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Dr Samuel Saunders
@samfordsaunders.bsky.social
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Educational Developer at the University of Liverpool (@livunicie.bsky.social): assessment and feedback, academic integrity, curriculum design, and (sceptical thoughts on) Generative AI. PhD: English, LJMU (2018) C19 crime fiction. SFHEA. He/him.
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This mouse has buried five husbands under mysterious circumstances.
A decoration of a felt mouse. She is wearing a red dress, a red fur boa, and a gold necklace. She is fabulous.
October 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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An anonymous friend left me a Cacodemon pin badge on my desk and I love him.
A small red enamel pin badge of a Cacodemon from the Doom series. Best described as a 'bitey meatball', he is round, red, horned, and with a single green eye in the middle above a very wide, toothy mouth used to eating people, that he looks very proud of.
September 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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That was taken through a window so I braved the storm outside to get a better picture
A beautiful pink and peach rose surrounded by green foliage.
June 22, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Latest rose to open, I utterly adore this one. It's called 'Gorgeous', and I think it definitely lives up to its name.
A frankly magnificent rose flower, with bright pink edges, fading to white in the middle of the petals, and then a deep orange at the centre of the flower. It's surrounded by deep green foliage.
June 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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I've missed quite a few #RoseWednesday pictures so here's 'Churchill' to make up for it.
An absolutely enormous, fluffy cream-pink coloured rose with a slightly yellowed centre. There's not really anything else in the picture because it's so huge.
June 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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For this week's #RoseWednesday, here's our first flower of 2025 on 'Emma Bridgewater'.
A bright pink open rose flower surrounded by green foliage. The middle has a slight yellowness in it.
May 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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It's #RoseWednesday and, in a very happy coincidence, my first rose of the year has opened up today - Desdemona. It smells beautiful!
A pale cream/pink rose flower in full bloom, surrounded by lush green foliage.
May 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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I have spent the last three days building this and I am Pleased With It, and it therefore needs to be shared.
A wooden pergola in a garden, with a gravel floor underneath and green plants in a raised bed behind it. It has two wooden chairs and a metal bench underneath, and there is a small half-moon flowerbed in front of it with green plants in it.
May 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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'See it. Say it. Sorted'.
An image of PM Keir Starmer at a lectern giving a speech. He is stood in front of two flags - one representing the UK and the other the USA. The closed captions read 'there's a famous slogan in the United Kingdom'.
February 28, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Extremely Photogenic Mischief agrees.
A black cat is sat staring up at the camera. She looks very sleek and shiny, although the fact that she looks very photogenic conceals the fact that she was actually asking for food at the time.
February 14, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Bought The Chief a cat-size couch for Christmas and walked in on this. I think she likes it.
A black cat on a cream-coloured miniature couch. She is on her back, utterly out cold, with all four legs in the air.
December 31, 2024 at 11:54 PM
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Another snip from the roast. I am a scholarly socialite (not sure about that one). I am also 88% 'keeping it real', and I have no idea what that means.
December 5, 2024 at 12:33 PM
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A snip of my BlueSky roast. Apparently I 'bring the academic heat like a high-stakes lecture room, but somehow manage to make us feel like we're here for a chill study group instead'. I'll take that. I am also sceptical about AI (true) and champion local journalism (also true).
December 5, 2024 at 12:33 PM
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I'm very happy to be speaking alongside @tundeva.bsky.social at an upcoming @advancehe.bsky.social webinar on Using the Framework for Enhancing Assessment. We'll be talking a bit about our GenAI and Multimodal Learning project - do please come along!
A social media card that shows a professional headshot, that I dislike on principle simply because it is a picture of me, and advertises the fact that I am speaking at an upcoming AdvanceHE webinar on Using the Framework for Enhancing Assessment.
December 2, 2024 at 1:42 PM
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Okay so my piano exam actually went a lot better than I thought it did. Grade 4 might not be the top end of the scale (no pun intended), but this was a big deal for me who never thought they'd do it at all.
A clip of a transcript showing that I achieved a distinction in Grade 4 piano.
November 25, 2024 at 11:08 AM
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Age yourself with your first computer.

I genuinely still own, and use, one of these.
November 18, 2024 at 9:25 PM
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Gone.
A small snip of my screen showing that I have deactivated my Twitter account.
November 12, 2024 at 8:57 AM
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On #NationalBlackCatDay here is Mischief, resting after doing mischief.
A black cat lying on her back on a cream-coloured couch. She is out cold, and her back feet are raised in the air.
October 27, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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A nice piece of good news to round out what turned out to be a pretty busy week!
October 27, 2024 at 6:26 AM
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'Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy'

I mean, I think this is fair. Classic meme, but still very applicable.
A view of the back of a pickup truck, carrying a box that says 'complete toilet' on it. Superimposed text above the box reads 'he sounds like a', creating the phrase 'he sounds like a complete toilet'. This is applicable in most situations.
October 7, 2024 at 10:24 AM
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Reskeet with a banger picture of your cat(s).
An extremely comfortable black cat. Her head is resting on my arm, and her face essentially says 'I never want to move from this position'.
September 20, 2024 at 2:52 PM
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For #RoseWednesday, here's Blue Moon, a climber that has a) flowered repeatedly this year and it gets better every time and b) genuinely smells of sherbet and I *love* it.
A lilac-coloured rose dubbed Blue Moon against some trellis.
September 17, 2024 at 6:45 PM
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Oh go on then.
A card celebrating the first 10m users of Bluesky, which states that I was number 687,446.
September 17, 2024 at 6:28 AM
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Mischief might be a bit of a challenger...!
A black cat with her head on a pink fluffy throw. She looks, and is, extremely comfortable.
September 16, 2024 at 5:43 PM
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Post a perfect album from when you were 21.
Album cover for Thrice - Major/Minor. It is essentially two shades of brown, with the upper three quarters a dark shade, while the lower quarter is almost cream.
September 16, 2024 at 10:22 AM