Every couple of months I get slightly annoyed by Zotero and look for other reference managers and come to the conclusion that others are far more buggy!
Why don’t we have a reference manager that’s more — modern? Why can’t I take notes like I would in a good text editor? The way to add notes is clunky, I can’t easily see what papers have cited the current paper? Generating notes from my annotations is always not intuitive? Am I missing something here?
@aspiringcat@academicchatter I have to agree with the three replies so far. There should be a way to get an up-to-date summary of all my notes at the tap of a button.
Just attended a coaching on "Making Good Decisions" for academics. After 60min of "don't be too perfectionist", "just think about the next step", "be more compassionate with yourself", we started discussing where all this pressure is coming from, and someone asked "isn't the whole system broken, then?" and I asked "should we actually stop trying to fix our mental health and BURN THE WHOLE F**KING PLACE DOWN?" and the coach went: "Of course, that would actually be healthier". 🤡
@SemAntiKast@academicchatter This has been my attitude for a while now and I did a podcast on it a couple of years ago. Instead of providing employees with courses to help their mental health and instead of suggesting that people do things for their mental health, just treat them properly so their mental health doesn't get worse! In any other area of health, the advice would be to stop the thing that is causing the problem, not just try to negate the effects.
Summoning my #AI folks and my #Education folks to weigh in: What should the attitude of teachers and educators be towards the use of AI by themselves and by students? (Yes, you can assume this mainly concerns the use of #LLMs.) #SALAMI@edutooters
@FantasticalEconomics@dsmith@dragfyre@edutooters This was my first thought when ChatGPT became mainstream - this may be an opportunity for a lot of bad assessments to be improved. However, it won't work for everything. If you are assessing the ability of a person to write an academic text in a foreign language, it is difficult to see how to do that without them writing said text. But that kind of assessment is probably a small minority.
@dragfyre@FantasticalEconomics@dsmith@edutooters I don't think it is about encouragement or not. There will always be a proportion of students who will (need to) use anything that will help them get better grades, so I think it is about making sure that assessment is actually effective. What do we want to test? Can we have confidence in the results?
I’ve recently received a peer review overall positive and very informative, but critising precisely my use of the verbs “to try” and “to attempt” because, according to the reviewer, “not adequate in academic writing”. Here’s a reminder of why we should value transparency and why framing our methods in terms of attempts and intentions can actually be a good thing. #linguistics#corpuslinguistics@linguistics@academicchatter
