Cin McGuigan

Gonna miss the Tobins. They were such a great family. You all did such a great job bringing them to life. So sorry.

Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?

Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

Nan’s not bankrupting Britain (but politicians might be) Pensions, productivity and the myth of the migrant “drain” – why Britain’s real crisis is ageing, not immigration

Migrants aren’t “drains” on Britain.

They’re one of the few things stopping our economy collapsing entirely.

The Bear explains

Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.

We’re trying to make up for this at the Yale School of Public Health. Check out www.pophive.org for population-level health data info. Not a lot of bells and whistles (yet) but it works.

My love of reading is strongly link to this man…

The average USian mind can't comprehend the concept of stopping a budding military dictatorship at 3:48 am with their barehands and no coffee. That's what South Korea did today.

A [FAKE] tweet from South Korea's soon-to-be-ex-President Yoon Su, reading "The haters said we couldn't do it. And they were correct. Honestly great call from the haters"

Today is the Observer’s 233rd birthday. And the first of 4 strike days. I grew up in South Wales in the shadow of the miners’ strike. Extraordinary to be joining a picket line outside what I believed was my liberal progressive news org all these years later.

We’re so grateful for your support & ✊

Old uninteresting men try to start podcast

Democracy dies in cringe

I knitted these during lockdown Zoom meetings. One colour was when men were speaking, the other was when women were speaking. Guess which was which. 🤔

Controlled Assessments (examinations): what should we think about? Glossary: Closed-book examination:  a time-constrained assessment task, usually with unseen questions, where students cannot use any additional resources. Open-book examination:  a time-constrained ...

I've been thinking about controlled examinations lately, prompted by two recent review papers on open/closed book and high stakes examinations respectively.
@juusonieminen.bsky.social 's cheatsheet gets another outing. assessmentinhe.wordpress.com/2023/12/19/c...