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LOVE Fishbone. Fine choice to accompany your video!

Neon Grey Midnight Green by Neko Case - vinyl record on the record player and ready to go.

Slow Listening. I am #NowPlaying the new Neko Case record (finally!) and it's absolutely excellent. Is there a better singer out there right now? And am loving the orchestral arrangements. As with anything she does, an essential purchase.
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Today's essential viewing courtesy of the always impressive @ledbydonkeys.org 👇

New concerns over Cardiff University's offshoot in Kazakhstan Martin Shipton Fresh concerns have been raised about Cardiff University’s recently opened branch campus in Kazakhstan after details of its registration with the Kazakh equivalent of Companies House we...

The PricewaterhouseCoopers University is expanding internationally while cutting jobs in Wales

Cardiff University’s new Kazakhstan campus is officially registered under PwC lawyer’s email

Nothing says “world-class university” like outsourcing your integrity 😉

nation.cymru/news/new-con...

Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.

Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

Hey @dailymail.co.uk we fixed your newspapers for you 💋

Lord Rothermere who owns the Daily Mail pays NO TAX in the UK.

The rest of us fund public services, he CHOSES not to. Yet we’re supposed to believe problems in the NHS are migrants’ fault? The utter cheek.

University HR Directors & Heads of Legal are openly weeping & distraught

Universities are one of the big users of Non Disclosure Agreements to cover up abuse & misconduct

No more, it's stopping

gov.uk/government/n...

For All Our Days That Tear The Heart by Jessie Buckley and Bernard Butler. On my record player and ready to play.

Slow Listening. #NowPlaying Jessie Buckley and Bernard Butler. I had no idea what this would sound like when I bought it. It's fantastic. A kind of folk-chamber pop thing going on. I could listen to this all day. Butler is a known quantity. Buckley can really sing.
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YouTube video by RRRJJLAMB Vintage Garrard Module X-10 Automatic Record Player Turntable Listed on eBay

It's an autochanger. You pull that other arm up and back, stack your records, put that arm back again to hold them in place and then start it up.
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What’s eating the food capital of Yorkshire?

I am no foodie but I am concerned about (1) the county in which I live and (2) calling out economic and social injustice.

unherd.com/2025/10/what...

Mission Accomplished!
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Looks excellent to me. Very pleasing to see the Janowski cycle there!

Lord only knows where they found the tiny teabag

An oldie but goodie for you @alispencer.bsky.social

Oh good lord yes

Talkie Walkie by Air, on my record player and ready to go.

Slow Listening. Can't have anything too hectic on a Sunday so am #NowPlaying Talkie Walkie by Air. Perfect.
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Nope

Bloomin' marvellous. PhD next

D'Oh!

Art Blakey - Jazz Messengers. On the Impulse label. Ready to start on my record player.

Slow Listening. Am #NowPlaying Art Blakey! Jazz Messengers! Art Blakey born on this day in 1919. This is a Verve By Request reissue pressed by Third Man records - not as good as the Tone Poet pressings on Blue Note but pretty decent sound nonetheless.
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Eight Reform UK councils have indicated that they will raise council tax next year after struggling to find huge cuts in public spending.

That’s despite Reform UK flyers during the Local Elections criticising councils for doing just that.

Never trust a Reformer.

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

For help with attribution and sourcing, Grammarly is releasing a citation finder agent that automatically generates correctly formatted citations backing up claims in a piece of writing, and an expert review agent that provides personalized, topic-specific feedback.

Screenshot from Grammarly's demo of inserting a post-hoc citation. https://www.grammarly.com/ai-agents/citation-finder

It is not "attribution and sourcing" to generate post-hoc citations that have not been read and did not inform the student's writing. Those should be regarded as fraudulent: artifacts testifying to human actions and thought that did not occur.
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Made To Be Devoured by Chorchazade, on my record player and ready to go.

Slow Listening. I am #NowPlaying Made To Be Devoured by Chorchazade. This a late 1980s 'lost album' (google it for the full story) and it's fantastic. Indie post-punk/post-rock that still sounds fresh today. If you can find a copy, don't hesitate.
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Introduction to special section: the political life of education online | Naomi Barnes Just published online! A special collection for Critical Studies in Education titled "The political life of education online" edited by myself, Keith Heggart and Dr Sheena MacRae. https://l...

I have recently been one of the editors led by @drnomyn.bsky.social with Keith Heggart of a special collection for Critical Studies in Education titled "The political life of education online". Naomi has written a great post here about the project and the other papers 1/7

A Secret Wish by Propaganda, on my record player and ready to play.

Slow Listening. Am #NowPlaying A Secret Wish by Propaganda, courtesy of Earworm Records in York aka the best tiny record shop ever. Haven't heard all of this album for years, possibly decades. So much of it's time: love it.
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What's the difference in the actual moment of assessment between 'for' and 'of'? Maybe the distinction rests in what we are doing with the outcome/results of the assessment act rather than the moment of judgement/evaluation/appreciation itself. Do we give out a certificate, or some feedback?

Out Of Step by Minor Threat, on my record player and ready to go!

I need to wake up a bit because I still have some work to do this evening so am #NowPlaying Minor Threat. This should do the trick
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Well I guess it's all about why we need to assess stuff in the first place as much as what we are assessing. For our students, is there any form of assessment that is not high stakes? For us, are our assessment practices always sufficiently valid in relation to our own knowledge/expertise?

Perhaps the question is also something to do with what sorts of stuff can be assessed and how tolerably meaningful/reliable/valid can that act/instance/process/warrant of assessment actually be?