FREE 🧪 education book from the @rsc.org New volume in the books.rsc.org/books/collec... The authors have made this OPEN ACCESS from books.rsc.org/books/oa-edi...

Saw this quote in Humboldt's travel narrative: “Beyond the Atlantic Ocean, only the United States of America offers asylum to those in need. A government that is strong because it is free, and confident because it is just, has nothing to fear in granting refuge to exiles.” Just saying…

Nothing tells me that the Annals of Urology & Nephrology is a serious scientific 🧪 journal rather than a predatory journal more than writing to me with a subject heading i?n?t?e?r?s?p?e?r?s?e?d w?i?t?h? i?r?r?e?l?e?v?a?n?t? q?u?e?s?t?i?o?n? m?a?r?k?s?.

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Someone at a Journal thought that this email would get my attention. It did. But, …

Use colourless nitrogen monoxide and oxygen gases to produce orange-brown nitrogen dioxide gas with chemistry teacher Declan Fleming’s latest Exhibition chemistry demo edu.rsc.org/exhibition-c... #scienceeducation #chemed

If they need to cut costs, they could spend less on all those pointless BBC shows with people competing to dance or cook or lie etc- shows which the BBC shamelessly promotes by finding excuses to feature them on news and current affairs programmes at any excuse.

I was shocked to learn that the BBC is cutting its 30 min radio show 🧪 'Science in Action' @peaseroland.bsky.social after next week's episode. But at least the schedulers think it is continuing…

Waiting for my Amazon delivery - which today seems to be being delivered by one of their new quantum trucks powered by the Adams infinite improbability drive.

Anyone interested in explaining 🧪 science (teaching or science communication) may wish to download this resource - a compilation of examples of science analogies, similes, metaphors, etc., from across a wide range of topics from various sources. science-education-research.com/downloads/pu...

Okay, I ordered this on Amazon. Wondering: a) It will arrive within a month; b) it will arrive on, or around, 12th Feb, 2026; c) when it gets close to 12th Feb., Amazon will cancel the order. Hoping for (a). Past experience prepares me for (c). Not sure if others have experienced that?

Time for a quick #quiz! Comment your guess below! Thanks to our amazing global community of #translators, how many languages do you think our sims are translated into? #OER #edtech Hint 🤩 phet.colorado.edu/en/simulatio... How to translate phet.colorado.edu/en/for-trans...

(3) even though the stats in the paper gave a non-significant result, the authors concluded a positive outcome. The JChemEd 🧪 editor was not interested in publshing a comment on this (let alone a retraction). science-education-research.com/falsifying-r... Poor scientific practice & peer review

(2) Despite the lack of equivlence between groups, the very similar (bizarrely so, from my teaching experiecne) successive average course scores were used to argue for a positive experimental outcome. science-education-research.com/falsifying-r... The editor was not interested in acknowledging. …

Well it does not seem to apply in chemistry education. (1) These results poltted here justified claiming in an American Chemical Society 🧪 journal that an innovation (red) was effective.… science-education-research.com/falsifying-r...

You could say the Dept of Education being excited about going back to slates…oh, hang on a minute - that needs a Department for Education 🤔

A quick typographic question if you will: tbe, or not tbe? That is the question. 🧪

I'll raise you. Europe after the rain.

This is FAR more serious than the wife voluntarily dosing. This is assualt on his wife as well as the baby. And she was drugged not by some stranger but the perosn who was most supposed to love, cherish and protect her. (Not sexist- that should work either way round.) Was he charged for both crimes?

Do not believe everything you find on line. I am not sure which is worse / funnier the claimed distance to the nearest doctor being so wrong (its actually right in the middle of town) the claimed precision for the measurement! 345.9270 miles! Oh, and we have a fire station.

Surely the real issue here is how @trussliz thinks it was the wrong decision to offer admission to Afghans who had supported the British agaisnt the Taliban, when their identities were leaked into the public domain. Her financial incompetence was lack of ability: but this shows lack of moral fibre.

Does this mean they will no longer teach English (which comes from Britain), and instead only teach Cherokee and Chickasaw?

Physics teachers. The latest edition of Classroom Physics is now available at the link below. The focus is on Atmospheric Physics 🙂 #PhysicsEd #iTeachPhysics #SciTeachUK spark.iop.org/sites/defaul...

Except victims of sexual assualt do not sin, they are sinned against. I don't think Jesus ever specifically mentioned not committing child sexual abuse - almost as if it could be take for granted that does not need pointing out.

Recently, my book THEY CALLED US ENEMY was banned – again – in Tennessee. Book bans are out of control. Huge parts of American history are being restricted. To join me in standing up for the freedom to read, go to pen.org/action. @penamerica.bsky.social @topshelfcomix.bsky.social @idwpublishing.com

I am guesing it is selling a webpage (not new, funeral directors do offer them) and they have just placed the digital device on a stone for effect? Otherwise, not sure it would last long in English weather?

firefox even does this for you

Any cognitive scientists 🧪 on here? Is there an actual psychiatric condition where part of 'theory of mind' never develops, and 'being nice to me' is equated with being 'good' without regard to the person being nice's honesty, motivation or actual behaviours. A genuine defecit would explain much.

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That tone sounds kind of familiar…

Heard this on the radio: "drill a hole through the imaging lens". Any 🧪 expert here on electron microscopes? The 'lenses' that focus the beam are electromagnetic fields, not a refacting medium, so can anyone explain about drilling through them? science-education-research.com/reference/sc...

Just found myself agreeing with something the President of Mesonorthamerica, DJT, was claiming. (Yes I do think the Concorde was aesthetically a great design.) Really must get an early night. ['We (USA) won WW2' Hm. (Never heard of 'the Allies'?) 'We had concorde'. No, that was us with the French.]

Newton's 3rd law 🧪. Pretty straightforward? But a common area of misunderstanding for many learners. Time to drop notions of action and reaction? science-education-research.com/an-unfortuna...

Apparently I taught an aeronautics engingeering course despite having no qualifications in the subject. And I cannot recall anything about my supposed studies into composite materials. science-education-research.com/about-keith/ Do not believe what you read on these sites (even about yourself!)

Seems a very odd mistake to have made (not even close) but I guess the name was not changed on template used for a rather different book? Mistakes happen but it says something about quality control that no one at the publishers noticed. Nor Amazon but they think 🧪chemist John Dalton is still alive.

Amazon www.amazon.co.uk/Micrographia... is selling a digital edition of the 🧪classic Micrographia (using text freely available from 'Project Guttenberg'), but the publishers, 'Prabhat Books', seem to have made a slight typo on the cover? What do you think, Holmes? An elementary mistake, Watson.

It was nice of Co-op bank to email me about account security, to tell me they will never (sorry, 'NEVER') send me an email with a link, and to include a link for me to follow up for more details… @cuebcustomerunion.bsky.social Am I the one being especially thick here, or is the Bank?

Certainly worth sharing this (although as a scientist I would prefer to see a qualifying 'probably', 'most likely' or similar, unless Dan has good convincing evidence for the definitive claim 😉) science-education-research.com/public-scien...

🧪 Scientists Prof. Leslie Vosshall @leslievosshall.bsky.social‬ and Prof. Sarah Reece @reecelab.bsky.social‬ were talking on BBC Curious Cases with @daraobriain.bsky.social & @fryrsquared.bsky.social But which claims can be scientifically justified? science-education-research.com/what-it-is-l...

Bemused to find that I can 'follow' the school teacher and scientist (pioneering chemist) 🧪 John Dalton (who died 1844, but looks remakably healthy, considering) on Amazon. I've just 'Report[ed] an issue with this product', so (given past experience) wonder how long it will take to be corrected?

Are you an ECT or trainee teacher? Could #CPD on #microscale boost your confidence and your learners’? Read this to find out 🔽 #SciTeachUK #chemed (Spoiler: yes is the answer) edu.rsc.org/feature/micr...

Ever wondered if #CPD on #microscale chemistry boosts early career and trainee teachers’ confidence to include practical work? Wonder no more. Robert Campbell from St Mary’s has discovered it does. And it impacts learners’ practical abilities too #SciTeachUK #ASEChat edu.rsc.org/feature/micr...

Is there a known condition 🧪 where you are impelled to find matching clothes pegs for any washed items needing more than one peg? I will never get those seconds back! "I left the room for just a couple of brief moments, but when I returned those moments were gone." (Ancient Chinese Proverb?)

1/7 💔 We are very disappointed to announce that on April 25, NSF terminated a $1.5M PhET grant – our Pathways to Open Source Ecosystems Phase II grant for advancing PhET’s SceneryStack project. Learn how this impacts our work and how you can help: bit.ly/PhETNSF2025

Imagine the Mexican president sitting there in the White House suggesting to Mr Trump that the Mexico-US border was just a line that someone drew…

What kind of logic says we should go to colonise inhospitable Mars (which may be possible in time but with immense costs) rather than protect the beautiful planet we know can already support life? Will the rich climate change deniers finance relocatng Bangladesh and low lying islands etc. to Mars?

Do you use colour to show way the current splits and rejoins at junctions?

Struggling to explain condensation polymers to your post-16s? 🤔 Use this poster, fact sheet and classroom activity to simplify the formation and applications of these crucial molecules: edu.rsc.org/infographics... #teachingresources #chatchemistry