NDAs can silence victims of abuse & harassment. Let's change this! Sign the petition to ensure the Employment Rights Bill bans NDAs in cases of misconduct. #StopAbusiveNDAs #EmploymentRightsBill you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

How could a slavery scandal involving the President of the United States be worse than we thought? This extremely long, extremely detailed, and fully sourced PROOF report explains. This—not the tariff war—is the most important story in America right now. I hope you will consider checking it out.

"Building an automated tool to profile people as violent criminals is deeply wrong, and using such sensitive data on mental health, addiction and disability is highly intrusive and alarming.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Private companies are polluting our rivers, hiking up bills, and failing to deliver. 82% of us want public ownership – let’s make it happen. If you're in the UK please sign the open letter... 👉 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pu...

Private companies are polluting our rivers, hiking up bills, and failing to deliver. 82% of us want public ownership – let’s make it happen! Please sign the open letter! 👉 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pu...

This is outrageous. 'Paul Parker, recording clerk for Quakers in Britain, said: “No-one has been arrested in a Quaker meeting house in living memory.' I am sickened to read this.

Don't listen before bed to this @newyorker.com interview with Gil Duran on "right-wing Silicon Valley technologists who want to use A.I. and cryptocurrency to unmake the federal government". But listen. www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...

Hello new followers, so sorry I nearly caught up& now I’m losing it again. I’m busy getting my final draft of the sequel to On Time finished alongside other projects; really proud of this one with @aaronearlyyears.bsky.social & @ruthswailes.bsky.social. It’ll be free to access online from 18 March

50 years on ... youtu.be/zD745mgWMcM?...

Disinformation/information operations? Definitely --- [DECODED] How online supporters made a victim of Duterte after ICC arrest www.rappler.com/technology/d... via @rapplerdotcom

NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline? Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s What should we make of this? www.ft.com/content/a801...

‘When we bask in the comfort and camaraderie of old friends, we’re feeling the product of 6 million years of evolution.’ Personal autonomy is abundant in the modern world. As a result, many of us get what we want but not what we need.

"And yet. And yet. Behaviorism and behavioral engineering are still everywhere, particularly in computing – and even, for all the talk about its modeling of "the mind," in artificial intelligence." @audreywatters.bsky.social 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/agents-versu...

"Literacy and numeracy are essential, but so too is the ability to process trauma, build relationships, and develop resilience." world-education-blog.org/2025/03/03/e...

Williams says she wants all pupils to be able to make choices, to ask questions and have an opinion, and the oracy project empowers them to do that. “The statistics about the literacy levels of young offenders are real.” www.theguardian.com/education/20...

AI in education is a failure of the imagination 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-war-on-t...

Please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

"The problem we seem to be facing is not a whole generation of autocratic young people but a complex question answered quickly in online polls and hugely overinterpreted in subsequent reporting." theconversation.com/only-6-of-ge...

What a wonderful conversation about curriculum, compassion, curiosity and creativity. soundcloud.com/rethinking-e...

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

"this is a government of the radicalised online right, for the radicalised online right, by the radicalised online right"

"I haven’t encountered a single application that hasn’t requested psychometric testing”

I am not a legal specialist at all but this seems a powerfully argued article with concrete suggestions for systemic improvements theconversation.com/lucy-letby-c...

As a children's writer this is a v interesting read. I'd love more longform discussion of children's books - this piece feels like it needs a follow up about contemp children's books now if anyone wants to commission one! #KidLitUK

Great piece: "It seems like common sense that mental health has gone down as tech use has gone up. But it just isn’t scientific."

"Children might sometimes do very bad and stupid things, but they are not so stupid that they can’t see they live in a country where the gulf in opportunities is quite staggering." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

VERY good news from @bookshop-org.bsky.social!!

Critical messages need to offer hope. "Many decision makers might not be open to hearing about bad news."

Sagan was a prophet.

First, if you’d like to learn more about the approach to reading lessons at the heart of Primary Reading Simplified, @FFTEdu are hosting two *free* webinars this week in which I will talk about exactly this: Tue 28 Jan - 15:45 - fftedu.org/3E82Lw1 Wed 29 Jan - 09:00 - fftedu.org/4au7y76 >>

Starting in 2 minutes... royalsociety.org/science-even...

The award-winning Tamer Institute is organizing a three-day event dedicated to Arabic children's literature in the time of genocide: Amman, Jordan, October 5–7, 2025. @arablit.bsky.social docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

FDR in 1936: “We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace – business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism … We know now that government by organised money is just as dangerous as government by organised mob.” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

A wonderful conversation for anyone inetrested in language, education, creativity, literature, and the power of writing arablit.org/2025/01/13/a... @arablit.bsky.social

"you can’t run a country without some kind of guiding philosophy"

Unfortunately no photo from last night's passionate @lrbbookshop.bsky.social lecture by Katherine Rundell. A packed venue at #SenateHouse, London Uni, enjoyed a winter treat. Instead, here is Rundell on children's literature on #BBCRadio4 (who are not yet on Bluesky!) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Why resilience won’t solve the mental health crisis among young people theconversation.com/why-resilien...

NEW: Meet Sergei Cristo, a Russian-born Conservative party activist turned whistleblower. Episode 1 is out today: A meeting at the Carlton Club. And the start of efforts to uncover the biggest Russian intelligence operation since the Cambridge Spy Ring. 1/ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

He was a leading advocate for the importance of professional expertise in teaching. Lee Shulman passed away on Dec 30 at the age of 86. A legend who leaves a huge legacy. www.legacy.com/us/obituarie... @pmdewitt.bsky.social @pasisahlberg.bsky.social

“More seals are breeding on the east coast because offshore windfarms may have provided a new footing there for underwater vegetation, crustaceans, molluscs, small fish and other marine life, creating a fish nursery that the seals are feeding on” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If anybody is going to be alone on Christmas Day and would like a quick call/zoom then I would be happy to do this for you - DM me if you want. I can talk about food, sport, tv or the weather. But most importantly I can talk. 💕 If not me, I’m sure I can find somebody for you.

Please join me on 3 February, 1 p.m. CET!

What happens if you re- direct measurement of the quality of classroom instruction to student engagement? We are very excited about these findings!

“this information ecosystem is toxic, and ... is seriously impacting our efforts to make the world a better place” publishingperspectives.com/2024/12/meli...

In this Abralin talk, Oscar Woolnough @owoolnough.bsky.social discusses how the brain processes written language. Using intracranial recordings from patients, he maps how vision, language, and memory interact during this process. Learn how neuroscience advances our understanding of reading.

Today.

"The quality of teaching cannot be considered intelligently without reference to the content being taught, because that is why teaching exists and without something to teach there can be no teaching."