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Sam Evans

@samevans.bsky.social

Community Manager, UK Education at Oxford University Press 📚 Oxford Children’s, OUP Primary, OUP Secondary #UKEd #EduSky Mum • TechPixie • Sea swimmer • Beach cleaner • Book lover • Charity shop forager • Archaeology & History grad • Views are mine

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Alison Fisk@alisonfisk.bsky.social · 3w ago

Smile it’s the weekend! A liitle blue hippo made by an Egyptian artisan around 4,000 years ago! 🦛 ❤️ Decorated with river plants and lotus flowers, blue faience hippos are associated with the life-giving Nile and rebirth. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows an ancient Egyptian ‘roaring’ hippo statuette made of Egyptian blue faience, a ceramic material made of ground quartz. The hippo is seated with head at left, and turned to front. The hippo’s original tusks (the top incisors and lower canine teeth are known as tusks), are missing, so it looks as if the hippo is smiling. The blue body is decorated in black with stylised images of Nile river plants such as water weed and lotus flowers. This decoration depicts the hippo’s marsh habitat as well as having layers of symbolism associated with regeneration e.g. lotus flowers open with the sun in the morning and close at night symbolising rebirth. Height 7.5 cm, length 12.5 cm. On display Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen.
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 3w ago

An Oxford University Press survey of over 3,000 children, plus an analysis of the largest database of children's written language, finds that most children say that reading shapes how they treat others and helps them to navigate real-life situations corp.oup.com/feature/more...

More than words: the real-life impact of reading - Oxford University Press

Our latest research report shows how reading helps children develop their emotional understanding and relate to their peers and the world around them.

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Sam Evans@samevans.bsky.social · 3w ago

New research from Oxford University Press shows how powerful reading is in helping children navigate real-life situations, understand their emotions, and learn how to treat others. Explore the More than Words report for full insights 📚 #NationalYearOfReading #UKEd #UKKidLit

More than words: the real-life impact of reading - Oxford University Press

Our latest research report shows how reading helps children develop their emotional understanding and relate to their peers and the world around them.

corp.oup.com

Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 4w ago

Heading upto Leeds, Leeds, Leeds for #SHP26! Trying hard to contain the excitement. Loads more people coming this year, superb workshops and keynotes to look forward to, and it's gonna be great to hang out with the SHP family for the weekend.

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Kat Cauchi 🌻🎃🐈🍰@kcauchi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New report from @oxfordunipress.bsky.social shares how students are thinking carefully about AI’s role in school, but they still want clear guidance and support from teachers. #RISEEduMag @techheaddd.bsky.social @pdlouisep.bsky.social www.riseedumag.com/students-wan... #AI #AIGuidance

Students want more guidance on using AI - new OUP report - R.I.S.E. Magazine

New report shows that teenagers are thinking carefully about AI’s role in school, but they still want clear guidance and support from teachers.

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Kate North@curatorkate.bsky.social · last mo.

One of my favourite downpipes…not sure I had a particular thing for rainwater goods, until I saw this! 🤩 😂 One of the many excellent new(ish) interventions at Caernarfon Castle.

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Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · last mo.

Oxford University Libraries and Museums are encouraging Oxfordshire cultural venues to join a nationwide 'Cool Off in Culture' campaign, due to launch later this month. The campaign highlights cultural venues as spaces where people can take refuge and enjoy culture during periods of extreme heat.

Person wandering in the Ashmolean. There is a stone bust looking out at the camera (Roger Close. The photography, not the bust)
Alison Fisk@alisonfisk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In 1902 a farmer ploughed up this bronze horse at Trundholm, Denmark. Thinking it was an old toy he took it home for his children! 😱 On closer inspection he contacted the National Museum. Now the ‘Sun Chariot’ is an iconic symbol of Denmark’s Bronze Age 3,400 years ago! #FindsFriday #Archaeology

My photo shows an artefact from the early Danish Bronze Age, known as the ‘Sun Chariot’. It is shown in profile in a museum display case and is comprised of a slender stylised bronze horse standing facing right pulling a large circular gold disc. Both the horse and disc are on wheels. The horse’s long legs attach to a frame with four thin wheels, two on either side. The wheels are open circles each with four spokes. The upper part of the rear wheel is missing. A long bronze rod connects the horse’s wheel frame to that of the circular disc which is said to represent the sun. One side of the ‘Sun Disc’ is gilded, as seen in my photo. Except for an outer bronze border, most of the disc’s surface is covered with sheet gold densely ornamented with spirals. Cast from bronze, the horse pulling the gilded sun disc is said to symbolise the motion of the sun through the sky. It measures approx. 54 cm in length, 35 cm in height, and the diameter of the sun disc is 25 cm. Part of the collections of the National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen.
Bodleian Libraries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 3mo ago

POV: when you work in central Oxford on May Day. Every 1 May at 6am in Oxford, Magdalen College Choir perform from the top of Magdalen Tower to announce the arrival of spring. And then afterwards the centre of the city comes alive with Morris dancers and performers.

A man in a feather hat in front of the Radcliffe CameraA performer outside the Clarendon BuildingA band playing drums, pipes and violins on the steps of the Clarendon BuildingMorris dancers on Broad Street
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford@ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Happy May Day! Celebrated on 1 May every year, May Day is a festival of ancient origins that marks the beginning of summer. In Oxford, celebrations begin at 6am with the Choir of Magdalen College singing from the tower, which you can see here in this watercolour by William Turner of Oxford.

Watercolour painting of Magdalen College tower in Oxford from across the river.
Ben Newmark@bennewmark.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Join #FridayFive in the sunny beer garden. Just the vibe is fine. 1. Drinking in LA. Bran Van 3000. 2. At the River. Groove Armada. 3. Walk of Life. Dire Straits. 4. Genius of Love. The Tom Tom Club. 5. Don't Need the Sunshine. Catatonia.