Selected 2024 Kathleen Fitzpatrick ARC Laureate Fellowship #PhD Thinkers. We collaborated to improve real world #adoption & #impact of #research. B’ful week exploring @CityofAdelaide 🍂Tx Prof. Maureen Dollard sponsorship & mentoring @MonashInfotech @HumaniseL @UniversitySA

December 1st: time to ask yourself, before sending a work email, is this really a 2024 problem?

Celebrating another VCE year with my exam supervisors’ team at a b’ful homestead. Tx to all supervisors who work hard so students can focus on doing their best. Wishing well to all Year 12 & 11s 🎉

Congratulations on your Special Commendations at the Vice Chancellor's Excellence Awards, Monash University yesterday @ProfJohnGrundy (Excellence in Graduate Research Supervision (STEM)) and @RuchiSembey (Excellence in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion)!! monash.edu/vc-excellence-…

I wrote a little something about why witches on Tik Tok are hexing Nick Fuentes: link.medium.com/POFWvLrOwOb

It’s be remiss to be in @CityofAdelaide and not squeeze in Torrens @parkrun - marshalling folks at the 2.5k mark, basically the high point of their run where I get to yell at them to turn around and pretend I'm a Garmin! 😂

Rohith Prakash, Ruchi Sembey, Pranav Kulkarni, Vedant Gadhavi, Ayushi Patel and Ayushi Daga, Monash student ambassadors from India, met with the Honourable Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, India’s Minister of Education and his Australian counterpart the Hon Jason Clare MP, Minister for the launch of the Monash India Plan.

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May the spark of curiosity and the brilliance of innovation brighten your celebration. Happy Diwali! ✨

#Diwali #HappyDiwali #Celebration #MonashUni

Invited to the launch of Australia-India Plan. Ministers of Education Australia & India - Jason Clare & Dharmendra P in attendance. Many esteemed colleagues in suits, yep. Got a moment to chat to our @MonashUni VC Sharon Pickering.

A great project by our #PhD student @RuchiSembey focuses on uncovering what opportunities and challenges emerging tech like #AR and #VR present in education to build empathy for human needs. The result? More inclusive solutions!

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@HumaniseL

Attended a fabulous session with ARC Laureate @Sharonkparker & @SaraDolnicar on resilience for women in research. They shared great examples, own professional experiences and strategies!! Such raw & authentic discussion - v helpful & uplifting! 🌟

Honoured to receive Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Award 🎉 Rewarding to see the positive #impact of my efforts in mentoring & IT outreach efforts on @MonashUni & the broader #community. Shoutout to allies & collaborators🧡 @MonashInfotech @HumaniseL #EDI
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Monday #matcha gratitude. Tx to @jessicabnassar sweet treats for hitting my #PhD milestone. Cheers to more milestones (& more treats!) ☺️ #phdchat

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

6000 finishers at @bushyparkrun that must be some kind of @parkrun record?! 😮 Kudos to the team of 125 vollies 👏

I first wrote this on the back of a student's paper, and two weeks later he turned in a paper about an issue he really cared about. It earned an A.

PhD student #dilemma: Should I go all-in & attend the full #conference @asciliteconf in-person, or just dip my toes in for a day? Worth the splurge for all the #networking & sessions, or should I save my pennies? Pros & cons, anyone? (Also, will they hv good #coffee?😄) #phdchat

Attended #Ask4AI forum for thought-provoking discussions and managed to squeeze in some equity and inclusion chat with two brilliant women @NilushiKarunar2 & @ExintarisBetty. Talk about multitasking!

Ryan Baker provided examples of a virtual teaching assistant deployed to provide constructive & personalised suggestions on students’ homework. Quick, polite & accurate but not good at suggesting useful learning strategies and supporting motivation #Ask4AI

Baker pointed out LLMs are weak in knowing about a specific learner and asked to consider if existing successful models on cognition, engagement, self-regulation learning could be embedded into LLMs? #Ask4AI

Simon Wilkie describes UAI as Ubiquitous Ambient Intelligence & suggests “How does the AI complement us (humans) and makes a more human human” could be lens to see AI’s incredible opportunity. #Ask4AI

Discussions at #Ask4AI called for better definition of ‘adaptive skills needed for AI’. Re AI - speed of change too fast, need to build AI literacy & equity gaps getting bigger