Martin Compton

NEW on Wonkhe: The lessons of decades of research into assessment and feedback haven’t tracked across into the practice of peer review. Madeleine Pownall wonders why not buff.ly/D7hmHQP

screenshot of Spurscaptain Son smilimng and holding a weird trophy with Herbalgy written on it

If I got AI to make a picture of Spurs receiving a trophy (not that we have to of course), the trophy and lettering would look exactly like that. Anyway COYS, a win's a win versus Woolwich. Bayern, Newcastle and PSG next. Easy

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Look out for Alma!

Tom Lehrer, mathematician and singer-songwriter known for colorful satire, dies at 97 Tom Lehrer, the popular and erudite song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at Harvard and other uni...

My daughter, 14, has a Tom Lehrer album. That’s some reach he had. RIP

www.pbs.org/newshour/art... Tom Lehrer, mathematician and singer-songwriter known for colorful satire, dies at 97 | PBS News

Industrial chic metallic theatre set in open air

Saw the last showing of Noughts and Crosses last night at Regents Park open air theatre. Daughter experienced something very very different: Great seeing her reactions as they ebbed and flowed with a fully immersed audience

Anyone spouting the Broken Britain nonsense should look at the #Lionesses. Articulate, relaxed about sexuality, anti racist, generous in victory and defeat.
The Mail will disagree but they're a microcosm of this country.

a woman with the number 18 on her shirt Alt: England player celebrating

Well done England! Pens were nervy!

Exactly! Entertainment and exercise

What a sad state of affairs

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I literally just verified my age to my daughter by asking if the football was on the other ‘side’ .

Channel dad, they’re called channels

And no one watches them

TED’s sauce which is, supposedly, tingly and mixed by Ed Sheeran

Doesn’t Ed Sheeran have enough money? Why do celebrities pinch other people’s niches too? It’s as bad as third rate comedians thinking they can write children’s books. I bet he didn’t bloody mix it either

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My favourite is when they coincide rail engineering works. And don’t get me started on the lack of oyster touch out points

I really don't like going to WHL sunday at 4. the transport is bad and it's the evening before work where kids need baths and all that and (when we lose) makes the whole weekend feel grubby. the more saturday games the better. happy to let a******l play on sunday

And the article I wrote for that special edition about how anonymous marking is a terrible idea
journal.aldinhe.ac.uk/index.php/jl...

The special edition of @jldhe.bsky.social that I was part of alongside @martc.bsky.social, Becky Lindner and an editorial collective from UCL and KCL

Rewilding higher education: weeds and wildflowers Connie Gillies and Martin Compton It was a privilege to offer reflections at Professor Cathy Elliott’s inaugural lecture, Rewilding the University recently. Her lecture was more than a celebration …

The lovely blog that @martc.bsky.social and Connie wrote about me: mcompton.uk/2025/04/02/r...

Always good to chat Alex! Clouds don’t indicate how bloomin warm it is

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a bald man with a beard wears a scrub top Alt: Old, bald Bruce Willis

Post a celeb you’ve been told you look like.

Daily Mail headline: Migrants who cross the Channel into the UK 'are 24 times more likely to go to prison than Brits'

Right, so I was asked to take a look at this headline and as you can imagine, there is a lot wrong with it! 🙄

This was initially published in
@thetimes
and then picked up by the usual GB News, DM, Telegraph etc

Let’s take a look….👀

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The Guardian view on proscribing Palestine Action: blurring civil disobedience and terrorism is a dangerous step | Editorial Editorial: A ban on the direct action group – backed by MPs on Wednesday – looks like disturbing overreach by the state

Has anyone asked Yvette Cooper if she would have proscribed the suffragettes?

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... The Guardian view on proscribing Palestine Action: blurring civil disobedience and terrorism is a dangerous step | Editorial | The Guardian

It’s Academic Practice and Technology today in London. And it’s Association for Study of Medical Education in Edinburgh too. I am presenting at both ( in a manner of speaking) thanks to assistance from deep fake me grounded in arguments for essays in the age of AI.

Shooters Hill (Greenwich) Council By-Election Result:

🌍 GRN: 34.6% (+24.4)
🌹 LAB: 30.1% (-27.7)
➡️ RFM: 16.0% (+6.1)
🌳 CON: 11.5% (-1.7)
🔶 LDM: 5.1% (-3.7)
🙋 Ind: 2.3% (New)
🙋 Ind: 0.4% (New)

Green GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2025.

Interesting. I see a lot of em dashes and - curses !- they can actually make things easier to read. I’ve never considered such elaborate middle class punctuation tbh. It will annoy me though when folk thrust student work with an em dash in it in the student’s face with a smug ‘ah ha’

Screenshot from ChatGPT showing query: “What are the metal clips called that you use to attach two pieces of card of paper together, folding the metal to secure” and response “They are commonly called paper fasteners, but more specifically, they are known as brass split pins or brads. These consist of a round head and two thin metal prongs (legs) that you push through a hole in the paper or card, then bend apart on the other side to secure the materials together. They’re often used in craft projects, scrapbooking, and sometimes in school or office settings for simple binding.”

This is such a valuable use case for me. I spend my life forgetting words ( if not knowing them) and being able to ‘what’s that thing…’ is very helpful

rotten. seems the wrong things are going on the scales as per

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