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@ashleyruba_phd One year in my first few years as a professor, I was working in my ofc with the door open, and someone came by and said, "Oh! Where is the professor?" Of course, can't be a professor unless you're older, male, and white!

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@CIDRAP The study sample was people who were still experiencing symptoms (long covid). Still notable and important, but not as scary as the headline sounds.

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@EkasNaomi awesome, I will pass it along!

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@EkasNaomi Do they have a good chance at being funded for their whole PhD, or is this just one-year funding?

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@marisel_moreno It's possible the student never asked the professor to write one- just sent the request through the system. Or, the professor may say, "hey I won't have a lot to write, do you still want me to do this?" and they said, "Yeah, my application isn't complete without a letter"

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@nilikm We had a retirement savings check-in with our advisor, and it took all my HCW husband's strength not to respond "mid-60's" when the advisor asked how long we expect to live. We're still in early 40's. :(

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@CountyofLA @LACoPublicWorks That's a large boulder

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@SSWorks This all while the age of death gets lower and lower in the US. Currently at 77yrs for a male in the US, likely to go lower given our healthcare trajectory. How many years of retirement do you want people to have before they die, 5?

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@jason_loxton Wow, that is pretty good! Yeah, I think project-based learning, with real-life products, where students can use the bots to generate the products as they may in their career, may be the way to go. Prob not feasible in the current set-up of large lecture classes, though.

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@jason_loxton @karenraycosta Absolutely-- this is the friction point. The AI is showing us the downsides of the industrialization of education. 200-person classes just won't work anymore, and I think it's worth asking if they ever did.

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@jason_loxton @karenraycosta with respect, of course! This is a great discussion. What about a field trip where you took students to a site, and had them give their recs/action plans in person? Maybe with you pretending to be the "client"? Or, if they're good students, real community members as clients?

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@jason_loxton @karenraycosta I dunno, it seems like this is a "list frequent and non-frequent geohazards in x region" question, which could be repetition from class or a webpage. The "imagine" part makes it seem deeper, but it's unnecessary to answer q.

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@karenraycosta It makes us question if our students were ever really learning in our classes at all! So, it's not just a threat to our view of assessment but to what students were learning in general. If we care at all about student learning, this shines a spotlight on a big issue.

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@karenraycosta I think it highlights how terrible our learning assessments were. Do my students really understand concept X, or are they just repeating things we discussed in class? Now that chatbot can repeat those same things, it shows that, yes, they were just repeating it.