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Robin Young 🌈♾️ @robinyoung.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Blasted orcs! Time the elves showed up.

Robin Young 🌈♾️ @robinyoung.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

GCSE for those who choose it, but some low stakes performing arts for everyone else. Not everything should lead to assessments and qualifications. Participation, and enjoyment should be rewarded and simply documented with a certificate

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Rachel Taylor MP @racheltaylormp.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

My statement on the EHRC Code of Practice and why I have chosen to sign the Motion of Regret.

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Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

This is first conviction using misogyny as hate crime - what he did was already a crime but now he will get a more serious sentence. Minimising his behaviour underlines why we fought for this as she must have been terrified. Ask for a kiss? He grabbed her hair and refused to take no for an answer.

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Robin Young 🌈♾️ @robinyoung.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

So much effort just to get a selfie with a convicted felon.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

I have come to the conclusion the EHRC guidance on single sex spaces should not even come to Parliament. It is misleading and has caused distress for my trans constituents. I urge @bphillipsonMP to reject it on grounds of practicality and human rights. sianberry.org.uk/publications/l…

An image of Sian's letter to the Minister for Women and Equalities.

You can read the full text of her letter at:

https://www.sianberry.org.uk/publications/letter-regarding-statutory-guidance-from-the-equality-human-rights-commission/

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Robin Young 🌈♾️ @robinyoung.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Only one sock came out of the washing machine. That’s odd?

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Robin Young 🌈♾️ @robinyoung.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

I’m autistic and ADHD. It’s not a disease, its not a condition, it’s not a privilege, it’s not a curse. It is an identity in itself and it is who I am. It cannot be caused or cured with paracetamol anymore than any other human identity. I am only disabled when I am discriminated against.

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Robin Young 🌈♾️ @robinyoung.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways. Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

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UK faces ‘battle for the soul’ of the country, says Starmer amid Reform threat

In a rallying cry to progressives around the world, the Prime Minister said allies must stop the ‘politics of predatory grievance’.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Big day for the matriarchy! 🥳 Huge congrats to the awesome Prof. Doughtery, lead on the Jupiter-bound ESA JUICE mission & STFC Exec Chair. If anyone's confused on the astro royal hierarchy: Michele and I are the astro equivalents of 🇬🇧Westminster and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Holyrood 🤗 ℹ️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 👩‍🔬🔭🧪

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UK gets first female Astronomer Royal in 350 years

Prof Michele Dougherty is the first woman to be appointed to the influential post.

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Robin Young 🌈♾️ @robinyoung.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Extended certificate. I think I’m teaching 1.5 hours a week and my department head the same, so only 6 hours a fortnight. I still haven’t got my head around my timetable though. New school after 18 years! Good to change.

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Robin Young 🌈♾️ @robinyoung.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Pearson. Y13 are doing the old spec and we’re bringing the new one in with Y12. We don’t have enough teaching hours to sit all three exams by May 2026 for Y12, do we’re thinking of doing course work first. This could be a very good or a very bad idea. I wish I knew which.

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Renewable energy is by far the cheapest way to meet global energy needs now. It's time to celebrate this, and demand that politicians require all investment be directed its way now. Nothing else makes any sense at all. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/07...

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It’s time to bury fossil fuels and nuclear power for good

There are moments when we need good news. The Guardian has one with this report this morning: The world is on the brink of a breakthrough in the climate fight and fossil fuels are running out of road...

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Robin Young 🌈♾️ @robinyoung.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

… haven’t worked my head around Btec level 3 yet. Any tips about whether to start with content first or coursework first on the new spec?

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Robin Young 🌈♾️ @robinyoung.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

KS4 biology, chemistry, physics, A Level physics, Btec Applied Science

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Robin Young 🌈♾️ @robinyoung.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Congratulations Kate! I’m starting to teach this course next year and your post came up in my search.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Keir Starmer’s disability cuts will have a “devastating” impact on women’s health and dignity and could breach equality law, the government has been warned www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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Labour’s benefit cuts will have ‘devastating’ impact on disabled women, say charities

Organisations say planned four-point rule will not properly take into account menstruation and other hygiene needs

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Robin Young 🌈♾️ @robinyoung.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Still looking … I’ll be back shortly

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Robin Young 🌈♾️ @robinyoung.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

But I am referring specifically to the ‘social model of disability’ rather than the social context. Recommended: www.amazon.co.uk/Autism-Not-D...

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Autism Is Not A Disease: The Politics of Neurodiversity

Autism Is Not A Disease: The Politics of Neurodiversity eBook : Hare, Jodie: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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Robin Young 🌈♾️ @robinyoung.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Dyslexia, Dyscalcula: Give them technology that really works (overlays only if needed). Etc etc. What it all boils down to is politics and how much we value equality in our society. This government want to take it away and that means less equality of access. It’s not neuroscience it’s politics.

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Robin Young 🌈♾️ @robinyoung.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Autism: We are really wired differently, but it’s not a disease, it’s human diversity, it is who we are. It’s really not a problem (aside from other comorbidities). But we are not mind readers, so just say what you really mean otherwise we start to become disabled by ableism.

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Robin Young 🌈♾️ @robinyoung.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

You give the example of ADHD. Severely undiagnosed. Having all those busy thoughts in your head constantly and for some the urge to physically move, is constant from waking up to burnout and bed time. If medication works, let us have medication if it gives us some bloody peace of mind (literally). 4

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Robin Young 🌈♾️ @robinyoung.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

When you apply the social model, we stop focusing on the impairments of an individual as the problem but rather on how the environment is stopping that person accessing the same opportunities as a person without those impairments. #3

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Robin Young 🌈♾️ @robinyoung.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Disabled learners are disabled by their environments, not their impairments. So all the stuff about differentiation and adaptive teaching are sticking plasters to the real issues, that classrooms are not designed to suit all learners, and disabled learners often do not access learning equally. #2

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Robin Young 🌈♾️ @robinyoung.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Thanks for your article Ben. From my perspective, I don’t see two opposing paradigms: neuroscience vs denial. More the social model of disability vs medical model (and denial/neglect). What happens in the classroom or in the world outside is steered by politics. #1

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Robin Young 🌈♾️ @robinyoung.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

According to research, apparently yes. From personal experience, hard to say what works these days other than teaching seems so much harder to get the same results, the curriculum is really boring, everyone is stressed … so no, it’s not working really.

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Robin Young 🌈♾️ @robinyoung.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

8. Families and children continue to be penalised by benefits cuts and the continuation of the draconian two-child cap. Some hope with widening access to free school meals, but why not make it available to all at Primary? And stop OFSTED and the bloody P8 blighting lives of tchrs, leaders and stdnts

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Robin Young 🌈♾️ @robinyoung.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

7. So thank you Adrian for drawing our attention to well-being. It has to be prioritised before anything else. In the UK, this government are proposing to make strident well-fare cuts and once again, disabled people are disproportionately affected by changes to PIP and Access to Work Funding.

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Robin Young 🌈♾️ @robinyoung.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

6. Lack of support and inaccessible and a restricted curricular focus to prioritise P8 profit, are adversely affecting the academic progress and wellbeing of disabled students. (With disability, I refer to the social model and include neurodivergent people throughout).

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Robin Young 🌈♾️ @robinyoung.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

5. For disabled educators and students, the adverse effects on wellbeing and performance are disproportionally higher. How many disabled educators are leaving or even being forced out of mainstream schools through intolerable pressures, lack of reasonable adjustments or even blatant discrimination?

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Robin Young 🌈♾️ @robinyoung.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

4. Mental health and well-being crisis for students. Burn out for educators and support staff. Recruitment and retention crisis in many schools. Kids coming to school really, really hungry and with an array of anxiety disorders that staff are not trained or able to cope with.

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Robin Young 🌈♾️ @robinyoung.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

3. So what’s the caveat? As you say, well-being, well-being, well-being. None of this should be at the expense of well being. P8 is the profit margin for the shareholders at the expense of the teachers and the products (students). It’s a complete nonsense and there are mounting casualties.

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Robin Young 🌈♾️ @robinyoung.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

2. My go to’s are the evidence cited by Barak Rosenshine, Kirshner, Willingham, Prof Coe, Sweller, Clark. The last decade has been transformative in the education sector for providing the tools students and educators need to making learning stick and addressing wider SEND needs.

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Robin Young 🌈♾️ @robinyoung.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

1. I’m all for Ed research and evidence based theories of learning to harness good teaching and learning strategies. We should promote retrieval, interleaving, spaced practice, elaboration, etc. Understand cog load, dual coding, blah blah. It works and students become better more efficient learners

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The Ogden Trust @ogdentrust.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

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Robin Young 🌈♾️ @robinyoung.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

That’s why Reform can’t be trusted. What about the Gregg’s sausage rolls?

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Robin Young 🌈♾️ @robinyoung.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

NF has a complete different motivation for removing the benefit cap, and he has made it clear that it wouldn’t be for all families. REFORM follow an orbanesque ideology, so any attempt to move into their political ground is completely alien to what the Labour Party (used to/should) stand for.

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Robin Young 🌈♾️ @robinyoung.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Many articles online highlight that - Misogyny is the gateway to white male supremacy. So acceptance of adolescence threatens the far right’s Orban-playbook ideology.

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Robin Young 🌈♾️ @robinyoung.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Don’t we already have an encyclopaedia of evidence as to who this man is? The problem is that neither the mainstream media nor many of the public choose to see who he really is. For example, what is his real thinking behind removing the two child benefit cap? And which families would qualify?

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Robin Young 🌈♾️ @robinyoung.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Agreed but with caveats. Screen grabs when you suspect that the post will be taken down in the future, as a way of keeping the receipts. Screen grabs when you want to draw attention to a toxic post without amplifying their message.

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Robin Young 🌈♾️ @robinyoung.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Dr Chew says: 2. Knowledge is composed of isolated facts. Exams assess comprehension and not fact recall. Is this one of the pitfalls of how we seem to be approaching retrieval practice in secondary schools? Are we inadvertently encouraging students to prioritise recall over comprehension?

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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

More than half of mental health tik toks contain misinformation. Please only get your health advice from a trained professional! www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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