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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

How to Tell if You've Been 'Invisibly Promoted'

Invisible promotions expand roles without formal recognition or compensation, leading to increased responsibility and potential underpayment.
Psychology
fromMail Online
2 weeks ago

People with foreign accents are seen as less competent, study reveals

Foreign accents reduce audience engagement on TED Talks despite equal content quality, creating an 'accent penalty' that affects reach and influence.
Philosophy
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

Why Some Scientific Debates Never End

Complex questions involving values cannot be definitively settled by evidence alone, as different priorities lead experts to emphasize different findings from the same data.
#generative-ai-in-education
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago
Higher education

College students, professors are making their own AI rules. They don't always agree

Generative AI in education creates tension between convenience and skill development, forcing professors and students to navigate unclear boundaries around responsible use.
Higher education
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

College students, professors are making their own AI rules. They don't always agree

Generative AI in education creates tension between convenience and skill development, forcing professors and students to navigate unclear boundaries around responsible use.
Higher education
fromNature
1 month ago

Why an industry career move is a taboo topic in academia

Many researchers leave academia due to shrinking job security, intense publication pressure, and poor work-life balance, though discussing this transition remains taboo within academic communities.
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.nature.com
1 month ago

Why sky-high pay for AI researchers is bad for the future of science

Outsize industry pay is luring top young AI researchers from academia, threatening curiosity-driven innovation, independent critique, and ethical oversight in science.
#jeffrey-epstein
Philosophy
fromBig Think
2 months ago

"Epistemic trespassing": Why brilliant people can say idiotic things

Experts can overreach beyond their expertise, making unreliable or harmful claims when they assume competence transfers across unrelated fields.
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
2 months ago

Harvard's President Undercuts Academic Freedom and Learning

As reported by the Harvard Crimson student newspaper, reflecting on the present challenges to institutions around accusations of intolerance and hostility to free debate, Garber came down firmly on the side of not debating (bold is mine): "I'm pleased to say that I think there is real movement to restore balance in teaching and to bring back the idea that you need to be objective in the classroom."
Education
US politics
fromAol
2 months ago

Demand for high-achiever visas fuels pay-to-play market for credentials

Fraudulent credential services increasingly enable EB-1A applicants to fabricate research, citations, or awards to win 'Einstein' visas.
fromMedium
1 month ago

The blind spots of inclusive AI

Algorithms can now transcribe meetings in real time, translate across languages instantly, summarise dense reports in seconds, and generate content tailored to different reading levels. For many users, these are not just productivity gains. They are meaningful improvements in access, sometimes the difference between participating fully and struggling quietly on the margins. Voice interfaces reduce reliance on complex forms. Automated captions support participation in live conversations. Generative tools can rephrase technical or academic language into something clearer and more digestible.
Artificial intelligence
Higher education
fromFast Company
1 month ago

Why the greatest risk of AI in higher education is the erosion of learning

AI adoption across university functions threatens to hollow out learning, mentorship, and the university’s purpose as machines perform research and educational labor.
fromFuturism
2 months ago

ICE's AI Tool Has Been a Complete Disaster

According , when ICE identifies a recruit with prior law enforcement experience, it assigns them to its "Law Enforcement Officer Program." This is a four-week online course meant to streamline training for those already familiar with the legal aspects of the gig. Everyone else gets shipped off to ICE's Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Georgia for an eight-week in-person academy. This more rigorous training includes courses in immigration law, gun handling, physical fitness exams, and more.
US news
fromFast Company
2 months ago

The hidden bias that keeps smart people quiet

When I was a product marketing leader for a corporate regional bank, I found myself getting annoyed during an all-day strategy meeting. My frustration came from hearing the same voices, sharing the same old ideas. I wondered why other people, especially the women in the room, weren't speaking up. I remember thinking, "Well, you could be the one to speak up."
Psychology
US politics
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

Pete Hegseth's Attack on Harvard

A conservative defense official attacked Harvard, claiming ROTC graduates are ideologically compromised and urging Pentagon ties be cut, reflecting anti-elite MAGA resentment.
Philosophy
fromSilicon Canals
2 months ago

8 things people do trying to seem intellectual that actually make educated people cringe - Silicon Canals

Performative intellectualism—jargon, name-dropping, and overcomplication—undermines credibility; genuine intelligence communicates simply and uses precision only when necessary.
Philosophy
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Embracing Intellectual Humility in Political Conversations

Intellectual humility recognizes knowledge limits, seeks other perspectives, and restrains certainty, tribalism, extremism, and contempt in political judgment.
#generative-ai
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
2 months ago

Fixing Discrimination in Faculty Hiring Starts With Data

Chad M. Topaz's critique of the Faculty Merit Act, drafted by the National Association of Scholars, itself embodies another ill of the academy-the conflation of activism with scholarship. Dispassionate readers will quickly grasp that a "co-founder of the Institute for the Quantitative Study of Inclusion, Diversity and Equity" has programmatic goals of his own-the promotion of the illiberal and discriminatory ideology frequently referred to as "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" (DEI).
Higher education
Higher education
fromNature
2 months ago

'Bodies like ours aren't considered in academia'

Academic spaces, equipment, and norms often exclude people of larger body sizes, creating everyday barriers and unspoken discrimination.
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
1 month ago

The Tyranny of Disciplines

RST: Good morning, my dear hard-boiled egg. Did you have a good trip to Austin, upholding the patriarchy and extolling the manly virtues of the Western canon? EGG: You are so irritating. Old white men need to have a little space in the lexicon of human endeavors. I stand for all of them. So there!! RST: 🤮 There's been a theme in the responses I'm hearing from people about this column, and it has to do with bodily functions and fluids.
Higher education
Higher education
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

No, private schools aren't victims of reverse discrimination' and Cambridge should know better | Lee Elliot Major

Targeting students from elite private schools signals class bias and risks mistaking privilege-driven performance for genuine talent.
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