Drew Thomson-Jones
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Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.
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If you’re confused about which way the clocks go in which season, here’s an easy mnemonic:
SPRING: your phone will do it for you
FALL: your phone will do it for you
SPRING: your phone will do it for you
FALL: your phone will do it for you
October 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
If you’re confused about which way the clocks go in which season, here’s an easy mnemonic:
SPRING: your phone will do it for you
FALL: your phone will do it for you
SPRING: your phone will do it for you
FALL: your phone will do it for you
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Lads the HONK I just honked
August 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Lads the HONK I just honked
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🎉 Steplab Summer Reads #4
Win a copy of "Developing Expert Teaching" by Peps Mccrea—plus a Steplab bundle (mug, pen & notepad)!
Peps is Steplab’s Director of Education & author of the "High Impact Teaching" series.
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August 4, 2025 at 8:03 AM
🎉 Steplab Summer Reads #4
Win a copy of "Developing Expert Teaching" by Peps Mccrea—plus a Steplab bundle (mug, pen & notepad)!
Peps is Steplab’s Director of Education & author of the "High Impact Teaching" series.
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These girls and everything they stand for - what a great message for young people 💙
July 29, 2025 at 12:37 PM
These girls and everything they stand for - what a great message for young people 💙
Really pleased I could get to the parade at The Mall - fabulous celebration of a brilliantly united team. Some powerful messages, and simply being there and feeling that excitement will have meant a lot to so many (esp young girls aspiring for greatness!)
July 29, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Really pleased I could get to the parade at The Mall - fabulous celebration of a brilliantly united team. Some powerful messages, and simply being there and feeling that excitement will have meant a lot to so many (esp young girls aspiring for greatness!)
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![Comic. [3-column table with headers Period, My Favorite Part, and My Biggest Complaint] [Row 1] P: *Precambrian*, MFP: Life develops, MBC: Snowball Earth episodes [Row 2] P: Cambrian, MFP: Trilobites!, MBC: Evolution could stand to calm down a little [Row 3] P: Ordovician, MFP: Earth might have had rings, MBC: Scary volcanic eruption in North America [Row 4] P: Silurian, MFP: First land animals, MBC: Earth’s newfound mold problem [Row 5] P: Devonian, MFP: Big mountains in Boston, MBC: Yeah, sure, what those giant killer fish needed was *armor* [Row 6] P: Carboniferous, MFP: Cool forests, MBC: Bugs too big [Row 7] P: Permian, MFP: Pangea, MBC: Google “The Great Dying” [Row 8] P: Triassic, MFP: Tanystropheus [dinosaur with extremely long neck next to tiny person for scale], MBC: Damage to Canada still visible from space at Manicouagan [Row 9] P: Jurassic, MFP: Birds, MBC: Parasitoid wasps [Row 10] P: Cretaceous, MFP: Raptors, MBC: Raptors [Row 11] P: Paleogene, MFP: Pretty horseys!!!, MBC: Paleocene-eocene thermal maximum [Row 12] P: Neogene, MFP: Forests of *Dracaena* Dragonblood Trees, MBC: Zanclean Flood [Row 13] P: Quaternary, MFP: Burrito invented, MBC: Whoever picked this name for the third period of the Cenozoic](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreifyh56h2dhfnxxuarc6hspobseq6jzurt7mnkuo3dkvlkyrw6e76i@jpeg)
July 28, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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This is England!
July 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This is England!
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Absolutely fascinating piece about the cluster of underlying beliefs that make people hold onto education myths.
*NEW POST* The Enduring Persistence of Neuromyths in Education
A new study surveying over 3,000 Spanish teachers provides one of the most detailed snapshots to date.
Fantastic work from @juanfernandez.bsky.social @ferreromar.bsky.social and colleagues
open.substack.com/pub/carlhend...
A new study surveying over 3,000 Spanish teachers provides one of the most detailed snapshots to date.
Fantastic work from @juanfernandez.bsky.social @ferreromar.bsky.social and colleagues
open.substack.com/pub/carlhend...
Beyond Neuromyths: Why Teachers Still Embrace Ideas That Don't Work
A new study surveying over 3,000 Spanish teachers, offers the most comprehensive picture yet of educational misconceptions in the wild.
open.substack.com
July 20, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Absolutely fascinating piece about the cluster of underlying beliefs that make people hold onto education myths.
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Hard to finish the week (and the term for some of us) with anything other than the news that 16 year olds will have the vote at the next GE. That means with the exception of a few summer born Yr7s. Every secondary age child now will be eligible in July 2029.
bit.ly/TutorGroupThink
bit.ly/TutorGroupThink
July 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Hard to finish the week (and the term for some of us) with anything other than the news that 16 year olds will have the vote at the next GE. That means with the exception of a few summer born Yr7s. Every secondary age child now will be eligible in July 2029.
bit.ly/TutorGroupThink
bit.ly/TutorGroupThink
www.tes.com/magazine/new...
I actually don’t think I’ve had an AI generated complaint (that I’m aware of, and I deal with plenty!) Lots of AI generated job applications, and more time spent on student (mis)use of AI with NEA work.
Not sure of solution w/ complaints - need that avenue open.
I actually don’t think I’ve had an AI generated complaint (that I’m aware of, and I deal with plenty!) Lots of AI generated job applications, and more time spent on student (mis)use of AI with NEA work.
Not sure of solution w/ complaints - need that avenue open.
Schools face ‘unsustainable’ rise in AI-generated complaints
Parents’ use of AI in making complaints means schools are having to deal with complex letters loaded with references to the law, leaders warn
www.tes.com
July 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
www.tes.com/magazine/new...
I actually don’t think I’ve had an AI generated complaint (that I’m aware of, and I deal with plenty!) Lots of AI generated job applications, and more time spent on student (mis)use of AI with NEA work.
Not sure of solution w/ complaints - need that avenue open.
I actually don’t think I’ve had an AI generated complaint (that I’m aware of, and I deal with plenty!) Lots of AI generated job applications, and more time spent on student (mis)use of AI with NEA work.
Not sure of solution w/ complaints - need that avenue open.
The world is a large scale mess of jiggling things, if you look at it right
Love Feynman and his neverending enthusiasm!
youtu.be/P1ww1IXRfTA?...
Love Feynman and his neverending enthusiasm!
youtu.be/P1ww1IXRfTA?...
The complete FUN TO IMAGINE with Richard Feynman
YouTube video by Christopher Sykes
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June 29, 2025 at 9:18 AM
The world is a large scale mess of jiggling things, if you look at it right
Love Feynman and his neverending enthusiasm!
youtu.be/P1ww1IXRfTA?...
Love Feynman and his neverending enthusiasm!
youtu.be/P1ww1IXRfTA?...
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Dreaming of a career in polar science? ❄️
Applications are OPEN for our Virtual Summer Work Experience Week 2025! 23 to 30 July 2025
📆 Apply by 4 July to snag your spot!
#STEM #PolarScience #Antarctica #WorkExperience #FutureScientists
Applications are OPEN for our Virtual Summer Work Experience Week 2025! 23 to 30 July 2025
📆 Apply by 4 July to snag your spot!
#STEM #PolarScience #Antarctica #WorkExperience #FutureScientists
June 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Dreaming of a career in polar science? ❄️
Applications are OPEN for our Virtual Summer Work Experience Week 2025! 23 to 30 July 2025
📆 Apply by 4 July to snag your spot!
#STEM #PolarScience #Antarctica #WorkExperience #FutureScientists
Applications are OPEN for our Virtual Summer Work Experience Week 2025! 23 to 30 July 2025
📆 Apply by 4 July to snag your spot!
#STEM #PolarScience #Antarctica #WorkExperience #FutureScientists
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![4-panel comic. (1) PERSON 1: This stick is one meter long. PERSON 2 WITH SHORT HAIR: Cool. PERSON 3 WITH WHITE HAT: That’s a nice stick. (2) PERSON 1: This rock weighs one pound. PERSON 2: I’d believe it. PERSON 3: Looks like a normal rock. (3) PERSON 1: This battery is one volt. PERSON 2: Seems fine. PERSON 3: Might need a recharge. (4) PERSON 1: This capacitor is one farad. [2 and 3 leaning away attempting to shield themselves] PERSON 2: *AAAAA! Be careful!!* Person 3: Put it down!!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreih7d3cewqllnapj5oi7cdxjj6qentr2s3tdbijwaik7shmbtrxiji@jpeg)
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![Comic. [planets and astronomical bodies in various shapes with comments pointing to them] Typical Exoplanet System: Giant planet orbiting so close that it’s actually rolling on the star’s surface; Hot Jupiter; Mini Neptune; Planet that could be habitable, if there’s a form of life that hates water but loves acid and being on fire; Cold Jupiter; Potentially habitable void; Hot Mars; Planet that may actually be in the habitable zone, according to a very optimistic modeling paper by some desperate postdocs; There’s a pulsar here but it’s probably fine; A waterworld paradise with beautiful oceans and warm— Wait, no, we just got new measurements, it’s a hellish steam oven; Mini Pluto; Earthlike data artifact; Wet Saturn; Either a gas giant or a fist-sized rock, depending which calibration method you use; Faint dust cloud that will cause several papers to be retracted; Somehow this whole system is smaller than the orbit of Mercury?!; Planet whose surface may host conditions suitable for rocks](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiarfi2ggmv32pbpagsawnfvq3qpvww6qnptusklp2skmj7dqclewm@jpeg)
June 20, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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I don't know exactly what it means that my quintessential early-adopter uncle is only halfheartedly talking about the potential of AI, mainly just because it's the new tech thing & he's the new tech guy, while my Luddite father is now using ChatGPT daily, but it feels both significant & not good
June 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I don't know exactly what it means that my quintessential early-adopter uncle is only halfheartedly talking about the potential of AI, mainly just because it's the new tech thing & he's the new tech guy, while my Luddite father is now using ChatGPT daily, but it feels both significant & not good
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Tweaked slightly for simplicity. Now submitted.
I created a Minute Cryptic for you to solve: Untruth in official Parthenon sculpture. (6)
Give it your best shot!
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I created a Minute Cryptic for you to solve: Untruth in official Parthenon sculpture. (6)
Give it your best shot!
www.minutecryptic.com/custom/70a63...
June 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Tweaked slightly for simplicity. Now submitted.
I created a Minute Cryptic for you to solve: Untruth in official Parthenon sculpture. (6)
Give it your best shot!
www.minutecryptic.com/custom/70a63...
I created a Minute Cryptic for you to solve: Untruth in official Parthenon sculpture. (6)
Give it your best shot!
www.minutecryptic.com/custom/70a63...
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7. Plan those lessons. Write those reports. Write those emails and mark those tests. All these things are processes which change us. If there's no point don't get AI to do it. Just don't do it. Make time for humans to do the important things.
June 11, 2025 at 4:59 AM
7. Plan those lessons. Write those reports. Write those emails and mark those tests. All these things are processes which change us. If there's no point don't get AI to do it. Just don't do it. Make time for humans to do the important things.
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Uriah Rennie, first black referee in Premier League, dies aged 65
Uriah Rennie, first black referee in Premier League, dies aged 65
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Trailblazing official battled rare neurological condition
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Rennie oversaw more than 300 top-flight matches
Uriah Rennie, the first black Premier League referee, has died at the age of 65. The Jamaica-born official grew up in Sheffield and oversaw more than 300 top-flight matches, starting with his breakthrough appointment as Derby hosted Wimbledon in August 1997. The game was, however, abandoned due to floodlight failure.
The Sheffield and Hallamshire County Football Association posted on X: “We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of our former chair and trailblazing referee, Uriah Rennie. Uriah made history as the Premier League’s first black referee, officiating over 300 top-flight matches between 1997 and 2008. He broke down barriers, shaped our football community and inspired generations to come. Our thoughts are with Uriah’s family and friends at this difficult time.” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
June 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Uriah Rennie, first black referee in Premier League, dies aged 65
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Such a brilliant read- timely reminder for us all
I wrote this about how to read and why.
Books remain the best technology ever invented to understand life and the world. There is no alternative.
Every book you read helps you build a richer picture of the entire world.
jmarriott.substack.com/p/how-i-read
Books remain the best technology ever invented to understand life and the world. There is no alternative.
Every book you read helps you build a richer picture of the entire world.
jmarriott.substack.com/p/how-i-read
How to read and why
I love reading and I love advice about how to read.
jmarriott.substack.com
June 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Such a brilliant read- timely reminder for us all
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I'm pretty angry about how these have been pushed on kids and families but once it's been done I don't think banning works as the kid has become affected by placebo and nocebo. I think the best position is "we won't facilitate this for kids who haven't got them already and here's why.."
June 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I'm pretty angry about how these have been pushed on kids and families but once it's been done I don't think banning works as the kid has become affected by placebo and nocebo. I think the best position is "we won't facilitate this for kids who haven't got them already and here's why.."
Super thread. Thanks for sharing, Laura.
The privilege of being straight is that you never have to look for these symbols. You don’t have to wait for someone to clock you or your partner, and wait to see how they’ll react.
It is easy when you’ve had that privilege to eye-roll about symbolism and how unnecessary it feels…
It is easy when you’ve had that privilege to eye-roll about symbolism and how unnecessary it feels…
For noen kan et lite regnbueflagg bety at vi føler oss tryggere. Man ser flagget og tenker; « her kan jeg passe inn»
En enkel måte å vite at jeg også blir satt pris på.
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Oslo Pride🌈
En enkel måte å vite at jeg også blir satt pris på.
Veldig fin video
Oslo Pride🌈
May 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Super thread. Thanks for sharing, Laura.