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What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Not only can basically no university lecturers or school teachers write a good exam, almost none of them can define in any detail what ‘a good exam’ means.

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Words I want to exist 2: when a view is so magnificent that your awe at its beauty gets overtaken by an illogical sense of offence that nature can be so ridiculously extravagant. I suggest scener-rage /‘si:nəreɪʤ/ (with love to the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.)

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

I absolutely love this poem by @holliemcnish.bsky.social – 5 in 6 boys think Andrew Tate is a prick

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

The best set of neologisms I’ve seen in a long time. Chatsident and GPTune are going straight into my vocabulary. #ai #linguistics open.substack.com/pub/daviddun...

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

I think we can spare this one. news.goodable.co/880714?utm_s...

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My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"? Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

submitted 72 days ago • 240 comments

I’ve found it. The holy grail of social media. The account that should be followed by absolutely everyone of every background. @owlsintowels.org

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Something that’s been bugging me for about a decade is that we don’t talk more about class as part of intersectional identity. It’s very easy to other people from minorities, but the majority of people are working class. There are lots of people who otherwise feel attacked in DEI conversations (1/2)

submitted 102 days ago • 2 comments

The world is a more equitable place for women in their 20s and 30s than it was for their mothers 🙌 Which do you rank most highly?

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Just had a stay at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, and I’m in awe at how kind everyone was. Nurses, porters, radiographers, HCAs, doctors, all totally committed to helping me in the most human of ways to get through my fear, pain and illness. I heard a lot of criticism from wardmates, and of course 1/2

submitted 115 days ago • 1 comment

Of all the skills I thought my generation would be the last to have, I never considered ‘flushing a faulty toilet’. But I’ve taught it to three people so far this week.

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Words I want to exist (with love to the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows): the feeling when, after spending time with one of the other physical manifestations of your soul, you leave and fall back into only being one consciousness. Gemisyncopy? Dimimorte? #language

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