Chris Hall

YouTube video by South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust NHS Misinformation UnMASKED - Searching

Misinformation often appears in disguise when we're looking for health information. Take a close look at Misinformation UnMASKED an animation from @england.nhs.uk
Make sure you are only using trustworthy information. @cilip.bsky.social @librariesconnected.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dTL...

Open Source Research — Office Tools Libre Office

Spreadsheet, word processing, presentations? You need to buy MS Office, right? In my quest to use #opensource software for the #Pilgrimage Experience Project, I’ll be using Libre Office. Like MS Office but free as in beer and speech!
#Research #LibreOffice #FOSS
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Wild flowerbed in a grassy park

Wild flowerbed looking great on my morning walk today #swansea #walking

Practising gratitude is absolutely beneficial, but "wellness" isn't always straightforward.

It can be tricky in a world where lots of things feel pretty awful. Well-being is more than just "insta-wellness" and we must be aware of that as the algorithm keeps throwing shit our way.

When the prompting stops: exploring teachers’ work around the educational frailties of generative AI tools Neil Selwyn, Marita Ljungqvist and Anders Sonesson [1] Abstract: Teachers are now encouraged to use generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools to complete various school-related administrative tasks, with the promise of saving considerable amounts of time and effort. Drawing on interviews from 57 teachers across eight schools in Sweden and Australia, this paper explores teachers’ experiences when working with GenAI. In particular, it focuses on the large amounts of work that teachers put into reviewing, repairing and sometimes completely reworking AI-produced outputs that they perceive to be deficient. Rather than reflecting teachers’ lack of skill in prompting GenAI effectively, the paper shows how this work foregrounds the educational limitations and frailties of AI and other automated technologies – with teachers having to act on a wide range of complex professional judgements around pedagogical appropriateness, social relations and overall educational value to bear on AI-generated content. The paper concludes by considering the need to challenge ongoing industry and policy claims around the labour-saving benefits of artificial intelligence in education, and instead focus on the ways in which these technologies are dependent on the hidden labour of humans to co-produce the illusion of automation.

new paper 🔓! Teachers are having to put *considerable* amounts of work into making GenAI outputs suitable for their classrooms ... amidst the going hype we need to talk more about what GenAI clearly *cannot* do, and the uniqueness of teacher expert knowledge: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Open Source Research — The Beginning For the Pilgrimage Experience Project, I intend to use Open-Source tools as much as is possible. Open-source software is computer software…

How do you start a new project? Like @alastairhumphreys.bsky.social‬ I like to start each new project with a crisp new notebook.
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#opensource

Got your ticket yet? 🎟️

With filming made possible by The European Nature Trust, 'Clinging by a Claw' follows the wildcat’s journey into the Highlands 📽️

Enjoy hidden moments behind the scenes of the UK's first wildcat restoration project ➡️ savingwildcats.org.uk/clingingbyaclawpremiere

Rubber swim ring next to a pool. Text providing details of the workshop

One Day until this Supporting Programme Leadership Development Network workshop sharing effective practices in induction for those who support Programme Leaders in HE.

#SPLDN

Join Advance HE’s Connect platform: connect.advance-he.ac.uk & the SPLDN group for session joining details

OR....

New group for those who support Programme Leaders/Directors in HE.

The Supporting Programme Leadership Development Network (SPLDN )has been established on @advancehe.bsky.social Connect platform.

Next workshop is on Tuesday July 22nd 1 - 2.30. p.m. BST and will cover induction

#ProgrammeLeaders

Chrissi Nerantzi Gems, buds and slippers, or what a series of visualisation tells us about the Learning and Teaching in Higher Education tweetchat (#LTHEchat) #oSoTLSummer #SoTL #highered #Vol1No1_21 #ProfessionalDevelopment #SocialMedia #Diversity #Inclusion #Community osotl.org/osotl/articl...

Our UofG Colleagues Peter Sneddon, Erin Ferguson, Eric Yao share: Why do students decide to stop studying physics?

#oSoTLSummer #SoTL #AcWri #highered #Vol2No1_22 #physics #motivation osotl.org/osotl/articl...

Today Jessica Sutherland, Zahra Vahedi, Lesley Zannella write about: Reflections from graduate student instructors on their first time teaching reveal structural and individual challenges

#oSoTLSummer #SoTL #AcWri #highered #Vol2No1_22 #PedagogicalTraining osotl.org/osotl/articl...

My habits, my background, and my nerdy love of maps means that wherever I am, I can quickly find myself a patch of nearby nature to enjoy. I really value tho... 15 Minutes to Nature

I decided to signpost the way to the nearest bit of nature in my town. Here's how I got on:

Come and work with us!

With our vibrant research culture and robust postgraduate research community, we look forward to welcoming a new Kirby Laing Professor of New Testament. Please see the job ad just below for furthers and particulars. Please share widely!

www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/vacanci...

May Contain Lies: Stories, Stats, and Bias, with Alex Edmans – Teaching in Higher Ed teachinginhighered.com/podcast/may-...

What a great podcast raising issues for me about

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25 time machines into moments in England's past...
I'm so excited to share the cover for A HISTORY OF ENGLAND IN 25 POEMS (and thanks to Waterstones for doing the cover reveal on their channels this morning). I hope you love it as much as I do!

Twisted Jukebox Twisted Jukebox | Production Music | Production Music Library | Music for TV Productions | Library Music

our new album out on Twisted Jukebox, circus macabre for your haunting, weird sounds...

Medieval church tower with grey sky

Wooden church door

Llansteffan Castle

Long path beside a field

Lovely day in Llansteffan, where pilgrim's would get off the ferry on route to St. David's #pilgrimage

Blue sky with light clouds above the trees.

I can see clearly now the rain has gone. Well for a few hours at least.

Anne Frank seated at a desk with an open book and a pen, looking directly at the camera, with a bottle of ink by her side.

12 June 1929 | A German Jewish girl, Anne Frank, was born in Frankfurt.

In 1942 on her 13th birthday she received an empty diary. She perished in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.

'Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character & goodness.' (A.Frank)

Women walk the World: Why female small group travel continues to grow - PressReader

https://www.pressreader.com/new-zealand/walking-new-zealand/20250701/282063397910595

A reflective journey along the legendary Camino de Santiago. ... This journey, …#WayOfStJames #StJamesWay #Camino #BuenCamino

Three people walking along a farm track at the edge of field, with a way marker in the near distance.

What does it feel like to be a pilgrim? Physically. Emotionally. Spiritually. Don’t want to read the whole paper? Here’s a 4-minute summary. A bit like watching the game on Match of the Day but without the punditry medium.com/@chris_hall/... #pilgrimage #walking #camino #stjamesway

New Open Access in the Humanities online training course launched! - University of London Press We are excited to share details of our new online training course on open access publishing, developed by the University of London Press with the School of Advanced Study. The course is free and avail...

💥We're very excited to share that we have launched a new free training course! Explore our #OpenAccess in the #Humanities training course on RESHAPED, a new learning platform developed by the School of Advanced Study @uolondon.bsky.social.

Details here:
uolpress.co.uk/2025/06/new-...

Winchester Cathedral

“I wasn’t sure what to expect from the pilgrimage but this wasn’t quite how I had envisaged it ending.” Paper
exploring models of reflective practice to try and understand a pilgrimage experience to #Winchester
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Park with trees on a sunny morning

Good to see the sun back in #Swansea on my #morning #walk today

BBC Radio Scotland - Scotland Outdoors, The Whithorn Way - Part 1 - Glasgow Mark Stephen and Rachel Stewart with highlights from the Whithorn Way

The Whithorn Way follows an ancient pilgrim route from Glasgow to Whithorn in Dumfries and Galloway. This episode of 'Scotland Outdoors' focuses on the first section of the journey beginning at Glasgow Cathedral.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

Screenshot of journal article

What does it feel like to be on a pilgrimage? My latest article - 'Exploring Models Of Reflective Practice To Aid The Understanding Of Pilgrimage Experience' published today #pilgrimage#walking
arrow.tudublin.ie/ijrtp/vol13/...

Cover of the book Holy Places by Kathryn Hurlock

Look what I picked up at my local bookshop. Looking forward to reading this @drkathrynhurlock.bsky.social

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Footpath through trees

Tall fir trees

Footpath at the edge of a wood with blue sky in the background

Field seen through trees

#Swansea looking great in the sunshine again on today's local(ish) walk