Mr Short, Science Teacher

@FHSschoolibrary Do you have any data on how many and which pupils are reading books? I’ll pop down to see you next week!

Quote heard in the school library today by Maia one of our new S1 pupils " I don't know which book to choose because there are so many good ones." It's times like that that I love my job! #weareFHS

@Emma_Seith I might suggest that PE is made more difficult to bring it into alignment?

📢New: The ‘difficulty’ ratings SQA gives Higher subjects Every year the SQA gives subjects a ‘difficulty’ rating – and, in response to this data, physics teachers warn their subject is too tough and students are being put off tes.com/magazine/news/…

@BruceNextLevel !🤟

A brilliant day working with teachers in the American School of Tangier, Morocco! We explored a broad range of pedagogical themes, including presenting content, success criteria, practice, feedback and questioning. An extremely friendly and engaging audience to work with 😊

@itvcycling @nedboulting @millarmind How many millimetres have put travelled this tour? And is this measured from the toe or heel?

LAST CHANCE to get your questions answered by @nedboulting and @millarmind for our final EVER weekend 👇 (Ask below)

@nedboulting Just spamming your X feed with our take on measurements. An area the size of Wales, and an Andy Gulp. Classic. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s2-…

@nedboulting podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s2-… One ‘Andy gulp’ for food quantities

@Stocklington What???😂😂😂 Happy to go for a ride with you when you’re up.

I’ve attended a cycling event in an attempt to address fitness concerns & get back into cycling. I’ve not gone with friends, as I need to preserve dignity in infirmity. I’ve all the gear & a saddle bag of sweets. Sadly, as the 25k event is full of kids, I look like a predator.

Wimbledon?Tennis? Podcast?👌👇 open.spotify.com/episode/7zwYV4…

Air pollution in UK now kills 30,000 people and costs £27bn a year, the research, also said there was no safe level of air pollutants. The figure could even be significantly higher – up to £50bn – if dementia taken into account. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Every time you see how much the Dutch🇳🇱 invest in cycling, remember that the societal benefits outweigh this by far! Annually: 💰🚲 €510 million (€30 per capita) 👩‍⚕️🩺 €19 billion in health savings alone (Daphne Schippersbrug in #Utrecht)

Fantastic to see coverage of former Olympians Sarah Winckless MBE, our Patron, and Dame Katherine Grainger joining forces at the Women of Scotland Lunch and raising awareness about Huntington's disease and our work in yesterday's @Sunday_Mail @Daily_Record

Doesn’t happen often here in Falkirk, but if it does it’s too many times.

If i was king and wanted to keep poor people poor, the very first thing I'd do would be to abolish external standardised assessments

Two years ago today I published this article making the case for phone-freee schools. The case is far stronger today, now that so many schools are getting great results, esp. hearing noise and laughter in the hallways again. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Why not display @MrShortFHS_sci’s addition polymerisation infographic in your classroom? Use the accompanying resource to test post-16 learners’ understanding of polymers’ structures and names edu.rsc.org/infographics/e… #scied #teachingresources (4/5)

@MrShortFHS_sci And get the poster, fact sheet and classroom activity for teaching condensation polymerisation for 16–18 year-old students too edu.rsc.org/infographics/h… #scienceteachers #chatchemistry (5/5)

Make chemistry real. Put practical work into context with these six everyday experiences edu.rsc.org/feature/contex… #edutwitter #chemed

Imagine if we made it an easy, everyday choice for everyone. Less people needing the NHS is how you save it for the long term. theguardian.com/society/2025/j…

@AlchemistAngus @TwentySeven11 @iain_smellie I shall be cutting it open this morning! I left it at school! 👍

@TwentySeven11 @MrShortFHS_sci @iain_smellie If you've seen the videos of people dissolving the aluminium of the can to expose the plastic "bag", they leave the top attached, so I don't know if it's lined too. I wonder if the underside of the top is just lacquered and maybe there are pinholes. Any sign of damage there?

⁦@irnbru⁩ …. Out of date by 4years! Any chemical explanation? The fizz is still there. I used it as a visual aid for the start of chemical equilibrium…. My S2 class made me open it!

@iain_smellie @AlchemistAngus @TwentySeven11 I don't know, but if I had just seen Blair's decolourised bottle In Bru I would have thought it was probably light degrading the dye, which I think is the orange ponceau. My can juice did look a bit yellow, but that might just be sugar! The can also has a plastic lining.

@AlchemistAngus @TwentySeven11 @MrShortFHS_sci Do you think the glass absorbs any UV light that does occasionally manage to get to the bottle? I can’t remember if they sell the 1901 version in plastic bottles, I’ve definitely seen it in cans.