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Ian Horsewell @teachingofsci.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Quite a contrast to the aims of the Sutton Trust which he founded. "We want the kids who survive air pollution to have the chance for a great education,"

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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thanks to austerity, 31% of UK children are living in poverty.

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Ian Horsewell @teachingofsci.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Cc @rachelphysics.bsky.social and anyone interested in assessment of physics understanding

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404 Media @404media.co · 22/09/2026

SCOOP: Meta execs announced that its much-hyped AI agent, Muse, had a new feature: It could call businesses for you to do things like make a restaurant reservation or a haircut appointment. In reality, Meta is testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers, 404 Media learned.

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Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center

"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch."

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Ian Horsewell @teachingofsci.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's not been a bad day overall. Got things done at the allotment, drank good coffee, cooked and ate decent food, Carcassonne as a family, a book to read this evening. And I still feel... numb. I'm so tired of feeling like I don't want to be here any more.

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Ian Horsewell @teachingofsci.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just discovered that Forensic Seismology is a thing. Now *that* feels like a career we should be telling kids about. #iteachphysics

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Pablo Nepomnaschy @pablonep.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Not new, and not discovered...still great news. I offer a, perhaps, more accurate, less colonizing, title: "Western scientists describe a felid known to local communities as Tilcayo. It is the first description of its kind in over a century"

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Ian Horsewell @teachingofsci.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It has been an excel-heavy week but I've gotten my dashboards talking to each other properly *and* I've just got my first power query doing what I wanted. I know nobody cares but I'm pleased.

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The Ogden Trust @ogdentrust.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Join us for a FREE Improving Secondary Physics Day Take practical ideas – and equipment – back to your classroom!! Every participant receives: ✅A set of ray-box torches ✅2 BeeSpi V sensors #PhysicsTeaching #Confidence #Pedagogy #Skills #Knowledge loom.ly/oWdsBsI

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Ian Horsewell @teachingofsci.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

See also: private ownership of firearms in the US.

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Ian Horsewell @teachingofsci.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Is it "anything my teenager has touched"?

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Education Support @edsupportuk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

To anyone working in education who has been affected by suicide, we’re thinking of you today. 💙 Our free, confidential helpline is open 24/7 for teachers and education staff across the UK. We're always here to listen on 08000 562 561. 📱 #WorldSuicidePreventionDay #YouAreNotAlone

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Ian Horsewell @teachingofsci.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

For the first time in fourteen years I've woken up in our home without a cat. I don't like it.

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Håkon Nordhagen @hakonnordhagen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

«students who do not use AI outperform those who do, on average, by around 20 points – equivalent to being around one year of schooling ahead of their peers.» Trippelwhammen Tiktok 2018, Covid i 2020, kronet med ChatGPT i 2022 har gjort underverker for kidsa våre. www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 07/09/2026

Astonishing to hear people say they'd rather asylum seekers drowned than be saved by the RNLI. Next comes letting people die in burning hostels rather than be saved by the fire brigade and letting people get kicked to death in the street rather than be saved by the Police. Don't platform this hate.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

#Edinburgh! What are you doing on Friday night? Come to my book launch at Dynamic Earth! There will be: 🍺 A bar 🎶 Music 💃 Dancing (well, I'll be dancing from all the excitement) 🪐 Planetarium 360 visuals 🧪 Science + a little bit of philosophy 🎟️: dynamicearth.org.uk/event/how-to... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🔭

How to Design a Universe: Planetarium Show
Prof. Catherine Heymans Boos Launch
Readings and live music with Planetarium visuals.
Text on a cool pink version of the Andromeda Galaxy

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Ian Horsewell @teachingofsci.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Third day of secondary school and they've left both coat and drinks bottle there already. Blazer was missing this morning but found on the coat rack. Give me strength.

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Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I feel like Bluesky is the place where people will appreciate how envious I still am of my sister, around 35 years after she achieved her (and my) top bucket list item of being locked in the bookshop when it closed, and having the place to entirely to herself.

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Ian Horsewell @teachingofsci.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I think for me it's at least 24 hours. Each night.

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GeekOnALeash 🏳️‍⚧️ @geekonaleash.co.uk · 05/09/2026

Reminder to all that the Women's Sports Union (WSU), which is attacking multiple sporting bodies, is owned and directed by Sharron Davies, a member of the House of Lords. Their secretary, Tracy Edwards, is listed as a member of staff for Davies at the HoL.

"Women's Sports Union
@wsusportsunion
·
Aug 6
The WSU has today written to
@parkrun

@IrishFA

@BritishBaseball

@BritGymnastics

@RoundersEngland

@RYA

@Swim_England

@bsuk
.

Each organisation must confirm that its policies reflect the Supreme Court judgment and the EHRC’s statutory Code of Practice. #TheLawIsTheLaw
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Women's Sports Union
@wsusportsunion
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Aug 5
TODAY IS THE DAY 🚨

The day many sporting bodies said they were waiting for has arrived.

The EHRC’s statutory Code of Practice is now in force. "

"Register of Interests of Lords Members' staff
Register of Interests for Baroness Davies of Devonport's staff. This list shows both staff name and any relevant gainful occupation or benefit registered.

Miss Tracy Edwards
None"

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I hope the kids of all these protesters are having a lovely day out with their Mums and new Stepdads.

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 05/09/2026

oh protesters are they? if just stop oil block a street for an hour thats a criminal offence and when a nice old grammy holds up a pro-palestine sign shes a domestic terrorist but seizing a port still counts as a protest then, i see

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🥑🗽🏗 Na₂Ca(CO₃)₂•5H₂O @gaylussite.himbonomics.com · 05/09/2026

‘These are not random conference oddballs caught saying something stupid after several drinks. ‘They were the people meant to turn Faragism from an insurgency into a government.’ unherd.com/newsroom/ref...

unherd.com

Reform sleaze probe shows Farage is not ready for power

Two of Nigel Farage’s most senior aides, James Orr and Dan Jukes, have stepped down after an undercover Channel 4 investigation filmed party figures discussing an apparent foreign donor paying for pol...

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Helen @helenpins.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

And remembering that the most effective modelling in the classroom shows the students your thought process - can you do that when a robot has done the thinking?

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A reminder for all the people who are still using genAI images to express their opposition to right-wing crap. Please, find another way.

The Batman meme taken from The Dark Knight Returns. He's breaking a shotgun in two, saying 'This is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it.'

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Ian Horsewell @teachingofsci.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Cat is poorly. At 14 he's done really well, but it never feels like enough. Small paws leave big gaps.

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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hey... just checking - there's no historical precedent in which a fascistic and brazenly racist government goes after abstract and modernist art while rounding up and expelling undesirables, right?

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Ian Horsewell @teachingofsci.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Teenager just slipped in the shower and the tray has cracked under them... no hairline, completely gone. Just what we needed the first week of term...

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Alistair King @alistairking.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.

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Ian Horsewell @teachingofsci.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I may have fallen down a rabbit hole with all the cool things I can do with programmable NFC tags.

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

You fuckers made me do it. The Racist Academicals Patter Song.

[RACIST ACADEMICAL]
I am the very model of a racist academical,
With footnotes and citations to make bigotry seem credible,

I traffic in ideas that have long since been discredited,
Like human races being real and IQ is inherited!

I’ll sign an open letter that legitimates my bigotry,
My gender ideology is thuggery and piggery,

If criticized it’s academic freedom I will hide behind,
My high and mighty principles shan’t be questioned by your tiny mind!

[CHORUS OF CHUDS]
His high and mighty principles shan’t be questioned by your tiny mind!

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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.

Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together

photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy

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Ian Horsewell @teachingofsci.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Don't mean to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but did anyone ever see Tim Curry and Dolly Parton in the same room?

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Ian Horsewell @teachingofsci.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Words you love you hear at an academic panel: "This isn't a question, but more a comment..."

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Flipping Physics @flippingphysics.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

New lesson: build a real parallel plate capacitor from aluminum foil and printer paper, measure its capacitance, and experimentally determine the dielectric constant of printer paper. Then discover it is not quite ideal! youtu.be/WmzqDjl_7Z8 #iTeachPhysics #Physics #Science #EduSky #SciComm

youtu.be

Build Your Own Parallel Plate Capacitor

YouTube video by Flipping Physics

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Ian Horsewell @teachingofsci.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Today's allotment project - water harvesting. Tested fine, now to see how it works next time it rains.

Industrial water container with plastic sheet on top, holding a puddle of water

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Ian Horsewell @teachingofsci.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

@bpsofficial.bsky.social can I flag that at least one of your members (and a Chartered Psychologist according to their website) has publicly supported a racist and eugenicist? Presumably against sections 3.1 and 3.3 of your code.

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Ian Horsewell @teachingofsci.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

@collegeofteaching.bsky.social can I flag that at least one Chartered Teacher is publicly supporting a racist and eugenicist? Presumably this is not in keeping with the expectations...

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I don't know who needs a real pickmeup today, but in recent court filings about the wealth owned by Andrew Tate, they indicate the Bugattis and Aston Martin he always bragged about owning... were rented. All of them.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Confused Brit trying to follow an American recipe: How many tablespoons is that, for heaven’s sake?

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

And if you're worried about forgetting alt text: Bluesky has a setting that will remind you to add alt text before posting any images. Go to "Settings," then "Accessibility." Select the checkbox for "Require alt text before posting."

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Ian Horsewell @teachingofsci.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I am unreasonably pleased by today's Lego set.

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Ian Horsewell @teachingofsci.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Solar cells on an inhospitable surface to power the lights we use underground to grow the food we need to survive the climate crisis... I'll be honest, I'm pretty sure I've read this dystopian sci-fi before.

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