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submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

We feel greatly let down by today’s Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill. Ministers heard loud and clear that cuts to essential health and disability benefits would push many disabled people into poverty and further from work. 1/6

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

"We are excited to announce that the unit formerly known as the University Secretary's Office has been renamed to Governance, Compliance and Legal Services (GCLS)." Excited? Really?

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Patreon is raising the percentage it takes from new creators (again), from 8% to 10%, on August 4. People with existing Patreon pages get grandfathered into the old rate. If you're thinking about making a page, best to do it and publish it now.

submitted 6 days ago • 67 comments

In this episode of Pedagodzilla I'm well within my home territory as I'm talking to @mikecollins.bsky.social about The Magic Circle (in the Huizinga sense not the Ali Bongo sense). www.pedagodzilla.com/what-is-the-... Ably edited by @r3beccaf.bsky.social

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Warham Camp: The 2023 excavations at Warham Camp #HillfortsWednesday included wellbeing and art, including sessions by our new contributor Tony Quickenden, who has kindly uploaded some examples of his own artwork created on site.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Pro tip, folks: if you make a figure for a publication, don’t just hand the copyright over to the publisher. Post it on OSF first and then give yourself permission to use it in the first publication and then all future publications. That way, no permissions issues.

submitted 12 days ago • 17 comments

There's a latte trouble a-brewing! This week's episode is a little special. Mike tasks us with coming up with a 10 minute escape room ... and only gives us 20 minutes to do it! Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. linktr.ee/theinfinitee... #theinfiniteescaperoom #podcast #escaperoom

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I love the Microsoft inclusive persona spectrum graphic for accessibility. Since bartender and cataracts don’t fit my main audience of K12 education, I adapted it and thought I would share. @edusky.bsky.social #Edusky #a11y

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The schedule & abstracts for the 48th #CALRG Conference are now available! www.open.ac.uk/blogs/CALRG/... 📆16-19 June 2025 💻 Free, Online and open to all External to The Open University (UK), email us ([email protected]) for session links. #CALRG2025 #EdTech #DigitalEducation

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I think I'm going to use this in future whenever asked how I am feeling. I'm currently Suigen. Having been introduced to this wheel, I couldn't possibly by Sadsad.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

@markchilds.bsky.social - Well, that's your next blog post sorted

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

It's my Birthday tomorrow... what better way to celebrate then to release the first episode of Season 6? 😈 Part 53, "The Black Tower" is out NOW and let me just say... I have been waiting for this season since Part 1 😉 You are not prepared... pod.link/1525652021/e... #Malevolent

submitted 23 days ago • 19 comments

The Academia website has emailed me to say that their AI has created a 5-minute podcast of one of my papers. Sample 'Hmm. Have you ever wondered how much data universities handle? It’s wild.’

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

110 years ago today my grandfather entered the ruined city of Ypres. What he saw there made him abandon his normally terse diary writing style

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I digitised the 1914 book 'The Story of Church Street' by local journalist and historian John R. Spratling, who wrote under the pen name Giltspur. Enjoy! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

"a group of former university professors in Afghanistan has launched an all-women online university, offering a rare educational lifeline to thousands of girls barred from attending universities." amu.tv/171972/

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

110 years ago today, during WWI, my grandfather was gassed

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

We're HIRING an Editorial Officer to start in August 2025! 📅 Deadline for applications: 8 June 2025. If you're an academic passionate about open access publishing, we encourage you to apply. Fully remote position! cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/edit...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Fine sunny day sketching Q for Captain R More on the #LiverpoolScottish and sketching in the trenches 110 years ago on this day on the 1915 #WW1 #WesternFront at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/2...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Will be out soon: Communication in Language MOOCs Agnes Kukulska-Hulme, Fereshte Goshtasbpour, and Barbara Conde-Gafaro www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Showery day. On fatigue building bridge and communication trench More on the #LiverpoolScottish and on #internment in the UK on this day 110 years ago in 1915 #WW1 at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/05/18/1...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Eurovision gets so much better with sign language interpretation. Such a talented interpreter

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

The #FictionPodcastWeekly can tell it's spring because this edition has more meetups, live shows, summer residencies and internships. But, there's still plenty for the introverts. fiction-podcast-weekly.beehiiv.com/p/are-spotif...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Fine day which later turns out quite hot. Heavy firing away on the Right. Very little going on on our front towards evening numerous aeroplanes up allies + Germans they are heavily shelled several piece dropping near our dugout Relieved by[...] georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/05/12/1...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments