Happy Friday. Don’t skip school.

❤️ “turn the pages on inequity and unfair reading access”

trying out a new feature, lmk if it works

Remember: you are worthy of love exactly as you are today Image: www.instagram.com/wearefeelgoo...

Pulp poetry.

Restored Peatlands Could Become Carbon Sinks Within Decades eos.org/articles/res...

@mrjamesob.bsky.social this is what you are talking about when you talk about singing I think onbeing.org/programs/dac...

#glamourpuss #caturday

Inhale love, Exhale fear, &, Have fire in your heart. Powerful words for #February from @butterfliesrising.bsky.social © butterflies rising

The kitten is not holding back with her opinions of this cat psychology book #caturday

Everyone is crying, not just the bebes 😭😭😭

#caturday cuddling sister kittens

According to the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress results, only 30% of eighth-grade students are reading at a “proficient” level. Fourth-grade students had similar scores. Both scores were not significantly different when the data collection first began in 1992.

www.nationalgeographic.com/health/artic... #booksky

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

#caturday kitten triplet snuggles

8 weeks old #rescuecat #caturday

Smittens

#redfox eating fallen apples taken today in the middle of Worthing, UK #naturephotography

As it is #caturday I thought I’d post these delicious lovelies who my son rescued this week and are currently being the joy/chaos #unexpectedkittens

While most people don’t initially seek out deep engagement with an AI, argues psychologist Vaile Wright, many AIs are designed to keep us engaged for as long as possible to maximize the data we provide to their makers. “Your data is the profit."

Was at a Christmas party with a load of clergy last night and as some people were leaving they found a person collapsed on the street outside so the Verger took over and called an ambulance and sent all the clergy away because "if they wake up surrounded by priests that'll just make things worse"

I love this book. I’m biased because it is a year long observation of the flora and fauna of the countryside around the parish where I live including an #sssi If you ❤️ vivid nature writing, this is perfect. 🦅🦆🦢🦉🪶🐦‍⬛🪹🪺

A quick, muddy cross country #5k for Boxing Day. Just in time to catch the sun setting over the nature reserve and the geese settling in for the frosty night to come.

Really nice references to his previous teaching career in this article.

The incredibly right Joe Lycett is still the only good guest to go on Laura Kuenssberg's show. He nearly got her fired, and she hates being reminded of it, so don't RT.

“It is astounding that private equity companies are making huge profits from a system that has left families desperate for the very basic level of support their children need" Jon Ungoed-Thomas on the private schools charging councils £250k for each Send pupil https://bit.ly/4pD6l49

Actor and longtime woodworker Nick Offerman says he has a "responsibility" to continue making things by hand as the world becomes more automated.

"In the ashes of war... Europe pulled together to create collaborative bodies designed to prevent a repeat of the horrors of Nazi Germany. One such body was the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)."

Look up #moon

An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

Chemi-luminescencent visual art, it’s like watching a galaxy being formed 🤩

Just in case anyone, like me, has never understood this meme, this is my go-to resource: www.sahilbloom.com/newsletter/t... Yummy looking biscuits btw 😋

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

This is one of Ken Robinson’s TED talks that I missed first time around. And although he died in 2020, what he has to say is still crucially relevant today. #EduSky

@bennewmark.bsky.social 🙋🏼‍♀️ I’m a late mark today

This has been my worry all along with the breakfast club nonsense. You can talk about funding all you like, the long and the short of it is that school leaders end up with another job on the list, another extension to their working day, and the job becomes ever harder... And this is from DfE advice!

@kateowbridge.bsky.social 👋👋👋

Durham’s Lumiere festival was a beacon of hope and togetherness – we cannot let the lights go out on the rest of the arts

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

@mrjamesob.bsky.social do you mean the whole avocado stone plopped in the dish of guacamole or ground up?

Zack Polanski, "Zohran Mamdani's win means that hope has triumphed" "He connected with lives or ordinary people, mobilised young people. It wasn't just about social media, it was about his relentless focus on inequality"

#Stunday Northern skies over Ullswater, Cumbria, UK at night

'In one fell swoop, the government could reduce the number of children growing up in poverty by 330,000 today and save a further 150,000 children from that fate by 2029-30'. Excellent, unambiguous analysis by @resfoundation.bsky.social www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...

After three days spent with AI researchers from around the world, one thing is very clear to me: we need the humanities and social sciences more than ever. We need philosophers to ask about ethics and responsibility. We need sociologists to understand how technology reshapes relationships, 1/