Higher Ed investigator fellow, assessment security enthusiast, cheating non-enthusiast, dog father, record spinner, urban hillbilly. Views my own.
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Kane Murdoch retweeted
Somehow we've reached a point in education where:
- teaching kids explicitly is controversial
- academic rigour is treated as a threat to student wellbeing
- memorizing math facts is discouraged or considered unnecessary
- practice is dismissed as "drill and kill"
Low expectations are not kindness, and nothing hurts someone's confidence more than falling further behind every year.
Kane Murdoch retweeted
Naguib Mahfouz won the Nobel in Literature in 1988. Ahmed Zewail won the Nobel in Chemistry in 1999, after winning the Wolf Prize. Omar Yaghi won the Nobel in Chemistry in 2025.
Algebra is an Arabic word. So is algorithm. The math on this claim doesn't work.
Kane Murdoch retweeted
"Compensate peer reviewers; do not conscript them."
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.26…
Kane Murdoch retweeted
Anthropic
2025 revenue: $4.6 billion
2025 net loss: -$42 billion
IPO valuation: $2 trillion
Kane Murdoch retweeted
SOLT research is really "salting the earth" of the higher education Carthage, hey. Nothing good grows from colleges and departments where people pass off pedagogical thought bubbles as disciplinary research
Kane Murdoch retweeted
"Interbrigadisten vor Teruel" (International Brigades at Teruel) by Gerhard Kurt Müller 1966-67. The town and looming sky behind reminds me of El Greco's view of Toledo, as do the elongated characters. Criticised at the time in the GDR for unheroic portrayal of fighters. The feel of cold is patent. There were some 30,000 casualties from frostbite in this key battle of the Spanish Civil War. Dresden, New Masters Gallery.
Kane Murdoch retweeted
I reminded my History students that at about their age another historian called E. P. Thompson was serving as a tank commander in North Africa and Italy during World War II. So could they please not call their sit-down blue book exam “traumatic”. They took it in a good spirit.
Kane Murdoch retweeted
Students worry AI is about to kill their future ft.trib.al/aeFWjFc
Kane Murdoch retweeted
Position statement.
If Zionism were simply about establishing the right of Jews to live safely wherever they are, including in their ancestral homeland, I would be a Zionist.
But this isn't what Zionism is about. It is, and always has been, about creating a Jewish-majority state in a land where the majority of people are not Jewish. This necessarily means either removing most non-Jews or denying them citizenship. Zionists have done, and are still doing, both.
I believe in the right of ALL people to live safely wherever they are. I oppose every means used to drive people out of their homes and lands: mass murder, ethnic cleansing, systematic violence, denial of citizenship, violation of basic human rights.
Zionism uses all these means to create and maintain its Jewish state.
Therefore I am an anti-Zionist.
Kane Murdoch retweeted
We were told in our teacher education courses not to grade with red ink because its association with being wrong could cause the students to feel stigmatized.
When I say there is no idea so stupid that someone with a PhD in education won’t advocate for it, I mean it.
Kane Murdoch retweeted
The Turkish #papermill #fraud Fatih Sen just got another retraction!👇This idiot hasn't published a single legit paper. It's all fake! He made an entire career on fake science/publications. @universitemdpu however still supports their super star!
doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2…
Hard to keep track with frauds like Fatih Sen! 2 extra retractions are in👇 Fatih Sen is one of the biggest Turkish frauds but @universitemdpu fully support #fraud! Sen only published fake #papermill stuff. He is a total fraud.
Ouch. But also yes, this is absolutely true. Zero concern for total failure of assessment is just one indicator.
