I’ve put together a list of diverse scientists that can be studied across the Primary Science curriculum. I’ve grouped them by broad topics. Download as a spreadsheet. www.sciencefix.co.uk/scientists-i... #eduskyprimary #primaryscience #stem

The find promises new insights into one of the most famous ideological transitions in the history of science: the moment when Earth was thrust from the center of our universe. Cool story by @joshuasokol.bsky.social for @science.org

I just visited a really interesting exhibition at the National Gallery on Joseph Wright of Derby - a champion of light, dark - and public engagement of science and technology in the Industrial Revolution What would he be painting now? cs4fn.blog/2026/02/28/w...

A demo that shows what happens under the covers with an algorithmic social media feed. You can see what data is collected and how it is used. This sounds like a great idea for a classroom activity!

Can video games do good? They can when they are simulators too. Could you program a game accurate enough to both inspire and train future olympians? That is what the programmers of Granite did. cs4fn.blog/2026/02/21/g...

Starting to plan your summer term trips? Digital Schoolhouse's Festival of Play is coming to venues all across Britain. Join us for free at the playful computing and creative careers conference for 9-14, which 100% of teachers said met or exceeded their expectations: zurl.co/7foSf

Now that Valentines Day is gone and logic and rational thinking are starting to reassert themselves here is a CS4FN article giving a formal (mathematical) proof of Love based on the earlier valentine's day poem cs4fn.blog/2026/02/19/t...

Latest blog post in the Music and AI series - a music puzzle to do either as a crossword or ignore the clues and solve it as a logic puzzle (kriss-kross) cs4fn.blog/2026/02/19/m...

As part of our Music and AI mini-series - one way or another it is based on algorithms. Here are two very simple dice games (algorithms) to generate music...and then a way to use an AI to make them special as well as a note about bias. cs4fn.blog/2026/02/16/m...

Tube passengers targeted in text scam, court told www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... nice article for cyber awareness!

GenAI as automobile for the mind, and exercise as the antidote: A metaphor for predicting GenAI’s impact computinged.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/g...

Our book will be on display at the WS stall during Gathering 4 Gardner 2026 in SF celebrating the playful exchange of ideas and critical thinking in recreational maths, magic and puzzles (was inspired by Martin Gardner as a teenager). conjuringwithcomputation.wordpress.com www.gathering4gardner.org

A Valentine’s Day cartoon for @newscientist.com

A pseudocode poem for if you have non-terminating love also in Python (though usually when I see this from novice programmers it is a mistake!). def myloveforyouisendless(): """My love for you is endless""" my_love = True while my_love == True: print('I love you') cs4fn.blog/2026/01/21/p...

For valentine's day, you could write your own love letter writing program (programs and especially AIs are supposed to unburden us so take the burden out of romance!) following the algorithm written by one of the first wizard programmers Christopher Strachey in 1952 cs4fn.blog/2022/06/20/t...

QMUL is one of several venues hosting #RiMasterclasses for Y9 students interested in computing but there are others happening around the country, as well as sessions for primary aged. Colleague Paul @cs4fn.bsky.social does lots in computing and in maths too. www.rigb.org/learning/ri-...

For valentines day a valentine pseudocode poem that can also be turned into code and executed (or even verified to meet a romantic specification using logic) cs4fn.blog/2026/01/21/p...

Once spent a weekend trying to prove / disprove the four colour theorem so here's a niche maths 'joke' in memory of my wasted efforts :) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_co... We have a @cs4fn.bsky.social article about Augustus cs4fn.blog/2026/01/11/g... (father to William, my favourite tile maker).

@qmuleecs.bsky.social are running a free (age 15+) Music AI Hackathon at Mile End. Monday, March 30th & Tuesday, March 31st, 2026 From 9AM to 5PM. For more details and To express an interest (teachers students or parents) to find out more please fill in this form docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

In our Music and AI series How largely lost Ancient Korean Music has been recreated with AI help. cs4fn.blog/2026/02/10/c...

Out in September 2026.

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 👩🏾‍🔬👩🏻‍🔧👩🏼‍🚀 Following in the footsteps of the UK's first astronaut, Helen Sharman, are UK ESA astronaut Rosemary Coogan, Member of ESA's Astronaut Reserve @astromeganne.bsky.social. 👩‍🚀👩‍🚀👩‍🚀 Hear from Meganne on who inspired her. 👇

LCT6, 23–27 Nov 2026, is completely FREE of registration. Conference website: lctconferences.com We’ve secured a special conference package at the lovely Sunnyside Park Hotel, including dinner, bed and breakfast. Early abstract deadline: 27 March Final abstract deadline: 29 May

It is LGBTQ+ History Month. The national theme is science and innovation. Queen Mary University of London has a programme of events all month. Here is our (permanent) CS4FN contribution of a collection of stories about LGBTQ+ Computer Science Greats (with more to come). cs4fn.blog/lgbtq-comput...

Do you, like Emiko, use maths to tackle real-world challenges? Join I’m a Mathematician for the Big Day of Maths 9–12 March to engage students in online, text-based chats. Sign up by Friday 27 February: imamathematician.uk/signup/c/clf/

More on Music and AI Jamming with a JAM-bot Rock keyboard player Jordan Rudess works with a team of computer scientists to make his synthesisers do amazing things. Together they created an AI musician called JAM_BOT to play with him on-stage cs4fn.blog/2026/02/09/j...

I was a bit suspicious about this, so I asked Gemini to "produce me an image of a correctly-wired UK 13A plug", and what it came up with was...

Can a program beatbox? ... using physics not just machine learning. Part of our series on Music and AI research and creativity cs4fn.blog/2026/02/07/c...

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

Interesting article by Sylvie Delacroix on @wonkhe.bsky.social: “Data steward” is just one of the missing 21st-century professions that universities could be creating wonkhe.com/blogs/data-s... <— important prominence on data governance and stewardship

Here's a new CS4FN Music & AI portal. We are collecting articles on research, history and development around the intersections between Music & AI. Lots more articles will be added over the coming months: thanks to our EPSRC funded project to encourage more into research careers cs4fn.blog/music-ai/

We are starting a season on Music AI (Funded by RCUK) with a primary school mini mag coming soon. To start: You'll be Bach - the first Google Doodle Music AI which allows you to compose music in the style of Johann Sebastian Bach cs4fn.blog/2026/02/03/y...

Defining Learner-Centered Design of Computing Education: What I did on my sabbatical computinged.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/d...

Teachers of Year 9 pupils interested in computer science might like to nominate them for the @qmuleecs.bsky.social / @rigb.org QMUL / Ri Masterclasses in Computer Science at our Mile End campus, look here ⬇️ (Parents of Y9, please tell your child's school) teachinglondoncomputing.org/2026/01/27/f...

The friendliest, most supportive conference Ive ever been to...so worth submitting an abstract if you are using LCT

The film Catwoman, voted a worst film of all time, certainly features some of the worst cyber-physical security ever. What can we learn about cyber-security from the film? That security is only as good as the weakest link and physical security can be the weak link.... cs4fn.blog/2026/01/27/c...

Use maths in your job? Engage school students for the Big Day of Maths with I’m a Mathematician! Take part in live, online Chats with students on 9–12 March — answer their questions and share what maths looks like in the real world. Sign up by 6 Feb: imamathematician.uk/signup/c/clf

...and turn taking in a game is also a way to learn about the concept of sequencing in computing, and then there is iteration too because you play rounds repeatedly with some stopping/ game end rule, and make decisions too within each iteration...so there is another fun lesson if the links are made.

The art of animatronics, or how to build a believable dinosaur How do you create a full-sized dinosaur without a hint of computer graphics? cs4fn.blog/2026/01/26/t... (from the archive)

Happy Burns Night! It gars me greet that I haven't found a computational link for Burns (yet), but to celebrate all the many people inspiring and Scottish, here is our article about Alexander Graham Bell born in Edinburgh ... cs4fn.blog/2023/04/30/a...

Just saw one of my CS/Maths heroes, Gladys West, died last week. Her work on Satellite based earth measurement is behind GPS (and think how many ways that is useful) as well as helping us better understand what is happening to the planet. Read our article here cs4fn.blog/2022/10/10/g...

Free online course for computing teachers from NCCE / STEM Learning - Supporting autistic pupils in primary computing teachcomputing.org/courses/CO29...

Can you write a pseudocodepoem that works as a poem that can also be executed? Here are some examples using sequencing, selection and iteration. Valentine Day is coming soon so start composing your valentine an executable pseudocode love poem now. cs4fn.blog/2026/01/21/p...

Ada Lovelace and VIctorian Citizen Science cs4fn.blog/2026/01/19/v...

Headteacher Update Podcast: In a new episode, we discuss ideas for how primary #schools can maximise the impact of the #teaching team to deliver excellent SEND provision, with our panel dissecting a range of innovative approaches: buff.ly/Rkxj5SV #inclusion #teachers #education #edusky

If, by Rudyard Kipling and What If, by Benjamin Zephaniah consist of a series of lines that start with If. Does that make them algorithms? And what would an If poem look like if it was? That is where a CS4FN computational literary criticism comes in. cs4fn.blog/2026/01/18/i...

1/2 Turing Inst has six internships for eligible PhD students. Four with Ministry of Justice (use of AI in prison service), one to do with maritime data sharing (not a programming tech role) and one on interpretability of AI for research engineering. £40k pro rata www.turing.ac.uk/work-turing/...

Make a Victorian Logic Piano out of card (the original was wooden) and do play some logical reasoning. cs4fn.blog/2024/12/25/t...

Oops. missed world Logic Day due to marking so posting on catch up... Find out about theory and logic at cs4fn.blog/logic-and-de... through games, magic, history and research projects from wooden logic machines to quantum computing

Models and Analogies For Teaching Electricity www.sciencefix.co.uk/2023/07/mode... #edusky #eduskyprimary