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@simmspriscience.bsky.social

The Bluesky account for the St Mary's University (Twickenham) Primary Science Team. All things (or mainly) primary science.

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Greg Priest@gregpriest.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Because plants move so slowly relative to human time scales, Darwin developed a diagrammatic system to make their movements more easily perspicuous to us. Below is a cartoon of the apparatus, and one of Darwin’s diagrams. 🧪🌱🐋 #philsci #HistSTM 🦋🦫

Apparatus diagram drawn by Keith Roberts, from Darwin and his Flowers by Mea Allen (1977).Movement diagram from Darwin Online.
Greg Priest@gregpriest.bsky.social · 9mo ago

It was no “mere” metaphor: “plants do not … possess nerves or a central nervous system; and we may infer that with animals such structures serve only for the more perfect transmission of impressions, and for the more complete intercommunication of the several parts." 🧪🌱🐋 #philsci #HistSTM 🦋🦫

School Reading List@schoolreadinglist.bsky.social · 10mo ago

50 books about minibeasts, including nonfiction, fiction and poetry with titles by Britta Teckentrup, David McKee, Sharon King-Chai, Eric Carle, Steve Jenkins, Giles Andreae, M.G. Leonard, Isabel Thomas and more. schoolreadinglist.co.uk/genres/minib... #kidlit

Minibeast books for children

Children's books about minibeasts, including titles by Britta Teckentrup, Steve Jenkins, Giles Andreae, M.G. Leonard and more.

schoolreadinglist.co.uk

Matt Perks@dodiscimus.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Really interesting paper here on GenAI in assessment in HE: Corbin, T., Bearman, M., Boud, D., & Dawson, P. (2025). The wicked problem of AI and assessment. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 1–17. doi.org/10.1080/0260...

The wicked problem of AI and assessment

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has created significant assessment challenges in higher education. Universities and teachers have responded to these in various ways, including by way of ...

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Simon Smith@smithsmm.bsky.social · last yr.

Been worried about this for some time, seeing increasingly un-critical school cultures driven by edu-pushers selling silver bullets. I include some of Ofsted’s really poor research in this (see most things related to EYFS ) smithsmm.wordpress.com/2021/07/13/y...

You can’t handle the truth!

We have a new ever present danger. Research into education is a good thing, the best research provides with ways forward to improve our work, it equally provides more questions than answers, it ask…

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SIMMS Primary Science@simmspriscience.bsky.social · last yr.

And if you have spotify...https://open.spotify.com/episode/0PvqhsYUhU26jCT6Dk2o5y?si=wi2PaTk_Seqe26zbS-n8Hw

Ben Rogers@benrogersedu.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm on the great Physics Teaching Podcast! "Modelling Electricity with Ben Rogers is live! Join Robin, Rosie and friend-of-the-Podcast-and-author for a delectable selection of ways to teach electricity spanning from year 4 all the way through to some fun ideas for year 12 A-level classes."

Sam Gibbs@samgibbs.bsky.social · last yr.

Thrilled to have my piece in TES today. Big thanks to @jonsevers.bsky.social as always for all his support (and not shouting at me when I kept changing the words and the deadline 😂).

Jon Severs@jonsevers.bsky.social · last yr.

"in oversimplifying the complex, messy work of T&L, we risk promoting a lack of intellectual curiosity and embedding a reluctance to question approaches or think critically. We’re on our way to dumbing down teaching" @samgibbs.bsky.social for @tesmagazine.bsky.social www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

Simon Fisher@profsimonfisher.bsky.social · last yr.

Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n

Four images to illustrate some prominent single-gene myths. Top left shows a photograph of a person deftly rolling their tongue into a U-shape. Top right shows a photograph of a person’s ear, highlighting the shape and features of the earlobe and cartilage. Bottom left shows a close-up photograph of a person’s eye, with a vivid blue colouration. Bottom right shows a photograph of a person poised to write with their left hand on the blank white page of a spiral-bound notebook.
Jon Severs@jonsevers.bsky.social · last yr.

Over the next two weeks, we've asked subject specialists to write about the state of their subject: what are the big challenges, debates and future trends that concern or excite them? We start with English: @barbarableiman.bsky.social on whether it has lost its soul www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

English: how the subject lost its spark

Students are falling out of love with English, and can we really blame them, asks subject specialist Barbara Bleiman

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Paul Tyler@glazgow.bsky.social · 2y ago

The latest Topical Science Update is now available to download for FREE! It's a free monthly newsletter for educators featuring engaging sciemce stories in the news for children to read about and do some follow up research. Find it at www.myscienceclub.com in the FREE Resources section

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