A tweet saved my trip! Can you travel to the EU when passport is 9 years and 11 months old from issue date, with another 10 months validity? Answer is (confusingly), no.

Anyways always listen to Iraqis. Our fears are legitimate. Our concerns are valid. We are not overreacting. We are not being hysterical or dramatic. Our voices are essential in telling our story.

Q2 - How do you use storytelling as a pedagogic tool in your subject specialist area of teaching or educational practice? Reply with A2 #LTHEChat and your response.

Sheff indie band the #klementines 1st single out today #music #pop #sheffield #proudmommoment open.spotify.com/album/2Dael8...

#LoveLD - love #LTHEchat: Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 15th March at 8pm BST with guest Danielle Hinton (@hintondm.bsky.social to discuss Brookfield’s Four Lenses: lthechat.com/2026/04/12/l...

AI products are reaching further into our lives. Does it matter who controls the companies behind them? | Van Badham

Join us tonight at 8pm BST where we'll be exploring 'Academic wellbeing, emotional energy and caring leadership: why care is a superpower in challenging times' with @deebaparmar.bsky.social Read the blog for more info: lthechat.com/2026/03/23/l...

Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 25th March at 8pm GMT with guest Deeba Parmar (@deebaparmar.bsky.social) to discuss Academic Wellbeing, Emotional Energy and Caring Leadership!

Join us this Wednesday 18th March at 8 pm GMT where we’ll be exploring the Use of Humour in Higher Education with @hankumna.bsky.social

Join us for this week’s #LTHEchat which will explore 'Academics’ Use of Humour Styles in Higher Education Teaching’ with @hankumna.bsky.social on Wednesday 8-9pm BST. Read the blog post at:

Undeniably I seem to get a lot less cranky with woman voice Siri than man voice…🤔

Q2 What does a valid and secure assessment look like in your area of interest right now? Reply with A2 #LTHEChat and your response

Q1 How does GenAI prompt us to re-examine what “valued forms of knowledge” look like in areas you teach or support students in? Reply with A1 #LTHEChat and your response

One hour to go to get ready :) Read the blogpost lthechat.com/2026/03/06/l... and follow the hashtag #LTHEchat - it's that easy.

Tribute and Marxist materialist positioning of the recently murdered Iraqi feminist Yanar - RIP. By @mehiyar.bsky.social www.counterfire.org/article/the-...

Join us for next week’s #LTHEchat which will explore “Talking About GenAI in Higher Education As If Education Came First” with @rmforsyth.bsky.social on Wednesday 1tth March 8-9pm BST. Read the blog post at: lthechat.com/2026/03/06/l...

Yanar Mohammed [RIP] and Iraq’s Struggle for Gender Equality and Accountability. by Taif Alkhudary, Hayder Al-Shakeri blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2026/03/...

Don’t forget to join us tomorrow, Wednesday 8-9pm BST, for #LTHEchat, which will explore "Algorithmic Bias of Social Media: Should Educators Teach Students How Social Media Bias Shapes Knowledge?" with @oliviakellyou.bsky.social Read the blog post at: lthechat.com/2026/02/27/l...

There really is a new geopolitics of higher education with respect to AI. It maps pretty neatly onto which countries prioritise STEM vs. Social Science/Humanities. Watch South Korea. It's the country that appears to be sitting right on top of the fault line.

As the analysis starts of the Gorton and Denton result, I wanted to flag some aspects that my experience yesterday suggests are being over or under-played (Caveats - I went to Longsight, Gorton and Denton town centres and spoke to as many people as I could, but it was mostly during the working day)

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

We hosted a second "Avoiding AI" panel earlier this month. It featured three faculty sharing their strategies for keeping AI (mostly) out of their courses. Here's my recap of the event: cte.virginia.edu/news/more-st...

2 days to go before #LTHEchat this week! This week we will feature @2standandstare.bsky.social exploring: ‘Shifting sands and professional identities in Higher Education’. Check out the blog for more details: lthechat.com/2026/02/20/l...

‘"Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom." ~ Albert Einstein

I was mildly incensed at the latest use of 'Mickey Mouse degree' as a derogatory term for any course that's not directly industry-tied and/or actually helps develop critical thinking skills, to the point where I wanted to write something about it. drsamuelsaunders.wordpress.com/2026/02/18/w...

Interesting question!

Q5. How can we create mattering moments in online spaces? Reply with A5 #LTHEChat and your response

Q2. How do our everyday interactions signal to students that they are noticed, valued, and taken seriously, that they matter? Reply with A2 #LTHEChat and your response

Q1. If a sense of belonging is framed as something students need to have to be a successful student, what might change if we instead focused on what we do as student-facing staff to foster belonging? Reply with A1 #LTHEChat and your response

The barrister Setu Kamal sued @danneidle.bsky.social for £8m for defamation. Representing himself in court, Kamal cited three cases that made Neidle’s case “untenable”. But, in a bizarre twist, it turned out that these cases were hallucinated by ChatGPT: https://goodlaw.social/n1cv

Climate change keeps showing up in our teaching, often in messy, uncertain ways. This week’s #LTHEChat is a space to think together about authenticity, care, and collective professional learning. Hope you’ll join us on Wednesday evening 8-9PM GMT #LTHEChat

2 days to go before the #LTHEchat this week! This week we will feature @alinacongreve.bsky.social exploring “How real is too real? Authentic learning and climate change across the curriculum." Check out the blog for more details:

A6 Be in the physical and virtual spaces where staff and students are. It's a people thing Education. Their success is your success. You can't run a University from a spare room or ivory tower, especially not in a crisis or restructure. If more VCs did this, the sector would be better. #LTHEChat

A6 #LTHEchat Spend time in the “in‑between” spaces. Culture shows up most clearly where no one is performing. • Sit in atrium, café, or library & watch how people interact • do students mix across groups or stick to silos • listen to the tone of conversations • how do staff & students share space

Q6. What would help us to 'feel' a university culture? Reply with A6 #LTHEChat and your response

Q5. If 'flourishing lives in the operational details,' what one thing would streamline HE workloads? Reply with A5 #LTHEChat and your response

Q4. The TV series 'Undercover Boss' features CEOs in disguise investigating how their organisation really works. What might an undercover senior leader find in an HEI? Reply with A4 #LTHEChat and your response

Q3. What enables staff to feel as though their development, wellbeing and contributions are valued? Reply with A3 #LTHEChat and your response

Q2. Should creating conditions for people to flourish be the utmost priority in the HE sector at a time of competing pressures? Reply with A2 #LTHEChat and your response

Q1. Leaders should create the conditions in which academics may flourish. What does flourishing in the workplace look like / mean to you? Reply with A1 #LTHEChat and your response

This week’s #LTHEchat will be starting in 10 minutes. We will be discussing “Leadership and Academic Flourishing' with @profdamienpage.bsky.social . Still time to read through the blogpost lthechat.com/2026/01/26/l...

One hour to go to get ready :) Read the blogpost lthechat.com/2026/01/26/l... and follow the hashtag #LTHEchat - it's that easy.

Join us tonight at 8 pm BST where we’ll be exploring Leadership and Academic Flourishing with @profdamienpage.bsky.social Read the blog for more: lthechat.com/2026/01/26/l...

Come along tonight: talking about Higher Education’s favourite theme - Leadership and Flourishing 🌼

Join us tonight 8-9pm BST for the #LTHEchat. VC @profdamienpage.bsky.social hosts this week’s topic, Leadership and Academic Flourishing. Blog post 👇🏼, see you at 8! @lthechat.bsky.social

Don't forget to join us tomorrow, Wednesday 8-9pm BST, for #LTHEchat which will explore Leadership and Academic Flourishing with @profdamienpage.bsky.social Read the blog post at: lthechat.com/2026/01/26/l...

#LTHEchat A6 I'd like to restart the conversation about Appropriate Tech - choosing the tech for the pedagogic purpose rather than forced to use hitech cos the uni has paid such a lot for it - and frankly prefers it to human staff. Can we have the sugarpaper & felt tips, the scissors & glue, too?

Q6: Looking ahead: what is one small but meaningful change you could make in the next semester that keeps learning human in a GenAI-rich world? Reply with A6 #LTHEChat and your response

Q5. GenAI does not “live” the same way in every discipline. Where do you see productive disciplinary differences emerging, and where are blanket policies getting in the way? Reply with A5 #LTHEChat and your response