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Rebecca Ferguson

@r3beccaf.bsky.social
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Open University professor emerita, making the shift over to podcasting, audio drama and fiction.

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Rebecca Ferguson @r3beccaf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
The long-nosed Horatio in a long greatcoat, seated close to his roaring fire, writing a letter on his knees, a table with an inkwell at his side; illustration to "The Table Book" (1845) Woodcut
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Rebecca Ferguson @r3beccaf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Can you check the author has made the very major revisions you asked for? I suppose so. Wait - what is this 387-page document I've been landed with?
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Rebecca Ferguson @r3beccaf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Saint Gerard Majella was overcome with divine fervour, dancing and repeating verses until he fell into ecstasy and, allegedly, even levitated onepeterfive.com/saint-gerard...
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Saint Gerard Majella & the Mysticism of Music
Transforming music into a sacred play.
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today's winning Biology All email--in fact this is a contender for best this year
Hi all,

We received a package with no name to GSB 2144 with 80 sheep brains in it. If you are expecting this package, please reach out and we can coordinate the pickup!

Best wishes,
Jenna
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Donna Lanclos @donnalanclos.com · 28/09/2026
oh man, say it again. Workplaces should offer training. Universities are not training hubs.
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Mark Childs @markchilds.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Enjoying #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.social
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Is 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…
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Rebecca Ferguson @r3beccaf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Last one? In September???
Colour photograph of an artificial Christmas tree. The label gives the price – £146.99 – and states that this is the last one
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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George Ferguson WWI @georgeferguson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Life 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
Clipping of a newspaper headline: 'Airman's trials in African jungle. Sings to leopard to scare it away. Among crocodiles, lions and hippos.'
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Rebecca Ferguson @r3beccaf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I love the broad reach of this course and the way it brings together educational experiences and expertise from around the world.
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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Every damn time. We all need a committee of "NO".
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Rebecca Ferguson @r3beccaf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
What an interesting paper!
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Rebecca Ferguson @r3beccaf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This one, maybe? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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The admission of former slaves into churches and monasteries: reaching behind the sources
Religious institutions in early medieval Europe were both recipients of former slaves and instigators of manumissions. By drawing on recent work concerning the admission of former slaves into churche...
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Elizabeth 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
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Rebecca Ferguson @r3beccaf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
After he was invalided out on 9 August he was not returned to the Front. In WWII his ship was destroyed by a U-boat but he was rescued
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Rebecca Ferguson @r3beccaf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My grandad worked on the construction and was fourth engineer on many of her voyages, including when she won the Blue Riband. The family visited him on site and my dad, who was about four at the time, remembers the complexity of a colour coded pipe diagram of the Queen Mary's engine-room.
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Rebecca Ferguson @r3beccaf.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Rolling Scones
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Rebecca Ferguson @r3beccaf.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Somehow, this reminds me of @scarfolk.bsky.social
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Rebecca Ferguson @r3beccaf.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The 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.
'Welcome to the Conversation Consent Management' This is followed by 14 types of cookie to which the reader can click agree or disagree, followed by the optiion to click through to 'view our partners'
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Institute of Educational Technology @ietatou.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
10 days to go! Registration info www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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Research and scholarship in digital education | Open University | H890
Develop research and scholarship skills by exploring online, blended, and technology-enhanced teaching, learning, and assessment in diverse global contexts.
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The 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.org
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RNLI - Royal National Lifeboat Institution - Saving Lives at Sea
The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. We do this through lifeboat search and rescue, lifeguards, water safety education and international interventions.
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sky @iamspacegirl.bsky.social · 04/08/2023
hey, I just met Zeus and this is crazy but he's a swan and I'm having babies
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Rebecca Ferguson @r3beccaf.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It probably follows 'tornado' which can be pluralised in either way, but with 'tornadoes' the most common.
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Ashley @ashleysays.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Chefs kiss
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Fereshte Goshtasbpour SFHEA @gfereshte.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
3 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
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Dan @fraternalwriter.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
UK 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.
List of UK HE institutions facing significant downsizing.
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Mark Childs @markchilds.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Watch 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...
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Week 2: Exploring the Realm of Pedagogy: Part 1
YouTube video by Dr. Nellie Deutsch
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Rebecca Ferguson @r3beccaf.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I think there's been a lot of work on that area going on at Sedgeford – they'd probably be interested in talking to you www.sharp.org.uk
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SHARP - Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project
Welcome to SHARP (Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project)
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Rebecca Ferguson @r3beccaf.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Agree that Jeanne's work is fabulous. I think many of the archaeologists on site would hold a BSc, MSc or even a PhD specialising in specific scientific areas of archaeology – botany, chemistry, zoology, for example.
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Rebecca Ferguson @r3beccaf.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
There's a paw hanging out of the front of his jacket, so it looks as if he's made off with some animal. I love the way the picture is full of birds
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Rebecca Ferguson @r3beccaf.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Howl's Moving Gazebo
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Rebecca Ferguson @r3beccaf.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Raiders of the Lost Gazebo
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Rebecca Ferguson @r3beccaf.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
New Pedagodzilla episode – 'Would an AI Learning Design have helped the Sorcerer’s Apprentice?' www.pedagodzilla.com/podcast/woul...
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Would 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…
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Alfred Anate Bodurin Mayaki @alfredmayaki.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Big 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....
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Royal Economic Society (@resmedia.bsky.social)
Promoting economics. Supporting economists. Improving diversity.
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George 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...
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30 July 1916
Move 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…
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Rebecca Ferguson @r3beccaf.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Cauerau Hospital canfod.glamarchives.gov.uk/en/records/D...
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Caerau Isolation Hospital
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Jim Toms @jim09ea63.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Oh no TV presenter and comedian Bill Oddie dies at 85 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The Goodies: Kitten Kong in London
ALT: The Goodies: Kitten Kong in London
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Learning Design team at The Open University @ou-ld-social.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
You 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...
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Learning Design team at The Open University @ou-ld-social.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Today'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-...
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School’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…
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Rebecca Ferguson @r3beccaf.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Release the hounds!
A paint colour sample. Yellowish brown, its title is 'Release the Hounds'
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Rebecca Ferguson @r3beccaf.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It was a sneaky one. Very Victorian!
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Rebecca Ferguson @r3beccaf.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Back in the day, Skype demanded age verification of me when I'd been using them for ten years. They presumably thought there was a possibility I'd started using VIP aged five
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
An 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
A corroded metal arrowhead displayed upright on a thin stand. The triangular point is heavily weathered and rough, with two short side barbs extending from the base. Its surface shows a mottled texture of rust and mineral deposits, giving it an uneven, pitted appearance
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Joanna Bagniewska @joannabagniewska.com · 14/07/2026
Geologists 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/...
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Geologists on the silver screen—the sequel
As 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...
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Rebecca Ferguson @r3beccaf.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
My first work computer was a ZX-81. Sometimes I was required to use it without the 16K RAM pack in order to check that the 1K programs worked properly
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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Ever 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 👇🏼
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Rebecca Ferguson @r3beccaf.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
These days that means it was an unclouded blue
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Rebecca Ferguson @r3beccaf.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Events 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"
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The 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.
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lilastromech (Mischa) @mischajaye.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The cooling system was installed by the village AC technician, Thermodynamix 😊
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