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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 7h

As if they keep writing all these headlines - and our membership numbers and polling just keeps shooting up. 🚀

Now at 110,000. Over 55% increase in just one month!

Lower bills. Fund NHS. Tax the super rich.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

Greens who want to save the world by destroying britain

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.bsky.social · 7h

Great post
www.afterbabel.com/p/let-kids-b...

Let Kids Be Loud

In Defense of Outdoor Play

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.bsky.social · 2d

Best thing I've listened to in a long time.

Nathan Haines @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 3d

#EduSky #IBDP #TOK If you teach the IBDP TOK course, check out this great resource about Art. Check this out; an interview with Brian Eno. It's fantastic. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o...

Opinion | A Breath of Fresh Air With Brian Eno

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.bsky.social · 2d

There's a joke in science. A scientist is searching the floor at night under a streetlamp. Another scientist asks why: I dropped my keys on the other side, but I can see better here.

This manifests in how much edu research is focused on maths, & how that reverberates across our profession.
#Edusky

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.bsky.social · 2d

Losing the will to write blog posts.
I can deal with low social media engagement.
But people searching on the net for a site like mine, will get an AI response from accessing my site. Result, people will likely not visit.
AI will destroy the environment it depends on, for profit.

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.bsky.social · 2d

Losing the will to write blog posts.
I can deal with low social media engagement.
But people searching on the net for a site like mine, will get an AI response from accessing my site. Result, people will likely not visit.
AI will destroy the environment it depends on, for profit.

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks

Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.bsky.social · 2d

Educational research is vastly broad including huge amounts of qualitative research that attempts to go deep on the meaning students have made. So I can't agree with applying it to the whole lot.
But too much is extrapolated from maths research. It's a very particular subject.

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.bsky.social · 2d

There's a joke in science. A scientist is searching the floor at night under a streetlamp. Another scientist asks why: I dropped my keys on the other side, but I can see better here.

This manifests in how much edu research is focused on maths, & how that reverberates across our profession.
#Edusky

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.bsky.social · 2d

Best thing I've listened to in a long time.

Nathan Haines @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 3d

#EduSky #IBDP #TOK If you teach the IBDP TOK course, check out this great resource about Art. Check this out; an interview with Brian Eno. It's fantastic. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o...

Opinion | A Breath of Fresh Air With Brian Eno

www.nytimes.com

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.bsky.social · 2d

Brian Eno was massively influenced by cybernetics! He went to Stafford Beer's house and ate potatoes with him.
Deep-thinking music creation.
Thanks for the post.

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.bsky.social · 2d

I wasn't allowed to go to McDonald's

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.bsky.social · 2d

Congrats Harish!

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.bsky.social · 2d

Our school goes from Early Years to sixth form. I work in the last year of the primary section to 18. Also got my kids in Early Years. From my experience, many parents in primary dislike labels for their kids. But when they get to pass/fail or higher stakes exams, they generally fight for it.

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.bsky.social · 2d

A fine point

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.bsky.social · 2d

Sounds influenced by Stafford Beer

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Matthew Evans @head-teach.bsky.social · 3d

open.substack.com/pub/matthewe...

The eye of the storm

What can we reasonably expect of teachers?

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Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · 3d

When fourth graders practised fluency with challenging texts rather than levelled readers, their reading rate and accuracy improved more substantially. ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 5d

Last night I attended a public education listening tour hosted by Iowa Dem house members. So many teachers reiterated an atmosphere of total fear, surveillance, & reprisal. One elementary teacher said they refer to the Gulf of Mexico as "The Gulf" to avoid even the suspicion of bias.

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.bsky.social · 4d

Loved this @bigbiology.bsky.social podcast.

Got such a fascinating fact from it:
Ciliates have a "somatic" nucleus and a "germ line" nucleus.
They transcribe only the somatic nucleus during life, but destroy it for sexual reproduction. Similar to us!
#iTeachBio

www.bigbiology.org/episodes/202...

Ep 139: Evolution across scales (with Mike Lynch) — Big Biology Podcast

How do non-adaptive processes shape biological diversity and complexity? What is effective population size and what important role does it play in evolution? On this episode of Big Biology, we talk ...

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 4d

Interestingly this article got zero traction on twitter apart from a comment that it would 'divide opinion'. Very glad to see opinion on here among us normal people is 100% against the idea.

Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 4d

Exclusive: Teachers will use 'deepfake' technology to create an AI avatar of themselves to deliver catch-up lessons for pupils who have missed school

Watch one of the school’s ‘deepfake’ teachers in our story below

schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-trus...

'Deepfake' teacher avatars to help pupils catch up

Academy trust staff to use AI generator to introduce resources for pupils returning to school

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.bsky.social · 4d

I think the phrase "All behaviour is communication" goes back to Gregory Bateson, & Paul Watzlwick's Pragmatics of Communication.
It's a very useful premise, but it seems to be used strangely in schools.
It doesn't say what a communication means; deciding a meaning is what an observer does.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 4d

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 4d

To be candid, I want the bubble to burst. Because it will eventually and inevitably, but the longer the current charade goes on the more our planet and communities are decimated— and the more dependent we become on the few powerful people left who control those resources.

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 5d

Energy requirements for AI mean that the only way for the bubble not to burst would require companies to multiply their carbon footprint to an unimaginable degree. Right now, while AI is barely functional and mostly a novelty for the lazy, it requires so much energy that data centers rival cities.

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Jenny Koenig @jennyakoenig.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks for linking to this article. I'm a pharmacology educator so interested in how Ed researchers make parallels to evidence based medicine. So many drug RCTs throw up more questions than answers bc causal understanding is incomplete and nuance around population is complex.

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