Chris Baker is mostly on threads @chrisbaker108

Still sharing awesome stuff I find every day on @TutorGroupThink Interesting stuff for you to share with your tutor group or other classes. Share wide and make the (excessive) I spend on the internet worthwhile.

@MAKE2105 This adds a week to the previous all the way down. Then select the lot, copy and paste values to replace the equation so you an sort and filter etc.

@MAKE2105 Hi, always warms my dark cold soul to hear this helps people! I've changed for this years dates, but basically I type the date in each of the rows for the first week, then type "=", click the first date, then type "+7", then drag that all the way down. dropbox.com/scl/fi/hik6ghf…

As requested, I've updated the planner with 22/23 dates on. Enjoy! @chrisbakerphysics/keeping-track-of-lessons-excel-3783b9c9f54d" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@chrisbakerphy…

The best speech of all time!

Some questions for your class tomorrow: Is album art art? Does it matter now we stream everything? Celebrate Storm Thorgerson's birthday tomorrow with TutorGroupThink @TutorGroupThink buff.ly/48swWYl

@thefish64 Ask them to pay it, then change provider bbc.co.uk/news/business-…

From British Gas. How should I reply......?!!!! ☹️ "We'd love to know more about your recent experience of receiving a bill. It would be really helpful if you can complete a quick survey about it for us."

Love tomorrow’s TGT. Did you know Kenya recently gave everyone a new national holiday and asked them to plant trees during it? I think that’s an amazing idea. bit.ly/TutorGroupThink

@DrWilkinsonSci @PatrickCragg Every day too, not every week!

@PatrickCragg Me and @mrbakerphysics.

Tomorrow’s TGT is a little bit of cultural capital for your students. The 40th anniversary of the first showing of a ground-breaking music video. bit.ly/TutorGroupThink

@rjpritchard @agittner What if they accidentally eat a spring, or a tennis ball Bob?

' @cleapss and @rjpritchard The tale I tell to explain why we don't eat or drink in a lab, it's all about accidental ingestion and contamination, avoiding fingers near mouths and eyes...... 1/

@AhmedKhattabUK Leeds mate. Weather is miles better.

Urmston is lovely. Manchester is just such a better city than anywhere in the UK. Glasgow close behind. Shame the weather is total shit in both cities.

@eddedmondson This is true of most rating systems now. Etsy sellers need to average 4.9/5 Uber drivers start getting hassled at 4.8/5 It’s nonsense. Red/amber/green would be far fairer and more transparent. No offence, but your -10 to 10 idea is bad. What’s the difference between 7 and 8?

@MBDscience Yup. Late stage capitalism decided than any spare capacity is wasted profit. Optimisation has gone too far. Good podcast on the Long Now about it yesterday.

The problem with running everything at maximum capacity to extract the greatest bang for your buck is that it guts the system of all flexibility.

@ygbjammy Vile.

@EmathsUK @bennewmark It's growing. But I'll take quiet over "constant hatred being shoved in my face by the new vile owner". 🤷🏻‍♂️

@mrbakerphysics @bennewmark I’ve had a go at Threads, but there just doesn’t appear to be much discussion going on over there.

Is it the algorithm or is edutwitter basically gone? All I see is personal stuff, companies promoting products and some journalism. As in discussions just not really happening now?

@DrWilkinsonSci Well the replies to this are a nice piece of evidence next time someone asks "So come on Chris, has Twitter really got that bad? It's just a name change."

I’m sure the Ivermectin guys were 2nd. Or maybe the drinking bleach folk.

@EmathsUK @bennewmark So the solution to Musk trying to aggressively ruin this website is to spend time, on a regular basis, aggresively curating. Yeah, I think I'm just going to stick to Threads! Every time I've dropped in here over the last few weeks it's somehow worse.

@bennewmark …I’ve noticed after a couple of days, it can go back to madness, so need to keep up with the block / mute. This is a feature I’d never used before. I don’t block / mute any education folk, just mad adverts or people posting videos of cats or fights or other crap.

@atabhafc @PaulCaden1 Ha that's hilarious

@PaulCaden1 @mrbakerphysics 2 likes and has just been read out by Samuel L Jackson 😭😭

Crumpets are absolutely superb.

@edwardjtaylor @JamesHarrisNow Or, maybe that's what motorways are supposed to be like, and we've just forgotten what a bit of capacity and smooth flow looks like?

I am now old enough to have witnessed every single UK infrastructure project, from the Eurotunnel to Crossrail, being opposed only to open and promptly become essential

@MrKhairi_ Pretty much, especially in a school. At 9am you aren't about to get a dozen chunky emails, because (nearly) everyone is teaching. In a delayed recieve culture you might be about to get a deluge. Getting an email when you've just had the time you'd want to work on it is awful.

@mrbakerphysics You never know the true state of your inbox anyway, no?

Also, schedule sending is on almost all email platforms

@MrKhairi_ Is it really empty, or is delayed receive (as it should be called) about to dump a load in there? In a delayed recieve heavy culture you never really know what the true state of your inbox is.

@mrbakerphysics “It means when you look at your inbox, you never really know what's in it!” - what do you mean by this?