🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: In a library: A woman (50s?) with a gloriously messy bun, in a tartan dress is embroidering a cross-stich sampler. An overspilling basket of colourful thread at her feet. A tranquil expression on her face. People browsing shelves around her. (1)

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: A man (30s?) is drawing big chalk love hearts on the pavement in front of his tattoo shop. A friend calls out a hello and he pauses to give her a welcoming smile. Pink chalk streaked across his cheek but he doesn't seem to mind. (1)

🧵Happy to announce, "The Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale: Development, validation, and associations with workplace outcomes" is now published! 😀🥳 (see replies below for more info) Official version: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Open-access version: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

I cannot evangelize enough for @zotero.org for citation management. It's a game changer. If you're a student, and you're writing a paper right now, and you're NOT using Zotero, I ask you...why? Why are you making things harder than they need to be?

Annual reminder to water your Christmas tree poems …

This new article on media multitasking (MM) by Drody, @effiejp.bsky.social, & Smilek is terrific. What makes it unique is that it holistically considers 5 key factors contributing to engaging in MM behaviors: cognitive architectural, dispositional, metacognitive, task valuation, & environmental. 1/2

🧵Spotted on Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand: A tiny human (1?) is helping Mum sell things. While Mum is greeting customers and taking payments--all one-handed. Tiny Human is propped on her hip, blowing big raspberry kisses of thanks. Giggle-snorting when people blow kisses back. (1)

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: A couple (70s?) walk into a steampunk cafe and are delighted by all the ephemera on the walls. One says to the other: "Could you imagine wearing this?!" The other says: "Yeah. I could actually, it'd be fun. I'd be a steampunk man." He grins. (1)

Unless you need some kind of specialist textbook, you basically need never buy another physical book again once you get used to the Libraries app. And the authors still get paid! www.librariesireland.ie

I don't know why anyone determined to buy a book online in Ireland wouldn't get it from this place, genuinely.

A good piece of advice for learning guitar or bass: Spend like half an hour looking at pedals and such, windowshopping, filling your shopping cart with like 2 or 3 that are in you budget. Then take that money you have and were gonna spend, and instead buy books and lessons with it.

How does learning really happen? This postersummarises how cognitive science can help us unlock deeper learning in the classroom. Clear, practical, and research-informed through the work of @carlhendrick.substack.com Link in next post.

wholly believe you should have at least 1 hobby of each of these types: 1. make things! (bake, knit, draw, woodworking) 2. experience art! (read, watch movies and tv) 3. move your body! (dance, lift weights, play sports) 4. community (volunteer, bar trivia, book club, discord movie night)

As a German I will forever be grateful to all who fought for the liberation of Europe. But as a historian I am looking at front pages today and must wonder: What is the point of remembering #VEDay 80 years on, what is the point of our thanks, when we are failing to protect the sacrifices made? 🧵

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

Think you're unbiased? Then look at this and click on the image: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Co...

This is the best TikTok I’ve ever seen

Best printer 2025: just buy a Brother laser printer, the winner is clear, middle finger in the air

NEW: Elon Musk’s X has suspended accounts of Turkish opposition groups, suppressing footage of anti-government protests. So, best we share all the footage we can here! This was last night’s massive demo against Erdogan’s government, which follows the arrest of his rival Ekrem İmamoğlu. 🇹🇷 #Turkey

Fuck Jeff Bezos, don’t shop at Amazon

An easy start for cutting Amazon out of your life is to treat it like a catalogue; look for the product you want then go and buy it from the website of the actual business instead. Requires very little effort to make a big difference in who you're giving money to.

Irish businesses will struggle to compete with Amazon ie, both online and in the high street. Shop direct with your Irish retailers, who already exist. Support local, not the billionaires.

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. Happy St Patrick’s Day. m.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbu...

Spotted at a Country Market in Aotearoa New Zealand: A burly man (70s?) with a Canadian accent is talking to a friend at a used book stall. He says: "You know, some people come here for the beautiful scenery, but I'm here to look at the tractors!" (1)

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: A couple of cafe regulars (80s?), originally from Portland, Oregon, are leaving after their morning coffee and slice of pie. As they head for the door, they're stopped by almost every table. These two are well loved and everyone wants a chat. (1)

🟨New Publication in #LMT 🟪 In this study Shaheen argues that in/accessible technology-mediated education is an assemblage of learning, access labor, teachers, technologies, temporalities, and affectivities. Read more (🔓): tinyurl.com/2c46t2du

When these are your cookies options, with no reject-all button, know that I hate you.

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: A man (30s?) is shepherding four small humans (3?) in fairy costumes down the street. It's starting to rain, and he's trying to huddle them all under a pink unicorn umbrella, but they're having none of it. Nothing's gonna dampen their sparkle! (1)

Can any #Edusky or #LnD people recommend academic conferences in Europe where aspects of workplace #e-learning would be a suitable topic for an oral presentation? Most conferences I see where e-learning is on the agenda focus on second- or third-level education rather than workplace learning.

Today I want to tell you about the Brown-Stigler incident. 20th December 1943 these two pilots would be the centre of an episode that would last decades.

If you attended an Irish 3rd level institution you have 2 days to register at seanadvoter.ie to be on the register to vote in the new 6 seat constituency. 2 more days.

When I see such drivel I think: He was a poet. If you value what he says about teaching, then you'll love my poetry! He knows as much about good teaching as I do about writing a good poem. What Robert Frost, Albert Einstein...say about teaching and learning is their opinion. Period!! #EduSky

Help needed ! Final push for this to finish off the weekend - English State School Exec. Leaders and Chairs of Governors please spare me 10 mins of your time to complete this anonymous survey! Help me get to my target for participants 🙏

Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.

Spotted While Roaming in a Small City in Aotearoa New Zealand: At a beach side park: A tiny human (2?) is questing to find as many piggy wiggies as she can. She gleefully waddles around a large family of people at a bbq, pointing at their toes and shrieking with delight when they wiggle them. (1)

🧵Spotted on Market Day in a Small City in Aotearoa New Zealand: A tiny human (1?) has worked out that blowing raspberries at strangers is a LOT of fun. Especially when different strangers of all ages, makes and models blow raspberries right back at her. Delighted chortles ring through the air. (1)

Announcing a side-project that I have been working on for the past few months – introducing quokka, a free-to-use, in-browser app for qualitative coding. My goal was to make an app that was fairly intuitive and flexible so that it could fit most workflows. An app demo here: youtu.be/9jJK70W0hAI?...

If you care about learning, the theories that describe it, and how to improve and apply those theories to educational contexts, then you need to read this by @mattbernacki.bsky.social article! (1/2) #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky https://buff.ly/3Pn7Dj4

Radical Constructivism and Cognitive Psychology Only when a science of education develops that sorts truth from fancy - as it is beginning to develop now - will dramatic improvements in educational practice be seen. #EduSky www.kirschnered.nl/2025/01/05/r...

See now *this* is the content we need here

UL graduates can now apply to be entered on the Register of Electors for the Seanad Éireann Higher Education constituency. This constituency will be in effect for any election after 1 June 2025. Visit seanadvoter.ie to apply by 23rd Jan.

Can interleaved retrieval practice enhance learning in classrooms? The unequivocal answer here is yes, especially when it comes to longer term retention. The results demonstrate a cost-effective strategy to promote classroom learning. #EduSky doi.org/10.1177/0956...

🧵Spotted While Roaming in a Small City in Aotearoa New Zealand: A tiny human (2?) running up to a low fence barely containing a very tubby sausage dog. Sausage dog and small human seem equally delighted to see each other and are squirm-dancing on the spot. (1)

These downward trends are depressing. Academics should strive to write plainly, but the opposite is happening

White mornings in town 🌫️🌨️ #photography #alcaladehenares #snow #fog #spain #Madrid #moody #sonyalpha #travel #street #streetphotography #urban #urbanphotography #oldtown #snowfall #christmas #España

Don’t agree with everything here, but definitely worth reading and thinking about… imho there are many reasonable paths for universities etc to take in today’s complicated information ecosystem. But whatever the path, it should be chosen *deliberately* www.chronicle.com/article/univ...

🧵Spotted on an afternoon hike in Aotearoa New Zealand: An English woman (30s) is flapping a campervan door open and shut: "Enid I am NOT getting back in there until you get it out of your system. That. Was. HORRENDOUS." A woman inside is howling with laughter. "I'm sorry! It was the cherries!" (1)