This is a brilliant piece by @jimdickinson.bsky.social on Monday about why the graduate premium has been falling (but, I should point out, remains high) and what we should do about it. He's kind enough to mention my work on this and I've added a comment to explain further. wonkhe.com/blogs/if-the...

Coming to a screen near you tonight! More info and bookings can be found here... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reinterpre...

#LoveLD - love #creativeHE and love this: For five years, we’ve been asking: Why reimagine education? Because how we learn changes how we live. Join us! re-imagining.education Feb 26 – March 1, 2026 | Online

Delighted to see the Electrical Association for Women #EAW lighting up the Generator Building in Bristol as part of the Festival of Light #BLF26 @wes1919.bsky.social @ninabake2.bsky.social @dawnbonfield.bsky.social bristollightfestival.org/installation...

Another interesting thing is how early lead production starts here - the earliest ingots are stamped AD49, and come from the Mendips in Somerset, suggesting that industrial lead mining started very fast after the Roman conquest. This to me suggests...

Huge news for Ceredigion & west Wales. Imperial #Roman lead mines on Cardigan Bay were under the control of Domitian by AD 87 as confirmed by the discovery of these lead pigs Only the 5th & 6th ingots ever found in Wales 😮 www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Overlooked during the SEND debate is the decline in school rolls over the next few years. Without reform, local councils will be closing hundreds of mainstream schools while paying hundreds of millions of pounds to support independent, specialist schools. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Some of you like dogs, in which case you may appreciate that guide dogs of Team GB for the Paralympics get official photos

Dinosaur, a film made by a 4-year old (and his dad) is delightful! The son did the illustrations and narrates (including sound effects) and dad did the animation. Got 2 minutes for something that will make your day better?

Scientists warn our rainfall extremes are decades ahead of models. Prof Rupert Read says our focus should be on nature restoration, flood resilience and community strength as immediate defences against mounting disruption that’s already happening. @eastangliabylines.co.uk @rupertread.bsky.social

I may have stumbled on the peak peacock hotel @dfgillie.bsky.social

Beau et triste texte, sur l'importance de la culture et de la connaissance. "L’espoir est la profonde compréhension que tous nos efforts ont un sens."

This morning I set out our vision for the schools system our children deserve. You can read my speech about the Labour government’s ambition for all our children here:👇🏻 (1/6) www.gov.uk/government/s...

For #CharteredWeek, we’ve updated our Statement of Ethical Principles with the Engineering Council. Ethics sits at the core of being a engineer, ensuring we’re serving people, the planet, and the public good: raeng.org.uk/ethical-guidance-update #EngineeringEthics

The same is true in conservation-for all the talk of ecosystem services- bumblebees, beavers, slimemoulds, manatees, ghost orchids, twin flowers-they have a moral right to exist, an inherent value as living things on their own.

@offthemarkparisi.bsky.social 🤭🤭🤭

If you’re at #OSM26 in Glasgow, I’m hosting this really important discussion this lunchtime, with fantastic panelists. We’ll discuss how current politics is impacting ocean science, what comes next, how to ensure a healthy future for science & scientists, and sources of hope. 🌊🌊🌊🌊. Do come along.

Nope! Forced to concede to the popularity of women's sports, they allowed them in 1928 into five track + field events. It should have been a crowning achievement, but a lie spread via the male-dominated press corps changed the narrative. www.startingline1928.com/resources/co...

I've extended a bit my analysis from yesterday of the profile of Labour voters *in constituencies won by the party at GE2024* - including clearer titles and also used more easily interpretable odds ratios. The story is the same: Labour's vote in seats gained in 2024 tended towards the liberal-left.

Out on the town @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social?

Upcoming fancy gig: opening gala of the Edinburgh Science Festival 😮 Super excited to meet Oor Nicola and talk "First Women" with Janey Jones (Edinburgh-Seven). If you're in the area, should be a fun night. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎟️ April 2nd: www.edinburghscience.co.uk/event/openin...

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

We're marking World Pangolin Day by remembering that Roman soldiers would routinely dress as pangolins before going into battle.

Verena Holmes #engineer inventor dedicated to encouraging #womenengineers. Early member @wes1919.bsky.social President 1931. Post #WWII 1946 set up engineering firm w' Sheila Leather employing only women. Took out over a dozen patents d. #OTD 20 Feb 1964 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verena_... #WomenInSTEM

It was a real pleasure to be involved in writing this paper with an amazing group of women. We connect experiences of walking & wheeling with children to wider debates around mobility justice, drawing on a multidisciplinary context, & calling for a rethinking of mobility infrastructures & policies

As the UK experiences high levels of rain, Somerset Levels in the south-west of England is trying to cope with extreme flooding and its consequences.

"You can't ignore the middle class forever"

Also, footnote: the fall in the UK graduate premium has happened while the foreign student population in the UK has risen. If what was happening was a fall in the quality of courses this is not what you'd expect. commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

Keely Hodgkinson broke the indoor 800m world record last night - set on the day she was born 24 years ago. She becomes only the second Brit to hold a WR along with Jonathan Edwards' triple jump mark.

My 4th Gresham Lecture starts at 6pm today (free to stream for everyone), and the topic is "The Ground We Stand On". I'll be talking about how the ground is about more than geology & why it matters. Of course, there's *rock* music playing as people come in. Link here: youtube.com/live/YDEAxWT...

A good idea in these troubled times? Tax the plane tickets of the wealthiest, starting in the 9 countries that have already agreed. (Short podcast in French)

Hettie Bussell UK's 1st woman railway engineer. 1934 tracer with Great Western Railway #Cardiff, #WWII draughtsman joined civil engineering dept, career in #BritishRail. Spoke @ 2nd & 3rd #ICWES conferences. @wes1919.bsky.social President 1976-7. b. #OTD 19 Feb 1917 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henriet...

'Outsourcing destroys military effectiveness' nationalsecuritynews.com/2025/01/the-...

'Smiling' fossil discovered on Holy Island. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Shout out for the learned societies keeping a beady eye on the state of the disciplines that university senior managers are so swiftly dismantling. Keep an eye on the state of UK university Geography with the help of the @rgs.org 's new report, published this week.

AI feedback from collaborators and supporters makes me so sad. If you don’t care enough to read and think, just let me know. This is perhaps something to think about in our feedback practices as educators. High quality feedback signals more than the information.

A3 #LTHEchat IME, with webpages. You know, when you need or would like a human conversation but are pointed to a webpage to trawl through policy and links and docs instead.

#LTHEchat speaking from personal experience as a student in the recent past as well as being staff- I found having to search for and navigate almost every query online borderline soul destroying. It just feels like what it is - a money saver.

#LTHEchat A3 Anonymous marking has always been a problem for me - how can you give the best personalised feedback if you do not know who you are talking to?

A6 #LTHEchat but do HEIs signal that third space professionals that teach don’t matter because they’re not proper / don’t have academic contracts - @russellgroup.bsky.social ? I know many HEIs that care eg DMU, BNU @profdamienpage.bsky.social #OtheringNotBelonging

Q4. Is the work of belonging/mattering gendered? Who does the work of caring for students? Who do students want to do the mattering and caring roles? Reply with A4 #LTHEChat and your response

Inspired by @t0nyyates.bsky.social, I'm organising Bluesky drinks in Bristol on Wednesday 18th March at 7 pm at a pub between the city centre and Temple Meads. DM me for the details.

Ooh, 11/12, go me 😬

Another outing for this hardy perennial. Take south-east Lincs (before the ocean does). Flood zones around the rapidly-expanding towns are essentially 360 degrees. You would need Region-wide Planning, you know, of the sort recently abolished. Sorry to blurt out the truth, but that's what's missing

Yes, tipping points seem to be completely absent 🤦‍♂️ For example, the report doesn't even mention the strong possibility of #AMOC collapse, which would be massively damaging for Europe. climate-advisory-board.europa.eu/reports-and-...

🧵 If warming continues to 3°C above pre-industrial we will have crossed a number of tipping points. Droughts in some regions and extreme rainfall in others will result in widespread crop failures and global food shortages. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Marie Tharp charted the ocean floor before she had even sailed on its surface, and despite her theories being dismissed as 'girl talk'. Her pioneering achievements were only fully recognised after her death."

How can schools support teachers with keeping up to date with children's literature? Is time prioritised for it and, if so, how? Or is it left for people to do in their own time? I understand the challenges around fitting it in, but it's valuable CPD and needs to be recognised as such.

“Defra and the Ministry for Housing need to be working close together to make sure our housing targets aren’t preventing what we know is needed to protect future and existing homes from future levels of flooding.” #housing #flooding #England www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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