DrPen

DrPen, 8 hours ago to animals

Short break from harsh reality

#CatsOfMastodon #holiday #seaside

DrPen, 1 day ago to ai

University Suspends Students for AI Homework Tool It Gave Them $10,000 Prize to Make

Emory University gave students a $10,000 entrepreneurial prize for their AI startup, then suspended them and accused them of cheating when they built it.

#ai #cheating #academicchatter

https://www.404media.co/university-suspends-students-for-ai-homework-tool-it-paid-them-10-000-to-make/

DrPen, 2 days ago to ChatGPT

The unfolding tragedy of the deconstruction of university learning and teaching. Behold, a post in r/professors about the chatgpt wasteland of student submitted work.

#ChatGPT #writing #academia #academicchatter #ai

DrPen, 6 days ago to ai

Damning report on @BBCRadio4 this morning about the financial situation of UK universities. As Id been told by others involved in UK digital policy, the general attitude is to digitise almost any aspect of UK HE that can be automated, and employ #AI tools to achieve this. To me this is almost a death knell of UK HE standards. No one attends university to learn with a bot, least of all to pay high fees for the pleasure.
#bbc #highered #academicchatter

DrPen, 11 days ago to RSS

Importing feeds into Obsidian with Simple RSS!

If you want to archive your Mastodon or other app/site feed posts into Obsidian as separate post entries, I wrote a post about how to use the Simple RSS plugin to do that. I cover Mastodon and Grav RSS feeds. I've done the best I can do for now with instructions and a big thank you goes out to simple rss dev Monnier Antoine for being super helpful.

#RSS #feeds #archive #websites #blogging #mastodon #obsidian #obsidianmd

https://penworks.net/blog/importing-feeds-into-obsidian-with-simple-rss

DrPen, 29 days ago to ai

When we teach WW1 history and show photographs of men in the trenches, and no one knows if they are real or midjourney fake then we are in deep trouble. Or teach scientific principles through research papers and don't know if the text is authentic human created or response engine output, we are in deep trouble. Imagine a hundred other contexts and you understand why gen ai is such a massive problem.

#ai #ChatGPT #midjourney #academicchatter #academicmastodon #PinkSlime #knowledgecommons

DrPen, 3 months ago to BBC

The #BBC are extending their trial of using mastodon. Yey. This is very good news indeed.

#fediverse #mastodon #newsmedia

https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2024-02-extending-our-mastodon-social-media-trial

DrPen, 3 months ago to random

At risk of blowing my own trumpet, here's my work on the uni repo. Missing one paper, but otherwise a complete record of published work (so far!). Id encourage everyone to put their accepted papers on their Inst. repo, it increases visibility and is usually permitted in author license agreements.
ps I know its not a great number, but Im a late starter at this ;)

#academic #academicchatter #academicmastodon

DrPen, 3 months ago to Futurology

Patterns have featured an opinion piece in their email re Mastodon for research, particularly focused on gathering data and the non equivalency of direct swap comparison between Twitter and Mastodon/Fediverse ethics and privacy. Its a useful read imho. It's open access.

Shifting your research from X to Mastodon? Here’s what you need to know.
Roel Roscam Abbing, Robert W. Gehl
https://www.cell.com/patterns/fulltext/S2666-3899(23)00323-9

#academicchatter #academicmastodon #research #ethics #privacy #fediverse #mastodon

DrPen, 4 months ago to random

Take a moment to marvel at the DBpedia Linked Open Data cloud.

https://lod-cloud.net/

#knowledgeweb #opendata #openknowledge #academicchatter #academicmastodon

DrPen, 4 months ago to fediverse

Creating a city for all of us: a role for the Fediverse in archiving civic urban memory. A preprint on SocArxiv of my paper (Trevor Norris co author) on how the Fediverse could help to create instances of urban civic memory archives using place-name/geocoded posts and instance cache archiving. technically a laymans view (me!), but feedback on technical or other aspects gratefully received :)

#academicmastodon #academicchatter #urbanism #archives #fediverse

https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/te2ms

DrPen, 4 months ago to fediverse

Do people know about the Zotero group, the 'Fediverse Observatory'? Its a long list of relevant information and sources that mention Fediverse related stuff. Check it out.

#fediverse #zotero #academicchatter #academicmastodon #mastodon

https://www.zotero.org/groups/4861035/fediverse_observatory/items/LFCK293Q/library

DrPen, 4 months ago to Pubtips

Today I will be posting thoughts about Aaron Swartz, who died on this day in 2013. The academic community should be much more aware of him, and challenge the massive problem of academic publishing that we are all part of. Let's make it our mission to tell people about Aaron and what he stood for.

#academic #academicmastodon #academicchatter #copyright #publishing #openaccess #publicdomain

Aaron's Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

DrPen, 4 months ago to ai

Well hey. I didn't expect my post about Aaron Swartz to get so popular but it's so good to see how many ppl are touched and angry and emotional about what happened. How much we care and what ppl do to share his life and what he stood for.

We must modernise copyright law and deal with digital content in more realistic and fair ways. I mean, we are at the #AI watershed. That's a whole other ballpark. Check this paper out.

https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4523551

#academicmastodon #academicchatter #copyright

DrPen, 4 months ago to fediverse

yes yes yes. Ive been saying this for at least a year or more and am writing about this again in my current paper. Im 100% behind this. My new theme is promoting the idea of civic learning networks that are based on decentralised federated instance models that also integrate with the open social web.

#fediverse #activitypub #decentralization #academicmastodon

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/17/1081194/how-to-fix-the-internet-online-discourse/

DrPen, 6 months ago to mastodon

One of the speakers said #Mastodon is full of tech white people, but I think that misrepresents us. Theres a huge academic/science comm, media/journo folks, political activists, artists, as well as trans and LGBTQ folks all through those other comms. Mstdn IS a bit yank-centric, but that's changing. If you interview coders theyll tell you its techy, but interview others theyll tell a different story. Also, what about Lemmy, Firefish etc?
#fediverse #activitypub #decentralized #ngi2023

DrPen, 6 months ago to fediverse

The #Decentralised #Fediverse session at #NGI2023 was a missed opportunity. This was a chance to discuss why decentralised socmed is essential going forward - digital sovereignty alone would seem to demand that. Unhooking govt, educational, major industry etc from platform monopolies is a no brainer, single users will follow. Getting wrapped up in who will pay for coders is tbh a small problem, solve the big problem of deplatforming and youll solve other issues.
#academicmastodon #activitypub

DrPen, 6 months ago to fediverse

Today in the NGI Forum 2023. At 11.10am CET a plenary session "**Decentralised Social Media and Fediverse: from niche to scale". **Registration to watch this discussion is free! Later this afternoon there's a workshop on 'activity pub software', details in first reply to this post.

Full agenda: https://ngiforum2023.eu/agenda/

#fediverse #eu #ngi #openweb
#academicmastodon

DrPen, 7 months ago to ukteachers

In case folks aren't aware, the Internet Archive now has a scholar version with a huge collection of academic work available.

https://scholar.archive.org/

#academicchatter #academicmastodon #academic #education #open

DrPen, 7 months ago to Pixelfed

I dont want to be an annoying moaner, but please please please @dansup I know youre busy being brilliant but can you get a friend to correct the url for the og image property so I can tell all my FB friends how great pixelfed is when I share my photos?

#pixelfed #opengraph

screenshot showing incorrect url for open graph image property - it should be a dynamic url

DrPen, 8 months ago to fediverse

hi Fediverse tech ppl! Does anyone have any stats on the amount of data being moved around instance to instance for federated connection/availability? Like Ive read even on a small server (>30 users) it's about 1.5gb a day traffic (github mastodon thread). Anyone have any overall stats, or any relevant info on this?

#fediverse #data #activitypub #mastodon #pixelfed #lemmy

DrPen, 8 months ago to UX

Usability = 0
User experience research = none.

#ux #userexperience #digitaldivide #TechnologyIsNotNeutral

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DrPen, 9 months ago to test

Test for image sharing into other platforms. Still not working in Facebook for some reason. (I think pixelfed.de works)... Do other peoples pixelfed.social accounts work in Facebook to populate the image?

#test #facebook #opengrapgh
#pixelfed
https://pixelfed.social/i/web/post/1088541211019058

DrPen, 9 months ago to privacy

EFF are launching a university Tor network.

Announcing the Tor University Challenge | Electronic Frontier Foundation

#tor #privacy #eff #academic #academicmastodon

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/announcing-tor-university-challenge

DrPen, 9 months ago to ukteachers

I see a lot of talk about decolonising the curriculum or the university.

Can we decolonise from Big Tech global domination of education at all levels?

#university #teaching #edtech #bigtech #academic #academicmastodon