#Becomingeducational A conversation with Copilot around living with grief becomingeducational.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/b...

The article that I cowrote & linked in the thread tackles this. But all of my work on the topic emerges from frustration that most commentary on education limits discussion to the tech (a losing battle) & not the political &economic project of the AI industry. I get at this here tinyurl.com/yarmcjes

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Love @LondonMetUni Preparing for Study course for our international students - starting 5th Jan 2026: preparingforstudy.blogs.londonmet.ac.uk/2025/12/19/o...

The transitions from Academic twitter to other social media platforms by academics and HE institutions. How can we make it better? A keynote at the #SocMedHE25 by @andytattersall.bsky.social

Summing up academic social media - how institutions stayed on board a sinking ship - in late 2022, in one image - from my #SocMedHE25 keynote

The changes in the attention span makes educators find different spaces to develop learning. A presentation by Emily Conyard #SocMedHE25

Things have been shitty, making it hard to write, but I managed this post and I'm pretty happy with it thesiswhisperer.com/2025/12/11/m...

A simple 8 word headline to remind us all that, yes, The Spectator really is as bad as you might expect for a periodical once edited by Boris Johnson and now under the stewardship of a certain Michael Gove.

A postscript of sorts to yesterday's #LTHEchat about loneliness. I had a conversation once about what it would be like to attend a conference where nobody talked to you. For me it wouldn't be a big deal, perhaps comparable to going to the theatre & really not liking the play 1/2

Over at our YouTube Channel we've put up 11 poetry workshops to help people of any age write poems. So far they've had in total 355 thousand views. www.youtube.com/c/MichaelRos...

#LTHEchat Finding a new tribe - feeling connected with some great new people (new to me!) - and holding a space to think and talk about my passion with other passionate people! #edchat #studychat #LoveLD #creativeHE

📣 Calling my BlueSky followers - would you like to join the #LTHEchat organising committee? To express your interest, please complete this very brief form in @suebecks.bsky.social post below ⬇️ @buxiduan.bsky.social @kathrynsidaway.bsky.social

A big thank you to all the hosts & everyone who has participated this term, & thanks to the #LTHEchat organising team for Sept-Dec 2025 @tavoer8.bsky.social & @charlottemarshall.bsky.social,& mentor @dradamtate.bsky.social. The baton passes over to the new team in 2026 We’ll be back on 7th Jan 2026

Thanks, Bianca, for this interesting topic that I feel is related to. It was a great topic for the last LTHEchat of the term. Thanks to all participants for sharing ideas and thoughts and realise that we are the same boat (but maybe in different seats) #LTHEChat

Are you interested in becoming a member of a future #LTHEchat organising team? We are looking for open practitioners, educators and students, who would be interested in joining a future organising team. If this is you, please complete this expression of interest. docs.google.com/forms/d/17DA...

A big thank you to the amazing #LTHEchat organising team @charlottemarshall.bsky.social, bsky.app/profile/tavo... and mentor bsky.app/profile/drad.... In January please welcome back @drchrism.bsky.social who will mentor the new incoming team.

I'm not sure if this will help, but I share an office with four more colleagues, and from time to time we try to practice the 'We Listen and Don't Judge' approach. At the beginning, we were kidding about it, but then the conversations had more meaning to all of us and we understood others #LTHEChat

#LTHEchat A very big thank you to @bianca-f-o-x.bsky.social and everybody for tonight's chat. I realise that you are highlighting what I fear will be an emerging and growing problem in HE - #loneliness #isolation - unless some of your excellent suggestions are enacted.

Thank you to @bianca-f-o-x.bsky.social and to everyone who participated this week. #LTHEchat

A6 Ideally provide each a mentor. Schedule group meetings to meet others that are new. #LTHEchat

A6 A buddy scheme that can guide them during that transition, a network of colleagues who are on the same journey, a community of practice, and training. Offering different spaces for people to engage, face-to-face, online (synchronous and asynchronous) #LTHEChat

A6 Have a mandatory mentoring system and a network for early and transitioning staff. Staff belonging is important, hiring staff is expensive. #LTHEChat @bianca-f-o-x.bsky.social

#LTHEchat A6 Mentoring, supportive PGCert that builds cross-disciplinary bridges and highlights things like this chat... introducing new staff to research groups within and outwith the uni - reminding people of the jiscmails - more organisations offering mentoring as with @aldinhe.bsky.social ?

My biggest concern with staff as with students is that we can't offer support if we don't know there's a problem and somebody is suffering in silence #LTHEchat 2/2

#LTHEchat A4 @aldinhe.bsky.social offers a mentoring scheme for institutional members. So if people are struggling within their institutions, personally or professionally, there is real support available - and it can make a real difference. So please do reach out!

#LTHEchat A5 As HE becomes ever more transactional and cost-effective, is there really any care for this sort of humanity? It never seemed to exist at senior levels, and the spaces for informal human contact are not just being eroded but hacked away - you are highlighting an emergent issue!

I've led a biannual LTA orientation event for 20 years now for my college/faculty aimed at new lecturers/associate lecturers/grad assitants who are teaching. It provides those attending the opp to meet others who are new, people that can support them in their role and the leadership team #LTHEchat

That is a good idea. I recall that during the pandemic, a Wellbeing Buddy scheme was introduced to help us overcome the challenges. But then they stop this scheme. It was a good one as I was paired with someone different in my school #LTHEChat

During covid a small group of created a support network using WhatsApp and zoom. We are presenting 'Connection in a Time of Crisis: How a WhatsApp Group Became a Lifeline and Community of Practice' at SocMedHE25 next week #LTHEchat socmedhe25.wordpress.com

A3 - I had a tribe! I organised and connected with a group of like minded staff across the institution and they would catch up with my for coffee, check in with me and generally support me when I felt lost. #LTHEchat

#LTHEchat A4 New staff used to get a mentor who wld be caring & supportive - discuss work - possibly coffee/lunch.... Now, hopefully, there is our PGCert which is active, interactive if online: breakout discussions, cross-disciplinary peer observations of practice with meetings. We hope this works.

A2 - When I worked in a team with multiple layers of senior leadership that wanted strict control and little autonomy. #LTHEchat

#LTHEchat A3 Reaching out to make friends - feeling the fear and doing it anyway: asking people to come to lunch/have coffee - being interested in what other people were doing - introducing myself & my role in meetings and asking if people wanted to get involved. As a fundamentally shy person ...

#LTHEchat A2 In a group where I had that impostor syndrome. Fortunately that happened to be a very humane and supportive group - where I could raise my own insecurities - which surprised people - and the feelings changed. I think other spaces would not have been so undertanding and supportive ...

A1 - Roles and projects in which collaboration is not a foundational component. Where transactional communication like consultation is the norm, as opposed to co-design. #LTHEChat

A1 #LTHEchat a sense of lack of connection & not having the opportunity to communicate or mix with people. Sometimes it's strongest when there are other people around but the connections aren't there. A cliché perhaps but you can be very lonely in a crowd

#LTHEchat A1 Loneliness at work for me would be a sense of dislocation and isolation - no sense of being a team - no belonging. The opposite of how I like to work, together with others, a community of practice with space to be both selfdirected but also happily esconced in a supportive group

#LoveLD - love #LTHEchat - tonight - 8-9: LTHEChat 347: Loneliness in Higher Education lthechat.com/2025/12/07/l... Follow the hashtag #LTHEchat - join the conversation #edchat #studychat

I'm probably biased & every academic seeks out ppl with common interests but in business schools the whole management learning/management education area is a highly respectable sub-discipline which perhaps helps #LTHEChat

The #Take5 blog (and @danceswithcloud.bsky.social) really helped me get my work off the ground this semester so really couldn’t recommend it enough 👏🏼

Why collaborate? Because real educational change doesn’t happen in isolation. Our commentary "Designing Educational Futures" (Abegglen et al., 2023) argues that collaboration should sit at the heart of teaching and learning. 📄 doi.org/10.1007/s424... ➡️ over 2800 accesses

I loved collaborating on this, hope it's a fun/provocative read! osotl.org/osotl/articl... @sandra-abegglen.bsky.social @danceswithcloud.bsky.social @rachelleeobrien.bsky.social @alexspiers.bsky.social @annaclarehunter.bsky.social MarianthiKaratsiori & TomBurns💜 @osotl.bsky.social #SoTL #creativeHE

Thames Water is a test for the British economy. It profits by ripping off customers. Pays dividends, doesn't invest. Since March TW borrowed £1.47bn. Paid £900m in fees/interest for the emergency financing. Can't address crisis without public ownership. archive.ph/oW8ck/again?...

Universities are urging the government to act proportionately as ministers consider changing an exemption that allows international students enrolled on research master’s courses to bring family members with them. Helen Packer reports https://ow.ly/h51N50XCRYP


ACADEMIC WORD OF THE DAY Today's word (08/12/2025) is EDIT: 1. to make changes to a text, image, film, code, or genes; 2. to have control of a publication such as a newspaper of magazine. More at www.writing.support/academic-wor... #AcWri #AcademicWriting #TESOL #AcademicSky #EduSky

We are doing this because media companies hate the platforms (for commercial reasons) and many parents are lazy or don't get it. Solidarity to Ezra and every other kid who just had their world narrowed for no purpose. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The universities of East Anglia and Reading have both reported sizeable deficits in the latest sign that research-intensive non-Russell Group universities are being hit hard by the financial crunch facing the sector. Patrick Jack reports https://ow.ly/BYOw50XCS2T

Reeves’ £150 cut in energy bills will be nuked by Sizewell costs. Levies on bills to fund gas pipelines, electricity grid to rise. Customers to pay years before construction even begins. Companies raise capital from customers, shareholders keep profits. Privatisation facilitates rip off practices