First reading group session of the year today. Seems a good topic for early in the year. Looking forward to a good discussion.

I enjoy the pedagogy #LTHEChats but I think we so rarely discuss “how” we do basic office/admin/academic life stuff, it’s good to have more sharing on this too with this week’s chat. Also yes need more chats on that with students too. Bring on more academic life hacks and processes :)

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Experimenting with some short tip videos in portrait (to be e.g. within feeds) for staff for pros/cons. No, I'm not starting a tik tok. At this time of year I often need to set up folders for each of the students on a course (own files, shared folders) - this been useful in the past.

May I congratulate all Media Studies teachers on being provided with such a wealth of case studies and examples continuously. Or commiserate at how often you need to update your slides. Today's example: the wording of headlines on the same topic

Social media self-care action for 25/6: increase cat accounts followed and thus in main feed (aim for 1/20 posts to be a cat) Suggested cat accounts anyone? (Bonus points if university linked, I don't think Rolf in Warwick made it over from the place that will not be named)

#LTHEchat 336 Effective Note Making Systems from Paper to AI Join us with guest Dr Natalie Tasler @drntasler.bsky.social on Wednesday 24th September at 8pm GMT

Our creative students have formed an artistic display from our giant outside letters that usually spell out name, representing now the current state of higher education.

Today we welcome the second group of our new September cohort to our PGCHE programme. We should have quite a diverse range of roles, subjects and experience today to come together as a new peer group.

Big march with flags over the weekend.

Our HE Reading Group @bathspauni.bsky.social kicks of end of month with our Autumn set of chat topics and suggested readings. (BSU staff see sharepoint for more details; contact hep to join group or single event). This season, looking at belonging, AI, entangled pedagogy and the student experience

Adding #unfundedhobbyist to the CV

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...

Catch up and network time, with the South West Educational Developers Forum mini-meet online today. Bath, Bath Spa, Bristol, UWE, Exeter and independent HE consultants locally represented this time.

wonkhe.com/blogs/the-fi... Greenwich and Kent come together under one vice chancellor and governance structure. Massive news.

A @wonkhe.bsky.social blog on the OfS idea to link tuition fees to TEF results. It's unworkable as it was when it was first muted 10 years ago. It suggests that the OfS doesn't understand how the TEF works or the impact on the sector of making such ill-founded suggestions wonkhe.com/blogs/back-t...

My favorite side project these days: Analyzing the Bluesky Science community (with @mkeyoung.bsky.social). Just finished a write-up of an angle not explored until now: A look at the most popular posts from the most influential network members. Lots of examples and some funky graphics—fun to explore!

Bath Spa PhD students and early career researchers: we’ll have the next cohort of our Researcher Development module this year Starts with the open RDP workshop “Developing yourself as a researcher” Get in touch to sign up. Combine with teaching modules for PGCert.

Finally, bookmarks (sorry, saved posts). This was a major thing missing for all the papers and resources people would post.

Welcome to the first half of our new PGCHE cohort starting today as part of a two day event. Look forward to seeing your micro-teach sessions tomorrow.

End of an era, the original chart topping podcast and one of the final places that doesn’t dumb down. Don’t screw the next era up BBC pretty please. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

So we’re just skipping September and going straight to October with the weather huh? Always felt it a shame that UG students basically arrive when the weather turns then leave just as it may start to get good.

Report on our small study, done as we returned from lockdowns, looking at staff and students' understanding of terminology around learning and teaching: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities

My review of Innovations in Teaching History is out + free to access! A fab book with useful pedagogies for #18c studies + beyond! This preludes my article on teaching 18thc history (+ other histories) through an emotions lens. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #pedagogy #history #teaching

Decided to randomly read Magna Carta as was too hot last night. Given it's basically a list of stuff Barons were annoyed about, there are some 'yeah, fair enough' general rules and some that feel oddly specific and you just know everyone was like 'ok, fine Brian, we'll put that one in as well'

Will have this open until 26th for further interest/applications. #LTHEChat people may be interested, especially if a programme leader but new to external examining.

August, where I finally make a dent in my journal articles to read list and as a consequence promptly download 4x as many new articles for the list.

"Listening Rooms involvea pair of friends participating in a discussion with prompts provided in a ‘room’. ... One important aspect is that there is no authoritarian presence in the room, just the two friends chatting about what they see on the cards in front of them."

👏 Congratulations to the 61 new National Teaching Fellows and 17 CATE-winning teams — recognised for their outstanding contributions to teaching excellence across UK higher education. 🔗 Learn more: www.advance-he.ac.uk/news-and-vie... #NTFSawards2025 #CATEawards2025

Learning and Teaching hive mind: Do you have favourite/thought provoking papers you’ve read last year to suggest for my reading group for 25/26? Papers are for discussions starters, anything recent or even classic linked to current challenges etc welcome. #LTHEChat #academicsky

This is pretty much a problem that was predicted waaaay back with the shift to 9k fees and before. Even inflationary increases would be politically difficult as always portrayed as a 'fee increase', leading to the lack of funding situation we have now, and 9k is talked about as if it is still 2012.

Where next on the AI front for universities - some thoughts in this HEPI guest post: www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/07/26/w...

Ah, Monday, where you get to your desk keen to get started on various work now your brain is rested, to find several enforced updates for the IT systems wanting to shut/restart everything. (feel free to replace 'keen' with 'required' or similar)

I’ve just worked out there are two weeks in the whole of Jan-Oct where I don’t have any marking to do. I’ve read/watched a lot of really interesting work, but a break will be good… (the two weeks are mid August).

The BBC iplayer app on Apple TV finally has subtitles. It’s taken well over a decade, for a very basic accessibility function.

We're seeking a new External Examiner at Bath Spa for our PGCHE and MA programmes, Higher Education Practice in the School of Education. *S/PFHEA, experience teaching PGCHEs. *new to EE? Very welcome/encouraged. *MA work and experience with non-lecturers too useful *CV + short statement by 26/8

Learning and Teaching hive mind: Do you have favourite/thought provoking papers you’ve read last year to suggest for my reading group for 25/26? Papers are for discussions starters, anything recent or even classic linked to current challenges etc welcome. #LTHEChat #academicsky

It’s the day for this UK age verification thing then.

NEW on Wonkhe: Nick Quinn explores why second-career academics and pracademics challenge traditional notions of academic leadership, and why that’s exactly what universities need. buff.ly/YUhnaRY

Our lovely editors at Sage have sent us a discount code for the second edition of Introduction to University Teaching. 25% off and delivered as soon as the book is published in September 🎉 📖 ⬇️

This paper might be of interest to colleagues who were discussing orals and genAI - example from sciences and some before/after comparison. (Other links up thread too)

subject groups in scope for modular study: computing engineering architecture, building & planning, (excluding landscape gardening subgroup) physics & astronomy mathematical sciences nursing & midwifery allied health chemistry economics health & social care (What did landscape gardening do?)

📢The latest #SEDAEdDevs Magazine Issue 26.2 June 2025 is OUT NOW and FREE to read >> www.seda.ac.uk/wp-content/u... for #EdDev #AcademicSky #EdTech #altc #HigherEducation folks please share with your networks 🙏

We've got one last Bath Spa reading group scheduled for the year (unless anyone wants some August chats!), revisiting peer learning classic work - so will be interesting to consider in light more more current social and peer work challenges in 2025 HE. Open to suggestions on themes/papers for 25/6

Return from leave morning consists of 2 hrs working through 116 emails (surprisingly low tbf), then 2 hrs working through emails at the rate they come in. Weather has kindly given me a heatwave to do this in.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

#LTHEChat A quick reminder that one easy way to follow the hashtag and chat is the LTHEChat Bsky feed (search for the tag, check the feed list, can pin it). Feeds are one of BSky's advantages, there are one's like Popular with Friends, only posts (no re-posts/replies), as well as topics.

This week's #LTHEChat is on the Artistry of Teaching with my colleagues Helen King and Shaun Mudd. You may also be interested in their book: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

I started getting gibberish like this earlier in the week for the first time. I think someone’s handed over the system to an LLM…