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Physics Teacher (England and now Aotearoa New Zealand #NZEd #UKEd) Technical-co-founder @teachertapp.bsky.com Software dev for 12 years and teacher for 12. Love music, the sky, and my new antipodean home. Also on mastodon and no longer on twitter.
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Good news! Most teachers who requested flexible working had their requests approved ✅ Only 16% of female teachers and 14% of male teachers had their requests denied outright.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Love this. In his “I Agree” installation Dima Yarovinsky-Yahel took the content from terms of service statements for companies like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Tinder and printed them out on A4 paper with a standard font size for legal contracts to demonstrate the length of these agreements.

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments

Who can tell me something that's improving... all seems gloomy or much worse. I'm keeping myself mentally healthy by removing all social media off my phone and listening to music that gives me a harmonic hug to soothe my brain & playing music with others over the last month - humanity FTW.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

submitted 3 days ago • 70 comments

Tennis Balls xkcd.com/3080

submitted 6 days ago • 81 comments

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

submitted 6 days ago • 610 comments

Very good Corey Doctorow summary/review of Sarah Wynn-Williams’s excellent and important new book Careless People about her years working as a senior executive for Zuckerberg and other very horrible people running Facebook/Meta. doctorow.medium.com/sarah-wynn-w...

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

My iPad has started playing Beautiful South with no apps open. Erm.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

🔴 Remember Aria, the “moonshot" research agency dreamed up by Dominic Cummings? It's funded by £800m in public money but exempt from FOI laws We decided to fight for transparency... and we won 🎉 New on Democracy for Sale w/ @lucasamin.bsky.social democracyforsale.substack.com/p/dominic-cu...

submitted 7 days ago • 34 comments

Sometimes you just have to say what you see ... youtube.com/shorts/cE0w6...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I keep thinking I'll try using ChatGPT for something it's good at, e.g. text processing. But I've hit upon the 'no concept of truth or accuracy' problem.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

I know everyone's going to love this and I don't want to spoil the fun but it's illiberal. I'm sorry. I know. But it is. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 7 days ago • 410 comments

Today @teachertapp.bsky.social publish our 2025 report on the state of teacher recruitment and retention in England — in partnership with School Dash and funded by @gatsbyed.bsky.social . A few key takeaways 👇 teachertapp.com/app/uploads/...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

This puts that chap's curlew costume to shame.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

This puts that chap's curlew costume to shame.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

If your best argument against doing something is polling, then you have no argument.

submitted 9 days ago • 58 comments

This is the BBC that was quite happy to steer into public controversy with gas guzzling cars on one of its most popular TV show of the 2000 and 2010s.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Kenyan #journalist Alvin Kaunda was reporting live from Nairobi when a curious baby #elephant, Kindani, decided to join the broadcast. The playful elephant stuck her trunk in Alvin's mouth, making for a hilarious moment! A joyful reminder of wildlife's charm and the work of the Sheldrick Trust!

submitted 11 days ago • 442 comments

This picture is concerning. The planet is much closer to us than I thought.

submitted 12 days ago • 373 comments

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submitted 12 days ago • 11 comments

SCOOP: Internal Palantir Slack messages obtained by @josephcox.bsky.social show the company did a recent sprint to build a tool that helps ICE find the physical locations of people who have been marked for deportation. www.404media.co/leaked-palan...

submitted 14 days ago • 110 comments

I've been thinking about getting contact lenses. Anyone have experience with this brand? www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXWz...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

The proportion of CO2 in the atmosphere grew at a record 3.75 ppm last year -- a jump 27% bigger than the previous record increase. The best explanation: forests and soils are so stressed by climate change they're losing the ability to absorb our emissions. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

submitted 15 days ago • 9 comments

Word of the day is ‘bugiard’ (17th century): one who distorts the truth beyond all recognition to fit their own agenda.

submitted 16 days ago • 88 comments

I just love this.....

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

@olicav.bsky.social one for you sketch-your-mind.com

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Particularly glad to read that Brett really gets what I wanted people like him to notice about this book - the effort I’ve put into *explaining* the science. It’s a skill that science teachers are (often incorrectly) *assumed* to have so is widely neglected in their initial and ongoing training

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments