Rebecca Tickell
@rebeccatickell.bsky.social
"It's all grist to the mill." Education for the win. Questioner. Educational researcher and consultant. Alum of HMC, University of Oxford. Also tooting (rarely) on Mastodon rebeccatickell@qoto.org
Our education system is designed to sort people into groups. With this in mind, why then are the vocal middle classes so afraid of sorting young people into vocational and academic groups at age 14? It happens anyway (exam outcomes; poverty etc.) Investment in vocational pathways? Absolutely.
David Hockney (British, b. 1937): Garrowby Hill, 1998. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Oil on canvas, 60 x 76 in. l 152.4 x 193
It may be that the #Big Blue Bear in #Denver is looking for picnic baskets #BlueSkyArtShow #Photography #Cityscape #Sculpture @blueskyartshow.bsky.social
Air conditioning. Are you contemplating it? “The machines keeping the financially comfortable cool make everyone else's nights worse; and as wealthier households cool their rooms, the rest fall further behind. A thermal divide, opening street by street.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How the UK's extreme heat is shifting the conversation about air-con
Should we embrace air conditioning despite its costs and consequences, and how much should we spend on adapting homes versus cutting carbon?
bbc.co.uk
I know it’s political spin and it’s early days, but I am liking this start from Andy Burnham a lot. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0...
Andy Burnham giving speech on social care in England - live updates
Louise Casey, who is currently chairing a review, told the BBC earlier that care sector users should not face "constant battle lines between who does what and how".
bbc.co.uk
Just catching up with the news to find out that Ronnie Le Drew, puppeteer extraordinaire, has left this mortal coil. Goodnight Zippy 🌈
Ronnie Le Drew, puppeteer behind Zippy and David Bowie’s goblins, dies aged 78
Canadian-born British operator, president of the British Puppet Guild, died after a ‘short illness’
theguardian.com
‘Great Inventions, 1961’ Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope Artist: Robert Ayton
After 🌍’s next mass extinction event, I think it’s time for kingdom fungi to take centre stage. We can’t dig up the future just yet* but it would be equally fascinating to look forwards as well as back. *maybe quantum computers could help us with this (before our spp - as we are now - 👋s g’bye)
Massimo (mirror)@rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 3w agoTime-lapse of various species of mushrooms growing Original post
The Lotus Temple in New Delhi offers all visitors a moment of #Quiet contemplation in the rush 🇮🇳 #BlueSkyArtShow #Photography #Temple #Bharat #India #Peace 🪷 @blueskyartshow.bsky.social
Well I think @countbinface.bsky.social winning Clacton is a possibility given that (a) the main parties aren’t running against Farage, (b) England loves a Boaty McBoatface outcome, (c) Reform only won 46% of the votes at the last election, and (d) he has done diddly squat for his constituents.
Funny Dancing Trash Cans Animation
Alt: Dancing laughing bins: these bins* are amused by the prospect of a Clacton win by their leader #CountBinface *as the English are obsessed with their bins (e.g. bin day is a much discussed subject here) a bin-win is a possibility
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Bethan's Rock is a small grey stone on display at Poole Museum in Poole, England. It was donated to the museum in 2019 by a five-year-old girl named Bethan, and it has since attracted significant attention on social media and become the museum's most famous object. - Wikipedia
Congratulations to Andy Burnham for winning The Masked Singer.
Earth is an oasis in the desert of space. If aliens 👽 arrived here we’d definitely know about it, and not in a good way. People also claim that they’ve seen ghosts 👻 – but that doesn’t mean that ghosts are objectively real. (Extraterrestrial life - likely, but that’s a different thing)
Does the UK have a blind spot on UFO sightings?
A campaigner is calling on the government to resume investigations into alleged encounters.
bbc.co.uk
Love #DavidHockney – a visit to Salt’s Mill is now on the cards this weekend. Bradford is so very different to California, but the loneliness is still a central feature of his work.
Ian McQue@ianmcque.bsky.social · 2mo agoAlways loved these early Hockney paintings of Bradford
Good news! Ministers have finally given green light to new #NaturalHistory GCSE. We’ve campaigned so long for this! Big hats off to tireless advocate Mary Colwell 🙌 Now our young people will have a chance to get to know & love the natural world, to feel awe & wonder, & gain skills to protect it 🌷🌳🦡
Natural history GCSE to teach teenagers to plant wildflower-friendly gardens
Long-awaited course to examine human effects on natural world and explore everyday ways to aid biodiversity
theguardian.com
This is what wearing sunglasses after midnight in the 1980s sounded like… #80s #nostalgia
A place I’ll never forget visiting; #Growth has many faces. #Thailand 🇹🇭 #Photography #Growth #Buddha #Roots #BhodiTree #Ayutthaya #Time #BlueSkyArtShow @blueskyartshow.bsky.social
Why is their need greater than anyone else’s? Unbelievable sense of entitlement. The flack they’re going to get from this article* will likely eclipse the “boos” they received from the hikers waiting patiently in the queue for the summit. *British 🇬🇧 readership www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Charity hikers booed for dodging queues at summit of Yr Wyddfa
The pair say they were jeered when they avoided queues as they just wanted to tap the trig point.
bbc.co.uk
Public service announcement for those suffering from *the heat* in the UK: Move away from the cubes and opt for ice spheres instead SA:V (once a biology teacher always a biology teacher) @chatbiology.bsky.social
Funny Cat Licking an Ice Ball
Alt: Ginger and white cat staying cool by licking an ice ball
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Sunset At The Yorkshire Coast. 20°C. Herring Gulls.
I’d like a reasonably priced air con solution that is powered by solar – panels and battery in a fully self-contained setup – why is this so difficult*? Capturing a block of cold morning air in the 🏠 is working for now. *possibly something to do with energy companies and their shareholders
Met Office - weather and climate@metoffice.gov.uk · 2mo agoToday has been the hottest day in May on record with Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 34.8°C - exceeding the previous highest May temperature in the UK by a full 2 degrees Celsius🌡️ This heat would be exceptional in the UK even in mid summer, let alone in May📈
This made me smile. It’s a good thread – click and read through. Hallucinated references are are definitely becoming an issue in some #EducationalResearch journals
g.j.hilton@hltn.bsky.social · 3mo agoIn the hard sciences, citation conventionally points toward reproducible evidence but as the science gets softer, the parenthetical citation becomes an effective laundering device to temper contested interpretation into scholarly fact. “God is dead (Nietzsche, 1882) and a DJ (Bliss et al., 1998)”
One of my favourites Can’t quite believe it’s 31 years old, but then again … Yes (I can) #90s #Indie
Ian Wade@wadeywade.bsky.social · 3mo agoHAPPY 31ST BIRTHDAY YES
Happy Birthday to Margaret Calvert today. 90 years old and what an impact! Her work is in every local town. A Margaret thread 🧵1/11
First pint in #Glasgow and, for me, a first view of the #RiverClyde Really looking forward to exploring this great city. Cheers! 🍻 #Cityscape #Industrial #Scotland #Photography
