Amazon are a total bunch of shysters. Attempted to buy an item during Prime Week sales. Amazon cancelled the order and are now refusing to honour the original price. I have it in writing that this would be honoured. When I pointed this out to the manager they just ended the support chat!

Some days you just have to accept are utterly, utterly cr@p!

@distantpod.bsky.social looking forward to the show tonight and seeing Bubs live for the first time since our Glamorgan Wanderers days

If Wales could give away less penalties, learn the laws of the game, improve their basic skill level, keep 15 players on the pitch and score more points, I think they have the making for a rugby team!

@dave-thesmith.bsky.social and I have been busy behind the scenes updating the ai-forge.co.uk site to make it more user friendly for both Staff and their students.

“If you are not gaining a new capability in exchange for the one you have outsourced, you may be conceding to the algorithms” writes Noel Carroll of the University of Galway theconversation.com/is-ai-hurtin...

Is AI hurting your ability to think? How to reclaim your brain

AI is replacing tasks we have grown reluctant to do ourselves – thinking, writing, creating, analysing.

theconversation.com

Anyone who knows my back story will understand what a huge part Wales Deaf Rugby has played in shaping the person that I have become today. For nearly 20 years I was part of a rugby family where the whole was always so much more than the sum of its parts.

The first of three articles written by myself and colleagues Connie Pritchard and Nigel Francis. This focuses in Self-Regulation network.febs.org/posts/develo...

Developing Self-Regulated Learning Skills in Bioscience Students

Exploring how bioscience educators can support students in becoming independent, reflective and motivated learners through the development of self-regulated learning skills.

network.febs.org

Final FEBS education Blog with Connie Pritchard and @nigelfrancis.bsky.social This one is about how GenAI can support the development of self-regulated learning. network.febs.org/posts/empowe...

Empowering self-regulated learning: How generative AI is shaping higher education

network.febs.org

The second blog for FEBS with Connie Pritchard and @nigelfrancis.bsky.social . How assessment can support the development of self-regulated learning. network.febs.org/posts/using-...

Using Assessment to Foster Self-Regulated Learning

Discover how thoughtful assessment design and feedback can enhance students’ self-regulated learning and lifelong learning skills.

network.febs.org

🧭 Navigating new norms: a systematic review of factors for the development of effective digital tools in higher education 👨‍🏫 buff.ly/u9DI3YT @nigelfrancis.bsky.social@cardiffrutherford.bsky.social #FEBS_ETC #FEBSEducation #EduChat #UKedChat #EdChat #LTHEchat #BioscienceTeaching #StemEducation

The one thread you should take some time to read today if you’re interested in AIED

@swpolice.bsky.social if you expect the general public to obey speed limits (as they should), your officers need to be upheld to those same standards. Marked car, no blue lights, easily doing over 90mph on M4 tonight…not a good look

GPs charging patients to confirm basic medical information is disgusting behaviour. They are the sole source of this information. Can you imagine if their university tutors charged them to provide references for job applications.

@it-se.bsky.social congratulations on your NTF award. Well deserved!

A little ironic that it’s actually statistics that is causing the problem…but…🤷🏻‍♂️

I’m happy to share that our latest paper 📜 is now online. Embedding Generative AI as a digital capability into a year-long skills program. | Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice doi.org/10.53761/fh6...

Great to work with this team from Sheffield Hallam on this paper. Very timely publication as I’ll be talking twice about the findings this week in Cote D’Azur and Manchester!

Mel Lacey@mellacey.bsky.social · last yr.

Check out our latest paper: doi.org/10.53761/fh6... We co-designed our MSc programme to embed AI skills, confidence and ethical understanding. This couldn’t have happened without our amazing student co-authors: Dami, Skye, Charlie and Chinenye @dave-thesmith.bsky.social @nigelfrancis.bsky.social

Walking up a big hill in 31 degree heat wasn’t the most sensible thing to do today, but the views were worth it!

The last time Bath won the Premiership title I was 16 and was sitting my GCSEs. Huge congratulations to JVG and all the other coaches for turning the club around, and credit to the players and owners for buying into the vision! COYB!! ⚫️⚪️🔵

Off to sunny Nice tomorrow to contribute to Cote D’Azur University’s International Digital Week. Really looking forward to catching up with Natalie Timis

A6 #LTHEChat YES! the definition of a CoP (according to Wenger-Trayner^2) is a community to has a shared goal, has social interaction, and learns/develops together. It doesn't have to have an impact, it should be allowed to exist for the sake of its participants.

Hmmmm Reddit sues Claude for data scraping. San Altman has significant investment in Reddit…if I were a betting man 🤷🏻‍♂️

Friendly neighborhood biologist here. I see a lot of people are talking about biological sexes right now. Lots of folks make biological sex seem really simple. Well, since it’s so simple, let’s find the biological roots, shall we? Let’s talk about sex...[a thread] (Reposted from the other site)

Utter rank incompetence to trash your brand like this for - it turns out - pretty much nothing. As usual, no-one will admit failure and no-one will resign. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Cardiff University strikes called off as job cuts paused

The union warned of a "summer of chaos" if the university did not back down on its proposed cuts.

bbc.com

And if you want to buy me the sixth edition that sparked this conversation, you can use this code, SAVE 20% USE CODE 25ESA1 at routledge.com Valid 1 January 2025 - 30 June 2025 The Lecturer's Toolkit A Proctical Guldo to Asgessment SOTH LOXTION SAVE NOW Routledge

Getting ready for tonight’s #LTHEchat with @profsallybrown.bsky.social and @philrace.bsky.social. Looking forward to this one!

#lthechat only 3 hours until we kick off our chat! What do you think has changed in higher education teaching, learning and assessment in the last five years? So much to talk about!

Science is incredible!

The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes.com · 2y ago

A little girl made history by becoming the first child in Britain to be born from a womb transplant — in an organ donated by her aunt to her mother

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