Dr Sandra Austin
@sandracaustin.bsky.social
Educator. Scientist. Gardener. Cyclist. Sustainability Lead @MIE
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Tobias Wilson-Bates@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · yesterdayGreat discourse on intellectual community this morning, and I just want to add that pushing course caps, teaching loads, and the institutional churn of structural precarity increasingly forces scholars into narrower, lonelier working conditions.
Free daily outdoor activities ideas for every child and family in the UK. That's the ambition - and we've just two days left to hit out crowfunding target. Help us reach every school in the UK. Back us here www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/how-to-gro... and share with your followers! Thank you!
What no-one will write about Burnham's "headphone dodgers" plan is that it's partly a neurodiversity issue. I wrote this open.substack.com/pub/maybeima...
Why speakerphones and blaring music on public transport is a neurodivergence issue
The UK Liberal Democrats want to ban loud music, videos and phone calls on buses and trains. Respect to them
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That’s made me feel better about how I’ve spent my Saturday!
The Whimsical Muse@whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 4d agoI don’t know who needs to hear this, but you’re under absolutely no obligation to justify yourself to anyone if you choose to spend the entire weekend reading a good book, making multiple cups of tea, and indulging in a scandalous amount of cinnamon rolls.
Ysabel Yates'... I mean Cookie Monster's superb takedown of why GenAI in the workplace sucks.
It's hard to find any rationale for not giving pay awards, at minimum, in line with inflation. It doesn't increase the share of gdp going on public expenditure, and it isn't a pay rise. Making that a stumbling block for negotiations is bizarre.
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · last wk.Planned strike by public-sector workers ‘really unfair on the public’, Chambers says
Couple of spaces going with me, Peter Vujakovic, & Julie Edwards from Historic England in #Bradford this Friday. Free plus a teaching pack with a beautiful map included. #CPD #Fieldwork #geographyteacher #historyteacher
Members of my union, IFUT, will have a one hour work stoppage today, from 12-1, as part of the broader public sector union dispute. Read about it here: www.ifut.ie/content/ifut... - solidarity welcome on World Teachers Day
IFUT Public Service Dispute Hub 2026 | Irish Federation of University Teachers
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Fair play to President Catherine Connolly. Telling it like it is. President criticises lack of action on climate change www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
President criticises lack of action on climate change
President Catherine Connolly has criticised a lack of action taken on tackling climate change in her opening speech at the National Ploughing Championships.
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A big part of teaching is caring so much about your subject that over the course of the semester students get a deep sense and clear model of the how and why they should care or be interested in a topic for its own sake.
The ingenious thought given to Voyager’s potential discovery by extraterrestrial beings continues to blow my mind. 🤯
Odd This Day@oddthisday.bsky.social · last yr.Going back to the Smithsonian, though, my question has always been: what if the aliens this reaches haven’t invented the record player? Apparently they thought about that. In some detail www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
That sound you hear is 1000s of Philadelphians mourning their dinosaurs and dioramas share.inquirer.com/XysWFM
The Academy of Natural Sciences is closing its museum after nearly two centuries
The closure does not affect the rest of the institution, which builds and maintains the collections and conducts research through departments such as the Patrick Center for Environmental Research.
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Never thought I’d be able to relate to James Bond 🤣 #CoreNightmares
Tobias Wilson-Bates@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 2mo agoJames Bond: you think I haven’t faced death before? Supervillain: oh, I don’t expect you to die, Mr. Bond. I expect you to suffer. *opens travel funding reimbursement software I think you will find your motorboat rental and casino reservations especially complex James Bond: no. no. pls kill me
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McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 2mo ago"You were riding in the morning, or at night, or on a quiet road, or a main road. The only time and place to ride a bike is a time beyond time and a place beyond place, where the space-time continuum is bent so strangely that you are both everywhere and nowhere." buff.ly/bSa1Wm5
As always, @petepaphides.bsky.social describes perfectly a moment of creation… www.patreon.com/posts/166645...
“Björn recalled driving around Stockholm, looking for someone to whom he could play it. Frida, on hearing it for the first time, simply burst into tears.” 50 Years of Dancing Queen | Pete Paphides
Speaking in 1976, ABBA’s engineer Michael B. Tretow set out the intended reach of their music: “ABBA’s songs are measured with an internati
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Well that was fun! Our glasses from Astronomy Ireland were perfect
