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Matthew Inglis

@mjinglis.bsky.social
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Academic at Loughborough University

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Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 04/07/2026
New article: Experimental education research: rethinking why, how, and when to use random assignment Out today (even though it’s Saturday): doi.org/10.1080/1380... With @drsamsims.bsky.social @mjinglis.bsky.social @benweidmann.bsky.social @benstyles.bsky.social & Hugues Lortie-Forgues
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Experimental education research: rethinking why, how, and when to use random assignment
Over the last twenty years, education researchers have increasingly conducted randomized experiments. Such experiments are usually designed in the hope of supporting comparisons of cost effectivene...
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Matthew Inglis @mjinglis.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Some thoughts from me and five others on when, why and how experiments and RCTs should be used in education. doi.org/10.1080/1380...
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Experimental education research: rethinking why, how, and when to use random assignment
Over the last twenty years, education researchers have increasingly conducted randomized experiments. Such experiments are usually designed in the hope of supporting comparisons of cost effectivene...
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Matthew Inglis @mjinglis.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Reading some stuff about geometrical cognition today reminded of the time that David Tall, who died last year, described me as being “stuck at Van Hiele Level 2”. This is easily the best niche academic insult I’ve ever heard.
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Fenner Tanswell @fennert.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
👀 A new forthcoming paper with @mjinglis.bsky.social is up on the Philsci Archive. "Interesting and Important Mathematics" A corpus linguistics study of the uses of the words "interesting" and "important" in maths preprints. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/29996/1/Tans...
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Matthew Inglis @mjinglis.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
My colleague Colin Foster has released a new resource designed for secondary mathematics teachers: “Teaching the Big Ideas in School Mathematics”. Available here: bigmathematicalideas.org
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Introduction – Teaching the Big Ideas in School Mathematics
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Matthew Inglis @mjinglis.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
In memory of Barbara Jaworski. blog.lboro.ac.uk/cmc/2026/04/...
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Obituary for Barbara Jaworski – Centre for Mathematical Cognition
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Matthew Inglis @mjinglis.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
This THE article quotes an EEF spokesperson discussing a 2019 Educational Researcher article on RCTs I coauthored. But the EEF has misunderstood: “uninformative” does not mean “finds no difference”. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/t…
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‘Time to review’ sidelining of education faculties in research
Positive impact of channelling government funding into charity at expense of universities has yet to be proven, argues learned society
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Matthew Inglis @mjinglis.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Powerful photographic testimony in this local news article.
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Apology after pensioner left waiting months for repairs to her garden wall
Since August Gail Simmons has been unable to access her front gate due to debris left from when a car crashed into her garden wall
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The Psychologist @psychmag.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Evaluating the evaluation of psychology in UK universities… @lizstokoe.bsky.social @mjinglis.bsky.social @colinfoster77.bsky.social @hugolf.bsky.social @profvicsimms.bsky.social share tales from the Research Excellence Framework. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
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Evaluating the evaluation of psychology in UK universities | BPS
Elizabeth Stokoe, Matthew Inglis, Colin Foster, Hugo Lortie-Forgues and Victoria Simms share tales from the Research Excellence Framework.
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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
For anyone interested in #psychology, #research assessment and evaluation, how the expert panel rated research submitted to #REF2021 - and especially the fate of #qualitative research - our article in Cogent Psychology is #OpenAccess (link in next post). 1/2
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Psychology and research assessment in the United Kingdom
Matthew Inglis,Colin Foster,Hugues Lortie-Forgues,Victoria Simms & Elizabeth Stokoe
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What can we learn about psychology research in the UK, and its perceived quality, from examining manuscripts submitted to the psychology, psychiatry and neuroscience subpanel of the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF2021)? Using a latent Dirichlet allocation topic modelling approach, we identified 33 topics which collectively summarised the content of the journal articles returned to the subpanel. We found that the composition of submissions to the subpanel, in terms of these topics, explained a large proportion of the variance in the quality assessments they received from the expert peer review subpanel. Our model identified topics which were typically associated with receiving higher and lower unit-level quality assessments. In our discussion we pay particular attention to the fate of qualitative research, and discuss possible accounts for why units who returned a large amount of qualitative work tended to receive lower quality assessments than those who did not.
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Matthew Inglis @mjinglis.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Today I found a very sinister picture of mathematician John Napier (after whom Edinburgh Napier University is named) in this collection of proofs of Pythagoras’s Theorem: files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED0...
A scary picture of John Napier
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Matthew Inglis @mjinglis.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
I haven’t read all the articles in this special issue on bases in numeration systems yet, but the ones I have read are excellent. royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/cur...
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1937
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Matthew Inglis @mjinglis.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Superb Tug of War content here. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Take the strain: Tug of War World Championships
Action, emotion and exhaustion in Nottingham where teams from across the globe vied for supremacy in an ancient test of strength
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Matthew Inglis @mjinglis.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I’m looking for a study where someone has looked at accuracy on Raven’s matrices (or similar) items under extreme time pressure at the item level (not time pressure at the test level). I can’t find anything, but surely this study must exist?
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Matthew Inglis @mjinglis.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
“Isaac Newton-style act” www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
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Claims youths threw apples at punters' heads in Newton-style act
The company that runs the library says the unruly boys have now been moved on
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Matthew Inglis @mjinglis.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Very niche thread, apologies! I want to reply to a criticism made in this preprint by Bill D'Alessandro (who I think isn't on bluesky?). philpapers.org/archive/DALT...
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Matthew Inglis @mjinglis.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Attacked by the Charnwood Borough Council mace at today’s graduation ceremony.
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Loughborough University Department of Mathematics Education, UK @lborodme.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Can your fear of maths shape your child's future? New research from @lborouniversity.bsky.social & University of Bologna finds link b/ween parents’ maths anxiety & lower achievement in children. Read Kinga & Carlo's @theconversation.com article on our blog today: blog.lboro.ac.uk/cmc/2025/06/...
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Parents’ fear of maths linked to lower achievement in children – new research – Centre for Mathematical Cognition
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Matthew Inglis @mjinglis.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
This is a great summary of a very peculiar interaction. I wonder how Geraint Rees is coping with the new OfS duty that requires him and his UCL colleagues to “support constructive dialogue on contentious subjects”.
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Matthew Inglis @mjinglis.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Fully-funded PhD studentship to work on children’s financial literacy. Deadline end of June. ufncollaboratory.ac.uk/childrens-fi…
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Matthew Inglis @mjinglis.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
A really lovely article about the 2008 cup-winning squad. I particularly enjoyed the Hermann Hreidarsson bloodied-pigeon “That’s how we deal with things in Iceland” anecdote. www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/footba...
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'I slept with the FA Cup': The magical inside story of Pompey's 2008 Wembley triumph
On the 17th anniversary of Pompey’s FA Cup win, three figures from behind the scenes tell the magical inside story
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Matthew Inglis @mjinglis.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I wrote a blogpost about how the REF may have influenced how British academics write papers.
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Matthew Inglis @mjinglis.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Evidence of @driro.bsky.social’s photography skills on show at Megan Foulkes’s PhD viva celebrations.
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Matthew Inglis @mjinglis.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
That’s more than Jimmy Dickinson.
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Matthew Inglis @mjinglis.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
This Christmas I discovered my grandfather got interested in family history before he died. In amongst his folders of stuff there are some enjoyable one-paragraph biographies of distant relatives. Examples follow.
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Matthew Inglis @mjinglis.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Spotify makes up musical genres.
“August was your Entertaining Moog Krautrock season”February was your Goth Movie Tunes New Wave phase
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Matthew Inglis @mjinglis.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Was reminded today of this email from an editor I once received in response to a manuscript submission.
Screenshot of a letter from a journal editor. Text reads:
Dear Dr Inglis,
Thank you for your message and for the submission of your joint MS, [BLANK]• I'll get back to you when I have something to say about it. If that seems to you to be taking too long, please feel free to get back to me. Your MS does pose an interesting problem to me. The member of the Editorial Board of the journal that was particularly concerned with [BLANK] has been dead some time (and you wouldn't have wanted [BLANK] as
a referee anyway).
Yours truly,
[BLANK]
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Matthew Inglis @mjinglis.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Excited to discover that this important new documentary about the history of students in Leamington Spa offers two photos of me as evidence for the claim “Leamington has always offered an appealing social scene for students”. See 14:45 here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0Lg64GR1Mo
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Leamington Spa: University Town
YouTube video by Leamington History Group
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Matthew Inglis @mjinglis.bsky.social · 06/10/2024
My sister has a giant photo of Tony Blair saying “hello is it me you are looking for?” in her toilet.
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Matthew Inglis @mjinglis.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
Turns out that Semmelweis, the guy who invented antiseptics, was actually Willie Thorne.
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Attila Krajcsi @krajcsi.bsky.social · 18/03/2024
Do you plan to measure Approximate Number System in children? Check recommendations at doi.org/10.1016/j.dr... by @krajcsi.bsky.social D Chesney @krzysztofcipora.bsky.social @coolenilse.bsky.social @camillakgilmore.bsky.social @mjinglis.bsky.social M Libertus @tuebang.bsky.social V Simms, B Reynvoet
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 27/02/2024
Discussing their recent study of #REF2021 environment statements, @lizziegadd.bsky.social, @lizstokoe.bsky.social & @mjinglis.bsky.social highlight eight features of 'good' statements & suggest how they can be incorporated into work for #REF2029 #ResearchEvaluation #HigherEducation wp.me/p4m9em-cSm
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How to write a “good” REF Environment Statement
As Research England considers increasing the weighting of environment statements to 25% in REF2029, there is a heightened focus on what exactly constitutes a high-quality statement. Based on a text…
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Matthew Inglis @mjinglis.bsky.social · 14/02/2024
New! @lizziegadd.bsky.social, @lizstokoe.bsky.social and I analysed the things that were associated with getting high environment scores in the last REF. In press at Research Evaluation. Open Access version: doi.org/10.1093/rese...
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Matthew Inglis @mjinglis.bsky.social · 28/01/2024
Weirdly, my thoughts on yesterday’s football will be in tomorrow’s newspaper. www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Gaffer: Signing Wigan man is a must - Pompey can't have just two wingers they trust
Gaffer For A Day, Matthew Inglis, aged 44 from Nottingham, assesses Pompey's 1-0 win over Port Vale...
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