For the Home Secretary, it's more important to be seen to be harsh to an immigrant than to protect women, because it would involve protecting women in some other country.

Myth: The Digital Education team are just a group of autistic dweebs who do nothing all day except play with the fancy toys. Fact: We also have a lot of ADHD in the team, too.

Currently processing some academic feedback on an online course and it inspired this little schematic.

Very excited for my first day working for Instructure and working on Canvas for first time!

Getting back into chilling with Tiny Glade.

Ultimately, I think our problem is this:

I hope more conference keynotes consider their lighting and costume choices in the future. #durbbu

Oh no, my phone no longer launches Teams! But on the bright side, my phone no longer launches Teams!

Happy Ester.

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

At some point, my career ambition will pivot to collecting a complete set of swipe cards.

Sir, please! We abolished public executions 150 years ago!!

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Dear @lucympowell.bsky.social, I have enjoyed our exchange of letters about which of our parties is best placed to stop Reform. Hannah Spencer MP and I trust that you agree that this question has now been resolved once and for all. Thanks, Zack Polanski

I like the Green Party because they have outrageous extremist policies like “what if we made things better?” rather than frothing at the mouth and screaming about how everything that’s bad is because of brown people

Students have no attention span and can't concentrate for a long time. This is a moral and intellectual failing on their part. The videos we get with our mandatory training are terrible and I can't get to the end, though they're <2 mins. This is **not** a moral or intellectual failing on my part.

The ads you see during the Super Bowl every year always reinforce my theory that 85% of people in the ad industry have absolutely no idea what they're doing, and no sense of what makes customers buy or not buy their products. Just throwing stuff out there to see what happens.

I need to get around to fixing the tyop then re-printing this.

A mini-essay from me on the essay in the age of GenAI michaelseery.com/the-essay-in...

Making bad choices about what to post on main again.

Academic Skills keep being asked "How do I make a poster?!?" by students, and apparently we have no centralised guidance. So, that's January's job sorted.

There will be so many cars that none of them will be able to move

I'm going to start calling the f block of the periodic table the "forbidden elements". I'm even going to black out all the elements on the periodic tables in my classrooms. Going to tell them that it is illegal for me to teach it to them. Try to get them to learn that shit on their own.

#AdventOfCode Day 4 in #Excel. Still needs two cells because I'm referencing the split input (well, the concatenated-then-split-then-wrapped input because Reasons) using OFFSET(). (same issue as in Day 2)

#AdventOfCode Day 1 done in a way that will hopefully utterly infuriate a lot of people.

Americium Gothic #chemsky #sciart #chemistry

Ah, I do still have the video version of this! youtube.com/shorts/eZC0Z...

Taylor Swift dressed as organic chemicals...

YouTube video by Chemistry at Hull

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Via @matthartings.bsky.social & @rhodium103.bsky.social I think about this one a lot

Ligand Chef@butadiene.bsky.social · 10mo ago

#chemchat i need your best inorganic memes. Go

From On This Day last year. For... various reasons... I will not be partaking in this nonsense this year, but if anyone else is getting ready, may I suggest the "don't talk to Health and Safety about the #Chemistree" approach.

Wikipedia: ▫️Free ▫️Sources at the bottom ▫️Full edit history ▫️Discussion page to check controversies ▫️Openly stated editing policies Academia: "This isn't trustworthy!!" AI: ▫️Literally none of the above and, usually, the complete opposite Academia: "I guess we have to embrace this!"

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I promised some #ViCEPHEC / #ViCEPHEC25 people I'd dump a load of this in a folder. It's on an as-is basis. I'll work on curating and making it better later. durhamuniversity-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/person...