Yes, this. Same principle as laying a brick each day. You start with just a brick, but sometime later, you have a wall.

I'm just going to mention again that I made this long-form detective story podcast and you can listen to it in various places. The response has been really gratifying so far. Second episode on Sunday. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

These lectures will be brilliant & you can watch the live recordings at @warwickuni.bsky.social, hosted by the always brilliant @philjemmett.bsky.social 🤩 Dame Maggie is an absolute icon, so these’ll be great events 👏🏼 Registration link in the post below 👇🏼

Schools local to Warwick Arts Centre! 📣 Fancy joining us for the joyful chaos that is the #SchoolTasking Champion of Champions on Wed 17 June 2026 at 1pm? 🏆 Booking is now open here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/DFq0yskz1L Tickets are free but schools will have to arrange their own transport 🎟️

Witch, hare and herbs linoprint by my mum, Jo, from my book Help The Witch (now republished by @swiftpress.bsky.social after a period out of print due to the Unbound disaster).

Spring, summer and autumn are the party seasons for trees but winter is when you really get to know them as people.

Imagine coming up with a proposal so stupid, so unworkable, so thoughtless, that it makes Robert Jenrick look sane by comparison. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

✔️NEW Call for Papers from HRER ✔️Intercultural history, human rights and citizenship education for inclusion in diverse societies ✔️Scholars are encouraged to submit abstracts by 6 January 2026 ✔️Invited papers due by 31 May 2026 For further details visit global-iahre.org/get-involved/

Glen Etive, Highlands. Pic: IG/shadyron74

We're so excited and proud to be shortlisted for this award in a category with so many brilliant initiatives 🏆🤞 @timeshighered.bsky.social

Very happy to be representing the hard work of the School Tasking team! Good luck to all the @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social projects shortlisted at #THEawards in 2025 🎊🎉🥳🏆

School Tasking is up for Widening Participation or Outreach Initiative of the Year at tonight’s @timeshighered.bsky.social Awards 2025 🏆 Representing the best project team ever is the wonderful @philjemmett.bsky.social, so please wish us luck 🤞🏼 And well done & good luck to everyone nominated 🤩

Bucket list item well and truly ticked off in beautiful Reykjavik tonight 💚

There’s nowhere quite like home, even on a dreich Autumn day.

If this is true, this is the best news there's been in a VERY long time. variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Late light at Loch an Eilein, Rothiemurchus #Scotland #Rothiemurchus #Aviemore #Cairngorms www.damianshields.com

For anyone who may not be following Gail Myerscough, she has a lovely and unique design aesthetic. So much of her work seems to draw on the past while somehow imagining the future. It gives her designs a timeless feel. And she's having a sale! Click through and have a look:

Moods

My GP just gave me a new response the next time something goes wrong at work

Uath Lochan, Inshriach Forest #Scotland #Cairngorms #Highlands www.damianshields.com

Quote post with your favourite reaction gif of all time (working in academia, I use this one a *lot*...)

Outreach initiatives such as ‘School Tasking’ help academics connect with young learners and make higher education feel approachable, write Ali Struthers and Alex Horne: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/snail... #Academia #HigherEd #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #EduSky

Another fabulous shot of Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) over Suotojärvi Lake, Sweden, by Petr Horálek, with the colorful Aurora Borealis lighting up the sky. More at www.petrhoralek.com?p=25820 and fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/1154... #Astronomy

When there are three people at the table sharing a joke, and a Nazi sits down with them and joins in the laughter, there are four Nazis at the table. This is basic.

We wrote a thing! But, perhaps more importantly, this @timeshighered.bsky.social article contains an exclusive on whether @alexhorne.bsky.social considers Jaffa Cakes to be cakes or biscuits... 👀

Louvre robbery. French police release image of suspect.

I was going to be good tonight & do the opposite to last week: watch Taskmaster in real time & catch-up with Celebrity Traitors tomorrow night. But then the Celia Imrie Flatulence Incident happened & the compulsion to watch Traitors is now even stronger 🤣

I've just written a book chapter about things that have gone wrong in a very successful project that I run. It's a case study in a book I'm co-authoring & there are already plenty of 'all the things that went right' chapters about the project elsewhere. Time for the shit show of all the disasters 😂

‘96% of healthcare professionals said the model helps to reduce children’s anxiety, and 46% reported a lesser need to use sedation after the children played with the set.‘ ‘Lego doesn’t sell the sets and instead has donated more than 10,000 of the kits to hospitals around the world.’

People often give very little consideration to their children's privacy when they post about them online. An acquaintance once shared a photo on Facebook of her taking a selfie in the bathroom with her daughter on a potty in the background saying 'no such thing as privacy anymore!' Erm...

If I had to select a specialist subject for Mastermind, I reckon the geographic spread of these guys across the UK would now see me to victory. A productive afternoon with littlest family member ahead of her party tomorrow 🎩

There are definitely worse ways to spend a Saturday than puppy sitting.

The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 has been awarded to Venezuelan democracy activist María Corina Machado. The Nobel Committee recognised her “struggle to achieve a just & peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.” In other words, exactly the opposite of what Trump is doing to the United States.

UK Universities cut 12,000 jobs, more on the way. 40% of Unis in financial crisis. Major exporter destroyed by successive govts Obstacles for foreign students. Low fees in England, lack of govt funding. £267bn student debt. Home student numbers down. How will the UK compete with other nations?

"Pro Life"

Checklist for meetings with 1st year personal tutees: - Academic issues; - Pastoral issues; - Signposting relevant university services; - Explaining why it says 'Little Dr Ali Struthers' on my office door.

@watsoncomedian.bsky.social What was that you were saying about needy companies sending you emails...?

A Labour Prime Minister being quoted in the news bulletin of the most listened to radio station in the UK telling university students that they absolutely should not get involved in peacefully protesting an ongoing genocide is really quite something.

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state. Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide. Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

It is my momento mori style obligation to remind you that this is not just coming to the uk but is it is already here.

Henceforth the red robes will only be worn as an away kit when the Canadian Supreme Court is playing the US one.

Here is a perfect example of what is wrong with the world. Me: bought books from a gorgeous, independent bookshop for a university project. Generous discount was applied for quantity bought; books were signed. Finance at the university: "Are these books not available from Amazon?"

Careers really are much better when you work with the very best people. Completely lovely gift today from equally lovely humans.

Took littlest to the gorgeous children’s bookshop, How Brave is The Wren, in King’s Heath this afternoon to see one of her favourite people, @alexhorne.bsky.social, & collect 50 copies of the @thehornesection.bsky.social’s super Make Some Noise 🎼🎶 #SchoolTasking prizes for 25-26 sorted!

Sigur Ros in the Royal Albert Hall with a full orchestra, organist & choir is quite simply one of the most spectacular & moving things I have seen (well, heard really) in my life.

If you don’t like being called a racist, maybe don’t make a career of saying things that appeal to racists, don’t create a political party that keeps attracting racist candidates, don’t fawn over racist world leaders, and don’t make a convicted racist the guest of honour at your party conference.

Popped along to see @watsoncomedian.bsky.social's show tonight & it's very funny, so if you happen to enjoy things that are very funny & also happen to be in a location where he'll be saying funny things, then do get tickets & pop along also.

Skye light

I hope people spend days and days talking about her (she is 10,000,000 times more important than Charlie Kirk) and the amazing work she did. This photo will always be so powerful and as defining of who we all can be. Be like Jane Goodall. Photographer: Hugo van Lawick

Some things are exciting even when you work for #Taskmaster 🏆