It’s official: the UK is rejoining Erasmus! 👏🇪🇺

Having my surname is a daily trial, eliciting a range of responses from suppressed to open laughter and unsolicited comments.

INIM: 'Long Covid: Unlocking the Keys To Recovery' Dr. Klimas: "I'm going to say thank you for your taxes. You paid $1.15 billion into the Long COVID bucket at the NIH and much of what we have learned comes from that investment.." www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkzE...

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Today’s #MomentOfBeauty picture shows trees with new green leaves against a blue sky

UK people, Sudanese students have set up a petition to Parliament for reinstating their educational visas. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Today’s #MomentOfBeauty picture shows forget me nots growing out of the pavement

Child focus is biggest change to family courts in 30 years, senior judge says www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If the bar is set high, most students lose access. If it’s set low, the policy achieves little. The consultation invites views on a policy whose actual effect depends entirely on a framework that doesn’t yet exist.

Incredible substance here from @chrischirp.bsky.social. The 2nd wave of COVID-19 in the UK was a) devastating and b) avoidable. Take time to play the clip of Prof Kevin Fong who breaks down when describing the scale of death and its impact on ICU staff. christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-uk-cov...

"He then shows us his results, and we're like, '(Gosh), this guy might have actually found a dog that far back in time." Scarsbrook's actual language was more colourful than we can publish, because he knew just how important his friend's big breakthrough could prove. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

How it started:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... ‘…when public health works, it’s invisible. We don’t see the outbreaks that haven’t happened. It’s also a reminder of the power of vaccines and why building up immunity in the population through routine vaccination programmes is so important.’

www.joh.cam.ac.uk/about-us/new... Love this. When something failed, rather than discarding, they looked at why there might be a problem and discovered something wonderful.

An emerging pattern: AI use improves immediate outcomes, a lot, but limits big picture thinking as there is no data for that; this in @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/0c63...

Who will win the race? picture shows a worm and a snail side by side on a pavement, possibly both heading in the same direction, but this is debatable

I still think about this a lot.

March is International Long Covid Awareness Month - and the theme this year aims to highlight how Covid can affect heart health. Experiencing symptoms and don't know where to start? Join our Facebook Support group to connect with others 🩵 🖤 💚 #LongCovidHeartbeats #LongCovidAwarenessMonth

This is an interesting look at the words children choose in the BBC 500 Words stories. Which topical words do you think were the most popular? fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com...

Here's the government's social media for kids consultation, for any that want to do it. It closes on 26th May 2026, so plenty of time, but it is often good to make early submissions. www.gov.uk/government/c...

Rough sleeping in England has hit a record high as Labour's homelessness minister writes to councils over children on the streets.

Coming to a screen near you tonight! More info and bookings can be found here... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reinterpre...

Our article Ofsted Experiences: Harmful Performativity and Suicidal Ideation is now published in the Journal of Education Policy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... ❗WARNING: our article discusses workplace suicide/suicidal ideation in some detail & reference to Ruth Perry's coroner's report

Love this quote. Sums up the point of learning for me. #EduSky

Just for the record, I'm working from home AND being very productive! (GIF of a very shocked cartoon penguin)

So happy to receive a print of Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting (‘La Pittura’) by Artemisia Gentileschi from the Royal Collection Trust www.rct.uk/collection/s...

Its been out a while & the tour is long done... but as I finish the next book, here's a reminder of the antidote to rumours about secret passages, ship timbers & claims to be the oldest pub! Out now via all good (and bad) booksellers: triskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com/historic-bui...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Pneumonia cases have soared 25% in two years. People living in cold, damp, mouldy houses are particularly at risk.

wonkhe.com/blogs-sus/we... Jim Dickinson's excellent article on creativity, risk and new students having the time of their lives

Trump's Greenland plan is Putin's wet dream.

Let's talk about the Aylesbury tunnels.

We can’t win as disabled folk… We are either seen as lazy and not trying hard enough, or that we can’t really be disabled because we’ve done something…

open.spotify.com/album/2C6jpA... New release of Mendelssohn and Enescu octets by Quatuor Ébène and Belcea Quartet. Oh and it's brilliant.

Really good week working on a paper made even better for listening to this glorious new release of Brahms conducted by Edward Gardner with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. open.spotify.com/album/2Y0M0W...

All the best to everyone for whom it's the last day of term and a special shout out to those early years settings which are open year round! ☺️

As Labour unveils homelessness strategy, Shelter reveals a total of 382,618 people in England will spend Christmas without a home.

This is too funny for eight o'clock in the morning 😆👇

Emile Heskey: ‘Gone are the times when you just ignore abuse. No. Why should we?’

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

This is brilliant 🗡️

"We hope this cheers up your wintery week"