I've written for The Social Change Blog on 'Developing higher education for driving social change'. It's a short piece inspired by finding a small newspaper cutting at my grandmother's house a few years ago - a front page story about my mum graduating university. blogs.york.ac.uk/social-chang...

Carney and Macron's comments at Davos make clear that leaders are recognising what others have long suspected - that the international order's previously dominant myths have been shattered in recent years. The question is now - what will replace them? www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Unlike any sensible person, who keeps up with their blogging duties regularly and in a calm tone of voice, I have saved everything up for a long, generally exuberant, in places slightly moany post right at the end of the year. activelearningps.com/2025/07/14/w... @alpsblog.bsky.social

We're told it's #CowAppreciationDay and there's only one cow in our hearts. [That scaping sound you hear is the bottom of the barrel marked 'social media content']

Great to be a discussant today for a super panel on 'Renewable Energy Transition and Industrial Policy in a Fragmented World: Justice, Strategy and Structural Constraints'. Some briliant environmental political economy work by three PhD students.

Attended my first @issotl.bsky.social session today - to discuss 'Engaging with scholarship on teaching focused roles - what’s changed in the past decade?'. Met some fantastic teaching-track colleagues and it was great to discuss the progress and change we've seen in these roles.

Great to be here at the Social Sciences SoTL workshop today! Excited to chat about disseminating teaching and learning work.

New @alpsblog.bsky.social post from me: 'Reference lists: The good, the bad, and the ugly' I'm proposing an exercise for how we might teach students what sources are worth sourcing... activelearningps.com/2025/06/20/r...

Looking forward to this presenting my research of Global Education and Social Media next week for @ioe-derc.bsky.social free webinar. @ioe.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results. t.co/JXeTALBPds

Latest news in an unfolding self-inflicted disaster, not just for UK universities but for the UK itself. One of our genuinely world-class sectors is being trashed, with all that means for UK economy, soft power, scientific & cultural life. 'World-class' isn't, for once, blimpish hyperbole ... 1/2

Today's complaint about the AI in education discourse: Too much of it is framed around a future that is going to happen to us, as opposed to seeing the future as something we may have some agency to shape. I reject the deterministic view of AI, particularly genAI. It's a tool, not our master.

We are at @mybisa.bsky.social hosting a panel on Pedagogical Scholarship! Join us tomorrow at 4:45 in Amsterdam Room, Europa Hotel #BISA2025 @louisepears.bsky.social @annaplunkett.bsky.social @mlebourdon.bsky.social

To quote (probably) @adamkoszary.bsky.social a long time ago, for a different social media account, on a different platform: It's a beautiful day. Why not spend it indoors, in our library, in the dark.* *In all fairness it's not actually dark in our library, there's natural light for days

New Post: Redefining Academic Success: Why Career Progression Must Look Beyond Research www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/06/10/r...

Working from King’s Manor today - first time I’ve seen it since the books have been taken out of the library. Feels very bare!

Do changes in wealth shape voting preferences? We tried to answer this question using an 11-year panel study in 🇬🇧. We find no evidence that an increase in assets boosts support for the Conservatives

Great time at the EDI Research Centre’s End-of-Year showcase today. We were there presenting our research on increasingly student engagement with assessment feedback. Some really good discussions about how to take the work forward and influence practice.

Myself and @jeremymoulton.bsky.social shared some SoTL abstracts, exploring how everyone in attendance understands "good" SoTL work

Back in York after a great time in London for the launch of the @aspirenetwork.bsky.social. Feeling massively motivated now - and really looking forward to the work that will follow with the network in the coming weeks, months and years.

KCL's Department of Political Economy is advertising two permanent Academic Education Pathway (AEP) lectureships (grade 6/7) in politics - one in Research Methods, and one in Comparative Politics. Hopefully, more AEP posts will follow in the next two years. Links & further details are below. 1/5

I was very impressed by the community of teaching-track scholars at today's @aspirenetwork.bsky.social conference at KCL. Inspiring keynote by @teachpolitics.bsky.social (pictured). (I arrived too late to hear the amazing @profcathyelliott.bsky.social talk about the joy of the teaching track.)

#aspirelaunch such a great group of people brought together to talk all things teaching track and the future of the network.

What a day! Thank you everyone who joined us for the launch of @aspirenetwork.bsky.social, big thank you to our key notes @profcathyelliott.bsky.social @teachpolitics.bsky.social and congrats to my fellow board members 🎉

The joy of the teaching track with the ever joyful @profcathyelliott.bsky.social #aspirelaunch

Explaining the what, why and wherefore of the #aspirelaunch

Things are about to get going! Fantastic to see so many colleagues here #aspirelaunch

We are here! Excited to get going #ASPIRElaunch

Looking forward to being part of this event and talking about the joy of education-focused work in HE today! A big theme of what I'm going to say is that the teaching track needs leadership and the founders of @aspirenetwork.bsky.social have really stepped up to this challenge! #polisky #lthe

Our launch event is in London today and we are buzzing. Two top notch speakers @profcathyelliott.bsky.social and @teachpolitics.bsky.social lots of networking and chances to talk scholarship. Also going to use #aspirelaunch for the event. Let us know if you're joining us.

On the train down to London for the @aspirenetwork.bsky.social launch today! Massively looking forward to the day ahead.

For those who want to design assignments that AI struggles with, some ideas I learned from Ashley Evan's of Valencia College.

New @alpsblog.bsky.social post from @amandamrosen.bsky.social: '5 Strategies for AI-Resistant Assignments'. activelearningps.com/2025/06/06/5...

Really interesting day at UCL. Lots of conversations about student inclusion, employability, ethics, AI, teaching controversial topics and much more. Leaving with lots of think about!

Yes, I love my dress with pockets. Also, looking forward to the conference. A great list of talks today, with a great group of people!

Great to be here today! Exciting programme ahead.

One thing all philosophers agree on is that the human body is basically a car and the brain is a little guy driving it around

Looking forward to this! If you're interesting in all thing #SoTL or teaching and learning in Politics & IR, this will be great! @polisatleeds.bsky.social

We have just sent out a reminder to everyone who has signed-up to our launch event on Monday! We are massively looking forward to welcoming beginning the work of the ASPIRE network together. If you haven't gotten an email - there is still time to register: www.aspirenetwork.uk/event-detail...

I have finished my first marking so am returning to scrolling after a self-imposed period in Bluesky exile. It's good timing as I have fun things to post about over the next few days - CPP-TPTN workshop tomorrow at @uclcpp.bsky.social & the launch of @aspirenetwork.bsky.social on Monday at King's!

EU close to reaching climate goals despite green backlash -It is broadly within target to reduce its CO2 emissions by 55% by 2030 compared with 1990 levels, even as it faces growing calls to weaken its environmental agenda on.ft.com/4mr3Ro9 via @FT #renewables #ClimateEmergency #ActOnClimate

Very very excited about this, as usual!

Great review of a great book - I found this such a compelling set of stories.

UPDATE: my open letter against Starmer's anti-immigrant policies has now passed 200 UK politics academics signing

Just one university - UCL - employs almost twice as many people as there are working in fishing boats.

#Creativity demands exploration and #uncertainty, but students today have been conditioned to expect fixed outcomes and instant answers. David Thompson explores how that mindset hampers #curiosity and what educators can do to restore it: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/creat... #edusky

I recently co-authored & circulated (with @polphilpod.bsky.social ) an open letter against Starmer’s anti-immigrant rules & rhetoric. Over 100 of my UK-based colleagues signed it. Read the whole thing here: www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer

re-sharing this, since we're doing "the function of universities is to drive up graduate incomes" again www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"A hard rain is going to fall..." Thanks guys - appreciate the support. Any other successful sectors you are planning on pointlessly demeaning?