In January I ran a marathon in the Arctic Circle. Next month I'll be running 25 miles in the delightfully titled Arc of Attrition UTMB race with around 1300 metres of uphills to contend with. I'm raising money for a school in Senegal. Please donate if you can 🙂 www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

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Think we’ve crossed a pretty major threshold – and a very bad one – if a journalist working in the lobby for a major newspaper group can tweet like this without professional consequences.

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

Saw this AI prompt being used and thought I'd give it a spin.

None of this happened, none of these pictures are real, AI slop like this makes the world dumber and worse and the companies peddling it 24/7 are destroying civilization.

Managed to run a total of >40k two weeks in a row. Training officially begun for Arc of Attrition in January 😅 #edurunners

But AI is promised to "save schools time"? "schools are not only getting an increasing number of complaints generated by AI but they are also having to dedicate more staff time to dealing with them ... 'and that really multiplies the workload'" www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Thinking of Batman today

Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years. What are we doing?

Good question, quote posting to answer, the illegal tariffs are the baseline 10%, suspended reciprocal tariffs, and a few others. The UK US deal focused on other tariffs - cars and other products - which remain in force.

📉 Year 7 school switch-off begins before Easter Our new research featured in @tesmagazine.bsky.social shows a 15 percentage point drop in enjoyment + rising stress levels by Term 2. The socio-economic gap in enthusiasm and support for high attainers is growing. #MathsEd #Year7 #EdResearch

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

Draft of my next book “Bothered about maths” 🧮 is almost complete 😃. Been a joy to write a guide to developing a strong positive classroom culture & enthusing children (& teachers!) about teaching & learning maths. An expansion of the wonderful book Botheredness by @hywelroberts.bsky.social

I ordered some hobby knickknacks on Etsy and they offered me the option to personalize the carrying case

Watched Sinners last night. What a movie! 🎬 🍿

The closing date for these vacancies is Monday ...

anyone have a handy Oura recommend discount code thingy?

Got a little extravagant with my spending after seemingly never being able to clean my glasses fully. It’s either this or I become some kind of OCD maniacal scrubber of lenses

Like any serious athlete I have a plan for the #LondonMarathon today: 1. Run until my hip stops working; 2. ???????? 3. Collect medal

Rewatching the wire and omg it’s even better than I remember!

Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

I am still in need of a term of 0.6FTE Maths supply. North Yorkshire school. Days are Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays. All KS3 teaching from set curriculum and pupils have work booklets so very limited planning/ marking. Please share with anyone you might know.

Loving the new Bon Iver album

Really enjoyed The Loney as my holiday book.

Having a “so what next?” moment 🤔

Rare decagon seen in the wild

Pleased to launch >80 lessons to support financial education and application of maths 👇 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Twitter account deleted today. I was finally ready to put it to bed.

Why aren’t you wearing a suit? Have you said “Thank you” to Greenland and Denmark for allowing you to have a base on Greenland?

Not overly bothered about Starbucks except for THIS ONE

To explain what WHSmith sells is to understand why it’s a mess

Interesting developments over at White Rose Edu this weekend. They've had a phenomenal impact on maths edu in the last decade, particularly in the primary space. A very impressive success story in education. Tony & Caroline are brilliant minds and it'll be exciting to see what they do next. 👀

Interim report for the curriculum assessment review is out today: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67d961...

Well this is exciting! I get to parade in style as an ambassador now 😎

Hilbert doodle

Fun 😀. There exists an irregular hexagon with integer sides of lengths 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 and equal internal angles, within a 9x9x9 equi. Δ

I promise I don’t have a league table for maths hub merch 😂

Also just for giggles here are charts of corn, wheat, and beans

Ariana Grande's Oscars gown as the graph of f(x,y) = 1−exp(x⁶−15x⁴y²+15x²y⁴−y⁶): www.desmos.com/3d/ktg4co3cpm

A colleague sent me this recently and it feels very apt 😂 Newcastle again and Kent this week. I feel like George Clooney in Up In The Air

BREAKING: Chancellor Rachel Reeves has signed a £2.26 billion loan agreement with Ukraine to strengthen its defence capabilities, to be repaid using profits from frozen Russian assets 👏

For once I’d love to see a movie where the cocky protagonist makes a “never tell me the odds” style speech then instantly perishes and the credits roll because maths.

bad global news is just relentless at the moment. I barely listen to the radio or read about it, and even then I'm exhausted.

I do love my Herd of Nerds 😍 @missradders.bsky.social @edsouthall.bsky.social @drrowlandson.bsky.social

I've barely listened to music from 2024/5. What have I missed out on?