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Camilla Priede

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Senior University Teacher. Lifelong Learning Sheffield. e-bike convert, tuba playing. views-own etc.

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Camilla Priede @camillapriede.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Hi @sheffieldcouncil.bsky.social @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social any ideas why AMEY are still spraying all flowers on the roadside at a time of climate and nature emergency? A sad sight on my lunchtime walk
A (nice and polite) man pointlessly spraying weedkiller on flowers
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Camilla Priede @camillapriede.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
This is so sad. I've lost (and am losing) so many brilliant colleagues over the last few months, in Sheffield and beyond. Can't help but think that if it was any other sector this would be much much bigger news.
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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
This ought to be a huge national news story. But the quiet dismantling of a key sector barely registers outside HE. Maybe someone will care when the local economies that Unis sustain start to go bust too. Important story from @patrickjack.bsky.social & @timeshighered.bsky.social
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Camilla Priede @camillapriede.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Amazing to see a @sheffielduni.bsky.social LIfelong Learning Foundation Year alumnus writing in WonkHE.
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UCU Essex @ucuessex.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
In yet more devastating news, the VC has confirmed her plans to cut 80% of academic staff from Essex Pathways, our foundation year department. This would effectively close down all our existing foundation year programmes through the back door. But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.
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Carter 🏳️‍🌈 @riayn.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals. www.gov.uk/government/c...
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Earned settlement
The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.
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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 22/10/2025
45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue. 31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions. 20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
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Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
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VaughanCoop.bsky.social @vaughancoop.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
This is disappointing but not unexpected. Post 24 adult education is continually sidelined.
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Camilla Priede @camillapriede.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Finished the week with some teaching prep for #FoundationYear geography. Thinking about how to teach rivers, but more importantly how to help students gain confidence and joy in exploring and reading #Sheffield 's fantastic landscapes
A bog in heather moorland with Sheffield in the distance
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Camilla Priede @camillapriede.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Back to reality and work today after a lovely week in Scotland, seeing old friends and places, and my mind is still a bit blown from the 'new' #rockart, badly photographed below at Dunchraigaig in the Kilmartin Glen
A deer carving in a tomb in the Kilmartin Valley
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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Just re-posting this for those who haven't seen it yet and might be scrollling with their lunch. Please sign and share if you feel able and help us advocate for our unique and accessible part-time degree, known as ELCE against the planned closure by Bristol Uni. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Save our pioneering widening participation undergraduate degree in English Literature and Community Engagement at the University of Bristol
19 August 2025 Dear Evelyn Welch (Vice-Chancellor) cc Judith Squires (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost), Tansy Jessop (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students) The School of Humanities has ...
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Camilla Priede @camillapriede.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
One of the team is having a chill day in the home office after #Clearing yesterday. We're now closed to new applicants but looking forward to interviewing candidates for @sheffielduni.bsky.social #LifelongLearning foundation years next week.
A cat, who did nothing to help with clearing yesterday also providing life assistance today.
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Camilla Priede @camillapriede.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
It's going to be great for student learning, but I'm feeling ancient now that 2015 is a layer on Historic Digimap
A historic map of Sheffield, from 2015
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Camilla Priede @camillapriede.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Lizzy and Lynsey have also done an amazing talk at #FYNAC25 around AI positive assessment, and how we've integrated this into our Foundation Year programme
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Camilla Priede @camillapriede.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Lovely to see Jacqui and Valeria from talking about how the team has worked to make Maths relevant for all our #FoundationYear students #FYNAC25
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Helen Spicer-Cain @helensc.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Excellent first day at the Foundation Year Network Annual Conference talking all things foundation years in Higher Education @foundationyearnet.bsky.social
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Camilla Priede @camillapriede.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Phrase of the day for #FYNAC25 "Panic pedagogy" (with reference to AI and assessments)
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Camilla Priede @camillapriede.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Good to hear @dkernohan.bsky.social and Lord Willetts recognising the role that #FoundationYears can play in the future particularly for mature students in coming years! #FYNAC25
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Camilla Priede @camillapriede.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Getting ready for @foundationyearnet.bsky.social #FYNAC25 this week. I'll be speaking about how we've revised our science assessments to engage with AI, whilst growing our cohort. Basically it takes a village to redesign a programme! currently 22 acknowledgements on the slide.
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Camilla Priede @camillapriede.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Fabulous Sunday afternoon helping out the incredible young musicians of Sheffield Music Hub in Weston Park. My first time in a band stand in 30 years of tuba playing!
Weston Park Band Stand, containing Sheffield youth Wind band
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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Last week on Wonkhe: New research from Public First shows that every UK resident is better off due to international students. Charlie Jeffery explains why it’s vital this message cuts through
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International students benefit local economies, and this extends to those living and working there
New research from Public First shows that every UK resident is better off due to international students. Charlie Jeffery explains why it’s vital this message cuts through New research from Public First...
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Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
"At the heart of all of this is one clear message – disabled students are not asking for luxury. They’re seeking the basic conditions needed to study, participate, and succeed." - A fantastic write up of welfare reforms and the HE landscape from DSUK's Hailie: wonkhe.com/blogs/welfar...
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Welfare reforms will hit disabled students hard
Hailie Pentleton explores how reforms to the welfare system will create impossible choices for disabled students trying to access and thrive in higher education Hailie Pentleton explores how reforms t...
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Camilla Priede @camillapriede.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
This is not like me. I've drafted my #FYNAC25 slides over a week before the deadline! So far got 22 people in the acknowledgements section which shows that doing cool stuff in UK HE right now is a massive team effort, especially if you want to stay sane(ish) whilst doing it.
An opening slide for my Foundation Year Network Annual Conference presentation
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Camilla Priede @camillapriede.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Came back to work to GOOD news, that incredible colleagues across the #FoundationYear sector have collaborated to pass a motion @ucu.org.uk congress to recognise the importance of high quality Foundation Year provision.
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Camilla Priede @camillapriede.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
ABERDEEN!!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️ #COYR #ScottishCupFinal
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Faculty of Health | University of Sheffield @fohsheffield.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Interested in returning to education to study pharmacy, nursing, speech and language therapy or orthoptics as a mature student? Join @sheffielduni.bsky.social for their Mature Student Taster to find out more about foundation year entry. 📅 3 June, 10am - 1.30pm 🔗 www.sheffield.ac.uk/education/li...
Two mature students in a lab. They wear lab coats and safety glasses.
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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
A permanent, 0.5te, lecturer position on the Foundation Year at YSJ. The team are looking for expertise in modern history, politics, IR. jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at York St John University: Lecturer in Liberal Arts
Part time permanent Location: York Salary: £39,355 to £48,149 per annum (£19,677 to £24,074 pro rata)Introduction to YSJ university York St John is an ambitious, modern university at the heart of hist...
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Camilla Priede @camillapriede.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I've been on an intense #TheArchers catch up and have questions 1. Has Pip got a new voice? and 2. Is Laurence (from the cricket team) Larry Lovell, Lynda's old dramatic rival?
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Camilla Priede @camillapriede.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Had a first cycle along the trial Northumberland Road cycle lane today. It's great! Thanks @sheffcitycouncil.bsky.social @benmiskell.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social ! Can it stay forever? I really appreciate how much safer it is both as a cyclist and a pedestrian.
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University of Sheffield Player @unishefplayer.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Many students seeking sanctuary feel left out, even after getting into university. This project shows how 'welcome' must go beyond words - and what we can all do to help. 🎥 Watch the video + comic strip: bit.ly/45i0b1M
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Sheffield UCU @sheffielducu.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Tomorrow our members are taking strike action to say no to job cuts! 💪 Join our picket lines from 8:30am, as well as various teach outs from 10am, and a Demo on the SU Concourse from Midday. 📣
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10:00: Learn a Minority Language: Mari by Irina Sadovina, Gallery Room 3
Sheffield Labour Against Benefit Cuts by Ash Taylor, Gallery Room 2

11:00: Does Confronting Prejudice Work?, by Lilith Roberts Gallery Room 2
Sewing/crafting skills swap, by Jessica Baily, Gallery Room 3

12:00: Rally: Students and Staff Against University Cuts! SU Concourse

13:00:Student & Staff Tea Time, hosted by Tea Soc, Uni Central

14:00: The Fight for the Archeology Department by Umberto Albarella, Uni Central

15:00: Palestine organising and repression, by SUCU’s Working Group on Palestine, Uni Central
Zine Making & Quilting for an Anti-Ableist University, by Cassie Kill & Daniel Jones, Gallery Room 3
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Camilla Priede @camillapriede.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
So sad that football seems to have trumped biodiversity, inclusivity and girls here.
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Camilla Priede @camillapriede.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Best Friday morning at work, double checking the route for our #FoundationYear geography Field trip on Thursday. The Limb brook is at peak bluebell.
A public footpath sign in a beech woodBluebells in the valley
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Camilla Priede @camillapriede.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I'm old enough and Scottish enough to be very starstruck to see Steven Hendry's back in the Winter Gardens on Saturday #SheffieldLovesSnooker
Hazel Irvine, Steve Davis and Steven Hendry and a crowd in the winter gardens in Sheffield
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Camilla Priede @camillapriede.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Important Bank Holiday DIY work, getting ready for @yorkshirewinds.bsky.social workshop with Sheffield Music Hub on Saturday. Points (and possibly some coconut cake) for anyone who can guess the piece
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Camilla Priede @camillapriede.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Good Friday eggs- from Tumeric and Red Cabbage. We'll be having these and thinking of Ukrainian friends also celebrating this weekend.
Blue and yellow eggs
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Camilla Priede @camillapriede.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Everything is on fire, but Arthur (who I've had the privilege of meeting on a number of occasions) has made it to the local paprr. www.thestar.co.uk/lifestyle/pe...
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Adventures of pub-going, school-visiting Sheffield cat shared online
Arthur is a bright, sociable Sheffield boy who regularly visits school, stops in at the pub and makes new friends all the time. Arthur is also a cat.
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Foundation Year Network @foundationyearnet.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
We have a bursary to help people attend #FYNAC25 register.oxfordabstracts.com/event/74081?... Please do apply, if you need forms.gle/jERDTecCxnBy...
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Attendance Bursary Application Form
The Foundation Year Network wishes to ensure that members are not excluded from our events on financial grounds. We therefore are able to provide bursaries for support with the costs of attending our ...
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Camilla Priede @camillapriede.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The goth badgers of Ecclesall have started digging. One of my favourite #SignsOfSpring
A graveyard in Sheffield, where Badgers have been digging.
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Camilla Priede @camillapriede.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Snowdon. First adventure of 2025 done!
The toposcope at the top of Mount Snowdon
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Camilla Priede @camillapriede.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Our refugee students are some of our most amazing #lifelonglearning students, but they face a lot of additional barriers, including academic English support and SFE witholding financial support due to partial qualifications from countries people have had to flee.
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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 26/02/2025
god forbid women have hobbies
A news article with the headline "Rare fresco discovered in Pompeii shows type of woman who 'breaks free from male order to dance freely, go hunting and eat raw meat in the mountains'".
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Camilla Priede @camillapriede.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Night time amphibian season has started in #Sheffield with newts at Redmires
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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Hello Bluesky 👋 Pleased to meet you 💙 We are the charity that operates six of the city’s leading museums and heritage sites in Sheffield - here to share the stories of the city and its people, the very best in art and design and set your imagination soaring. Let’s go! 🚀
Composite image showing: people looking at a large, green, Victorian engine, school children dressed in Viking costumes, young children looking at bugs, a couple looking at a painting of a man wearing a turban.
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Camilla Priede @camillapriede.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I love this account until June 21st
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Nathan Yau @flowingdata.com · 13/02/2025
Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
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Defense Against Dishonest Charts
This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.
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Camilla Priede @camillapriede.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
A valentine's poem for my #FoundationYear students before they go off to their departmental supervisions next week.
A scribbled terrible poem, written on a Friday afternoon
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Camilla Priede @camillapriede.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Bad news for #LifelongLearning when you look at the mature student numbers here (not borne out in our applicant figures yet 🤞).
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Camilla Priede @camillapriede.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Coconut Macaroons, made for lunch with a gluten-free friend. I'd never made them before and it turns out there's a 4:1 sugar:tattie ratio in the fondant. No wonder my teeth are broken from my Aberdeenshire childhood. (A big faff, but would make again, perhaps for taking on a 10 +mile walk).
A pile of coconut macaroonsTattie fondant, on its way to the freezer
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