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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 21/04/2026

Release day! The ebook & hardback are live. The first book for teachers based on *enactive* cognitive science, please consider leaving a review when you're done (it really helps). (Paperback readers: Amazon is having a glitch, so it's slightly delayed.) mybook.to/teachingmean...

The book cover for Teaching Meaning: What Works When Telling Isn't Enough.

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Simon Flynn @simonflynn.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Here's a reminder of a single organic sheet for AQA's Chemistry GCSE. You'll find it in the KS4 folder of my shared resources. www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/y1xfx...

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 02/03/2026

“I still find history full of wonders; I still find in the differences in past societies a way to take stock of the present—a source of sober realism, but also a source of hope.” —Natalie Zemon Davis, 1996. Read more about why history matters & the importance of historical thinking in public life.

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Why History Matters - AHA

Why Study History Historical Thinking in Everyday Life The AHA offers resources for educators and students on the importance of studying history, and reflections on why learning about the past helps u...

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Simon Flynn @simonflynn.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

20 years after first reading ‘Middlemarch’, I find I like Dorothea more and Lydgate less. There’s an awful lot in the book that’s great but I find it hard understand why it’s so loved. I enjoyed more all the other Eliot fiction I’ve read in the last year or so.

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Simon Flynn @simonflynn.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

'In this stupid world most people never consider that a thing is good to be done unless it is done by their own set.' George Eliot, Middlemarch

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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Exciting news for fans of Victorian science! @ransomcenter.bsky.social recently digitized a photo album featuring members of Maull & Polyblank's Literary & Scientific Portrait Club, including Richard Owen & Michael Faraday (seen here). ransom.center/maull-polybl... #histSTM #histsci #photosky 🗃️📜📷

Portrait of Richard Owen posing next to a reptile skull.

Maull & Polyblank, Professor Richard Owen, 1855. Gernsheim Collection, 2024:0003:0001.

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Portrait of Michael Faraday leaning against a table while holding a magnet.

Maull & Polyblank, Professor Michael Faraday, Esq., D.C.L., F.R.S., 1854–1855, published October 1857. Gernsheim Collection, 2024.0003.0001.0007.

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Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

A hundred and thirty years ago, here's one of the richest men on Earth fantasizing about colonizing Jupiter. No relevance at all to anybody's fantasies about colonizing Mars, obviously.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

In his essay “Colonizing the Cosmos”, @irmorus1 joins the interplanetary safari that is John Jacob Astor’s A Journey in Other Worlds, a high-voltage scientific romance in which visions of imperialism haunt a supposedly “perfect” future — publicdomainreview.org/essay/coloni…

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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Parents! Carers! Anyone looking after children this summer! My regular reminder of this thread of TOYS you can make with scrap materials you probably have lying around the house:

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Lynn Chiu @drlynnchiu.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Read all Elements in The Philosophy of Biology series for FREE during the ISHPSSB conference 20 - 25 July. You can find all of these Elements free to download and read here: cup.org/4kEgivL

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Philosophy of Biology

Welcome to Cambridge Core

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

So this week the CEO of NVIDIA said AI was as important as electricity, and this comparison always makes me think of mad Victorian products this ⬇️ AI *is* like electricity in the way grifters are trying to shove it in everything, and make dubious claims about its benefits.

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Paige Madison @fossilhistory.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Today in 1864, Thomas Huxley doodled this “ancient ape-man of Gibraltar” while bored in a meeting. It was inspired by the Forbes Quarry skull—a fossil his friend was puzzling over that we’d later recognize as a Neanderthal. #OnThisDay 🏺

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Stephan Hartmann @stephanhartmann.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Excited to share that the volume Lakatos @ 100 has just been published (open access)! It’s a great collection on Lakatos’s legacy. 📘 Book link: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Grateful to the editors for including me! #Lakatos #PhilosophyOfScience #Bayes #OpenAccess

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Proofs and Research Programmes: Lakatos at 100

This open access book offers new insights into issues raised in philosophy of mathematics and in philosophy of science by Imre Lakatos.

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JamesHobson @jameshobson.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

99p on kindle. A no-brainer, as people used to say

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Simon Flynn @simonflynn.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Steven Rose - always an interesting and provocative thinker in science and a prominent figure in the so-called 'Darwin Wars' in the late 20th Century. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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Steven Rose obituary

Neuroscientist, author, political activist and advocate for social responsibility in science

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Simon Flynn @simonflynn.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Latest read. It’s easy to see how this morally complex novel lends itself well to college courses and book clubs. There’s much to shock and this happens on many levels. I did, however, find the writing clunky at time - it could have been better edited. I will read more Butler.

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Simon Flynn @simonflynn.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Latest read: This isn't Gaskell's best-known work, possibly because of the amount of dialect that features. However, it's arguably her most realistic (okay, minus the usual convenient coincidences) and the final 100 pages step things up a gear and pack an emotional punch.

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Victorian Commons @victoriancommons.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Born #OnThisDay 1799 Joseph Pease, Liberal MP for Durham South 1832-41, and the first Quaker to sit in the Commons. This post looks at the difficulties he encountered in taking his seat at Westminster. victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2023/10/23/q...

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Quakers in the Commons: Joseph Pease and the right to affirm

Taking their seat in the Commons can be a nervous moment for new MPs, but for the Quaker Joseph Pease in 1833, tensions were heightened because he feared that his refusal to take oaths would preven…

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

One of our excellent Science Communication MSc students is leading a free history of science walking tour in London. Sign up here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-wal...

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London Walking Tour: Untold Histories of Science

Explore the untold histories of science on this multisensory, interactive walk centred on underrepresented and marginalised identities.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

If you don’t do the research yourself, you don’t know what the LLMs HASN’T told you about the data it’s analyzed. You don’t know what materials are available but not accessible to the LLM. You don’t have anything close to the information you need to make a cogent argument that stands up to scrutiny.

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 30/05/2025

Redesigning our Year 9 curriculum to include Semmelweis and Snow, and vaccinations. Explaining through causality is part of our curricular metacontent. So these models build on a culture of explaining. I explain metacontent here: cmooreanderson.wixsite.com/teachingbiol... #iTeachBio #chatbiology

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Simon Flynn @simonflynn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Latest reads. Baldwin’s ‘The White Man’s Guilt’ is a particularly powerful essay and the short stories often make difficult reading. Highly recommended.

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Simon Flynn @simonflynn.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

@mikehobbiss.bsky.social @paulclinepsy.bsky.social I’m looking forward to reading this - I’m sure I’ll learn a lot.

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The Victorian Society @thevicsoc.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2025 Former Marine Hotel, Penarth, Glamorgan. Grade II, perhaps Samuel Dobson, c.1865 Read more: t.co/5ehdITu4gL #Wales

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Simon Flynn @simonflynn.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Gaskell’s short stories are certainly interesting, and Cousin Phillis has much that is redolent some of the themes in her longer works. However, if you’re thinking or reading (more) Gaskell, I would prioritise the latter.

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Simon Flynn @simonflynn.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

'The Song of the Shirt' by Thomas Hood (1799-1845) is powerfully evocative of the 'life' of a needlewoman in the first half of the nineteenth century (c.f. Elizabeth Gaskell's 'Mary Barton' and 'Ruth'). It was an immediate success on its publication. poets.org/poem/song-sh...

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Simon Flynn @simonflynn.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

‘[T]he great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it ... history is literally present in all that we do ... since it is to history that we owe our frames of reference, our identities, and our aspirations. James Baldwin

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Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Absolutely delighted that the first episode of the podcast I’ve been making with Ubisoft and HistoryHit is now out wherever you get your podcasts! We discuss creating Victorian London in Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, featuring an interview with the lead writer ✍️ open.spotify.com/episode/0kTv...

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How Victorian London Was Brought To Life In Assassin's Creed Syndicate

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 29/04/2025

Conference⤵️ Secondary Science Festival (including #chatbiology speakers): Attendees get a free copy of "Difference Maker" 👌 #SciTeachUK #iTeachBio

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Simon Flynn @simonflynn.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I have just reread the below after a gap of many years. It’s so, so good. If you teach English and haven’t read it, I strongly suggest you do, as it’s the best sort of postmodern novel. Read this Guardian piece to know more. #greatnovels theguardian.com/books/booksb...

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Simon Flynn @simonflynn.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

The best subject-specific CPD I have undertaken is writing a comprehensive set of notes for AQA's Chemistry A-level. This continues to be a valuable exercise as I repeatedly edit and refine them in light of lessons, students' queries and exam questions. www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/u8e5n...

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Simon Flynn @simonflynn.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Recent reading. More on these shortly (probably).

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Carousel Learning @carousel-learning.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Get GOLD🔶 for just £32.50 until Easter! app.carousel-learning.com/teacher -> MY ACCOUNT -> BUY GOLD 🎉💪

Illustration of Carousel Learning Whiteboard Mode with promo code GOLD50 highlighted.

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 04/04/2025

'...it is the role of the historian to uncover those details which have been obscured behind the flowers, the perfume and the cheap posies'. Felicity Hall uncovers the real stories of Victorian flower sellers. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/womens-histo...

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The Flower Girls of London

Felicity Hall explores the mythologised lives and lived experiences of Victorian London flower sellers.

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Simon Flynn @simonflynn.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

This potentially fascinating free book isn't for the faint-hearted - I hope I have the time to read enough of it with care. 'In Their Own Words: What Scholars and Teachers Want You to Know About Why and How to Apply the Science of Learning in Your Academic Setting' www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/grtva...

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Simon Flynn @simonflynn.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

'The evidence shows that prior knowledge is necessary for effective reading and critical thinking, so some educators have advocated for an emphasis on memorization of facts and information. That approach, though, is not sufficient.' This is worth reading! www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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(PDF) Having Knowledge Is Not the Same as Using It

PDF | One of the strongest predictors of how easily and well a person will learn a topic is their prior knowledge about it. The more one already knows,... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

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Simon Flynn @simonflynn.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

My latest read - Eliot’s first fiction is full of pathos. It’s also the subject of the final chapter in Catherine Gallagher’s ‘The Body Economic’, which focuses on Malthusian anthropology.

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 21/02/2025

Teaching without slides – just diagrams and dialogue – we co-constructed these models this week: Year 7: Allen's rule Year 10: Lung ventilation IB1: Positive feedback drivers of climate change IB2: Viral evolution I explain how to teach this way in #DifferenceMaker #EnactingSystemsTheory

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Christopher Such @suchmo83.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

It's half term, which means I have a copy of Primary Reading Simplified to give away. Simply *repost* this post for your chance to win. I will choose a winner at random this Saturday (22nd February).

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 15/02/2025

From next week our X account will close and be archived. We will be solely on BlueSky where we will continue to promote #history, historical practice and the humanities. Please do join us #Skystorians

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