Velda Elliott @veldaelliott.bsky.social · 25/09/2026#spanish #french #portuguese #arabic #L1 #mandarin 000
Reposted by Velda ElliottVelda Elliott @veldaelliott.bsky.social · 23/09/2026If you are a teacher of a first language anywhere in the world, we are looking for participants for a 10 minute survey asking about you, your context, and what you teach. The study has ethics clearance from the University of Oxford, UK (EDUC_3831846) oxfordeducation.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 001
Velda Elliott @veldaelliott.bsky.social · 23/09/2026If you are a teacher of a first language anywhere in the world, we are looking for participants for a 10 minute survey asking about you, your context, and what you teach. The study has ethics clearance from the University of Oxford, UK (EDUC_3831846) oxfordeducation.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 001
Reposted by Velda ElliottAnkaret Wells @ankaret.bsky.social · 06/08/2026If you are on the receiving end of this cocktail of disability phobia, sanctimonious youth-blaming and old-fashioned 'a woman's place is in the wrong', I'm sorry that's happening. If you're on the other side of this fight, I'm sorry for you too, but I don't suppose you'll ever understand why. 062
Velda Elliott @veldaelliott.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Pointed (well made points!) by @holliemcnish.bsky.social on Facebook. The truth is, as we reported in the Lit in Colour 5 year report, that the proportion of candidates answering on a play or a novel by a woman at GCSE is now down to just 3.5%. Fingers crossed new GCSE regs do something about it. 021
Velda Elliott @veldaelliott.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Look, everything is terrible right now, but if you are in your 40s, Masters of the Universe is everything you need from a He-Man film. Go see it and then, hear me out, campaign for a Thundercats made by the same people. 110
Velda Elliott @veldaelliott.bsky.social · 26/05/2026The older I get the more convinced I am that Philip K Dick knew a thing or two. 010
Reposted by Velda ElliottErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21/05/2026Trans people are not “fighting for unpopular positions that society isn’t ready for.” Trans people are fighting to KEEP the rights we have enjoyed for decades. We have been able to legally change our gender markers since the 70s and before. Same with bathrooms, sports, youth, all for decades. 3982652668
Velda Elliott @veldaelliott.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Absolutely shameful updated guidance from the EHRC on trans people. I am APPALLED. 000
Velda Elliott @veldaelliott.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Paul Black was such a lovely man, as well as a titan in the field, and I am so glad that T&F have supported us to make this gesture as editors of the ORE. 000
Reposted by Velda ElliottNik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 20/03/2026My excellent colleague @katiedd.bsky.social has just published this remarkable investigation into rampant book banning in a Greater Manchester secondary school library. 193 books including The Da Vinci Code, Twilight, White Teeth and 1984 Graphic Novel www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...indexoncensorship.orgSchool book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on CensorshipA school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women 38314245
Reposted by Velda ElliottAlan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 17/03/2026I’m running a 2 hour online workshop for teachers, heritage professionals, journalists & anyone who wants to be able to discuss the British Empire and its afterlives with nuance and concision. It’s on 1st June. Do sign up if interested? onlineshop.sussex.ac.uk/product-cata...onlineshop.sussex.ac.ukTalking about the British Empire and its Afterlives | University of Sussex Online ShopIn this workshop, led by a leading specialist on British colonialism and its afterlives, we will learn how to talk about Britain's colonial past with nuanc 34638
Reposted by Velda ElliottDepartment of Education, University of Oxford @education.ox.ac.uk · 23/02/2026📢 Call for Proposals: STORIEs Conference 2026 The online STORIEs Conference (Students’ Ongoing Research in Education Studies) will take place on 10 April. We invite proposals on the theme of: "Power, Equity and Hope: Education Amid Shifting Inequalities" Submit by end of 25 Feb ➡️ bit.ly/4azNL84 001
Reposted by Velda ElliottDepartment of Education, University of Oxford @education.ox.ac.uk · 16/02/2026We are delighted to celebrate the Professorships of Maia Chankseliani and Velda Elliott with a special public seminar. 📅 9 March, 5pm - 6.40pm 📍 Seminar Room A and online 👥 All welcome Register to join in-person ➡️ bit.ly/4tDMjc3 Or online ➡️ bit.ly/4aPo8Qx 101
Reposted by Velda ElliottDepartment of Education, University of Oxford @education.ox.ac.uk · 17/02/2026💻 WEBINAR: Gamifying climate change education In this webinar, hosted by the Education and Training for the Climate Research Hub and the Oxford Education Deanery, we will hear from three pioneers in climate games and interactive experiences. Interested? Register now ➡️ bit.ly/4rOwJIY 021
Velda Elliott @veldaelliott.bsky.social · 24/01/2026I did in fact, accidentally swallow the rest of it whole. So much love for this book. 010
Velda Elliott @veldaelliott.bsky.social · 23/01/2026This is lovely. The cover promises "the comedy goblins deserve" and it absolutely is. Never before have I read a graphic account of a unicorn in breech birth. It's a novella so I'm having to parcel it out and ration it so I don't accidentally swallow it whole. Nine Goblins by T Kingfisher. 010
Reposted by Velda ElliottLaura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 01/12/2025I can hardly bear it. Guaranteed my permanently angry father is nodding along furiously in his £240,000 house 1173
Velda Elliott @veldaelliott.bsky.social · 26/10/2025Inside the Factory is such a good thing. You've never seen 2 children as entranced as when Paddy McGuinness explain how sausage rolls are made. 000
Reposted by Velda ElliottTarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 21/10/2025To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms? 559421673
Velda Elliott @veldaelliott.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Also I don't know why Hague doesn't understand the purely ceremonial role of Chancellor.... 020
Reposted by Velda ElliottMetal Gear Summer '27 ☀️🥀☠️ @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 06/10/2025I saw every political party leader in the UK on the news talking about the attack on the Jewish community in Manchester except the one political party leader who is Jewish and from Manchester. Maybe I missed something? 317663
Reposted by Velda ElliottAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/10/2025The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead. This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchesterbylinetimes.comBBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski InterviewThe new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show 15129591292
Reposted by Velda ElliottStephen Barlow @steb77.bsky.social · 06/10/2025The mistake most make about the climate crisis, is in thinking that anthropogenic climate change, is the crisis. No, the climate crisis is that the science clearly describes the danger of ACC, but our whole system, acts as if this danger is not real. That is the crisis. 3/9 15913
Reposted by Velda ElliottKinlika @kinlika.bsky.social · 22/09/2025'Tylenol' is known in the civilised world as Paracetamol 2.4 million children born in Sweden between 1995 and 2019. Studied 186,000 children whose mothers were treated with paracetamol during pregnancy. news.ki.se/no-link-betw...news.ki.seNo link between paracetamol use during pregnancy and autism or ADHD in childrenIn the largest epidemiologic study to date of the risk of giving birth to a child with autism, ADHD or intellectual disability following acetaminophen use during pregnancy, researchers found no associ... 421655697
Reposted by Velda ElliottAlyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay. 7190712929
Reposted by Velda Elliottmichael veale @michae.lv · 22/09/2025Will Oxford disclose how much it paid (or did not pay) for this? Surely a sweetheart deal (has research money thrown in!) so OpenAI can plaster Oxford over its marketing and raid other unis’ fees, library budgets to throw into the sector’s massive inference funding chasm. 57420
Reposted by Velda ElliottErnesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 17/09/2025Simply astonishing. Maybe Lecturer A should not have to mark over 100 essays in a two-week window in the first place? Invest in qualified staff and reduce impossible workloads FFS www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strate... 25474138
Reposted by Velda ElliottDr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 10/09/2025‘when the METR team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20 percent slower when using AI than when working without it. “No one expected that outcome…We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”’ Lololol 1179
Reposted by Velda ElliottVelda Elliott @veldaelliott.bsky.social · 16/09/2025New open access article! Racist epithets in the classroom: Unpacking attitudes to the N-word in teaching English TLDR: White students and teachers should not say/ read the n-word aloud (But please do click on the link anyway!) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comRacist epithets in the classroom: Unpacking attitudes to the N‐word in teaching EnglishSince 2020, there has been a growing discussion around the representation of Black lives in the curriculum, and their representation in the classroom. There is a need to examine the ways in which tex... 163
Velda Elliott @veldaelliott.bsky.social · 16/09/2025New open access article! Racist epithets in the classroom: Unpacking attitudes to the N-word in teaching English TLDR: White students and teachers should not say/ read the n-word aloud (But please do click on the link anyway!) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comRacist epithets in the classroom: Unpacking attitudes to the N‐word in teaching EnglishSince 2020, there has been a growing discussion around the representation of Black lives in the curriculum, and their representation in the classroom. There is a need to examine the ways in which tex... 163
Velda Elliott @veldaelliott.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Child number 1, about to be 8. Loves humor, graphic novels, is reading things like What If? by Randall Monroe and FAQ About the Universe by Jorge Cham. Looking for similar type things, pretty much any topic. Any suggestions? 210
Reposted by Velda ElliottMicah @rincewind.run · 11/07/2025we are not going to burn down the entire knowledge economy because we developed AGI we are going to burn down the entire knowledge economy because the dipshits in charge think they invented AGI and they’re going to replace real knowledge with hallucinations stupid cyberpunk wins again 351544298
Reposted by Velda Elliottexd @meoutloud.bsky.social · 09/07/2025There is no "ethical AI" but people in education are unwilling to admit this (that I've found). You cannot "ethically" use a tool that 1) exists only bc of staggering amts of theft & consent violations, & 2) has people talking about reopening nuclear power plants SOLELY for its use. #EduSky 031
Reposted by Velda ElliottNick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 01/07/2025Curious that he mentions the City of London (population ~8500) but not Torridge in Devon (population ~68000) where the figure for his chosen stat is 6.3%. 3192
Reposted by Velda ElliottSue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Really excellent thread from @apf102.bsky.social via @damsoned.bsky.social. This not only emphasises the issues with use of AI but also how the learning = memory narrative has warped education into an exercise in recall. Where is the *critical thinking*? #EduSky 163
Reposted by Velda ElliottClaire Smith @phonicssquirrel.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Currently working with a school on their Clean Air campaign to reduce air pollution around school. Before I write a story, are there any books out there (KS1/KS2) that cover this topic in a not terrifying, not judging way? #kidlituk #cleanairday2025 023
Reposted by Velda ElliottBooks for Keeps, the children's books review journal @booksforkeeps.bsky.social · 15/06/2025"In a lot of my work, there’s always a moment where someone says, ‘this wouldn't happen’. Usually those are the moments that actually did happen in my life." NEW #BfK interview @darrenchetty.bsky.social talks to Jason Reynolds @faberbooks.bsky.social booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/twen... 084
Reposted by Velda ElliottJess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 17/06/2025It seems facile to say, but many of us are supportive of trans rights explicitly because of our serious feminist commitments. Trans rights are human rights. Women's rights are human rights. And reproductive rights are a fundamental part of those human rights. These fights are inseparable. 432978
Reposted by Velda ElliottStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Indeed. Quite bleak how many people are handed a tool that is great at eliminating drudgery and they decide that 'drudgery' means 'any form of intellectual enquiry or effort'. 2303
Reposted by Velda ElliottProf Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 15/06/2025When I was an undergrad, having to work while studying was relatively rare. While I loaded HGVs in the evenings, my peers enjoyed the social; while I worked full time in the summer, they were travelling; while they studied at leisure, I read books in breaks between lorries. 1/ 1144
Reposted by Velda ElliottProf Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Now, things are different: the report below shows 68% of students having to work while studying and universities have to respond. We have to look at timetabling, flexible attendance, hybrid studying, different models of support and assessment and access. The old ways don’t work any more.advance-he.ac.ukMore than two-thirds of full-time students now undertake paid work during term time, major survey reveals | Advance HEThe Student Academic Experience Survey (SAES) 2025, published today by Advance HE and HEPI, reveals a dramatic rise in the proportion of full-time undergraduates undertaking paid work working during t... 52112
Velda Elliott @veldaelliott.bsky.social · 11/06/2025This is a perfect example of the kind of knowledge which is perspective shifting, door opening for reading texts. And exactly the kind of knowledge that would never form the first slide of contextual knowledge in a 'knowledge-rich' teaching approach. 140
Reposted by Velda ElliottLucy Allen-Goss @lucyallengoss.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Yet another thing I shall blame on Oxford colleges' aesthetic decisions (no, not really): I never truly understood what Hildegarde of Bingen meant about gazing at green grass. Confused? Read on. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/gazing-at-...lucyallengoss.substack.comGazing at a Green Meadow: Medieval Cloisters and No-Mow ChaucerThere’s history, and there’s the kind of gentle, small-scale thought about history that drops quietly into your brain - the opposite of a revelation. 021
Reposted by Velda ElliottLexis Podcast @lexispodcast.bsky.social · 06/06/2025We've just got a new episode in the can which will come out very soon. It's our annual preview of the @yorktoolkit.bsky.social teacher CPD event. Coming soon! Get signed up here if you haven't already: englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk/workshopsenglishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.ukThe York English Language Toolkit - WorkshopsFREE annual CPD workshops for teachers of English Language A level 176
Reposted by Velda ElliottHannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Child casualties almost halved, child deaths down by 3/4… All the other stats don’t really matter 23508193
