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Jo Smith

@jojophysicsgirl.bsky.social

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ITE assistant prof 👩‍🎓 Primary teacher EYFS to Y6 👩‍🏫 Secondary (physics) 💫 Engineer👩‍⚕️ Well-being of trainee teachers 🧚🏻‍♂️ First generation at uni 🙋🏼‍♀️ Anything physics, but love space🔭 mum👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 views mine, always learning

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Jo Smith @jojophysicsgirl.bsky.social · 10h

Love that :-)

Jo Smith @jojophysicsgirl.bsky.social · 1d

Woo hoo - 🙌

AR @psalisbury.bsky.social · 1d

The traffic here was awful, says Jeff.
Fridays, I say.
There was a sheep tractor towing some sheep in front of us, says Elaine.
What, I say, were the sheep driving?
She scowls at me. No, they were in the trailer, she says.
Who was driving the tractor, I ask.
The man, she shouts.

Jo Smith @jojophysicsgirl.bsky.social · 1d

Herdy morning!

Herdwick Sheep @herdwicksheep.bsky.social · 1d

It's been a whole year since the Northern Lights lit up the Lake District skies.. and what a sight it was! 💚

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John Dickens @johndickenssw.bsky.social · 5d

We've seen some green shoots of recovery for teacher recruitment this year

But just like after the one-year Covid boom, government has reacted by slashing spend on bursaries

It was a costly decision last time, but perhaps falling rolls may lesson the impact this time round?

Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 5d

The government has swung the axe on teacher training incentives – including cutting funding for shortage subjects such as maths and foreign languages

schoolsweek.co.uk/dfe-swings-a...

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Jo Smith @jojophysicsgirl.bsky.social · 17d

Why isn’t this assault - what a big brave man… 🤮

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Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com · 19d

As I was saying…

Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

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Jo Smith @jojophysicsgirl.bsky.social · 19d

And Wakefield had been funded by lawyers who had been engaged by parents in lawsuits against vaccine-producing companies…

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 19d

Can’t explain it but of course they want to take away one of the only painkillers that’s safe for pregnancy, a condition that causes weird and unusual pains. these people WANT pregnancy to be a punishment and handicap. they want to control.

Kinlika @kinlika.bsky.social · 20d

'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.

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No link between paracetamol use during pregnancy and autism or ADHD in children

In 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...

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Jo Smith @jojophysicsgirl.bsky.social · 19d

Just putting it out there - original ‘evidence’ was debunked, 12 children, cherry picked, who already had autism… later studies with proper scientific methods found no links… #vaccines publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/the-evi...

The Evidence on Vaccines and Autism | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

How a retracted study from the 1990s led to a persistent myth about vaccines.

publichealth.jhu.edu

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Jo Smith @jojophysicsgirl.bsky.social · 22d

Wet out there

Jo Smith @jojophysicsgirl.bsky.social · 25d

It was @ledbydonkeys.org and four of them were arrested.

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Jo Smith @jojophysicsgirl.bsky.social · 25d

Looking for a great copy of this - well done @ledbydonkeys.org hope freedom of speech prevails

Reuters @reuters.com · 25d

Projections of U.S. President Donald Trump, Britain's Prince Andrew and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were put on display against the walls of Windsor Castle while Trump was in Britain for a state visit.

Jo Smith @jojophysicsgirl.bsky.social · 27d

Fabulous @channel4.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Channel 4 to mark Trump’s UK visit with ‘longest uninterrupted reel of untruths’

Broadcaster to dedicate Wednesday night schedule to unpicking US president’s false or misleading statements

www.theguardian.com

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Jo Smith @jojophysicsgirl.bsky.social · 28d

No, there should be records of the negative impact, the felonies, the quotes of hatred…

Jo Smith @jojophysicsgirl.bsky.social · 28d

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Look forward to reading this on the @bbc too…

Graph showing halving of migration since 2021

Graph showing increase in belief that migration is an issue

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Jo Smith @jojophysicsgirl.bsky.social · 29d

Delightful

BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 29d

Only the Far Right treat the country like a toilet.

Jo Smith @jojophysicsgirl.bsky.social · Sep 12

Sounds traumatic. Sending positive vibes your way x

Jo Smith @jojophysicsgirl.bsky.social · Sep 12

They are pretty ~ enjoy the carriage that they turn into and be home by midnight!

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · Sep 10

Gary Lineker on winning the National TV Award,

"It's not lost on me why I might have won this award"

"Aside from presenting Match of the Day.."

"Also, I think it demonstrates that perhaps it's ok sometimes to use our platform to speak up on behalf of those who have no voice"

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Jo Smith @jojophysicsgirl.bsky.social · Sep 10

Love it at South Gare!!

Jo Smith @jojophysicsgirl.bsky.social · Sep 10

It’s a shame they don’t leave all their notes in, we’d know exactly what was and wasn’t important then - no second guessing!!

Jo Smith @jojophysicsgirl.bsky.social · Sep 9

I love this! Feels like you are there, bins, scaffolding and all, yet still looks quaint!

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Jo Smith @jojophysicsgirl.bsky.social · Sep 8

Disgusting pervert. I feel like I’m living in an alternative reality atm. On a doodle of a young girl. How is this being tolerated? Sick. He should be in prison, not the White House

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Sep 8

Can’t quite put my finger on why, but somehow the actual doodle makes it so much worse and more disgusting.

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Jo Smith @jojophysicsgirl.bsky.social · Sep 8

Fabulous! Keep up the good work :-)

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · Sep 7

Nigel Farage is the biggest charlatan in British political history.

And here's what his constitutents in Clacton really think:

Jo Smith @jojophysicsgirl.bsky.social · Sep 8

Yes, humanity! They are upside down outside my village…