In case of interest, the #OpenUniversity #GraduateSchool has just published its guidance on the use of #GenAI in #DoctoralWriting:

https://www5.open.ac.uk/students/research/ou/services/position-statement-and-guidance-generative-ai-and-doctoral-education

Informed comments are welcome as this document has been conceived as a 'living document' responsive to change in an evolving tech landscape.

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please sign this important petition to put pressure on the #OpenUniversity to divest from the #WeaponsIndustry among which #BAE, #Cisco, #Alphabet & #Microsoft who the #OU is partnering with.

#press #BreakingNews #news #GlobalSouth #FreePalestine

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/we-call-on-the-open-university-to-divest-from-israel-and-the-arms-industry?source=direct_link&

today is #NationalDayOfActionForPalestine. as a student i am taking part in a phone blockade against the #OpenUniversity today to confront them with their complicity in #GazaGenocide by partnering with #BAEsystems in particular but also #Microsoft #Google #Alphabet, and #CISCO.
Their immoral conduct makes me and fellow students & staff involuntarily complicit in #WarCrimes and #genocide.

i urge you to follow and share our FB page

https://www.facebook.com/share/1FFAaRri32/

Imagine parting the veils of clouds that obscure Venus, and seeing through the crustal basalts to understand the mantle beneath. This is the journey Julia Semprich (@planetju) took us on as the Mineralogical Society of America Distinguished Lecturer.

Many thanks to @fosstodon for letting me join the server.

I'm still setting up my profile but here's a brief #introduction.

I've been using #Linux for over seven years now and have come to love both the #OpenSource and #UNIX design philosophies. I use OS apps where I can, though I'm pragmatic about it (there are a few closed apps I use).

Outside of this I'm a student with the #OpenUniversity, a writer, researcher and avid reader!

I also live in the #WestCountry!

Great to see Naomi Alderman bigging up the Open University in the Observer's On My Radar column this morning...

As the holder of both an OU first degree & a later MA (done like Alderman while I was working) I completely endorse this message.... a great British institution that has done so much to democratise university education.

Any #Psychologists or #Psychology students on here?

While I'm on the penultimate module of my current #OpenUniversity degree, I am seriously leaning towards doing Psychology for my next one.

I have a good year and a bit to formally decide, but I'd like to spend till then delving into the basics of the subject.

Happy days! Celebrated our 15th anniversary Cosmology Coffee at the #OpenUniversity today, with people connecting from as far as Finland, Thailand, South Africa, and from a beach on the South of France. #astrodon

For #ThrowbackThursday here's my dad looking like he's presenting an Open University programme about calculus and solar dynamics. It's our back garden in the 1970s and yes, that's a Fisher Price parking garage/service centre with ramp and elevator toy there. Classic.

Eeeee, when I were young daytime TV was for schools programmes. Open University on BBC2 including weekends (happy birthday BBC2. At 60 you're looking well past your sell by date. What happened?) Just realised that schools programmes are no longer a thing (I'm slow at catchup these days).

@harriettmb @TCMuffin

I have a first degree & I took my second MA with the #OpenUniversity... I'm a big fan of the accessibility & their approach... but sadly its no longer 'affordable'... my on-line MA was £6k - I'm not begrudging them the money (I know what their costs look like), just saying this would not be affordable for many people....

I didn't do an #introduction because I'd done a bio but maybe I'm missing out on a rite of passage. Maybe going from the 3rd person to the 1st makes all the difference. So here goes...

Hi All! I'm Rosaleen Lynch. Roz to many folk on both sides of the water. Rosanne to family in #Ireland. Rosie to my loved one. Mama to my daughter.

I'm a youth & #community worker in #London & run an #innercity youth centre & #teach at the #OpenUniversity & #write to make sense of what's going on in the world.

I'm an American from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (and a few other places like Alaska and Washington DC) living in Ireland with my husband. I like exploring the history and the places of natural beauty that surround us here. Finished up MSc Psy with the Open University (Experience of trauma and growth with connection to identity in neurodivergent adults). Now studying Integrative Psychotherapeutic Studies at IICP College in Dublin. I have lived a bunch of lives in my 65 years. Ask me and I'll tell you more. Well met.

#introduction
#Ireland #American #Pittsburgh #Alaska #WashingtonDC #OpenUniversity #trauma #resilience #scifi #history #neolithic #Viking #Celtic #IICP #Psychotherapy #neurodivergence

An introduction:

Hi, I'm Sarah. I live in London and am a parent to a nearly 4-year-old. I am autistic, ADHDer and have bipolar ii. I'm a systems and project manager in HE. I'm also an Open University student, completing a UG in criminology and law.

When I am not ridiculously busy I enjoy anything to do with food, photography, gaming (mostly The Long Dark ATM), Doctor Who and Taylor Swift.

Time for an #introduction. I’m Damien, originally from #TheLiberties in #Dublin #Ireland - moved to #Cambridge for six months after the first dot com bubble burst. That was twenty years ago.

Used to be a #ReleaseEngineer but had a weird reaction to #burnout and did an MSc in #Psychology with the #openuniversity. Now I handle engineering strategy for a Fintech but my focus is always on how we can build #humane and #empowering systems to help people work better together.

Ok, so I guess I do another #introduction post now I migrated to another server?

I'm Petra, I stream on #Twitch when my health allows. I have #ChronicPain and #fibromyalgia. I was also recently diagnosed with #ADHD

I #study with the #OpenUniversity full time doing Environmental studies.

Most importantly I have a #Dog called Tiny Dog who is mostly Chihuahua and probably some Jack Russell Terrier, she has the attitude of a cat with the love of a dog.