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Ed Southall

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Maths Edu & Oak National maths lead | Speaker | Author http://amzn.to/2JmoTFv | Doctor (not the save your life kind, just the useless philosophising kind.)

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Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · Sep 17

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #508
(I do not believe that I was #508, but I'll take it).

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · Sep 11

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

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Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · Aug 10

I spotted the tail is the nest shape in the next panel. It’s like if the nest and the monkey went into the teleporter in the film The Fly

Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · Aug 9

Saw this AI prompt being used and thought I'd give it a spin.

An alphabet poster created using GPT 5 with various errors such as 'J is for umbrella' and 'Y is for queen'. based on a prompt seen on LinkedIn.

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · Aug 5

None of this happened, none of these pictures are real, AI slop like this makes the world dumber and worse and the companies peddling it 24/7 are destroying civilization.

screenshot of AI slop on Facebook spreading lies and fake photos about Bob Dylan and Joan Baez getting married in Sante Fe with Paul McCartney and Steven Tyler (?!?) performing at their wedding.

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Avian "scary fecker" Face-Tool 🦡 @beakmoo.bsky.social · Jul 23

Found this elsewhere. It amused my beak.

Ozzy Osborne in heaven, he's holding a dove and has his mouth open, menacingly, Jesus is there saying "don't do it!"

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Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · Jul 20

Managed to run a total of >40k two weeks in a row. Training officially begun for Arc of Attrition in January 😅
#edurunners

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Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · Jul 19

Oh 2026! Still no. I saw them on the white pony tour and the album after, but not since then which is far longer ago than I care to work out! Sigur ros should be great. Making the trip because it’s with a full orchestra

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Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · Jul 19

Where at? I have no tickets. My next gig is sigur ros in London

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Jul 15

But AI is promised to "save schools time"?

"schools are not only getting an increasing number of complaints generated by AI but they are also having to dedicate more staff time to dealing with them ... 'and that really multiplies the workload'" www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Schools face ‘unsustainable’ rise in AI-generated complaints

Parents’ use of AI in making complaints means schools are having to deal with complex letters loaded with references to the law, leaders warn

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Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · Jun 15

Thinking of Batman today

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Paul Graf @paulginva.bsky.social · Jun 3

Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years.

What are we doing?

Ardem Patapoutian's story is not just the American dream, it is the dream of American science.

He arrived in Los Angeles in 1986 at age 18 after fleeing war-torn Lebanon. He spent a year writing for an Armenian newspaper and delivering Domino's at night to become eligible for the University of California, where he earned his undergraduate degree and a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience.

He started a lab at Scripps Research in San Diego with a grant from the National Institutes of Health, discovered the way humans sense touch, and in 2021 won the Nobel Prize.

But with the Trump administration slashing spending on science, Dr. Patapoutian's federal grant to develop new approaches to treating pain has been frozen. In late February, he posted on Bluesky that such cuts would damage biomedical research and prompt an exodus of talent from the United States. Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to "any city, any university I want," he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.

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Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · Jun 3

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Roger Moore dressed as a clown in Octopussy.

Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · May 31

a cartoon badger is standing in a grassy field with the word badger written on the bottom

ALT: a cartoon badger is standing in a grassy field with the word badger written on the bottom

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Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · May 31

Speedy

Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · May 30

New puzzle who dis?

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · May 29

Good question, quote posting to answer, the illegal tariffs are the baseline 10%, suspended reciprocal tariffs, and a few others. The UK US deal focused on other tariffs - cars and other products - which remain in force.

Molly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · May 29

Morning @davidheniguk.bsky.social

Can I just check where this leaves the US-UK?

Is it possible that we've now enshrined in law bad terms that were actually illegal when Trump threatened them? But we've made legal via the deal?

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Axiom Maths @axiommaths.bsky.social · May 21

📉 Year 7 school switch-off begins before Easter

Our new research featured in @tesmagazine.bsky.social shows a 15 percentage point drop in enjoyment + rising stress levels by Term 2.

The socio-economic gap in enthusiasm and support for high attainers is growing.

#MathsEd #Year7 #EdResearch

Tes magazine @tesmagazine.bsky.social · May 20

Students’ enjoyment of their education suffers a substantial decline during the first year of secondary school, according to two separate studies

School engagement plummets in Year 7, research finds

Separate studies warn that students’ enjoyment of lessons drops, and stress levels rise, after moving to secondary school

www.tes.com

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Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social · May 20

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

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Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · May 18

Draft of my next book “Bothered about maths” 🧮 is almost complete 😃. Been a joy to write a guide to developing a strong positive classroom culture & enthusing children (& teachers!) about teaching & learning maths. An expansion of the wonderful book Botheredness by
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