Juuso Henrik Nieminen David Carless Great to see Lea and Street’s AcLit framework helpfully foregrounded again- this field, just like that of ‘writing at uni’, has always struck me as much more nuanced, messy, situated, ideological & complex than sts ‘lacking’ skill or ‘benefiting from’ socialisation.

Sigh. 🧵 * Viruses don't automatically or inevitably evolve to become milder. Transmissibility and immune escape can be under strong selection but virulence may not be, especially if there are lots of hosts, transmission is easy, and infectiousness precedes symptoms.

#BottomLine No. 654: On lurking: Multiple perspectives on lurking within an educational community Aras Bozkurt & Sarah Honeychurch sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Hard skills get you hired. But soft skills get you promoted. 11 soft skills to accelerate your career:

🧵Four scales to measure student feedback literacy (please please please tell me if you know of any others)

I sometimes think that 'lurking' by experiencing someone else's feedback interaction might helpfully reduce emotional barriers to feedback uptake

It's not "masks everywhere forever" vs "masks nowhere ever". Good quality masks are a tool we can use to reduce transmission in appropriate settings to mitigate against the overall impact of covid.

One thing I don't think anyone talks seriously enough about is the absolute culture shock of coming to university. Particularly, as a student from a more working-class background.

Voted Yes to the @UCU strike to fight against everything resulting from the marketisation of education: stolen pension, salaries stagnation and casualised contracts ... #ucuRISING

Open access papers don't just receive more citations, they also receive more diverse citations zenodo.org/record/7081037…

COVID-19: Things everyone should know (Part 1: Immune System) With poor public health messaging, the general public doesn't seem to know some important things about how COVID-19 and the immune system actually works. 🧵1/

How I approach WHOLE CLASS FEEDBACK 1) Define two aspects of excellence 2) Live model examples of this excellent from student work in the feedback lesson 3) Complete a Together Task that helps everyone to get better

Made this one for you James O'Brien

The power of disinformation is mind-blowing & it’s dangerous. Let me give you a very recent example that almost certainly cost lives… 1/n

Wow! Thank you!

Thread about how Covid-19 is not over… and about misinformation winning. And I can’t even get the Covid vaccine booster for autumn here.

Hi 👋 I'm Ahmed, I'm a Muslim mental health doctor. For the last 12 years, I've swapped shifts so colleagues can celebrate the festive period with their loved ones. This year I'm working Christmas Eve, Christmas Day & Boxing Day in Emergency Psychiatry. Merry Christmas everyone.

One of the common objections I hear about doing any kind of self-care work is “I don’t have time”. Today I’m going create a slow 🧵 of gentle New Year’s Resolutions you could make to so it could feel like you have more ease in the time you do have. Let’s start with:

I spent years as a couples therapist, and the success of any relationship comes down to: