Early Bird Tickets now on sale for our Developing Teachers' Conference (Jan 31 online) from here store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... 9 workshops for secondary and 3 workshops for primary teachers & an incredible keynote from Dr Sarah Longair, whose gloved hands have touched many an object!

Incredible opportunity to get your (gloved) hands on some Viking artefacts at our next Yorkshire History Forum at St Barnabas School in York (Nov 24 5-8pm). Just ask @cpalmerhistory.bsky.social and she'll tell you how awesome they are! Tickets available here: store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata...

So much @1972shp.bsky.social stuff going on right now! Last call to register for SHP UNEARTHED (Nov 10 5-6pm), our groundbreaking (ha ha!) webinar on Empire and Gardening - email [email protected] to sign up.

“In its first formal review of UK trade policy since Brexit, the WTO found that UK trade performance had weakened since the 2008 financial crisis, with Brexit named among the chief causes of a marked slump in goods trade since 2018” God, failure is tedious… www.ft.com/content/8f4d...

The "don't worry about facial recognition tech" arguments are not faring well...

Wow. The Spectator has somehow become a kampfanzine.

October is Dyslexia and ADHD Awareness Month. Hannah Hawoldar's new article explores neurodivergent learners' experiences of mainstream education and the importance of whole-school cultures of acceptance. Read more: https://chartered.pulse.ly/7s82s741uc

Posting old halloween comics, #3. From 2019 (hence the reference to something called 'Twitter')

Welcome to our Open Day 👋 Unfortunately, due to the clocks change, our ANPR cameras have fined all Open Day guests who have parked in our car parks between 8-9am. The fines cannot be cancelled, but 5% will go back into improving the student experience.

Hard to believe 3 yrs have passed since the 10.29 이태원 참사 - a tragedy worsened by the Yoon admin’s diversion of police resources. Working-level officials took the fall while the Pres. spread conspiracy theories. Remember the lives lost, & the families still seeking truth.

which = 🤷‍♀️ witch = 🧙‍♀️

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once: — Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing — Against raising the minimum wage — Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

A scenario: Andrew, younger brother of Charles, steps forward to tell all he knows and brings down both a monarchy and an authoritarian regime.

A divided left is the way to guarantee a Farage Reich and all the horrors that will involve for ordinary people and minorities . When faced with the stark option of a fascist or a wooly bourgeois social democrat, the correct choice is always the latter.

How do we stop Nigel Farage from forming the next government? spartacus-educational.com/spartacus-bl... @counsellc.bsky.social @andywalker1965.bsky.social @danlyndon.bsky.social‬ @richardjonesnerzic.bsky.social @edpodesta.bsky.social @apf102.bsky.social @hollyhiscox.bsky.social

Some politicians and commentators continue to denigrate London and talk our great city down, but the facts show a very different picture. The number of homicides in London in the first nine months of 2025 was lower than in any year since monthly records began 22 years ago.

Sorry, what? There is no “race debate”. There is racism, there are racists. This isn’t a legitimate political polemic, this is hate speech and hate crime. Can we stop trying to wedge the bigotry of fragile white men in to public discourse? Doing so is hate-washing and we need to stop it.

For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research. Reposts welcomed.

Very excited to share the forthcoming SHP Understanding event from @1972shp.bsky.social: Unearthed (Nov 10 5-6pm). The first in a series of webinars looking at the transformative and radical power of gardening - from the Diggers to Mary Seacole to settler colonialism we've got it covered!

LLMs are doubly deceptive. Most people think that they can ask it a question and get an answer. The majority of the rest think that you can ask an LLM a question and it will return what an answer might look like, statistically. But it's actually even worse. It doesn't "read" the prompt; it guesses.

It's a dream team of secondary workshops at #YHF York!

Somewhere in the recent past, a coup overthrew the spirit of education with the stuff of schooling, and we've seen the system remade entirely in that image.

I am increasingly convinced that the only route to salvation lies in a nationwide Campaign For Better Epistemology.

It’s not the subject content of a degree that is important but the ‘training’ to think analytically, to sift through competing/ conflicting arguments, summarise, suggest alternatives. Think more Mary Beard than Boris Johnson if you want to think about the value of Classics.

It really should do our collective nut that a university which is seen in the UK as not especially prestigious - Leicester - is in the top 200 globally.

And what's particularly funny about this is for so many of them, their radicalising event is that they haven't achieved what they think they 'deserve' now:

The lack of training bursary for ALL #ITT beginning #teacher s is highly problematic. It is a significant barrier to entry into the profession. It creates geographical cold spots & prevents those without funds to self support from training. 1/2 uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2024/07/19/i...

I don't want an obsequious chatbot, I just want: a) to be able to attach comments to endnotes/footnotes b) to be able to convert PDFs with endnotes/footnotes to a Word doc

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

Oh, piss off new, infantile, horrible to use, read and even look at Outlook.

Teachers - The Unseen Scapegoats of Society's Problems? Liz Webb thinks so. Watch todays Points of View in full here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMDC... #teachers #media #blame #scapegoat #schools #teaching #teachertok #society

Rubs eyes. Looks again. Rubs eyes. It's still there.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Come up with an acrostic of policies that spells ‘STEADY ON’ and you’ve got my vote.

Spend a bit more on the NHS Taxes have to go up a bit EU membership, in due course Aging population - fix social care Defence spending proportionate to threat level Young people to have apprenticeships or go to university Once a week bin collection Nuclear and renewables

Right, that's it. I'm founding a new populist party of the centre called Go Outside!

What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too.

"The best leaders I’ve worked with don’t need to win. They ask the right questions. They listen without interrupting. They don’t flinch when someone sees things differently & they certainly don’t centre themselves in every conversation." Ian Watts @tesmagazine.bsky.social www.tes.com/magazine/lea...

Tbh, the whole anti-migrant rhetoric is already making my friends on ILR look at moving. Of course, they’re all the ones with the money and talent *to* move. Which isn’t what politicians are selling as the consequence of ILR-bashing. But it’s what will happen.

What do German folks call German measles?

If you live in Surrey, and are looking for SEN/Deputy roles, I can highly recommend this school. It's the only school I know which offers a site-wide *four* day working week. Genuinely! uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=f...

Morning.

I totally agree, but would add that this is also working really well for Reform, and would therefore make Glasman a good fit.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Don’t think it bodes well for AI that this is now a way to market something

Want to know more about the sorts of benefits that working with @vch-home.bsky.social could have, particularly for Early Career Researchers? Take a look at this blog. #Skystorians

Thrilled to have this delivered at school! As a non specialist this is perfect for making sure I can have curriculum conversations with our Geographer. We’ve agreed on a chapter to read & discuss together in our next department meeting. Bravo @geogmum.bsky.social @jennnnnn.bsky.social 👏🗺️ #TeamHums