LTHEChat 347: Loneliness in Higher Education Join us on Bluesky with guest Bianca Fox (@bianca-f-o-x.bsky.social) on Wednesday, 10th December 2025 at 20:00 GMT It is not uncommon at this time of the year to talk about loneliness. From an increased number of TV commercials encouraging us to…

Quick #WaveWatching break away from my computer to investigate the crossing wakes

How do teachers build trust with students in the presence of GenAI? @rmforsyth.bsky.social and I did focus group interviews and have written up very first results in these conference proceedings: mirjamglessmer.com/2025/11/13/n...

A4: A solid tribe. Find people that share your values and connect with them regularly. This gives strength in finding commonality but also finding different strategies to manage and facilitate the chaos. #LTHEchat

It’s just less than an hour to go. To get your typing fingers ready :) Read the blog shorturl.at/sl6gb and follow the hashtag #LTHEchat. It’s that easy.

Join us for this week’s #LTHEchat, which will explore how to teach for sustainability with @mirjamglessmer.com and @robertkordts.bsky.social on Wednesday, 8-9 pm GMT. Read the blog post at: shorturl.at/sl6gb

Currently reading Nooij et al. (2025) on “Do not leave your values at the door; the permissibility of activism in the lecture hall” @mirjamglessmer.bsky.social's blogpost on a recent HERD article mirjamglessmer.com/2025/09/03/c...

A new issue of @njsteme.bsky.social is out, and my aswesome co-authors and I have three (!) papers in it! @robertkordts.bsky.social et al. write about student views on active learning in the geoscience curriculum (doi.org/10.5324/njst...)

I loved this episode! Here are some of my thoughts on it: mirjamglessmer.com/2025/05/31/e...

..including at least 2 articles to check out, probably more: Månefjord et al. "Mind the Gender Gap: Implicit bias in STEM education" doi.org/10.5324/njst..., and Costello, Hammarlund et al. "STEM students prefer assessment practices known to reduce the impact of test anxiety" doi.org/10.5324/njst...

buy it, read it, share it, teach it ❤️

Excited to see the Nordic Journal of STEM Education @njsteme.bsky.social here! Scholarly, peer-reviewed, open-access in the broad field of educational research and development in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics higher education -- totally worth a follow! :)

Currently reading: Tai et al. (2022) on “Assessment for inclusion: rethinking contemporary strategies in assessment design” @mirjamglessmer.bsky.social's blogpost on a recent HERD article mirjamglessmer.com/2025/03/12/c...

I feel like "generous scholarship" is the best compliment anyone can give me regarding my work. That is what I strive for! And it is definitely what I see and hugely appreciate in @agnesbosanquet.bsky.social & colleagues' MOOC, too!

This reminds me of someone btw! You should check her science stuff 👇 😉!

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

Es werden immer mehr. Schon über 3,300 Unterschriften -- 1000 mehr seit ich gestern geschaut hatte. Das geht rasch. Please keep the momentum going and share! #btw25 #whereismyballot #jedestimmezaehlt #germany #election #wahlen #vote #democracy #demokratie www.openpetition.de/petition/onl...

“Teachers should be allowed to be learners”! Currently reading Lidgren et al. (2006) What are the barriers to including sustainability into courses and curricula at Lund University? Lidgren, Rodhe and Huisingh (2006) start from the premise that universities have an important role to play, "the…

Well that was quick! Mirjam Glessmer blogs about reflective practice and the eight new principles. Ice watching and thinking about reflections - in the water, and in Harvey et al. (2025)'s article - Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching mirjamglessmer.com/2025/02/17/i... @herdjournal.bsky.social

"However, if there are two or more options for engaging with learning material, then it is best to select the tool that will yield the best results. As we’ve seen, that tool will rarely be digital in nature." substack.com/home/post/p-...

Vi är 163 universitetsanställda som ställer sig bakom studenters krav att påskynda förändringen av högre utbildning så att studenterna som medborgare och i sina framtida yrkesliv ska kunna bidra till en samhällsomställning för hållbarhet. www.aftonbladet.se/debatt/a/bm6...

Kirsty Dunnett on Galløe (2023)’s “emotions differentiate opportunities” My most loyal guest poster strikes again! Welcome Kirsty Dunnett, today writing about Galløe (2023)'s chapter on how emotions differentiate opportunities.

If I'm reading the abstract right, "We tried having GenAI help us better understand info from our surveys/interviews. GenAI responses looked right, but they actually weren't, and it's impossible to know why. We don't recommend trusting it for these types of things." #AIinEducation #EduSkyAI

Academics have been perfecting our skills at flighting fascism during faculty meetings.

“Superficially Plausible Outputs from a Black Box: Problematising GenAI Tools for Analysing Qualitative SoTL Data” by @rmforsyth.bsky.social and myself published today: doi.org/10.20343/tea...

Thanks Katharine, this is a fab example of individual action leading to community engagement & hopefully change! You might also like this piece I just wrote exploring why we need to move away from personal 'blame' and work together to hold companies to account: theconversation.com/you-dont-hav...

Developing "principles for quality education" to guide course development. Where does one even start?

The process is the point. I picked up my copy of Venet (2024)'s "Becoming an Everyday Changemaker: Healing and Justice at School" this morning and I loved the book before I even started reading the introduction, because one sentence in the acknowledgements (that I was going to skip) caught my eye:…

I've found it helpful to think about Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in five forms: with, for, in, about, and through sustainable development. This framework makes ESD less abstract and more actionable, offering practical ways to embed sustainability into music education. #ESD #MusicEd

Ultimately, I hope folks can stop equating social media with the totality of someone’s work and beliefs. This assumption can lead to a lot of despair, and the false sense that the work isn’t happening and people don’t care (see also: climate). We all use these spaces differently.

Trust is key for learning. In an interview study which we combined with 449 free-text responses to a survey, we found that "Engineering students trust teachers who ask, listen, and respond". Read more in Glessmer, Persson, Forsyth @rmforsyth.bsky.social (2024): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

1/ Does climate activism work? The short answer is yes, and there's been lots of research this year showing how Here are some highlights 🧵

"Ich kann Politikerinnen und Politikern nichts mehr beibringen. Die wissen alles. Da gibt es keinen Beratungsbedarf mehr. Sie handeln wider besseren Wissens" sagt Klimaforscher Mojib Latif zum Ende diesen Jahres. Das sollte uns allen eine Mahnung sein.

Just out: Engineering students trust teachers who ask, listen, and respond doi.org/10.1080/1360... with @mirjamglessmer.bsky.social and Peter Persson

Tis' the season for making paper oceanography globes! 🌊 via Barry Klinger mason.gmu.edu/~bklinger/Se...

I don't want to 'like' this - but you are not alone. And it's something every teacher at every level can address. When asked for a 'top tip' for new teachers I always say "look as if you want to be there". And the first action for an educational challenge is ALWAYS to ask your students.

A flower made of von Kármán vortices. This is a motorized lazy Susan filled with a rheoscopic solution. It’s only about 1cm deep and the pencil serves as the stationary obstacle. #Physics #FluidDynamics #DIYnamics 🧪

Hello World, I am back and excited to (re-)connect with you! And we are just in time to start our 24 easy #KitchenOceanography experiments on oceanic processes, all using only household items, for a fun way to explore ocean physics. Find all of them here: mirjamglessmer.com/24daysofkitc...