Calling all #ALDcon26 delegates online and in-person, view the conference posters, listen to the accompanying audio and vote for your favourite. #LoveLD https://aldinhe.ac.uk/aldcon/posters/
Mark Holloway
@markgh.bsky.social
Father, husband, #WBA supporter. Making slow progress with an Ed D on the value of the Personal in Writing (I think) while working in Higher Education. Still believe in education as a force for good.
Oh, so it's okay to choose how you identify after all.
Petition to save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire: c.org/9JLppW5tMS
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Academic writing and procrastination revisited patthomson.net/2026/04/06/i...
in defence of procrastination
Procrastination often gets a bad rap in academic writing advice circles. It’s generally seen as a problem to be managed, a symptom of anxiety or perfectionism. In other words, it’s a pr…
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NEW: This is worth your time. @thenerve_news has the receipts. A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott. Please read & share.
THE NERVE@thenerve.news · 9mo agoNEW There's no overstating how significant the Nathan Gill case is. On Friday, the close associate of Nigel Farage was jailed for over 10 years for taking bribes ultimately from a friend of Putin. It's a complex, detail-heavy story that raises questions about Farage’s claim Gill was ‘one bad apple’🧵
Last week on Wonkhe: This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to a college with an aeronautical bias
Higher education postcard: the University of Hertfordshire
This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to a college with an aeronautical bias This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to a college with an aeronautical bias
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The UK electricity is already the most expensive in the world. Price set to rise again in October as Ofgem's pricing formula lets companies rip people off. Who protects the people?
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London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 12mo ago‘In the second half of the 20th century the role of university English seemed to consist in clarifying classic texts “to a generation who were compelled to study them but had difficulty in enjoying them”.’ Colin Kidd on a history of English studies: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
my statement on Ai from the mini-comic I'm making as syllabus for a new class I'm teaching this fall. It's simple, but I pretty much said all I have to say on it - it robs you of decisions and struggle - and the joy of being surprised. It robs you of learning...
#LoveLD Our co-edited book: Stories of Hope: Reimagining Education is out now - freely available from www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... - and dedicated to my wonderful partner Thomas Burns: "In loving memory of Tom Burns who teaches us to dance with hope and joyful practice even now."
Stories of Hope: Reimagining Education
Bringing together a diverse range of educators and practitioners, this collection showcases real-world innovations that challenge the status quo and offer glimpses of a more humane and inspiring educa...
openbookpublishers.com
#LoveLD - love the LDPPodcast - and this issue with our friend and collaborator @sandra_abegglen - on collaboration - looking back at www.bloomsbury.com/uk/collabora... & forward to the forthcoming Stories of Hope book: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116.... Girl done good @LevellerB
Collaboration in Higher Education
Collaboration in Higher Education, an open access book, focuses on the opportunities and challenges created by engaging in collaboration and partnership in high…
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This is excellent. Well and truly puts Reform and Farage in their place. Well done Durham Miners' Association. Reform of course now run Durham Council. www.durhamminers.org/statement_du...
DMA statement - Durham Miners Gala and Reform UK
Reform UK have chosen to criticise us publicly for not inviting them to the Gala. They obviously don’t understand how this works, so we will explain...
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This was a brilliant session. Proud of the scruffy by meaningful artefacts I took away from it. #ALDCON25
Association for Learning Development in Higher Education@aldinhe.bsky.social · last yr.Felicity Flynn and Alice Stinetorf from Southampton University are facilitating a workshop at #ALDcon25 on Mitigating Writing Anxiety Through Creative Practices and Community Building. #LoveLD
Brilliant day at #ALDCON25. Enjoyed thinking, learning, and talking about embedding academic skills, the vital human-ness of writing, transitions, metaphors, data, and criticality. Managed to curate my day so that Daniel Pearce was the headline act…and what an amazing location. Beautiful.
Heading to the actual centre of time (that’s my understanding of it anyway) for #ALDCON25. Won’t really believe there’s a direct train from St Albans to Greenwich until I get there.
Great insight on AI as empire from @karenhao.bsky.social which I wish everyone woukd listen to: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... via @theguardian.com
The OpenAI empire
Podcast Episode · Today in Focus · 29/05/2025 · 26m
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“The journey will only properly come into being with the diary that I shall write”.
The AI slop summer book preview/supplement in the Chicago Sun-Times is about what's happened in media more than what's happening with AI. This Slate piece gets it and I have some thoughts from the perspective of someone who writes about books for a major Chicago newspaper. slate.com/technology/2...
I Talked to the Writer Who Got Caught Publishing ChatGPT-Written Slop. I Get Why He Did It.
The latest A.I. controversy didn’t just hallucinate a summer reading list. It exposed how broken the system already is—and how fast it’s unraveling.
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"If ever you’re in need as I was may you have an island of strangers like I had" @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen
The prime minister warns that immigration could turn Britain into an ‘island of strangers’. Author and poet Michael Rosen responds
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Free #LoveLD #ALDinHE online event - LD@3 – What does "digital confidence" look like to us? with Rachel Bancroft and Bethany Witham (Nottingham Trent University) 6 May 2025 3-4pm. Book at: aldinhe.ac.uk/events/events-calendar
📢📢Book your free ticket! Online launch event for: JLDHE Special Issue Liberating Learning 12 May 3 - 4.30pm. jldhe.aldinhe.ac.uk/event-tickets/launch-event-for-special-issue-of-jldhe-on-liberating-learning Join us to talk about key themes & topics and consider next steps – individually ... #LoveLD
