Hamish Chalmers
@hwc001.bsky.social
University of Oxford. Education. EAL.
What do we know about the educational attainment of English as an Additional Language learners in England? Read a plain language summary of the latest report from @ariel-lindorff.bsky.social and colleagues at @education.ox.ac.uk exploring NPD data on EAL learners.
#EduSky #EAL
#EduSky #EAL
What do we know about the educational attainment of English as an Additional Language learners in England?
www.education.ox.ac.uk
December 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
What do we know about the educational attainment of English as an Additional Language learners in England? Read a plain language summary of the latest report from @ariel-lindorff.bsky.social and colleagues at @education.ox.ac.uk exploring NPD data on EAL learners.
#EduSky #EAL
#EduSky #EAL
Reposted by Hamish Chalmers
Gaelic and Scots now recognised as official languages
Gaelic and Scots now recognised as official languages
The milestone is one of a number of new measures taking effect on St Andrew's Day from the Scottish Languages Act.
buff.ly
December 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Gaelic and Scots now recognised as official languages
This is cathartic. The writing as keen and witty as its subject is dull and humourless. open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
Jonathan Gullis, The Seagull's Lament
A New Yorker Profile
open.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
This is cathartic. The writing as keen and witty as its subject is dull and humourless. open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
Thread of the day.
[to the tune of Eleanor Rigby]
Jonathan Gullis
Studies his shorts on the train with a sense of unease
Too much Febreze
Jonathan Gullis
Studies his shorts on the train with a sense of unease
Too much Febreze
December 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Thread of the day.
Reposted by Hamish Chalmers
📢 Calling all teachers and academics interested in sustainability education!
You are invited to attend a teacher-researcher networking event centred on sustainability in schools 🏫
📅 Thursday 11 December
🏢 Department of Education, Oxford
⌚ 4.30pm – 7pm
Book now ➡️ shorturl.at/NWIan
You are invited to attend a teacher-researcher networking event centred on sustainability in schools 🏫
📅 Thursday 11 December
🏢 Department of Education, Oxford
⌚ 4.30pm – 7pm
Book now ➡️ shorturl.at/NWIan
November 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
📢 Calling all teachers and academics interested in sustainability education!
You are invited to attend a teacher-researcher networking event centred on sustainability in schools 🏫
📅 Thursday 11 December
🏢 Department of Education, Oxford
⌚ 4.30pm – 7pm
Book now ➡️ shorturl.at/NWIan
You are invited to attend a teacher-researcher networking event centred on sustainability in schools 🏫
📅 Thursday 11 December
🏢 Department of Education, Oxford
⌚ 4.30pm – 7pm
Book now ➡️ shorturl.at/NWIan
Reposted by Hamish Chalmers
Seeking UK secondary schools to take part in our new project on student motivation, engagement and learning outcomes in Arabic classrooms!
November 27, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Seeking UK secondary schools to take part in our new project on student motivation, engagement and learning outcomes in Arabic classrooms!
Reposted by Hamish Chalmers
📣 All are welcome to join our public seminar on Solving the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Crisis on Wednesday 3 December at 5pm.
Helen Hayes MP will discuss the Education Select Committee’s recent SEND report.
Register to attend 👉 www.education.ox.ac.uk/event/public... #Edusky
Helen Hayes MP will discuss the Education Select Committee’s recent SEND report.
Register to attend 👉 www.education.ox.ac.uk/event/public... #Edusky
November 27, 2025 at 10:07 AM
📣 All are welcome to join our public seminar on Solving the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Crisis on Wednesday 3 December at 5pm.
Helen Hayes MP will discuss the Education Select Committee’s recent SEND report.
Register to attend 👉 www.education.ox.ac.uk/event/public... #Edusky
Helen Hayes MP will discuss the Education Select Committee’s recent SEND report.
Register to attend 👉 www.education.ox.ac.uk/event/public... #Edusky
Reposted by Hamish Chalmers
And honestly I don't give a fuck if it's popular or not. It's going to make a lot of kids' lives better. That's the point of government. Not an opinion poll.
November 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
And honestly I don't give a fuck if it's popular or not. It's going to make a lot of kids' lives better. That's the point of government. Not an opinion poll.
The ‘you can’t even call it Christmas any more’ seems to come earlier each year.
Let’s have a look at a crazy Twitter to newspaper pipeline story and debunk as we go! 🔎👍🏼
16th Nov the “Britain is Broken” account shared the following post claiming “Tesco are no longer celebrating Christmas”
With a picture of their “Evergreen” Trees
2.2Million views to date🙄
🧵1/26
16th Nov the “Britain is Broken” account shared the following post claiming “Tesco are no longer celebrating Christmas”
With a picture of their “Evergreen” Trees
2.2Million views to date🙄
🧵1/26
November 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The ‘you can’t even call it Christmas any more’ seems to come earlier each year.
🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
November 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
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Our @education.ox.ac.uk
Applied Linguistics Lunchtime Seminars continue Tues 4th Nov 13-14:00GMT with a review of the research on Arabic as an additional language by Drs @robertwoore.bsky.social and Anna-Maria Ramezanzadeh. Join us online via Teams - details: www.education.ox.ac.uk/event/review...
Applied Linguistics Lunchtime Seminars continue Tues 4th Nov 13-14:00GMT with a review of the research on Arabic as an additional language by Drs @robertwoore.bsky.social and Anna-Maria Ramezanzadeh. Join us online via Teams - details: www.education.ox.ac.uk/event/review...
Reviewing Research on the Teaching and Learning of Arabic as an Additional Language: Challenges, Opportunities and Implications
www.education.ox.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Our @education.ox.ac.uk
Applied Linguistics Lunchtime Seminars continue Tues 4th Nov 13-14:00GMT with a review of the research on Arabic as an additional language by Drs @robertwoore.bsky.social and Anna-Maria Ramezanzadeh. Join us online via Teams - details: www.education.ox.ac.uk/event/review...
Applied Linguistics Lunchtime Seminars continue Tues 4th Nov 13-14:00GMT with a review of the research on Arabic as an additional language by Drs @robertwoore.bsky.social and Anna-Maria Ramezanzadeh. Join us online via Teams - details: www.education.ox.ac.uk/event/review...
All new material from Oxford’s legendary drunk-rock anti-heroes. Check out the thunder-toms on the title track.
open.spotify.com/album/2XSOXD...
open.spotify.com/album/2XSOXD...
Spotify – Web Player
open.spotify.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
All new material from Oxford’s legendary drunk-rock anti-heroes. Check out the thunder-toms on the title track.
open.spotify.com/album/2XSOXD...
open.spotify.com/album/2XSOXD...
Full version, featuring the late great Benjamin Zephaniah.
October 17, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Full version, featuring the late great Benjamin Zephaniah.
Reposted by Hamish Chalmers
Reposted by Hamish Chalmers
Schools, teachers & parents often face new initiatives designed to improve education — but every change comes with a cost.
🎧 Listen to @education.ox.ac.uk Deanery’s Digest episode about our Questioning guide that helps you assess education claims confidently.
podcasts.ox.ac.uk/confident-qu...
🎧 Listen to @education.ox.ac.uk Deanery’s Digest episode about our Questioning guide that helps you assess education claims confidently.
podcasts.ox.ac.uk/confident-qu...
The Confident Questioner’s Guide - Assessing Claims in Education
Schools, teachers and parents are regularly introduced to new measures designed to improve education. However, education is a zero-sum game. The introduction of a new initiative inevitably comes at…
podcasts.ox.ac.uk
October 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Schools, teachers & parents often face new initiatives designed to improve education — but every change comes with a cost.
🎧 Listen to @education.ox.ac.uk Deanery’s Digest episode about our Questioning guide that helps you assess education claims confidently.
podcasts.ox.ac.uk/confident-qu...
🎧 Listen to @education.ox.ac.uk Deanery’s Digest episode about our Questioning guide that helps you assess education claims confidently.
podcasts.ox.ac.uk/confident-qu...
New digital cassingle now available for preorder from Oxford’s premium 90’s drunk-rock superstars, Arthur Turners Lovechild?
The Last Hoorah of the Electric Kid., by Arthur Turners Lovechild?
5 track album
arthurturnerslovechild.bandcamp.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
New digital cassingle now available for preorder from Oxford’s premium 90’s drunk-rock superstars, Arthur Turners Lovechild?
Reposted by Hamish Chalmers
Our first #appliedlinguistics lunchtime seminar @education.ox.ac.uk is on 21st Oct, 1-2pm, with @dkcayado.bsky.social talking to us about morphology in Tagalog. Join us in person or online! Details ➡️ www.education.ox.ac.uk/event/tracki...
October 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Our first #appliedlinguistics lunchtime seminar @education.ox.ac.uk is on 21st Oct, 1-2pm, with @dkcayado.bsky.social talking to us about morphology in Tagalog. Join us in person or online! Details ➡️ www.education.ox.ac.uk/event/tracki...
“Doxxing. Ghosting. Felching. Dorries. New words frame hideous new concepts for which there were previously no words.”
‘Dorries’ 😂
‘Dorries’ 😂
And he’s back!!
Sunday isn’t Sunday without Stewart Lee. We were so thrilled at @thenerve.news that Stewart came with us.
His satirical columns for the Observer were some of our most-read content: funny, surreal, angry true. Essential weekend reading.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Sunday isn’t Sunday without Stewart Lee. We were so thrilled at @thenerve.news that Stewart came with us.
His satirical columns for the Observer were some of our most-read content: funny, surreal, angry true. Essential weekend reading.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
DOUBLETHINK DOES DOUBLETIME
STEWART LEE
www.thenerve.news
October 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
“Doxxing. Ghosting. Felching. Dorries. New words frame hideous new concepts for which there were previously no words.”
‘Dorries’ 😂
‘Dorries’ 😂
Reposted by Hamish Chalmers
Needs more cowbell.
October 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Needs more cowbell.
Buy our album … please
This Friday is Bandcamp Friday, where all proceeds from sales on the site go directly to the artist. Support independent music, and especially this banger of an album by Oxford’s drunk rock legends Arthur Turners Lovechild?
The Very Most of ...., by Arthur Turners Lovechild?
25 track album
arthurturnerslovechild.bandcamp.com
October 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Buy our album … please
I’m starting to think that maybe the last time was never
Kemi Badenoch: "Last time I checked Northern Ireland did vote to leave."
Might be good idea to check again.
Might be good idea to check again.
October 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I’m starting to think that maybe the last time was never
This Friday is Bandcamp Friday, where all proceeds from sales on the site go directly to the artist. Support independent music, and especially this banger of an album by Oxford’s drunk rock legends Arthur Turners Lovechild?
The Very Most of ...., by Arthur Turners Lovechild?
25 track album
arthurturnerslovechild.bandcamp.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:58 AM
This Friday is Bandcamp Friday, where all proceeds from sales on the site go directly to the artist. Support independent music, and especially this banger of an album by Oxford’s drunk rock legends Arthur Turners Lovechild?
I have just left a lengthy Pubpeer comment on the autism/Tylenol study being cited by the Trump administration. There appear to be a number of fairly straightforward errors in the paper.
pubpeer.com/publications...
pubpeer.com/publications...
PubPeer - Evaluation of the evidence on acetaminophen use and neurodev...
There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Evaluation of the evidence on acetaminophen use and neurodevelopmental disorders using the Navigation Guide methodology (2025)
pubpeer.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Liquid Glass is ugly AF.
September 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Liquid Glass is ugly AF.
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🎙️ How can teachers become confident questioners of new education initiatives?
David Schley (@senseaboutsci.bsky.social) & Hamish Chalmers discuss new guidance on what questions to ask to make informed decisions about what’s truly worthwhile.
🔗 Listen: podcasts.ox.ac.uk/confident-qu...
#Edusky
David Schley (@senseaboutsci.bsky.social) & Hamish Chalmers discuss new guidance on what questions to ask to make informed decisions about what’s truly worthwhile.
🔗 Listen: podcasts.ox.ac.uk/confident-qu...
#Edusky
September 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
🎙️ How can teachers become confident questioners of new education initiatives?
David Schley (@senseaboutsci.bsky.social) & Hamish Chalmers discuss new guidance on what questions to ask to make informed decisions about what’s truly worthwhile.
🔗 Listen: podcasts.ox.ac.uk/confident-qu...
#Edusky
David Schley (@senseaboutsci.bsky.social) & Hamish Chalmers discuss new guidance on what questions to ask to make informed decisions about what’s truly worthwhile.
🔗 Listen: podcasts.ox.ac.uk/confident-qu...
#Edusky