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Mark Childs

@markchilds.bsky.social

Durham University Senior Learning Designer. Co-host of Pedagodzilla. DJ on The Thursday Night Show. Posts mainly about comics, cats and kaiju. Chaotic neutral apparently.

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James Austin@jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 10h ago

Once again, I come back to the fact these guys have created a situation where one of the UK's leading, cis female athletes is scared to go to the loo alone, and the fact that they are celebrating this as a step forward for women's rights.

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Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 15h ago

Our code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx

Quote from Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson: 'At the EHRC we want a society where everyone’s rights are respected and realised, so that we can all live well together. Our statutory guidance will help services across the country comply with the Equality Act, protecting service users from discrimination and harassment while reducing the risk of the provider being subject to litigation. As Britain’s equality regulator, our work doesn’t end upon publication of this guidance. We monitor compliance with the law and take enforcement action where proportionate and necessary, in line with our well-established regulatory model and decision-making framework.'
Mark Childs@markchilds.bsky.social · 3d ago

A new pedagodzilla episode in which we chat about the Sorceror's apprentice and AI and what the challenges are at putting the broom in charge of your learning www.pedagodzilla.com/podcast/woul...

Would an AI Learning Design have helped the Sorcerer’s Apprentice?

How can we ensure students are equipped to deal with AI? What are the benefits of incorporating AI awareness into our learning designs? What are the risks? How can we get the floor cleaned more eas…

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The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4d ago

Playbooks, plagiarism and a pig’s head: new claims surrounding a star Cambridge professor

Playbooks, plagiarism and a pig’s head: new claims surrounding a star Cambridge professor

Jason Arday was regarded as an academic superstar, but then questions about his work prompted scrutiny of his backstory and counterclaims of racism When the superstar academic Jason Arday took to the stage at the British Sociological Association’s 75th anniversary conference earlier this year, he delivered a talk called Wanted Dead or Alive: the Playbook. The youngest black professor in Cambridge University’s history told an audience of his peers that the playbook in question had helped bring down some of the biggest names in US academia. Conservative “activists” were trawling through the work of black academics, looking for anything to use against them: inconsistencies, citation errors, passages in their work that were similar to existing papers. Continue reading...

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Mark Childs@markchilds.bsky.social · last wk.

I've been digging deeper into Terastermancy - specfically how to use the radiants to decipher and interpret the divination process. Rediscovering a lost art requires a lot of practice - here's both attempts on one page tarot117.wordpress.com/terastermancy/

Terastermancy

Terastermancy is a combination of teras or “monster” in ancient Greek and “aster” or “star”. Using star monsters for divination is a practice that pre-dates known civilisation, according to many te…

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Mark Childs@markchilds.bsky.social · 2w ago

When I got married (2015) two things shocked me. 1) register offfices still insisted on using faxes and 2) if we had a religious celebrant, that could count as official, but if we had a non-religious one, we'd still need a legal ceremony. Although clearly against the 2010 equalities act.

Mark Childs@markchilds.bsky.social · 2w ago

Can the BBC stop referring to JFK as a vaccine sceptic (and also get the spelling right)? A sceptic is someone who wants evidence before they'll accept something, a denialist is someone who rejects the evidence. He's a denialist, calling him a sceptic legitimises him. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

US sees highest number of measles cases in 35 years

There have been 2,318 confirmed cases of the virus, higher than last year's total with five months to go.

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Mark Childs@markchilds.bsky.social · 2w ago

Fantasies about humans taking over were all "The system goes online August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defence. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug." The reality is -

Mark Childs@markchilds.bsky.social · 2w ago

The discrepancy here is open to a readily apparent explanation. Starmer is a lying lying lying lying lying deceitful lying scumbag. I actually think is was the worst of the 6 prime ministers we had over the last 10 years, because as a Labour leader we by rights should have expected better of him.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · last mo.

Starmer saying the next PM will inherit a country that is 'fairer' than the one he inherited 2 years ago. In the one Starmer inherited, trans people could use public toilets.