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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Back at work today after a great summer. Looking forward to the new term!

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Thank you for sharing, I’ve passed it on to him

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Thank you so much for this, I have passed it on to him

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Jim Robinson @jim-robinson.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Hello everyone! I am working on my dissertation, & my topic focuses on the social inclusion of students with autism in elementary schools. Please consider taking the survey below, & sharing it with any other educators/ administrators that you may know. Tinyurl.com/SocialInclusionASD

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Ah yes, I forget hashtags exist sometimes. Thank you!

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

My friend is teaching IB physics for the first time this year and doesn’t use twitter, is there anyone on here willing to share their experience and/or resources with him?

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Presumably there is a cost involved in continuously re advertising, but surely there is some way to match teachers needing a job with a school. It seems like it’s increasingly difficult to get a job in a council you don’t already work in

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Hi, I know this is an older article (I’m trying not to use social media much) but I couldn’t comment on the article itself. How much of this do you feel is down to the way we advertise posts? I know physics teachers who are unemployed in remote areas who would apply for jobs if they were advertised

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Presumably a money maker for the powers that be, but it’s clearly horrible for attention spans as well as user experience

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Physghoul 👻 🎃 @physgal.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Interesting new study on LLM use in an educational setting: "...the LLM group's participants performed worse than their counterparts in the Brain-only group at all levels: neural, linguistic, scoring." 🍎 🎢 🧪 #AcademicSky

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Had a great time listening to Chris Hadfield this evening. Always great to learn about space 🚀🔭🛰️#iTeachPhysics

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Hi Drew, welcome! It’s the closest thing I can find to the old version of the bird app but I’ve found engagement to be tricky at times due to the smaller number of people on here

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Not exaggerating, this might be the greatest demo I’ve ever seen. Definitely trying this tomorrow!

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

And you’ve now hit the crux of the issue. Essentially a government elected on increasing teacher numbers and local authorities/schools who are so cash strapped that they can’t afford to hire them. I’m not sure if the targets are to maintain numbers of increase them, but I would guess the latter

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

I do often find the dichotomy between science teacher recruitment in Scotland vs the rest of the UK. I would imagine a large number of the numbers above will move south of the border as there are limited numbers of permanent posts here, despite the recruitment targets

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

ScotGov Teacher Intake Figures 2025: Physics: Target 131, Actual 42 Chemistry: Target 159, Actual 54 Biology: Target 163, Actual 88 Maths: Target 250, actual 75(!) These are worrying figures caused (imo) by a lack of permanent jobs post probation. Something must be done soon

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

How many reasons do people need to stop using this stuff?

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

This is obviously based from a Scottish perspective, but it’s particularly relevant for teachers/assessors/markers for any course which has a coursework element. Generating results from an experiment that never happened is rather scary

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I tried to get it to produce a full higher and advanced higher physics assignment by feeding it the course specification. By my marking, it got over 50% from a basic prompt and close to 100% with some fine tuning. Caveat: I’m not an official marker for such assignments

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I’ve been playing around with Google Gemini’s deep research functionality and it does a pretty good job at generating experimental results for common experiments. Has anyone come across kids trying to use this? #sciteachuk #iteachphysics

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

As others have mentioned, hanging systems are great. I spoke nicely to our technical department and had a brilliant solution within a week

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Even reading about this makes me start to stress 😅

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I’ve never seen one of these before but I’m definitely going to try build one

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Yeah this has been my experience, it’s a shame

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Thank you - I’ve been trying to check #iteachphysics but it hasn’t been as popular as I’d hoped.

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I’m looking to see more posts from UK- based physics/science teachers, do any #edusky experts know how I can find them?

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Not a biologist but this looks like a great eyesight demo! What do you put in the flask?

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Are you a US scientist thinking of quitting the States for Europe? Would you be willing to talk about it — anonymity is possible? Send me a DM. (Please reskeet if you have US contacts!)

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Can I ask how to submit a question? Single person department here and looking for some advice

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

It depends on what the break is I think. If the break is going on their phones then I think they’ll exit the break more lethargic than before. I’ve taken some classes on a walk round the school grounds during a double period to give them a break which worked quite well

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Is it new? I don’t remember seeing it last time I had a browse

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

It’s awesome, had a great time using it this year and will definitely be using it more now that I know about it!

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Simon Poliakoff @simonpoliakoff.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The flying tea bag demonstration looks good with an infrared camera. #ITeachPhysics #SciTeachUK youtube.com/shorts/ONjGo...

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Flying tea bag demonstration with infrared camera #physicsfun

YouTube video by Physics with Simon Poliakoff

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Straight onto the shopping list I think!

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Might try it in that order for the upcoming year, thanks!

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Love this! Strange question, but I’ve only ever seen waves taught right at the start of S3, how do you feel about teaching it so far into the year?

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

They got me when I was training to teach, thankfully they agreed to defer it because it was due to be right in the middle of a placement

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I thought you had moved away AQA? What made you stay?

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The IOP created a “guess the physicist” resource a few years ago which I’ve found to be pretty good

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I’m primarily a physics teacher, so my head says “centimetre squared” but I think my heart wants to say “square centimetre”

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

It’s really not usually my type of thing but I’ve really enjoyed it!

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I do miss seeing that building every day, even if the Kelvin building wasn’t as pretty…

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I’ve moved over to using this in physics lessons this year, it’s the best of its kind that I’ve found

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David Borland M.Ed. 🦄 @dborland.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

This is a crossover I never knew I needed…

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Alex Weatherall @aweatherall.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

#Aotearoa #NewZealand #Science We've known for over 112 years that burning fossil fuels increases CO₂ in the atmosphere. We've also known CO₂ and other greenhouse gases reduce the heat that escapes to space, keeping the planet warmer for just as long. The time to act was then, if not now. #nzpol

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