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Michael Seery

@mkseery.bsky.social
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Deputy Director of Centre for Academic Language and Development, University of Bristol. National Teaching Fellow. Visiting Professor at OU. Interested in all things higher education and history 🏳️‍🌈 🇮🇪

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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
#MICER26 at Imperial College London, 13 May 2026 micerportal.wordpress.com
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Methods in Chemistry Education Research Portal
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
A mini-essay from me on the essay in the age of GenAI michaelseery.com/the-essay-in...
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The essay in the age of GenAI
Over my time studying for my history degree, I had to write many essays and came to love it as a form of assessment. The process of writing out what I thought about something was a tangible mechani…
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
2026 will be (I think) the 10th MICER... we are now looking for expressions of interest to host it rsccerg.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/o...
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Open Call for Organisers of 10th MICER 2026
ICER runs annually under the auspices of the RSC Chemistry Education Research Group, and the group are issuing a call for organisers of the 2026 meeting. Details are provided below. Submissions sho…
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Something new from me. The Chris Adams symposium prompted me to think the role of virtual laboratories in chemistry and I have been slowly thinking it through since. It turns out that there is a lot to do. Sharing as a preprint and really welcome comments while I work it up. osf.io/preprints/ed...
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
National Archives (UK) running 3 events on Irish history this month. Yes pleeeeze www.eventbrite.com/cc/finding-i...
Ireland, 1485-1798: colonial laboratory?
Fri, Sep 26 • 2:00 PM
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Sometimes it is hard being a chemist and a gardener
Screen grab showing subtitles "This lets some of the salt and minerals evaporate so they don't build up in the soil."
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Sometimes this is a very difficult country to live in
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
One of the fascinating if depressing things about “the literature” is the extent to which people cite other work that completely misrepresents what the cited article says. And that’s going to get so much worse with AI “insights”.
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Happy Putting those Aspirations for Completing Tasks Back On Ice For Another Year Day to all who celebrate. 🙌
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
You *can* have it all.
Plaque for Clifton and Hotwells Improvement Society 
WILLIAM HENRY CLAYFIELD (1772-1837)
CHEMIST, BOTANIST, GEOLOGIST, BALLOONIST LIVED HERE
1814-1837
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Michael O’Neill @michaeloneill.org · 18/08/2025
**New blog post** A reflection on how moving city made me less productive this year. www.michaeloneill.org/blog-1/2025/8/18/the-academic-productivity-cost-of-moving
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The academic productivity cost of moving — Michael O'Neill
A reflection on the way I became less productive in the year I moved from one University to another.
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
It's 4 years since everything upended, and having this month just finished the first year in my new role, I am (over)sharing some reflections. Short version: all is well :D michaelseery.com/reflecting-o...
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Reflecting on moving career, moving life: 4 years on
I’ve recently completed my first year in my new job and as part of my annual review was prompted by my Director to reflect on learnings over the year past (I work in a Faculty of Arts now; it’s wha…
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Prof. Natalie Fey @nataliefeynls.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Paging the #CompChemSky and #iTeachChem communities: Could you please help my MSc student with an education project, exploring how gen AI shapes the way we think, solve problems, and build confidence.
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
I've spent a bit of time thinking and writing about GRC CERP; how it came together, and how it came to be. Thank you to everyone who played a part and the many messages since. It's long, so a main take away message, it is: *conference organisers should always have a "meal with speakers" system*.
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A Maine Meitheal: Reflecting on the 2025 GRC Chemistry Education Research and Practice
In early July in rural Maine, I chaired the 2025 Gordon Research Conference Chemistry Education Research and Practice meeting. I was elected way back in 2019 as Vice Chair to Ellen Yezierski (Vice …
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
First day//last day of GRC CERP. Who needs sleep?!.Thanks so much to Erin Saitta for photos.
At registration desk waiting for people to arriveGroup picture waiting for bus to leave.
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Was an amazing week - thanks for presentation and bringing *all* the gang from Texas 🤣 They made an enormous contribution to the meeting.
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
What an amazing week! Thank you everyone who made it so special. This was a career highlight that will be tough to beat. #GRCCERP #MoonAgents
Groups of presenters and discussants posing for photo
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
#GRCCERP begins! Setting off on journey with a view of Westbury White Horse from the train (through very murky window).
White horse shape carved out chalk soil on steep hill side
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
At Trinity last night for book launch of 300 years of Trinity. Launched by Peter Boyle (who turned to history when he retired - role model ❤️); met up with JMK; and a talk from Peter Morris on history of chemistry lab.
Peter Boyle launching book with a slide showing Brian McMurry in the backgroundWith John Kelly holding copy of the bookSlide showing image of Chemical Institute in Berlin from Peter Morris’ talk
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
RIP Edmund White. As a very confused young adult I somehow came across his work and it was a lightbulb. A world I never thought I could connect with, but was a comfort to know it existed. Some lovely tributes www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
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Edmund White remembered: ‘He was the patron saint of queer literature’
Colm Tóibín, Alan Hollinghurst, Adam Mars-Jones and more recall the high style and libidinous freedom of a writer who ‘was not a gateway to gay literature but a main destination’
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Prof. Natalie Fey @nataliefeynls.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
We are organising a one-day symposium in memory of Chris Adams, here in Bristol Chemistry on 27th June 2025, from 10 am. Details, programme and registration form here: cjasymposium.blogs.bristol.ac.uk Please register by the end of this week if you plan to come for dinner.
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Are you attending GRC CERP this summer? If so, I have made a short presentation giving an overview of the conference, the flow of the week, and my top tips for attendees...! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrok...
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GRC CERP 2025 Participants' Briefing
YouTube video by Michael Seery
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
As a lifelong academic I’m here for it.
Extract reads: “facing his students on a Monday morning in January, wearing the same dark suit that he purchased in 1989 at Rothmans when he was first starting to teach and realized he needed formal professional attire.”
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Trolls
Dear Michael
Although retirement is still some way off,
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Are you attending GRC CERP this summer? If so, I have made a short presentation giving an overview of the conference, the flow of the week, and my top tips for attendees...! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrok...
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GRC CERP 2025 Participants' Briefing
YouTube video by Michael Seery
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
For Trinity Chemistry alumni (and interested others) Book launch of "Trinity College Dublin - 300 years of Chemistry" in Dublin on 30th June with a talk from Peter Morris on the history of the chemistry laboratory. What's not to love?!
Trinity College Dublin: 
300 YEARS OF CHEMISTRY
Edited by Peter Boyle,
contributors John Boland, Peter Boyle David Grayson, John Kelly and Brian McMurry
This new book will be launched by Professor Peter Morris of the Science Museum, London, on Monday 30 June 2025 at 5.00 pm in the Tercententary Theatre, TBSI building. The launch will be preceded by a lecture at 4 pm by Professor Morris, on "Form and Function:
The History of the Chemistry Laboratory, 1700-2005".
All interested are welcome to attend.
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
God I hope the answer is yes 🤞 (it was, but only because of a few extra hundred thousand details not mention in headline)
I'm 46, earn £25k and have £6k in my pension. Can I quit my job and retire for good?
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Colin McGill @colinmcgill.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
The finalised programme for Methods in Chemistry Education Research #MICER25 at @edinburghnapier.bsky.social micerportal.wordpress.com #chemsky #chemedresearch
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
A cryptic clue for chemists
Clue prompt: Hounds in races. As in labs? (7)
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Had a great day yesterday at #CLEAR25 symposium - really excellent talks. Loved hearing about @burrowscer.bsky.social phenomenongraphy work describing student perspectives in project-based labs, and Jianye Wei on inquiry in Chinese context. I've added my slides here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/guac2...
Clear Symposium programme
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Looking forward to it!
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I finally made a headline! Lovely article on the launch summit of the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for University Science Education last week. use.ku.dk/news/news-20...
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USE Center summit lays groundwork for ambitious research plan: “A seminal moment”
More than 50 education researchers from the USE Center and participating teaching faculty mapped the educational reality in their discipline. The results will inform concrete research projects with an...
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Recording of @aud2526.bsky.social presentation "Signing to Know: Unlocking chemistry concepts" from symposium in her honour last week is now on @cerg.bsky.social YouTube channel. Thanks to Dr Helen Pain for her warm introduction to Audrey and the symposium youtu.be/9cWN4oD39kw
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Dr Audrey Cameron: Teaching Deaf Children Chemistry
YouTube video by RSC Chemical Education Research Group
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
A really inspiring symposium today. Lots to take away from it. I loved the chemical considerations involved in making new signs and the student generated videos were amazing! Thanks to presenters, interpreters, & Dr Helen Pain for officially opening proceedings! rsccerg.wordpress.com/2025/02/10/t...
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Teaching Chemistry to Deaf Students: A Symposium in Honour of Dr Audrey Cameron
Dr Audrey Cameron HonFRSC OBE is Chancellor’s Fellow at Moray House School of Education and Sport at the University of Edinburgh. She has worked extensively in d/Deaf education, including lar…
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Among a chorus of pandering plaudits for Francis, Mary McAleese cuts through the crap and says it as it is www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
There is what Francis said and what Francis is thought to have said. There is what Francis did and what Francis is thought to have done. The myth machine applauded the synodal pope, the pope who gave jobs to women, the pope who did not judge homosexuals, who protected victims of clerical abuse and held bad faith episcopal managers accountable, who said aborted babies went to heaven although unreformed church teaching left hell as a definite prospect. But these versions of the pope are illusions with little or no substance.
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Fantastic story (and also v. jealous) Amazing how many sliding doors there are on everyone's journey. In another world I would have discovered conservation science and perhaps gone on that path.
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Colin McGill @colinmcgill.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Methods in Chemistry Education Research speaker announcement: Dr Nicola Kiernan, Head of Chemistry and STEM co-ordinator at the High School of Dundee will be leading a workshop exploring the use of video for analysing gestures. www.linkedin.com/posts/colin-... #chatchemistry #chemedresearch
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Penultime speaker announcement for the Methods in Chemistry Education… | Colin McGill
Penultime speaker announcement for the Methods in Chemistry Education Research (MICER) meeting at Edinburgh Napier University on 21 May 2025 Dr Nicola Kiernan (Head of Chemistry and STEM Co-ordinator...
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Back to work today after a week off. Was it something I said?!
Train schedule showing a series of cancelled trains.
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Six years after being elected to chair the meeting (thanks COVID), and quite a few professional twists and turns later, I am feeling quite emotional about *finally* publishing the 2025 Gordon Research Conference on 'Chemistry Education Research and Practice' programme online. It'll be a cracker!
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2025 Chemistry Education Research and Practice Conference GRC
The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Chemistry Education Research and Practice will be held in Lewiston, Maine. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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Colin McGill @colinmcgill.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
#MICER25 update: Prof. Paul Ashwin will be leading a workshop on the use of interview data and phenomenography. MICER takes place at @edinburghnapier.bsky.social on Wednesday 21 May 2025. Details at micerportal.wordpress.com #ChemEd #ITeachChem #ChemEdResearch #ChemSky
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Methods in Chemistry Education Research Portal
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Dr. Molly B. Atkinson @mollybatkinson.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Hi friends! Have you ever used the CHemistry Instrument Review and Assessment Library (CHIRAL) chiral.chemedx.org? We want to hear your feedback! Please drop your thoughts in our quick CHIRAL feedback survey: portlandstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Learn about and feedback on this amazing education research resource rsccerg.wordpress.com/2025/04/03/c...
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CHemistry Instrument Review and Assessment Library (CHIRAL)
CHIRAL ( is a collection of research assessments/inventories that compiles valid (measures what we intend it to measure) and reliable (consistent, minimizing measurement error) instruments in one c…
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
This article says everything I want to say about AI hype in a much clearer way than I ever could. Excellent work.
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Opinion | The Tech Fantasy That Powers A.I. Is Running on Fumes (Gift Article)
A.I. is just what we need in the post-fact era: less research and more predicting what we want to hear.
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
In a parallel universe this is the conference that I could be attending 😭 When people say they don’t know what they’d do if they won the lottery, I do! I know what I’d do…!
Conference title: Landed estate collections in the National Library of Ireland.
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Katharine Hubbard @katharinehubbard.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Am hiring! If you know anyone who might want to lead institutional approaches to digital pedagogy and practice either let me know or send them this link. @bnuni.bsky.social an exciting place to be right now! jobs.bucks.ac.uk/vacancy/seni... #DigitalPedagogy #DigitalEducation
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Senior Adviser (Digital Pedagogy and Practice) (1755) | Buckinghamshire New University
Full Time - Permanent - High Wycombe Salary - £44,128 - £55,755     Buckinghamshire New University is an ambitious, modern univers
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Wasn’t sure what to expect but ended up being unexpectedly sweet www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/o...
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Opinion | How Hooters Became a Refuge for Young Gay Men (Gift Article)
Many fathers and grandfathers take their gay sons to the bar. It’s become a place of refuge — and how that happened is a curious story.
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Watching ‘Adolescence’ (slowly, as I can only take so much at the moment). Will be forever glad I grew up in an era without internet and smartphone. Yes I am old now.
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Colin McGill @colinmcgill.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Register for Methods in Chemistry Education Research (MICER) at micerportal.wordpress.com #chatchemistry #ChemEdResearch
MICER meeting, 21st May, Edinburgh Napier University
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I do want to cry. A programme with a specific and valuable offering is no longer deemed viable. Having seen elsewhere the transformational power of these types of programmes, it’s such a travesty.
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
The fantastic documentary “Housewife of the Year” reviewed in NYT “…we, too, will be making documentaries looking back, incredulous at what we lived through, what we allowed, what we assumed was normal.”
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‘Housewife of the Year’: Contestants Look Back in Dismay (Gift Article)
Ciaran Cassidy’s film revisits an Irish television show that judged stay-at-home moms on budgeting and appearance.
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