Here we go! Are you ready? 2025’s #ResearchAdvent A prompt each day. Respond using the hashtag so that I can find you! #ResearchAdvent

Love Tim Marshall’s series!

Post postmodern simulacra?

Please share if you've been MARKED SAFE from Black Friday hyper-consumerism, corporate greed, and marketing propaganda?

Juries are not perfect. Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials. But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having. They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.

Don’t forget to join us tomorrow for #LTHEchat, which will explore ‘Meeting students where they are: Making independent study work for every learner’ with Nikita-Marie Bridgeman ( @nbridgeman.bsky.social ) on Wednesday, 8-9 pm GMT. Read the blog post at: shorturl.at/jzhWE

Another excellent blog from #HEPI, focused upon the economic benefits driven by international students within the UK. www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/11/21/w... #AcademicSky #UKHE #HigherEd #UKbudget25 #UKeconomy #InternationalStudents @hepi-news.bsky.social

Brilliant to see the launch of #HomeAtUniversity - a blueprint for building a safe and stable home for care experienced and estranged students. @hepi-news.bsky.social www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/11/25/b...

First Christmas cup of the year #Costa

I've had a wonderful time attending #HumberResearch2025, the 8th annual research conference from the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust. I was looking to make connections around wellbeing through nature connection, and have absolutely met that goal. So many synergies over #health & #education.

The call for papers is open to all NTFs AND aspiring NTFs, CATE AND aspiring CATE winners for the Association of National Teaching Fellows Symposium 2026. ntf-association.com/call-for-con...

With rising demands to reduce waste and emissions, it’s time for universities to reimagine their role in managing resources, says Darren Wilkinson: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/future-sustainable-universities-circular #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky

Schools in England have become testing sites for AI. I know it's common to say education is now an experimental lab for AI, but in England it's more methodologically true. 3 examples of escalating seriousness and an explanation coming up 🧵

👀ICYMI: "Political science isn’t short on new methods. But too often, our publishing culture is a slot machine: pull the lever enough times and someone will hit the jackpot." ✍️ @silje-hermansen.bsky.social #PolSci #ResearchMethods #AcWri

🗃️From May: "Manipulations have been so obvious and large that, in 2024, over 2,000 candidates for the list were filtered out for not meeting ISI’s evaluation and selection criteria." #Citations #AcademicSky

Latest #WeeklyResourceRoundup key topics include #ActiveLearning #UDL #InclusiveTeaching #GenAI and more! Feat. @activelearningnet.bsky.social @jisc.bsky.social @ft30uk.bsky.social @tilenetwork.bsky.social and more! wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... #AberPGCTHE #EduSkyu #AcademicSky

A very short blogpost on bare minimal social media presence for academics. With links to more info if you need it, but probably you don't. https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2025/11/advice-on-minimal-academic-social-media.html #academicchatter #phd

This is an amazing way to frame the use of #AI with kids: youtube.com/shorts/nywIe...

Reading Baudrillard before 2020: "This guy has some excellent lines and occasionally some insight into modern societies." Reading Baudrillard after 2020: "This man is a provides the key analytical framework to understand our times, and that's why we're screwed."

Going to try and get back to being a bit more social. I’ve been hammered by some research deadlines and a book manuscript. It’s pretty much taken the last 6 months. But I see some space and wiggle room now. Finally.

One of my colleagues has published a wonderful book on building number sense with ten-frames. You can grab a copy of it from Amazon: amzn.to/4h0mwVI Great for both home and the classroom, the book has everything parents & educators need to get started :) #10frames #classroomresources #primarymaths

This is sooo needed! Thank you, @leefallin.bsky.social!!

"International students contribute almost £42 billion a year to the UK economy – the equivalent of every UK citizen being £560 better off. This pipeline of international talent is essential to the UK government’s high-growth economic sectors..." #UKHE #HigherEd #HEPI www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/09/09/r...

#AcademicSky #SciPub #PeerReview #PhDSky #OpenScience #AcademicResearch #AcademicWriting #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter 🧪

HUGE congratulations to the @uniofhull.bsky.social class of 2025. It was a pleasure to attend both of this afternoons ceremonies to see our education and teaching studies students graduate. I can’t wait to see where your careers take you, but I’m sure you’re going to make a MASSIVE difference.

#LoveLD - and thank you #creativeHE for this lovely review of our Stories of Hope book: creativehecommunity.wordpress.com/2025/07/10/n... - with link to the open book publication!

My latest chapter: Embracing compassion and self-care: Educator wellbeing amidst the chaos is now available (FREE! Part of the edited book, Stories of Hope: Reimagining Education). #Wellbeing #HigherEd #HigherEducation #LTHEchat #loveLD #UKHE www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

An early start this morning for the Venn Academy Trust Safeguarding Conference in York. There is an excellent line up of speakers, and look forward to Mike Nicholson (Progressive Masculinities) and Prof. Simon Hackett (harmful sexual behaviour). #Schools #safeguarding #governance #masculinity

This is a great summary of pretty much all rooms. Such a stunning campus! #ALDcon #ALDcon25 #loveLD

I had the pleasure of chairing this #ALDcon25 session and really enjoyed the workshop, where we were able to design activities to help engage deep learning. #ALDcon #loveLD

Excellent views at the #ALDcon evening meal - and some thrilling annual awards to wrap up the day! #ALDcon25 #loveLD

This #ALDcon25 session was such fun. Just was is needed towards the close of the day. #loveLD

Catherine Turton and I ran a workshop on Design Thinking and its potential in Learning Development. In just 20 minutes, 23 problems were defined and 134 potential solutions were shared. What a great representation of the power of Design Thinking. #ALDcon #ALDcon25 #loveLD #DesignThinking

Great start to the Conversations with Students on Self-Regulated Learning with GAI workshop delivered by Jovita Vytasek and Christina Page from Kwantlen Polytechnic University at #ALDcon25. Interesting reflections on the similar issues across international contexts: #loveLD #ALDcon

A big thank you to Dr Jacqui Bartram who sketched throughout the online conference for #ALDcon25. You can view the sketch notes on the conference website: aldinhe.ac.uk/aldcon/sketchnoter-dr-jacqui-bartram#ALDcon25#LoveLD

Loved Lucy Jellema's work on inclusive teaching and equity. Phenomenal parallel as part of #ALDcon: www.teaching.unsw.edu.au/inclusive !! Great chairing @leefallin.bsky.social !! Now tell me about the conference IRL as I cannot be there this week! #LoveLD

And we’re off! ALDinHE’s annual conference on campus days has started. #ALDcon25 #ALDcon

First, the Zoom crashes. Then a Windows feature update. My PC doesn’t want me at #ALDcon25 today. Just glad I have the MacBook Pro 💻

Now onto my next #ALDcon session: Using the EAT (Equity, Agency, Transparency) framework to promote inclusive assessment practices by Catriona Johnson and Debora Catavello from University of Bristol

A very timely presentation from Helen Hargreaves & Ruth Byrne: International students’ experiences of interacting in English at university Very useful, as my own cohort is increasing the number of students who have English as their L2, L3 or L4. #ALDcon #ALDcon25

I've just had the pleasure of charing Lucy Jellema's work on inclusive teaching and equity. Phenomenal parallel as part of #ALDcon www.teaching.unsw.edu.au/inclusive

Never let rain stop play! We’re out on this beautifully wet day to support the next generation of educational practitioners get children outside. By learning the benefits of outdoor education, play and exploration on our wonderful PGP site, we can equip adults to better support children outside.

What are we doing!?! Uniform, appearance, presentation and behaviour policies are clearly going overboard. I cannot see how any school can defend punishment for empathy. We talk about a crisis for young boys. It is easy to imagine how when empathy leads to exclusion.

The amazing thing about maximising children agency, is that you’ll never know where it will lead you! Through ceding control, we had the joy of being led through the shrubbery and back gardens - and I think we all saw a new side of Victoria Embankment Gardens because of it.

I had a wonderful time leading playful green urban adventures at today’s #RSAFellowsFestival2025. Thank you to everyone @thersaorg.bsky.social who was able to join, especially for the extra ad hoc session 😅 I hope we’ve inspired you to get outside & to find out more about #PlayfulGreenPlanet #PGP

Whoop 🙌 for the arts. Arts & Culture: Strengthening Communities - The first panel of the day for #RSAFellowsFestival2025 Looking forward to hearing from Morag Myerscough, John Costi, Amy Vaughan and Melanie Abrahams (Chair). @thersaorg.bsky.social

Two trains and three tube trains later (😅) I made it to #FellowsFestival2025 with three minutes to spare. 😮‍💨 Looking forward to talking about #PGP - Playful Green Planet this afternoon. @thersaorg.bsky.social

Marking over, I’ve taken to some reading and came across this cracking quote: The true value of freedom is revealed only in its absence. It is a structural ingredient whose removal takes with it the colour, taste and substance of life. A similar effect is observed in #gluten free cakes. #GF #baking