Mastodawn

Paul Martin Jan 5, 2024

Academic friends: TRU OpenLearning is hiring subject matter experts to help us redevelop 30+ online courses on subjects such as Anatomy/Physiology, Math, Organic Chemistry, Marketing and Leadership, Canadian literature, Composition, Social Psychology, and many more. Happy to answer any questions. Full list here: https://tru.hua.hrsmart.com/hr/ats/JobSearch/viewAll/jobSearchPaginationExternal_page:2

Deltek Talent Management - View All Jobs

Paul Martin Aug 11, 2023

Maria Popova Aug 11, 2023

How to love the world more – George Saunders on the courage of uncertainty https://t.co/MmkRMjpy6q

How to Love the World More: George Saunders on the Courage of Uncertainty

“In a world full of people who seem to know everything, passionately, based on little (often slanted) information, where certainty is often mistaken for power, what a relief it is to be in th…

The Marginalian

Paul Martin Aug 7, 2023

Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)Aug 6, 2023

This essay is an utterly brilliant take on #AIhype. I'll put a few excerpts here, but you should definitely go read the whole thing:

https://karawynn.substack.com/p/language-is-a-poor-heuristic-for

Language Is a Poor Heuristic for Intelligence

With the emergence of LLM “AI”, everyone will have to learn what many disabled people have always understood

Nine Lives

Paul Martin Apr 26, 2023

Annalee Apr 24, 2023

Read an article today about why Americans think alcohol has health benefits and it's apparently another "well the French are healthy and they do X so it's healthy to do X."

So here's your periodic reminder that France (and Italy, and Sweden, and Japan, and basically every country you've seen in a "this country is so healthy, what's their secret?" headline) has universal health care.

The secret is access to health care. It's always access to health care.

Paul Martin Feb 10, 2023

Robert Roy Britt Feb 9, 2023

New report: U.S. spends far more on #healthcare than other high-income countries yet is the only one without universal #health coverage. U.S. also has...

- Lowest life expectancy at birth

- Highest death rates for avoidable or treatable conditions

- Highest maternal and infant mortality

- Highest rate of people with multiple chronic conditions

Thoughts?

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2023/jan/us-health-care-global-perspective-2022

U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective, 2022: Accelerating Spending, Worsening Outcomes

This cross-national comparison of health care systems assesses U.S. health spending, outcomes, status, and service use relative to 12 other high-income countries.

Paul Martin Feb 7, 2023

jan Feb 7, 2023

”…we now have plenty of evidence suggesting that exposure does not strengthen our immune system, but may weaken it. …with every new exposure, we are more likely to suffer adverse effects.” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/26/covid-roulette-clean-air-ventilation-long-covid #immunity

We are all playing Covid roulette. Without clean air, the next infection could permanently disable you

As rich people plough money into ventilation to protect themselves, those with long Covid are treated as an embarrassment, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian

Paul Martin Feb 7, 2023

Hmmm… I misread the news about the name of Google’s new ChatGPT competitor. “Brad? They called it Brad?!” Actually, I think I’ll stick with calling it Brad. Works better. “Did you get Brad to write your essay? This seems a lot like something Brad would write. Brad doesn’t really know what he’s talking about.”

Paul Martin Jan 25, 2023

Robin DeRosa Jan 24, 2023

"We do not believe it is possible to police or policy our way out of this conundrum."

@mburtis on the tensions between AI and pedagogy

https://colab.plymouthcreate.net/2023/01/24/the-intersection-of-ai-and-pedagogy/

#ChatGPT #HIgherEd

Paul Martin Dec 17, 2022

Irwin DeVries Dec 17, 2022

Opportunity at Thompson Rivers University: Director, Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching - https://tru.hua.hrsmart.com/hr/ats/Posting/view/24389/0/0/0

Deltek Talent Management - Director, Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching - (01238.3)

Paul Martin Dec 16, 2022

So, 16 years ago this week I joined that other app. I was user 64,113, and many of us started out by posting things like "Toast for breakfast" or "Heading to 7-11." Before long, though, I found community, inspiration, and more friends than I can count. Weird to think of how far social media has come and, well, how far it has also fallen. Here's to better days ahead and more new friends. In other news, just got a glass of water. Answering email. Considering sleep.