Ian Horsewell

I thought the same, but sadly yes. It's relatively mild compared to some of the Uncle Sam images they're tweeting.

So the problem here is that:
- dangerous (adj, Lawish)
- dangerous (adj, English) have different meanings but they look the same? Effectively it's a false friend issue...

The easiest way to get links from my personal phone to my work laptop is by emailing. So I just sent something.

And then was surprised when my inbox pinged.

#ITeachPhysics 🎢

The facile debate about separating art from artist | Girl on the Net Should we be separating art from artist? A long rant in which I explain why this question is utter nonsense, using transphobe JK Rowling as an example.

I found the post (and chatted comments) on GOTN's blog a really good exploration of this (tl;dr she agrees with you): www.girlonthenet.com/blog/separat... (NB blog generally, but not this post, definitely NSFW)

The Times claims that private school numbers going down 1.9% is "higher than expected"

The Independent Schools Council, Mail, Times made exaggerated claims of 25-40%

The IFS modelled a fall of 3-7%

Where was the prediction the Tjmes refers to?

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

Reminds me of reading Baxter's _Deep Future_. I guess I was thinking 'far' in contrast to _Some Body Like Me_ which is set noticeably closer.

Strangeworlds books on the shelf, and we were already on the lookout for Artezans. Have now added _Kickflip_ to the birthday list. Thanks for writing.

Or to be extra efficient, play the guitar while riding the unicycle.

A great reminder that many people are, in fact, lovely.

Ministry of Space - Wikipedia

Looks like they read _Ministry of Space_ and missed the social commentary. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministr...

To be fair, only marginally less hazardous than asking the overworked lab techs for burettes at the start of break.

*far* future of @cstross.bsky.social, damnit. I was thinking of _Neptune's Brood_ and _Saturn's Children_.

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Adding to this - worth a read if you've enjoyed eg Becky Chambers, _Sea of Rust_/_Day Zero_, the fat future SF of Charles Stross.

Just finished - and highly recommend - _Some Body Like Me_ by @ldlapinski.bsky.social. AI/androids/identity. Fascinating. Saw they write kids books too and went to check - only to find they're already on 10yo's shelf! #NowReading

Is it really bad that my next thought was the rhinos will still be poached, but now by physics teachers desperate to show the demo?

Expanding what counts as good at science Strategies for helping students value a wide range of skills in science The Next Generation Science Standards call for students to use a wide range of skills, but students often hold a narrow view of what it means to be good at science, focusing on things like being ab...

The Science Teacher recently published an article I wrote for teachers about my research on what kids think it means to be good at science and how we can help them expand what they think being good at science looks like. Here are 50 free downloads. #iTeachPhysics www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KJ3RR...

I've always thought it was cruel/ironic that the word 'lisp' included an S. Now, thanks to the NYT crossword, I know the technical term for a lisp is...
SigmatiSm.

Falling at both Wordle and Connections is a bad sign for what I hoped to achieve today.

Might need to swap shirts earlier than planned though. For the sake of everyone on the 0806 to London St Pancras.

Benefits of running training; finding out halfway to the station that I'd need to get a train ten minutes earlier than planned was annoying not disastrous.

Up early than I needed to be on a Sunday so I could get kids to work (20yo) and theatre (16yo). Both needed prompting, both still running late. At what point do I go back to bed?

This second one sounds particularly interesting - cc @thedrdav.bsky.social and @rachelphysics.bsky.social among others.

Teenager had three wake-up calls between 10 and 1130. They didn't get up.

10yo, who wanted to access the shared room, had taken matters and a Sharpie into his own hands.

This is going to be hilarious.

It was interesting to go through my grandfather's traits with my mum and see the light slowly dawning. These days I'd get a childhood diagnosis. As it is I'm only peer reviewed.

I agree about the media coverage. But the political decision to sanction her is based on her own words, and those making that decision aren't overseeing Farage and the like, are they?

Never said she should be vilified, and I'm no fan of Farage. But I don't think blaming white men for criticizing her is always helpful when they're echoing those who complained at the time.

Well, that was a lovely long coffee and laundry break whole reading BlueSky. Back to the spreadsheets...

See also: Brexit.

In the letter, she wrote that Irish, Jewish and Traveller people "undoubtedly experience prejudice" that is "similar to racism". She added: "It is true that many types of white people with points of difference, such as redheads, can experience this prejudice. But they are not all their lives subject to racism." Abbott was quick to withdraw the remarks, which were heavily criticised by Jewish and Traveller groups, and apologised "for any anguish caused"

Not what she said the first time. I think for an experienced politician she phrased it very clumsily. "They are not all their lives subject to racism."