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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 22h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Darren Macey @darrenmacey.bsky.social · 1d

This can only end well… 🤦

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 1d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Darren Macey @darrenmacey.bsky.social · 1d

Hmmm, why is the telegraph promising me a good time…?

Gimme some more of that sweet sweet progressivism…

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Our movement is living rent free in the heads of Telegraph journalists at the moment.

Join me in being ‘a threat to the right that they never saw coming’.

join.greenparty.org.uk

The greens may be the threat that the right never saw coming.

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Darren Macey @darrenmacey.bsky.social · 1d

You've got just a few days left to enter our #infographic competition, open to any student aged 11-16 in #Scotland. More information here: rss.org.uk/RSS/media/8....
#StatsInTheWild

Darren Macey @darrenmacey.bsky.social · 1d

This is just a flavour of our full set of design principles.

Check out the resources and let us know what you think. Would you recommend the resources to another teacher? Do our design principles come across in the materials?

Darren Macey @darrenmacey.bsky.social · 1d

Finally, we carefully considered the ways that we are representing #maths the discipline in our materials, taking care not to reinforce harmful stereotypes and actively seeking to connect maths to creativity, joy, and wonder while explicitly considering the social and ethical implications of it.

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Darren Macey @darrenmacey.bsky.social · 1d

Supporting teacher agency is another key principle. We designed the materials to be flexible, carefully wording ideas as suggestions for action to be adapted by teachers to suit their needs.

Student agency is also important to us & the resources encourage students to experiment & play.

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Darren Macey @darrenmacey.bsky.social · 1d

Alongside this is a commitment to equity & accessibility. We designed our materials according to a set of published guidelines, again informed by research.

We also worked with an excellent graphic designer @wmarler.bsky.social who helped with accessibility:
www.cambridgemaths.org/Images/65181...

www.cambridgemaths.org

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Darren Macey @darrenmacey.bsky.social · 1d

First comes research & evidence. We reviewed stats education research & also research from other subjects relevant to the context of biology & ecology, & aligned our resources to recommendations. Broadly these were: Real or realistic data; active learning; embed technology; & prioritise analysis.

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Darren Macey @darrenmacey.bsky.social · 1d

Have you seen our new #statistics #education resources for #MathsWeekScotland?

Our #StatsInTheWild classroom activities were produced with specific design principles in place. Check out the resources here and read on for more about how we made them!

rss.org.uk/resources/ed...

Stats in the wild

As part of Maths Week Scotland 2025, Dr Lucy Rycroft-Smith and Darren Macey have produced a set of bespoke evidence-based resources for exploring statistics using outdoor maths. Each set of resources…

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Darren Macey @darrenmacey.bsky.social · 1d

Not to mention the whole trans-inclusive vibe…

Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch says her favourite author is Terry Pratchett. One wonders what draws her to the Discworld. The Vimes Boots theory of inequality? The celebration of diversity in Ankh Morpork? The lesson that those who claim to have the answers are not to be trusted?
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

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Dr Lucy Rycroft-Smith @honeypisquared.bsky.social · 2d

You've got just a few days left to enter our infographic competition, open to any student aged 11-16 in #Scotland. More information here: rss.org.uk/RSS/media/8....

#MathsWeekScot

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Darren Macey @darrenmacey.bsky.social · 2d

Turns out reform don’t have a clue…who knew…?

Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 2d

How it started etc

Darren Grimes says reform will cut waste in Durham

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 4d

That she's cool as fuck?

Leviathan @l3vlat4an
X.com
Greta Thunberg donned a keffiyeh with an
"AUTISM" T-shirt that included an image of a skeleton dual wielding automatic rifles before she left on her flotilla.
What do you think she was trying to convey with this t-shirt?
AUTISM

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Darren Macey @darrenmacey.bsky.social · 2d

Are you a student in #Scotland?

You could enter our infographic competition & win a lovely bundle of books related to maths, stats, biology & fiction by Scottish authors.
Closing date 10th October at midnight. Enter here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please share! #MathsWeekScot

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 3d

We can all agree that the attack on the Synagogue in Manchester was terrorism

So why is setting a Mosque alight just 'arson' and a 'hate crime' and also not terrorism?

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Dr Lucy Rycroft-Smith @honeypisquared.bsky.social · 3d

Friends! We got to interview the excellent @cristinacost.bsky.social about #AI in #education and it was the perfect antidote to the vague, hype-filled nonsense that seems to be everywhere right now. ⬇️

Darren Macey @darrenmacey.bsky.social · 4d

Our latest #AI in #Education interview is now up on YouTube.

This time we chat about issues of critical education with Dr Cristina Costa, Associate Professor (Digital futures and education) at Durham University.

AI in Education: Interview with Dr Cristina Costa

Dr Lucy Rycroft-Smith and Darren Macey interview Dr Cristina Costa, Associate Professor (Digital Society and Education) at Durham University, about AI in education. In this issue we discussed themes…

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a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 3d

the right to peaceful protest (even when you don’t like the cause or the protestors or how often they do it) is not a gap in the law, it’s called living in a free democratic state.

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 4d

Home Secretary tells Sky News that “there is a gap in the law” when it comes to frequent, repeated protests on the same issue. Hence she will be giving police greater powers to move them to another location or time.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 4d

"Our credible plan is also an acrostic."

(This is, genuinely, the actual Conservative press release.)

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Darren Macey @darrenmacey.bsky.social · 4d

Are you a student in #Scotland?

You could enter our infographic competition & win a lovely bundle of books related to maths, stats, biology & fiction by Scottish authors.
Closing date 10th October at midnight. Enter here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please share! #MathsWeekScot

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Darren Macey @darrenmacey.bsky.social · 4d

And right now the only antidote is @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the greens.

Whether you agree with their policies or not the Green Party is absolutely fundamental to the future health of British politics in this climate

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 4d

British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies.

Reform says something unhinged
⬇️
Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
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Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
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Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
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And repeat...🔁

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Mark Thomas @markthomasinfo.bsky.social · 4d

Typical Labour bring in a disproportionate stupid law and when people protest it, make the protest illegal.

Guardian front page , photo of a group of cops in hi viz and wearing blue surgical gloves somewhere in central London. Headline reads “police to get new power to crack down repeated protests, says Home Secretary.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d

This is grim & dangerous over reach.

This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent.

Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.

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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 4d

Wish I could say I was shocked, but here's the Labour government constraining the right to peaceful protest again...

'You can protest but only according to our rules. The rules are: you're not allowed to use any of the tactics that make protest effective.'

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.

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