Not that I think anyone missed me but a check in to say multiple professional social media accounts have become too much and for a variety of reasons, LinkedIn is a better solution (even if it gives me the boak), so if you have missed me, please find me there. www.linkedin.com/in/prof-emil...

Learning technologists - what's the most annoying thing about working with academics/what don't we understand about your job that you wish we did? I am writing a blog for #ALTC25, be as honest as you like 😅

Discover how sector networks can supercharge your impact in digital education. Dive into Laura Milne’s inspiring #ALTC25 blog on the ALT community and the power of collaboration. Read the full blog here: buff.ly/X1kNYBi #altc

Learning connections: the power of sector networks to make a difference

(especially for conference newcomers)  When first I heard about ALT, I was amazed – a whole community of people like me, who geek out about the kinds of things I geek out about, and who get ex…

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October is Menopause Awareness Month - here are some of the events and opportunities I'm running for singers, speakers, teachers and other voice users on Menopausal Voice Change. More info and contact via www.kathleencronie.com #menopause #voice #singing #menopauseawarenessmonth #menopausal #choir

Such a fab day with @emilynordmann.bsky.social and her wonderful colleagues at Glasgow Uni. Talked about my favourite things - #scholarship and #disability #inclusion and had some fascinating conversations. Thanks everyone!! 🥰

⭐⭐⭐⭐ I read this and enjoyed it and then I read a review that said it's designed to be read twice (it's 47 pages) and it's true and was even better the second time. #BookSky

Glad to be able to share new preprint on how to make supervising dissertation projects more open and efficient with secondary data, open data, and evidence synthesis with Ashley Robertson, @amcreaven.bsky.social, Elayne Ahern, and @katebutton.bsky.social 🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps... #AcademicSky

Did I get obsessed with the Munro #TidyTuesday and go on a @walkhighlands.co.uk deep dive (gratefully with their consent)? Yes. Did I have to migrate my website from Hugo to Quarto to make interactive plots work? Yes. Was it worth it? Yes. Code & more at www.emilynordmann.com/post/2025-08...

Agree. I dislike how people use an overflowing inbox as an excuse to avoid responding to reasonable work requests. A lot of work is still conducted over email.

Emma Kennedy@emmakeddev.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I know everyone loves a good protest against overcrowded inboxes, but if I receive an out of office that actually says "I'll delete all my emails", unless it's parental leave or a similarly long period, I just won't be resending my email to you, sorry. Your inbox is yours to manage, not mine!

“James, another signatory, said “the only thing that makes the information we learn from university any different from what we can gather online by ourselves is the in-person lectures performed by actual professors in our fields of study”.”

Adelaide University students and staff to stage sit-in over ‘travesty’ of fewer in-person lectures

Students unhappy about lack of course choice and flexibility, as they await clarification about which subjects will move online

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We don’t just scroll—we learn while scrolling. This “incidental learning” can shape what we know, believe, and even how we act. Sometimes useful, sometimes risky (hello, misinformation). What have you learned incidentally lately? #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

A Model of Technology Incidental Learning Effects - Educational Psychology Review

Increases in technology use, among youth and adults, are concerning given the volume of information produced and disseminated in the modern world. Conceptual models have been developed to understand…

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So…there’s, like, a whole area of motivation research about how motivation doesn’t necessarily need to come from interest (e.g., productive, autonomous extrinsic motivation, how to productively regulate one’s motivation, etc.). It’s not a new thing, either. selfdeterminationtheory.org/theory/

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I say this extremely seriously: one of the main skills children have to learn to be adults is to do things they *don't* find interesting. This is both because many necessary things in life are boring and because sometimes interesting things take time and effort first.

For the umpteenth time and for the umpteenth reason, handwriting is better than typing. #EduSky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I'm no Cassandra, but I've been exploring this alternative to GS if the Sentient AI Overlords pull the plug on GS. It's this and it is, currently, terrible: openalex.org

Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Metadata, Lattes & Impostor Syndrome)@hannahshelley.site · 12mo ago

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

A new afex update is now on CRAN. it's mostly a maintenance update dealing with a bug in pbkrtest and preparing for the next major releases of ggplot2 and lme4.

CRAN Package Updates Bot@cranberriesfeed.bsky.social · 12mo ago

CRAN updates: afex #rstats

⭐⭐⭐⭐ First Murakami novel, he is a bit weird isn't he. I thought it was excellent but also it took me longer to read than it should given the length so it gets docked a star for not compelling me to read. #BookSky

Prof. Emily Nordmann@emilynordmann.bsky.social · 12mo ago

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Ridiculous but fun. Should have been 100 pages shorter as usual. #BookSky

Amazing Tidy Tuesday for the venn diagram of data nerds and baggers - check out the hashtag #tidytuesday for more graphical munro magic. Cc @walkhighlands.co.uk

Jessica Moore@jessimoore.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Learned a bit of Gaelic for this week's #tidytuesday. There are many names and variations of names for "mountain", "hill", "peak", "point", etc. I used this site to help me classify them: cuhwc.org.uk/resources/me... Code: jessjep.github.io/blog/posts/t... #ggplot2 #dataviz

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Ridiculous but fun. Should have been 100 pages shorter as usual. #BookSky

Prof. Emily Nordmann@emilynordmann.bsky.social · 12mo ago

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beautiful. Written in 2019 but has an extra kick reading about automation in the age of AI. #BookSky

⛰️Ben Cruachan & Stob Daimh (#57-58). I was worried about these to point of budgeting time for a panic attack, but like much of life the thought of it was worse than actually doing it. There's a slabby bit that was described in some reports in such a way that it sounded scary but was entirely fine..

Always impressive to read an educational RCT and I'm immediately interested in anything that frames lecture attendance through a lens of self-regulation rather than punitive attendance policies or removing recordings. #AcademicSky bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Early Bird registration for #ALTC25 closes tonight at 23:59. It’s your final opportunity to save on conference registration. ALTC25 will provide a space to reflect on how robust digital foundations can empower more expansive, inclusive, & imaginative possibilities for education buff.ly/k6kFrr3 #altc

I am very glad I discovered Diablo after I got promoted because I looked up and I had been playing for 4 hours this morning. She is a barbarian berersker because of course she is.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beautiful. Written in 2019 but has an extra kick reading about automation in the age of AI. #BookSky

Prof. Emily Nordmann@emilynordmann.bsky.social · last yr.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This was a reread and I enjoyed it a lot more on the 2nd round. I think it's one of those that benefits from reading a review before you go into it. Also, completely batshit. lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-... #BookSky

At the last UK election I went back-and-forth about whether to vote Labour, I didn't want to risk waking up to a Tory government knowing I'd contributed. But I couldn't stomach the warning signs on LGBTQ rights and voted SNP and the only good thing is knowing I am not responsible for this hellscape.

Planned a munro today but my wife woke up a bit run down but I was in the "I need to see mountains again Gandalf" zone, so with wifely blessing (I didn't just abandon her), I took myself up a couple of Corbetts, The Brack and Cnoc Còinnich. An almost scramble ascent in places and then pathless bits.

As a life-long obsessive Offspring fan, this was not news but god I living for all the Offspring lyric puns in this thread.

Darryl Mott@gamerstavernshow.com · last yr.

If you want a weird but true fact to talk about: Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.

Very taken by this on supporting education-focused academics through lens of self-determination theory. I've seen 1st-hand the impact giving people some degree autonomy over their workload can have, even if they can't change total, having some say in what it involves is very powerful #AcademicSky

the enshittification of education is underway restofworld.org/2025/colombi...

Meta brought AI to rural Colombia. Now students are failing exams

When Meta embedded AI bots in its apps, even students in the most remote corners of Colombia gained access. But rather than boosting learning, it’s getting in the way.

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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This was a reread and I enjoyed it a lot more on the 2nd round. I think it's one of those that benefits from reading a review before you go into it. Also, completely batshit. lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-... #BookSky

Prof. Emily Nordmann@emilynordmann.bsky.social · last yr.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Have read none of this other books (I know) I suspect there are layers to this that have passed me by but regardless, this is a wonderful short book on running and Getting Better By Just Keeping Going #BookSky

my reactionary take is that while academic centralization generally sucks, what also sucks is grown-ass adults pretending they are above clicking a few buttons and feeling OK about asking their colleagues to do their busywork for them