@prachisrivas
Education and global development, University of Adelaide | World Bank Expert Advisory Council on Citizen Engagement Previous: UN, University of Oxford, University of Sussex, IRC https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/prachi.srivastava
Helpless but important to continue to state - the bombing of schools and civilians engaged in education activity is a violation of international humanitarian law.
news.un.org/en/story/202...
The model of unpaid academic labor required good jobs with ample unstructured time.
Plot twist.
I have to be honest, in all the time I lived in Oxford I only ever walked everywhere or took the bus. If you're living in and around the city, a car is quite annoying.
Every time I read these it just blows my mind.
Very helpful. Academics: search your works.
Unexpected Sunshine often has that rapturous effect.
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I can only imagine it will do the opposite. Kids with less academic support at home turn to AI for help -> AI does their homework -> they never build the skills that doing the work themselves would give them -> major disadvantage later in life
Teens in households making under $75K are more likely to use chatbots for help with all or most schoolwork % of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 who say they do all or most of their schoolwork with the help of AI chatbots U.S. teens — 10 Household income <$30,000 — 20 $30K–$74,999 — 15 $75,000+ — 7 Note: Those who did not answer or gave other responses are not shown. Source: Survey conducted Sept. 25–Oct. 9, 2025. “How Teens Use and View AI” PEW RESEARCH CENTER
According to PEW, teens in households making under $75K are more likely to use chatbots for help with all or most schoolwork. I read a comment on another platform that said this is amazing news because we are "finally going to close the achievement gap." That is not how I would interpret this data.
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It's very similar to what happened in the 2011 federal Canadian election when Quebec voted NDP en masse making it the official opposition knocking out the Bloc (traditional opp from QC) Liberals and PCs. Didn't last. But it was a show that voters had enough.
policyoptions.irpp.org/2011/06/ndp-...
Schools are protected 'civilian objects' under international humanitarian law. They are prohibited from attack.
The Geneva Convention
www.un.org/en/genocidep...
I think it's time we organise another punch-up! :)
Absolutely! And of course, interested in the education policy work. Looking forward. :)
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What would it take to sustain progress towards inclusive, knowledge societies given rapid technological changes, geopolitical uncertainties, and shifting power relations? What are the futures of education, scientific and research systems?
UNESCO Seminar: 25 Feb 2pm
www.unesco.org/en/articles/...
As someone who has published books with 100+ images, here are my tips for finding free #earlymodern images (and tips for discounts when you have to pay for them!) 🗃️
sarahabendall.com/2020/03/11/e...
This is very cool.
Serious ontological questions.
The time where machines 'think for us' is still a cautious distance. Still, what is 'truth', and whose truth - what or who produces it. These are the questions.
Whose truth is legitimised? We are entering a time where colonisation of thought extends to machine.
This looks fascinating.
Congratulations, Michael! Great recruitment. Looking forward to seeing how the School develops - seems very exciting!
Cool - just came across this - it was a long time ago! Where did you get the poster? @daveevansphd.bsky.social Thought you'd get a kick out of this.
'conditions under which writing is meant to happen – fragmented time, competing priorities...sense that writing must be squeezed in [...] How universities structure time, signal what counts as legitimate work [...] While institutions cannot create time, they can create protected time – bubbles.'
How toddlers in Finland's 'language nests' are saving an endangered Sámi language
Special nurseries are helping the Sámi people in Finland to bring their almost-lost language back from the brink of extinction.
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
(Language nests are learned from Māori kōhanga reo)
The first detailed genetic map of cancer in pet cats reveals striking similarities with human versions of the disease, possibly helping find treatments in both species.
An international team examined ~1,000 genes linked to 13 types of feline cancer.
🧪😺 @medsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New dinosaur alert 🦖 🧪 🚨]
Palaeontologists have discovered a new species of dinosaur in a remote part of the Sahara. Named Spinosaurus mirabilis – meaning ‘astonishing’ Spinosaurus in Latin – the giant lived in what is now Niger more than 95 million years ago.
www.sciencefocus.com/news/new-din...
Image of sky with flashes of pink over the clouds encircled by treetops in a semi-circle
The swirly swish of the pink sky tonight...
Global social justice movements in parallel with rising authoritarian extremism. The question of whose knowledge counts — and whose is erased — has never been more urgent.
Our post on the Oxford workshop revisits these ideas. @norrag.bsky.social
www.norrageducation.org/relational-e...
I know it's meant as irony but there are many normatively functional institutions in a constitutional monarchy which are comparably more accountable to citizens.
More 'surprising' (in quotes b/c depends on how cynical one is) is the willing and wholesale abdication of state obligation in the publicness of education.
I don't just mean provision, but the civic discourse and engagement and public oversight of content and form. Accountability rests there.