The AMSP 'The Maths of Data Science and AI' teacher course has been really popular and we've managed to slightly increase the capacity on the London study day - if you're quick you can grab one of these extra places amsp.org.uk/event/192742...

Welcome to Maths Week Scotland! @mathsweek.scot Here is Monday's #StatsInTheWild challenge for you to try:

The latest from @johntheduncan.bsky.social is excellent… youtu.be/ktvZlMcPqPk?...

This used to be my Ducati 999…have spent the last few weeks taking it apart and now ready to start restoring it… …because I’m in my 40s and apparently that’s something people in my family do at this age…

This is well worth 30 minutes of your time…and then write to your MP and demand that Israel as a state faces accountability, sanctions, and full diplomatic, trade, and arms embargo until they end their oppression of the West Bank and genocide in Gaza youtu.be/2jHuCiB8s9A?...

👀 @honeypisquared.bsky.social

Bewildered by all the talk about #AI in #education? We have been hard at work making videos to help teachers to navigate an evidence-based approach. You can watch interviews with researchers, our round-up of the the evidence, & analysis of DfE & Ofsted publications: youtube.com/@rycroftsmit...

Detained people without lawyers are only given a few days' notice of the intention to send them to France. In this time they need to find a lawyer, who will then need to gather evidence and consider whether there is a claim. Of course court applications are being made only shortly before removal.

Yikes!

As always, the word “could” is doing a lot of heavy lifting…

Four people were arrested for an “unauthorised projection”. This is apparently what counts as a crime now www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

When they said “AI will create new types of job…”

If you've never used CODAP before and would like some activities to try (with instructions) we've got some in the @meimaths.bsky.social 'Exploring Data with Technology' resources: mei.org.uk/resource/b5a...

We don't get much sense in this report of the degrading language that was used, what that might say about the workplace culture in question and how this might affect people. We do hear a lot about how the resignation impacts Starmer, and what a great person Ovenden is. Plus his lengthy non-apology.

What is ‘evidence-informed’ #statistics #teaching? As part of our work reviewing the evidence for #MathsWeekScot we (@honeypisquared.bsky.social and I) have collected a few ideas and links which may be helpful… #ITeachMath

It…was…all…in…the…public…domain…for…ages…

Here is our mini challenge for today as part of #MathsWeekScot - thinking more deeply about #randomness. Did you try it with students? What did they say? #StatsInTheWild

Right wing activist is shot - who’s to blame?

Good to see the public finally being made aware that the cold dead hand of Mandleson’s has been part of Starmer’s team from the very start…he’s also behind Wes Streeting being seen as The Next Big Thing…a pox on the lot of em! Again, none of this was even slightly secret!

“How dare one of the lads face the consequences of his actions, it’s the thin end of the wedge, if one of us gets held to account for being an offensive factional shitbag where does it end…!” I’m looking forward to the various gutter press journos finally digging out their copy of the Forde report…

Which speaks volumes about said long-standing aides and the culture within the institution.

The most shocking thing about Starmer’s director of strategy resigning is that someone at no. 10 was director of strategy 😮😂 We all knew these ghouls said horrible things about Diane Abbott but the media didn’t care when they were burying Corbyn. Now it’s a useful attack line to bury Starmer with

NEW video! In which @darrenmacey.bsky.social and I analyse the #Ofsted #DfE report on #AI in #schools entitled 'The biggest risk is doing nothing’. Spoiler alert: we have criticisms. youtu.be/tLqf1AT6LLA?...

We would love to hear your thoughts on our new set of maths teaching resources, developed in partnership with @mathsweek.scot Please share widely! @amstatnews.bsky.social @scottheald72.bsky.social @kateywhyte.bsky.social @altealorenzo.bsky.social #MathsWeekScot

Educational courses in prisons have been shown, repeatedly, over the years to reduce recidivism and increase individual's chances of finding employment and building lives after leaving prison. Cutting those courses is fundamentally counterproductive. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Today marks 365 days, or one complete year, of doing something on my PhD every day without fail. A lot of stuff has happened this year that has made it difficult to keep going so I am considering this a major win! Another small step towards becoming Dr Macey…

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

Plenty of decent people vote Reform - even when it’s against their own interests. That’s why conversations like this matter. @zackpolanski.bsky.social is brilliant at them.

We would love to hear your thoughts on our new set of maths teaching resources, developed in partnership with @mathsweek.scot Please share widely! @robertcuffe.bsky.social @rssedinburgh.bsky.social @rss-teach.bsky.social #MathsWeekScot

Over 1000 days of Duolingo and I can enjoy this joke 😂😂😂 But I still cannot speak Spanish 😢

A Labour government that does not fight back against the far right, racism and extremism fundamentally misunderstands the nature of its electoral support.

If I were the UK Government I would simply not route all my communications through the platform whose owner just called for regime change in Britain and said "fight back or die"

This is vital serious and urgent journalism. Everyone here should consider supporting @bylinetimes.bsky.social‬ for the years ahead.

It do be like that

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

Are you a #maths teacher? We are delighted to share a brand new set of materials for teaching #statistics for students aged 11-16, and we'd love your feedback on them! #StatsInTheWild #MathsWeekScot rss.org.uk/resources/ed...

If you’re an academic and you’re not worried by the sort of rhetoric then you’re not paying attention. You might think you’re insulated from this in the UK, but this sort of anti-academic propaganda is travelling over here.

Some good news finally, England just absolutely smashed South Africa in the cricket… #T20

The Government proscribed Palestine Action as terrorists by claiming that secret intelligence justified doing so Newly leaked intelligence report reveals that most of their activity: - Couldn't be described as terrorism - Isn't violent but focused on property damage -Most of that damage is "minor"

Peter Jukes “This layering of connections — Epstein to Thiel, Thiel to Johnson and Cummings, Palantir to Mandelson, and Mandelson to Starmer — suggests that the commercial conflicts of interest around government procurement and big tech companies have not gone away" bylinetimes.com/2025/09/12/p...

It is noteworthy that suddenly the knives are out for Starmer and McSweeney after a long period where discontent was not magnified in any of the media…almost like they no longer have Mandleson’s protective umbrella to shield them…

As part of a new series of lesson materials, @honeypisquared.bsky.social and I have created a handy set of 📈 Good Data Guidelines 📉 for teachers, which you can find here: rss.org.uk/RSS/media/8.... We'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback! #iTeachMath #StatsinTheWild

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

/8 I think there is a temptation, if you talk and write and debate for a living, to say that talking and writing and debating is inherently morally praiseworthy. I'm not sure it is. But that reflects a general philosophical split that I have with many people who talk about free speech:

Ah schadenfreude 😂😂😂

There is an awful lot of hindsightery on display from journalists about Mandelson today who, with honourable exceptions, stampeded to present his appointment as ambassador as a masterstroke. This includes broadcasters who regularly interviewed him without mentioning Epstein.

AI isn't 'normal technology' any more than our political moment is 'business as usual'. What's significant about AI is the way it both reveals and amplifies the underlying dynamics of a system in total crisis.

Charlie Kirk in his own words: ‘prowling Blacks’ and ‘the great replacement strategy’

..and how are we defining “improve” and “learning”…

We would love to hear your thoughts on our new set of maths teaching resources, developed in partnership with @mathsweek.scot Please share widely! #ITeachMaths #ITeachMath #MTBoS @scotstemambassador.bsky.social @royalstatsoc.bsky.social