drive.google.com/file/d/1Mn7H... Letter of Appeal from the Ukrainian Book Institute to the international community

Both the Economist and others suggest this study demonstrates that AI can help students. So I contacted the lead researcher to figure out how many. Answer: Out of ~26,000 kids, a total of 20. And five months after starting to use AI, only four continued to spend 65 minutes on homework. Four.

Benjamin Riley@benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 4w ago

I mean, c'mon. What this data shows is (a) there's a huge number of students using AI and not studying for very long compared to peers; and (b) negligible "benefits" for students who did study for comparable time periods and used AI.

#TheYearInReform Look, it's very simple. Nothing to see here. Move along. Reform UK is a party - sorry - a company built around British Patriotism and being frank with the public, and it is led by straight-talking anti-elite Nigel Farage.

1) This is an excellent book, and one that deserves more readers. 2) Longbarrow Press needs to raise some money. Therefore 3) we have made 'Cazique' half-price this weekend. 4) A beautifully produced hardback for the price of a pamphlet. 5) Order here: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Longbarrow Press@longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"I have a plan and all I need is half of everything you own." 'Cazique' is Matthew Clegg's third full-length collection. You can read the title poem here: longbarrowpress.com/featured-poe...

Join this online networking session for #psychology teachers in Scotland! *share your experiences & strategies for Higher & Nat 5 Psychology prelims. *hear about support from #BPS *connect with psychology teachers in Europe To get the link just email atpsteachers@gmail.com. Hope to see you there!

If you care about authors, books and bloggers, switch to @DuckDuckGo! Google's 'Generative AI' steals words, paragraphs & pages (including ours) and doesn't credit the author - it's IP theft. If you care about authors usehttps://duckduckgo.com/ #SupportCreators #Copyright

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Valuable article, 'Bridging the gap between pre-university and university psychology education in the UK: The role of the BPS Teacher’s Toolkit' – www.bera.ac.uk/blog/bridgin...

This sounds reasonable but is 100% wrong. Whether you or agree or disagree with a study is completely immaterial. What matters is whether the study was conducted properly and generates valid results. And it's impolitic to say but it's true: you have to have some level of expertise to judge that.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10mo ago

JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."

Grammarly is now an enemy of education "Universities risk putting students in impossible positions where they’re simultaneously told they can use a tool and that using certain functions of that tool constitutes cheating." Seriously, ban it. It's no friend of education wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...

Some reasonable adjustments may have just become academic misconduct

Lots of universities across the UK permit the use of Grammarly in reasonable adjustment plans for disabled students, and some permit it in some circumstances for those whose first language isn't Engli...

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It's publication day for this beauty, with stories by David Bevan @iancritchley.bsky.social @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social, Alison Moore, Okechukwu Nzelu, @simonokotie.bsky.social, C.D. Rose, Iain Sinclair, Naomi Wood, lucky old me! et al. Thank you @nicholasroyle.bsky.social & @saltpublishing.com 🔥

Just bought it as well as the @saltpublishing.com 2025 story anthology. Looking forward to the reads! @willwiles.bsky.social

Rob Tyers@thexclaim6.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Just started The Anechoic Chamber and Other Weird Tales (2025) by @willwiles.bsky.social published by @saltpublishing.com and based on a @raynewman.bsky.social endorsement Three stories in and it’s really great. Stylistically diverse and highly addictive without resorting to pastiche 🤌👌👍 #booksky

Thank you so much for ALL your support 🦋 We are fundraising to invest in new books and new writing. Every penny we raise will be spent on our authors. Do please make a donation and share our fundraiser widely! #Fundraiser #SupportIndie #IndiePress #IndiePublishing #KeepBooksAlive #BookSky

Donate to Keep Independent Publishing Alive – Support Salt Books 2026, organized by Christopher Hamilton-Emery

New books and reprints arrive daily at Salty Towers – and we'… Christopher Hamilton-Emery needs your support for Keep Independent Publishing Alive – Support Salt Books 2026

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✨️Handmade Christmas tree🎄 decorations that will add warmth and light to your home. Made with love in Ukraine💙💛 You can order on Etsy or in DM📩 www.etsy.com/shop/NadiiaJ... Worldwide delivery🌍 Support Ukrainian craftsmen, it is very important at this time!🫂❤️ #SupportUkraine #madeinUkraine #etsygifts

My most recent newsletter is on research into retrieval practice and generative learning firth.substack.com/p/combining-... A follow-up post on Monday! #education #edusky

Combining Retrieval Practice and Generative Learning

Jonathan Firth's Memory & Metacognition Updates #121

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*NEW POST* The Enduring Persistence of Neuromyths in Education A new study surveying over 3,000 Spanish teachers provides one of the most detailed snapshots to date. Fantastic work from @juanfernandez.bsky.social @ferreromar.bsky.social and colleagues open.substack.com/pub/carlhend...

Beyond Neuromyths: Why Teachers Still Embrace Ideas That Don't Work

A new study surveying over 3,000 Spanish teachers, offers the most comprehensive picture yet of educational misconceptions in the wild.

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I didn't post an update on my Substack this week, but I'm back on Monday with the third and final post on my series on transfer in education. firth.substack.com

The Education Committee wants to understand what is needed to secure a sustainable financial future for the Higher Education sector. Share your views: committees.parliament.uk/work/9012/hi...

I’m delighted to say that @edpsy.bsky.social has just published my article about @bpsofficial.bsky.social @bps-dartp.bsky.social @theatp.bsky.social on its blog! 🎉 @edpsydan.bsky.social for giving me the opportunity to do this! edpsy.org.uk/blog/2025/th...

The BPS Teachers’ toolkit – how and why it is improving pre-university education. - edpsy.org.uk

The BPS Teachers’ Toolkit provides a curated range of high quality resources to support teachers of all specifications and levels....

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What happens to science under autocracy? The rise of the National Socialist Party in 1930s Germany provides an (admittedly extreme) example. Prior to the early 1930s, scientists at German institutions won a third of Nobels. 10 years later, that number was 5%, and has never recovered.

Today we're thrilled to publish our latest piece: @abbykirby.bsky.social on her work teaching fic writing to middle schoolers! "It invites students not just to analyze the role of a text, but to partake in its deconstruction and recreation on their own terms." Read or listen to an audio version:

Bringing Fanfiction Into the Classroom — Fansplaining

Fic does something that my traditional English classes cannot: it places the power in the hands of the student.

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The Bell Ringer is launching a book club, and I'd love for you to join us! The first book, Developing Curriculum for Deep Thinking, comes from experts like Dylan Wiliam and Paul Kirschner and is free to download. We start June 2! Get info here: hollykorbey.substack.com/p/join-the-b...

Essentially *all* research and expert assessments show that this does not work. It will not counter Farage, but literally push votes towards Reform. It genuinely is impossible to overstate how profoundly stupid and strategically illiterate this decision is. You cannot out-Reform Reform.

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · last yr.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer is preparing tougher measures on immigration to stem a record flow of arrivals across the English Channel and stave off the threat posed by Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party after it made sweeping gains in this week’s local elections.

Scam-busting investigative journalist @nickstapleton.tv exposes the AI-generated books being sold on Amazon. Taken from the upcoming summer edition of The SoA's magazine, The Author. #MakeItFair #DoTheWriteThing societyofauthors.org/2025/05/02/t...

The rise of the AIthor - The Society of Authors

Scam-busting investigative journalist Nick Stapleton exposes the AI-generated books being sold on Amazon

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Huge shout out to @jwfirth.bsky.social. I just interviewed him about some of the key ideas in his book. I can’t recommend subscribing to his newsletter enough!

Is Metacognition Too Complex for Teachers? This question is posed by @jwfirth.bsky.social who then presents 5 simple statements to help all of us, not just teachers, better understand the concept. #EduSky If I were him, I'd add one bullet about metacognitive skills. open.substack.com/pub/firth/p/...

Thank you Sir @chrisbryant1962.bsky.social for acknowledging in today’s Parliamentary Debate on AI that #Metatheft of authors' copyright-protected works was ‘patently wrong’. #MetaBookThieves

This is a chance to support Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social in their bid to survive. Why not buy just one book - there's loads in their online shop at affordable prices.

4 reasons why wait times could be cut short in the classroom are: 📈 The Action Bias 🦸‍♂️ The Superman Complex 🧠 The Curse of Expertise 🤔 Misconceptions about what learning looks like To learn what these are and how they would affect you, click here 🡇 www.innerdrive.co.uk/blog/why-tea...

I am reading the new book by the Facebook / Meta whistleblower - Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams. Interesting bit where she says that the big tech bosses all push their products on other people's kids but refuse to let their own kids use them.

Interested in learning more about attention contagion & how it impacts learning? 1. My book goes into great detail about this phenomenon. tinyurl.com/27myuev6 2. Check out the full 'improving attention' course through @innerdrive.bsky.social's Teacher CPD Academy. t.co/4wRZTZvTaN #eduksky