Sherrill Stroschein 💙

Reader in Politics, UCL. But these are my own views, tweeting in personal capacity. Retweeting not an endorsement. More Politics things in the butterfly place.

[Sherrill Stroschein 💙 @sstroschein2]

Denial is not a strategy.

[Juan José Ponce Vázquez @jjponcevazquez]

I can’t speak for the UK, but in the US, the moment when employers realize that many graduates aren’t able to do any thinking of their own because they have mortgaged their brain to AI will make the best case for a university going back to basics and focusing on education.

[Agnes Ayton 💙 @AgnesAyton]

This was entirely predictable.

[Ubaka Ogbogu @UbakaOgbogu]

And universities have a moral and legal responsibility to put those students front and centre.

[Prof Bob Davis @Rokewood]

Yes, this is an important commentary from Lorna Finlayson on the current plight of UK HE—undoubtedly the worst in my long career since Circular 10/81, which savaged the sector. It underlines the shameful political paralysis of the present Labour government …

[Sherrill Stroschein 💙 @sstroschein2]

The more I get used to what AI looks like in student papers, the easier it is to spot in journal submissions.

[Branko Milanovic @BrankoMilan]

There is no easy solution for AI plagiarism. The modus operandi of the journals will have to change, One possibility is that refereeing not be done as now by reading and commenting on the article but by arranging a video conversation between the referees and the author(s). In a conversation, it would become clear if the article is an AI plagiarism or is genuine.
Generally speaking, we have to move to oral examinations.

[Sherrill Stroschein 💙 @sstroschein2]

@xgabegottliebx Some of them are completely addicted. As intended by the companies behind it.

[Jason Locasale @LocasaleLab]

Universities invest in bureaucracy as their future. The future, apparently, is more administrators.

Every university now claims to be all in on AI.

By all in, they mean creating new administrative offices, new vice provosts, new associate vice deans, new committees, new staff, and new budgets.

Meanwhile, the best AI scientists either leave or want to leave and are irrelevant to the bureaucracy being constructed around them.

[Dr Fadia Dakka @Fadiax]

(Murder) but yes.

[Anita Orban @_OrbanAnita]

Together with @magyarpeterMP, we visited the plaque at the Reichstag commemorating Hungary’s role in opening the border in 1989. This decision helped pave the way for German reunification and a free Europe.

Its message remains powerful today:

“For the friendship of the Hungarian and German people,
for a united Germany,
for an independent Hungary,
for a democratic Europe.”

This is the foundation on which 🇭🇺–🇩🇪 dialogue should stand today as well.

[Times Higher Education @timeshighered]

With hundreds of jobs on the line and dozens of courses at risk, staff living through one of the biggest university restructuring projects of recent years fear they are shouldering the blame for wider failures
https://t.co/eDSOTQ8jNV

[Colin Bingle @bingle_colin]

These are not just little local difficulties that will soon be overcome. They are a full on, three alarm, disaster for the sector. It's really hard to see how the staff body will recover. Goodwill has gone. I am glad I am out but worry for what I left behind.

[John Handel @_John_Handel]

"embracing real learning as a competitive advantage" will actually be the thing for the next 5-10 years of higher ed

[Dr. Michelle Anya Anjirbag-Reeve @Anjirbaguette]

The dearth of people running universities who understand that research is actually the point of a university is one of the biggest signs of the intellectual apocalypse we find ourselves within

[Lawrence Zhang 張樂翔 @HistorianZhang]

Are we gonna get a headline next year about how Chicago ended up paying a billion to Anthropic and so have to shut down all their humanities departments?

[The Debt Collective 🟥 @StrikeDebt]

Notice how universities are moving at break-neck speed to make sure their students have AI but have been resistant to paying graduate students, faculty and staff a living wage. It's not about the money—it's about what a neoliberal university system prioritizes.

[Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD @Nicole_Lee_Sch]

AI companies are also wildly subsidizing tools to unis so they get more training data and secure an addicted market. Whats the best way to ensure future of AI? Make sure those coming into adulthood cant live without it and therefore will pay for it.

[Danya @dandoon_danya]

"it seems like writing will no longer be an important part of the research process" im gonna die i swear to god this is hell.

[Gerry Mooney 🚩🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🐶⚽️🦊🍀 @gerrymooney60]

@sstroschein2 @oubucu And Stefan Collini has a good piece in the latest LRB - https://t.co/oFkjz29EUR

[jamieᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠ @Jamie50267452]

@sstroschein2 Has been sold out

[Strathclyde UCU @StrathclydeUCU]

@sstroschein2 @oubucu * is being murdered