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'another Dr Compton' Londoner, #DigiEd, (gen)AI, #Assessment & Feedback , #ungrading, #HE (and #spurs) #COYS mcompton.uk

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MC @martc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ape shall never kill ape
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
NEW: It was a digital lynching. And the media is never going to hold itself to account for the role it played in Jason Arday’s death. But there are things we can do. This is a practical guide based on my own experience. broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-digital-...
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A Digital Lynching
A practical guide for individuals and organisations when the mobs gather
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Belgian Red Devils @belreddevils.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Overturn this! 😎
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turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
data visualization is my passion.
fox news showing weekly temperatures: 92, 92, 92, 94, 94, 92, 92, with a very strong gap between 94 and 92.
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@suebecks @suebecks.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Our initial reflections on the findings from the first national Pre‑arrival Academic Questionnaire (PAQ) pilot led by Michelle Morgan @it-se.bsky.social, UEL in collaboration with Advance HE and JISC, and funded by the Office for Students. cc @profwgarnham.bsky.social and Prof Debbie Holley.
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Janna Sophia 🏔️ @jannaphia.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Please help me finish my thesis so I can finally be free of academia 🫶✨ aidetectionsurvey.carrd.co
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MC @martc.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
This hits hard: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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My mother was forced to give me up for adoption. But when we finally met decades later, it was far from a fairytale ending
Thirty years after my parents were pressured into placing me with an adoption agency, I finally reconnected with them. But it was nothing like the neat stories you see on TV
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MC @martc.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Is there a better rhyme in all of music than City High’s: “It was all over him y’all, my boyfriend the criminal” ?
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MC @martc.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Parliament square already filling with red faced people draped in upside-down, chinese made Union flags. They think they love this country but all they love is a fabricated vision of villages, bobbies and miss bloody marple. They actually hate Britain. I say get out of my city you sad losers
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MC @martc.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Wordle 1,778 2/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I wish I could navigate actual life as smoothly
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Santanu Vasant PFHEA @santanuvasant.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The latest @seda-ed-dev.bsky.social #SEDAEdDevs Magazine is out NOW >> www.seda.ac.uk/seda-publish... #EdDev #EdTech #GenAI #HigherEducation please share 🙏 (cc @emmakeddev.bsky.social)
Educational Developments Magazine Front Page
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MC @martc.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
When you work in HE and speak with a working class accent you get used to people’s facial tics the first time they hear you speak. I’ll tell you what though, it’s been eye opening at my new work where it hasn’t happened once and is unlikely to
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MC @martc.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
See? It’s not all bad news. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US millionaire big-game hunter dies after being crushed by elephants
Ernie Dosio, a 75-year-old vineyard owner, was hunting an antelope species in Africa when the incident occured
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Starmer should immediately & unequivocally ban access to British airspace to US warplanes. The UK should not be accomplice to a US President who is threatening more war crimes. Period.
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MC @martc.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
This is a letter my Nan received from Ted Heath. My mum found it in my grandad’s stuff. Seems she sent him a complimentary Christmas card. I’m willing to forgive the class treachery as Heath was probably to the left of Starmer anyway.
Photograph of a cream-coloured folded letter on official 10 Downing Street stationery with the Prime Minister’s crest at the top left and “10 Downing Street, Whitehall” printed at the top right. The message is handwritten in black ink, thanking the recipient for Christmas greetings and offering best wishes for the New Year. The letter is signed “Edward Heath”. The paper shows a horizontal fold across the centre and slight creasing.
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Carol @beilinglaoshi.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Really enjoyed your talk today on Academic Language and Compassionate Assessment @kelwebbdavies.bsky.social! 👏👏🌟 Thanks @martc.bsky.social for flagging it in your blog
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MC @martc.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Amongst a host of dodgy qualities in the restaurant we were in last night, the logic of the many poster montages eluded me. The political one included Ghengis and Imran khan and Deng Xiaoping
A red poster mounted on a wall beneath a decorative light fitting, displaying twelve celebrity headshots arranged in three rows of four, each labelled with their names. The names shown include Angelina Jolie, Maria Sharapova, Sania Mirza, Shakira, Aishwarya Rai, David Beckham, Lionel Messi, Kareena Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Shilpa Shetty, Richard Gere and Kiara Advani.
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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
There is always a tweet.
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MC @martc.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
In only condemning Iranian attacks we become complicit in the terror being inflicted on Iranian people . It’s war built on the hubris of two men but the workd durrly knows this www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A world on edge as Trump bombs Iran and triggers war in the Middle East. There was no need for this | Simon Tisdall
We cannot know where this foolish, reckless attack will end – but new hatreds will be seeded, terrorist vendettas sown and, ultimately, little will be achieved, says Guardian foreign affairs commentat...
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MC @martc.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
“I’m not going try to sugar coat it…” * gets out bag of sugar in studio*
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a woman in a checkered shirt says way too much sugar in a kitchen
ALT: a woman in a checkered shirt says way too much sugar in a kitchen
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
BREAKING: “I don’t think we should over interpret this result” says the governments Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander Heaven help us
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Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Never again can Labour say that a Green vote is a wasted vote. You don't have to compromise and tacitly endorse Labour's concessions to the far-right anywhere. This is so so huge!
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Not just a loser. But a bad loser.
Statement from Matt Goodwin,
UK candidate:


Reform


"Given the reports we are reading in
UK media about family voting and
sectarianism, I am deeply concerned
about the extent to which the Gorton
and Denton parliamentary by-election
is a free, fair, and democratic election."
11:21 pm . 26 Feb 26. 286K Views
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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 27/02/2026
Nationally, Labour is losing twice as many voters to Greens and Lib Dems as they are to Reform. (John Curtice on BBC)
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
BREAKING: Green Party win Gorton and Denton by-election!
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
You got to feel for Matt Goodwin. Sorry missed a word. You got to feel contempt for Matt Goodwin.
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MC @martc.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp... You what now? Lurching to the right ISN’T good for Labour?
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Green Party takes Gorton and Denton from Labour in first ever Westminster by-election win
The Greens' Hannah Spencer wins the Manchester seat, ahead of Reform UK in second and Labour in third.
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MC @martc.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Morning!
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Green party wins Gorton and Denton byelection in blow to Keir Starmer
Hannah Spencer elected as party’s first MP in northern England, with Labour coming in third behind reform UK
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 20/11/2024
Hello! Obligatory pinned post to say that I'm a freelance journalist and you can find my portfolio at marieleconte.com and my newsletter at youngvulgarian.substack.com, and you can contact me on marie.s.leconte@gmail.com. Always looking for fun/interesting work so do get in touch!
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Reform have nothing to offer but divisive hate. Blaming migrants and communities struggling to get by. Hannah Spencer understands Manchester, she knows the value of work and will actually get things done. Thursday - it's Greens Vs Reform. Hope Vs Hate. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This election is an appeal for trust, a battle against fear and a straight fight between Greens and Reform | Hannah Spencer
Thursday’s stakes could not be higher. We know Labour has failed and Farage’s Reform is poisonous. I want to win Gorton and Denton as a fresh start, says Hannah Spencer, the Green party candidate in t...
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Reform UK suspends Matt Goodwin by-election campaign manager over ‘antisemitic and misogynistic’ posts www.jewishnews.co.uk/reform-uk-su...
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Reform UK suspends by-election campaign activist over ‘antisemitic and misogynistic’ posts
EXCLUSIVE: Adam Mitula, Reform UK’s interim campaign manager in Tameside, has been assisting Matt Goodwin's Gorton and Denton by-election campaign
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Reform candidate attacks elites while being paid to fly around the world to speak with them
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Reform candidate attacks elites while flying around the world to speak with them
In a speech after being announced as Reform UK’s candidate for Gorton and Denton, Mr Goodwin had bragged he was 'not part of the establishment', and has repeatedly criticised the 'elite class'
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Andy Hearn 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈⚽️🎶🌈 @andyhearn24.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Every vote for Labour helps Reform. It’s vote Green or get Reform in Gorton and Denton. #VoteGreen
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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
If you’re a traditional Labour voter repeating the Labour spin that a Green vote will split the vote and is effectively a vote for Reform, this independent poll tells a different story. Don’t be loyal to a party that has abandoned its Labour values. Vote Green. The only vote to defeat Reform.
Poll showing voting intentions in the upcoming Gorton and Denton by-election.

32% Green
29% Reform
26% Labour
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MC @martc.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Goddarnit, my hopes are up. Only way I’ve been coping this season is by feeling hopeless. #COYS
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a man with a beard wearing a black puma jacket
Alt: Igor Tudor celebrates a goal by shaking his colleagues violently
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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 17/02/2026
More info, from the instagram account that posted the video
underthedesknews On President's Day, the First Amendment Troop staged "ResistDance" - a tribute and act of artistic dissent - at the Lincoln Memorial, followed by a guerrilla performance at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Created by the advocacy arm of hungryman Productions, led by Bryan Buckley, with Tony Award-winning choreographer Mathew Steffens, the piece honored Renée Good and Alex Pretti.
Twenty-two dancers performed, representing the 22 days between Good and Pretti's deaths. The Lincoln Memorial Resistance was peaceful. The Kennedy Center performance was shut down within seconds by more officers than dancers (23 vs. 22.)
The action coincided with the Federal Bureau of Investigation denying access to information in the Pretti investigation, underscoring the campaign's call for transparency.
#FirstAmendmentTroop #ResistDance @firstamendmenttroop
Music: We Could Fly and Following the North Star by Rhiannon Giddens.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Nigel Farage thinks Britain isn't productive because nobody goes into the office anymore. Which will come as a blow to one particular MP ... called Nigel Farage.
Nigel Farage has called for an end
to working from home culture
because he believes it gets in the
way of 'hard work'Nigel Farage missed debate
on Brexit reset because he is
holidaying abroad


Reform UK leader, who has made at least nine
trips overseas since general election, says he
will return to UK next weekNigel Farage skips
PMQs and local election prep
to fundraise for Donald Trump
at $450 MAGA dinner


And he told party members this week he'd be
away from London "canvassing, campaigning and
doing our best" until the local elections in May -
instead he's flown to the US again to speak at a
MAGA fundraising dinnerThe Michelin guide says of the restaurant visited
by the Reform UK leader: 'A certain luxury is to
be expected when Buckingham Palace is just a
short walk away...' ( GoffPhotos.com)


EXCLUSIVE: Nigel Farage skips
Commons debate to enjoy
lunch at £68 tandoori lobster
restaurant
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MC @martc.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Sky is at least interesting
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MC @martc.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Why does pepto bismol taste like germoline smells?
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a man with a beard looks at the camera
Alt: a man looking ill and exhausted with a beard looks at the camera and swigs from a bottle of pink liquid
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
This is absolutely shocking. Something has to be done about this appalling situation in which so many now find themselves. The government needs to act
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
When you think of health and safety laws and human rights laws as “obstructive bureaucracy”, stopping you being as vicious and damaging as you want to be to immigrants - who you encourage voters to blame for your own abject failures - you’ve become a monster. Let’s hope it ends up devouring itself.
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David Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
If you feel "hamstrung" by human rights laws and by health and safety laws - you are the person those laws were designed to protect us against. You need to be obstructed by those laws. Also, she's lying.
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Blandine @blandinep84.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I agree, University education (like education in general) should be free. But at the very least student loans should be interest free until repaid in full...
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MC @martc.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
How brainwashed are we? In contrast to the nurse trying to pay off the student loan I DO think her studies should have been ‘free’ www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...
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Student loans: ‘My debt rose £20,000 to £77,000 even though I’m paying’
Millions of graduates are trapped by ballooning debts, as their repayments are dwarfed by the interest added
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John Abernathy @john-abernathy.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
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MC @martc.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
#FIFA is an absurd, morally bankrupt organisation and if any federated nations had some gumption they’d tell them and trump where to stick the World Cup. Why not play an alternative cup in Denmark, say .
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 18/01/2026
Something a little different. Some cartoonists put out a call for comics about local ICE experiences. This one happened a few months ago so it's a little older than current events, but it's a story that I never stopped thinking about. #ICEoutcomics
An image of a volleyball against a blue background. The text says: In my home state  of Massachusetts, ICE  is hunting a man who has an expired visa. They find the man’s car, but the driver is just the  man’s son, a teen heading to volleyball practice. ICE arrests the teen.A conversation between two people in speech bubbles: “Do you know why you’re under arrest?” “No.” “Because you’re illegal. You’re an immigrant.” “Ma’am, I was seven years old.” Then, text at the bottom says: The teen is put into a concrete cell with 35 men.The community rallies behind him. There's an image of yard signs with the smiling face of the teen that say Free Marcelo. Some quotes from locals: “He’s one of our brothers. Without him, it just kind of feels like a dark, empty room.” -volleyball team captain. “This administration isn’t  keeping us safe by putting 18-year-old honors students in prison.” -MA Rep. MoultonIn the cell, the teen helps translate for those who don’t speak English. Many are ill. After 6 days, he’s released. There's an image of a hand and arm, with a crinkly foil bracelet tied around the wrist. Wearing a bracelet  that another detainee  made him from one of the  thin mylar blankets they  were given, he says: “ I don’t want to cry. But I want  to say...nobody should be in here.”
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MC @martc.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
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