Lovely new review of ‘How to Teach Psychology’ on Goodreads www.amazon.co.uk/How-Teach-Ps... @paulclinepsy.bsky.social @hlearningpd.bsky.social Still time to treat that special #Psychology teacher (or even English teacher, based on this review) in your life before Xmas! #UKEd #Edusky

Despite mostly saying they split attention equally or prioritise lower attainers, this study using classroom vignettes found that the presence of a higher achiever reduced the time teachers spent on lower achievers... ... leading to a magnificent paper title! 😂 econpapers.repec.org/paper/cesces...

Good one for #psychology #teachers @theatp.bsky.social No benefit of interleaved (vs massed) retrieval practice in an introductory psychology course. Suggests that interleaving benefits (v. well established in maths) may be far weaker for other subjects. psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... #UKEd

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

“The deskilling, denigration, and displacement of teachers and scholars have historically been central to fascist takeovers, since educators serve as bulwarks against propaganda, anti-intellectualism, and illiteracy.” — @olivia.science www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

A great interview in @tesmagazine.bsky.social with my old PhD supervisor @nillilavie.bsky.social, including a reference to the work we did together on students' experiences of distraction in their classrooms. www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

It was great fun talking to @lucindap0well.bsky.social for her ‘Changing states of mind’ podcast. The when, where and how of repeated practice when teaching psychology 👇

✨ From attention and cognitive load to the power of repeated practice (aka SLOP), Dr @mikehobbiss.bsky.social shares how to help students truly understand and retain concepts. Join us for some game-changing teaching ideas! Listen here 👇 changingstatesofmind.libsyn.com/slop-the-pow...

On school attendance. I’ve read lots on how Covid broke the social contract etc, but could part of the situation be that with parents working from home there’s less need to still send kids into school when under the weather?

Literal perfection. ;) www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...

Hi everyone! Please follow for updates from the Association for the Teaching of Psychology. Our Facebook page focuses on building our community, our LinkedIn page focuses on careers, our Twitter accounts focus on sharing info… What you would like to see on our BlueSky feed? www.theatp.uk

In this podcast and recent blogs I’ve talked about how attention might be at the heart of issues that look on the surface to be about other things (e.g. working memory, comprehension, intelligence etc). Here’s a great recent example www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🧵1/2

Selective and sustained attention - a model for classroom (and whole school) improvement via Mike Hobbiss. @mikehobbiss.bsky.social hobbolog.wordpress.com/2023/11/29/s...

Great day at #rEdCam25 Engaging & thought-provoking sessions from: @claresealy.bsky.social on the writing framework @jonhutchinson.bsky.social on belonging @johntomsett.bsky.social on great teachers William Wadsworth on revision techniques A big thank you to @tombennett71.bsky.social & the team

It was great fun talking to @teacherhead.bsky.social and @emmaturner75.bsky.social for the latest episode of the Mind the Gap podcast creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

TOP AI IN EDUCATION FAILS ... so far:

Can the human sciences exist w/out the human? Proposals for using AI as human research subjects suggest yes. But @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I respond with, ‘not so fast.’ In fact, silicon subjects say more about the problems of the research paradigm than the promises of AI. 🚨New article, thread 1/

I've really enjoyed @pepsmccrea.bsky.social 's recent 'Evidence Snacks' series on attention snacks.pepsmccrea.com and also nice to see the link in this week's snack about this interesting recent study on mindwandering in the classroom onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Thank you to anyone who has bought a copy of ‘How to Teach Psychology’ www.amazon.co.uk/How-Teach-Ps... First instalment of royalties passed on to the brilliant www.europeanlawyersinlesvos.eu

Good extension for A Level Psych #psychology #UkEd #Edusky @theatp.bsky.social

Loved joining @emmaturner75.bsky.social and @teacherhead.bsky.social for a chat on @mindthegappodcast.bsky.social this week. Out soon. I've got a new addition to my profile bio out of it...!

My school is oversubscribed and packed to the gills, to the point of being almost unsafe at times… and yet we’re still having crisis meetings about finances, in dilapidated classrooms. The whole school funding system is broken

This term's CEN (Centre for Educational Neuroscience) seminars look great (as usual). 4-5 every Thursday. Highly recommended for any teachers interested in research Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #UKEd #Edusky

I wrote something about feeling like a guest in a country that is my home. bestforbritain.substack.com/p/my-place-o...

“wisdom which will encourage you to think more deeply about learning, rather than just creating ‘lessons’.” Such lovely recent feedback for www.amazon.co.uk/How-Teach-Ps... This was exactly what @paulclinepsy.bsky.social and I were hoping to achieve. #UKEd #Edusky

Session 3: @paulclinepsy.bsky.social and @mikehobbiss.bsky.social on developing independent learners (hint - independence starts with scaffolding). Lots of actionable strategies for helping students actually *do* the things they kinda know will be helpful.

Another brilliant day at #rED25 Lots to think about as always, and wonderful to reconnect with some lovely people. A massive thank you to those who came to see @mikehobbiss.bsky.social and I talk

Thanks so much to @hgaldinoshea.bsky.social @tombennett71.bsky.social and all the organisers at the host school as ever. Special shout out to @thebandb.bsky.social ‘s son who was an absolutely adorable tour guide

A great day at ResearchEd #REd25. Superb sessions @profcoe.bsky.social @joejt.bsky.social @profbeckyallen.bsky.social @johntomsett.bsky.social. Fun presenting with @paulclinepsy.bsky.social as ever. New contacts made, friendships rekindled, and ambitious schemes hatched. Enriching and invigorating

Great day at #rED25 and delighted to present my first session after many years of lurking in the audience! Some excellent new ideas for 6th form teaching from a session on the research behind independent learning from @paulclinepsy.bsky.social and @mikehobbiss.bsky.social

@joejt.bsky.social at #REd25 talking about his own master’s research project into displays and classroom attention.

@profcoe.bsky.social and Raj Chande at #REd25 There are a *small* number of teachers who we can currently say are statistically (with 95% confidence) better or worse than average for student results… but even the ‘best’ teachers have individual classes who have negative progress, and vice versa!

Looking forward to another great day at rED#25 on Saturday - session timetable, as ever, making it hard to choose! If you'd like to hear how @mikehobbiss.bsky.social and I have tried to taken an evidence-informed approach to developing independent learners, come and see us in M20 for session 3!

What’s your take on universal mental health programs in schools? Do they help all students or should we focus more on targeted support for those who really need it? Learn more with Prof. Jess Deighton from @annafreudcharity.bsky.social Listen👇 changingstatesofmind.libsyn.com/navigating-m...

Wow! 😮 Over the last year, @bpsofficial.bsky.social @theatp.bsky.social @bps-dartp.bsky.social Teachers’ Toolkit has had 5,888 views and 6,833 downloads! 🎉 Huge thanks to all who have supported it! ❤️ The next update is coming soon! www.bps.org.uk/member-netwo...

These changes in personality are pretty shocking

I have a new article out in the Chartered College of Teaching journal Impact, called ‘Embedding AI in education: A critique’. Here I make five main points, which I will helpfully plop in this thread for those without access or time to read it.

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

I haven't written anything for a while... Here is something inspired by @claireharley.bsky.social's post from yesterday about values and clarity of communication What Makes Great Leadership? Clarity of Communication & Reducing Uncertainty #UKEd #EduSky musingsofadr.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/w...

New episode!! 🎙️📣 A chat w/ @sheinalew.bsky.social & @dorsaamir.bsky.social about childhood across cultures. Humans everywhere go through childhood—a time of learning, growth, and play. But this universal stage of life can look very different in different places. Listen: disi.org/varieties-of...

Happy birthday Brenda Milner! 🧠🎉 Today is her 107th birthday, she's a legend, a superhero.

‘Misinformation correction’ corrections are sometimes said to have the danger of backfire effects - entrenching people’s opinions all the more… but actually these claims have not replicated well. We should NOT shy away from correcting misinformation if we see it in schools. @theatp.bsky.social

Professor Mark Forshaw talking about ‘Chemically modified minds’ - young people and drug taking. This is the current state of play… @theatp.bsky.social #atpconf2025

Some potential advances in the field of brain-computer interfaces. Some pretty dystopian possibilities if we do not get ahead of the field and think about what we want and how.

Much conscious information processing occurs in the region of 10 bits/sec. Sensory processing occurs 100 million times faster! This is why we as teachers need to teach in a way which respects the capacity limitations of the brain! hobbolog.wordpress.com/2025/07/09/t...

Guy Sutton: cortical organoids (human neurons grown in the lab) grown from the cells of people with a rare variant of autism, show the same disordered communication patterns found in the brains of the sufferers @theatp.bsky.social #atpconf2025

Brain changes in pregnancy… it can take at least 2 years or longer for the brain to ‘recover’ to pre-pregnancy state @theatp.bsky.social #atpconf2025

We’ve known for a while that learning might be better when handwriting compared to typing eg scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=e... But neuroscience data increasingly backing this up and explaining why @theatp.bsky.social #atpconf2025 #psychology #UKEd

Guy Sutton talking us through some recent research on (poor) diet and the brain, both in terms of neurotransmitter synthesis and genetic expression Good diets, in contrast, slow down biological aging in the brain @theatp.bsky.social #atpconf2025