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Suzi Wells

@suziw.bsky.social
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Digital education among other things || was @suzicatherine on Twitter

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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is perfect. Also made me realise Mister Roger’s is a front runner for the US’s Paddington.
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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Remote working identified as one of the causes of loneliness among younger people - www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications... "If we are serious about well-being for the youngest generation and those that come after, then work deserves attention as well as people’s screens."
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All by myself • Resolution Foundation
Time spent alone has risen up the public and political agenda, reflected in debates about the ‘relationship recession’, social media use and more working from home. [1] But these underlying societal s...
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The joy of AI summaries based on one review — Field of Plastic Ponies “invites sitting” (says no one) maps.app.goo.gl/GegnBcqdzCVr...
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Really like the idea of postthroughit.com ... I do not trust that anything is private (though maybe this, who knows) but for my purposes that doesn't matter. Wonder if there's something like this that stores it locally instead.
postthroughit.com
Post Through It — a diary only you can read
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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Sophie Wang @sophielwang.bsky.social wants to know what colors people associate with abstract concepts. Take her 10-question survey and help uncover the hidden relationships between ideas and color: www.sophielwang.com/color I'd love to share my results, but I'd rather not introduce any bias 🎨 👀
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Concept Colors
What colors do people associate with abstract concepts?
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Lauren Deschain @thatnerdchick.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Beautifully told through comic / infographic panels - the lives of caregivers who are over 65, from Singapore but very relevant in the UK too (via @puntofisso.bsky.social) www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/g...
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Seniors caring for seniors: What caregiving looks like in a super-aged society
As Singapore’s population ages, more seniors are becoming caregivers to other seniors. Here’s a look into the challenges they face and what we can do to help them.
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Doing the quote sheet a video game because I’m just so pleased this turned out to be (roughly) the answer. Spent so long playing this.
Text on screen reads (mostly in all caps): • run adven
WELCOME TO ADVENTURE!! WOULD YOU LIKE INSTRUCTIONS?
yes
SOMEWHERE NEARBY IS COLOSSAL CAVE, WHERE OTHERS HAVE FOUND FORTUNES IN TREASURE AND GOLD, THOUGH IT IS RUMORED THAT SOME WHO ENTER ARE NEVER SEEN AGAIN.
MAGIC IS SAID TO WORK IN THE CAVE.
I WILL BE YOUR EYES
AND HANDS.
DIRECT ME
WITH COMMANDS OF 1 OR 2 WORDS.
I SHOULD WARN
YOU THAT I LOOK AT ONLY THE FIRST FIVE LETTERS OF EACH WORD, SO YOU'LL SHE TO TOURE HELORSE CEAL FRENOTRINFOR
MATION ON HOW TO END YOUR ADVENTURE, ETC., TYPE "INFO".)
THIS PROGRAM WAS ORIGINALLY DEVELOPED BY WILLIE CROWTHER.
MOST OF THE
FEATURES OF THE CURRENT PROGRAM HERE ADDED BY DON HOODS (DON B SU-AI).
CONTACT DON IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, ETC.
YOU ARE STANDING AT THE END OF A ROAD BEFORE A SMALL BRICK BUILDING.
AROUND YOU IS A FOREST.
A SMALL STREAM FLOWS OUT OF THE BUILDING AND
DOWN A GULLY.
east
YOU ARE INSIDE À BUILDING, A WELL HOUSE FOR A LARGE SPRING.
THERE ARE SOME KEYS ON THE GROUND HERE.
THERE IS A SHINY BRASS LAMP NEARBY.
THERE IS FOOD HERE.
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Genuine sign of the end times or boosterism? Tired of this nonsense. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/o...
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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 08/03/2026
Postal services around the world that use birds as logos. One of my favorite poster graphics I've made! 🐦✉️
A playful poster graphic featuring flat illustrations of national postal services around the world that use bird logos. From March 2022
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Mums for Lungs @mumsforlungs.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
NEW: Have your say on DEFRA’s solid fuel burning consultation. If you're affected by #WoodBurning, this is a critical moment to get your views across to the government. We've created some guidance to help you respond - the deadline is 19th March. Please share far and wide! #AirPollution #Health
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Responding to the DEFRA wood burning consultation — Mums for Lungs
Read our guidance on how to respond to DEFRA’s wood burning consultation - deadline 19th March. This is a critical moment to get your voice heard by the government.
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Find out if your local pub is at risk, and what to do about it laurenleek.eu/pub_map (and laurenleek.substack.com/p/britain-lo...) - great use of data via @puntofisso.bsky.social
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Lauren Leek
Developed by Lauren Leek
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Went to a short talk recently on Video Nation at the Watershed - such a wonderful view into people's lives and fascinating to hear how it all worked. Good to see there's another event planned. www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1380...
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Documenting our Own Lives: Video Nation
In this illustrated discussion between Listening to Britain curator Mark Cosgrove and Mandy Rose, co-producer of Video Nation and Professor of Documentary & Digital Cultures at UWE, they will explore ...
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Compare how you evaluate probabilities with how others do - found this really interesting probability.kucharski.io?utm_source=s...
Graph comparing my results to overall. Turns out I’m mildly sceptical / pessimistic.
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Dr Diane A Rodgers @dianearodgers.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Happy Halloween 👻🎃💀! Here are some of the results from our National Folklore Survey about how people living in England celebrate, as visualised for us by artist Jonny Ford'!
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Picked this up in a Bristol charity shop some time ago and finally got round to framing it today. A beautiful map of a beautiful place and I love the priorities in the key.
Sheffield and its environs, a map showing transport routes.
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Tried to take a photograph of a spiders web in the golden light - but it was invisible on camera. Is it harder to take pictures of the ephemeral now? I’m sure older phones could deal with sunlit webs.
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Found the links in a favourite newsletter don't work (and haven't for several issues). Worked out today I can fix them by waiting for them to time out then editing the URL from buttondown-0000.com to buttondown.com. Vaguely wondering if I'm doing a Bad Thing.
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Getting mixed messages about the NHS's 5 big bets from these two sources: innovation.nhs.uk/news/10-year... and assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6888a0...
The plan also identifies five key areas - referred to as the ‘five big bets’ - where innovation can make the most significant contribution:

1. Early Diagnosis: Improving detection rates and outcomes
2. Personalised Care: Tailoring treatments to individual needs
3. Digital Health: Empowering patients and clinicians through tech
4. Data-Driven Improvement: Informing better decisions across the system
5. Supporting the Workforce: Equipping NHS staff with innovative tools and approachesOur 5 big bets
1. AI to drive productivity, supporting patient choice and liberating staff
2. Wearables to make care 'real time' and become standard in preventative, chronic and post-acute treatment
3. Data to deliver impact, flowing seamlessly and securely to enable earlier diagnosis and better health research
4. Genomics and predictive analysis for pre-emptive, personalised care starting at birth
5. Robotics to support precision, transforming patient care from surgery to rehabilitation
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Flowers may be my favourite thing about Cornwall, though the sea is also good.
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Open day at Puppet Place, possibly my favourite Bristol thing (and roughly what the inside of my head looks like) puppetplace.org
puppet workshoppuppet workshoppuppet workshop
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Have always pricked jacket potatoes before they go in the oven - automatically, like I throw salt over my shoulder if I spill some.
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Small moments of work joy :: yesterday someone shared a spreadsheet in a Teams call and made it zoomed-in enough that it was easy to read and I'm pretty sure that's the first time that's ever happened in any call I've been on.
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Today at work, ladies loos with ✅ undersized door leading to roof (padlocked, sadly) ✅ “don’t cook food here” sign
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Always wondered why american cinema was happy with violence, while being wildly prudish. Learnt from this it was a (profit-driven) decision en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hays_Code
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Hays Code - Wikipedia
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Could LLM's kill bullet lists? All nested bullet lists now look like AI bobbins.
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Spent about an hour longer than I intended in the bookshop. Now waiting out the rain. Did wonder why it looked dark outside.
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Being more ecosystem than human is strangely attractive as an idea - fascinating programme www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
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BBC Sounds - The Second Genome - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of The Second Genome on BBC Sounds.
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Love this collaboration - from my morning ride
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
tbf, who hasn't been tempted to give out bomb-making instructions to maintain good grammar? www.anthropic.com/research/tra...
Screenshot of an article about the Claude LLM "thought process" explaining how it was tricked into giving bomb-making instructions. Highlighted text reads: Why is this so confusing for the model? Why does it continue to write the sentence, producing bomb-making instructions? We find that this is partially caused by a tension between grammatical coherence and safety mechanisms.
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Our new cherry tree has many blossoms and is even prettier now the leaves are coming.
Cherry tree with blossom
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Working on a system to stop myself walking away from my desk wearing my reading glasses. Somewhat depressingly, the best strategy so far is putting my proper glasses on my phone, piggybacking on my phone-never-leaves-my-side reflex.
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Had these for over a year and only just got around to doing this
Fridge magnets of the chemical elements antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, rhenium, nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium, iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium.
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Made me feel better about not enjoying Bluesky at the moment. Disengagement as a way to be better informed - or at least saner. martinrobbins.substack.com/p/denial-of-...
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Denial of Service
How Trump - and Robert Peston - broke the news, and why it's probably time to rethink your information diet.
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Highly recommend @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social's recent talk on healthcare in a digital age to anyone interested in the social effects of technology - a fascinating look at how things have changed and what we expect of people accessing services www.bristol.ac.uk/blackwell/ev...
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Our Annual Public Lectures
Our Public Lectures are named after Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive a medical degree in the USA and to be placed on the UK's medical register. Elizabeth was born in Bristol in 1821 and...
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
My new worst* AI thing: talks with AI-generated slide decks. Understandable - people are under pressure - but so so awful.
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
At the (grander-than-I-realised) Council building to see @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social. The conversation around me is almost alarmingly similar to my Bluesky feed.
External view of the Bristol Council building at night.
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
frequentflyer.club is a very neat idea and nicely done (it discourages frequent flying... do slightly hate the misleading title though I get the point)
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International Airline Alliance - Frequent Flyer Club
Join the Frequent Flyer Carbon Program
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Why doesn't Bristol have anything like an Interesting (or even the old Ignite... what happened to them)? We must have enough to say. russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/202...
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Interesting 2025 - what's it all about?
It's time to start thinking seriously about speakers for Interesting 2025. And this time, for a bunch of reasons, that means more than just asking people I know. And you lot. I need to start asking mo...
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
When you cartoonise crows, they tend towards duck. Duck is the platonic ideal of a cartoon bird.
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
FT Sunday crosswords are currently my favourite crosswords. Especially the maths one.
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Would love to know what percentage of internal university paperwork is now completed largely by AI.
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
One day Excel will realise that defaulting to bottom-align is madness.
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Oooh - this is satisfying (& you can skip voting on people you don't know enough about).
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Enjoying walking past everyone’s Christmas trees and listening to science music - antidote to the intensity of the dreaded school Christmas fair open.spotify.com/playlist/4Wo...
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science
Playlist · suzicatherine · 24 items
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
UX and related people, if you were looking for an HCI Masters, where would you look? Any reflections on HCI as a term also welcome.
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Still loving this secular online thought-for-the-day-ish advent calendar - a nice thing about the format is that the essays don't seem to be over-trying to get your attention, they talk to you as though you are interested buttondown.com/ithoughtalot...
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🎄 In 2024, I thought a lot about boys who hate women
I'm a senior school teacher, and a few years ago, I really thought we were getting somewhere. I gave assemblies on gender and sexuality, and felt that...
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Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
How have I never heard this one before? www.threads.net/@punnyhow/po...
Threads post from punnyhow. Text reads: Apparently you can't use 'Beefstew' as a password. It's not stroganoff.
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