Katherine J. Haxton
@kjhaxton.com
Chemistry Education particularly social justice and equity, sustainability, and mini-problem based learning. Regularly tilts at wind turbines. Academic surviving/striving/thriving in English Higher Education. Scot in exile.
Blog: https://kjhaxton.com/
Blog: https://kjhaxton.com/
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Something not mentioned in this post is maintaining mental boundaries. Don't let toxic colleagues weigh on your mind when you're not at work. Notice the thought, then choose different ones. Ruminate on their toxic behaviour during work time instead. Get paid for it. #MentalHealth
The Educational Designer Working efficiently, effectively and maintaining boundaries -
This guide shares practical strategies for working more efficiently and maintaining healthy work-life boundaries as an educator. Learn how to work iteratively, set clear communication expectations,…
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February 4, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Something not mentioned in this post is maintaining mental boundaries. Don't let toxic colleagues weigh on your mind when you're not at work. Notice the thought, then choose different ones. Ruminate on their toxic behaviour during work time instead. Get paid for it. #MentalHealth
Thanks all, really interesting chat tonight. Thanks to @profdamienpage.bsky.social for the questions and much to think about. Hope the rest of the week goes well for all #LTHEchat
January 28, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Thanks all, really interesting chat tonight. Thanks to @profdamienpage.bsky.social for the questions and much to think about. Hope the rest of the week goes well for all #LTHEchat
Good Evening #LTHEChat Katherine, Chemist, Keele. Hope you're all having a good day. I managed to spend a wee bit time in the sunshine at lunchtime and spotted the first daffodils of the year!
January 28, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Good Evening #LTHEChat Katherine, Chemist, Keele. Hope you're all having a good day. I managed to spend a wee bit time in the sunshine at lunchtime and spotted the first daffodils of the year!
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One hour to go to get ready :) Read the blogpost lthechat.com/2026/01/26/l... and follow the hashtag #LTHEchat - it's that easy.
LTHEchat 351: Leadership and Academic Flourishing
Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 28th January at 8pm GMT with guest Prof Damien Page to discuss Leadership and Academic Flourishing. University leaders juggle a lot. Financial sustaina…
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January 28, 2026 at 7:01 PM
One hour to go to get ready :) Read the blogpost lthechat.com/2026/01/26/l... and follow the hashtag #LTHEchat - it's that easy.
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#LoveLD - love the weekly chat: #LTHEchat 349: Redundancy, Resilience, and Finding What’s Next lthechat.com/2026/01/12/l... Weds, 8-9 in Blue Sky - follow the hashtag - join the conversation - because frankly - it is personal!
LTHEchat 349: Redundancy, Resilience, and Finding What’s Next
There’s no nice way to talk about redundancy. It doesn’t arrive as a single moment, even when there is a single date attached to it. It arrives in phases: uncertainty, waiting, the conversation its…
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January 13, 2026 at 8:39 AM
#LoveLD - love the weekly chat: #LTHEchat 349: Redundancy, Resilience, and Finding What’s Next lthechat.com/2026/01/12/l... Weds, 8-9 in Blue Sky - follow the hashtag - join the conversation - because frankly - it is personal!
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IMHO This ranking is WAY too kind to S6 (which I'd place dead last). And I'd put S5 first and S3 second. Otherwise, excellent choices. :) All 7 Seasons of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, Ranked nerdist.com/article/buff...
All 7 Seasons of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, Ranked
Buffy the Vampire Slayer will soon return to kill the undead in a new revival series, so let's rank all seven seasons of the original!
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January 1, 2026 at 6:50 PM
IMHO This ranking is WAY too kind to S6 (which I'd place dead last). And I'd put S5 first and S3 second. Otherwise, excellent choices. :) All 7 Seasons of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, Ranked nerdist.com/article/buff...
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Picard management tip: We all have a primordial instinct to fear the unknown. It is up to each of us to suppress that instinct, to investigate mysteries even in the face of risk.
December 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Picard management tip: We all have a primordial instinct to fear the unknown. It is up to each of us to suppress that instinct, to investigate mysteries even in the face of risk.
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NEW on Wonkhe: The UCAS End of Cycle data for 2025 offers more evidence for what may be leading to recruitment growth at high tariff providers. DK has the charts. buff.ly/FmCLHiJ
December 13, 2025 at 6:20 AM
NEW on Wonkhe: The UCAS End of Cycle data for 2025 offers more evidence for what may be leading to recruitment growth at high tariff providers. DK has the charts. buff.ly/FmCLHiJ
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Great trip to @keeleuniversity.bsky.social today to present our latest research at their Chemistry Seminar... somehow I didn't take any photos?! Thanks to Charlie Creissen for the invitation and great to see Pete Matthews, @kjhaxton.com and @cshchem.bsky.social and others.
December 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Great trip to @keeleuniversity.bsky.social today to present our latest research at their Chemistry Seminar... somehow I didn't take any photos?! Thanks to Charlie Creissen for the invitation and great to see Pete Matthews, @kjhaxton.com and @cshchem.bsky.social and others.
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Really happy to see this one out in the world, top efforts by Scarlett and Corey on their final year projects (a couple of years apart mind you) with technical input from the brilliant Sian as always
🔓Be sure to read the recent #OpenAccess article by Chris Hawes and colleagues at Keele University reporting the structural chemistry and environment-dependent fluorescence of a tetratopic pyrrolo[3,2-b]pyrrole ligand 👏⬇️
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📍@keeleuniversity.bsky.social
🧪 @cshchem.bsky.social
🔗 lnkd.in/eWDyFAaM
📍@keeleuniversity.bsky.social
🧪 @cshchem.bsky.social
![A new tetratopic carboxylic acid ligand containing a fluorescent pyrrolo[3,2-b]pyrrole is reported, and its structural chemistry in two solvated forms and a strontium(II) MOF are examined alongside its photophysical behaviour.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ia42xxcm7nxdgtcyo4kn2mdp/bafkreidigkqnuuz5swpu6mb3f75a62bqoxv5n5og3s6c2vwtj6x7shgws4@jpeg)
November 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Really happy to see this one out in the world, top efforts by Scarlett and Corey on their final year projects (a couple of years apart mind you) with technical input from the brilliant Sian as always
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One is that teaching university students *well* requires much more work (and frankly, compassion) now than it did when I started nine years ago. 2/
November 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
One is that teaching university students *well* requires much more work (and frankly, compassion) now than it did when I started nine years ago. 2/
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The most amazing thing about Danny Kruger isn't that he holds these views. It's that he voluntarily expressed them to a journalist.
Mr Dunning was not available for comment.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Mr Dunning was not available for comment.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘America is British’. Heaven is ‘a socialist state’. David Attenborough is ‘anti-human’ – the startling theories of Reform MP Danny Kruger
He was a Conservative party big-hitter who wrote speeches for David Cameron and worked with Boris Johnson before he suddenly jumped ship. He talks family, flags and why Nigel Farage is ‘top dog’
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November 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The most amazing thing about Danny Kruger isn't that he holds these views. It's that he voluntarily expressed them to a journalist.
Mr Dunning was not available for comment.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Mr Dunning was not available for comment.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
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I'd like to reinstate the 'follow friday' tradition from the other space where on a friday you suggest people or organisations to follow.
My recommendations this week are @seda-ed-dev.bsky.social, @ntfellows.bsky.social, @aldinhe.bsky.social, @advancehe.bsky.social and @altuk.bsky.social
My recommendations this week are @seda-ed-dev.bsky.social, @ntfellows.bsky.social, @aldinhe.bsky.social, @advancehe.bsky.social and @altuk.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I'd like to reinstate the 'follow friday' tradition from the other space where on a friday you suggest people or organisations to follow.
My recommendations this week are @seda-ed-dev.bsky.social, @ntfellows.bsky.social, @aldinhe.bsky.social, @advancehe.bsky.social and @altuk.bsky.social
My recommendations this week are @seda-ed-dev.bsky.social, @ntfellows.bsky.social, @aldinhe.bsky.social, @advancehe.bsky.social and @altuk.bsky.social
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Evening all @LTHEchat hope you've had a good day. Fun fact about me: I buy one of my cats a bunch of roses each week because he likes to eat them. #LTHEchat
November 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Evening all @LTHEchat hope you've had a good day. Fun fact about me: I buy one of my cats a bunch of roses each week because he likes to eat them. #LTHEchat
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Join us for #LTHEchat with @mirjamglessmer.com and @robertkordts.bsky.social sky.social at 8 pm GMT today.
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LTHE Chat 343: How to teach for sustainability
Join us on Bluesky with guest Mirjam Glessmer (@mirjamglessmer.bsky.social) and Robert Kordts (@robertkordts.bsky.social) on Wednesday, 12th November 2025 at 20:00 GMT The title…
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November 12, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Join us for #LTHEchat with @mirjamglessmer.com and @robertkordts.bsky.social sky.social at 8 pm GMT today.
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New podcast in our AI in #HigherEd series! 🚨
In this podcast, Gene Flenady talks about his article ‘Cut the bullshit: why GenAI systems are neither collaborators nor tutors’, co-authored by Robert Sparrow
Spotify:
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Apple:
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In this podcast, Gene Flenady talks about his article ‘Cut the bullshit: why GenAI systems are neither collaborators nor tutors’, co-authored by Robert Sparrow
Spotify:
open.spotify.com/episode/7g4w...
Apple:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 AM
New podcast in our AI in #HigherEd series! 🚨
In this podcast, Gene Flenady talks about his article ‘Cut the bullshit: why GenAI systems are neither collaborators nor tutors’, co-authored by Robert Sparrow
Spotify:
open.spotify.com/episode/7g4w...
Apple:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
In this podcast, Gene Flenady talks about his article ‘Cut the bullshit: why GenAI systems are neither collaborators nor tutors’, co-authored by Robert Sparrow
Spotify:
open.spotify.com/episode/7g4w...
Apple:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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Picard happiness tip: Spend as much time as you can with your soulmate, as I have done with Gandalf.
November 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Picard happiness tip: Spend as much time as you can with your soulmate, as I have done with Gandalf.
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If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.
If I see one more stupid Rosalind Franklin take I'm going to lose my mind. Thank god for @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @nccomfort.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
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November 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.