I have succeeded in stopping buying books or anything else from Amazon. It’s easy to give up next day delivery and most books can be found discounted on other websites. More of you should do this.

FIA keep yammering about women in motorsport but nothing gets done. Here's a solution: mandate that every F1 team has to have one male and one female driver in, say, five years, and watch as billions are poured into women's motorsport to unearth and promote talent.

"Every adult is being used for every minute of the day" is an excellent thing to consider for anyone who wants change in schools. The pace and intensity of work in schools is remarkable. It shocks people when they first experience it.

My (adult) children still have hagleslag for Sunday breakfast.

You spectacularly generous people have raised £13k so far. We have a beyond-excited three year old likely to wake us at 5am, so it’s an early night here. I’ll have to catch up with the pix in the morning ♥️ #DuvetKnowItsChristmas www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

I enjoyed reading this. Clear discussion of the problem with yet another 'literacy'.

I mean, he studied at Northumbria University, but that makes it even better.

Does she not know that a lad from Llansantffraid who studied media at Newcastle University won an Oscar this year?

As a parent, I work really hard not to have a favourite child. The long-running cosseting of Andrew is pretty strong evidence that QE2 very much did have a favourite child.

How to avoid concreting cowpats (and other AI hokem) Or, six questions to help scrutinise the AI system or policy solution you're being sold Delighted to write for @thehousemag.bsky.social @politicshome.bsky.social www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Wakefield is not North East England.

I should probably repost this, since it’s about… er… me. Yay me!

This is very satisfying.

Interesting approach that I have not come across before.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Doing better than usual - it's only taken me 7 weeks to realise that Only Connect is back for a new series.

@alomshaha.bsky.social I was at an open air museum in Denmark today and they had a watch exhibition, and I saw it and thought of you!

Just because they’re funny doesn’t mean they’re right. The Dr Fox Effect shows we mistake charisma for clarity. The more you know, the harder it is to see what novices don’t. That’s the Curse of Knowledge. Know your subject and how it’s learned. open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

New post just out: "Britain isn't broken" We have our problems but the doomerism is getting out of hand. I look at the real picture on crime, migration, social cohesion and the economy - rather than the dsyoptian fantasies of the radical right. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/b...

Absolutely this ⬇️

The damage that TwXter has done to British national discourse is obvious when politicians and their advisors talk about DEI and other strongly-US focused talking points. They can't even get the letters in the order we generally use them in the UK.

Education as both a window and a mirror.

My first thought was that it was April 1st, but apparently not.

And much more memorable than another branded pen, notebook or waterbottle.

Interesting blog about this paper on AI. Particularly important to think about what problem the AI is meant to be solving, and to involve practitioners and patients in the testing of the tech in actual settings, not just simulations.

But...surely children's picturebooks don't have to have narrative integrity?

Really helpful thread about the increasing invisibility of those children and adults for whom autism is not a 'superpower'.

It's always a pleasure to work with colleagues from Life Science Centre.

This is fascinating. Genuine errors in transcription and translation of papers have led to a weird phenomenon. #SciComm #AI

@[email protected] This is an interesting thread which relates to your work on volunteering.

FASCINATING piece of research from @rachelphysics.bsky.social and Alessio Bernadelli @IOPTeaching ! www.iop.org/about/blogs/...

Paging @bushofears.bsky.social

We've made this article from @cash4questions.bsky.social free to read, as it is proving very popular. University funding crisis: How to stay serene when wellbeing sessions are offered. "Beware employers bearing yoga mats..." www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-funding-k...

Jumped on the human-made action figure trend 🐡 Had ALOT of fun making this too.

I still occasionally ask for a poke of chips - and I left Scotland when I was 6!

This adds a lot of meaning to my Merlin bird call app.

This is very much the case, especially in science-themed books. I'd like to see picturebooks where diversity is important but also incidental to a cracking story.

Looking forward to listening to this series.

Photographing art instead of looking at it. Do we end up never seeing the picture on anything other than a screen?

Travelling to Paris by train feels like a very sophisticated and comsopolotan undertaking - until you get into the waiting area behind security a St Pancras, when all magic disappears.

I've told students about this inconvenient truth year after year after year. Makes precious little impact in my experience, but that (probably) won't stop me. Of course, it does presume that they still come to lectures in the first place.... link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Surely this is just a story about a rich person complaining about a tax that affects rich people

Good points about the challenges for the next REF in light of the current parlous state of universities and cuts to arts and humanities.

Happy half-term to all my North East teacher peeps.

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I have run out of patience with the apparent silence of most US science institutions (and not just US) in the face of Trump & Musk's rampage. There are of so many facets of that, but in this column for @chemistryworld.com I talk about the assaults on inclusion. www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...

Really looking forward to reading this, and sharing with my team @nustem.bsky.social

I got 4/5. But it is not straightforward.

Lovely weekend away singing with The Unthanks, with added opportunity to photograph my latest #quilt.

The blue dress was definitely the best one.