iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Pedro De Bruyckere @thebandb.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Speaking several languages could keep your brain up to 13 years younger. Great headline. But what if you can't find the actual study? A small exercise in how to deal with scientific press releases. wp.me/p2nWPo-697

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Dan Willingham @dtwuva.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

New Substack: : Students should only use AI for things that they already know how to do well. dtwuva.substack.com/p/students-s...

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Students should only use AI for things they already know how to do well.

AI guardrails should protect important mental work

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Prof Carol Davenport @thedrdav.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

It feels weird that you can just get rid of a whole government department at the drop of a hat.

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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I have succeeded in stopping buying books or anything else from Amazon. It’s easy to give up next day delivery and most books can be found discounted on other websites. More of you should do this.

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

FIA keep yammering about women in motorsport but nothing gets done. Here's a solution: mandate that every F1 team has to have one male and one female driver in, say, five years, and watch as billions are poured into women's motorsport to unearth and promote talent.

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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

"Every adult is being used for every minute of the day" is an excellent thing to consider for anyone who wants change in schools. The pace and intensity of work in schools is remarkable. It shocks people when they first experience it.

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Prof Carol Davenport @thedrdav.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

My (adult) children still have hagleslag for Sunday breakfast.

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 24/12/2025

You spectacularly generous people have raised £13k so far. We have a beyond-excited three year old likely to wake us at 5am, so it’s an early night here. I’ll have to catch up with the pix in the morning ♥️ #DuvetKnowItsChristmas www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

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Donate to Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025, organized by Rhodri Marsden

Unbelievably, it's the 15th year of this thing. What is it? Improbably, the nig… Rhodri Marsden needs your support for Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025

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Prof Carol Davenport @thedrdav.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I enjoyed reading this. Clear discussion of the problem with yet another 'literacy'.

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Prof Carol Davenport @thedrdav.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I mean, he studied at Northumbria University, but that makes it even better.

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Mister E Fresh @mrfresher.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Does she not know that a lad from Llansantffraid who studied media at Newcastle University won an Oscar this year?

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Prof Carol Davenport @thedrdav.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

As a parent, I work really hard not to have a favourite child. The long-running cosseting of Andrew is pretty strong evidence that QE2 very much did have a favourite child.

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Gavin Freeguard @gavinfreeguard.com · 28/10/2025

How to avoid concreting cowpats (and other AI hokem) Or, six questions to help scrutinise the AI system or policy solution you're being sold Delighted to write for @thehousemag.bsky.social @politicshome.bsky.social www.politicshome.com/news/article...

A photo of the article in the physical edition of The House magazine

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Prof Carol Davenport @thedrdav.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Wakefield is not North East England.

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Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I should probably repost this, since it’s about… er… me. Yay me!

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Prof Carol Davenport @thedrdav.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Interesting approach that I have not come across before.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

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Prof Carol Davenport @thedrdav.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Doing better than usual - it's only taken me 7 weeks to realise that Only Connect is back for a new series.

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Prof Carol Davenport @thedrdav.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

@alomshaha.bsky.social I was at an open air museum in Denmark today and they had a watch exhibition, and I saw it and thought of you!

Display of goldcoloured pocket watches in a museum case.

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David Didau @didau.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Just because they’re funny doesn’t mean they’re right. The Dr Fox Effect shows we mistake charisma for clarity. The more you know, the harder it is to see what novices don’t. That’s the Curse of Knowledge. Know your subject and how it’s learned. open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

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The merits and dangers of subject knowledge

What Dr Fox (or Ken Robinson) teaches us about the importance of teachers' subject knowledge

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

New post just out: "Britain isn't broken" We have our problems but the doomerism is getting out of hand. I look at the real picture on crime, migration, social cohesion and the economy - rather than the dsyoptian fantasies of the radical right. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/b...

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Britain isn't broken

We have our problems but the doomerism is getting out of hand

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Prof Carol Davenport @thedrdav.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

The damage that TwXter has done to British national discourse is obvious when politicians and their advisors talk about DEI and other strongly-US focused talking points. They can't even get the letters in the order we generally use them in the UK.

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Prof Carol Davenport @thedrdav.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Education as both a window and a mirror.

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Prof Carol Davenport @thedrdav.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

My first thought was that it was April 1st, but apparently not.

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Prof Carol Davenport @thedrdav.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

And much more memorable than another branded pen, notebook or waterbottle.

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Prof Carol Davenport @thedrdav.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Interesting blog about this paper on AI. Particularly important to think about what problem the AI is meant to be solving, and to involve practitioners and patients in the testing of the tech in actual settings, not just simulations.

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Prof Carol Davenport @thedrdav.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

But...surely children's picturebooks don't have to have narrative integrity?

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Prof Carol Davenport @thedrdav.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Really helpful thread about the increasing invisibility of those children and adults for whom autism is not a 'superpower'.

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Prof Carol Davenport @thedrdav.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

It's always a pleasure to work with colleagues from Life Science Centre.

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Dr Sarah Bearchell 🌻 @sarahbearchell.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

This is fascinating. Genuine errors in transcription and translation of papers have led to a weird phenomenon. #SciComm #AI

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Prof Carol Davenport @thedrdav.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

@bushofears@gmail.com This is an interesting thread which relates to your work on volunteering.

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

We've made this article from @cash4questions.bsky.social free to read, as it is proving very popular. University funding crisis: How to stay serene when wellbeing sessions are offered. "Beware employers bearing yoga mats..." www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-funding-k...

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Coping with the university funding crisis - Research Professional News

Positive steps in uncertain times, including how to stay serene when wellbeing sessions are offered

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Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 14/04/2025

Jumped on the human-made action figure trend 🐡 Had ALOT of fun making this too.

A cartoony illustration of a doll version of Hana in packaging along with accessories. It’s labelled ‘Hana the Sci-Artist: action figure starter pack’. Doll Hana has her dark curly hair down with streaks of grey, is wearing glasses, an orange cardigan, a blue dress with moths, mushrooms, ferns and crescent moons on it and blue boots. Her accessories include pens and pencils, a glue stick and scissors, a badass science lady badge and a science is not neutral badge with a watermelon on it, a MacBook, a water bottle with dinosaurs on it and two EpiPens and two inhalers. Text bubbles say ‘with EpiPens and inhalers’ and ‘accessories expansion pack available’

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Prof Carol Davenport @thedrdav.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I still occasionally ask for a poke of chips - and I left Scotland when I was 6!

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Prof Carol Davenport @thedrdav.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

This adds a lot of meaning to my Merlin bird call app.

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Prof Carol Davenport @thedrdav.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

This is very much the case, especially in science-themed books. I'd like to see picturebooks where diversity is important but also incidental to a cracking story.

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Prof Carol Davenport @thedrdav.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Looking forward to listening to this series.

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Prof Carol Davenport @thedrdav.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Photographing art instead of looking at it. Do we end up never seeing the picture on anything other than a screen?

Person standing in front of painting of a winter screen and looking at it through the screen of their phone to take a picture.

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Prof Carol Davenport @thedrdav.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Travelling to Paris by train feels like a very sophisticated and comsopolotan undertaking - until you get into the waiting area behind security a St Pancras, when all magic disappears.

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I've told students about this inconvenient truth year after year after year. Makes precious little impact in my experience, but that (probably) won't stop me. Of course, it does presume that they still come to lectures in the first place.... link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Paulb @paulb3964.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Surely this is just a story about a rich person complaining about a tax that affects rich people

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Prof Carol Davenport @thedrdav.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Good points about the challenges for the next REF in light of the current parlous state of universities and cuts to arts and humanities.

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Prof Carol Davenport @thedrdav.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Happy half-term to all my North East teacher peeps.

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Life Science Centre @scienceatlife.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

📢 Join our team We're looking for a Head of Schools and Community Engagement to shape a programme connecting schools and communities with science. If you can build partnerships and bring STEM to life in new ways, we want to hear from you. 🔹 Apply by 2 March 2025 👉 www.life.org.uk/join-the-tea...

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I have run out of patience with the apparent silence of most US science institutions (and not just US) in the face of Trump & Musk's rampage. There are of so many facets of that, but in this column for @chemistryworld.com I talk about the assaults on inclusion. www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...

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Scientific institutions have a long history of anticipatory obedience

Societies should learn from this and speak up to support inclusion

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Prof Carol Davenport @thedrdav.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Really looking forward to reading this, and sharing with my team @nustem.bsky.social

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