Unsolicited writing advice, no. 18181999:
"Write what you know" is limiting advice, which leads to limited writing. Instead, know what you're writing about. That means due diligence: good research, wide reading, specialist help and advice if you need it. Stay curious. Try new ideas. No limits.

New article by Dr Thomas Hammond and published in Pedagogical Linguistics calls for bridging theoretical divides in language education research.

Read more here: cler.leeds.ac.uk/news/new-art...

#ResearchPaper #AcademicPublishing #ScholarlyArticles #ResearchCommunity #AcademicSky

You can lock up as many people as you want for chanting or protesting against genocide.

You will never scrub away the truth about that genocide - or your own complicity in it.

You are just ensuring that you will be damned all the more for what you have done.

it's real support from actual racists

Israel bombed a hospital.

Rescue workers and reporters rushed to recover the dead and the wounded.

Israel bombed the hospital again. Live on TV.

Read that again.

Our government’s legacy will be its complicity in crimes against humanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.

make YOUR difference!

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

This is the political video I've been waiting to see.
I have no party affiliations, but if I were in the Greens, I would vote for @zackpolanski.bsky.social

The School of Education at the University of Leeds is recruiting lecturers in Psychology with Education and Primary Education. Find out more here:

Psychology with Education: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Primary Education: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

@alicedeignan.bsky.social

Following our League Table result successes last year, we have once again risen in the Complete University Guide's rankings for 2026 and now sit in 10th place for Education in the UK while remaining in 1st for Childhood Studies!

Read more here: bit.ly/4jKscTm

#Education #UniversityLife #HigherEd

Good report here on internships. 20% are secured through family or friends. 1 in five are unpaid. 40% of interns rely on parental financial support. The result? Working class graduates are 20% less likely to secure an internship. Tell me again about meritocracy.
www.suttontrust.com/our-research...

The University of Leeds in the UK is offering scholarships for Palestinians from Gaza who have been displaced and are living in a different country (outside of the UK). www.leeds.ac.uk/undergraduat...

Some universities in northern India and Pakistan have suspended in-person classes in response to a toxic smog engulfing urban areas.
#AcademicSky #Highered
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/indian-...

The only bad thing about Bluesky: it's now as addictive as Twitter was in, say, 2010. I'd forgotten how much time I can fanny away somewhere silly and upbeat. I hope my editor isn't on here yet.

Women’s chances of winning research funding are enhanced if they work in teams, and specifically teams headed by senior female academics, an Australian study has revealed

#AcademicSky #highered

COMPETITION: I’ve got three copies of Planes, Trains and Toilet Doors to give away.

RT this before 10am on Monday.

I’ll randomly pick three people from the RTs, and I’ll sign and post a book to the winners. Perfect 🎁