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The University of Manchester @manchester.ac.uk · 09/09/2025

🎙️ What does it take to build a lifelong learning city? In this episode of the EduTrends podcast, Professors Ang Davies and Simon Thomson share how Manchester is leading the way - with flexible, inclusive education that offers students control over their learning. Listen now 👇 @digisim.bsky.social

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Ep. 71 - Building a Lifelong Learning City with Ang Davies and Simon Thomson

Ang Davies and Simon Thomson share how the University of Manchester is designing flexible learning for a lifelong educational future.

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Simon Thomson @digisim.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Not a bad way to spend the afternoon!!! 😍

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Simon Thomson @digisim.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I have been fortunate in my career to have had three amazing women lead, mentor and inspire me: @profsallybrown.bsky.social Prof Ruth Pickford and Prof Danielle George. I am forever grateful for their continual guidance. it’s fantastic to see @altuk.bsky.social recognising women in our community.

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Simon Thomson @digisim.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Australian government guide for tertiary education : Gen AI strategies for Australian higher education: Emerging practice. great to see a gov taking a leading role in this way. It helps join up the thinking & gives practical guidance through emerging practice. www.teqsa.gov.au/sites/defaul...

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 18/11/2024

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

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Action Intent Links | Bluesky

Authors, websites, and apps can use action intent links to implement "Share on Bluesky" buttons, or similar in-app actions. Logged-in users will be directed to the corresponding action view in the Blu...

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Simon Thomson @digisim.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I wonder what the morning will bring? I love the snow, especially when I was a child & school was closed. But the idea of a snow day being a day off school is pretty much gone 😟. Many schools now set online learning activities for children to complete. But don’t forget to set some time for play too!

A garden at night with a covering of snow.

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@suebecks @suebecks.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

For those just joining Bluesky and interested in Higher Education, I have created a list of educators I follow which may be helpful to look at to expand your own network. bsky.app/profile/did:... #highered #LTHEchat #altc

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Simon Thomson @digisim.bsky.social · 28/09/2024

OfS think that students with low a’level grades but high degree classifications are “unexplained”. Maybe if they actually knew what Universities do and how they support students to maximise their potential then it wouldn’t be such a mystery to them. www.officeforstudents.org.uk/news-blog-an...

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Proportion of top grades falls to pre-pandemic levels, but nearly half are still unexplained - Office for Students

Figures released by the Office for Students (OfS) show that the proportion of top degree classifications awarded to students has fallen to pre-pandemic levels, after considerable rises in recent years...

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Simon Thomson @digisim.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

Now I’ve nothing against cats and as we all know it’s exactly what the internet was made for but @bsky.app seems to have a higher proportion of cat posts than most 🤔 - can someone check the algorithm please 😉

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Simon Thomson @digisim.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

I’m grateful for the tools to protect my Wordpress site but why the heck would there have been 11k attempts to hack it. Must be something valuable on there that I don’t know about 😂

Screenshot from my WordPress account showing that it has saved my site from reviewing 29 spam comments and protected me from 11,000 blocked brute force attacks.

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Simon Thomson @digisim.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

@bsky.app definitely feels like an early Twitter. I’m excited for it’s potential and it’s been lovely connecting with people again at @altuk.bsky.social conference #altc24 where I’d really missed the friendly back channel of conversation when I ditched using the one with the bird!!

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