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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 41m

This has made our day.

www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/35...

On the right, the coliseum. On the left, a model of the coliseum, fashioned from custard creams. It's a bit sketchy in its details, but... custard creams!

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 37m

Certainly, the association here isn't new. Homeschooling and homesteading go hand in hand with skepticism of public schools and public health.

But my point is that algorithms can push moms down that path by sowing seeds of distrust, then feeding up content to fertilize what they've sown. 5/

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 37m

I started by tracking social media ads for parenting apps--screen-shotting ads on platforms like Facebook.

These ads contain a number of interesting messages, but a common one is: "You need this app because your kid isn't getting enough support in school." 2/

Ad that for an app that promises to "teach what schools skip"

Ad that promises to "unlock your child's reading potential in 90 days"

Ad that promises to "help kids with dyscalculia improve math skills by 20% in 6 weeks"

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 37m

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust.

From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad."

I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 35m

Important 🧵

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 37m

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust.

From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad."

I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

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❀༻𝕤𝕔𝕙𝕦𝕝𝕥𝕫𝕚𝕖𝕡𝕚𝕖༺❀ @schultziepie.bsky.social · 58m

A message from Adelita Grijalva
to Mike Johnson. Swear her in NOW! Take a listen! 👇🏼

#swearherinnow
#pinks

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 54m

Sounds brilliant. Do you have theories about why?

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 1h

“Footage, obtained by the outlet, captured the musician face-down in the mud, with her instrument about two feet to her left, struggling as what appears to be a federal agent straddled her backside. A police officer stood next to the pair.”
The Feds then jailed her across state lines. For music.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2h

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 1h

#HistoryEducation

History Teacher Educators' Network @htenuk.bsky.social · 1d

Time to talk is an opportunity for @htenuk.bsky.social colleagues to meet more informally in our virtual staff room. Our first session of 25/26 will be hosted by @davidrawlings.bsky.social.

It is also open to non-members #historyteacher #TeacherEducators. Please do get in touch for the link.

History Teacher Educators' Network @htenuk.bsky.social · Sep 11

Time to Talk is back. Get the date in your diaries. Links to follow.

#historyteacher #TeacherEducation #HistoryEducation #TeacherMentoring

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Zheng Chen @zhengchen1016.bsky.social · 20h

Measuring elementary school teacher self-efficacy across different academic disciplines: Is the subject matter important?

Publication date: December 2025Source: Teaching and Teacher Education, Volume 168Author(s): Peter Ferguson, Paul Leeming, Richard H. Derrah

www.sciencedirect.com

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Bennie Kara @benniekara.bsky.social · 1d

New Substack on teaching Rabindranath Tagore in English - have a read, then go and read some Tagore! open.substack.com/pub/bennieka...

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Arts Professional @artsprofessional.co.uk · 1h

Teacher Training grants worth £10,000 for creative subjects are to be scrapped by the Department for Education (DfE), fewer than two years after being reintroduced.

Government axes teacher training bursaries for arts subjects - Arts Professional

Teacher Training grants worth £10,000 for creative subjects are to be scrapped by the Department for Education (DfE), fewer than two years after being

www.artsprofessional.co.uk

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 1h

#TeacherEducation

Australian Association for Research in Education @australianare.bsky.social · 5h

Have you read first online #OA article by Kylie Murphy, Steve Murphy, Siobhan O’Brien & Simone Cutting 'Australian preservice teachers’ reflections on how a group placement model influenced their professional learning' in AER? https://loom.ly/_Sp_Wco

Australian preservice teachers’ reflections on how a group placement model influenced their professional learning - The Australian Educational Researcher

Significant stressors encountered during pre-service teacher (PST) placements can create suboptimal conditions for professional learning. Group (or cohort) placement models, where multiple PSTs are placed in the same school, can provide additional support for PSTs as they navigate the challenges. Framed by social coping and self-efficacy theory, the survey and focus group responses of 166 Australian PSTs undertaking placements in primary and secondary schools were analysed to understand the i...

link.springer.com

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Martine Brennan @saytheirnamesir.bsky.social · 1h

I am so excited to have the opportunity to share my research on #Irish slaveholders with BA students @qubhistory.bsky.social at the kind invitation of Dr Nik Ribianszky, (author of Generations of Freedom: Gender, Movement and Violence in Natchez, 1779-1865) this week. tinyurl.com/4t76e8ep #speirgorm

Irish slaveholders, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Pennsylvania 1670-1865 - Google My Maps

Database (incomplete) created by Martine Brennan, Ireland. Star icon: names of enslaved people attached. Green tags: known or reputed county of birth in Ireland. Blue tags: unknown place of birth in ...

tinyurl.com

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2h

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 4h

I guess the countdown to publication day has well and truly begun ...

Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 5h

'An essential insight into the voices that are often silenced by a city's ego, and a timely spotlight on a political agenda that is ever-present today.' - @thecrackmagazine.bsky.social

The untold story of a remarkable neighbourhood and the battle to define modern London. #booksky #London

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 4h

Are you using #maps in research?

Want to learn about their history and use as sources?

In London in late January?

Sign up for @ihr.bsky.social short course, Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place!

#maphistory #skystorians 🗃️

Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place

Discovery Course 1

www.sas.ac.uk

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 4h

#HistoryEducation

Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 4h

Are you using #maps in research?

Want to learn about their history and use as sources?

In London in late January?

Sign up for @ihr.bsky.social short course, Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place!

#maphistory #skystorians 🗃️

Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place

Discovery Course 1

www.sas.ac.uk

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Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social · 4h

Ok, where are we at with research on medieval midwives? Session next week on women's bodies, medicine, childbirth and whatnot.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4h

To be more specific, media and politicians aren't aware of the scale of continuing reductions

The public mostly don't know it fell at all. Both boats + political/broadcast skew to mainly covering boats contributes significantly to net migration falling by half to two-thirds without being noticed

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tanders24.bsky.social @tanders24.bsky.social · 5h

They hounded Angela Rayner for weeks….our press is not fit for purpose

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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 5h

The European Convention on Human Rights is being misrepresented in the UK, says former Supreme Court President Lady Hale👇

🔗 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... via @the-independent.com

“It seems so short-sighted. I’m sorry, I’m really, really worried about it.”

#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms

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CLEAPSS @cleapss.bsky.social · 4h

CLEAPSS is delighted to be providing courses in the North East once again after a 7-year absence. ‘Microbiology- Antimicrobials’, is being held today at Newcastle University
Teachers and Technicians can now access a range of CLEAPSS training in the region. courses.cleapss.org.uk/Courses/Maps...

CLEAPSS Courses Map

courses.cleapss.org.uk

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 4h

The new edition of @bylinetimes.bsky.social goes to the printers tomorrow.

And we go where others fear to tread…

Subscribe by tonight and you’ll get it delivered to your door

subscribe.bylinetimes.com/editions/

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 18h

The serious point here is that Britain is in desperate need of migrants, and any attempt to actively dissuade them from coming directly harms both society and the economy.

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