Beth G-G
@bethgg.bsky.social
If I had a book out I'd plug it here. But I don't. So I won't. (but I would if I did)
TA | Accidental Art Teacher | Trust T&L Lead | Research Lead | ELE | Art Historian in Training
TA | Accidental Art Teacher | Trust T&L Lead | Research Lead | ELE | Art Historian in Training
researchED Birmingham 2026
The world's greatest education conference returns to Brum!
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January 10, 2026 at 2:36 PM
They knew we needed respite from NEWS. Look how proud those little pigs are now they're generating huff n puff content. Good job pigs.
Three abandoned little pigs rescued in Fenland
Three abandoned little pigs rescued in Fenland
"I'm used to catching dogs, but a pig is a different story," says a warden.
www.bbc.com
January 10, 2026 at 11:57 AM
They knew we needed respite from NEWS. Look how proud those little pigs are now they're generating huff n puff content. Good job pigs.
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Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:
Trump talks about Denmark and Greenland just now: "The fact that they landed a boat there 500 years ago doesn't mean that they own the land."
January 9, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:
See also: Brexit, Bowie and Alan Rickman.
January 10, 2026 at 6:50 AM
See also: Brexit, Bowie and Alan Rickman.
Of all the years, *this* is the one they want to relive. Seriously?
Why 2016 nostalgia is taking over social media in 2026
Why 2016 nostalgia is taking over social media in 2026
Fidget spinners, filters and feeds that worked. Why are young people pining to go back a decade?
www.bbc.com
January 10, 2026 at 6:44 AM
Of all the years, *this* is the one they want to relive. Seriously?
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Tough first week back?
Fancy coming to work in a 7-16 SEMH school in Nottingham?
We've got vacancies for English Lead, a science teacher and a class teacher: recruit.sampeople.co.uk/Jobboard/Tru... #TeamEnglish #EduSky
Fancy coming to work in a 7-16 SEMH school in Nottingham?
We've got vacancies for English Lead, a science teacher and a class teacher: recruit.sampeople.co.uk/Jobboard/Tru... #TeamEnglish #EduSky
Westbury Academy | SAMpeople Recruit
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January 8, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Tough first week back?
Fancy coming to work in a 7-16 SEMH school in Nottingham?
We've got vacancies for English Lead, a science teacher and a class teacher: recruit.sampeople.co.uk/Jobboard/Tru... #TeamEnglish #EduSky
Fancy coming to work in a 7-16 SEMH school in Nottingham?
We've got vacancies for English Lead, a science teacher and a class teacher: recruit.sampeople.co.uk/Jobboard/Tru... #TeamEnglish #EduSky
If it helps, we just appear to have a mega ton of slush after a night of sleet. School is a bit higher so likely to be worse than here (+ several staff are Derbyshire), and sometimes it's the taxi companies that make the decision for us. I won't be building a snowman.
January 9, 2026 at 7:37 AM
If it helps, we just appear to have a mega ton of slush after a night of sleet. School is a bit higher so likely to be worse than here (+ several staff are Derbyshire), and sometimes it's the taxi companies that make the decision for us. I won't be building a snowman.
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Storm is coming in UK.
Plug your phone in to charge now. Don't wait to charge it at 11pm when you're going to bed.
Plug your phone in to charge now. Don't wait to charge it at 11pm when you're going to bed.
January 8, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Storm is coming in UK.
Plug your phone in to charge now. Don't wait to charge it at 11pm when you're going to bed.
Plug your phone in to charge now. Don't wait to charge it at 11pm when you're going to bed.
Tough first week back?
Fancy coming to work in a 7-16 SEMH school in Nottingham?
We've got vacancies for English Lead, a science teacher and a class teacher: recruit.sampeople.co.uk/Jobboard/Tru... #TeamEnglish #EduSky
Fancy coming to work in a 7-16 SEMH school in Nottingham?
We've got vacancies for English Lead, a science teacher and a class teacher: recruit.sampeople.co.uk/Jobboard/Tru... #TeamEnglish #EduSky
Westbury Academy | SAMpeople Recruit
recruit.sampeople.co.uk
January 8, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Tough first week back?
Fancy coming to work in a 7-16 SEMH school in Nottingham?
We've got vacancies for English Lead, a science teacher and a class teacher: recruit.sampeople.co.uk/Jobboard/Tru... #TeamEnglish #EduSky
Fancy coming to work in a 7-16 SEMH school in Nottingham?
We've got vacancies for English Lead, a science teacher and a class teacher: recruit.sampeople.co.uk/Jobboard/Tru... #TeamEnglish #EduSky
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OK, #EduSky, what is it with teenagers and 'witchcraft'? I had one Yr11 insistently announce that it should be banned on Monday (and subsequently has asked I 'just don't mention the word ever again') and today another Yr11 said the word to a gaffawing response.
January 7, 2026 at 5:25 PM
OK, #EduSky, what is it with teenagers and 'witchcraft'? I had one Yr11 insistently announce that it should be banned on Monday (and subsequently has asked I 'just don't mention the word ever again') and today another Yr11 said the word to a gaffawing response.
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Just heard an AI ethicist talk about how important it is that we say ‘MEN are using Grok to undress images of babies, children and women’ not ‘Grok is….’. Grok isn’t responsible for the action, the men enabling & using it for this repulsive purpose are. Small but important bit of linguistic accuracy
January 7, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Just heard an AI ethicist talk about how important it is that we say ‘MEN are using Grok to undress images of babies, children and women’ not ‘Grok is….’. Grok isn’t responsible for the action, the men enabling & using it for this repulsive purpose are. Small but important bit of linguistic accuracy
OK, #EduSky, what is it with teenagers and 'witchcraft'? I had one Yr11 insistently announce that it should be banned on Monday (and subsequently has asked I 'just don't mention the word ever again') and today another Yr11 said the word to a gaffawing response.
January 7, 2026 at 5:25 PM
OK, #EduSky, what is it with teenagers and 'witchcraft'? I had one Yr11 insistently announce that it should be banned on Monday (and subsequently has asked I 'just don't mention the word ever again') and today another Yr11 said the word to a gaffawing response.
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Today is Epiphany, when Western Christianity celebrates the three kings' visit to the infant Christ. Peter Bruegel the Elder's 'Adoration of the Kings' [National Gallery] is one of my favourite imaginings of that moment. It's also full of mystery.
Quick Epiphany 🧵
Quick Epiphany 🧵
January 6, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Today is Epiphany, when Western Christianity celebrates the three kings' visit to the infant Christ. Peter Bruegel the Elder's 'Adoration of the Kings' [National Gallery] is one of my favourite imaginings of that moment. It's also full of mystery.
Quick Epiphany 🧵
Quick Epiphany 🧵
That's a far more practical use of strategy than AI solutions for strategic priorities 😁
January 6, 2026 at 9:13 PM
That's a far more practical use of strategy than AI solutions for strategic priorities 😁
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This is pretty urgent if you want a ticket …
Här gäller det att sno sig om man vill ha en biljett .. researched.org.uk/event/resear...
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Speakers SO FAR Agneta Gulz Alex Fairlamb Alva Appelgren Amarbeen Singh Andreas Jemstedt Andreas Hallström Andrew Watson AnnaStokke Anna Åkerfeldt Arnold Pears Beth Giddings Grenville Bruce Robertson ...
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January 5, 2026 at 2:52 PM
This is pretty urgent if you want a ticket …
I've got to go to BETT this year. I've been looking at the schedule options and I've never seen so many references to 'strategic'. Is this what LinkedIn's like? 😐
January 6, 2026 at 8:10 PM
I've got to go to BETT this year. I've been looking at the schedule options and I've never seen so many references to 'strategic'. Is this what LinkedIn's like? 😐
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Twelfth Night
Please take a few moments to read a favourite of my recent posts - "Twelfth Night Till Candlemas" - including a wonderful story by Ruth C. Paine set on Twelfth Night.
And for the reasons set out in that story remember to take down your Christmas decorations, else...
...brace, brace.
Please take a few moments to read a favourite of my recent posts - "Twelfth Night Till Candlemas" - including a wonderful story by Ruth C. Paine set on Twelfth Night.
And for the reasons set out in that story remember to take down your Christmas decorations, else...
...brace, brace.
"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas"
The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
My popular seasonal post from last year:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
Now with a couple of footnotes one year on:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
My popular seasonal post from last year:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
Now with a couple of footnotes one year on:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas"
The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
emptycity.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Twelfth Night
Please take a few moments to read a favourite of my recent posts - "Twelfth Night Till Candlemas" - including a wonderful story by Ruth C. Paine set on Twelfth Night.
And for the reasons set out in that story remember to take down your Christmas decorations, else...
...brace, brace.
Please take a few moments to read a favourite of my recent posts - "Twelfth Night Till Candlemas" - including a wonderful story by Ruth C. Paine set on Twelfth Night.
And for the reasons set out in that story remember to take down your Christmas decorations, else...
...brace, brace.
It's the history side of it that's got me hooked. Obviously there's a whole visual analysis thing, but the links between archaeology and connoisseurship are huge, and there's a lot of philosophy. I put a list of courses/ books in my new year post: impressionthatiget.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/2...
2025
Some New Year changes come crashing in with big ‘new year, new me’ promises, and, as it turns out, some slip in under the radar with the reading of a book. As is usual, today is a…
impressionthatiget.wordpress.com
January 5, 2026 at 12:13 PM
It's the history side of it that's got me hooked. Obviously there's a whole visual analysis thing, but the links between archaeology and connoisseurship are huge, and there's a lot of philosophy. I put a list of courses/ books in my new year post: impressionthatiget.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/2...
My office literally reached a new low this morning...
January 5, 2026 at 10:03 AM
My office literally reached a new low this morning...
It was one of two things on my Christmas list! I'm savouring it as a break from studying (Howard is amused my break from art history is to either read about art history or listen to art history podcasts).
January 5, 2026 at 10:02 AM
It was one of two things on my Christmas list! I'm savouring it as a break from studying (Howard is amused my break from art history is to either read about art history or listen to art history podcasts).
I just think I'd be really good at retirement. Why can't I have retirement?
January 4, 2026 at 8:09 PM
I just think I'd be really good at retirement. Why can't I have retirement?
Yeah, it's magic. It's that shift in maturity you see with them.
January 4, 2026 at 10:47 AM
Yeah, it's magic. It's that shift in maturity you see with them.