@mikecollins.bsky.social @markchilds.bsky.social Wondering how/if this fits with Mayer's principles

Trijn van Leemput was a Dutch heroine of the Eighty Year’s War and became a lasting symbol of Utrecht’s resistance against the Spanish. According to legend, in 1577 Trijn led a group of women to begin the demolition of the city’s Vredenburg Castle — hence the pickaxe and the brick.

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

"You must come and see our dugout. It is a treat as we have a wooden floor in it and cover the ceiling and walls with canvas to prevent the mice throwing soil on us." For the rest of this letter from George in a #WW1 #WesternFront #dugout see georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/l...

you know what? fuck it. theremin mode. github.com/samhenrigold...

I was involved in creating a section of this. The report as a whole is based on wide-ranging consultation, as well as extensive review of relevant literature and existing frameworks

I love the fact that my grandfather's regiment contained a pier diver, and that pier divers kept doing crazy things like racing the New Brighton ferry.

Went for a walk round The Open University

Lots of academic papers in there. EC-TEL is in there, LAK is in there, IRRODL is in there. If you're an academic author, it's worth checking.

AI missing the point entirely.

As a welcome last-minute surprise, we now have Harlan Guthrie of @malevolent.ca helping us kick off our streams! If you have any burning questions about Malevolent or any of Harlan’s many other projects, join us at twitch.tv/blackabbeypr... or send your questions to docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Letter from George in the trenches to his seven-year-old brother "The Huns sent a few shells over this afternoon searching for our artillery and smashed our ration cupboard and dirtied our clean plates." georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/08/31/l...

Live near Bellahouston Park in #Glasgow ? This weekend why not take an hour to try this #augmentedReality walking tour / game / audio trail? All data is authentic: either from archives or collected from contemporary Glaswegians during the project. play.google.com/store/apps/d... Also on iOS. Free.

The UK Government will test its Emergency Alert System on Sunday, 7th September at 3:00 PM. If you have a concealed phone for safety, this alert could reveal its presence. You can opt out of these alerts. Find out how here: www.gov.uk/alerts/optin... Please help share to help keep others safe.

350) Penbot. Has pens. So many pens. #SmallRobotsRemastered

Still time to do a postgraduate degree or certificate with us at IET: iet.open.ac.uk/study 👉PhD/EdD in Educational Technology and related fields 👉MA in Online Teaching 👉PGCert in Technology-enhanced learning: foundations and futures #digitaleducation #distancelearning

This is brilliant. London’s Tower Bridge opening moments for your timeline. We can still have nice things sometimes!

What an excellent name for a stone.

Their memorials are history. Ours are political. Because as always, there are two sexualities - straight, and political. Two genders - male, and political. Two religions - Christian, and political. Two races - white, and political.

Timeline cleanse. There is still so much beauty in the world. (Virginia Falls, Glacier National Park)

waiter: do you have any questions about the menu? me: what font is this

Really interesting activity to use when teaching students about referencing, footnotes and endnotes

Also a bit different in that Dom took us step by step through the entire Odyssey - which is a heck of a long book. So it ended up being an epic recording too. I cut out huge chunks and so have made those available as extra content in the show notes, in case anyone wants to fill in the blanks.

New Pedagodzilla episode. First regular episode without the guiding hand of @mikecollins.bsky.social and it shows a bit, but more than held together by @dompates.bsky.social and @r3beccaf.bsky.social www.pedagodzilla.com/podcast/an-o...

Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.

Naught but a leap to the left And thanne a clockwyse tread; Put thyne handes on thyne hippes, And be thy knees yn-gatheréd: Lo, it ys the pelvique thruste That maketh mirthe down to rayne - Let us do the Tyme Warpe agayne!

Grrr. The route to changing my OU password has changed yet again. WIthout warning the old route now leads to some CoPIlot nonsense

I've been working on this idea, of a rock band in the 90s that exorcises ghosts with their music, since early 2023 and I've never wanted to make anything THIS badly. and the first step is casting!!! if you're an actor who sings or a musician who acts, please audition! atypicalartists.co/casting

Good to see The Open University's OpenLearn platform with its more than 900 free and certificated courses featured on ClassCentral www.classcentral.com/report/open-...

Hey folks - posting for a colleague, they're looking for Kenyan voice actors of any gender with access to a good remote recording setup. It's a paid role - if you're interested, please comment and I'll pass on your info (if you don't fit the brief, signal boosting is appreciated, thank you!)

Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.

Can’t help but reflect on the *5 years of strikes* we did to defend our pensions, on this, the day USS announce their £10 billion surplus.

This is all interesting - scroll forward to 17 minutes if you're only interested in the bird reproducing the PNG data

Just threw out the last of my Zip disks. And my Amstrad disks. Now I'm deliberating about the last of my cassettes

Left London 23rd 5am At Lpool 10am George is home on leave for the first time since November – hoorah! More at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/07/23/2...

It’s cherry plum season in Milton Keynes

Your morning cartoon:

US has stationed nuclear weapons in Britain for the first time in nearly 20 years for potential deployment on a new squadron of British jets. www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...

syllabus time, teaming up for the herculean efforts of reinventing writing assignments. here, some prompts for required weekly low stakes 250-500 word reflections/ process pieces that have proven relatively conducive to real writing in lit class. please share any similar suggestions in thread.

Make your research come alive with Visual Thinkery - this time using the playful mask of a cartoon character to explore a very serious topic: different types of PhD supervisors! (created for GO-GN Guide to Doctoral Supervision) with @rfarrow.bsky.social. buff.ly/s2lm2ee

Showery find robin’s nest with three young ones in O5 Fatigue at night for rations to Brasserie take the road instead of using comm. trench Mine up in R trenches More about the #WW1 #WesternFront in 1915 at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/07/17/1...

No trip to Orkney is complete without a visit to @orkneylibrary.bsky.social My general feeling is that all libraries should be like this one

Reminder of @malevolent.ca in the bookshop in Alnwick

36,000 people currently watching the live blog of the Sycamore Gap verdict www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...

This May 1968 protest poster brought The Open University to mind

My baby module is open for registration for 2025! Feel free to contact me if you'd like to know more or have any question about the module. #digitaleducation

Sycamore Gap Pair Sentencing. Live Feed from Newcastle Crown Court: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...

Lovely info here on how British soldiers used local place names in the trenches