📢DEADLINE EXTENDED📢

The PGN Virtual Conference is extending the call for presentations deadline to this Friday, April 19th!

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Don't forget to register for our April event 'Pursuing a career outside of academia' taking place via Zoom at 3pm on Wednesday! We will be joined by three excellent speakers who will share their experiences and offer advice.

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This worries me more than it amuses me. I once sent a response to someone, and they said “if I didn’t know you personally, I’d say you typed this with ChatGPT.” Why? I used a word they were unfamiliar with. Isn’t that just…sad?

Here’s what you should do instead. Rather than…

Adefayojolaoluwa 👑 American: No one is perfect

Nigerian actor: 👇🏾

How can we be the same??

A few things here:
1. There is something incredibly arrogant about assuming that everyone should use language the same way. There are many 'Englishes' and many ways of speaking. What you call complicated is par for the course to others.

2. You show incredible ignorance about...

That Paul Graham’s tweet was quite dangerous and i hope he takes the feedback and publicly adjusts his position.

“delve” is normal regular parlance in Nigeria and many places

Paul Graham’s tweets today highlight the implicit bias foreign students face a lot with white teachers and professors. They already think you’re cheating half the time just cos you’re smart, now you’ll say ‘delve’ and ‘unlock’ and they will say you’re using chatGPT to write.

I have genuine concerns that there will be discrimination against people with specific verbal characteristics or word choice.

Any form of intelligence or a particular threshold of intelligence perceived in writing will be attributed to AI.

People who use technical words or…

CALL for Virtual Conference 🔊

BISA PGN is excited to announce an upcoming conference:

'Emerging Trends in Global Politics'

The conference aims to be a platform for PhD students and ECRs

8 May 2024
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The April PGN event is the third iteration of the non-academic careers workshop! Join speakers Mariah Loukou (AFHEA) & Noelle Kumpel for an insightful talk on charting a successful career outside of academia.

Register now: bisa.ac.uk/members/pgn/co…

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📢CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS📢

BISA PGN is excited to announce a call for submissions for our upcoming online conference 'Emerging Trends in Global Politics: Exploring the latest developments and future directions' on May 8th!

Contributions are sought across 3 themes... 🧵

Don't forget to register for the PGN session on academic writing for policy change with Hannah Hughes on Wednesday 14th Feb! We will see you there!
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#DidYouMiss BISA PGN is hosting a Postgraduate Network writing workshop!

Join PGN for a #virtual writing workshop, learn essential skills for clear, persuasive writing to drive policy change from Hannah Hughes

14 Feb 3pm
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YoungPeoplesPolitics

upon reflection I see why other countries hate us. Nigerians are insufferable on this app!😂🇳🇬