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Ash Barber (she/her) @ashthelibrarian.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

📣 Hey #OERCollective! Community Day program is out 🤩 Tues 25 March hear from: 🔑 Keynote: Dave Ernst, @openednetwork.bsky.social 💡”Diagnosis”: @noraleopardi.bsky.social & Nara Jones 💡”Introducing Scoping & Systematic Reviews”: Karen Pruis & Beth Deans Full deets & reg: tinyurl.com/yckz52za #OER

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Nora Leopardi (she/they) @noraleopardi.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Have I found the solution to my chronic writing challenges? How do I feel morally about this? How does everyone else feel about this?

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Nora Leopardi (she/they) @noraleopardi.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

NSW Junior Doctors after receiving heartfelt apology by NSW Minister for Health: "They are a vital and valued part of our health system's workforce, and that email fell well short of reflecting that."

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Nora Leopardi (she/they) @noraleopardi.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

The whole concept of true vs fake is being reshaped. We need philosophers and ethicists advising on GenAI.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I don't think people know that making plausible fake videos is now something that doesn't require a lot of skill or time I made this Veo video of a man trying out a flying skateboard at CES from a text prompt, 2nd try. Notice the shadows, green light, his body shifts for balance

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Nora Leopardi (she/they) @noraleopardi.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Did you know that in Italian we have a specific word to indicate "to bubble slowly like ragu" or "to make a bubbling noise like ragu"? It's "pippitiare". Italian does not have a specific word for leadership. ✨Priorities✨

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Nora Leopardi (she/they) @noraleopardi.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Welcome! It's excellent seeing you here!

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Nora Leopardi (she/they) @noraleopardi.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Interaction tools (Kahoot, Mentimeter and similar) that allow for anonymous engagement during synchronous sessions. They are not always exactly what I need, but lowering the threshold for everyone to participate more is so important to my practice!

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Researchers used AI to generate 288 complete academic finance papers predicting stock returns, complete with plausible theoretical frameworks & citations. Each paper looks and reads as legit. They did this to show how easy it now is to mass produce "credible" research. Academia isn't ready.

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Nora Leopardi (she/they) @noraleopardi.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Here's the link if you're interested in reading the full post (and if this came on your feed, you probably are. Or you are Ethan Mollick, in which case... Hello!) open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...

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A transformative month rewrites the capabilities of AI

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Nora Leopardi (she/they) @noraleopardi.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

"The last month has transformed the state of AI, with the pace picking up dramatically in just the last week. AI labs have unleashed a flood of new products..." But I'm ON LEAVE! 😫 @emollick.bsky.social, can you please tell everyone to chill for a bit? I need a break! #GenAI #HigherEd #MedEd #HPE

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Nora Leopardi (she/they) @noraleopardi.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I see, okay, probably too quick a reading by me then - sorry. I hope the increased emphasis and expanded focus is what the "new" wants to remark on, encouraging for more submissions, rather than a self-indulgent note 😊

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Nora Leopardi (she/they) @noraleopardi.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I am not sure then of your point in the original post... What's embarrassing about this? 🤔 10/10 to ANZAME for changing to ANZAHPE, but it's a different education context. It was 2011 when in med school I was told not to trust nurses, and nursing students were being taught not to trust doctors 😕

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Nora Leopardi (she/they) @noraleopardi.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

IIRC, interprofessional education has been an explicit submission theme since at least 2014 (my first of this conference). Also worth remembering that many countries struggle to implement IPE because of structural challenges (tbh we do too at my uni), plus the focus of this new track goes beyond IPE

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Nora Leopardi (she/they) @noraleopardi.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I'd left myself 21-22 tabs with interesting work reading to do over the break, but I accidentally restarted my computer and the tabs are gone. I'm calling it a sign. ✨ Happy holidays, everyone! 🥂🎄🎁

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Alt: Low-fi runner game: pixel art of a dinosaur running and jumping over a cactus.

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Nora Leopardi (she/they) @noraleopardi.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Improving accessibility to Medical and Health Professions Education means stronger healthcare systems! 🏥🧑‍⚕️ Also, OERs reduce costs for institutions, reducing reliance on publishers and their extortionate pricing 🤑💰. Ask a Librarian how to find an OER to include in your course! #AcademicSky

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Nora Leopardi (she/they) @noraleopardi.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Nara and I chose to publish Diagnosis as an Open Educational Resource. We know first-hand how hard it is to advocate for institutional access to quality educational resources for students. This creates inequities between learners, disadvantaging already underprivileged learners!

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Nora Leopardi (she/they) @noraleopardi.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

It's official! Thanks to the superstar team at the University of Newcastle Library, my board game is now available! 🧠 Diagnosis is for everyone, for free, for ever, to adopt and adapt to develop your learners' clinical reasoning skills 🩺 #MedEd #HPE #AcademicSky oercollective.caul.edu.au/diagnosis/

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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Just had an idea

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Nora Leopardi (she/they) @noraleopardi.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I actually love the time of the year where almost every email is followed by an instant out-of-office reply. Yes, everyone, let's take a break! Also, this is on your desk now for when you return, and not on mine. #AcademicSky #MedEd #HPE #HolidayMood

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

A photo I posted of graffiti in Syria in 2014. "One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem" I hope they will return to their poem

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Humanities expelled from key New Zealand research funding scheme Scientists from the favoured areas raise the strongest objections #EduSky #AcademicSky #Highered

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Humanities expelled from key New Zealand research funding scheme

Scientists from the favoured areas raise the strongest objections

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Nora Leopardi (she/they) @noraleopardi.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

✨The Festival of GenAI at Uni Newcastle was f-ing awesome!! ✨ Yes, I'm biased because I organised it. 💅 But: 2 inspiring keynotes, 70 people in a promptathon, dozens of solutions to our challenges, & 90 minutes of open discussion... It was awesome. Thanks to all who attended! The time is always now!

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Universities do not exist to 'train', produce 'skills' or generate 'impact'. They exist to create new knowledge and teach about it. Any assertion to the contrary is in error, and is destroying everything it touches.

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Nora Leopardi (she/they) @noraleopardi.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Maybe it's a collective nightmare and we will wake up and laugh at how wild and terrifying it was. Because surely we aren't witnessing a demolition of higher education across multiple countries, right? ...RIGHT?

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Nora Leopardi (she/they) @noraleopardi.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Holy guacamole... I almost feel exposed in sharing this. Not even my Spotify Wrapped reaches this level of realness. As for the suggestion to start a blog, please watch this space 😜 #NorasCORNER blueskyroast.com/roast/norale...

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Nora Leopardi: The Academic Voice with a Meme-Ready Zing

Navigating academia with more sass than a reality TV reunion.

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Gabriel Rodríguez Lemus, Jr. @grodriguezlemus.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

The pronunciation of our names matter. The spelling of our names matter. The accents in our names matter. Our names matter.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I do not donate to my employer because we are already in a labor for compensation relationship. I'm very confused by these emails.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 03/12/2024

i am sorry to my gen x coworkers but you have to understand i am never, under any circumstances, going to answer a teams call without a message outlining why we need to talk first

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 03/12/2024

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

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Nora Leopardi (she/they) @noraleopardi.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Maybe something about the centrality of the educational mandate of University? Going beyond preparing people to do a job? 🤪 I don't know, I wasn't there. I must be hearing voices...

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Nora Leopardi (she/they) @noraleopardi.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Sigh. One of the pieces of "feedback" that I got from my promotion application was that I don't do enough teaching. Apparently, I do "mostly coordinating and management of learning activities for students". Traditional norms, cultures, and structures die hard... (still salty)

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Nora Leopardi (she/they) @noraleopardi.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

skills are no longer required. However, epistemic skills are still required, and foundational to be citizens of an internet- and AI-enabled society. Higher Ed should not be the place where this happens, though. It should be part of compulsory education. /end

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Nora Leopardi (she/they) @noraleopardi.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

The shift "from publishing to participating" (Terry Flew, New Media) abated technical skills requirements and handheld devices meant the internet was no longer in a place (an internet café, or a desk with a PC at home) but everywhere. Similarly, GenAI has only become a topic now because technical 🧵

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Nora Leopardi (she/they) @noraleopardi.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

To join a conversation I wasn't in, it's not just the internet. Two things happened, simultaneously & connectedly, between 2005 and 2015, and changed the world: the advent of smart handheld devices and the rise of social media (This may be what Tim implied, but worth clarifying, perhaps?) 🧵/2 or 3

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

General question - I know it is early days, but what are the seminal papers about GenAI in education so far? (Everyone is having a crack at it - what has cut through?) #ASCILITE2024

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Nora Leopardi (she/they) @noraleopardi.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

ALT text: image shows a magnetic board divided in sections by washi tape: Preparing Ethics - Ethics Limbo - Collecting Data - Analysing Data - Writing Up - Submitted - Revision Limbo - Done. Two dry-erase magnets sit in the sections Submitted and Revision Limbo, with dry-erase markers to the side.

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Nora Leopardi (she/they) @noraleopardi.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Behold the Project Tracker! A tool to organise/visualise the flurry of projects and initiatives that swirls in my head on a daily basis. This research-focussed version will be expanded to cover more academic domains when I become important enough to be allocated a wall. #AcademicSky #MedEd #HPE

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Nora Leopardi (she/they) @noraleopardi.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn't a selfie

Screenshot of comic from "life with Bubu". "Just put a band-aid where it hurts". Character has band-aid as blanket, and a sign reading "Closed for emotional repair"

Screenshot of tweet by @ForeverWILIN, reading "U know how much trauma it took to be this funny"

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Nora Leopardi (she/they) @noraleopardi.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Thank you Karen ❤️ I know I am surrounded by great scholars and mentors who will help me work through this - including in this digital space. I won't let shame isolate me, and I trust the community 🥰

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Nora Leopardi (she/they) @noraleopardi.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I know there will be a time for learning from failure and bouncing back better, but I am allowing myself time to feel anger, frustration, & disappointment: at how all our expertise and work on making higher education better for our learners aren't reflected in internal processes and policies. /end

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Nora Leopardi (she/they) @noraleopardi.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I believe I met promotion criteria. My application might not have shown that, but I know my work does. I still haven't received good feedback on this: specific, dialogic, goal-oriented, etc. I am angry that criteria overwhelmingly hinge on what can be measured. Not all that counts can be counted. 🧵

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Nora Leopardi (she/they) @noraleopardi.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Following the brilliant path charted by @drjot.bsky.social, I am sharing my big L of the year: my application for academic promotion was unsuccessful. I spent 50 hours crafting my promotion application. In the process, I took stock of all the positive impact I have in my institution & beyond. 🧵

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Nora Leopardi (she/they) @noraleopardi.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I'm already overwhelmed by the number of publications (papers, articles, posts, substacks) I feel I should be reading every day. Productivity expectations are already too high, and academia and academics are suffering. www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/are-...

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Teresa Sörö @teresasoro.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Which #literaturereview should I choose? There are many different types of literature reviews in #HPE Scoping, systematic, realist, narrative, state-of-the-art.... the options seem endless! This episode unpacks the decision-making process behind the choosing. bit.ly/PAPERsE74 #PAPERsPodcast

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Feeling lost in the world of literature reviews? Choosing the right type can be overwhelming, from systematic to scoping, realist to narrative. In this episode, Lara breaks it down with clarity. Learn...

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

All I want is a cottage in the Scottish Highlands, a raging snowstorm, and Agatha Christie novel, a crackling fire, a kettle on the stove, and a basket of emotional support pastries.

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