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Jenny Murray @missjgm.bsky.social · 17d

STEAM Garden as a Provocation Day 2 has started 🌱 @morayhouse.bsky.social @kdarlingmcq.bsky.social and @jhanc89.bsky.social sharing a warm welcome ❤️

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Jenny Murray @missjgm.bsky.social · 17d

A wonderful first session at our STEAM Garden as a provocation event at @morayhouse.bsky.social - a wonderful gathering of our widening community. Thank you @l0ur0col.bsky.social @kdarlingmcq.bsky.social @jhanc89.bsky.social for creating such a special opportunity for thinking and reframing. 🌱🎨💭

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Carol Campbell @profcarolcampbell.bsky.social · 17d

Interesting event and thoughtful discussion at “STEAM garden as provocation” @morayhouse.bsky.social How does the metaphor of a garden provoke your thoughts about connections to education?

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Prof Bob Davis @rokewood.bsky.social · May 23

More than 20 years old & still an engrossing read, where you encounter the man as well as the philosopher. #AlasdairMacIntyre RIP
@pesgb.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/jope/article...

Alasdair MacIntyre on Education: In Dialogue with Joseph Dunne

Abstract. This discussion begins from the dilemma, posed in some earlier writing by Alasdair MacIntyre, that education is essential but also, in current ec

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Prof Laura Colucci-Gray @l0ur0col.bsky.social · May 22

What kind of 'educational' research is quietly happening when teachers respond to students, make judgement in complex situations, say yes or no to pressures they face? Stewart Allan Robertson Lecture with Professor Gert Biesta, Steve McLeister, Jenny Murray, Alison Adams. "https://lnkd.in/eGv65UKS

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Prof Laura Colucci-Gray @l0ur0col.bsky.social · May 21

So the question is no longer about reversing the trouble but sitting with it... It makes us think again about education and its purposes.

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · May 21

🌍🧊 Glacier losses locked in

A new study shows that even if we overshoot 1.5 °C and cool back down, glacier melt and reduced runoff will continue for centuries – some changes are irreversible.

🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#SciComm #ClimateChange #Glaciers 🧪

Irreversible glacier change and trough water for centuries after overshooting 1.5 °C - Nature Climate Change

How mountain glaciers will react to temporarily overshooting 1.5 °C of warming is poorly understood. Here the authors show irreversible global glacier loss for centuries after overshoot, implying long...

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Prof Laura Colucci-Gray @l0ur0col.bsky.social · May 21

Happy to share this work seeking to touch new dimensions in citizen science. An experiment across sciences and the arts. Thank you to Laura Koetzler and Claire Ramjan editors of the special issue for the opportunity!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘To touch is to know': haptic inquiry for primary school citizen science

Drawing on insights from the transdisciplinary project ‘SENSE: Sensory Explorations of Nature in School Environments’, this paper articulates a novel approach that addresses current calls for meani...

www.tandfonline.com

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Prof Laura Colucci-Gray @l0ur0col.bsky.social · Mar 25

Transformations in teacher education: being in and being-with the world #STEAM @morayhouse.bsky.social

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Prof Laura Colucci-Gray @l0ur0col.bsky.social · Mar 8

Yours... Or the loch's...?

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Prof Laura Colucci-Gray @l0ur0col.bsky.social · Mar 8

Yours or the loch's...

Prof Laura Colucci-Gray @l0ur0col.bsky.social · Feb 27

Thank you Betzabe'! I loved writing it, and it was written with love...

Prof Laura Colucci-Gray @l0ur0col.bsky.social · Feb 27

It took a bit of time to elaborate these ideas in science education,but here we are, Carbon plunging into the realm of the changeable. Mini special issue with Gert Biesta, Elisabet Lengman and Stefano Oliveiro on World-Centred Education journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Carbon entanglements: For a science education in the space of the sensible - Laura Colucci-Gray, 2025

In the face of current socio-environmental challenges, the linear logic of cause and effect that has been the pillar of modern Western science has proved insuff...

journals.sagepub.com

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Prof Laura Colucci-Gray @l0ur0col.bsky.social · Feb 8

tecnoscienza.unibo.it/article/view... grateful for this opportunity to work with doctoral students and with soil to explore education in slow mode....

Beyond Crisis Talk: Making Time for Re-Searching New Narratives of Human Relations With Soil | Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies

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Prof Laura Colucci-Gray @l0ur0col.bsky.social · Jan 24

🌍The SENSE.STEAM Report showcases innovative methods from 13 STEAM Labs across Europe, tackling inclusion, equality, climate change, etc.
Findings coming through here:

📥 shorturl.at/wYpZx

D4.3_SENSE_Report on the SENSE.STEAM evaluation of the four specific areas.pdf

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Prof Laura Colucci-Gray @l0ur0col.bsky.social · Jan 3

An interesting read on the critical relationship between technology and human labour. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Hidden human costs of AI

A sociologist interrogates the invisible labor that underlies “autonomous” systems

www.science.org

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Prof Laura Colucci-Gray @l0ur0col.bsky.social · Jan 2

An unusual shot. Interesting to see the presence of the horses in the photograph.

Dr Paul Hamilton @drpham.bsky.social · Jan 1

German and Italian prisoners of war at Newburgh, Fife, 1943; based at the nearby Ladybank camp, these prisoners would have stopped for a break during woodcutting.

(Image: NMS)

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Pat Thomson @patthomson.bsky.social · Jan 1

I’m making a comeback by explaining why I stopped blogging patthomson.net/2025/01/01/p...

Patter is back

Patter has been missing in action since the end of August. A bad case of blogging burn-out you might ask? Well, yes that’s true. I have been writing this patter thing for twelve years and I did hav…

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Prof Laura Colucci-Gray @l0ur0col.bsky.social · Dec 29

Yes, I read it too. Extremely well written and well researched. So many interesting connections across times we have never been told about...

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Prof Laura Colucci-Gray @l0ur0col.bsky.social · Dec 20

If it is true that the Outcomes are going out in CfE, then we may bring the Earth in. Sharing a few thoughts and practice here: idlnetwork.substack.com/p/parkes-obs...

Parkes Observatory, 1969

by Professor Laura Colucci-Gray

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Prof Laura Colucci-Gray @l0ur0col.bsky.social · Dec 20

Sharing a moment of contemplation...

Nick Hood @sptr.net · Dec 20

A superb read for you from Prof. Laura Colucci-Gray (@l0ur0col.bsky.social) on approaching interdisciplinary teaching and learning in a time of curriculum change. This is for all educators -- enjoy, and have a great break. More coming from the IDL Network in the New Year! #IDL #curriculum #reform

Parkes Observatory, 1969

by Professor Laura Colucci-Gray

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Prof Laura Colucci-Gray @l0ur0col.bsky.social · Dec 18

Gosh! Me too...but after that, feet up!

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Prof Laura Colucci-Gray @l0ur0col.bsky.social · Dec 9

Sharing an adventure in citizen science and AI; not as bad as I thought! The dialogue across disciplines brings problems into perspective. Sharma et al. Image Recognition as a “Dialogic AI Partner” Within Biodiversity Citizen Science theoryandpractice.citizenscienceassociation.org/articles/10....

Image Recognition as a “Dialogic AI Partner” Within Biodiversity Citizen Science—an empirical investigation | Citizen Science: Theory and Practice

Citizen Science: Theory and Practice (CSTP) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed publication focused on the global field of citizen science and other participatory sciences. It provides a venue to...

theoryandpractice.citizenscienceassociation.org

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Donald Gray @dsg01.bsky.social · Dec 6

What is the real toll of natural and climate disasters? Science has staggering new answers
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What is the real toll of natural and climate disasters? Science has staggering new answers | Devi Sridhar

New research challenges us to look beyond the initial event to the devastating long-term impacts. Governments must take note, says public health expert Devi Sridhar

www.theguardian.com

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