Professor of Digital & Social Science preoccupied by HigherEd & the digital. Founder @SWBookGroup #swbkg Cofounder @SWVirtualPal UKGovTech Woman Leader 2018
N of England & N of Ireland
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Here, There and Everywhere: The Arrival of the Digital Professionalism ‘Interactive’ Mapping Tool for Social Work Students, Practitioners and Academics amltaylor66.wordpress.com/20… – at Preston, England
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Grab your early bird ticket today!
If you want to meet up in person with #LTHEchat folks there's a great opportunity at @SocMedHE! #SocMedHE24 blogs.shu.ac.uk/socmedhe/soc…
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Hi NI comrades . Please complete or repost Jessica's PhD online survey on drug use and LGBTQ community @niada @GWShorter @QUBCommunities1 @QUBDarn @AMLTaylor66 @AmandaShields86 @GavinDavidson70 @daniellemackle_
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This is utterly inhumane and shameful, is it not @DavidLammy @Keir_Starmer?
When will you act and stop providing arms and military support to Israel?
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Fascinating data here: only 30% of students have had an interaction with another student on campus outside of classroom activity. We have to accept that *we* have failed to maintain the social experience of university life. I think this is a root cause of many other problems.
2023 Student Experience Survey has replacement engagement questions. Results are similar to previous questions but they all seem low to me, especially for social interaction outside study. qilt.edu.au/surveys/student-…
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Very happy to be co-facilitating a workshop at #SocMedHE24 with the amazing @SFaulknerPandO.
It is titled: Using Lego® Serious Play® to Explore Social Media for Networking and Professional Development in Higher Education.
It will involve Lego, fun and sparkly pipe cleaners!
ALT Lego bricks
ALT Sparkly pipe cleaners
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I remember Google+, and the idee fixe and mad hype around it (Google was afraid of Facebook).
As a product, G+ was a ghost town. But for the first year or so the G+ team reported astronomical engagement numbers. Huhh?
Finally we learned they were counting every G+ notification dropped at the top of Gmail as an "engagement."
Anyway, I wonder how they're measuring this...
businessinsider.com/google-e…
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The #Budget2024 pledges more money for public services; but is it more money we need or a more candid & courageous redesign of systems around a person, a community not a silo organisation? All our resources are locked into handoffs between “services” rather than real human help.
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I think it behooves us to be skeptical of stories about AI driving people to believe wrong things and commit ugly actions. Not that I like the AI slop that is filling up our social media, but when we look at the ways that AI is harming us, slop is pretty low on the list.
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ALT A man lying in a hospital bed, wearing a sinister mind-control helmet. His hands are clenched into fists and he is grimacing. Through a hole in the wall we see a prancing vaudevallian, whose head has been replaced with the head of Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse avatar. Behind this figure is the giant red eye of HAL9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' At the end of the bed stand a trio - Mom, Dad and daughter - in Sunday best clothes, their backs to us, staring at the mind-controlled man's face. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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Kerry @QUB @darnqub survey asks about overdose experiences, drug use, perception of risk of overdose and attitudes and knowledge towards opioid overdose. Participants dont need to have used substances to take part please help!
qubpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jf…
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An in-depth investigation by a French newspaper has raised the alarm about potential security breaches and world leaders being put in danger... because their bodyguards use Strava and upload public activities to the workout-sharing platform.
road.cc/content/news/bodygua…
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Not saying we shouldn’t be careful with this tech, but the accuracy, clarity, and conciseness of the current human-written notes is pretty questionable. For example, this study found errors in 20% of notes pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article…
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One day we are going to wake up, after years of the consistent and pernicious pollution of critical information ecosystems, and deeply regret this era of thoughtless LLM deployment.
A devastating loss of accuracy, clarity and conciseness -- for what?
The internet has been progressively diluted with AI-generated slop. Are medical records headed for the same fate?
🧵 I just published a perspective in @NEJM with @AdamRodmanMD and Arjun Manrai on why rushing AI into medical documentation could be a mistake.
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Councils paid CareTech almost £600 million for the care of children and young people last year, according to newly published accounts. But £1 in every £4 went to investors and lenders, not to children in care. This is how private equity is plundering children’s social care.
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With just over 7 weeks to go to #SocMedHE24 the Social Meda for Leaning in HE conference at @sheffhallamuni here are some mementos from #SocMedHE15 and #SocMedHE16
❤️ @KeepCup
ALT Two mugs with Sheffield Hallam University on them and the @SocMedHE conference logo and hashtag
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The early bird fee for #SocMedHE24 (until 31 October) will be £75 per delegate and the standard fee will be £95. Booking is open at the SHU Online Store.
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Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said!
Yup, so let’s use it in human / relational occupations such as #socialwork
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