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

_Democracy is coming to Sesame Street_

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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Ian Horsewell @teachingofsci.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In Vegas, presumably. I'm sure Faust could suggest somewhere.

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

Presumably he didn't realise it was a different building. As if we needed more evidence of his confusion.

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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 · 22/09/2026

It's really sad that my first thought is that I need to check who's running the survey because the odds are they're gender critical and looking for ways to cast doubt on identities.

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Ian Horsewell @teachingofsci.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Used to be my cat. We scattered his ages this week. It'll be fine, not really any other options.

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

All the good stuff is ephemeral and the hard stuff feels eternal. I wake up already tired. I have promises to keep, and I'm not going anywhere... but sometimes it's just hard.

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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

I was talking to a colleague about how I was confident with html tags because I'd used them to write club websites while at uni. He nodded and then said "I suppose things have changed a lot for your generation..."

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

I've not forgiven our teenager for referring to me being at uni in "the late 1900s".

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

Have you considered your son has just jumped ahead a few decades and is doing a welfare check on his aging parent?

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

Spiderman_pointing_to_spiderman.gif

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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

We are in the middle of this process; Spike (14, helped us raise our human kids) left us last week and we're thinking about how we can honour his memory by welcoming home new family members.

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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

I have. And I'm going to mock them without mercy in my response, not least for not being able to read a calendar.

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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
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Aug 6
The WSU has today written to
@parkrun

@IrishFA

@BritishBaseball

@BritGymnastics

@RoundersEngland

@RYA

@Swim_England

@bsuk
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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...

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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 · 01/09/2026

Surely he's a myth who has ADHD which is entirely different

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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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Ian Horsewell @teachingofsci.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This is a serious suggestion, by the way. I think all PPCs should have to complete five years of working in care, education, council maintenance or similar before being eligible.

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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 · 30/08/2026

How about 'five years in paid entry level public sector roles, with performance summaries made public, before getting able to stand for parliament'?

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