Dave Jones
@davegjones.bsky.social
Wannabe Anarchist, farmer and environmentalist. MUFC, cricket, politics, cycling for transport, member of the Green Party 💚.
Core maths and A level maths + further.
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Core maths and A level maths + further.
He/him
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89% of our eligible members voted YES on a 65% turnout.
It’s time for action to address pay erosion, spiralling workloads and failed bargaining arrangements. The sector deserves better.
Proud of our branch!
It’s time for action to address pay erosion, spiralling workloads and failed bargaining arrangements. The sector deserves better.
Proud of our branch!
90% voted YES.
32 colleges over the line.
17 colleges already won pay awards.
This is a huge organising win for our FE members.
College bosses must work with us, staff deserve a fair deal, especially when many are paid £7k–£9k less than in sixth forms.
Next steps announced next week.
32 colleges over the line.
17 colleges already won pay awards.
This is a huge organising win for our FE members.
College bosses must work with us, staff deserve a fair deal, especially when many are paid £7k–£9k less than in sixth forms.
Next steps announced next week.
November 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
89% of our eligible members voted YES on a 65% turnout.
It’s time for action to address pay erosion, spiralling workloads and failed bargaining arrangements. The sector deserves better.
Proud of our branch!
It’s time for action to address pay erosion, spiralling workloads and failed bargaining arrangements. The sector deserves better.
Proud of our branch!
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
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This will hopefully give students an indication of which universities are more or less flexible on their entry criteria, to help them make their choices. Subjects are in tabs along the bottom (eg Maths, Physics, Comp Sci, etc) The data is for 2026 entry. wykecollege-my.sharepoint.com/:x:/g/person...
November 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
This will hopefully give students an indication of which universities are more or less flexible on their entry criteria, to help them make their choices. Subjects are in tabs along the bottom (eg Maths, Physics, Comp Sci, etc) The data is for 2026 entry. wykecollege-my.sharepoint.com/:x:/g/person...
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There were 93 homicides in London last year: population 9 million
In New York - population 8.5 million - there were
391.
London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago.
And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing
In New York - population 8.5 million - there were
391.
London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago.
And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing
November 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
There were 93 homicides in London last year: population 9 million
In New York - population 8.5 million - there were
391.
London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago.
And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing
In New York - population 8.5 million - there were
391.
London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago.
And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing
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I was tagged and asked to take a look at this claim - cos, well just look at it!🙄
Does it seem plausible that THE Trocadero is going to be turned into a Mosque?
It was pretty easy to debunk but I decided to do a deep dive into the reality AND the appalling press coverage
🧵
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Does it seem plausible that THE Trocadero is going to be turned into a Mosque?
It was pretty easy to debunk but I decided to do a deep dive into the reality AND the appalling press coverage
🧵
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November 16, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I was tagged and asked to take a look at this claim - cos, well just look at it!🙄
Does it seem plausible that THE Trocadero is going to be turned into a Mosque?
It was pretty easy to debunk but I decided to do a deep dive into the reality AND the appalling press coverage
🧵
1/26
Does it seem plausible that THE Trocadero is going to be turned into a Mosque?
It was pretty easy to debunk but I decided to do a deep dive into the reality AND the appalling press coverage
🧵
1/26
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"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
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I've had a great time over the last two weeks meeting teachers on the first set of our 'The Maths of Data Science and AI' teacher study days.
We're repeating the courses for #ALevelMaths teachers in the spring (with a bursary of £350 for the study day!).
Apply now: amsp.org.uk/event/b23514...
We're repeating the courses for #ALevelMaths teachers in the spring (with a bursary of £350 for the study day!).
Apply now: amsp.org.uk/event/b23514...
November 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I've had a great time over the last two weeks meeting teachers on the first set of our 'The Maths of Data Science and AI' teacher study days.
We're repeating the courses for #ALevelMaths teachers in the spring (with a bursary of £350 for the study day!).
Apply now: amsp.org.uk/event/b23514...
We're repeating the courses for #ALevelMaths teachers in the spring (with a bursary of £350 for the study day!).
Apply now: amsp.org.uk/event/b23514...
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Hadn't clocked until this tweet that this is true of every defeated Labour government other than New Labour: more votes in defeat in 1951 than in victory in 1945, more in 1970 than in 1964. And frankly, whether they win or lose next time, would bet large amounts will get more votes than 2024.
Labour got more votes in 1979 then they did in Oct 1974.
November 15, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Hadn't clocked until this tweet that this is true of every defeated Labour government other than New Labour: more votes in defeat in 1951 than in victory in 1945, more in 1970 than in 1964. And frankly, whether they win or lose next time, would bet large amounts will get more votes than 2024.
#CoreMaths Trying to make and share more resources. I used this yesterday to get students to improve their written answers. They were asked if statements were true or false and how they would defend their opinion in a sentence or two. docs.google.com/presentation...
English Flight Breakdown
What do you notice? What do you wonder? https://www.wearepossible.org/our-reports/elite-status-global-inequalities-in-flying?hl=en-GB#:~:text=Elite%20status%3A%20Global%20inequalities%20in,stark%20ine...
docs.google.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
#CoreMaths Trying to make and share more resources. I used this yesterday to get students to improve their written answers. They were asked if statements were true or false and how they would defend their opinion in a sentence or two. docs.google.com/presentation...
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🚨 STRIKE ACTION BEGINS TODAY 🚨
Join us on the picket lines to secure Hallam's future. After 1,000 job losses, we demand change.
✊ No Compulsory Redundancies
✊ Protect Academic Conditions
✊ Restore Career Progression
✊ Ensure Transparent Management
ucuhallam.org
Join us on the picket lines to secure Hallam's future. After 1,000 job losses, we demand change.
✊ No Compulsory Redundancies
✊ Protect Academic Conditions
✊ Restore Career Progression
✊ Ensure Transparent Management
ucuhallam.org
UCU Sheffield Hallam University | UCU Hallam
ucuhallam.org
November 11, 2025 at 8:21 AM
🚨 STRIKE ACTION BEGINS TODAY 🚨
Join us on the picket lines to secure Hallam's future. After 1,000 job losses, we demand change.
✊ No Compulsory Redundancies
✊ Protect Academic Conditions
✊ Restore Career Progression
✊ Ensure Transparent Management
ucuhallam.org
Join us on the picket lines to secure Hallam's future. After 1,000 job losses, we demand change.
✊ No Compulsory Redundancies
✊ Protect Academic Conditions
✊ Restore Career Progression
✊ Ensure Transparent Management
ucuhallam.org
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Net zero is one of the many areas where commentators are out-of-touch with public opinion in Britain. There is still broad support for cutting carbon emissions - except from among Reform supporters, who are the outliers.
🧵/ How far does the public support net zero?
Support: 60%
Oppose: 25%
Net support by party
Green: +81
Lib Dem: +67
Lab: +64
Con: +11
Reform: -44
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
Support: 60%
Oppose: 25%
Net support by party
Green: +81
Lib Dem: +67
Lab: +64
Con: +11
Reform: -44
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
November 11, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Net zero is one of the many areas where commentators are out-of-touch with public opinion in Britain. There is still broad support for cutting carbon emissions - except from among Reform supporters, who are the outliers.
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Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
I've always dreamed of Radiohead writing songs about me, ironically or otherwise.
Further evidence of my complete decline as a human being: batch cooking makes me very happy. Control over calories and expenditure. I have become the kind of person Radiohead used to write ironic songs about.
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I've always dreamed of Radiohead writing songs about me, ironically or otherwise.
The MET is a disgrace and needs to be scrapped. A home for racists, sexists, homophobes, domestic abusers and rapists. I'd genuinely feel safer in a windowless room with reform voters.
Nothing here isn't already widely known. The reality is the Met is serially incapable of acting in anything other than a token way to findings of numerous critical reviews, responding instead with platitudes and then waiting out any short term negative publicity www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:08 AM
The MET is a disgrace and needs to be scrapped. A home for racists, sexists, homophobes, domestic abusers and rapists. I'd genuinely feel safer in a windowless room with reform voters.
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If you ever think English is not a weird language just remember that read and lead rhyme and read and lead rhyme.
But read and lead don't rhyme, and neither do read and lead.
But read and lead don't rhyme, and neither do read and lead.
November 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
If you ever think English is not a weird language just remember that read and lead rhyme and read and lead rhyme.
But read and lead don't rhyme, and neither do read and lead.
But read and lead don't rhyme, and neither do read and lead.
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A great day of sharing ideas and collaboration at @STEMLearningUK today with @GNMH_MathsHub, @SYMathsHub, @ArchimedesNE, @WYorksMathsHub and @GaynorBahan, for the 1st @NCETM Operational Management forum of the year.
November 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
A great day of sharing ideas and collaboration at @STEMLearningUK today with @GNMH_MathsHub, @SYMathsHub, @ArchimedesNE, @WYorksMathsHub and @GaynorBahan, for the 1st @NCETM Operational Management forum of the year.
#Alevelmaths
Used these with Yr13 before 2D kinematics and it was great to see the students applying their SUVAT equations in context. We went on to use the highway code stopping distances to compare 80 to 70, and 40 to 30.
Will use again, thank you to @deegs23.bsky.social for sharing.
Used these with Yr13 before 2D kinematics and it was great to see the students applying their SUVAT equations in context. We went on to use the highway code stopping distances to compare 80 to 70, and 40 to 30.
Will use again, thank you to @deegs23.bsky.social for sharing.
November 6, 2025 at 12:20 PM
#Alevelmaths
Used these with Yr13 before 2D kinematics and it was great to see the students applying their SUVAT equations in context. We went on to use the highway code stopping distances to compare 80 to 70, and 40 to 30.
Will use again, thank you to @deegs23.bsky.social for sharing.
Used these with Yr13 before 2D kinematics and it was great to see the students applying their SUVAT equations in context. We went on to use the highway code stopping distances to compare 80 to 70, and 40 to 30.
Will use again, thank you to @deegs23.bsky.social for sharing.
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Protest is fundamental to our democracy - we rightly celebrate people like Nelson Mandela who changed the world through protest
But this govt is clamping down on our protest rights with increasingly authoritarian laws
Thanks @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social for making this point so powerfully
But this govt is clamping down on our protest rights with increasingly authoritarian laws
Thanks @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social for making this point so powerfully
November 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Protest is fundamental to our democracy - we rightly celebrate people like Nelson Mandela who changed the world through protest
But this govt is clamping down on our protest rights with increasingly authoritarian laws
Thanks @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social for making this point so powerfully
But this govt is clamping down on our protest rights with increasingly authoritarian laws
Thanks @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social for making this point so powerfully
I'm trying to fly less. But it turns out I didn't have a clue and who flies and how much. Fewer than 25% of people fly more than once a year. 50% of people don't fly each year.
November 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I'm trying to fly less. But it turns out I didn't have a clue and who flies and how much. Fewer than 25% of people fly more than once a year. 50% of people don't fly each year.
The only thing better than British buses? Free travel on British buses! With New York heading towards free bus travel under their new mayor, can York hope for the same?
Backing British Buses 🚌 🇬🇧 Made right here in Scarborough!
Today I attended the Bus Manufacturing Roundtable, hosted by Heidi Alexander & Simon Lightwood, who are both pressing to expedite new bus orders & back British manufacturing at bus builders like Alexander Dennis in Eastfield, Scarborough.
Today I attended the Bus Manufacturing Roundtable, hosted by Heidi Alexander & Simon Lightwood, who are both pressing to expedite new bus orders & back British manufacturing at bus builders like Alexander Dennis in Eastfield, Scarborough.
November 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
The only thing better than British buses? Free travel on British buses! With New York heading towards free bus travel under their new mayor, can York hope for the same?
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November 1965. Sixty years ago. An official White House report on the dangers of climate change.
Nineteen sixty-five.
Nineteen sixty-five.
Hard to believe these days, but there was once a time when the US government led the debate on how to combat climate change and improve environmental quality.
60 yrs ago today (Nov 5, 1965), the 1st US government report to warn about climate change was published.
"Restoring the Quality of Our Environment" included warning of C02 build-up and sea-level rise/melting ice-caps.
allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/04/6...
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"Restoring the Quality of Our Environment" included warning of C02 build-up and sea-level rise/melting ice-caps.
allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/04/6...
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November 5, 2025 at 9:07 AM
November 1965. Sixty years ago. An official White House report on the dangers of climate change.
Nineteen sixty-five.
Nineteen sixty-five.
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A rail worker credited with saving multiple lives during a mass stabbing on a train has been named as Samir Zitouni.
The 48-year-old's actions on the Doncaster to London King's Cross service on Saturday evening were described as "nothing short of heroic
The 48-year-old's actions on the Doncaster to London King's Cross service on Saturday evening were described as "nothing short of heroic
November 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
A rail worker credited with saving multiple lives during a mass stabbing on a train has been named as Samir Zitouni.
The 48-year-old's actions on the Doncaster to London King's Cross service on Saturday evening were described as "nothing short of heroic
The 48-year-old's actions on the Doncaster to London King's Cross service on Saturday evening were described as "nothing short of heroic
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The first thing Yaxley-Lennon did on leaving court was to thank Elon Musk for funding his legal costs.
That's Elon Musk who has repeatedly called for civil war in the UK.
As of typing this - all of the major politicians and platforms maintain a presence on X and it is time for them all to leave.
That's Elon Musk who has repeatedly called for civil war in the UK.
As of typing this - all of the major politicians and platforms maintain a presence on X and it is time for them all to leave.
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
The first thing Yaxley-Lennon did on leaving court was to thank Elon Musk for funding his legal costs.
That's Elon Musk who has repeatedly called for civil war in the UK.
As of typing this - all of the major politicians and platforms maintain a presence on X and it is time for them all to leave.
That's Elon Musk who has repeatedly called for civil war in the UK.
As of typing this - all of the major politicians and platforms maintain a presence on X and it is time for them all to leave.
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The clock is ticking! Each and every ballot paper returned gives us the strength to keep going and get the settlement that we, our students and our communities deserve.
Vote YES ✅ for a #NewDealForFE
Vote YES ✅ for a #NewDealForFE
November 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM
The clock is ticking! Each and every ballot paper returned gives us the strength to keep going and get the settlement that we, our students and our communities deserve.
Vote YES ✅ for a #NewDealForFE
Vote YES ✅ for a #NewDealForFE
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To be fair, they’re losing MPs at a much faster rate.
One in twenty Reform councillors elected in May 2025 has left by the Autumn
- half expelled/suspended
- a quarter resigned from council
- some defected
An "unusual rate" of attrition in 6 months, says Tony Travers
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
- half expelled/suspended
- a quarter resigned from council
- some defected
An "unusual rate" of attrition in 6 months, says Tony Travers
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Reform Is Losing Councillors Elected In May At An 'Unusual' Rate
Reform UK has lost more than 5 per cent of the councillors it had elected six months ago, an analysis by PoliticsHome has found.
www.politicshome.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:34 AM
To be fair, they’re losing MPs at a much faster rate.