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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · 6d

Good morning all! First dawn visit to nature reserve in a while.

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · Sep 6

Oh wow - this is nice to see on a Saturday morning after my first, exhausting week as a Y4 teacher!

My VSI in Japanese with an awesome cover, featuring my favourite (17th-C) image for teaching the difference between passions and emotions!
www.hakusuisha.co.jp/book/b665575...

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · Sep 6

Oh wow - this is nice to see on a Saturday morning after my first, exhausting week as a Y4 teacher!

My VSI in Japanese with an awesome cover, featuring my favourite (17th-C) image for teaching the difference between passions and emotions!
www.hakusuisha.co.jp/book/b665575...

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thank you. 🙏. It is a very pleasing shot and I find it quite serene too.

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · Aug 16

😎🙏

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · Aug 15

A few more terns fishing at Rye Harbour this afternoon. Might go back with snacks and drinks for a few hours tomorrow!

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · Aug 15

A few more photos of swallows and martins dipping in our pool on Spanish holiday last week.

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · Aug 15

Tern about to dive for a fish, at Rye Harbour today.

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · Aug 15

A few more photos of swallows and martins dipping in our pool on Spanish holiday last week.

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · Aug 15

A few more terns fishing at Rye Harbour this afternoon. Might go back with snacks and drinks for a few hours tomorrow!

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · Aug 15

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · Aug 15

Tern about to dive for a fish, at Rye Harbour today.

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · Aug 10

The emotional historiography of the French Revolution 🇫🇷 - esp. Carlyle vs Michelet - ⚔️ was one of my favourite topics to teach in my old job…. so it’s nice to find myself staying here. 😎

Street sign “Rue Michelet” Historien Francais. 1797-1874

The History of Emotions: A very short introduction. By Thomas Dixon

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · Aug 10

That’s great to hear. Thank you 🙏

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · Aug 10

The emotional historiography of the French Revolution 🇫🇷 - esp. Carlyle vs Michelet - ⚔️ was one of my favourite topics to teach in my old job…. so it’s nice to find myself staying here. 😎

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · Aug 5

Some bird shots from earlier in the year.

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · Aug 5

On holiday in Spain. Every evening swallows dip into the pool for a cooling drink. Trying to get photos is hard as they are very fast! Will post better shots if I get some. 😁

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Joel Morley @joelmorley.bsky.social · Jul 29

Delighted to see that my book Joining Up is published today, a mere 11 years after I started writing it. You can read it for free here: doi.org/10.7765/9781...
@manchesterup.bsky.social

Front cover of book; civilian men queuing to become soldiers

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · Jul 26

🙏Thank you for your response. I don’t know if I am autistic or not but online tests and reading around the subject (and family connections) make me think I probably am. I love that Eliot quote and had never made the connection before.

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · Jul 26

Yes. We are all different. Autistic people don’t have a monopoly on getting overloaded. I think that shift happens in autistic experiences too though? Sensory overstimulation leads to mental and physical shutdown / exhaustion. I might be misunderstanding you though. 😇

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · Jul 26

Thank you 🙏. Yes definitely a rollercoaster. 🎢
Proper break …plus planning … yes! Whole new year group and curriculum to prepare for. Looking forward to it. 😎

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · Jul 25

Just completed my first year as a teacher. Year 6… so dominated by SATs. I knew it would be hard work - and emotionally challenging- and it was! Topped off by planning and running the leavers’ service. 😭😊. Am in day 3 of recovery plan. Sofa. Cups of tea. Cricket on TV. In September - Year 4! 😎

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · Jul 26

And it occurs to me that this description is perhaps evocative of the autistic experience of hypersensitivity to sensory stimuli, and the resulting feeling of emotional overwhelm.

I wonder if others have made this connection? [2/2]

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · Jul 26

Just thinking about that famous Eliot quote from Middlemarch: ""If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence." [1/2]

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · Jul 25

Just completed my first year as a teacher. Year 6… so dominated by SATs. I knew it would be hard work - and emotionally challenging- and it was! Topped off by planning and running the leavers’ service. 😭😊. Am in day 3 of recovery plan. Sofa. Cups of tea. Cricket on TV. In September - Year 4! 😎

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