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Tony Horsfield

@janthonyh.bsky.social
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Excutive Director of the European Association for Distance Learning. Teacher, writer, and distance learning specialist. I love learning. Leeds United supporter.

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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Listen to your children read. Read to your children. Read alongside your children. Take them to libraries. Talk about what reading means to you & what it can unlock in them. Tell them it doesn’t matter if it’s comics, magazines or books as long as they’re engaged with the written word.
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I’m not a bigot. I’m not a transphobe. I’m not a misogynist. I try to think hard about to be respectful of others. I try to think hard about complicated things. I try to figure out the parts of the world I don’t understand. I try to help my community and my neighbors. I don’t know what else to do.
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Virtual lecturers to be overseen by academics at #AI university: London School of Innovation’s model, in which students will be taught by AI tutors, set to launch in June after being given stamp of approval by regulator ow.ly/cfWk50YMQrE
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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
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Chris Meder @evcurvefuturist.com · 14/04/2026
Glad to see the Australian government on board. Massive milestone today with Bowen acknowledging EV growth is already offsetting the oil crisis. Increasing reserves while demand falls makes no sense. Now for a solar carport mandate! Charge baby charge. ☀️⚡ #Bettrification #EVs
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Absolutely! #BookSky
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Headteacher Update @headteacherupdate.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Are schools overlooking #neurodiverse staff? While SEND support for pupils is strong, neurodiverse #teachers & other staff can feel unsupported. Sara Alston – @seainclusion.bsky.social – outlines 15 practical strategies to build an inclusive culture for all staff: buff.ly/ntGS4R5 #schools #education
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Fifteen ways to support neurodiverse staff in your school - Headteacher Update
Schools champion SEND for pupils, but do we support neurodiverse staff? Practical steps to create inclusive workplaces
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
"Research for the Association for Citizenship Teaching and for this book demonstrates that the GSCE in Citizenship Studies has a statistically significant impact in boosting young people’s political interest, confidence and participation, particularly among those from less advantaged backgrounds."
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How to make a success of Votes at 16 | LSE British Politics
Votes at 16 might become a reality across the UK. But that alone won't ensure an increase in the participation of young people in democratic politics.
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Russell Group universities have pledged to train thousands more healthcare workers and support more students from disadvantaged backgrounds to access medical careers, reports Helen Packer #EduSky #medicine ow.ly/asvs50Yy7lt
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Academic units do best when they harness different viewpoints – from field scientists and #curriculum designers to extension professionals – to drive innovation and relevance. Saskia van de Gevel offers proactive advice: ow.ly/PsVX50YvWTh #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky
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Across the divide: reimagining faculty-staff collaboration in higher education
Academic units do best when they harness different viewpoints – from field scientists and curriculum designers to extension professionals – to drive innovation and relevance. Saskia van de Gevel offers proactive advice
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Two neurobiologists who helped decipher how the somatosensory system detects touch and pain have won this year’s Brain Prize, the largest award in neuroscience. By @helenak.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/somatosensat...
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Two neurobiologists win 2026 Brain Prize for discovering mechanics of touch
Research by Patrik Ernfors and David Ginty has delineated the diverse cell types of the somatosensory system and revealed how they detect and discriminate among different types of tactile information.
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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
#Publishing a book can boost your profile as a #researcher, improve your h-index and increase your competitiveness on the job market. Here, Jessica Gildersleeve walks through the steps from thesis to book: ow.ly/im6a50YlScP #AcademicChatter #ECRchat #PhDSky #Academia
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Why turn your thesis into a book?
Publishing a book can boost your profile as a researcher, improve your h-index and increase your competitiveness on the job market. Here, Jessica Gildersleeve walks through the steps from thesis to book
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PsyPost @psypost.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Caring for grandchildren is linked to better brain health in older adults
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Caring for grandchildren is linked to better brain health in older adults
Research published in Psychology and Aging finds that grandparents who provide childcare tend to have better memories. The study suggests these cognitive advantages exist independently of how frequently the care is actually provided.
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
“I know #ChatGPT can help with my literature review but I’ve no idea if I’m allowed to use it, how to cite it, or whether I’m somehow cheating.” Students are using #GenAI whether you’ve addressed it or not. Here’s how to provide the clarity they’re asking for: ow.ly/X7HB50Y8H0J #AcademicSky
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Students told us what GenAI guidance works. Here’s their advice
Students are using GenAI whether you’ve addressed it or not. Here’s how to provide the clarity they’re asking for
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Plans by leading British universities to establish a shared campus in Indonesia could help reduce the financial risk for institutions as the government pushes offshore expansion, reports Helen Packer #edusky ow.ly/WxoW50Y5x95
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Journals should make more use of practitioners for peer review: industry experience offers a unique perspective based around practical systems thinking, operational realities and trade-offs, says Jianyang Geng ow.ly/2mge50Y16k9
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Opinion: We haven’t always got it right, but we should not apologise for trying to build a better society, no matter how powerful our detractors, says Keith Burnett #academicsky #EDI www.timeshighereducation.com/opinio…
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
"Viewing the teacher, as a unique creation, echoes the singularity of original artworks, where the biography of each educator is a rich distinct tapestry, highlighting the situated inventiveness of teachers."
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The Teacher as a work of art
There are concerning trends in the current educational landscape, where teachers are often viewed through reductive lenses, portrayed as mere technicians or implementers of policy. In this article ...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Great to have such an enthusiastic support for rejoining Erasmus from the Vice Chancellor of Oxford University on #t4today No stupid questions about whether this was anti-Brexit. Just unequivocal celebration of the chance to broaden our horizons again. A step on the road back to sanity.
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Children with SEND to benefit from earlier intervention as government backs research into tools to identify special educational needs sooner Innovators to test earlier interventions to help support children with SEND, backed by the government.
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Children with SEND to benefit from earlier intervention as government backs research into tools to identify special educational needs sooner
Innovators to test earlier interventions to help support children with SEND, backed by government.
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Conversations around cheating ‘misguided’ because students want technology to assist learning, not give them the answers, says education lead at tech giant. Juliette Rowsell reports www.timeshighereducation.com/news/s…
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Ian Kremer @wolverinebear.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Neurometabolic and vascular dysfunction as an early diagnostic for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #Alzheimers #dementia #science #neuroscience #NeuroSkyence
Neurovascular and metabolic changes across the AD spectrum, MVD pattern, and polar coordinates representation. A, The normal metabolic state continuum in healthy individuals is depicted by the black line. In contrast, the metabolic state across AD is represented by the orange line, illustrating the metabolic alterations observed throughout the disease's various phases, as proposed by the metabolic reprogramming theory. The red line represents the progression of perfusion across the disease, demonstrating how metabolism and perfusion become dysregulated until they eventually fail. During the hypermetabolic phase of the disease, oxidative phosphorylation undergoes upregulation as a compensatory response, leading to progressively oxidative damage. Furthermore, it is suggested that astrocytosis signaling precedes the onset of cognitive decline. B, Neurovascular and metabolic dysregulation were assessed by projecting the z score SUVR for each brain region onto Cartesian space. The x axis represents the z score changes in cerebral perfusion derived from CBF maps, while the y axis represents the z score change in glucose uptake derived from FDG. Brain regions toward the center of the plane are likely functioning at a normal level. A brain region is considered coupled if both signals are in the same direction (Cartesian quadrants 1 and 3) and uncoupled if they are opposite (Cartesian quadrants 2 and 4). We hypothesize the existence of a regional disease pathway (MVD pattern) that maps the disease progression and can accurately discern the MVD changes, which is: Type 1 Uncoupling → Type 2 Uncoupling → Prodromal → Neurometabolic-vascular Failure. C, Alternatively, Cartesian space readouts can be transformed into polar coordinates to visualize disease progression while preserving the MVD state. The distance from the origin represents the magnitude of the change, while the angle indicates the deviation of the change.
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 08/11/2025
Spain’s world-leading organ donation system and medical innovation have earned the country multiple Guinness World Records in 2026, celebrating surgical firsts, record-breaking transplants, and health awareness feats that highlight a model admired around the globe. euroweeklynews.com/2025/11/07/s...
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Spain breaks world records in health innovation
Spain leads the world in organ donation and medical breakthroughs, earning Guinness World Records for health innovation and compassion.
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Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org · 07/11/2025
Enjoy a broad range of lectures and network with experts in the field at #SfN25! 🧠 Gain valuable insights and tools to enhance your research and career. Browse through to lectures and build your itinerary in the 2025 Neuroscience Meeting Planner 🔗 vist.ly/4de72 #neurosky #neuroskyence
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Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
We’re updating what children learn at school so they’re ready for the modern world. That means strong foundations, plus new skills like spotting fake news online and understanding money, and access to arts and sport. Find out more. 👇
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
The Public Office (Accountability) Bill - (Hillsborough Law) is having it's 2nd reading right now. The debate has been opened by the PM. This is something he has personally worked towards for 15yrs. It's a tragedy it's taken that long, but it's thanks to the PM & Labour that we are here now. 1/2
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School Reading List @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
📚 Let's promote #readingforpleasure and #reflectingrealities with diverse authors, own voices, and new talent in children's books! Share your recommendations and let's build a library of books for all. 📚 #diversebooks #ownvoices #teachertwitter schoolreadinglist.co.uk/resources/ho...
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Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team · 31/10/2025
We just crossed it. Yay! Congrats everyone and Happy Halloween!
Visual showing 39,999,999 users Visual showing 40M usersVisual showing 40M + 1 users with little confetti on the screen
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 02/10/2025
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
The PM announced in his speech the start of plans to reingivorate further & higher education. The target of 50% going to uni is scrapped! Instead, we have a new target of two thirds of young people to EITHER go to university OR into high quality technical education or apprenticeships.
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Prime Minister unveils reforms to transform further and higher education
Young people across the country will gain the skills needed to thrive in tomorrow’s job market, as the Prime Minister today announced a package of reforms.
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 19/09/2025
excited to share that we are following through on our earlier commitments and putting together an independent+neutral organization to house the DID PLC system, includes the directory service
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Creating an Independent Public Ledger of Credentials (PLC) Directory Organization | Bluesky
The Bluesky Social app is built on an open network protocol that refers to each user by a unique Decentralized Identifier, or DID (a W3C standard). The most popular supported DID method was developed ...
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IEA Education @ieaeducation.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
📕Hot off the press: 'Dinaric Perspectives on PIRLS 2021—Prerequisites and Conditions for Teaching and Learning to Read'
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Pr Carlos Moreno - IAE Paris1 Sorbonne University @carlosmorenofr.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
It was a pleasure for me and Catherine Gall to welcome at the Sorbonne the first meeting of the international scientific committee that we set up as part of the Lowgistic, logistics and urban proximity project, financed by ADEME as part of the PIA4 future investment programme Tks for coming friends!
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 24/08/2025
A free, democratic and independent Ukraine. That's what you are fighting for. That's what our efforts are all about. We are with you, for as long as it takes. Because a free Ukraine is a free Europe. Happy Independence Day, Ukraine!
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Poodle (Scottish Indy Now) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇨🇦 @poodle19631.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Oh look, LEZs actually do work. news.stv.tv/west-central...
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Glasgow hits air pollution target for first time as LEZ cuts emissions
Air pollution has been falling since the Low Emission Zone (LEZ) came into effect two years ago.
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Jack E. Loped @jack3loped.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Ozzy Osborne 1948 - 2025
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Beatles Books Podcast @beatlesbookspod.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Ozzy Osbourne meets Paul McCartney for the first time, 2001.
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Shannon Burns, PhD @shannon47burns.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Calling out to #neuroskyence: Pomona College is hiring! This is a position for a tenure-track assistant professor in systems-level neuroscience. We are eager to hear from candidates with a commitment to teaching and research excellence with undergraduates academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30265
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Pomona College, Neuroscience
Job #AJO30265, 1132 Assistant Professor, Systems Neuroscience, Neuroscience, Pomona College, Claremont, California, US
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 20/07/2025
🔴 BREAKING: "European youngsters will be able to move to the UK for more than a year under a youth mobility scheme, the minister in charge of Britain’s relationship with the EU has indicated." This is excellent news for young Brits going to Europe too. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Young Europeans may be allowed to stay in UK for longer than a year
A minister has opened the door for a reciprocal youth mobility scheme that could add to net migration figures despite concerns from the Home Office
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Journal of Neuroimaging @jneuroimaging.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Sustained Enlargement in Vagus and Sural Nerve Cross-Sectional Areas in Fibromyalgia: A Longitudinal Study onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #neuroimaging #neurology #neuroskyence #radiology #fibromyalgia #enlargednerves #ultrasound Free read
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
This month’s "Launch" newsletter features an essay by Sheena Josselyn on the importance of reading (but not too much), Q&As with @agonru.bsky.social and @drewkesner.bsky.social about their new labs, the latest job openings and more. Subscribe to receive the newsletter each month: bit.ly/4luI2mJ
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
The UK is to recruit top researchers & their teams from around the world (USA anyone?). £54m funding will help 10 unis & 2 research institutes attract 60-80 of the best researchers in key sectors identified in the Industrial Strategy to drive forward science & tech innovation in the UK. 1/2
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Leading lights of UK research spearhead search for world's best talent
12 leading universities and research institutions selected to deliver government’s £54 million fund to recruit world’s top researchers.
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Some major news I missed yesterday.... The Tech and Culture Secretaries brought together representatives from the creative and AI sectors to discuss next steps for finding a solution to the copyright and AI debate. It was the first in a series of regular talks,. 1/2
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Creative and AI sectors kick-off next steps in finding solutions to AI and copyright
Representatives of both sectors in newly formed expert working groups on AI and copyright.
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
This is so wonderful. Seeing the PM and Chancellor chatting with the French President about Larry the Cat and his social media posts!
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Larrish 💙 @larrish.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
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I SURVIVED READING BANNED BOOKS
ALL I GOT WAS SMARTER AND MORE EMPATHETIC
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