"ChatGPT Edu, powered by GPT-4o, is designed for universities to responsibly integrate AI into academic and campus operations. This advanced AI tool supports text and vision reasoning, data analysis, and offers enterprise-level security."
Based on everything we know about AI, I am sure nothing could possibly go wrong with this new tool to integrate it into our #teaching and campus operations more broadly.
/Obvious sarcasm
Closed out the paperwork for the Spring term yesterday and, with my first post-semester deadlines approaching, I'm realizing that I seriously under-budgeted the amount of time I would need to stare into near space.
@RonaldVisser@academicchatter totally agree that it is a problem that being unlucky to end up in a toxic department does not make the existence of the toxic department OK.
by the way, now that I work in Germany I learned that in Germany this department was widely known as being toxic at that time already, so there were also mentoring issues in the sense that she was not warned what she was getting into. Very sad.
@freyablekman@academicchatter
So sad! I know all too well that some people can create toxic environments and that you are not always warned beforehand... I think that she correctly identifies some causes on her video. I hope the future of academia will be more open and more supportive and less a competitive rat race...
Interviewing PhD candidates for the first time and the role reversal feels... weird! All the candidates bring something different to the table and it's such a tough call to decide who makes the cut.
It's an exciting task, isn't it? Remember that you're hiring the best fit, a person who will grow and help others grow, not necessarily the best scientist/potential scientist on paper.
🧵 What is this? After pushing UC for 4 years now to quit designing buildings where inaccessibility is the default, a main entrance to a building is wheelchair accessible?
Ah, there's the UC Davis we know. Unnecessary steps because you weren't specifically PAID to do your duty under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act nor to actually make a public university accessible to the public.
10 more days to apply! Postdoc position: Working on fair AI and interested to combine normative and empirical research? Come work with me other Leiden colleagues on fair educational assessment in the age of AI.
@TomTheuns
Could you please give me some examples of what kind of AI the successful applicant should have worked with? Is it necessary to have such features in one's doctoral thesis, for example, or more relevant to be genuinely interested and have some knowledge, and a background in such areas as #DigitalHumanities or #corpus_linguistics ? Thank you!
one argument I have heard repeatedly is that patent are important to fund research (it often funds CEOs, stakeholders, advertisement, law suites, etc too), so when I read about a successful (academic) patent around cancer research, surely those millions should feed into (academic) research too. Right?
@egonw@academicchatter millions do, but that's nothing really. It could be much more if academics took a more active role.
Often, academics and even tech transfer dep. look to sell as early as possible. This makes sense in one way, as early failure rates are high, but it minimises the payout when an idea does bite.
@egonw@academicchatter most academics have entertaining war stories and/or great advice on how to game "their" peer reviewed journals.
Very few can, however, tell you when when you would be better placed to have a patent application filed, or how you might go about maximising your chance of success in this.
The basics aren't actually hard, but especially outside chemistry, it is surprisingly poorly understood.
A march by Edgar Elgar is the traditional soundtrack for American college commencements and high school graduations. It’s a stirring bit of music, but perhaps an odd choice, given its roots as a celebration of the British king.
@noctuaminervae Author-year is probably easier to navigate. My real problem with it is that it’s ugly. An entry in an author-title bibliography reads like a sentence; the year/ date in author-year interrupts. I appreciate that bibliographies aren't generally read from beginning to end, but even so...
#US / Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé Interrogated by U.S. Agents at Detroit Airport
[…] The acclaimed Israeli historian Ilan Pappé has revealed he was interrogated for two hours by federal agents at an airport in Detroit after flying into the United States. The agents questioned him about his Arab and Muslim friends in the U.S., as well as his views on #Hamas and if he thought Israel was committing genocide in #Gaza. Pappé said he was allowed to enter the U.S., but only after agents copied the contents of his phone.
so… humanities commons is changing its name to “knowledge commons”
i dislike this. it was a one of a kind platform that originated in and foregrounded humanities. now it’s dumping it and becoming a generic preprint thing and dumping its niche. a criminally underserved niche
i don’t know if i wanna use it anymore. when i was quite excited that i would soon be able to upload my thesis and planned papers on it @academicchatter
@academicchatter i mean you might think this is a bit of an overreaction on my part but frankly the “humanities” in the name was almost the main attraction for me. it was like the one place humanities wasn’t an afterthought. it is a big deal imo 🤷♂️
@ml@academicchatter unfortunately for comp bio/bioinformatics/regulatory genomics, it's still mostly Twitter. Which is annoying, because I'm no longer on twitter.
Like, we are probably over represented here, but it's nothing compared to twitter.
Have any good investigative journalists done pieces on how the slant of donors, the power of large universities "strategic communications" departments, and the evisceration of newsrooms have affected how the public gets access to reliable scientific research and information in the public interest? #Science#Newstodon#Journalism@academicchatter