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School teacher fellow (uniquely) combining teaching chemistry in school (0.4) and HE (0.6). Author, curriculum design, policy, perpetual volunteer.

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Education in Chemistry @rsc-eic.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Change can be unsettling, especially when it's something as significant as curriculum change. @doc-kristy.bsky.social shares her top tips for handling curriculum change with confidence 💡 ⬇️ edu.rsc.org/staffroom/fi... #iteachchem
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Dr Jamie Gallagher @jamiebgall.co.uk · 02/06/2026
It’s Pride 🏳️‍🌈 Spare one repost for a small creator? 🥺 My science and sci fi pins raise money for homeless LGBTQ+ people. Just sent another £800 to @aktcharity.bsky.social bringing total to £47,521 New for Pride 2026: 🌈Scientist🌈 🏳️‍🌈🐥🦜🦅🏳️‍🌈 🌈pronouns🌈 www.jamiebgall.co.uk/shop
Pin badge “scientist” in rainbow motif Two bird pins. A series if birds sitting on a branch. Each bird is the colour of a stripe on the rainbow flag. Pronoun pins with rainbow motif:
She her 
He him 
She they 
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They them An array of pride themed science and sci fi pins.
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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 28/05/2026
‘The current government policy of non-intervention exposes chemistry departments like Nottingham & Sheffield,’ says research policy analyst Paul Nightingale. www.chemistryworld.com/university-o...
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University of Sheffield planning to cut jobs in chemistry and materials science
Around 20% of the chemistry and materials science faculty could lose their jobs as university address financial challenges
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Education in Chemistry @rsc-eic.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
🧪 Use these five tops tips from @doc-kristy.bsky.social to secure your learners' understanding of gas tests and build their confidence ⬇️ edu.rsc.org/ideas/5-ways...
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doc-kristy.bsky.social @doc-kristy.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
My monthly trip to said coffee shop and she's here again... doesn't even have a coffee, she's drinking a can of monster and charging all of her devices... looks like she's about to start another of these interviews..
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doc-kristy.bsky.social @doc-kristy.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Some more responses would be great!
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Brendan @chemscrapes.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The curse of cyanide.... #chemsky #chemchat
a molecule of oxygen is pointing and laughing at another molecule. It is making hand gestures and saying"six, seven! six, seven!". The other molecule is cyanide.  The carbon looks mad. the nitrogen is rolling it's eyes.
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doc-kristy.bsky.social @doc-kristy.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I am in a well known coffee shop & there is a young woman here conducting a group Zoom interview on loudspeaker... I know all about Jamie who has relocated from the Highlands to Manchester and has had a number of temp jobs, and Holly who is finding it hard getting a teaching job so looking around
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doc-kristy.bsky.social @doc-kristy.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
A level chemistry teachers... My 3rd year chem ed project students are researching practical assessment in A level chemistry, its history, they status quo and what might be the next steps. They have a survey they would love to get teacher view through. www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...
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Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.
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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 25/02/2026
The Royal Society needs you! It is looking for important locations in the history of women in science in the UK.
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Royal Society asks for help as it unveils interactive UK map charting memorialisation of women in science
Locations, landmarks and monuments dotted throughout the UK highlight the contributions of women
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doc-kristy.bsky.social @doc-kristy.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
The start of half term was initially hectic with a dash up to Scotland for a dance competition but this was followed by a few days of rest (some enforced by bad weather!)
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Emily Rae @ecrmaths.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Big Oxford applications news... the MAT and PAT are being replaced with the TMUA and ESAT for 2027 entry... #ALevelMaths #MathsToday www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/u...
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Admissions tests | University of Oxford
Tests form one part of Oxford's admissions process and are used alongside a range of information to help assess candidate’s academic potential and suitability for many of our courses.Advance notice
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Malcolm Stewart @malcolmstewart.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
How can group work and experimental design better engage 1st year undergraduates in analytical chemistry labs? Our approach is out now in the J.Chem. Ed! #ChemEd #Oracy pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... @jamiewilmore.bsky.social @charlottehancox.bsky.social @craigdcampbell.bsky.social
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Introducing Group-Based Experimental Design to UK First-Year Undergraduates: An Investigation of Solvent Polarity
Motivated by low student engagement in a traditional expository solvatochromism first-year undergraduate practical, and preuniversity student misconceptions around solvation, we have developed an acce...
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Mark Enser @ensermark.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
*** NEW POST *** Quality assurance often creates workload without clarity. In my latest Substack, I explore why common QA approaches fall short and how schools can design QA that is purposeful, subject-led and genuinely improves teaching. open.substack.com/pub/enserm/p...
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The problem of quality assurance and how to solve it
Quality assurance remains one of the most persistent sources of frustration in schools.
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Education in Chemistry @rsc-eic.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Discover how to use an arrows-first approach in organic chemistry with your post-16s to: ⤴️ increase understanding and raise assessment scores ⤵️ reduce reliance on rote memorisation edu.rsc.org/education-re... #chemed
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Education in Chemistry @rsc-eic.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
What’s your go-to mnemonic for revising chemistry? Share it with us here – we’d love to see your best memory hacks! Check out our page 27 in the January print issue where we explore some more of the classics like OIL RIG and quirky ones like PPOO. #edusky
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Patrick Thomson @patrickthomson.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
We did a thing! A depressingly-necessary message. Chemists, do as much as you can to support teachers and schools, or the student pipeline dries up and departments close. With @sci-drscott.bsky.social and colleagues. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Strengthening school–university collaborations - Nature Reviews Chemistry
Chemistry is an experimental science that for many learners only comes alive in the laboratory. But specialized equipment is increasingly out of reach of school budgets. Strengthening school–universit...
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doc-kristy.bsky.social @doc-kristy.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Last day of Christmas at Chatsworth House...
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doc-kristy.bsky.social @doc-kristy.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
What a difference an hour makes... yesterday's walk in the gardens at Chatsworth brought us some unexpected (and not forecast) snow...
A side view of a large stately home in winter sunshine with a bright blue sky overhead.A side view of a stately home with a white sky overhead and snow on the ground.
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doc-kristy.bsky.social @doc-kristy.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Blackpool putting on its best face tonight for Six!
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doc-kristy.bsky.social @doc-kristy.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Sunset in my little patch of the world. 1st Jan 2026...
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doc-kristy.bsky.social @doc-kristy.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Another few hours of wanderings @beamishmuseum.bsky.social we got to see them making rhubarb and custard boiled sweets today and also got a tin loaf fresh from the oven at the bakery.
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doc-kristy.bsky.social @doc-kristy.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
A full day of @beamishmuseum.bsky.social wanderings
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doc-kristy.bsky.social @doc-kristy.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
A grey day but relaxing, blowing away the cobwebs on the Durham heritage Coast with sea glass hunting at Seaham.
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doc-kristy.bsky.social @doc-kristy.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Chemistry pressie this year :)
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doc-kristy.bsky.social @doc-kristy.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Quick trip into Ramsbottom to pick up food and see the trains.
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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 23/12/2025
January gave us the hunt for the male contraceptive pill, while in June we looked at how magnetic stirrers affect results. Back in November, we explored the chemistry of port. All this and more in our 2025 review. www.chemistryworld.com/collections/...
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2025 in review | Chemistry World
Our favourite stories from 2025
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doc-kristy.bsky.social @doc-kristy.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
For the 2nd year in a row my daughter has come top of the school quiz league... I am beginning to enjoy the annual arrival of her prize, a new @guinnessworldrecords.com book
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doc-kristy.bsky.social @doc-kristy.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Grittibänz... what they lack in beauty they make up for in taste...
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doc-kristy.bsky.social @doc-kristy.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Daughter is volunteering at her swim club's Christmas party for the little ones... so i am getting on with some marking...
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Education in Chemistry @rsc-eic.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Do your learners have a chemistry identity? It’ll help them develop their interest, motivation and confidence in chemistry lessons. Read this by @fidgetslisa.bsky.social to find out more 👉🏻 edu.rsc.org/opinion/do-i... #sciteachuk #chemed #scienceteacher
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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 19/12/2025
Looking for an exciting sci-comm gig? Digital content assistant at the RSC's Chemistry World magazine could be it. Position closes on January 12, 2026 – new positions at the magazine don't come very often, so this could be a great opportunity.
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Digital Content Assistant
Circa: Salary - Salary Plan, 30,291.00 GBP Annual Join the Royal Society of Chemistry’s flagship magazine, Chemistry World, as Digital Content Assistant where you will support the delivery of high-qua...
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Education in Chemistry @rsc-eic.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Surprise your 14–16 and post-16 learners with unexpected colour changes in this counterintuitive example of equilibria chemistry ⬇️ edu.rsc.org/exhibition-c... #chemistry #edusky
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CantabKitty @cantabkitty.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
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doc-kristy.bsky.social @doc-kristy.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Christmas festival done for another year. Some wonderful performances from the boys. Great to be alongside colleagues from teaching & support staff plus boys from different choirs & those studying GCSE music in the massed choir. The audience weren't enthusiastic singers this year so we were needed!
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Tom Bennison @drbennison.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Today in #ALevelMaths my 2025 A-Level Calculated colouring went up on my website. Feel free to use :) blog.drbennisonmaths.com/blog/2025/12...
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Hanukkah menorah at @manchester.ac.uk
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doc-kristy.bsky.social @doc-kristy.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
I grew up in West Yorkshire so used to come here often but it's 30 years since I last came to the Brontë parsonage museum... such a gem of a small museum, very poignant.
Frontage of the Brontë parsonage with a square lawn in front of a stone built house with steps up to a white doorA simple stone slab engraved with 'this was the site of the gate leading to the church used by the Brontë family and through which they were carried to their final resting place in the church'. The slab is on the edge of the garden to the Brontë parsonage.An iron sign on the side of a stone building reading 'Brontë Parsonage Museum' with an arrow pointing left and an inage of a woman wearing a bonnet sat writing at a desk.An inscription on a pillar reading.
'The Brontë family vault is situated below this pillar near to the place where the Brontë's pew stood in the old church. The following members of the family were buried here Maria and Patrick, Maria, Elizabeth, Branwell, Emily Jane, Charlotte.
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doc-kristy.bsky.social @doc-kristy.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
It's the final week before Christmas.... so it's time to break out penguinone as the most festive chemistry i can manage while teaching NMR to Y13...
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doc-kristy.bsky.social @doc-kristy.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
A christmassy day out in Haworth began and ended with a trip on @kwvrfriends.bsky.social .. parking is much easier in Keighley and it added nicely to the day out.
A diesel train with the destination 'Keighley' on the board, pictured at night.A roaring fire in the station booking officeBrightly coloured Christmas lights in the shape of a santa and two snowmenA view of Haworth station with the Christmas lights glowing as it gets dark.
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Teacher’s Manual @unofficialoa.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
When ‘low’ level disruption is explained to non-teachers, it is often dismissed as: kids talk too much haha. The reality is that it is common for a teacher to be interrupted several times, deliberately, by multiple students to the point that a simple explanation is impossible.
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doc-kristy.bsky.social @doc-kristy.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
A little bit of festive spirit is sneaking in....
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doc-kristy.bsky.social @doc-kristy.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
On the train...chap complaining he had to do a sexual harassment course today... "2 and a half hours of my life wasted...."
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doc-kristy.bsky.social @doc-kristy.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Interesting... more and more of these seem to be popping up... and tbh seems like a nice gig, teach your specialist subject from home, no behaviour management, not sure about marking..? Surprised the army of ex teachers employed as private tutors haven't jumped up in support!
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doc-kristy.bsky.social @doc-kristy.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I did a similar scheme in 2005.. we got £50 a day... and i did 2 weeks whilst also balancing my PhD... I learned a lot in a tough school in East Manchester, definitely worthwhile
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doc-kristy.bsky.social @doc-kristy.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Urgh....
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Education in Chemistry @rsc-eic.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Dragging your chemistry class through assessment feedback, question by question, while they become increasingly frustrated and disengaged ... sound familiar? Discover how @doc-kristy.bsky.social helps her learners get the most out of exams using video feedback 👉 edu.rsc.org/ideas/captur... #STEMed
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Capture learners’ attention with video feedback
Record a video mark scheme for exams and watch your learners' engagement with feedback soar
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CLEAPSS @cleapss.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The Microbiology in Schools Advisory Committee, MiSAC, announces its Annual Schools Competition. Find out about this and explore the fantastic microbiology resources at www.misac.org.uk
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MiSAC – Promoting microbiology in schools since 1969
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Royal Society of Chemistry @rsc.org · 12/11/2025
You asked, we listened! Our new Partner Scientist membership is here for those working across science sectors. 🌐 Join interest groups, access free journals, earn awards & get funding to grow your career. Learn more: rsc.li/partner-scientist #ChemSky
Three researchers in a laboratory, one holding a digital tablet, under the text 'Partner Scientist your gateway to chemistry.' Royal Society of Chemistry logo displayed.
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Education in Chemistry @rsc-eic.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
How do you get your learners to engage with feedback after an exam? Discover how @doc-kristy.bsky.social uses video feedback and why it works 👇 edu.rsc.org/ideas/captur... #edusky
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