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(The) nearly Dr Puiyin Wong 👑 @puiyin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

@lthechat.bsky.social Bonus Q7 - Do @puiyin.bsky.social & @johnbrindletel.bsky.social make an awesome double act? Only one acceptable answer! Also, stay tuned, #TELresearchers & #HEresearchers will be back this summer with more awesome guests! #LTHEchart

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LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Q5 - What helps you feel able to move from listening quietly to actively contributing in a learning community? Reply with A5 #LTHEChat and your response @puiyin.bsky.social @johnbrindletel.bsky.social

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(The) nearly Dr Puiyin Wong 👑 @puiyin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

A6 it’s free, innit. 😉 I think a lot of COD are overly expensive for no reason and it’s a barrier to learning and sharing. Open practice means you give and take whatever you can and feel comfortable with or able to. What goes around comes around and eventually, it’ll all even out. #LTHEchat

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LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Q6 - How can open practices help turn individual curiosity into shared learning and community? Reply with A6 #LTHEChat and your response @puiyin.bsky.social @johnbrindletel.bsky.social

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(The) nearly Dr Puiyin Wong 👑 @puiyin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Neither of us drink, but we do hang out a lot because only one of us can drive. This means the other one is a dependent. #LTHEchat @hintondm.bsky.social

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(The) nearly Dr Puiyin Wong 👑 @puiyin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

A4 encouragement from others who are more experienced than I am. Little things like there is no right or wrong answer, any contribution is welcome etc #LTHEchat

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(The) nearly Dr Puiyin Wong 👑 @puiyin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

A4 Connecting, definitely. I have very thick skin, don’t you know? 😉 #LTHEchat

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LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Q4 - Which of the four C’s — Consuming, Creating, Connecting, or Contributing — feels most natural to you, and which would you like to develop further? Reply with A4 #LTHEChat and your response @puiyin.bsky.social @johnbrindletel.bsky.social

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(The) nearly Dr Puiyin Wong 👑 @puiyin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

A3 A very importers role, indeed! Knowing I can always reach out to someone who has the expertise, advice or opinions, or know someone else who can help. I think this goes both ways, you are helpful to others and others are helpful back. I value my network a lot! A LOT! #LTHEchat

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LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Q3 - What role has your personal learning network played in helping you learn, reflect, or grow? Reply with A3 #LTHEChat and your response @puiyin.bsky.social @johnbrindletel.bsky.social

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(The) nearly Dr Puiyin Wong 👑 @puiyin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

A2 Without our very formal informal learning community #TLEresearchers & #HEresearchers, we’d never have been BFFs! Love you! 😙❤️ #LTHEchat

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(The) nearly Dr Puiyin Wong 👑 @puiyin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

A2 Meeting amazing people I can and have learnt from, chatting with them, occasionally (by that I mean very often) reaching to them for a chat or 10. These are the informal learning that has helped me progressed much quicker than any formal CPD could #LTHEchat

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LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Q2 - How has informal learning shaped your professional development compared with more formal CPD opportunities? Reply with A2 #LTHEChat and your response @puiyin.bsky.social @johnbrindletel.bsky.social

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(The) nearly Dr Puiyin Wong 👑 @puiyin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

A1 Have you built that lucky cat I got you yet? It better not become parts of your mountains of Lego pieces! #LTHEchat

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LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Q1 - What questions or interests first sparked your curiosity in learning, teaching, or research? Reply with A1 #LTHEChat and your response @puiyin.bsky.social @johnbrindletel.bsky.social

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(The) nearly Dr Puiyin Wong 👑 @puiyin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Q1 what other people are doing in their work. How did they get where they are. Oh so and so are very cool, I wanna grow up to be like them. These are the main drivers. #LTHEchat

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(The) nearly Dr Puiyin Wong 👑 @puiyin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

What she says… she is my responsible adult

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LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Ten minutes to go until this evening’s #LTHEchat :) This evening we will be discussing curiosity driven informal learning. Still time to read through the blogpost at lthechat.com/2026/05/18/l... before we get started tonight. #LTHEchat @puiyin.bsky.social @johnbrindletel.bsky.social

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LTHEchat 365: From Curiosity to Community

Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 20th May at 8pm BST with guests Puiyin Wong (@puiyin.bsky.social) and John Brindle (@johnbrindletel.bsky.social) to discuss how curiosity-driven conver…

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(The) nearly Dr Puiyin Wong 👑 @puiyin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

How could you resist @johnbrindletel.bsky.social and I doing a double act! We are sector wide famous for our double act! ❤️

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(The) nearly Dr Puiyin Wong 👑 @puiyin.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

About time! Very many congratulations!! 🍾🍾🍾🎉🎉🎉

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(The) nearly Dr Puiyin Wong 👑 @puiyin.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Thank you for another thought provoking chat! Good evening all! #LTHEchat

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(The) nearly Dr Puiyin Wong 👑 @puiyin.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

That too, I guess the emphasis is don’t change it for the sake of it or for wanting to make a personal impact regardless. #LTHEchat

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(The) nearly Dr Puiyin Wong 👑 @puiyin.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

A6 Less of the upstairs/downstairs culture, some (not all!) academic staff don’t seem to want to treat PS staff as experts. This needs to change! #LTHEchat

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(The) nearly Dr Puiyin Wong 👑 @puiyin.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

A5 for senior leaders - Make up your mind, don’t change your mind unless things are heading for a car crush, stick to your plan you decided 5 mins ago… give us a chance to make it a reality. Give us more freedom to contribute to key institutional wide decisions. #LTHEchat

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(The) nearly Dr Puiyin Wong 👑 @puiyin.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

A4 Sometime I feel they don’t ever talk to each other and so end up giving multiple different but similar instructions. #LTHEchat

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(The) nearly Dr Puiyin Wong 👑 @puiyin.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Some peers of mine did some CPD for us at BNU. I asked one of our PVCs to write a thank you email. He was more than happy to do as it’d take him 2 mins. Everyone who got it felt truly appreciated and that email will help them in their future applications to fellowship or CMALT etc #LTHEchat

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(The) nearly Dr Puiyin Wong 👑 @puiyin.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Depends if the person you thank in advance then do what they are suppose to? If not, I’d email back and demand to have my thank you back! #LTHEchat

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(The) nearly Dr Puiyin Wong 👑 @puiyin.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

A4 We are all a bit overworked & sometimes, we don’t know it all, but that’s OK, we learn with our students. Also, we use doughnuts & Taylor Swift songs as currencies to exchange time in some parts of BNU. Oops, the secret is out! @katharinehubbard.bsky.social @profdamienpage.bsky.social 😬 #LTHEchat

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(The) nearly Dr Puiyin Wong 👑 @puiyin.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

A3 would it kill you to send a thank you email? Well depends who you ask! 😅 #LTHEchat

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(The) nearly Dr Puiyin Wong 👑 @puiyin.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

A1 oh yeah, there is that… this all started with me admitting to you reading policies is one of my favourites pastime! 😬 #LTHEchat

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(The) nearly Dr Puiyin Wong 👑 @puiyin.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

A2 I am a firm believer of paying it forward. We all have a part to play in supporting each other to flourish, of course with a supportive environment, it’s a lot easier. #LTHEchat

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(The) nearly Dr Puiyin Wong 👑 @puiyin.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

A1 sometime the important aka the boring stuff end up being valuable opportunities for future interesting stuff. Like I used to find reading policies boring, but now I love reading them & have opportunities to review & write new policies, letting me to flourish in ways I never imagined. #LTHEchat

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(The) nearly Dr Puiyin Wong 👑 @puiyin.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

A2 depends on what these are and whom for. Conditions for employers to allow staff to flourish, yes. Conditions for staff to flourish might backfire. I have experienced colleagues reacting badly to be given opportunities to flourish, citing it’s stressful but felt obliged to engage. #LTHEchat

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(The) nearly Dr Puiyin Wong 👑 @puiyin.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

A1 Freedom to explore, express, to make mistakes and learn from them. Failure is not branded as an unacceptable affair. Also, be listened to irrespective of backgrounds and walks of life etc. I know these sound basic, but it’s easier said than done. #LTHEchat

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