Jo-ann Larkins

Jo-ann Larkins

@larkinsjo.bsky.social

Multidisciplinary STEM educator, demystifying statistics and quantitative literacy. Researching assessment; ‘Exams: what are they good for?' Knitting is my Zen. Views are my own. #academicsky

320 Followers 64 Following 10 Posts Joined Sep 2023
4 days ago
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Happy International Women's Day to my #STEMM girlies. Keep blazing trails, taking up space and healing the world.
#IWD26

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5 days ago

I was here when the internet was text based and you dialed into a Unix server to access it. I'm the generation where emojis where made up of characters ;) and we invented text speak. I still miss Usenet newsgroups.

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6 days ago

Survived till Friday of the first teaching week of the semester with the usual weird and crazy unexpected catastrophes taken in stride.

Had two papers accepted for publication in a journal and an international conference. (There's half of 2026's research metrics ticked off). Thanks team.

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2 months ago
A hand sewn shopping bag. Brown check embellished with knitted hexagons in black & white, red and orange and blue and brown.

Making shopping bags for my boy who has his own house now. Having fun upcycling old table cloths and oddments of knitting. Starting 2026 with making.

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4 months ago
A man walking away from the camera following a small herd of Boer goats across a paddock.

Today's indigenous research collaboration involved a paddock and a small herd of goats. Not sure the goats had a lot to contribute to the writing process though.

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4 months ago
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I’m proud of the chapter I wrote for "The Making Academic: Perspectives on Expressive Practice and Wellbeing in Higher Education". Part rant about academic metrics, part prayer about knitting as creative practice for #Wellbeing.
Available now via Routledge.
#HigherEd #AcademicLife #CreativePractice

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5 months ago
Collage showing the back panel of an upright piano covered in flowers and a small brown knitted gnome embroidered with Woolen and ribbon flowers around the base

#TaylorSwift Eras Tour Surprise Song Piano in gnome form. September off my needles.
#knitting #embroidery

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5 months ago
A large slightly muddy white pig in a paddock.

Got to do maths live on the radio today with Clement the Clairvoyant pig on ABC Gippsland. What are the odds he's correctly picked two of the of the final four AFL teams, Hawks and Brisbane? About 1 in 750,000.

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8 months ago

Do you actually want/need to know what is being used for stats other than R? Happy to share what's in common use. Agree there's no standard.

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1 year ago

Spent the day playing and dreaming curriculum with my indigenous co-conspirator. My brain is all happily bubbly.

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