Archive for August 2024

Austin Urlaub says he comes from a long line of “helpers,” including special education teachers, counselors and psychologists. But the Michigan native is still the first in his family to go directly into social work. He says it’s a calling, that he has “a knack for helping people.” He has served in student government but said many in his social circle questioned his decision to enter the field at first, at least from a financial perspective.

Funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), the four-year Inspiring Students into Research Scheme (INSIGHT) will be delivered in partnership with health and social care employers throughout the North West. It will focus on training newly qualified health and social care professionals to understand research and use it effectively to underpin their practice.

Disturbances broke out in Harehills on 18 July as police responded to reports of social workers experiencing hostility while dealing with a child protection issue. Unison said staff faced “incredibly challenging jobs” in situations that were “often intimidating, threatening and potentially violent”.

Scientists should be compensated and credited when artificial intelligence chatbots pull information from their papers, a collecting society has said. The call comes amid news that two major academic publishers sold access to their research papers and data to large tech firms to train their artificial intelligence models without consulting authors…. The Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) collects royalties annually from various organisations around the world including businesses, educational institutions and government agencies on behalf of its over 120,000 members. ALCS’s members include academic researchers, freelance journalists, literary authors, scriptwriters, audiovisual artists and more. This year, ALCS paid out around £44 million to its members.

Last week I attended “Teaching and Learning With AI,” organized by the University of Central Florida and held in Orlando, Fla. I was curious to hear how academics are talking and thinking about those tools, especially given the threat many professors feel that generative AI poses to teaching and learning. Would they be enthusiastic? Skeptical? Realistic?

Short answer: all of the above.

A roundtable discussion on the global networks and political strategies of nationalist conservatives.