"In teacher education, we have to provide space for people to see themselves more clearly, even as they are learning methods and practices that can be useful." —Chezare Warren in a piece published by Vanderbilt University

Teacher collaboration: Why we’re for it (even when the evidence is weak). "A collaborative environment, on its surface, seems like an obviously good thing for any school. Who doesn’t like the idea of colleagues working together to increase student learning?" By Professor Rob Coe

Making teaching an attractive profession: What are the challenges and opportunities for minority ethnic teachers in England? - Tereshchenko - British Educational Research Journal - Wiley Online Library bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/be…

Book Review opportunity - Calling all PGRs and ECRS! Our Book Reviews Editor is looking for a researcher to write a 500 word book review for our journal, 'History of Education Researcher'. Interested? Check out our news article on this: historyofeducation.org.uk/bookreview20... #histed #edusky

This is one of the many reasons why I love England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Caught on 5th of December #Whamageddon

Christmas baubles, 1900. #decoration #color #oldtimes

The winners of the #RSPPhotoComp 2025 have been announced! Take a look at the stunning photographs from across the categories, starting with the microimaging category and overall winner 'Mesmerizing spider threads' by Dr Martin Ramirez: royalsociety.org/news/2025/12...

The power of modelling as spoken in cat. #learning #EduSky

The future is fungal www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Why did the Royal Society reject a 1932 scientific paper on the use of X-rays to stimulate the retina? Discover some fantastic (and dangerous) research into real X-ray eyes on our blog: https://royalsociety.org/blog/2025/11/x-ray-vision/

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle

New paper klaxon 🚨 Applying for a place on this BERA #ECR scheme was an excellent decision - mentors matter. #PhDLife The inside out of journal editing and peer review: A collective reflection on the Review of Education's mentoring scheme for early career researchers doi.org/10.1002/rev3...

First time in #Boston and I love it 😍 🇺🇸 Catching the end of the #fall / #autumn colour is a real privilege. #Photography #Cityscape #Trees #Colour

Needed some sea air and the chance to stretch my legs. Gorgeous day at #Bridlington but far too warm for the 5th November 🎆

The DfE is inviting teachers to join an advisory group to act as a ‘sounding board’ and advise ministers on school policy

Coffee time spent with the legend that is Beatriz Ferreyra 💿🛸 is time well spent. She’s 88 years old and still, I believe, going strong. #Vinyl

Ladybird wisdom, part 47. Artist: Frank Humphris (A First ‘Do You Know’ Book, 1971)

Things will need to get really bad before humans change their behaviour. A relatively easy win: move to a predominantly vegetarian diet (in a phased approach). Will this happen? No. Harder (much): reduce global population size. Will this happen? No. <Capitalism waves 👋 from the sidelines>

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That over a quarter of people struggled with basic tide table reading doesn’t surprise me at all*. However, as “Efforts are underway to restore society’s relationship with the sea …” this gives me some hope for the future. *the same applies to train and bus timetables

I wonder if there are any gravestone recipes in the uk?

Here is another way to put the paradox. If you ask, "If I had different genes, would my personality be different?" Then the answer is, "Probably, yes." If you ask, "If I had THESE genes, what would my personality be like?", the answer is, "We don't have any idea."

Catching up with myself again in North #Norfolk 💙 💛 #TimeAndTide #Landscape #Photography #Nature #Coast

Just because we can do something doesn’t mean that we should. That is all. Sympathies to all of the teachers who will no doubt be coerced into giving this trust access* to their identities. I’d like to see the risk assessment. #TeacherEducation #EduSky #Ethics #AI *Unlimited? Free?

Blog post: Ancestry and Education Indirect, direct, confounded and quasi-causal. I write about a preprint by Wang et al, in which they look for associations with genetic ancestry in an admixed Mexican population. They found genetic effects for height and Type-II diabetes, but not for education.

It is a shame that both the DfE and the Scottish gov. decided to withdraw from taking part in this TALIS survey*. V. interesting data for #TeacherRetention #TeacherRecruitment and #TeacherEducation *reasons linked to reducing workload burden for teachers are understandable

Artificial Information rather than Artificial Intelligence, as referenced in this article, just about sums it up. “LLMs cannot and do not infer physical laws from their training data. Remarkably, they cannot even identify the relevant information from the internet. Instead, they make it up.” 🫧 📍

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

This is a place in Yorkshire Sculpture Park where you can sit and listen to Longplayer by Jem Finer, a 1,000 year long musical composition (there’s a speaker on the tree and a wooden bench nearby). #Relax #RelaxingMusic #Nature #Photography #Time #BlueSkyArtShow @blueskyartshow.bsky.social

Something so beautifully plaintive about the contents. Evokes the near-far, bittersweet distance of childhood photos: rooms we’ll never enter again, relatives caught unguarded in domestic activity, long gone shops that once were sites of wonder to our small selves, autumnal Lucozade cellophane light

Kirkstall Abbey, Yorkshire, 1801, by Thomas Girtin, 1775-1802 (Victoria and Albert Museum). #NorthernArt

I love this time of year in the UK. #Autumn is a beautiful season. Skein after skein of pink-footed geese have just noisily passed overhead; off to the estuary to graze and fill their bellies with eelgrass I should think.

Circus Tavern, Portland Street, Manchester, 1980. Smallest pub in the city, with one of the smallest bars in the country. Built as a house c.1790, became a pub c.1840. (Mirrorpix/@manchestereveningnews.co.uk )

Ofsted has carried out a review of training offered by initial teacher education providers. From 'inconsistent' mentoring experiences, to the changing profile of applicants and SEND training challenges, here are the key findings... schoolsweek.co.uk/revealed-5-k...

How can research and initial teacher education institutions support research use? New report just landed from the OECD. #EducationalResearch www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

Scientists electrically culled invasive fish in a 20-year battle—but the fish fought back with rapid evolution

3D depiction of rainfall distribution across Great Britain. England is a very dry place: London gets as much rain as Jerusalem. With climate change, the south will need to prepare for even more acute water shortages.

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Cutting the salaries at the top? No. It's the workers on the lowest rung that pay the price––with the most expensive (experienced teachers) forced out using capability procedures to *encourage* them to leave. There's a reason why we have the youngest teaching workforce in the OECD. #EduSky

Really good article here by Jane Bottomley #AI #EduSky

342 years ago, on the 17th of September 1683, Dutch scientist Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek wrote about his observation of microbes to the Royal Society, which is the first known observation of bacteria in history. Van Leeuwenhoek referred to them as 'diertjes' (Dutch for 'small animals'). #otd #history 🗃️

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#EducationalResearch www.bera.ac.uk/blog/opening...

Timeless humour! A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to: “I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂 Dated circa 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was recovered in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA #Archaeology

An v interesting study. I guess as long as it’s science that is not directly and explicitly related to their beliefs then it’s not going to lead to cog dissonance. However, I once worked with a chemistry teacher who believed in the young Earth theory (6,000ish yrs) … half-life anyone? 🤯 #EduSky

The rise of the UberMATs in England. Inevitable given the model successive governments have chosen to run with. How this will change our society is, as yet, unknown but there’s some fertile ground here for some meaningful #EducationalResearch to happen. #EduSky #TeacherEducation

#EduSky #TeacherEducation www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Soup* season is definitely here in the UK. #Autumn *and all of its variants, e.g., try this #recipe for swede laksa - it is delicious 😋 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Another #library I need to visit.