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Alex Weatherall

@aweatherall.bsky.social

Physics Teacher (England and now Aotearoa New Zealand #NZEd #UKEd) Technical-co-founder @teachertapp.bsky.com Software dev for 12 years and teacher for 12. Love music, the sky, and my new antipodean home. Also on mastodon and no longer on twitter.

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Jessica Ellis@baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 2d ago

Part of the reason a lot of super rich people are so awful is that when normal people get an absurd amount of money, they immediately start looking around for who they can help.

Stoo Metz 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈@stoometz.bsky.social · 3d ago

Rachel Reid, who wrote the popular “Heated Rivalry” novel, has donated $300k to Annapolis Valley Regional Library, “one of the most significant private gifts” in their history. “I credit my local library for being a huge part of the reason I’m a published author today,” Reid said #Halifax #HaliSky

Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 6d ago

I wish media outlets would describe Nathan Cofnas as a racist rather than a "self-defined race realist" which doesn't mean anything to most people. His writing meets any definition of racism however narrowly and cautiously drawn.

Tom Roberts@tpgroberts.bsky.social · 6d ago

Look, put simply, people should not be comfortable saying that in public and the way to fix society runs directly through making them afraid to say it again.

Gregory Kohn@kohngregory.bsky.social · 6d ago

In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.

Alex Weatherall@aweatherall.bsky.social · 6d ago

Fascinating outcome of the way Wikipedia categorises Reputable Sources (RS) is that an archive log of a University Staff page is deemed Original Research (OR), but an article in a newspaper which states something different is a RS. The result is inaccurate trumping accurate information.

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 6d ago

These are the articles published **just today**. The first and second were published at pretty much the exact moment Arday was found dead.

Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His schoolmates remember it differently Fellow pupils and old neighbours have joined the chorus challenging the ex-Cambridge professor’s extraordinary claims about a troubled youth Abigail Buchanan. Blaise Cloran. Tim Sigsworth News Reporter. Chris Matthews Published 14 August 2026 3:11pm BST Gift this article free Jason Arday “It’s a strange thing to spend almost twelve years of your life without language,” begins chapter one of Jason Arday’s forthcoming memoir, Great and Unfortunate Things. This claim – that Arday was illiterate and could not speak until just before secondary school – is one of the book’s most incredible, given the heights of academia he would go on to reach. But it is by no means the only one relating to his school days in south London. Indeed, the ex-Cambridge professor recounts how, as a young boy, he was only able to attend mainstream school for one day a week. When he built up to full-time, Arday claims, he was frequently removed from class on account of disruptive behaviour and “whisked… away to a small room with one solitary window”. He says he could not read or write until he was taught to do so by a girlfriend, aged 18.Cambridge took advice from pro-BLM group before hiring Arday Diversity taskforce was set up to ‘improve’ recruitment process in education faculty Albert Tait Education Editor Show biography Albert Tait Published 14 August 2026 3:10pm BST Gift this article free Jason Arday Jason Arday resigned from his academic post at the start of this month after becoming embroiled in a plagiarism row The Cambridge University department that appointed Jason Arday took advice on its hiring process from a pro-Black Lives Matter diversity taskforce, The Telegraph can reveal. An “equality and inclusion” working group was tasked with “updating hiring practices” within the university’s faculty of education to improve its recruitment of black and ethnic minority staff.Cambridge to review all HR procedures University to undergo audit after ‘shutting down’ whistleblower’s complaints of bullying and misogyny Albert Tait Education Editor Show biography Albert Tait Published 13 August 2026 11:01pm BST Gift this article free King's College at the University of Cambridge The vice-chancellor has said she asked for ‘an audit of our HR procedures and practices’ after losing an employment tribunal Credit: Tolga Akmen/Shutterstock The University of Cambridge will review its HR procedures after losing an employment tribunal that found it had “shut down” a whistleblower. Prof Deborah Prentice, the vice-chancellor, said she had asked for “an audit of our HR procedures and practices” after the case. Prof Wyn Evans, a professor of astrophysics within Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy, brought the case and claimed he had been victimised after raising concerns about bullying and misogyny at the university. Prof Prentice was implicated personally in the tribunal for “mishandling” the professor’s complaints, and has been accused of a failure of leadership. She is also under mounting pressure over the Jason Arday fiasco.
Terence Eden@edent.tel · 6d ago

I know you all hate the emergency alert about disposable barbeques. But yesterday I watched a man at our hotel breakfast set fire to a toaster by trying to toast a croissant - despite multiple signs telling him not to. Today he tried again. So, you know, calibrate for the average person.

Alex Weatherall@aweatherall.bsky.social · 7d ago

I hadn't noticed this but it is now obvious in its absence. This is the only nearly relevant entry from y9/10 spec: Describe how human activities have positively or negatively impacted ecosystems in local or global contexts (e.g. kina barrens, coral reefs, rainforests, predator free sanctuaries).

Andy Reisinger@andyreisinger.bsky.social · 7d ago

Not a single mention of “greenhouse gases”, “fossil fuels” or "climate change". Ministry claims students will still learn how the climate system works, why it changes, and its impacts. Withholding core vocabulary from curriculum to express causal relationships amounts to disinformation.

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · last wk.

BREAKING Romania has begun the complete shutdown of its only nuclear plant after water levels in the Danube, used to cool the site, fell to a record low, the national nuclear energy company says

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Alex Weatherall@aweatherall.bsky.social · last wk.

Lord Dampnut saying US clocks might not be falling back in October. Interesting experiment in just in time software updates, not much notice for the OS providers. It's a small change to tz data stored on each computer, but will everyone get the update done before the clocks go back automagically.

Dmitry Grozoubinski@explaintrade.com · last wk.

FWIW I feel the same way about data centers. Not like they're the first commercial building in human history to come with environmental, community and resource impacts. Also not like the builders lack capital. Regulate the shit out of how they're built and make them compensate local communities.

Dmitry Grozoubinski@explaintrade.com · last wk.

I know people will yell at me but: "Regulate the shit out of it and fine companies a bazillion dollars when they're negligent or willfully harmful" seems like a more sustainable position in the long term than "reject all AI on principle." I just don't think the latter argument is winnable.

Dmitry Grozoubinski@explaintrade.com · last wk.

I know people will yell at me but: "Regulate the shit out of it and fine companies a bazillion dollars when they're negligent or willfully harmful" seems like a more sustainable position in the long term than "reject all AI on principle." I just don't think the latter argument is winnable.

Dan the Gnome@brewergnome.bsky.social · last yr.

"Why SHOULDN'T government be run like a business?" Because the goals are diametrically opposed and mutually exclusive. Businesses exist to make money. Governments exist to make people's lives better. You ask if the fire dept is successful at putting out fires and saving people, not the $ it makes

AR@psalisbury.bsky.social · 2w ago

Last full day here, so we went for a walk. It was like Jurassic park. What a wonderfully complex and contrasting place New Zealand is. I feel like I've seen more contrasting climates, landscapes and scenery in 3 weeks than any other place I've visited..