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

“There is a vast array of different types of neurons linked to different types of behaviour in mammals” Guy Sutton @theatp.bsky.social #atpconf2025

Guy Sutton kicking off day 2 of @theatp.bsky.social #atpconf2025 with his annual update on neuroscience research. A packed house as always

Zimmerman’s self regulated learning theory as a tool to help students perceive that they are able to exercise greater self-regulation @theatp.bsky.social #atpconf25

What do students say motivates them in the classroom in Marc Skelton’s research? @theatp.bsky.social #atpconf2025

Marc Skelton talking us through his research into what *students* think successful learning and motivation look like @theatp.bsky.social #atpconf2025

It’s nice to see that people are finding this useful. It feels like a bit of a culmination of things I’ve written about attention and capacity limitations over the past five or six years. #psychology #UKEd #Edusky

@luciabpsychteach.bsky.social @theatp.bsky.social #atpconf2025 outlining how she helps students to create academic posters following practical #psychology research projects

Great to see @paulclinepsy.bsky.social and my book on the @johncattedu.bsky.social stand at @theatp.bsky.social #atpconf2025 www.amazon.co.uk/How-Teach-Ps...

📣 NEW BLOG 📣 Teaching the limited capacity brain. A visual guide and model hobbolog.wordpress.com/2025/07/09/t...

Simon Baron-Cohen talking about the study of Greenberg et al on empathising and systemising traits in autistic and non-autistic males and females pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30420503/ for #psychology teachers the systemising graph has lovely positive skew! @theatp.bsky.social #atpconf2025

Simon Baron-Cohen summarises causal factors in autism @theatp.bsky.social #atpconf2025 #UKEd #psychology #Edusky

A positive correlation between prenatal testosterone exposure and autistic traits… Simon Baron-Cohen talking about factors which can “masculinise the brain”. Interesting that this terminology is still used. @theatp.bsky.social #atpconf2025

Heritability of autism from Simon Baron-Cohen. Large estimates, but (as almost always) it’s the ‘non-shared heritability’ that is the largest component… ie… we don’t really know what the mechanism is! I think that’s how @ent3c.bsky.social would summarise it…? @theatp.bsky.social #atpconf2025

Simon Baron-Cohen talking about www.sfari.org/resource/sfa... which lists all (1231!) genes implicated in some way with autism. @theatp.bsky.social #atpconf2025

The eyes convey a lot of subtle information about a person’s emotions or theory of mind. You can have a go at the ‘reading the mind in the eyes test’ here psytests.org/arc/rmeten.h... females generally outperform males cross-culturally @theatp.bsky.social #atpconf2025

@luciabpsychteach.bsky.social introduces Simon Baron Cohen’s keynote on 40 years of autism research @theatp.bsky.social #atpconf2025 #psychology #UKEd

I think this is the clearest and most authoritative explanation of attention and working memory I have seen. I'm not usually a fan of these diagrams, but the depth of explanation here is very rich. Is the choice of red/green (which many people can't discriminate) a deliberate metaphor?

Kicking off @theatp.bsky.social conference 2025 in Warwick #psychology #UKEd #Edusky

📣 NEW BLOG 📣 Teaching the limited capacity brain. A visual guide and model hobbolog.wordpress.com/2025/07/09/t...

I think attention has been seriously understudied in the science of learning literature. Someone extremely well-versed in this attention literature could really enhance how we think about learning, self-regulated learning, etc. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

1. The ambivalence of people like me on SEND reform must be confusing and might even appear pig-headed. On the one hand pointing out how broken the current system is and on the other appearing resistant to radical reform that might improve things.