Taking place next week, looks great! 👇

📢 NEW A free webinar - Publishing with @seda-ed-dev.bsky.social - From Blog to Book 9th June 11am 90 mins. 50 sign ups already! Register events.humanitix.com/publishing-w... #EdDev #EdTech #SoTL #HigherEducation share with your networks 🙏

Scholarship applications for #OER26 opened on 24 April, offering support for individuals who may face financial barriers to attending. If you, or someone you know, could benefit, we encourage early applications before the 22 May deadline - Apply here: buff.ly/f1GCqEt #altc #OER

We are looking for new RLT Editors to volunteer their time to review manuscripts and support authors to publication. Join us in supporting high‑quality, open research and contributing to a vibrant, international community of practice. #altc members should apply by 20 May More info: buff.ly/wfs84Xh

Join the #OpenEd community in Milton Keynes - 22–23 June. This year’s theme: Openness Reimagined - exploring continuity, change, and shared vision in a rapidly evolving landscape. Featuring keynotes from Prof. Eileen Scanlon & Prof. Dr. Olaf Zawacki‑Richter. buff.ly/FSrhUl5 #altc #OER26

Registration for all of the Festival programme is still open, so have a browse and see if any other sessions catch your eye: buff.ly/2NdvKIo

BOOK: From Clive Young, Nataša Perović, Leo Havemann and Karen Shackleford-Cesare: 'ABC Learning Design: Active, blended, connected and beyond' introduces ABC to a new audience, adding insights from institutions that have localised and implemented the method in diverse contexts.

One week until this #LDNOpenFest session💡 Open Education Resources Today 🗓️ Wednesday 22 April 🕑 3 - 4:30pm 📍 Online An expert panel will showcase approaches to supporting, producing and providing open education resources. Register: buff.ly/0opPhSL

We're so delighted to have published this book open access with the incredible team at @uclpress.bsky.social

Congratulations to @clive-young.bsky.social @natasaperovic.bsky.social @leohavemann.bsky.social, Karen Shackleford-Cesare and all of the contributors to ABC Learning Design: Active, blended, connected and beyond which has published today! Grab your #OpenAccess copy: uclpress.co.uk/book/abc-lea...

ABC Learning design book is out! We hope you find it useful. Happy downloading! @uclpress.bsky.social @leohavemann.bsky.social @clive-young.bsky.social @timneumann.bsky.social @eileenkennedy01.bsky.social @jostroud.bsky.social @jus-saying.bsky.social @jourde.bsky.social

LTHEchat 360: Through the Prism: Illuminating Educational Impact with Brookfield’s Four Lenses lthechat.com/2026/04/12/l...

Hang it in the Louvre.

Proposals for #OER26 - hey due on Monday don't delay hope to see you in MK

I made a timelapse last night and caught some of the Perseids

The #OER26 call for proposals is now open. Submissions may address themes such as social transformation, justice and equity, pedagogical innovation, care in open practice, future-oriented perspectives, and creative or experimental approaches. buff.ly/i5jOf70 #altc #OER

“But it’s not on the news” is a bleat across social media and commentary. The billionaire classes have bought ‘the news’. It’s propaganda. It’s on my news. Rather like the need for middle powers to regroup so too with news sources. Try other sources. Be surprised by those who are reporting ‘it’.

Join us for #ALTC25 Revisited, an online event bringing back the key themes, thought-provoking sessions, and vibrant discussions that made ALTC25 unforgettable, and inviting presenters and participants to take the conversation further. Register now: buff.ly/oLDkY0E

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Save the Date for the London Open Science and Scholarship Festival 2026! blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/...

I really hope people on this app who get it are talking to people offline who do not still see this huge issue spiralling yet

TRUMP: honk honk honk, I'm a big goose. everyone tells me whenever I enter a room, that's the biggest goose I've ever seen and I say yes. I'm a big goose. in a good way. a lot of Somalians are small stupid gooses but I'm a big goose BBC NEWS: a disciplined Trump sticks to the script on the economy

spot how many of these risks are due to/powered by the tech industry source: www.weforum.org/publications...

#Canadian #Shade

Kudos to @insidehighered.com for giving @bakerdphd.bsky.social a column. I couldn’t be more excited for what’s she’s choosing to do with it. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

There it is. Farage and Reform would end our NHS. Millions of people could not afford to be ill under a Reform government.

Illuminating piece on the ‘discoverability gap’: “Women make up only 20% of the biographies found on Wikipedia English.” womenshistory.si.edu/blog/where-a...

Birkbeck is hiring a Lecturer in Medieval Studies (c.1300-1500), full-time and open-ended. They will be formally based in English but expected to be able to contribute about 0.5FTE to History, including teaching and supervision. Closing date Feb 23rd: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

I BEG every smug commentator who praised Mahmood for doing the “tough but necessary thing” to read this. All the disadvantages of plummeting immigration for the economy & public services, for NO POLITICAL GAIN. Labour in DESPERATE need of a 180 change of course on immigration

Incidentally, we already have access to a fusion reactor. It's about 93 million miles away and the power can be harvested by anyone on the planet. Doesn't even need maintenance. You can tap in for a ridiculously low cost; no utility company required. Solar power is really fusion power.

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

Lunchtime re-share hopeful.technology 💕

How well do we really understand the human mind? This question is at the heart of UCL Beautiful Minds - a brand new eight-part season of podcasts and documentaries that dives deep into the complexities of human cognition and neurodiversity. 🎧 Listen here: uclpress.co.uk/introducing-...

Please join me in welcoming to the public domain such works as the 1930 Best Picture All Quiet on the Western Front, Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, several Nancy Drew books, some songs you've heard of (Dream a Little Dream of Me; Georgia on My Mind), and more: blog.archive.org/2026/01/01/w...

THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context

Mark Blokpoel & I have maintain a living open interactive textbook “Theoretical Modeling for Cognitive Science and Psychology.” Recently, Mark updated Ch 9 & 10 so they have embedded, running and editable, code again. Check it out! ✨ computationalcognitivescience.github.io/lovelace/

The death of Dr Paul Ayris is huge loss to UCL, to @uclpress.bsky.social and to the open access/scholarly communications community more broadly. His open access Thomas Cranmer’s Register A record of archiepiscopal administration in diocese and province is published by the Press in January. 1/2

Meanwhile in Infectious Diseases Clinic…

LearnHigher is the UK's library of learning development resources for higher education. All LearnHigher resources are free of charge, peer-reviewed for accessibility, peer evaluated, research-informed, and shared under Creative Commons Licenses./aldinhe.ac.uk/learnhigher #LoveLD

As someone who has recently used Qualtrics panels of, I hope, humans, I have THOUGHTS

Seasons greetings! Meet our youngest learning designer: a 3-year-old daughter of a UCL lecturer, who created the ABC mini Christmas tree for dolls. We thought she may be overassessing a little, but she embedded the institutional strategy well! @abc-ld.bsky.social @leohavemann.bsky.social

Bit late to the party, but last month it was announced that the Open Access Button browser extension has shut down. Fear not - Unpaywall and others are still available. Read more about that via the link. blog.oa.works/sunsetting-t...

Wonderful to be at the final AI practice exchange at Deakin led by Sue Sharpe. One thing we can do differently from AI is to acknowledge where ideas came from. Reminds me of what @saraheaton.bsky.social talks about with attribution postplagiarism.com/2025/09/05/p...

So happy to finally see this paper out in the world! I thoroughly enjoyed the conversations with many enthusiastic CTL Directors in the US and I hope our model can help untangle the complex position CTLs are in, especially in this stormy HE landscape. 💡 link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

Please know, there are people on the "AI Leadership Group," including me, whose research relates to harms of generative AI, AI literacy in the sense of negative impacts & critical media studies. We spend tremendous amounts of time pushing back and advocating for faculty & students who are concerned.

2 in 3 of Nigel Farage’s current and former partners do not speak English as their first language.

To celebrate the full release of CORE’s The Economy 2.0: Macroeconomics, Professor Stephen Wright (University of London) guides you through the key themes of Units 6, 7, and 9. Thank you, Stephen! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGsq...

What do UK graduates do? Lots of information in this annual report. A reminder that Humanities graduates are quite employable. Compare unemployment rates for Biology (8.4%), Chemistry (5.9%) and Physics (8.0%) with English literature (6.4%), History (7.6%) and Languages (7.6%) for example.

we have to go back. to warn them.

And still, there are those who say that Americans can’t do irony.