It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

Ah the 1970s. Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.

Politically motivated attacks on the legal profession are irresponsible and dangerous. Legal organisations representing 250,000 lawyers have come together to express grave concern. Read the statement www.barcouncil.org.uk/resource/vil... Read the news www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Swansea University This is part of the 1950s and 1960s expansion, and is just round the corner from me :-) If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

1. Dr. Jane Goodall 1934 - 2025 In 1962, a very young woman named Jane Goodall stepped into the African forest. What she would discover shattered our understanding of the place of human beings in the world. She revealed that chimpanzees use tools, form bonds, and experience emotions.

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals. Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’. What, Michelle? 🧵

'I can tell when it's been written by AI' mcompton.uk/2025/09/25/i... Autoposted by Comet AI agent from Perplexity.

This is very powerful. #MentalHealth

In the late 19th century, millions of migrants left Germany as a result of religious persecution, economic hardship, and political uncertainty. Among them was Nikolaus Schrod, a cabinet maker from Frankfurt who - along with his wife Bina - moved to London to start a new life in the 1850s. 1/3

Our second Growth, Not Grades winner is Sharlyn Barrett 🎉 Sharlyn writes how chasing perfection — whether pounds on a scale or letters on a page — left her ready to give up. She imagines an education that values growth and self-acceptance. Read and share! growbeyondgrades.org/blog/degradi...

I am too exhausted to care about other standards of perfection, like grades. Insecure in my personal life, I give up trying at school because I can’t bear being judged anymore. @GBGEdu @growbeyondgrades.org growbeyondgrades.org/blog/degradi...

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Congrats to King’s researchers Dr Timothy Neate, Dr Sarah Morgan and Dr Clement Sefa-Nyarko on receiving the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship 👏 From AI tools in healthcare, to the concept of justice in clean energy transitions, discover their research 👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/three-k...

Resharing for the new academic year my AI memes post. One or two may be useful prompts for discussion with your students: mcompton.uk/2025/03/24/m...

Love this blog as a fellow WebCT pioneer. We asked our Psychology students what they most liked about their new VLE. Many said forums even though there were very few posts. When I asked students why they said forums when they were hardly used, they said ‘but we can if we want to!’

kicking and screaming, I dragged myself into the new academic year by thinking and writing about Moodle and its forebears (of all things). As in life more broadly...the more things change... mcompton.uk/2025/09/15/p...

When we think of sexism, it's easy to think of *active* efforts to discriminate against women. But sexism also operates *passively* - like through our inaction on issues like childcare and paid family leave. In that context, return-to-office policies are sexist in consequence, even if not in design.

I want my learning to be measured by how much I’ve grown, how deeply I’ve understood, and how boldly I’ve tried, not just by the shape of the letter at the top of the page. @GBGEdu @growbeyondgrades.org growbeyondgrades.org/blog/a-lette...

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

Part of the Human Intelligence series on Radio 4 of short episodes on thinkers through history, is on Teachers. Here's Mary Somerville: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The only time I remember to do wordle is when I see that @miafarrow.bsky.social has done wordle

“Why focus on how to improve when the verdict has already been delivered?” 📫 High school senior, Subhiksha Sreeram, describes the way grades cut off real learning. Her essay A Letter to Letters is the first of three winners in our Growth, Not Grades contest. growbeyondgrades.org/blog/a-lette...

How accessible are the 'posh' seats at Spurs? I'll tell you! I check out the Corporate Hospitality section at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium as a powered wheelchair user. What was the view like? How accessible was it? This was my experience. youtu.be/yPHkTIMYlKY #accessibility

NEW on Wonkhe: The lessons of decades of research into assessment and feedback haven’t tracked across into the practice of peer review. Madeleine Pownall wonders why not buff.ly/D7hmHQP

If I got AI to make a picture of Spurs receiving a trophy (not that we have to of course), the trophy and lettering would look exactly like that. Anyway COYS, a win's a win versus Woolwich. Bayern, Newcastle and PSG next. Easy

My daughter, 14, has a Tom Lehrer album. That’s some reach he had. RIP www.pbs.org/newshour/art... Tom Lehrer, mathematician and singer-songwriter known for colorful satire, dies at 97 | PBS News

Saw the last showing of Noughts and Crosses last night at Regents Park open air theatre. Daughter experienced something very very different: Great seeing her reactions as they ebbed and flowed with a fully immersed audience

Anyone spouting the Broken Britain nonsense should look at the #Lionesses. Articulate, relaxed about sexuality, anti racist, generous in victory and defeat. The Mail will disagree but they're a microcosm of this country.

Well done England! Pens were nervy!

Doesn’t Ed Sheeran have enough money? Why do celebrities pinch other people’s niches too? It’s as bad as third rate comedians thinking they can write children’s books. I bet he didn’t bloody mix it either

And the article I wrote for that special edition about how anonymous marking is a terrible idea journal.aldinhe.ac.uk/index.php/jl...

The special edition of @jldhe.bsky.social that I was part of alongside @martc.bsky.social, Becky Lindner and an editorial collective from UCL and KCL

The lovely blog that @martc.bsky.social and Connie wrote about me: mcompton.uk/2025/04/02/r...

Always good to chat Alex! Clouds don’t indicate how bloomin warm it is

Right, so I was asked to take a look at this headline and as you can imagine, there is a lot wrong with it! 🙄 This was initially published in @thetimes and then picked up by the usual GB News, DM, Telegraph etc Let’s take a look….👀 🧵 1/26 (1/1)

Has anyone asked Yvette Cooper if she would have proscribed the suffragettes? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... The Guardian view on proscribing Palestine Action: blurring civil disobedience and terrorism is a dangerous step | Editorial | The Guardian

It’s Academic Practice and Technology today in London. And it’s Association for Study of Medical Education in Edinburgh too. I am presenting at both ( in a manner of speaking) thanks to assistance from deep fake me grounded in arguments for essays in the age of AI.

Shooters Hill (Greenwich) Council By-Election Result: 🌍 GRN: 34.6% (+24.4) 🌹 LAB: 30.1% (-27.7) ➡️ RFM: 16.0% (+6.1) 🌳 CON: 11.5% (-1.7) 🔶 LDM: 5.1% (-3.7) 🙋 Ind: 2.3% (New) 🙋 Ind: 0.4% (New) Green GAIN from Labour. Changes w/ 2025.

Interesting. I see a lot of em dashes and - curses !- they can actually make things easier to read. I’ve never considered such elaborate middle class punctuation tbh. It will annoy me though when folk thrust student work with an em dash in it in the student’s face with a smug ‘ah ha’

This is such a valuable use case for me. I spend my life forgetting words ( if not knowing them) and being able to ‘what’s that thing…’ is very helpful

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To be honest, I’m surprised they’re not a global brand with this marketing genius

World War 3 kinda sucks, but you know, it was either this or pronouns

my most popular video. sigh. youtu.be/46jR780FR-4?...

FOMO is so neurotypical. I’m team FIBI

Two interconnected posts related to AI, innovation, transparency and other things mcompton.uk/2025/06/19/i... mcompton.uk/2025/06/19/t...

Reading anti-AI posts, it’s clear many people assume the point of a language model is to write *less.* This is why they perceive a response like “writing is thinking” as a compelling critique. But when models are used as interlocutors, I find the process actually involves *more* writing. +

Meet us half way then political leaders ffs