We could listen to you for another hour! Thanks so much to The Very Reverend Sally Foster-Fulton #ForGood25 #SocialJustice #JPIT

I am super excited to be going to the For Goodness Sake @publicissues.bsky.social conference in Derby tomorrow.

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

Yes! That's my mayor! So lucky to be working with a mayor with such heart and professional experience. Andy Bailey piece at @labourlist.bsky.social labourlist.org/2025/09/refu...

Email from CND pointed out that the announcement of intention to buy nuclear-bomb-capable jets was not discussed in parliament and, if implemented, breaks the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

I am trying to find the right characterisation of the evil motif at play - whereby Cruz talks of "blessing" in the context of bombing people, just as Trump goes on about "peace" then threatens the unspeakable. Even Carlson can sort of see it.

It's John Finnemore's Farenheit vs Celsius day - a highlight of the teaching calendar. Y12s are embarking on thermal physics, beyond AS level, and are ready to be initiated to the finer things. Thank you @johnfinnemore.bsky.social

Sample size 38 adult volunteers. Author man. Stand down everyone. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The school I went to is wisely letting the pupils out well ahead of any Oasis soundcheck and fans. I remember the Euro 96 campsite at the park during my GCSEs, and camping there myself for Message 2000 Soul Survivor. #Blur www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social will you find a way to ensure students can complete their GCSEs and A levels at their schools when asked to leave asylum hotels, please? We have seen too many moved on, wrenched from their new communities, mid-studies.

This one pulls no punches. Clanging bell of a symbolic capitalist (more of us than we care to admit - they order from Amazon, demand bike lanes and light rapid transit and nice parks....), or motivated by love? churchanew.org/brueggemann/...

Walter Brueggemann wrote a weekly column on the Church Anew site from 2020 till May this year - a good source of his latest thinking. He died at 92 this week. A temporospatial life well-lived. churchanew.org/brueggemann

It's not hard maths. We check this regularly on the Town Council against the Real Living Wage but to fall off the government's min. wage takes serious neglect. schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-risk...

#AcademicSky Mike Caulfield always worth a read

Unpopular opinion? - victory parades and OTT celebrations about winning at football are a blight on society. They make children over-react loudly to anything and everything in the classroom. BBC - Two dead and hundreds arrested in France after PSG Champions League win www.bbc.com/news/article...

#SharedFacts about #PM25 particle pollution from brakes, tires, exhaust #RegenerativeBraking reduces wear by 80% www.linkedin.com/posts/simon-...

This looks great! cumbriacrack.com/2025/05/14/l...

LMH didn't teach them to take their time, plan the layout of a letter and to use nice pen and paper and their best handwriting. BBC News - Books returned to Oxford University library 20 years late - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Well said. "Why experience is a cost, not a value". Someone said to me this week, on meeting me and commenting to me I was a good communicator, and then finding out I was a teacher, "you must be worth your weight in gold". Nice thought. www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

5 famous people you have met but one is a lie 1. Shirley Williams 2. Angela Rayner 3. Jon Bon Jovi 4. Ralph McTell 5. Bruce Springsteen

What a fuss, as though words shouldn't be used. I find the data interesting but the imperative to do something about it unnecessary - children cope. Primary vocab could broaden. And we all know that *reading lots of well-written books* is the absolute key throughout primary and secondary.

"Nothing to see here"? at the facetious end of the spectrum... or maybe "Bog standard", "Muddling along"... or "no red flags". Generous end - "Good enough".

'David Lammy, says Gaza has become the world’s most dangerous place for humanitarian workers and calls for those responsible for the killings to be held accountable.' www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Heartbreaking how even in this article, the Secretary General of The Red Cross and Red Crescent sticks to impartiality principles and doesn't state the bleeding obvious of who's to blame for shooting aid workers. He merely asks that it never happens again. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

On Friday's TGT discuss 'good trouble' and standing up for 25 hours without peeing. It's Cory Booker's record breaking Senate speech. An incredible physical feat. bit.ly/TutorGroupThink

Trump doesn't get to end globalisation unilaterally. Take the high road, everyone. And by everyone, I mean world leaders and emotionally-volatile stock market nonsense.

One way to minimise the Trump effect: please stop using the word "deal" where a tacky sale ✴️label is not appropriate. Agreement? Treaty? Negotiated settlement? Law? Contract? Resolution? Accord?

Rowing at that level whilst completing a PGCE is superhuman and should earn a doctorate in time management, not disqualification. But they'd better teach in state schools after, as they instill at Oxford's Dept of Education 🫵. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/m...

There are so many ways to cultivate belonging! I've created this page that supports learning settings, work with children and young people, community projects, through the lens of belonging through art, poetry and music. lisacherry.co.uk/ways-of-belo...

A pharmacist told me two days age that no contingency was made by our governments to ensure medicines were available post-Brexit, and here we are. Third World. Seriously f everyone who campaigned or voted for this shitshow.

How can this be stopped? Who is organising in the USA and globally to stop this? The spectacle alone is sickening but the flimsy reasons turn cruelty to evil.

Electronic engineers - why would my cheapo Salters kitchen scales be reading double the mass?

I have just finished Harrow by Joy Williams (it's on the Oxfordshire library app if you want it) and, whilst I have caught the sentiment, I have no clue what was going on. Anyone?

@teachertapp.bsky.social Hello. Does your share function from question results generally work on Bluesky? I have never had any success. Bluesky opens within TeacherTapp and doesn't prepare a post.

We were in Frankfurt yesterday, on our way home, hoping and praying the election would go better than feared.

WEST tokamak ran for 22 mins! www.cea.fr/english/Page...

Keep speaking up and speaking out. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

The kayaker in a whale story is great! Here is a verse from Martyn Joseph's terrific song, In Your Arms (2021): "In the mouth of the whale Dark and alone But he’ll spit me out now soon, won’t be long I’m coming home" youtu.be/EyNQ_Ebt99Q?...

"Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office." www.ap.org/the-definiti...

It's sad that so many media outlets have fallen for all the distractions, from Greenland to Gaza to tariffs that keep getting delayed, when the real goal is Musk's dismantling of the government The Philadelphia Inquirer gets it. Our latest editorial: www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...

This happy, clean slate, "BlueSky" is full of America's woes these days.

What it does risk doing is: a) Alienate Labour and progressive voters who see them as bad. b) Alienate Labour and progressive voters who recognise that immigration is not actually as much of an issue as Reform makes out. c) Reinforce Reform's narrative, and provide them with free advertising. 10/

As with, what looks like quite a lot of, Labour's policies at the moment, increased immigration raids, increased deportations, sharing video clips of migrants being put in detention, making the puberty blocker ban permanent, playing to the "benefits scroungers" line etc, this emboldens Reform. 11/

'...use of tear gas against people on the beaches, and slashing of dinghies as they enter the water, forces people into the water before the dinghy is fully inflated. Together, these policing efforts have resulted in more people drowning in the French shallows.' blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

The cold fusion debate in the Guardian letters section has entertained me this month, like a blast from my History and Philosophy of Science course at uni. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Everyone concerned about data loss right now should learn about the End of Term Web Archive, which I believe has been working on preserving federal websites for the past 8 months. The dataset you fear has been lost may well be here Just an incredible project. Thank you to everyone involved

There's still nothing on my BBC news app about Musk commandeering government data hours ago. Or in the Guardian. They must be having difficulty verifying.

It’s pretty insane that a private citizen can come in, hijack federal government servers, fire people, and steal their PII.

Jesus never called his followers to defend Christianity, a “Christian nation,” or even their Christian churches. Jesus called them to defend the poor, the oppressed, and the hurting. Stop manipulating Jesus for the benefit of a few. Get to feeding, healing, and peacemaking.

I was on Sky News this morning discussing a major courtroom victory for environmental campaigners after a judge ruled the development of the Rosebank oilfield was illegal. Clip below ⬇️ Online story here: news.sky.com/story/amp/plan…