Patrick Thomson 🦋 @patrickthomson.bsky.social

We did a thing! @misstray_chem and @Sci_DrScott and I looked at when the Advanced Higher Project came back into Scottish Schools post-COVID, and whether they could resource it. Stark finding: over half of teachers reported asking pupils to buy reagents. degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Heading to #ViCEPHEC25, posting about it on bluesky.

@AllyFogg @LegoLas44941816 The best defense I can find is that personal freedom of choice of individual consumers is fine, but orchestrating a campaign to inform people that "you shouldn't buy X because of Y belief" is crossing a line somewhere.

@LegoLas44941816 This is absolutely true, but it's also wider than that. Me telling you that I think Kevin Spacey is a creep & I don't want to see any films with him in it is ME EXERCISING MY FREEDOM OF SPEECH. These people would like to take that away from me.

Whenever a celeb does this "We shouldn't cancel anyone" I would love an interviewer to dig into what that actually means. How can we "stop cancel culture"?

Should be a great event so please come join us @OxfordChemistry @craigdc1983 @eforsyth1194 @S_J_Lancaster @EddevJanep @DrLinneaSoler @dr_odedra @patrickthomson @jswrightshef @doc_kristy

**New blog post** Reflections on the closure of Hull's Chemistry Department, where I used to work. #ChemTwitter michaeloneill.org/blog-1/2024/10…

@humphreyjones @misstray_chem @Sci_DrScott @StrathChem One rich vein of support we've started offering is to introduce experiments based on elaborations of the prescribed practical activities that every pupil does anyway. Reagents already on file, no extra outlay.

@humphreyjones @misstray_chem @Sci_DrScott @strathchem have been focusing our CPD/CLPL offerings pretty heavily on "cheap/safe ideas for AH projects" the last few years; @misstray_chem doubly effective as her main thesis project was actually about eliminating DCM from caff extractions.

We did a thing! @misstray_chem and @Sci_DrScott and I looked at when the Advanced Higher Project came back into Scottish Schools post-COVID, and whether they could resource it. Stark finding: over half of teachers reported asking pupils to buy reagents. degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

We're hosting a #ChemEd meeting! Delighted to share that registration for Chemistry Teaching in Practice (CTiP), a free one-day workshop for chemistry HE practitioners taking place @OxfordChemistry on 9th January 2025, is now open: rsc.org/events/detail/…

Looking forward to welcoming Scottish chemistry teachers to #WoSChem25 hosted at @StrathChem in January! Advanced Higher Project CLPL as always! Signup/info: strath.ac.uk/science/chemis…

@solusts @SW20Ed Totally; there's a terminating platform 0 at Haymarket but it's on the wrong side of the line. You'd need a new terminating platform 5 that only routes onto the Kingsnowe line without blocking signaling, run a regular return to Currie or something.

@SW20Ed The problem is there's no capacity through the Haymarket flat junctions to get any more services running - every train off the Shotts line conflicts with they E&G mainline (and there's no space to grade separate the Shotts line unless you dropped it into tunnel through the city

@stewart_malcolm @doc_kristy Yes, I've not noticed it's next week, what with trying to get everything timetabled

@doc_kristy Gosh next week they are back 😱

@JuliaSarju @AdvanceHE @CheMichael7 @UniOfYork Fantastic news! Richly deserved and very overdue. One of the most qualified SF I know!

Today I received an @AdvanceHE Certificate for Senior Fellowship (SFHEA). I wouldn't have been able to do this without @CheMichael7, @patrickthomson, the Academic Practice team @UniOfYork and all the generous people who gave me feedback on my practice #ChemEd #Sotl

Many thanks to @seerymk, @patrickthomson, @DrNMistry, @stewart_malcolm, @craigdc1983, @anna_bertram, and others, for talking to me for this article chemistryworld.com/features/the-u…

@dave2004b I want to try and evaluate them somehow, and might have the opportunity to do so this year if a student picks that topic for their MChem project. Can I drop you a line if they do?

We did a thing! Inspired by @dave2004b, we put Integrated Instructions into a first year distillation lab AND also dyed the fractions to make them easier to follow. Obligatory "dusting of inquiry" ofc dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jc…

I'm no on my way to #ViCEPHEC24 and will be live-skying the event over on bsky.app/profile/patric…

Outstanding work!

As sometimes leader of departmental chemistry education research meetings, I feel quite judged by this

We are also looking for 2 teaching focussed lecturers with expertise in green chemistry and/or automation to join our chemistry education team to modernise our chemistry curriculum. #chemjobs #greenchem

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