@r3beccaf.bsky.social
Open University professor emerita, making the shift over to podcasting, audio drama and fiction.
Facebook AI making up random questions
09.12.2025 23:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@markchilds.bsky.social
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For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million
30.11.2025 22:27 — 👍 1800 🔁 504 💬 86 📌 29
Number of SNAP recipients Amazon 2,456 Walmart 2,318 Uber 1,799 DoorDash 1,462 Tempus Unlimited 1,425 Stop & Shop 989 Mass General Brigham 956 Dollar Tree 952 Albertsons Companies, Inc. 896 Bayada Home Health 887
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Two very exciting sales through the weekend!
For Spanish teachers/learners, VERBA Español for less than the original Kickstarter pricing ($25!) tpg-104198.square.site/product/span...
For Dragon fans, Underlings of Underwing also for $25 tpg-104198.square.site/product/unde...
Please share widely!
My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane.
A plate of the same cookies.
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
29.11.2025 04:50 — 👍 15425 🔁 4190 💬 149 📌 107Looking out of my window at the pouring rain and thinking of my grandfather 110 years ago today marching through the rain on the Western Front.
29.11.2025 11:02 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Stijn Baes (left) and Professor Bart Rienties (right) receiving their awards from the Koninklijke Maatschappij tot Redding van Drenkelingen
OU academic Prof Bart Rienties has been honoured for saving a fellow athlete from drowning during the World Transplant Games triathlon this year!
Read more here: https://research.open.ac.uk/news/ou-professor-honoured-after-rescuing-drowning-fellow-transplant-athlete
A post from the US Homeland Security, reading “This Thanksgiving, there is no room at the table for invaders.”
And still, there are those who say that Americans can’t do irony.
28.11.2025 07:24 — 👍 1329 🔁 351 💬 18 📌 14What do UK graduates do? Lots of information in this annual report.
A reminder that Humanities graduates are quite employable. Compare unemployment rates for Biology (8.4%), Chemistry (5.9%) and Physics (8.0%) with English literature (6.4%), History (7.6%) and Languages (7.6%) for example.
Red amaryllis with three flowers in full bloom
@dougclow.bsky.social It's an amaryllis day!
28.11.2025 09:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Very frosty & cold. Whizbanged in
afternoon. Saxons 187 quiet.
Photo from corporal. Give
anything for bulley
New draft of 80.
More on the #LiverpoolScottish and this unofficial truce 110 years ago on the 1915 #WW1 #WesternFront at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/2...
@playfullearning.bsky.social
26.11.2025 12:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
ResearchGate notification reading "Interested in research on Lettuce? Join ResearchGate to discover and stay up-to-date with the latest research from leading experts in Lettuce and many other scientific topics."
I followed one of the links in the article, and ResearchGate immediately inquired whether I was interested in research on lettuce
24.11.2025 17:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
It appears that it's going to be a slow news week for creator resources in the #audiodrama and #fictionpodcast sphere. Do you have a terrific strategy, tip, trick, or behind-the-scenes item to which I can link? Send it to me, gorgeous!
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13 skeets in 20 minutes. You might be overdoing it?
24.11.2025 15:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New article on larp, activism and deliberation in this collection, out in December!
24.11.2025 08:39 — 👍 21 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 1
Oops. Ooooooooooooops.
I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years.
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675
h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social
Am sure there will be some Dr Who fans here. For a local(ISH) cause...
www.glasgowlive.co.uk/whats-on/fil...
“Prohibited words and concepts: Equity, diversity, & inclusion; anti-racism; Bias; Critical race theory; implicit bias; oppression; intersectionality; prohibited discriminatory practices; racial privilege; promoting stereotypes based on personal identity characteristics.”
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
20.11.2025 22:20 — 👍 8722 🔁 2174 💬 161 📌 250
👋We are looking for people with ME's experience of the medical system in the UK c.2012 - especially GET/CBT.
Any first hand testimony would be greatly appreciated. It's research for a book & a chance to have your experience inform it's narrative.
🖇️👇
forms.gle/2qxLgWouTNJQ...
Graph showing decline since 2005
There were 93 homicides in London last year: population 9 million
In New York - population 8.5 million - there were
391.
London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago.
And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing
periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
@markchilds.bsky.social - idea for your next set
16.11.2025 16:51 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Deep Wheel Orcadia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Wh...
16.11.2025 16:24 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1Friends and enemies of The Infinite Escape Room,
We’ve made the difficult, but temporary, decision to take a hiatus from making episodes of The Infinite Escape Room podcast.
The reason is that all four of us are in different stages of life than when we started this podcast seven years ago.
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By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000.
More than 260,000 will be children.
Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
Seventy-five years ago, Britain helped write the European Convention on Human Rights. It protects fairness, liberty and the rule of law. Those attacking it now are not defending Britain. They are trying to free government from accountability. We must defend it.
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