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Sue Cowley

@suecowley.bsky.social

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UK based writer / teacher / CPD provider / presenter. I help to run a preschool. I love gardening and my allotment. She/her. Author of 30+ books for teachers. Please contact me via my website for CPD/INSET bookings and writing queries. www.suecowley.co.uk

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · Aug 24

I'm doing a couple of giveaways to celebrate the upcoming new school year! This first #giveaway is for my @bloomsburyed.bsky.social book on #behaviour. Like and repost to enter (UK only). Winner picked next Saturday. Please share! Thank you. #freebie

Sue Cowley's book Getting your Class to Behave

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 3m

She's been spouting off politically yes.

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Dr. Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi @rjelevi.bsky.social · 8h

Also, it and its fellow neurodivergences (notably ADHD) are disabilities whose associated behaviors are DEEPLY entwined with regnant narratives of who's a good person or a bad one. 1/

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 8h

It's no worse than any other disabilities. But for years, it was billed as one of the most tragic outcomes possible for kids. It was seen as a symptom of schizophrenia or this condition that drove children into a catatonic state. The fact mothers were blamed for it made the stigma worse.

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 9h

I don’t exactly how to phrase this, but like… is autism that bad???? Like, why is it such a source of fear??? Of course there are challenges but you can be autistic and have a rich, fulfilling life! Many people do! I don’t understand the preoccupation.

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Dan Taysin-Ferneau @innumo.bsky.social · 8h

It's one of the things that I think has got hopelessly lost in our democratic process. We don't elect MPs to be experts or for their opinions at all. Their job is to understand the collective will of their constituency and to represent us in parliament. They're a proxy voter not an elite authority.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 19d

this exists it is called thinking

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 8h

Short list of people whose views on education I don't take seriously.

Spielman
Gove
Farage

😒 #EduSky

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah unfortunately the people who did aren't on here.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 8h

There’s lots of crappy things going on right now.

Don’t forget there is also lots of good stuff going on across the world …. and even beyond! ☄️

Habu @flyinghabu.bsky.social · 13h

Two nights of 3:45am alarms, blazing full moon lighting the sky like daytime and washing out the light of everything else, comet included. Then two days of post-processing battles, as comet processing is maddeningly tricky.

But I finally pulled it off: here is C/2025 A6 Lemmon. 🔭

#Astrophotography

Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon taken from my backyard

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 9h

The advice I give young people on choice of degree programme. Choose something you love. You’ve got the rest of your life to be frustrated and miserable.

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 9h

I'm reassured by how all the obviously intelligent people here on #bluesky are making the case against widespread adoption of AI. Phew.

Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 9h

Yet another great piece about how it's okay to reject AI. ⬇️

Dr. Mag 🌿👾 @nobugsnous.bsky.social · 12h

I wrote this blog about how feeling like a killjoy whenever I talk about GenAI.
refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/o...

On Being a GenAI Killjoy

Maggie Fernandes, University of Arkansas Photo by Maksim Romashkin on Pexels.com At a recent teaching talk about GenAI refusal, an audience member asked Megan, Jen, and me this question: how d…

refusinggenai.wordpress.com

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 14h

Another excellent AI thread. ⬇️ #EduSky

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 17h

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 9h

Wow

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 9h

EXTREMELY COOL BAT STUFF: A study out in Science today found that the greater noctule bat, Europe's largest, hunts and catches *migrating birds* while in flight. In at least one case, a bat climbed to more than 1200 feet, then chased a robin downward FAST until it caught it near the ground.

Greater noctule bats prey on and consume passerines in flight

Despite billions of passerines seasonally migrating during the night at high altitudes, only three bat species have been found to consistently tap into this rich prey resource. However, it remains unk...

www.science.org

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Sarah Robinson @sarahdesigns.bsky.social · 9h

I'm running some workshops in Shaftesbury, Dorset, in November. You can choose to print your own tote bag, fabric bunting, a print to frame, or some Christmas cards.
See photos for details & do message me if you're interested💚

Please share as I'd love to have some full classes!
#handmade #craft

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This is a montage of photos featuring printmaking inks, linocut materials and hand printed objects, advertising craft workshops. The text features the venue address, cost and times.

This text is a description of what to expect at the linocut workshops and what will be provided etc.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 10h

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 12h

Yes I've read all of those! He's great too.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15h

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 15h

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 12h

Many congratulations on your new book! @lejenksbrown.bsky.social

Very pleased to see this news from a student at the first secondary school I taught in! #EduSky

L E Jenks-Brown @lejenksbrown.bsky.social · 13h

My incredibly chonky book has been out in the world for two weeks!

Retell The Odyssey by making Odysseus’ choices for him. Or, don’t, and go home to Penelope/get cosy with Phaeacians/skive off to Egypt with Menelaus/die horribly in a variety of ways👌

laurajenkinsonbrown.co.uk/publications...

YOU ARE ODYSSEUS

OUT NOW! BUY PAPERBACK DIRECT (UK/US) Available in paperback and ebook. Go to links to order, by country Tell me, O Reader, of that resourceful man… Read and become Odysseus, the many-minded man, t…

laurajenkinsonbrown.co.uk

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 13h

I *really* want more reporting on this because the book was pretty heavily vetted by lawyers in advance of publication….

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 15h

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 20h

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 13h

I find the phrase itself weird personally but then I take issue with the whole learning = memory thing. I don't know why education insists on doing this thing where it hooks into one idea and then overdoes it.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14h

Astonishing advance by the Greens, astonishing implosion of Labour. When will Starmer's government get the message that it is destroying its base with deeply unpopular, rightwing policies?

By chasing Reform, it legitimises the far right while delegitimising itself.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16h

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Poll from find out now showing greens on 15 and labour and Tories on 17. Reform on 32.

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 13h

I don't know of any ordinary person who lists off 'our successes' stuff like that tbh. I wonder if they're freaking out at the popularity of the greens with their disillusioned voters on here?

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 13h

Just alerted the kid to that discord hack and he's like uh mum obviously I turn on my vpn if a site requires age verification. 😂🤷‍♀️

Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 13h

I was a bit taken aback at the way it reacted. I'm only guessing but I wonder if it's actually run by someone in the party/government?

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 13h

Just been listening to an interview with @anncleeves.bsky.social on the radio. Love these books!

Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 1d

Happy publication day to regular Orkney Library visitor
@anncleeves.bsky.social. The Killing Stones has just been published and features D.I. Jimmy Perez but now he has moved from Shetland to #Orkney!

It's less sassermaet and more fatty cuttie. #IYKYK

Available now from your local library.

The cover of The Killing Stones by Ann Cleeves

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