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Exciting news 📣

I've just released 2 new dates for my Writing #DesignSystem documentation training:

- 1:30-5pm UK time, 23 May: bit.ly/4lpG9Z2
- 9am-12:30pm UK time, 29 May: bit.ly/4j2rW2D

A half-day course that will teach you how to plan, write and test docs that users will actually read.

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A moment that changed me: I brought a baby gorilla home – and learned so much about being a parent - theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2… great book title here: "Gorillas in Our Midst"

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🧠 Assessment at the End of the Turing Test


In an era when AI can generate essays that mimic human writing with startling fluency, the question "What are we actually assessing?" has never felt more urgent.

I’ve just published a new blog post reflecting on a recent conversation with a colleague who argues that remote assessment is no longer trustworthy. Their proposed solution? Reintroduce in-person elements—even brief ones—to every assessment.

But what if the real challenge isn't technological, but pedagogical?
What if the answer lies not in surveillance, but in reimagining the way we define and design assessment?

✍️ Read the full post here:
👉 e-learning-rules.com/blog/0019…

💬 I'd love to hear what others think:

Can assessment evolve to meet the age of AI without falling back on control?

Are there models out there that meaningfully integrate AI while maintaining academic integrity?

#Education #Assessment #GenerativeAI #EdTech #DigitalLearning #Pedagogy

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Less sea ice compared to average could be found around almost the entire #Arctic sea ice edge during March 2025, which contributed to its record low total ice extent.

+ Data: nsidc.org/data/g02202/versions…
+ Concentration = fraction of sea ice in a location

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Stand up.

Today I join with >1900 members of the US National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine signing this letter, as individuals, decrying the assault on #science by the GOP and Trump administration.

docs.google.com/document/d/13g…

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Evolution of lower atmosphere (at 925 hPa level) temperatures during the #Arctic freeze season (averaged over October to February). 2025 is a new record in this dataset.

*Note: map shows temperature anomalies (for 2024-2025), while the line shows the actual temperature. Graphic from zacklabe.com/arctic-temperatur…

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Most of the world's oceans remain much warmer than average, though the cooler conditions in the east-central Pacific continue (La Niña).

Data from NOAA OISSTv2.1 (ncei.noaa.gov/products/optimum…)

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in reply to Simon Brooke

@simon_brooke Scientists are still trying to pinpoint the cause of recent changes in methane concentration trends (e.g., wetlands). Here are some articles exploring possible sources/sinks: phys.org/news/2019-03-methane-… & e360.yale.edu/features/methane… & nature.com/articles/d41586-022… & earthobservatory.nasa.gov/imag…
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@simon_brooke locally the builr their downtown in a leveed RIVERBED. When it dries in the summer you can smell swamp gas, methane, in a number of places. That's why. Wetlands are SUPPOSED TO generate methane and the FACTORS are only relevant becase STUPID HUMANS live near them. Greedy 'scientists' with Grant Money pay their bills doing MEANINGLESS RESEARCH. Go away and LEAVE THE WETLANDS to be what they are.
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A look at the significant land warming over the last 50 years during the boreal winter season (January to March)...

Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 (ncei.noaa.gov/products/land-ba…).

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The global mean surface air temperature anomaly (departure from average) so far this year now placed in historical context.

Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 averaged over January to February.

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GitHub has gone - long live Forgejo (@forgejo).

Fully migrated out of Microsoft’s walled garden after they blocked us:

- 54k commits
- 9.5k issues
- 4.3k pull requests
- 100k comments

Everything moved. Nothing left behind.

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@clacke

So?

My question was not about borders. I'm asking because it looks like they have someone on their team who traveled to Crimea. Only one kind of people travel to Crimea and only one kind of people keeps them in a team.

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@chebra I agree that it raises flags. I was responding to the question in the immediate comment I was responding to, as I looked into the very same thing the other day and came to a different conclusion than they.

If the maps are different from upstream, it becomes more than a moral problem, it becomes a concrete influence operation.

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My #Arctic observation and climate model comparison page has been updated through 2024 (along with the addition of a new visualization or two). This page is updated seasonally. zacklabe.com/climate-model-pro…

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Temperature anomalies over the last month (left), 3 months (center), and 12 months (right) in the Southern Hemisphere...

Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds.f17050d7

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