Slow Listening. Mornings and late evenings are my favourite times to listen to jazz so let's do that. #NowPlaying John Coltrane and with McCoy Tyner on piano, it's a particular treat. #VinylRecords #VinylCommunity #JazzSky

Slow Listening. Am #NowPlaying The Godfather of Soul! Perfect to motivate me for one more day's work before the weekend. #VinylRecords #VinylCommunity

Hate self promoting posts! And not going to say 'I am delighted' 😂 but also no one will promote this for me 😂. So sod it! Please give my article some love or a repost. This article means a lot to me on food aid beyond the food bank! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

You see this, post a concert picture you took

Enjoyed the Wynton Kelly/Wes Montgomery so much yesterday that I am going in again courtesy of the always excellent Resonance Records

Please know that this is Trump scaremongering. There is no good scientific evidence linking paracetamol (Tylenol) to autism. A 2024 Swedish study of 2.4 million births found no relationship whatsoever between exposure to paracetamol in utero & subsequent autism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Slow Listening. Time for jazz club! Am #NowPlaying Smokin' At The Half Note. Told that it's one of those jazz albums that you *have* to have so made the purchase - and it does not disappoint. Verve Acoustic Sounds reissue - frighteningly expensive, totally worth it. #VinylRecords #VinylCommunity

Slow Listening. I am #NowPlaying @psbhq.bsky.social because they're great and whichever record you go for you know it's going to be excellent listening. The Last Flight - on a zoetrope pressing and looks amazing! Can never get the strobe effect to work very well tho 🤪 #VinylRecords #VinylCommunity

"Oxford becomes first UK university to offer ChatGPT Edu to all staff and students" - imagining a lot of staff there pretty upset about, but also it says much about OpenAI's education strategy that it's targeted Oxford as its first institutional capture in the UK www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-09...

Slow Listening. I am #NowPlaying Different Class by Pulp. After all it is Jarvis Cocker's birthday. Cannot quite believe that this record is thirty years old. Loved it then, love it now. More going on next for sure. And then possibly This Is Hardcore as well. #VinylRecords #VinylCommunity

Want some free career advice? #AcademicChatter

Slow Listening. #NowPlaying Humanhood by @theweatherstation.bsky.social and it is simply one of the best records that I have listened to for ages. What a writer Tamara Lindeman is. #VinylRecords #VinylCommunity

I haven't been on social media much for a while (see photo) but am feeling a little better these days and so am back! Here for stuff about records, and LinkedIn for university and research stuff but there might be the odd overlap #VinylRecords #VinylCommunity #HigherEducation #AcademicSky

Yes, times are tough in HE. But this is an absolute disgrace. I am very proud to have started my career as an educator by running adult education courses for (sadly no longer with us) Françoise Vassie at York. #AcademicSky #HigherEducation yorkmix.com/shock-as-lif...

I mean, it's almost as if there isn't really a straightforward link between higher education and employability 🤔 #HigherEducation #AcademicSky

Educators seem to be using AI more and more. Maybe we shouldn't. www.nea.org/professional...

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Nine years ago the godfather of Brexit, Lord Daniel Hannan, predicted life in Brexit Britain in June 2025. Roll the tape… (VO by @gavinesler.bsky.social. Part 2 below👇)

Good use of theory is important. For example: if you haven't described the joint enterprise, mutual engagement and shared repertoire, then you haven't established sufficient warrant to say that what you have got is a Community of Practice. #HigherEducation #AcademicSky

Each Tuesday we will signpost you to new texts available in the JVET journal. This week we share a book review by Kevin Orr of ‘Permanent racism: race, class and the myth of postracial Britain’ by Paul Warmington (2025). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #NewTextTuesdays #JVET

"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning."

The Journal of Vocational Education and Training 16th International Conference takes place 24–26 July 2025 in Oxford, UK. Join researchers, educators, and policymakers to explore the latest in vocational education and training. 🔗 Full details: www.jvet.uk/conference-2... #JVETConference

It is very very funny that one of the few genuine ways we have diverged from EU law since Brexit is VAT on private schools. Karmic punishment for Telegraph readers.

Ooh, yes www.ft.com/content/55c0...

Well this is pleasing www.extremetech.com/computing/ch...

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"What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity." - William S. Burroughs

Sometimes your Sunday morning needs to be this. As good to listen to as ever #VinylRecords #VinylCommunity

Slow Listening. It's the first record by American Football! Very nice reissue with a second disc of demos, rarities etc. Still sounds amazing so many years after first release. #VinylRecords #VinylCommunity

Friday after work so it's time for a record. Second Wind by Melys - it's orange and it's great. #VinylRecords #VinylCommunity

The current desperation to show the causal “effects” of AI in education is leading to a rush of studies and meta-analyses that immediately gather public and social media attention despite their significant methodological shortcomings and limitations codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2025/05/28/e...

How has scholarly research produced knowledge about self-assessment – and the 'selves' of self-assessment, students? Years in the making, our meta-review and discourse analysis of student self-assessment research with David Boud has been published www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My editorial assistant is not really getting much work done #AcademicSky #AcademicWriting

Sunday mornings are for jazz and black coffee (half-caff - doctor's orders 🙄) and today is a @bluenoterecords.bsky.social day for sure. Horace Silver to start (mid 80s DMM pressing) and now Herbie Nichols (Tone Poet). Can't go wrong! #VinylRecords #VinylCommunity #JazzSky

I am 54 years old and I am still doing my homework on the train #AcademicSky #AcademicWriting

Well that's not acceptable #VinylRecords #VinylCommunity

Talk of making efficiencies in higher education is using “a frame of thinking which is not fit for this sector”, a conference has heard, with sector leaders urging universities to find new ways of measuring outputs that better show their worth to societies #AcademicSky #EduSky

In something approaching an act of sedition within the contemporary university, I am going to do some reading that is entirely speculative and might not directly contribute to my research in the slightest. #AcademicSky #HigherEducation

Huge scale of carnage in UK Higher Education revealed 96 Universities are announcing redundancies in 2024-25 Not all give numbers. Average of those who do is 245 245 x 96 is 23520 job losses This doesn't include fixed term positions not renewed @qmucu.bsky.social @gsoh31.bsky.social

"AI is not the lifeline our education system needs. Certainly not right now. What we need—what we’ve needed for decades—is serious investment in teachers, classrooms, infrastructure and support services. And we’re getting the opposite." This is on *Crunchbase*! news.crunchbase.com/edtech/k12-a...

Okay, so here we go (finally) with the not-quite-so-new Vampire Weekend record. Have managed to avoid all reviews and have not yet heard a single track. #VinylRecords #VinylCommunity

what does ‘misbehaviour’ sound like? in new open access work i ask this question in the context of school discipline policies, looking at how ideologies of ‘im/proper language’ and ‘im/proper behaviour’ coalesce and get co-constructed with one another. doi.org/10.1080/0962...

What this tells you is that the Higher Education Minister knows there's going to be an irradiated crater where our universities used to be pretty soon. She's looking for someone else to blame. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...

There's a pair of original spec Sonus Faber Concerto loudspeakers, low serial number, on ebay right now for £720 and I cannot fathom why nobody has bought them. They are absolutely superb speakers and at that price they're a steal, age notwithstanding. (I'd get them if I didn't already have a pair)

A leading UK law school has criticised students’ use of artificial intelligence, arguing that the technology is often used to “cognitively offload tasks in a way that hinders learning”. @jgro-the.bsky.social reports #AcademicSky #EduSky

"Remember, these standards exist to help us decide whether you have a job in academia forever or will never work in academia again. If you have questions about these standards, please ask three different people and get three contradictory answers."

Finally, instead of drowning in an ocean of papers about student attitides towards using ChatGPT, here's something about AI and education that is genuinely worth reading and then thinking about #AcademicSky

My Edinburgh trip ended with a visit to @thornerecords.bsky.social which, brilliantly, is a five minute walk from my friend's house where I was staying. And what a record shop it is. Fantastic. Now I need to organise more Edinburgh visits. #RecordsMakeYourLifeBetter #VinylRecords #VinylCommunity

Mine went like this Me: who are The National? Record Store Guy: well they're not your typical 4AD band Me: so what do they sound like? RSG: they're how Coldplay might have sounded if they weren't shit Reader I bought the record and in the 15 years since, all the others, and have seen them live twice