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Ed Southall

@edsouthall.bsky.social
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Maths Edu | Speaker | Author amzn.to/2JmoTFv | Doctor (not the save your life kind, just the useless philosophising kind.)

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Jules @jules111985.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Poorly timed notification from the range there 🤦🏻‍♀️
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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bro. People are cool as fuck.
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Jo Morgan @mathsjem.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I’m incredibly excited to launch HoD Space - I genuinely think it is going to be a game changer in secondary school maths departments. Sign up for a free trial today: www.hodspace.com My blog post explains what, how and why: www.resourceaholic.com/2026/08/hod-... Please share! #ukmathschat
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Today is Venn Day, in celebration of the mathematician John Venn, born on this day in 1834. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a poem in the form of a Venn Diagram.
Poem title: At the Intersection
 
The poem is divided into two overlapping circles.
 
The left-hand circle is titled ‘me’ and the text reads:
the day we
went out to have
an ice-cream, we said nothing
just let our silence melt in
the air as we walked across the common
our love never tiring at all
 
The right-hand circle is titled ‘you’ and the text reads:
we should
have talked it over but
nothing ever seems to get
in your fat head. You are so
common that I wish we’d never met
at all and I’d married Tim instead
 
In the intersection of the poem (where the two circles overlap), the text reads:
we
have
nothing
in
common
at all
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Jo Morgan @mathsjem.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Nice to hang out in the sun with Craig Barton and @edsouthall.bsky.social
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Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
100k in a day (and night 🥵) on Saturday. I need a new hobby ☠️😵
Race to the stones event medal and race numberThe start line for race to the stones Sunset 16 hours into the raceRunners in the fields
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Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
There are 50 bursaries available for the British Congress of Mathematics Education (BCME 10) conference in October. Applications close next week. Apply! bcme.co.uk/bursaries.html
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British Congress of Mathematics Education 10 | Accommodation
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Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Such an interesting read
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Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Three weeks to go until 100k in a day race to the stones 🤪 #edurunners
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Jo Morgan @mathsjem.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Today I had the pleasure of being visited by @edsouthall.bsky.social and Helen Drury. Always enjoyable to chat about maths education. 👍
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Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
BCME 10 is now open for registrations 🥳 £120 day ticket £200 two day full conference Nottingham Fri 23rd - Sat 24th Oct at the East Midlands Conference Centre bcme.co.uk/registration...
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British Congress of Mathematics Education 10 | Registration
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Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
We are delighted to announce that registration for the 10th British Congress of Mathematics Education (BCME 10) is now open! This landmark event will take place at the East Midlands Conference Centre in Nottingham on Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th October 2026
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Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
In January I ran a marathon in the Arctic Circle. Next month I'll be running 25 miles in the delightfully titled Arc of Attrition UTMB race with around 1300 metres of uphills to contend with. I'm raising money for a school in Senegal. Please donate if you can 🙂 www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
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Help raise £750 to support Djinack Elementary School (Senegal) – JustGiving Crowdfunding
Iʼm raising money to support Djinack Elementary School (Senegal). Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
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Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
mmhmmm
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 18/10/2025
Think we’ve crossed a pretty major threshold – and a very bad one – if a journalist working in the lobby for a major newspaper group can tweet like this without professional consequences.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
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Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Saw this AI prompt being used and thought I'd give it a spin.
An alphabet poster created using GPT 5 with various errors such as 'J is for umbrella' and 'Y is for queen'. based on a prompt seen on LinkedIn.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
None of this happened, none of these pictures are real, AI slop like this makes the world dumber and worse and the companies peddling it 24/7 are destroying civilization.
screenshot of AI slop on Facebook spreading lies and fake photos about Bob Dylan and Joan Baez getting married in Sante Fe with Paul McCartney and Steven Tyler (?!?) performing at their wedding.
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Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Managed to run a total of >40k two weeks in a row. Training officially begun for Arc of Attrition in January 😅 #edurunners
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
But AI is promised to "save schools time"? "schools are not only getting an increasing number of complaints generated by AI but they are also having to dedicate more staff time to dealing with them ... 'and that really multiplies the workload'" www.tes.com/magazine/new...
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Schools face ‘unsustainable’ rise in AI-generated complaints
Parents’ use of AI in making complaints means schools are having to deal with complex letters loaded with references to the law, leaders warn
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Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Thinking of Batman today
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Paul Graf @paulginva.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years. What are we doing?
Ardem Patapoutian's story is not just the American dream, it is the dream of American science.

He arrived in Los Angeles in 1986 at age 18 after fleeing war-torn Lebanon. He spent a year writing for an Armenian newspaper and delivering Domino's at night to become eligible for the University of California, where he earned his undergraduate degree and a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience.

He started a lab at Scripps Research in San Diego with a grant from the National Institutes of Health, discovered the way humans sense touch, and in 2021 won the Nobel Prize.

But with the Trump administration slashing spending on science, Dr. Patapoutian's federal grant to develop new approaches to treating pain has been frozen. In late February, he posted on Bluesky that such cuts would damage biomedical research and prompt an exodus of talent from the United States. Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to "any city, any university I want," he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Good question, quote posting to answer, the illegal tariffs are the baseline 10%, suspended reciprocal tariffs, and a few others. The UK US deal focused on other tariffs - cars and other products - which remain in force.
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Axiom Maths @axiommaths.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
📉 Year 7 school switch-off begins before Easter Our new research featured in @tesmagazine.bsky.social shows a 15 percentage point drop in enjoyment + rising stress levels by Term 2. The socio-economic gap in enthusiasm and support for high attainers is growing. #MathsEd #Year7 #EdResearch
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Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
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Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Draft of my next book “Bothered about maths” 🧮 is almost complete 😃. Been a joy to write a guide to developing a strong positive classroom culture & enthusing children (& teachers!) about teaching & learning maths. An expansion of the wonderful book Botheredness by @hywelroberts.bsky.social
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Alicia Kraft @aliciakraft.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I ordered some hobby knickknacks on Etsy and they offered me the option to personalize the carrying case
Small green plastic case that says HUMAN EYES
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Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Watched Sinners last night. What a movie! 🎬 🍿
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a group of people sitting in a church with the words #sinnersmovie on the bottom
ALT: a group of people sitting in a church with the words #sinnersmovie on the bottom
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Tom Button @tombutton.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
The closing date for these vacancies is Monday ...
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Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
anyone have a handy Oura recommend discount code thingy?
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Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Got a little extravagant with my spending after seemingly never being able to clean my glasses fully. It’s either this or I become some kind of OCD maniacal scrubber of lenses
An ultrasonic glasses cleaner
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 27/04/2025
Like any serious athlete I have a plan for the #LondonMarathon today: 1. Run until my hip stops working; 2. ???????? 3. Collect medal
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Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Rewatching the wire and omg it’s even better than I remember!
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine

• Al Overview
The idiom "you can't lick a badger twice" means you can't trick or deceive someone a second time after they've been tricked once. It's a warning that if someone has already been deceived, they are unlikely to fall for the same trick again.
Here's a more detailed explanation:
• Licking: "Licking" in this context means to trick or deceive someone.
• Badger: The badger is a wild animal, and the phrase likely originates from the historical sport of badger baiting where dogs were used to harass
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.
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Hannah R @missradders.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I am still in need of a term of 0.6FTE Maths supply. North Yorkshire school. Days are Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays. All KS3 teaching from set curriculum and pupils have work booklets so very limited planning/ marking. Please share with anyone you might know.
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Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Loving the new Bon Iver album
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Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Really enjoyed The Loney as my holiday book.
The Loney book cover
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Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Having a “so what next?” moment 🤔
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Albana Kasapi @albanakasapi.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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‘If I die, I want a loud death’: Gaza photojournalist killed by Israeli airstrike
Fatima Hassouna, who had been documenting war in Gaza for 18 months and was subject of new documentary, killed along with 10 members of her family
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Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Rare decagon seen in the wild
A sea urchin with a decagon shape in the centre
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Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Pleased to launch >80 lessons to support financial education and application of maths 👇 www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Pupils in England to be taught about online spending and scams
Financial literacy lessons to be given to pupils at primary and secondary schools
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Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Twitter account deleted today. I was finally ready to put it to bed.
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Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Not overly bothered about Starbucks except for THIS ONE
Starbucks with a parabolic roof in Nottinghamshire
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Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
To explain what WHSmith sells is to understand why it’s a mess
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Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Interesting developments over at White Rose Edu this weekend. They've had a phenomenal impact on maths edu in the last decade, particularly in the primary space. A very impressive success story in education. Tony & Caroline are brilliant minds and it'll be exciting to see what they do next. 👀
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Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Interim report for the curriculum assessment review is out today: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67d961...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
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