You don’t need to be a computer expert to create fake sexual content using artificial intelligence tools. A simple search on social media or any search engine will turn up applications and tutorials that explain, step by step and in great detail, how to create fake sexual images, videos, or audio recordings. The popularization of […] … learn more→
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How to protect and educate children and adolescents about sexual ‘deepfakes’?
Concierges, adjunct professors, potato chip tasters: US employers are relying more and more on ‘disposable’ workers
When I leave my Boston condo every day, I say good morning to the concierge, who works for a contracting company providing staff to residential buildings. When I conduct an interview in a nearby building, the people who clean that office at night are contractors. The person who serves me my lunch sandwich is a […] … learn more→
Turning a book into a series of workshops
Like a lot of my work, I take inspiration from many places. This post is going to reflexively unpack some of the process I used when taking the book Getting Research Funded: Five essential rules for early career researchers (by Tseen Khoo, Phil Ward, and Jonathan O’Donnell) and turning it into a series of grant-writing workshops. Firstly, […] … learn more→
A writing-without-fear game
Doctoral researchers sometimes suffer from lack of confidence about their writing. They can construct a sentence, a paragraph and a whole chapter. But they have difficulty when they imagine a supervisor, a reviewer, or an examiner reading over their shoulder as they type. Every clause gets checked against an invisible judge before it’s finished, and half […] … learn more→
No degree is AI‑proof. But delaying specialisation may offer students an edge
Choosing a university degree has never been straightforward. Students and parents have always asked which courses and majors offer the best returns and lead to secure careers. But now the age of generative artificial intelligence, bringing powerful new tools such as ChatGPT and Claude, has made those decisions much more complex. In New Zealand and elsewhere, students are […] … learn more→
‘You’re a 4 out of 10’: the troubling rise of AI appearance ratings
A teenager joins an online video chat. Within seconds, artificial intelligence analyses their face and gives them a score out of ten for “attractiveness”. They are compared in real time with another user who scores higher and is declared the winner. The game is live-streamed, and the audience ridicule the loser in the chat. This […] … learn more→
Class, let’s watch a short video – more than 75% of teachers say they use YouTube in the classroom
Approximately three-quarters of 393 preschool and K-12 teachers in the U.S. say they use YouTube for instructional purposes, with roughly half using it on a daily or weekly basis, according to our new nationally representative survey. Those findings come from our new research, published in June 2026 in Educational Researcher, an academic journal. Our sample included […] … learn more→
Muscle strength: the health indicator that almost no one talks about
Standing up from a chair five times in a row without using your arms for support seems like a simple task. However, the ease or difficulty with which you can do it, or the inability to complete it at all, can reveal a great deal about muscle strength and functional capacity. In just 30 seconds, […] … learn more→
What is emotional regulation? A child psychologist explains
If you’ve followed mental health topics on TikTok or Instagram lately, you have probably heard the term emotional regulation. But emotional regulation isn’t just a trendy buzzword. It’s a nuanced concept that psychologists like me have been studying for decades. At its core, emotional regulation is how well someone can manage their emotions – whether positive ones like […] … learn more→
Why geopolitics is deciding the future of universities today
For decades, educational institutions benefited from a rarely questioned notion: the world was moving toward greater integration and cooperation. International student mobility was growing, research collaboration was flourishing across borders, and academia was operating within a global marketplace of talent and ideas. Even as governments vied for economic and political influence, higher education was considered […] … learn more→
