Ed Foster
@edfoster.bsky.social
Hmm Work in HE learning & teaching, particularly student engagement & learning analytics. Also, love the Peak District and TTRPGs. Mostly here for the jokes. Apologies if discussion about pedagogy is interrupted with DND jokes and vice versa.
Very strangely the 10 trade unions calling on the government not to approve the Rosebank oil field are getting a lot less coverage today than the one trade union calling on the government to green light more fossil fuel projects. www.businessgreen.com/news/4537337...
'Outright arson': Trade unions urge government to reject Rosebank oil field
Group of 10 trade unions argues approving major new fossil fuel project in wake of record-breaking summer would be anything but 'pragmatic'
businessgreen.com
We've awarded the @britishacademy.bsky.social President's Medal to the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra which was founded by Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said to bring musicians across borders together to share in the act of performing music www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/pioneer...
Pioneering orchestra promoting solidarity across borders receives 2026 British Academy President’s Medal
The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra has been awarded the British Academy’s most prestigious award, the President’s Medal for 2026, recognising the orchestra’s outstanding musical achievements and its vit...
thebritishacademy.ac.uk
In other words, a 10 percent contraction in one of Britain’s most successful exports. If it were steel or fish or other infinitely less profitable sectors, people would be having a meltdown.
Times Higher Education (THE)@timeshighered.bsky.social · 2w agoVisa applications to study in the UK fell by 10.3 per cent for the key recruitment month of September, new Home Office figures show. @jgro-the.bsky.social reports #highered #visas #internationalstudents #edusky https://ow.ly/3LSs50ZVPAE
the most predictable consequences ever: Strikingly, every single one of the many smart glasses videos we found were captured by teen boys — and their bad behavior was overwhelmingly directed at girls.
Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Terrorize Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools
Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.
futurism.com
Immensely proud to have run* today’s Robin Hood half marathon on behalf of Nottingham Refugee Forum. There is still time to donate - the charity does incredible work in the city, providing a welcoming community space, specialised advice and support to refugees *shuffled and walked
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 4w agoClass solidarity.
Tyler Tarver @tylertarver.bsky.social took time out of his busy schedule to give our book a review. I'm looking forward to his keynote at this year's TETC & to you getting to read his complete review. #ComingSoon #TN_TETA #FortuneCookiePedagogy #XfactorEDU #ISTE #FETC #CoSn #GoogleEDU
This is my favorite picture on the internet (Former French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe defeats children in a game of dominoes during a visit to a school, September 2019)
A new era for Byline Times goes to press! @peterjukes.bsky.social & I are proud to have worked on a print redesign with our new art director Sonny Dhamu. With your support, we continue to grow. This issue marks a story no one else can/will. Two Cambridge professors. Two very different narratives...
My favourite fact about Iceland is that we have many, many crime writers but only one forensic pathologist, and he was so busy answering all of their questions that he decided to have a small seminar for writers to get some peace. It immediately sold out so he had another one that also sold out.
In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans
Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby
bbc.com
when you have a lawyer at the banana sticker company
Labour's stupidity around universities is driving me insane
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · last mo.A cheery message from the new minister responsible for research funding for the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences (and the subjects that the majority of UK taught undergraduate and Masters students study).
As I keep pointing out, does no one understand Ricardian comparative advantage anymore. FACT: China produces over 1 million engineering graduates per year FACT: To date, China has not produced a single internationally marketable game show format Where does it look like our advantage lies?
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · last mo.A cheery message from the new minister responsible for research funding for the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences (and the subjects that the majority of UK taught undergraduate and Masters students study).
It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with.
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · last mo.A cheery message from the new minister responsible for research funding for the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences (and the subjects that the majority of UK taught undergraduate and Masters students study).
Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.
Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 2y agoApple is aiming to release a foldable iPhone in 2026 📱 (via WSJ)
80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.
picking a side in a face off between street fash and the RNLI is not fucking Sophie's Choice, it's strawberry ice cream or a bucket of shit. and the Home Office go for the bucket every time.