Reposted by Rebecca FergusonMark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Today's winning Biology All email--in fact this is a contender for best this year 36862184
Reposted by Rebecca FergusonDonna Lanclos @donnalanclos.com · 28/09/2026oh man, say it again. Workplaces should offer training. Universities are not training hubs. 054
Reposted by Rebecca FergusonMark Childs @markchilds.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Enjoying #Strictly? Want some tips on giving #Feedback to your students? Want to hear three people talking about both together? Then listen to our latest #Pedagodzilla podcast episode www.pedagodzilla.com/is-the-feedb... With @mikecollins99.bsky.social and @r3beccaf.bsky.socialpedagodzilla.comIs the feedback on Strictly a fab-u-lous model for educators?In this episode Mike, Mark and Rebecca take to the floor to ask whether the feedback dished out by the judges on Strictly Come Dancing is actually a surprisingly good model for educators. We look a… 111
Reposted by Rebecca Ferguson🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 121121715158
Reposted by Rebecca FergusonGeorge Ferguson WWI @georgeferguson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Life in Bolton in 1917 must have been very exciting because this story only made it to page 3 of the newspaper. The airman's only weapon of defence was a pair of nail scissors, he sang ‘Two Eyes of Grey' to a leopard, and baboons fought over his clothing 031
Rebecca Ferguson @r3beccaf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I love the broad reach of this course and the way it brings together educational experiences and expertise from around the world. 041
Reposted by Rebecca FergusonLiv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Every damn time. We all need a committee of "NO". 0196
Reposted by Rebecca FergusonElizabeth Zelle @kohizeri.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"the assessment did not consider the crocodiles" is my new metaphor for people choosing to just ignore the data point that doesn't agree with them 14843286
Rebecca Ferguson @r3beccaf.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Somehow, this reminds me of @scarfolk.bsky.social 020
Rebecca Ferguson @r3beccaf.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The Conversation gives me one button to click if I consent to cookies and (checks notes) 14 if I don't. And the additional option to make separate choices for six different partners. They 'only use your cookies to improve our service and ensure the website is functional' but one partner is Facebook. 010
Reposted by Rebecca FergusonInstitute of Educational Technology @ietatou.bsky.social · 07/09/202610 days to go! Registration info www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate...open.ac.ukResearch and scholarship in digital education | Open University | H890Develop research and scholarship skills by exploring online, blended, and technology-enhanced teaching, learning, and assessment in diverse global contexts. 013
Reposted by Rebecca FergusonDr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The RNLI have some of the best people in Britain volunteering for them. They put their lives on the line when they are called on and they will rescue anyone who needs them. Because every life matters, and offering help is the right thing to do. You can donate here: rnli.orgrnli.orgRNLI - Royal National Lifeboat Institution - Saving Lives at SeaThe RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. We do this through lifeboat search and rescue, lifeguards, water safety education and international interventions. 161170608
Reposted by Rebecca Fergusonsky @iamspacegirl.bsky.social · 04/08/2023hey, I just met Zeus and this is crazy but he's a swan and I'm having babies 161589403
Reposted by Rebecca FergusonFereshte Goshtasbpour SFHEA @gfereshte.bsky.social · 27/08/20263 weeks to go! Join us to earn a PG Cert in Researching Digital Education while preparing a PhD/EdD proposal or an application for a funded project! Alternatively, you can earn the certificate and continue on to our MA in Online Teaching. www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate... #digitaleducation #OUMAOT 003
Reposted by Rebecca FergusonDan @fraternalwriter.bsky.social · 20/08/2026UK HE institutions facing reductions in staffing & offerings. While the PM blithely makes claims about AI’s ability ‘to write an essay', an important contributor to economic growth and social peace is in deep trouble, due, in large part, to government policies. Spotted an error? Amendments welcome. 002
Reposted by Rebecca FergusonMark Childs @markchilds.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Watch me @sheilawebber.bsky.social and @r3beccaf.bsky.social talk about the map of the Realms of Pedagogy from the pedagodzilla book at www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogOx...youtube.comWeek 2: Exploring the Realm of Pedagogy: Part 1YouTube video by Dr. Nellie Deutsch 012
Rebecca Ferguson @r3beccaf.bsky.social · 05/08/2026New Pedagodzilla episode – 'Would an AI Learning Design have helped the Sorcerer’s Apprentice?' www.pedagodzilla.com/podcast/woul...pedagodzilla.comWould an AI Learning Design have helped the Sorcerer’s Apprentice?How can we ensure students are equipped to deal with AI? What are the benefits of incorporating AI awareness into our learning designs? What are the risks? How can we get the floor cleaned more eas… 010
Reposted by Rebecca FergusonAlfred Anate Bodurin Mayaki @alfredmayaki.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Big shouts to @ssrn.bsky.social for publishing a preliminary version of my thesis on unions and collective forms of welfare across the OECD. Also a major thank you to resmedia.bsky.social and @oulibrary.bsky.social for the ongoing support. Available here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....resmedia.bsky.socialRoyal Economic Society (@resmedia.bsky.social)Promoting economics. Supporting economists. Improving diversity. 021
Reposted by Rebecca FergusonGeorge Ferguson WWI @georgeferguson.bsky.social · 30/07/2026"Move off + bivouac just behind our old front line" "Liverpool's blackest day' on the Somme, 500 Pals killed, including George Ferguson's near neighbour in Liverpool, George Harold Barlow, who he'd met by chance at few days earlier. More at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/3...georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com30 July 1916Move off + bivouac just behind our old front line CommentaryThe Liverpool Scottish doctor, Noel Chavasse, wrote home:I expect the next few days will be very busy ones. I pray God I do my duty. I ha… 021
Reposted by Rebecca FergusonJim Toms @jim09ea63.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Oh no TV presenter and comedian Bill Oddie dies at 85 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...static.klipy.comThe Goodies: Kitten Kong in LondonALT: The Goodies: Kitten Kong in London 2218
Reposted by Rebecca FergusonLearning Design team at The Open University @ou-ld-social.bsky.social · 22/07/2026You can also read about it in the chapter How Does Problem-based Learning Help Buffy the Vampire Slayer... er, Slay Vampires? (co-written by @r3beccaf.bsky.social, @mikecollins.bsky.social, and @markchilds.bsky.social), from the OER-available #Pedagodzilla book. www.pedagodzilla.com/wp-content/u...pedagodzilla.com 022
Reposted by Rebecca FergusonLearning Design team at The Open University @ou-ld-social.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Today's hot topic in the #OU_LD team is #ProblemBasedLearning. Which has reminded us of our own @mikecollins.bsky.social's fantastic #Pedagodzilla #podcast episode on the subject. www.pedagodzilla.com/schools-out-...pedagodzilla.comSchool’s out forever! How does Problem based learning help Buffy the Vampire Slayer? (Ft.Computational thinking)Now here’s a Brucie bonus for you – it’s a pedagogy 2 for the price of 1 special! We’ve got Rebecca Ferguson, innovator of pedagogy and watcher of Buffy joining us to figure… 131
Reposted by Rebecca FergusonNina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 14/07/2026An arrowhead made of #meteorite iron: around 1,500 BC, a meteorite struck #Estonia. A fragment of it arrived - presumably in the baggage of an amber trader - at what is now Lake Biel, #Switzerland. An arrowhead was then made there from the cosmic iron. From Mörigen, 900-800 BC. 📷️ me 234994
Reposted by Rebecca FergusonJoanna Bagniewska @joannabagniewska.com · 14/07/2026Geologists have a higher death rate in movies than Sean Bean 💀 Of the 202 geologists in 141 movies released between 1919 and 2023, 69 die or are found dead, resulting in mortality rate of about a third. Movie geologists were mainly male, white and in khaki. 🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comGeologists on the silver screen—the sequelAs geologists, our interest is piqued when geological processes—with varying degrees of accuracy—are portrayed in movies and especially when a geologist unexpectedly appears on screen, even in a mino... 69337
Reposted by Rebecca FergusonDom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Ever wondered if there was an intersection between #VirtualReality and #TheOddyssey? Well, I made one! And in the process of writing my forthcoming book chapter about it, I had the pleasure of making my #Pedagodzilla debut with @markchilds.bsky.social and @r3beccaf.bsky.social. Listen below 👇🏼 011
Rebecca Ferguson @r3beccaf.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Events I never expected to have an official artist. Alasdair Dallas was "the official artist on the King of Belgium’s Expedition in search of the tsetse fly and the King of Sweden’s Expedition in the Gobi Desert" 110
Reposted by Rebecca FergusonJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 01/07/2026The last direct-line remnant of one of the particularly fighty smaller Military Holy Orders is 4 nuns living in a small house in Norwich. (At least that's how many, and where they were, last time I checked) So structurally the OPTION for the Pope to go full Adepta Sororitas is there, if he wants. 711917
Reposted by Rebecca Fergusonlilastromech (Mischa) @mischajaye.bsky.social · 26/06/2026The cooling system was installed by the village AC technician, Thermodynamix 😊 6449491404
Reposted by Rebecca FergusonMayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 26/06/2026This is remarkable. 912766773
Reposted by Rebecca FergusonBuckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Just posting this to contrast with the glorious cold of last November. 1874
Reposted by Rebecca FergusonBuckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 25/06/2026We're still open. 51495
Rebecca Ferguson @r3beccaf.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Daughter spent last week crafting a job application that required 2000 words. Deadline midnight Sunday; rejection received midday Monday. She'd probably still be in the running if she'd simply submitted a list of keywords for the AI to tick off. 040
Reposted by Rebecca FergusonDara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 22/06/2026You should come back and do a quick, four episode run of Mock the Week, they said. Don’t be ridicolous, I said. What news will there be, in June, during a World Cup? Oh, they said. Something will happen. Anyway, Sunday nights on TLC and available on the TLC YouTube channel afterwards. 3172162
Reposted by Rebecca FergusonDoug Clow @dougclow.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Oh no! Oh blimey. Never mind the data, it's the people! My backup plan when we had rocky patches before was to open source it and help the community take ownership - this sounds like it was a very rapid decision with no time to support that sort of thing. :( 021
Rebecca Ferguson @r3beccaf.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Oh, no! The Open University is closing iSpot with only a few hours notice. A significant international site. Decades of data about nature and wildlife shared openly 230
Reposted by Rebecca FergusonAlisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 10/06/2026"The court classified Google as a direct infringer because the "AI overview" is its own content, not just a list of search results. Google's AI overviews had falsely tied two publishing companies to scams... [A]t Google's scale, it means millions of wrong answers every hour"the-decoder.comLandmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answersA German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators ... 113267
Reposted by Rebecca FergusonRebecca Jones @remembermyhat.bsky.social · 03/06/2026A few people have asked me if it's too late to sign up for this afternoon. It's not! There's lots of online tickets left and some in-person ones in Milton Keynes, which include free wine and nibbles. If you unexpectedly find yourself free at 4.30 today, please do join us. 141
Rebecca Ferguson @r3beccaf.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Came upon a note that reminded me how glorious some of the patch notes for Dwarf Fortress could be 010
Reposted by Rebecca FergusonMontford Tales @montfordtales.com · 01/06/2026You can now get the vibe of "Twin Peaks, but in the Lake District" purely in PDF from both itch.io and DTRPG :) Community copies are available on itch for those who need them. Itch: montfordtales.itch.io/ashers-ridge DTRPG: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... 34620
Reposted by Rebecca FergusonOrkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Years ago we put googly eyes on a giant paperclip and stuck it to the wall. Now the blu tack has melted and the paperclip has grown ears and this is basically what Darwin was talking about. #NationalPaperclipDay 14783128
Rebecca Ferguson @r3beccaf.bsky.social · 25/05/2026www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgSycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependenceDespite rising concerns about sycophancy—excessive agreement or flattery from artificial intelligence (AI) systems—little is known about its prevalence or consequences. We show that sycophancy is wide... 030
Rebecca Ferguson @r3beccaf.bsky.social · 22/05/2026When was it Slideshare became an irrelevance? A couple of years ago, presentations would get hundreds of views, multiple downloads and you could embed them in Wordpress. These days it's just tumbleweed and the featured presentations are duller than ditchwater. 021
Rebecca Ferguson @r3beccaf.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Full Fact’s Government Tracker is monitoring the government’s delivery on its promises. It looks at progress ont 92 key pledges, from Labour’s 2024 election manifesto and from further announcements made since fullfact.org/government-t... Currently, two-thirds are achieved, in progress or on trackfullfact.orgGovernment Tracker – Full FactFull Fact is monitoring the government’s delivery on its promises 010
Reposted by Rebecca FergusonCambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 21/05/202621st May 2026 Cream Tea at Le Patissier. 1192
Reposted by Rebecca FergusonMike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Shoutout to the very senior professor in HCI who gave a talk last month about how AI can do qualitative data analysis better than people now. 11387187
Reposted by Rebecca FergusonJill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 20/05/2026New dataset published: this is the audio + transcripts of AI-generated podcasts using NotebookLM to analyse how it "translated" source documents from different times and cultures. My favourites are the 20 podcasts generated from an empty PDF. The paper about it is in press. doi.org/10.18710/RNT...doi.orgA dataset of AI-generated podcasts created using NotebookLMAudio files and transcripts of AI-generated podcasts created using Google's NotebookLM. Four podcasts were created by uploading specific PDFs. Twen... 16699243
Reposted by Rebecca FergusonCrumble Hob @uffington.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Only a few days left to go and see the Radical Rural exhibition at @themerl.bsky.social Well worth it if you can visit. Growing up around Newbury and Greenham in the 80s and 90s there were a few familiar nostalgic exhibits. 3395