges — CivTech
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Let's face it, everyone in universities older than c57-58 is going to go. If you get offered a year's salary on light taxes to stop and your lump sum and pension is due in just 5 or 6 years, you would. So a whole cohort and generation will unplug, to everyone's loss. www.ft.com/content/77f7...
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Severance spending at top UK universities surges
FT analysis shows drop-off in overseas enrolments pushed redundancy payouts up by more than a fifth in 2024
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Student influencers fill gaps in university support services with #studytalk posts on social media. www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...
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Student influencers fill gaps in university support services
Student influencers, an emerging group of students on social media, are increasingly exploiting the gaps in higher education systems and are offering ...
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
An open letter to Mark Zuckerberg from the world’s fact-checkers, nine years later www.poynter.org/ifcn/2025/an...
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An open letter to Mark Zuckerberg from the world’s fact-checkers, nine years later - Poynter
From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their car...
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Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Good piece from Jamie Bartlett about the broader implications of Meta stopping ‘content moderation’ jamiejbartlett.substack.com/p/is-this-th...
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Is this the end of 'content moderation?'
There are four problems for Mark Zuckerberg to worry about
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Paul Greatrix @registrarism.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Your Higher Ed Must-Reads for 2025 It's that time again in the higher ed publishing cycle where we look ahead to those exciting new books we can expect in the next 12 months. New blog featuring some of the much-anticipated publications on the way this year. wonderfulhighered.com/2025/01/09/y...
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Your Higher Ed Must-Reads for 2025
It’s that time again in the higher ed publishing cycle where we look ahead to those exciting new books we can expect in the next 12 months. Fortunately we are able to share a list of some of …
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