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Meg @roaringmeg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Although thinking about things helps you remember them, you're not thinking about things in order to remember them. It's about being able to use them, for communication but also just because there's joy in learning about everything. Memory is a byproduct. Using what you remember is the purpose.

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My great great grandparents emigrated from Youghal Ireland to Oldham in the 1840s.

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This looks really interesting and useful for #EduSky. ⬇️

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The only way we're ever going to 'solve' Ofsted is to stop it being a competition. Have two categories: all fine/needs support. If you buy into the idea that the competition is what makes people work harder you'll never get away from the problem. This includes posts about 'doing well' in Ofsteds.

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I have no time for Badenoch or the Tories but there is a 'cliff edge' cut off point for funding at 100k which means well off parents are better off refusing a payrise than going over that amount. Worth remembering that childcare policies *always* affect women the most so it's also an equity issue.

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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Heading back to the UK today after a lovely few days in Barcelona to celebrate my big birthday. Great city and some fantastic food!

Vietnamese birthday dinner. Lots of trays of food on two family sharing platters.

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Latest term for which I have developed an (irrational?) hatred is 'instructional design'. Sorry but why does everything in UK education have to sound so fake these days? 😒

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DamsonEd @damsoned.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Good. But ofsted needs external voices to prompt and manage these changes. The organisation has shown that it does not have the vision or creativity to see inspection in any other way. This needs to be serious reform, not more tinkering around the edges. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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England school inspections to be overhauled again after barrage of complaints

Exclusive: Education secretary sends Ofsted back to ‘drawing board’ as teachers raise serious concerns about new system

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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just after his release from the asylum, and a few weeks before he died, van Gogh painted this vibrant scene of flowering chestnut trees in the village of Auvers-sur-Oise. Not seen in public for many decades, it’s hoped to fetch $180m at auction (Châtaigniers en Fleurs, May 1890)

Sunny day, but with very dark blue sky. Large tree, with many yellow/orange flowers, by the side of a dirt road where a man is walking. Three women in colourful dresses walk with parasols on footpath in shade of tree

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is very interesting indeed. ⬇️

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This stuff is getting very tedious now. You're not doing us a favour guys. 🙄

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The positive thing about all this is that we can damage them simply by not using their product. Which is what I'm doing already. 🤷‍♀️

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Just seen someone posting (elsewhere) about 'developing teacher agency' while making their teachers use a set of specific steps in class based on a very narrow view of learning. The term 'checking for understanding' has become a proxy for compliance imho.

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No wonder they're so desperate to force it on us.

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Very interesting thread and replies.

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Yuge day for American Bluesky, as many are getting their first experience of the quaint and traditional British rural pursuits, "dogging" and "flytipping"

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For the benefit of those coming to this fresh, the action taken is far more than this statement - the unions refused to send delegates to the Labour Women's Conference on Saturday because it was trans exclusive, leading to the Women and Equality Minister giving a keynote to a largely empty hall.

Labour Women's Conference, 26 September 2026. Bridget Phillipson delivers her keynote address to a largely empty hall. The vast majority of seats visible in this shot taken from the seating area are empty.

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 28/09/2026

Not likely if anyone seriously still thinks they’re actual terrorists, presumably… fly tipping? Nicking farm equipment? Sheep rustling?

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DamsonEd @damsoned.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is horrifying. Rather than consider the impact of the teaching on the learner, the teacher is stalked by AI looking for “digressions”. Surely the value of teaching is the effectiveness of the learning!! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Teachers at Euan Blair firm report ‘horrendous stress’ after AI used to rate their work

Exclusive: Instructors at tech training company Multiverse hit out at ‘remorseless’ and ‘unnerving’ monitoring system

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Times - which has v much joined in the rightwing clamour to reduce immigration - now reporting that Mahmood’s “success” has cost the economy £4- to £7Bn. Would they like to now honestly confirm that fewer people = less spending power for all. There’s a high price to pay for this nasty obsession.

Patrick Maguire
Chief Political Commentator Oliver Wright Policy Editor

Falling migration numbers could cost the chancellor as much as £7bn in fiscal headroom as he writes his first budget, The Times has been told.
Government insiders believe that John Healey, who already faced an uphill battle to balance the books next month, is likely to have an even bigger challenge after immigration undershot projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).
The Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank estimated last month that the success of Shabana
Mahmood's
reforms, which have cut net migration to the low hundreds of thousands, could cost Healey some £4bn.

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This beautiful box dates from 18th century China. It resembles a six-petaled flower, and features a phoenix and eight symbols of Taoist immortals inlaid with turquoise. The Eight Immortals (Ba Xian) are a group of ancient heroes in Chinese mythology who fight for justice and vanquish evil.

A gold box with turquoise phoenix and emblems of eight Taoist Immortals

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Reuters @reuters.com · 28/09/2026

Parts of Bangkok remained submerged in floodwater with people wading through thigh-deep water after torrential rains swept through the city over the weekend. reut.rs/3VihjBN

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Our government thinks you're a terrorist if you protest this.

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Sarah @sarahfaulkner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My favourite flower of the week was this tiny (and rather appropriately named) Small Scabious. Perched up on an exposed plateau at Tout Quarry, Portland, the stem of this diminutive specimen was just 1.5cm tall (about the width of my finger) topped with a gorgeous purple flower. 💜 #wildflowerhour

A Small Scabious flowering on a plateau at Tout Quarry. A gorgeous purple flower, though this one was tiny with the stem just 1.5cm tall.

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Because of the multitude of pressures on schools atm, especially around accountability measures, I'm not sure they have the capacity, funding or ratios to flex in the way that is needed when you have children with very high level needs in a setting. I don't think 'more training' is a solution.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 27/09/2026

The thing we have found in our setting about inclusion is that you have to be willing and have the capacity to adapt environment, resources, curriculum, staffing and timings rather than just using more strategies. Scaffolding isn't just what teachers do, it's the environment itself.

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Russia occupies Oleshky. Around 2,000 civilians remain and run out of food, medicine, water and electricity. Russia, as the occupying power, is responsible for facilitating humanitarian relief. Ukraine found another way in: its forces delivered ~4 tons of food by drone to 100 locations across town.

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If she was wearing a balaclava and called migrant men sex offenders she's probably be given an AAA pass

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Peter Sketch @petersketch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A corner of the building site in Bristol where the fence area wasn't worked on during the summer, allowing this large Clematis to grow up. These are seed heads not flowers. Spectacular. #WildflowerHour

Several panels of wire fencing. On one a large clump of clematis has climbed up and is covered with the distinctive "old man's beard" seed heads.

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Stevie P @stevieparsons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Went with my kids to experience the autumn equinox at Stonehenge this week. Walking back along the A303 my daughter picked this lovely wild autumnal posy for her mum 😍 23/9/26 See ALT text #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Posy containing Yarrow, Common Toadflax, Cow Parsley, Nipplewort, Cranesbill, Hawkweed, Lady’s Bedstraw.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And now for something completely different… Got the oil paints out today for the first time in about a year to paint this lovely orange squash that my husband grew on his allotment (the others were from others on the allotment - always lots of go round). Will now be able to eat them! #oilpainting

An oil painting of three squash - on the left is a round orange one (uchi kuri), on the right is a squat round beige one, and behind is a yellow long and curved one (possibly a franchi courgette).

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A pre birthday lunch today with my mum, my cousin, my OH and our kids. I made a roast with veg from the #allotment and also a pavlova which the youngest decorated for me. Yum! ♥️

Pavlova covered in cream and raspberries.

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