When you open space for charter schools in a school system that already prioritises self-management expect to find extremist views cropping up in publicly funded education.

AI can audit published research. What will audit AI? theconversation.com/ai-will-soon...

Please share with colleagues our call for special issue on Generative AI and methodology.

Hi Bluesky! Methodological Innovations is an international, open access journal and the principal venue for publishing peer-reviewed, social-research methods articles. journals.sagepub.com/home/MIO

Colleague and fellow LitPlus researcher Jayne Jackson led us in some historical work on literacy curriculum. Reading used to be something we did very well. theconversation.com/kiwi-kids-on...

Grim reading on national reading scores for the United States - ‘Nearly 5 years after schools closed, the nation gets a new report card’ via NPR “Just 30% of (8th grade) students performing at or above NAEP's proficient standard.” www.npr.org/2025/01/29/n....

Finally, if you're in Oxford tonight at 5.30pm, or able to watch online, I'll be speaking about Rudolf Vrba, the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/7e1...

Testing Chinese AI large language model DeepSeek on human rights issues www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

This is great work and aligns with something I have been saying for a while... humans enjoy working hard toward goals. It gives us a sense of purpose. I think the current emphasis on quick and easy solutions is making people feel lost (with impacts on mental health), including many college students.

Europe made more electricity from sunshine than coal last year in what analysts called a “milestone” for the clean energy transition. 👍 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

To anyone feeling off today, and I know plenty who will, it won’t fix things but you might feel a bit better after reading about Moomins. www.moomin.com/en/blog/moom...

If US annexes Greenland will they be cleaning up their mess? Thanks to Politico news site for linking to the article. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

Annual summer challenge complete!

To be clear - Horizon Europe is a programme which gives our researchers opportunities to be funded *by the EU* to collaborate with European researchers, but because of the differences in funding between NZ and Europe our people need top-ups to meet all their costs (1/2)

An example of problems of AI "borrowing" from academic work going beyond non-attribution to creating a new conceptual reality.

Who'd have thought ruthless austerity would be bad for the economy? Nice work, Mr Luxon.

Does Whamageddon count when Last Christmas is sung by someone who is not Wham?

We're hiring an Assistant Professor in the field of #UrbanSociology, who can demonstrate expertise in the social and spatial life of the city, and how planning and/or design impacts urban life. Applications close Sunday 19th January 2025 (23.59 UK time).

The Royal Society Te Apārangi has sent an open letter to the Prime Minister about the importance of social sciences and humanities, following changes to the Marsden Fund terms that explicitly exclude research areas in the social sciences and humanities: www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/open-le...

Fabric designs from Footprints Studio lead designer Joyce Clissold. At Len Lye Centre, New Plymouth

there is no empirical relationship between a teacher's accent and their ability to teach. but there is a long-standing ideological relationship which frames non-dominant and non-standardised accents as signs of imagined pedagogical illegitimacy. @bjse.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Apparently these days a PhD and HE/research experience in education can get you £300 per MA supervision as a self-employed contractor. Includes supervision hours, induction, feedback & review of ethics and draft writing, first marking plus second marking another master’s dissertation. #edusky

A very rowdy crowd in my neighbourhood.

Promotion criteria should be adapted to help more female leaders advance in academia, #THEinnovation conference has heard #EduSky #HigherEd

Vacancy for a researcher working with @alinecourtois.bsky.social @sazanajayadeva.bsky.social and me on a new project on the 'Virtual Mobilities of International Students'. Based at @uniofbath.bsky.social Deadline for applications: 5 Jan 2025 Please repost - thanks! www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

We don't have an elf on the shelf but we do have a

"Women full professors are 19% more likely than men at the same career stage to leave academia, as compared with 6% for women assistant professors and 10% for associates."

We are delighted to announce a call for papers for a forthcoming special issue on ESR @europeansocreview.bsky.social Education and Social Mobility: Celebrating Richard Breen’s Contribution to Sociology Deadline for submission: 15 of June 2025 More details on the call 👇

More humanities not less?

Teacher shortages are rising—nearly 47% of students face them globally. The OECD’s Education Policy Outlook 2024 offers strategies to attract, retain, and develop teachers, building equitable and resilient systems. Read more: www.oecd.org/en/publicati... #EduSky

Quality Public Education Coalition’s response to the Marsden funding cuts aecnz.substack.com/p/skewing-ma...

Assad's government has fallen, so what comes next is a popular topic in news media today. Academics get called in for their expert opinion. Yet social science research is far better at understanding the past or the present than predicting the future.

Post doctoral fellow qualitative sociological research | UNSW #Edujobs #EduSky www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/40...

Kiwi TV from 1979 on children’s reading ‘Helping You to Help Your Child’ I wonder If any copies still exist. #nz #nzedchat

Call for submissions now open for our free online conference taking place on March 4, 2025. Please help us circulate. Submissions due 18 January 2025!

New article by Michalinos Zembylas ‘The ambivalence of wokeness: implications for teaching social justice education: Critical Studies in Education: Vol 0, No 0’ www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

On THE Campus: Women in academia are promoted at far lower rates than their male peers and are under-represented in senior positions. To fix this, universities will need to embrace systemic change, says Rachael Jefferson @charlessturtuni.bsky.social #AcademicSky #EduSky

A science mega-programme is taking shape in the EU: what it means for researchers

Wow - as someone living in that little sliver of land that is visible in the bottom left hand-corner, this is an amazing new perspective

Starter pack of scholars whose work looks critically at schooling & efforts to interrupt the social reproduction of inequality through education in transformative ways (U.S. & global) - updated w/ requests (sorry if I missed your request - inundated with notifications today) go.bsky.app/BYF1JZJ

Did you know that there is a bank of free resources that I've written on Global Citizenship Education? Useful for teachers, school leaders, Education academics as well as undergrad & postgrad students of education to engage with the complexity of global citizenship open.substack.com/pub/drcaroli...

"Using active voice is a powerful way to enhance the clarity and impact of your grant proposal." - Holly Zink, I Do Grants. hollyzink.com/2024/12/06/u...