It’s Autumn ! Looks like it is going to be a good season for chestnuts. 😊🐿️

I love the smell of cyclamen in the morning. 😊

Hibiscus looking good at Wisley 😊

Art installations at Wisley 😊

Wisley garden looking good in the sunshine yesterday 😊

Just a quick reminder, if you were intending to read this but haven't got around to it yet 🙂📖

What if Leonardo da Vinci was a Dr Who fan? Just goofing with ChatGPT to see what it can do 😊

If Leonardo da Vinci was a heavy metal fan 😊

If Leonardo da Vinci had seen Paddington Bear, how different would the world be today? 😊

Stinking iris seed heads Never seem to notice the flowers but the red fruits are very conspicuous 😊

I really expect a hobbit to jump out of the bushes at any time along this path to Newlands Corner 😊

Rose hips in the sunshine today 😊

Rudbeckias still smiling in the late summer sunshine. 😊

Note the time taken. Submitted 4th August, published 5th September after a thorough review and revise process. Very efficient. Very professional. None of this waiting for 4 months before the editor sends it for review nonsense. The way academic publishing used to be. The way it should be 😊

Very happy this has been published today It’d be interested to know if colleagues consider themselves to be r- or K-selected (as described in the paper) 😊 #HigherEd

‘we suggest that chief amongst the beliefs implicit in managerialism is the idea that management in itself is of greater importance than the primary activities that are being managed’ (Hussey/Smith (2010): The Trouble with Higher Education, p.20) #HigherEd #UKHE

Oleander in the evening sun 😊

Bonnieux, Provence. 🙂

Seriously 🙂

Where we stayed in the south of France 🇫🇷 😊

Nearly the end of summer. 🐝 😊

Solanum in the sun 😊

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“Universities have become sites of credentialing, training and conformity, rather than inquiry and critique. The logic of the market has reduced students to consumers, faculty to managed labor serfs and knowledge to a commodity.” Henry Giroux www.salon.com/2025/06/29/w...

since Kennedy Center is no more, lemme bring back a magical moment that happened there

An interesting paper from Hosein & Rao about teacher development “Personal teaching theories are shaped by multiple epistemologies” in which academic knowledge and professional knowledge collide 😊

Rudbeckias in the garden today 😊

Too hot for me! 🥵

Acrylic pour A layer of epoxy resin really brings out the vibrancy of the colours - I think. 🎨👨‍🎨🖼️

Designing learning paths using semantic waves. An interesting paper about the relationship between theory and practice in chemistry education Http://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.5c00594 😊

He was out there again this evening 😊

Bugs in the garden this evening 😊

Leaves of evening primrose looking towards autumn already 😊

Wow Turn it up to eleven! 😊 youtube.com/watch?v=95d_...

Outstanding album. 🎶 Stand out tracks: Riders on the wind Fairer than the sun Check it out 😊🎸

Yay! 😊⚽️

Guildford castle gardens 😊

Peer review according to the online submission portal, my latest paper sent to a well known journal has been ‘with editor’ now for FOUR MONTHS and still hasn’t gone out for peer review. I’ve never experienced such a delay in 40 years of publishing Am I expecting too much? Lucky I am retired. 😊

Lace-cap hydrangea 😊

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Just playing with paint 😊

Just playing with paint on a rainy afternoon 😊

Just getting into Symphonic Heavy Metal. !! Really enjoying these two albums by Visions of Atlantis Which other bands should I explore? 😊

Red sky at night ……… One from the vault 😊

From last year. At Lyme Regis 😊

A busy hoverfly 😊

You can tell it’s summer by the colour of the grass 😊

The Rudbeckia flower buds are just thinking about opening up now 😊

Towards an ecological university: A new dawn or a 'Silent Spring'? A visual summary of the paper doi.org/10.1080/0013... 🙂