Nicholas Freestone FRSB, HEBTOY, NTF

There were literally 3 MAGA people outside of Steve Bannon's press conference 🤣💀 So I sang to them my hit song "My MAGA Side Girl" til they went away! We defeat MAGA by laughing harder at them!🌊 Pls rt so Elon has to pay me TWITTER AD revenue money! 🌊💙

How did this poster get hold of the template for Kingston University contracts? Clearly there’s been a data breach!

Some sketches from Saturday's @LondonUCU conference on "𝗗𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁-𝟭𝟲 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿'𝘀 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝗿" x.com/LondonUCU/stat…

📢📢Attention KU UCU members! 📢📢 Branch meeting next Wednesday, 1pm in our usual zoom room. Link in bio, and agenda will be circulated by email later today. See you there!

"Today was a Difficult Day," said Pooh. There was a pause. "Do you want to talk about it?" asked Piglet. "No," said Pooh after a bit. "No, I don't think I do." "That's okay," said Piglet, and he came and sat beside his friend. "What are you doing?" asked Pooh. "Nothing, really," said Piglet. "Only, I know what Difficult Days are like. I quite often don't feel like talking about it on my Difficult Days either. "But goodness," continued Piglet, "Difficult Days are so much easier when you know you've got someone there for you. And I'll always be here for you, Pooh." And as Pooh sat there, working through in his head his Difficult Day, while the solid, reliable Piglet sat next to him quietly, swinging his little legs...he thought that his best friend had never been more right." A.A. Milne Sending thoughts to those having a Difficult Day today and hope you have your own Piglet to sit beside you. ~ A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

Dr Leaney versus @lborouniversity #University loses at Employment Tribunal😃 Judgement criticises the 'usual suspects' It's VC, Chief Operating Officer & HR Director😉 "Mr Taylor in particular acted outside his authority in a wholly inappropriate manner" #academia

Just the yearly reminder that month of birth really does matter when considering provision for Y1.

@Nige1980 I’ll do it for£100!

A colleague and I enquired today how much a taxi from Cardiff to Bristol Airport would be for a visiting speaker. Using the approved supplier, this is what came back…😳

Why did @X delete Jeff Daniel’s powerful tirade against Trump? x.com/Kennedy_Memory…

REPOST! REPOST! REPOST! REPOST! REPOST!

Elon Musk doesn’t want this video shared because he’s trying to help Trump win in November. It would be a damn shame if everyone shares it. twitter.com/piyushmittal/s…

#lthechat A5 Formative versus summative? Does not matter, learning is learning. And I have evidence that engagement with small stakes summative assessment is positively linked to degree outcomes

#lthechat A5 Formative versus summative? Does not matter, learning is learning. I would agree in a perfect world but students are so time poor they only use summative assessments for their learning.

@RacePhil Haptic knowledge. Papers by Anne Mangen from Norway. Students who read paper texts remembered the work better than students who looked at electronic media. An experiment I have repeated with the same results with my own students.

#lthechat Yes, I find that it really helps to write the question then the answer - typing does not help me much!

And leadership model. There is zero accountability for senior leaders in HE. They can spend spend spend, make people redundant, run policies that overwork their staff driving them into GPs offices. And that is politically acceptable.

In 1935, Lady Ademola MBE (née Moore) became the first Black African woman to achieve a degree at Oxford. Lady Ademola, who studied English at @StHughsCollege, was a lifelong advocate for women’s education and social reform. #BlackHistoryMonth

@UniofOxford I see few people of colour in this photo. Might that be one of the contemporary ethical issues being studied?

NEW: A new institute with a philosophical focus on contemporary ethical issues has launched today following a transformative gift from the Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education.

Imagine being a newly arrived student at your chosen institution & in the very first week of teaching the Uni announces it wants to achieve £20m in savings over the next 2 years & have a 'review' of its course portfolio. Welcome to Kingston University, whose VC has zero tact.

@KEHplantsci Well done Katharine. Great news

Has fancy new initials to use! PFHEA feels like a real achievement - thanks for all who have supported along the way :)

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