Mike Hobbiss
@mikehobbiss.bsky.social
Psychology teacher and cognitive neuroscience researcher. Neuroscience, education and all the layers in between. Emma Turner's "new favourite geek". Book: 'How to Teach Psychology' https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1915261953/
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Mike Hobbiss
@mikehobbiss.bsky.social
· May 14
Exciting moment unboxing @paulclinepsy.bsky.social and my book!
Out on 23rd May 🥳🥳
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Out on 23rd May 🥳🥳
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#UKEd
#Edusky
#Eruditepedagogy
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“The deskilling, denigration, and displacement of teachers and scholars have historically been central to fascist takeovers, since educators serve as bulwarks against propaganda, anti-intellectualism, and illiteracy.” — @olivia.science
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AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
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October 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
“The deskilling, denigration, and displacement of teachers and scholars have historically been central to fascist takeovers, since educators serve as bulwarks against propaganda, anti-intellectualism, and illiteracy.” — @olivia.science
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www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
A great interview in @tesmagazine.bsky.social with my old PhD supervisor @nillilavie.bsky.social, including a reference to the work we did together on students' experiences of distraction in their classrooms.
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www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
Are pupil attention spans really decreasing?
Professor Nilli Lavie speaks to Tes about the science of attention, why teachers are reporting shorter attention spans and what that means for classroom learning
www.tes.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
A great interview in @tesmagazine.bsky.social with my old PhD supervisor @nillilavie.bsky.social, including a reference to the work we did together on students' experiences of distraction in their classrooms.
www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
It was great fun talking to @lucindap0well.bsky.social for her ‘Changing states of mind’ podcast.
The when, where and how of repeated practice when teaching psychology
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The when, where and how of repeated practice when teaching psychology
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✨ From attention and cognitive load to the power of repeated practice (aka SLOP), Dr @mikehobbiss.bsky.social shares how to help students truly understand and retain concepts. Join us for some game-changing teaching ideas! Listen here 👇
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November 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
It was great fun talking to @lucindap0well.bsky.social for her ‘Changing states of mind’ podcast.
The when, where and how of repeated practice when teaching psychology
👇
The when, where and how of repeated practice when teaching psychology
👇
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✨ From attention and cognitive load to the power of repeated practice (aka SLOP), Dr @mikehobbiss.bsky.social shares how to help students truly understand and retain concepts. Join us for some game-changing teaching ideas! Listen here 👇
changingstatesofmind.libsyn.com/slop-the-pow...
changingstatesofmind.libsyn.com/slop-the-pow...
November 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
✨ From attention and cognitive load to the power of repeated practice (aka SLOP), Dr @mikehobbiss.bsky.social shares how to help students truly understand and retain concepts. Join us for some game-changing teaching ideas! Listen here 👇
changingstatesofmind.libsyn.com/slop-the-pow...
changingstatesofmind.libsyn.com/slop-the-pow...
On school attendance.
I’ve read lots on how Covid broke the social contract etc, but could part of the situation be that with parents working from home there’s less need to still send kids into school when under the weather?
I’ve read lots on how Covid broke the social contract etc, but could part of the situation be that with parents working from home there’s less need to still send kids into school when under the weather?
November 12, 2025 at 8:33 AM
On school attendance.
I’ve read lots on how Covid broke the social contract etc, but could part of the situation be that with parents working from home there’s less need to still send kids into school when under the weather?
I’ve read lots on how Covid broke the social contract etc, but could part of the situation be that with parents working from home there’s less need to still send kids into school when under the weather?
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Literal perfection. ;) www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...
We Have AI Now
YouTube video by Eleanor Morton
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October 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Literal perfection. ;) www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...
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Hi everyone!
Please follow for updates from the Association for the Teaching of Psychology.
Our Facebook page focuses on building our community, our LinkedIn page focuses on careers, our Twitter accounts focus on sharing info…
What you would like to see on our BlueSky feed?
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Please follow for updates from the Association for the Teaching of Psychology.
Our Facebook page focuses on building our community, our LinkedIn page focuses on careers, our Twitter accounts focus on sharing info…
What you would like to see on our BlueSky feed?
www.theatp.uk
Association for the Teaching of Psychology
www.theatp.uk
December 3, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Hi everyone!
Please follow for updates from the Association for the Teaching of Psychology.
Our Facebook page focuses on building our community, our LinkedIn page focuses on careers, our Twitter accounts focus on sharing info…
What you would like to see on our BlueSky feed?
www.theatp.uk
Please follow for updates from the Association for the Teaching of Psychology.
Our Facebook page focuses on building our community, our LinkedIn page focuses on careers, our Twitter accounts focus on sharing info…
What you would like to see on our BlueSky feed?
www.theatp.uk
In this podcast and recent blogs I’ve talked about how attention might be at the heart of issues that look on the surface to be about other things (e.g. working memory, comprehension, intelligence etc).
Here’s a great recent example www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Here’s a great recent example www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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October 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
In this podcast and recent blogs I’ve talked about how attention might be at the heart of issues that look on the surface to be about other things (e.g. working memory, comprehension, intelligence etc).
Here’s a great recent example www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🧵1/2
Here’s a great recent example www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Selective and sustained attention - a model for classroom (and whole school) improvement via Mike Hobbiss.
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Selective and sustained attention: a model for classroom (and whole school) improvement
I’m an attention geek. I could talk for ages about the mechanisms of attention (and will do so a little bit here), but also more recently I have started to apply insights from attention more broadl…
hobbolog.wordpress.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Selective and sustained attention - a model for classroom (and whole school) improvement via Mike Hobbiss.
@mikehobbiss.bsky.social
hobbolog.wordpress.com/2023/11/29/s...
@mikehobbiss.bsky.social
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Great day at #rEdCam25
Engaging & thought-provoking sessions from: @claresealy.bsky.social on the writing framework
@jonhutchinson.bsky.social on belonging
@johntomsett.bsky.social on great teachers
William Wadsworth on revision techniques
A big thank you to @tombennett71.bsky.social & the team
Engaging & thought-provoking sessions from: @claresealy.bsky.social on the writing framework
@jonhutchinson.bsky.social on belonging
@johntomsett.bsky.social on great teachers
William Wadsworth on revision techniques
A big thank you to @tombennett71.bsky.social & the team
October 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Great day at #rEdCam25
Engaging & thought-provoking sessions from: @claresealy.bsky.social on the writing framework
@jonhutchinson.bsky.social on belonging
@johntomsett.bsky.social on great teachers
William Wadsworth on revision techniques
A big thank you to @tombennett71.bsky.social & the team
Engaging & thought-provoking sessions from: @claresealy.bsky.social on the writing framework
@jonhutchinson.bsky.social on belonging
@johntomsett.bsky.social on great teachers
William Wadsworth on revision techniques
A big thank you to @tombennett71.bsky.social & the team
It was great fun talking to @teacherhead.bsky.social and @emmaturner75.bsky.social for the latest episode of the Mind the Gap podcast creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
The Science of Paying Attention with Mike Hobbiss, Mind the Gap, Ep.107 (S6,E5) by Mind the Gap: Making Education Work Across the Globe
On this episode of Mind the Gap, Tom Sherrington and Emma Turner are joined by Mike Hobbiss - teacher, researcher, and author - to dive into the science of attention and what it means for everyday tea...
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October 25, 2025 at 10:36 AM
It was great fun talking to @teacherhead.bsky.social and @emmaturner75.bsky.social for the latest episode of the Mind the Gap podcast creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
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TOP AI IN EDUCATION FAILS ... so far:
April 15, 2025 at 8:34 PM
TOP AI IN EDUCATION FAILS ... so far:
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Can the human sciences exist w/out the human? Proposals for using AI as human research subjects suggest yes. But @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I respond with, ‘not so fast.’ In fact, silicon subjects say more about the problems of the research paradigm than the promises of AI. 🚨New article, thread 1/
AI Surrogates and illusions of generalizability in cognitive science
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have generated enthusiasm for using AI simulations of human research participants to generate new know…
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October 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Can the human sciences exist w/out the human? Proposals for using AI as human research subjects suggest yes. But @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I respond with, ‘not so fast.’ In fact, silicon subjects say more about the problems of the research paradigm than the promises of AI. 🚨New article, thread 1/
I've really enjoyed @pepsmccrea.bsky.social 's recent 'Evidence Snacks' series on attention snacks.pepsmccrea.com and also nice to see the link in this week's snack about this interesting recent study on mindwandering in the classroom onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Evidence Snacks
A weekly 5-min email for research hungry teachers
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October 9, 2025 at 10:12 AM
I've really enjoyed @pepsmccrea.bsky.social 's recent 'Evidence Snacks' series on attention snacks.pepsmccrea.com and also nice to see the link in this week's snack about this interesting recent study on mindwandering in the classroom onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Thank you to anyone who has bought a copy of ‘How to Teach Psychology’ www.amazon.co.uk/How-Teach-Ps...
First instalment of royalties passed on to the brilliant www.europeanlawyersinlesvos.eu
First instalment of royalties passed on to the brilliant www.europeanlawyersinlesvos.eu
October 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Thank you to anyone who has bought a copy of ‘How to Teach Psychology’ www.amazon.co.uk/How-Teach-Ps...
First instalment of royalties passed on to the brilliant www.europeanlawyersinlesvos.eu
First instalment of royalties passed on to the brilliant www.europeanlawyersinlesvos.eu
Evolving (and co-evolving) the face of a criminal…
Charlie D. Frowd, @lightfayber.bsky.social, Cristina Fodarella, Emma Portch and Peter J. B. Hancock share a research journey.
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Charlie D. Frowd, @lightfayber.bsky.social, Cristina Fodarella, Emma Portch and Peter J. B. Hancock share a research journey.
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Evolving (and co-evolving) the face of a criminal | BPS
Charlie D. Frowd, Faye C. Skelton, Cristina Fodarella, Emma Portch and Peter J. B. Hancock share a research journey.
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September 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Loved joining @emmaturner75.bsky.social and @teacherhead.bsky.social for a chat on @mindthegappodcast.bsky.social this week. Out soon.
I've got a new addition to my profile bio out of it...!
I've got a new addition to my profile bio out of it...!
September 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Loved joining @emmaturner75.bsky.social and @teacherhead.bsky.social for a chat on @mindthegappodcast.bsky.social this week. Out soon.
I've got a new addition to my profile bio out of it...!
I've got a new addition to my profile bio out of it...!
My school is oversubscribed and packed to the gills, to the point of being almost unsafe at times… and yet we’re still having crisis meetings about finances, in dilapidated classrooms.
The whole school funding system is broken
The whole school funding system is broken
The drop in pupil numbers has hit London harder than anywhere else, @edupolicyinst.bsky.social analysis shows, and ex-minister Damian Hinds is calling for school funding reform
Ex-minister calls for school funding rethink as London rolls plummet
With schools being hit by a drop in student numbers, one former education secretary warns that the per-pupil funding formula is leaving them unable to cover their fixed costs
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September 25, 2025 at 5:44 AM
My school is oversubscribed and packed to the gills, to the point of being almost unsafe at times… and yet we’re still having crisis meetings about finances, in dilapidated classrooms.
The whole school funding system is broken
The whole school funding system is broken
This term's CEN (Centre for Educational Neuroscience) seminars look great (as usual).
4-5 every Thursday. Highly recommended for any teachers interested in research
Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#UKEd
#Edusky
4-5 every Thursday. Highly recommended for any teachers interested in research
Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#UKEd
#Edusky
September 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
This term's CEN (Centre for Educational Neuroscience) seminars look great (as usual).
4-5 every Thursday. Highly recommended for any teachers interested in research
Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#UKEd
#Edusky
4-5 every Thursday. Highly recommended for any teachers interested in research
Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#UKEd
#Edusky
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I wrote something about feeling like a guest in a country that is my home.
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My place or yours? - Flags and the far right from someone who looks different to you
By Alex Andreou
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September 17, 2025 at 8:21 AM
I wrote something about feeling like a guest in a country that is my home.
bestforbritain.substack.com/p/my-place-o...
bestforbritain.substack.com/p/my-place-o...
“wisdom which will encourage you to think more deeply about learning, rather than just creating ‘lessons’.”
Such lovely recent feedback for www.amazon.co.uk/How-Teach-Ps...
This was exactly what @paulclinepsy.bsky.social and I were hoping to achieve.
#UKEd
#Edusky
Such lovely recent feedback for www.amazon.co.uk/How-Teach-Ps...
This was exactly what @paulclinepsy.bsky.social and I were hoping to achieve.
#UKEd
#Edusky
September 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
“wisdom which will encourage you to think more deeply about learning, rather than just creating ‘lessons’.”
Such lovely recent feedback for www.amazon.co.uk/How-Teach-Ps...
This was exactly what @paulclinepsy.bsky.social and I were hoping to achieve.
#UKEd
#Edusky
Such lovely recent feedback for www.amazon.co.uk/How-Teach-Ps...
This was exactly what @paulclinepsy.bsky.social and I were hoping to achieve.
#UKEd
#Edusky
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Session 3: @paulclinepsy.bsky.social and @mikehobbiss.bsky.social on developing independent learners (hint - independence starts with scaffolding). Lots of actionable strategies for helping students actually *do* the things they kinda know will be helpful.
September 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Session 3: @paulclinepsy.bsky.social and @mikehobbiss.bsky.social on developing independent learners (hint - independence starts with scaffolding). Lots of actionable strategies for helping students actually *do* the things they kinda know will be helpful.
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Another brilliant day at #rED25
Lots to think about as always, and wonderful to reconnect with some lovely people.
A massive thank you to those who came to see @mikehobbiss.bsky.social and I talk
Lots to think about as always, and wonderful to reconnect with some lovely people.
A massive thank you to those who came to see @mikehobbiss.bsky.social and I talk
September 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Another brilliant day at #rED25
Lots to think about as always, and wonderful to reconnect with some lovely people.
A massive thank you to those who came to see @mikehobbiss.bsky.social and I talk
Lots to think about as always, and wonderful to reconnect with some lovely people.
A massive thank you to those who came to see @mikehobbiss.bsky.social and I talk
Thanks so much to @hgaldinoshea.bsky.social @tombennett71.bsky.social and all the organisers at the host school as ever. Special shout out to @thebandb.bsky.social ‘s son who was an absolutely adorable tour guide
A great day at ResearchEd #REd25. Superb sessions @profcoe.bsky.social @joejt.bsky.social @profbeckyallen.bsky.social @johntomsett.bsky.social. Fun presenting with @paulclinepsy.bsky.social as ever. New contacts made, friendships rekindled, and ambitious schemes hatched. Enriching and invigorating
September 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Thanks so much to @hgaldinoshea.bsky.social @tombennett71.bsky.social and all the organisers at the host school as ever. Special shout out to @thebandb.bsky.social ‘s son who was an absolutely adorable tour guide