The role of pedagogical research in education-focused careers: Getting started in learning and teaching scholarship and why you should do it @alpsblog.bsky.social @profcathyelliott.bsky.social t.co/ue8GMSPdhs

pedagogical first: diligent student asks permission to skip concluding lecture because (with a bunch going on this week including possible city occupation) they're worried they won't finish novel in time and really really don't want spoiler of Moll Flanders

Happy to be at @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social Teaching and Learning Network conference at RHUL! And by appropriate and lucky chance I can also share @rosegann.bsky.social's @alpsblog.bsky.social blog on pedagogical research in education-focused careers! activelearningps.com/2025/09/03/t...

Kate and I are delighted to see our article on spacious learning published in @politicsjournal.bsky.social. In it, we advocate for slower spaces that centre ‘being’ rather than rushing to do or produce. We share three practices from our own teaching as examples: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This week on @alpsblog.bsky.social, we are publishing a short series on the role of pedagogical research in education-focused careers. My intro to the series is here: activelearningps.com/2025/09/02/t... @aspirenetwork.bsky.social

I keep getting asked for my salty thoughts about the Salt Path as my position on nature cure narratives is v clear! A mere fraction of those thoughts published here @literaryhub.bsky.social, with thanks to @bookwormvaught.bsky.social and @nicwilson.bsky.social for their earlier pieces linked below.

“Nature is under stress.” The signs are all around us. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... #climatechangeseasons

"Ecologists are only just beginning to grasp the full threat that extreme heat poses to the world’s wildlife populations, and how quickly it can drive species towards extinction. ...It has become a driver of biodiversity loss on a par with – or worse than – deforestation and habitat loss."

"Kathy, Ich am lost," Ich seyde, thogh methoughte she was sleepinge, "Ich am hollowe and hurtinge and knowe not wherfor" Countinge the cars on the Newe Jersey Turnpyke Thei have all come to looke for America

We're so excited to share our first book review, part of a new series here at EHN. Kate Prengel discusses #clifi and the new Climate Fiction Prize shortlist envhistnow.com/2025/07/22/h...

I teach this! It's a seminar for first-year undergrads called The Science of How to Study and they love it. (But it only reaches a very small number of students, would be great to have as a regular part of the curriculum)

Everyone is secretly hoping someone else will be the one to yell DO YOU WANT TO BE FRIENDS at them.

AIPedagogy.org from Harvard's metaLAB was already the best-designed introduction to AI for educators I knew of. I return to it again and again for creative, critical assignment ideas. Now it's even more user friendly and offers a space to compare chatbots and change their settings.

Hear me read 'Frog Song' through the Aftershock Review substack Along with my other new poems given a doorway to readers by @maxwallis.bsky.social, Frog Song is going to be in my 3rd collection Emergency Dream, publishing with @serenbooks.bsky.social in March 2026. #Swims #PondLife #BeMoreFrog

Slightly diminish a band: symptomatic relief

Slightly diminish a band: Cumbria Constabulary (In honour of your current listening, @jeremymoulton.bsky.social)

Slightly diminish a band: PET NICE TO HAVES

Slight diminish a band: Public Service Podcast

Slightly diminish a band: Arcade Ashes

This is a useful read - not on board with everything here (section 2 gives me pause) but "students need to be prepared and ready to unlearn and rebuild" is such an interesting point I've not seen noted: the ability to deconstruct and reorientate when necessary is key to academa, and rarely explicit.

'What is the greater risk? Biases in oral assessment? Or generating cohorts of graduates with skills to complete unseen, closed-book exams that are likely to be of limited value?' www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/07/14/t...

Cathy has been writing about flipped learning today. Look out for the example videos from her class embedded in the post! @uclspp.bsky.social

I've got a blog out today on @alpsblog.bsky.social about flipped learning: why and how I do it, what the students think and a bit of advice on how to go about it. Let me know your thoughts! Thanks to @roberttalbert.bsky.social for the prompts! activelearningps.com/2025/08/11/f...

Writing on Nature Course? Looking forward to tutoring this for @grantamag.bsky.social @grantabooks.bsky.social, directed by the brilliant @jessicajlee.bsky.social. It’s going to be an exciting & busy autumn! Applications open now: workshops.granta.com/courses/natu... #naturewriting #booksky

i DO have main character energy. if the film is Day After Tomorrow

New blog post: "On Grief" in higher ed. catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

Fun fact: we devote ten times more space to golf courses in England than we do to allotments (source: OS Greenspace data) www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan... bsky.app/profile/josi...

Few people actually read and STUDY Black women intellectual's work or take it seriously. I believe if they did, their work would be much better. The conversations about love, relationships, ABUNDANCE etc... are all theorized in Black feminist scholarship.

Course evaluations have been a ticking time bomb for years. An absolute Trojan horse of an institutional feature that offers zero helpful data points for improving education and the research on its downsides *before this* latest manipulation is a mile wide.

We are going to have the fun thing happen again where a dozen cisgender female athletes discover they have Y chromosomes.

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵

Great question from @profcathyelliott.bsky.social! What's your advice for getting an education focused role?

"Honestly, I just want one school – one! – to step up and say "no" to the ed-tech and AI vultures. I want one school to say "we trust our professors. We trust our students." 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-prime-di...

If you are interested in education-focused careers in HE, do contact us to get involved!

Lovely to be at a @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #DiverseVoices workshop to talk about teaching careers. These jobs are now often great and I feel good recommending them to this group. What's your advice for getting an education focused role? @aspirenetwork.bsky.social

‘Cleethorpes is all set for a seaside revival’. So here for this! 🌊☀️⛱ www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/... And if you visit, do check out our free exhibition: ‘Ravenser Odd, the sunken island of tne Humber’. At the Library until late August, with a bunch of free talks and workshops…

We all hunt with different weapons. Mine are “a mouse” and “an online delivery portal”.

Screw the lynx *I* am a natural predator of deer.

The other day I said to someone that I had switched deer for beef in a recipe for climate reasons and wow things got tense.

we should eat way more deer, too many of them around causing huge damage to woodland. They're a disaster without top level predation (the Epping Forest visitors centre has a freezer selling it from their herd, incredibly ethical meat, yet people keep complaining because Bambi or something)

New article from Rajani Bhatia and Anne Hendrixson! Kindling green hate through eco- and demographic anxiety. doi.org/10.1080/0964...

'all the nature writers and nature enthusiasts[...]who disdain modern life as unnatural and the modern world as a non-place. Of course they aren’t fascists. But when fascism comes along they may not be best-placed to see it for what it is, or to resist the pull of its song.'

This one for @versobooks.bsky.social went into more of the subtleties (this is my favourite). www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

More of the same sort of thing... www.inkcapjournal.co.uk/the-shapeshi...

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Wonderful! @environment.theguardian.com is a new account from @theguardian.com posting the country diary among other articles on environmental matters. Is it worth me continuing to post a daily #countrydiary, I wonder? #naturewriting

Bit of a non-standard @alpsblog.bsky.social post today. I've been thinking about The Salt Path fiasco, whether it gives me a teachable moment with my students for next term and if so, what I'd like them to take from it and what the assessed work that comes out of it might look like....

I like thinking of wasps as an apex predator! Mini flying tigers