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Such a gut punch. "One fired program officer in the geosciences resigned from a tenured faculty job after getting official notice that they'd been hired permanently by NSF...That officer left the job security of a tenured position "to give back to my country and the scientific community …"

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Knowing number order and magnitude, and how numbers relate to each other, is as vital as phonics is to reading, experts say. But many students, especially low-income students, lack strong number sense, and it hobbles their math capabilities later on. hechingerreport.org/the-building...

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Encourage campaigners to take to absorb this @moreincommonuk.bsky.social study. It finds: -progressive activists are <10% of the population -less likely to work w/ people who disagree with them -overestimate those who share their views -use inaccessible language -more likely to be stressed & sad

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A number of prominent UK Conservatives' statements about Donald Trump resemble one of those news stories that begins with a magazine feature about a new age mystic who believes he can talk to bears and ends with a newspaper article about a new age mystic being mauled to death by bears.

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Richard Young's 1978 portrait of the Jam outside Centre Point. Now its wildly expensive, lavishly beige apartments, a private club and residents' "wellness spa". But there's a framed print of this in the lobby, which is something.

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Welcome to Trilobite Tuesday! Pictured is the Devonian-age phacopid trilobite Erbenochile erbeni. Not only does this Moroccan species feature towering 0.8-in (2-cm-) high eye stacks—each topped by a unique shading brim—but it also has a row of intimidating spines that run along its axial lobe.

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'We've removed the dangerous bullet, and instead replaced it with a simple collection of shrapnel.' www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

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Epic sarsen stone facade and portal entrance at Wayland’s Smithy, a short wander away from the Ridgeway in Oxfordshire #standingstonesunday

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Disrobed hawthorn scratches the sky. Ploughed fields shiver. Farm Hobs walk the boundaries. Clouds offer omens of waking. The witch walks and feels the turn of the year. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

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CLEAPSS - Teachers H&S Self Study Online Course We have developed a new self-study course for teachers, which covers the basics of health & safety and how to manage practical work and risk assessments in lessons. This is a FREE course mailchi.mp/cleapss.org....

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Get ready for Valentines.... With our guide GL395 – Heart dissection science.cleapss.org.uk/Resource-Inf...

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I don't want to be on ghastly x anymore but it's where a lot of my sales come from so this post is a brazen request for shares to spread the word about my work on a kinder platform that isn't run by a dangerous megalomaniac! www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Sara... #selfemployedartist #ukgifthour #shopindie

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There are roads that make you feel the longer you stay on them, the less certain they'll lead to your destination – not only in terms of place, but time. Roads connecting you to a sense of the land as one giant network of haunted hodology. Roads that you believe just might possess you. – #MattAdams

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Well, I am considerably more happy than anyone else in my work that anyone else today.

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+ WEEKEND BLUESKY COMP + We are giving away 2 x Nuada badges (one for you & a friend) plus a set of The Wicker Man postcards. Like, RP and Follow to enter. Winner announced Mon AM. Last pre-order of the year up for our BBC inspired clocks. More exciting news very soon. hiddenbritain.bigcartel.com

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Everyone goes on about his weirdness but he was helping to keep the world sane. His sanity was profound.

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A natural, instinctive, brilliant footballer. The Lawman 🙏

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Sometimes you can tell where/when you are in the rock record if you find a particular distinctive fossil. There are lots of fossil-rich layers in the Vale of Pickering, but only one has lots of sea urchin spines. If you find these, you are in the Upper Jurassic Coral Rag. #FossilFriday

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A smaragdite metagabbro from the Schistes Lustres of Corsica. Smaragdite is a chrome-rich amphibole formed from the alteration of diopside. It is used here for intarsia in the Capella di Principe in Florence #urbangeology #florence

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To bury & black out a river, & all connected life, must be one of the worst acts of ecological ignorance. It happened a long time ago now, nevertheless; my heart aches with sadness, my veins burn with anger. #rivers

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Thank You for an Amazing ASE Annual Conference 2025! Thank you to everyone who made this event so special. We hope you all have a safe journey home, and we can’t wait to do it all again next year! #ASEConf2025 #ScienceEducation #ThankYou

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Talking lesson planning in our session on #pedagogy and Andrea Mallaburn mentions RADAAR from @theeef.bsky.social. So check this out from @nikika.bsky.social edu.rsc.org/feature/are-...

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I am a salt-hag. I know where the waves whisper loudest. I know where gulls screech secret truths. I know where to make treaty with the King-Under-the-Sea. My hands hold tide-polished treasures, my lips summon storms. Gentlemen I tell you, do not cross me. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982

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Just some Permian weirdos, including the classic Diplocaulus boomerang-head and a skeleton of Seymouria @harvardmuseums.bsky.social #FossilFriday 🧪

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The exquisitely beautiful Happisburgh handaxe. A utilitarian tool worked from glossy black flint half a million years ago! Found in 2000 by a man walking his dog on a Norfolk beach. 📷 Norwich Castle Museum www.museumscollections.norfolk.gov.uk/collections-... #Archaeology

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Find all our @associationscied.bsky.social ASE Conference #ASEConf2025 sessions here 2025aseannualconf.sched.com?searchstring...

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A pyroclast plopped into rippled, volcaniclastic lake deposits. (Carboniferous, France)

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It's Monday night and it's 5pm so it is quite literally time for EPISODE ONE of the FIFTH SEASON (first on Bluesky) of 'How light is it in #Orkney at 5pm this week? It is January. It is 2025. And it is THIS light.

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A 300 million year old lycopsid tree from Brymbo Fossil Forest, on display in National Museum Cardiff (was National Museum of Wales). The trunk is about 30cm diameter. #FossilFriday #paleobotany 🧪⚒️🌍🌿

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A dimension often missed in the discussion around whether children should enjoy lessons is that there are 30 in a class. Not everything appeals to everyone. A lot of top-level education discussions see schooling as individual, but it’s not: it’s collective.

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You know this whole ‘fun lessons’ debate is missing the fact that teenagers don’t think any of us are fun or cool 😂

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