1) This is an excellent book, and one that deserves more readers. 2) Longbarrow Press needs to raise some money. Therefore 3) we have made 'Cazique' half-price this weekend. 4) A beautifully produced hardback for the price of a pamphlet. 5) Order here: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Join this online networking session for #psychology teachers in Scotland! *share your experiences & strategies for Higher & Nat 5 Psychology prelims. *hear about support from #BPS *connect with psychology teachers in Europe To get the link just email [email protected]. Hope to see you there!

If you care about authors, books and bloggers, switch to @DuckDuckGo! Google's 'Generative AI' steals words, paragraphs & pages (including ours) and doesn't credit the author - it's IP theft. If you care about authors usehttps://duckduckgo.com/ #SupportCreators #Copyright

Valuable article, 'Bridging the gap between pre-university and university psychology education in the UK: The role of the BPS Teacher’s Toolkit' – www.bera.ac.uk/blog/bridgin...

This sounds reasonable but is 100% wrong. Whether you or agree or disagree with a study is completely immaterial. What matters is whether the study was conducted properly and generates valid results. And it's impolitic to say but it's true: you have to have some level of expertise to judge that.

Grammarly is now an enemy of education "Universities risk putting students in impossible positions where they’re simultaneously told they can use a tool and that using certain functions of that tool constitutes cheating." Seriously, ban it. It's no friend of education wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...

It's publication day for this beauty, with stories by David Bevan @iancritchley.bsky.social @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social, Alison Moore, Okechukwu Nzelu, @simonokotie.bsky.social, C.D. Rose, Iain Sinclair, Naomi Wood, lucky old me! et al. Thank you @nicholasroyle.bsky.social & @saltpublishing.com 🔥

Just bought it as well as the @saltpublishing.com 2025 story anthology. Looking forward to the reads! @willwiles.bsky.social

Thank you so much for ALL your support 🦋 We are fundraising to invest in new books and new writing. Every penny we raise will be spent on our authors. Do please make a donation and share our fundraiser widely! #Fundraiser #SupportIndie #IndiePress #IndiePublishing #KeepBooksAlive #BookSky

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My most recent newsletter is on research into retrieval practice and generative learning firth.substack.com/p/combining-... A follow-up post on Monday! #education #edusky

*NEW POST* The Enduring Persistence of Neuromyths in Education A new study surveying over 3,000 Spanish teachers provides one of the most detailed snapshots to date. Fantastic work from @juanfernandez.bsky.social @ferreromar.bsky.social and colleagues open.substack.com/pub/carlhend...

I didn't post an update on my Substack this week, but I'm back on Monday with the third and final post on my series on transfer in education. firth.substack.com

The Education Committee wants to understand what is needed to secure a sustainable financial future for the Higher Education sector. Share your views: committees.parliament.uk/work/9012/hi...

I’m delighted to say that @edpsy.bsky.social has just published my article about @bpsofficial.bsky.social @bps-dartp.bsky.social @theatp.bsky.social on its blog! 🎉 @edpsydan.bsky.social for giving me the opportunity to do this! edpsy.org.uk/blog/2025/th...

What happens to science under autocracy? The rise of the National Socialist Party in 1930s Germany provides an (admittedly extreme) example. Prior to the early 1930s, scientists at German institutions won a third of Nobels. 10 years later, that number was 5%, and has never recovered.

Today we're thrilled to publish our latest piece: @abbykirby.bsky.social on her work teaching fic writing to middle schoolers! "It invites students not just to analyze the role of a text, but to partake in its deconstruction and recreation on their own terms." Read or listen to an audio version:

The Bell Ringer is launching a book club, and I'd love for you to join us! The first book, Developing Curriculum for Deep Thinking, comes from experts like Dylan Wiliam and Paul Kirschner and is free to download. We start June 2! Get info here: hollykorbey.substack.com/p/join-the-b...

Essentially *all* research and expert assessments show that this does not work. It will not counter Farage, but literally push votes towards Reform. It genuinely is impossible to overstate how profoundly stupid and strategically illiterate this decision is. You cannot out-Reform Reform.

Scam-busting investigative journalist @nickstapleton.tv exposes the AI-generated books being sold on Amazon. Taken from the upcoming summer edition of The SoA's magazine, The Author. #MakeItFair #DoTheWriteThing societyofauthors.org/2025/05/02/t...

Huge shout out to @jwfirth.bsky.social. I just interviewed him about some of the key ideas in his book. I can’t recommend subscribing to his newsletter enough!

Is Metacognition Too Complex for Teachers? This question is posed by @jwfirth.bsky.social who then presents 5 simple statements to help all of us, not just teachers, better understand the concept. #EduSky If I were him, I'd add one bullet about metacognitive skills. open.substack.com/pub/firth/p/...

Thank you Sir @chrisbryant1962.bsky.social for acknowledging in today’s Parliamentary Debate on AI that #Metatheft of authors' copyright-protected works was ‘patently wrong’. #MetaBookThieves

This is a chance to support Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social in their bid to survive. Why not buy just one book - there's loads in their online shop at affordable prices.

4 reasons why wait times could be cut short in the classroom are: 📈 The Action Bias 🦸‍♂️ The Superman Complex 🧠 The Curse of Expertise 🤔 Misconceptions about what learning looks like To learn what these are and how they would affect you, click here 🡇 www.innerdrive.co.uk/blog/why-tea...

I am reading the new book by the Facebook / Meta whistleblower - Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams. Interesting bit where she says that the big tech bosses all push their products on other people's kids but refuse to let their own kids use them.

Interested in learning more about attention contagion & how it impacts learning? 1. My book goes into great detail about this phenomenon. tinyurl.com/27myuev6 2. Check out the full 'improving attention' course through @innerdrive.bsky.social's Teacher CPD Academy. t.co/4wRZTZvTaN #eduksky

You can make a change 📢 Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training by signing this open letter ✒️ authr.uk/sp40 #MakeitFair #MetaBookThieves #DoTheWriteThing

Happy publication day @clairebadger.bsky.social and @jwfirth.bsky.social! 🎉 This exciting new book in our Teacher CPD Academy series shows how creativity is infused throughout learning, and relevant to every subject and student. www.routledge.com/9781032733180

What a brilliant combo, can't wait to get stuck into our copies here in the office! 💡

I really wanted to increase how much I read, so I set myself the challenge of reading 100 books this year. I wonder if I can get half way before the spring holiday...?

Cuppa in my @innerdrive.bsky.social mug to celebrate this new book I wrote with @clairebadger.bsky.social – out now!! – and contributing to this fab series of cogsci-edu titles... 📚🧠

I enjoyed @jwfirth.bsky.social's latest blog. It's such a common assertion (especially from people who don't work in schools) that it's important to see it pushed back against firth.substack.com/p/no-schools...

Very cute – names for pie chart in other languages blog.duolingo.com/names-for-pi...

Not long to go now ⏳ @clairebadger.bsky.social and @jwfirth.bsky.social Creativity 🤝 Cognitive Science amzn.eu/d/9wqfzS9

Happy #MarioDay 🎮 Here's my latest mem/metacog piece: firth.substack.com/p/what-can-c...

Was recently discussing academic blogging (edu) with @strath-ioe.bsky.social colleagues. BERA blog is a great option.

It’s March…which means our next book in our series is released this month!! Creativity For Teachers by @clairebadger.bsky.social and @jwfirth.bsky.social is incredibly unique. You won’t read another book on the topic like this one. Available for pre-order now ⤵️ amzn.eu/d/1taYdFt

Slow to finish this one... but I've been reading a lot of other great books in Feb!! This one was a lot of fun. I was new to murder mysteries in short stories. Looking forward to the next read in March #readchristie2025

Hey all! I've now done over 100 editions of my Memory & Metacognition Updates. This was post 99 – a deep dive into desirable difficulties: firth.substack.com/p/welcome-ba... #learning #memory #metacognition #EduSky

What do these amazing people have in common? 👇🏼 @barryblackne.bsky.social @jillberry102.bsky.social @jwfirth.bsky.social @hugheshaili.bsky.social @drchendrick.bsky.social @henryhepburn.bsky.social & @marymyatt.bsky.social Click amzn.eu/d/iFleNtk and read the editorial reviews to find out 😉

“This book is not merely an exploration of theory; it is a masterfully crafted guide that bridges the gap between scientific insights and their practical application in the classroom." Lovely words from @drchendrick.bsky.social about my book. Find out more: theeffortfuleducator.com/do-i-have-yo...

🚨 New FREE flash webinar 🚨 Join me and @Doug_Lemov where we talk about what makes great professional development. 📍January 20th 📍1600-1630 (UK time) 📍🆓 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-webin...

Yesterday I published a personal taxonomy--emphasis on personal--of the AI Skepticism movement (linked below). But in a fitting bit of irony, I wanted to use AI to address one semi-tedious part. Guess how it went! Short thread... buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/who-and-wh...

Today, my website reached 1,000,000 views. Thank you so much to everyone who has read an article and/or shared with others. theeffortfuleducator.com/2024/12/06/1...

I got to read an advance copy of this book. Even better, I got to talk to the book's author - the very charming and brilliant @drcastelino.bsky.social. Her book gets released Friday and so does my podcast episode with her. You will love it!

Just finished this fantastic book by @jwfirth.bsky.social Plenty of strategies and good ideas, great for teachers but also for school leaders.

My Substack The Bell Ringer is all about the science of learning—both actual research and the movement that's making its way across the US. Here's one popular post on how most US teachers don't know some of the most basic learning science, how memory works. hollykorbey.substack.com/p/working-me...

New on my blog this coming Monday – Interleaving Demystified. Post 96! Sign up free at firth.substack.com 😎🧠

The new BPS accreditation standards have just dropped and they're making me very happy: "Students are taught about and understand the principles of Open Science and are aware of issues around replicability and reproducibility in empirical research." cms.bps.org.uk/sites/defaul...