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ALTUK.bsky.social @altuk.bsky.social · 5d

Discover how sector networks can supercharge your impact in digital education. Dive into Laura Milne’s inspiring #ALTC25 blog on the ALT community and the power of collaboration. Read the full blog here: buff.ly/X1kNYBi #altc

Learning connections: the power of sector networks to make a difference

(especially for conference newcomers) When first I heard about ALT, I was amazed – a whole community of people like me, who geek out about the kinds of things I geek out about, and who get ex…

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Dr Kathleen Cronie @kathleencronie.bsky.social · 7d

October is Menopause Awareness Month - here are some of the events and opportunities I'm running for singers, speakers, teachers and other voice users on Menopausal Voice Change. More info and contact via www.kathleencronie.com

#menopause #voice #singing #menopauseawarenessmonth #menopausal #choir

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Professor Julie Hulme @juliehulme-psyc.bsky.social · 19d

Such a fab day with @emilynordmann.bsky.social and her wonderful colleagues at Glasgow Uni. Talked about my favourite things - #scholarship and #disability #inclusion and had some fascinating conversations. Thanks everyone!! 🥰

Emily Nordmann (left) and Julie Hulme (right) at the University of Glasgow.

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Prof. Emily Nordmann @emilynordmann.bsky.social · 23d

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I read this and enjoyed it and then I read a review that said it's designed to be read twice (it's 47 pages) and it's true and was even better the second time.

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Prof. Emily Nordmann @emilynordmann.bsky.social · Sep 7

I don't think this is helping the Cairngorms case 😅

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Prof. Emily Nordmann @emilynordmann.bsky.social · Sep 7

I will make a map of routes that mention woodland and forest 🌲🌲🌲

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Prof. Emily Nordmann @emilynordmann.bsky.social · Sep 7

Obsession continues w/ requested updates. Analysis by user rating & no of people who have climbed each Munro, non-natural features (bothy, toilet) & the "best" & "worst" Munros.

www.emilynordmann.com/post/2025-08...

cc: @walkhighlands.co.uk @highlandhorizons.bsky.social @penarthkate.bsky.social

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Prof. Emily Nordmann @emilynordmann.bsky.social · Sep 4

This manuscript will be a chapter in the upcoming book "Teaching Open Science" edited by @maddipow.bsky.social and @drcpennington.bsky.social which I am fully delighted to be a part of 🎉

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Prof. Emily Nordmann @emilynordmann.bsky.social · Sep 4

Glad to be able to share new preprint on how to make supervising dissertation projects more open and efficient with secondary data, open data, and evidence synthesis with Ashley Robertson, @amcreaven.bsky.social, Elayne Ahern, and @katebutton.bsky.social

🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps...

#AcademicSky

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Prof. Emily Nordmann @emilynordmann.bsky.social · Sep 2

Ohhhhh. Well there goes my evening.

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Prof. Emily Nordmann @emilynordmann.bsky.social · Sep 2

Unfortunately, I think the rating is encoded as an image (picture of number of stars) and I wasn't able to scrape that info in a way that gave me a number ;/

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Prof. Emily Nordmann @emilynordmann.bsky.social · Sep 2

Did I get obsessed with the Munro #TidyTuesday and go on a @walkhighlands.co.uk deep dive (gratefully with their consent)?

Yes.

Did I have to migrate my website from Hugo to Quarto to make interactive plots work?

Yes.

Was it worth it?

Yes.

Code & more at www.emilynordmann.com/post/2025-08...

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · Aug 29

Agree. I dislike how people use an overflowing inbox as an excuse to avoid responding to reasonable work requests. A lot of work is still conducted over email.

Emma Kennedy @emmakeddev.bsky.social · Aug 29

I know everyone loves a good protest against overcrowded inboxes, but if I receive an out of office that actually says "I'll delete all my emails", unless it's parental leave or a similarly long period, I just won't be resending my email to you, sorry. Your inbox is yours to manage, not mine!

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Steve Most @sbmost.bsky.social · Aug 24

“James, another signatory, said “the only thing that makes the information we learn from university any different from what we can gather online by ourselves is the in-person lectures performed by actual professors in our fields of study”.”

Adelaide University students and staff to stage sit-in over ‘travesty’ of fewer in-person lectures

Students unhappy about lack of course choice and flexibility, as they await clarification about which subjects will move online

www.theguardian.com

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · Aug 24

We don’t just scroll—we learn while scrolling. This “incidental learning” can shape what we know, believe, and even how we act. Sometimes useful, sometimes risky (hello, misinformation). What have you learned incidentally lately?
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

A Model of Technology Incidental Learning Effects - Educational Psychology Review

Increases in technology use, among youth and adults, are concerning given the volume of information produced and disseminated in the modern world. Conceptual models have been developed to understand…

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · Aug 24

So…there’s, like, a whole area of motivation research about how motivation doesn’t necessarily need to come from interest (e.g., productive, autonomous extrinsic motivation, how to productively regulate one’s motivation, etc.). It’s not a new thing, either. selfdeterminationtheory.org/theory/

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Paul Kirschner @paulkirschner.bsky.social · Aug 24

For the umpteenth time and for the umpteenth reason, handwriting is better than typing. #EduSky
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · Aug 24

I'm no Cassandra, but I've been exploring this alternative to GS if the Sentient AI Overlords pull the plug on GS. It's this and it is, currently, terrible: openalex.org

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Henrik Singmann @singmann.bsky.social · Aug 24

A new afex update is now on CRAN. it's mostly a maintenance update dealing with a bug in pbkrtest and preparing for the next major releases of ggplot2 and lme4.

CRAN Package Updates Bot @cranberriesfeed.bsky.social · Aug 24

CRAN updates: afex #rstats

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Prof. Emily Nordmann @emilynordmann.bsky.social · Aug 24

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First Murakami novel, he is a bit weird isn't he. I thought it was excellent but also it took me longer to read than it should given the length so it gets docked a star for not compelling me to read.

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Prof. Emily Nordmann @emilynordmann.bsky.social · Aug 22

Amazing Tidy Tuesday for the venn diagram of data nerds and baggers - check out the hashtag #tidytuesday for more graphical munro magic.

Cc @walkhighlands.co.uk

Jessica Moore @jessimoore.bsky.social · Aug 22

Learned a bit of Gaelic for this week's #tidytuesday. There are many names and variations of names for "mountain", "hill", "peak", "point", etc. I used this site to help me classify them: cuhwc.org.uk/resources/me...

Code: jessjep.github.io/blog/posts/t...

#ggplot2 #dataviz

One chart shows the height distributions of Scottish Munros and Munro Tops by their Gaelic name (Stob, Carn, Beinn, Sgurr and Meall). Stobs are tallest, on average, but have a wide distribution of different heights. In comparison, mealls are the shortest and tend to all be of a similar height.

The second chart shows the number of munros/munro tops by each name type. Beinns are most common and are usually munros rather than munro tops. Carns are second most common and are around 50% munros and 50% munro tops.

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Prof. Emily Nordmann @emilynordmann.bsky.social · Aug 22

I've just realised that it was a Tidy Tuesday topic, I had managed to miss this. There's the weekend!

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Prof. Emily Nordmann @emilynordmann.bsky.social · Aug 19

Love it 😍

We've done 58 as of this weekend - we won't get them all because some are too scary but aiming for 250.

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Prof. Emily Nordmann @emilynordmann.bsky.social · Aug 18

I have used my real name as my username for many years across almost every platform because it stops me being (too much of) an arsehole on the internet and I decided forced inhibition was worth the risk 😅

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Prof. Emily Nordmann @emilynordmann.bsky.social · Aug 16

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Ridiculous but fun. Should have been 100 pages shorter as usual.

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