A team of researchers led by the University of Aberdeen has found that private gardens played a vital role in supporting people's well-being during the UK's first Covid-19 lockdown, when access to public green spaces was significantly restricted. 🔗 www.abdn.ac.uk/news/...
STEAM Garden as a Provocation Day 2 has started 🌱 @morayhouse.bsky.social @kdarlingmcq.bsky.social and @jhanc89.bsky.social sharing a warm welcome ❤️
A wonderful first session at our STEAM Garden as a provocation event at @morayhouse.bsky.social - a wonderful gathering of our widening community. Thank you @l0ur0col.bsky.social @kdarlingmcq.bsky.social @jhanc89.bsky.social for creating such a special opportunity for thinking and reframing. 🌱🎨💭
Interesting event and thoughtful discussion at “STEAM garden as provocation” @morayhouse.bsky.social How does the metaphor of a garden provoke your thoughts about connections to education?
More than 20 years old & still an engrossing read, where you encounter the man as well as the philosopher. #AlasdairMacIntyre RIP @pesgb.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jope/article...
Alasdair MacIntyre on Education: In Dialogue with Joseph Dunne
Abstract. This discussion begins from the dilemma, posed in some earlier writing by Alasdair MacIntyre, that education is essential but also, in current ec
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What kind of 'educational' research is quietly happening when teachers respond to students, make judgement in complex situations, say yes or no to pressures they face? Stewart Allan Robertson Lecture with Professor Gert Biesta, Steve McLeister, Jenny Murray, Alison Adams. "https://lnkd.in/eGv65UKS
🌍🧊 Glacier losses locked in A new study shows that even if we overshoot 1.5 °C and cool back down, glacier melt and reduced runoff will continue for centuries – some changes are irreversible. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415... #SciComm #ClimateChange #Glaciers 🧪
Irreversible glacier change and trough water for centuries after overshooting 1.5 °C - Nature Climate Change
How mountain glaciers will react to temporarily overshooting 1.5 °C of warming is poorly understood. Here the authors show irreversible global glacier loss for centuries after overshoot, implying long...
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Happy to share this work seeking to touch new dimensions in citizen science. An experiment across sciences and the arts. Thank you to Laura Koetzler and Claire Ramjan editors of the special issue for the opportunity! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘To touch is to know': haptic inquiry for primary school citizen science
Drawing on insights from the transdisciplinary project ‘SENSE: Sensory Explorations of Nature in School Environments’, this paper articulates a novel approach that addresses current calls for meani...
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Transformations in teacher education: being in and being-with the world #STEAM @morayhouse.bsky.social
It took a bit of time to elaborate these ideas in science education,but here we are, Carbon plunging into the realm of the changeable. Mini special issue with Gert Biesta, Elisabet Lengman and Stefano Oliveiro on World-Centred Education journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Carbon entanglements: For a science education in the space of the sensible - Laura Colucci-Gray, 2025
In the face of current socio-environmental challenges, the linear logic of cause and effect that has been the pillar of modern Western science has proved insuff...
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tecnoscienza.unibo.it/article/view... grateful for this opportunity to work with doctoral students and with soil to explore education in slow mode....
Beyond Crisis Talk: Making Time for Re-Searching New Narratives of Human Relations With Soil | Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies
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🌍The SENSE.STEAM Report showcases innovative methods from 13 STEAM Labs across Europe, tackling inclusion, equality, climate change, etc. Findings coming through here: 📥 shorturl.at/wYpZx
D4.3_SENSE_Report on the SENSE.STEAM evaluation of the four specific areas.pdf
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An interesting read on the critical relationship between technology and human labour. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Hidden human costs of AI
A sociologist interrogates the invisible labor that underlies “autonomous” systems
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I’m making a comeback by explaining why I stopped blogging patthomson.net/2025/01/01/p...
Patter is back
Patter has been missing in action since the end of August. A bad case of blogging burn-out you might ask? Well, yes that’s true. I have been writing this patter thing for twelve years and I did hav…
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German and Italian prisoners of war at Newburgh, Fife, 1943; based at the nearby Ladybank camp, these prisoners would have stopped for a break during woodcutting. (Image: NMS)
If it is true that the Outcomes are going out in CfE, then we may bring the Earth in. Sharing a few thoughts and practice here: idlnetwork.substack.com/p/parkes-obs...
Parkes Observatory, 1969
by Professor Laura Colucci-Gray
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Sharing an adventure in citizen science and AI; not as bad as I thought! The dialogue across disciplines brings problems into perspective. Sharma et al. Image Recognition as a “Dialogic AI Partner” Within Biodiversity Citizen Science theoryandpractice.citizenscienceassociation.org/articles/10....
Image Recognition as a “Dialogic AI Partner” Within Biodiversity Citizen Science—an empirical investigation | Citizen Science: Theory and Practice
Citizen Science: Theory and Practice (CSTP) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed publication focused on the global field of citizen science and other participatory sciences. It provides a venue to...
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What is the real toll of natural and climate disasters? Science has staggering new answers www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What is the real toll of natural and climate disasters? Science has staggering new answers | Devi Sridhar
New research challenges us to look beyond the initial event to the devastating long-term impacts. Governments must take note, says public health expert Devi Sridhar
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