PhD candidate, sociology of assessment, Bourdieu, (language) testing, measurement, education.
Turrbal and Yugara country
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"In his Oscar acceptance speech, Jonathan Glazer issued a universal moral warning against dehumanization. His aim was not to descend to the level of political discourse.
Critics who expected a clear political stance or a film solely about genocide did not grasp the depth of his message.
'The Zone of Interest”' is not a film about the Shoah. It is primarily a profound warning about humanity and its nature."
Dr. Piotr M. A. Cywiński
Auschwitz Memorial Director
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On the "Is Hester racist?" question I pass the mic, as ever, to this timeless classic by @jsmooth995 for which I am eternally grateful. youtube.com/watch?v=b0Ti-gkJ…
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They can buy cycling and soccer teams, but Ineos and companies like it are guilty of deliberately harming life on earth. They know the facts and carry on regardless.
‘Explosive growth’ in petrochemical production poses risks to human health theguardian.com/us-news/2024…
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"Is it any wonder they don’t want anyone to know anything, to understand anything, to think?"
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‘[O]ur survey reveals a severely dejected coterie of academic staff no longer willing to accept what they perceive as punitive work regimes; the absence of an ethics of care…; the non-accountability among senior managers + dereliction of leadership…’ universityworldnews.com/post…
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Today we speak to Centrelink worker-turned-whistleblower Colleen Taylor about what really happened when robo-debt was first rolled out.
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All of South Korea’s top research universities have come together in a call to boycott global university rankings issued by QS - Unsoo Jung & @yojanasharma report
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TotalEnergies, total devastation.
A planned oil pipeline has displaced 1000s in #Uganda. One resident told @hrw: “They come here promising us everything. We believed them. Now we are landless, the compensation money is gone…” New report from @hrw on #EACOP: hrw.org/report/2023/07/10/ou…
According to Spolsky, Robert Lado worked on the Test of Aural Comprehension at University of Michigan. A couple of years later, in 1950, Lado wrote a review of this test (and several others) for the journal Language Learning. 1/2
Of the Test of Aural Comprehension, which he worked on, Lado said: “The scoring is, of course, no problem since the test is completely objective and the examiner simply uses a punched stencil to score it.” (1950, p. 57). 2/2
Shorten on the need for integrity within organisations: ‘We’ve got to not have groupthink within organisations, where the only way you get promoted is by kissing arse on the way up or by telling your bosses the good news and only the good news.”
In the first episode of Inside Robo-debt, Bill Shorten joins @squigglyrick to talk about the royal commission’s findings.
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In the first episode of Inside Robo-debt, Bill Shorten joins @squigglyrick to talk about the royal commission’s findings.
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And researchers are using AI to investigate the people that use AI to train AI.
So, human labelers are now using ChatGPT to create training data. Nothing could go wrong...
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As fallout from the PwC scandal continues, universities have emerged as another sector captured by the Big Four consultants. satpa.pe/qx08zu5
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S4E23. QuantCrit: A Conversation With Christen Priddie
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This week @ChristenPriddie of Indiana Univ. helps us learn about QuantCrit: foundations, purpose, and how it can enrich the quantitative process to which we might’ve become a little *too* accustomed.
Love this interview with Mike Joyce - moving tribute to Andy Rourke and also the special connection between bass players and drummers ❤️
“I don’t think Andy ever really embraced just how momentous his contribution towards music is” p4k.in/QkUC1AS