"As I write this, the death toll in Gaza is now more than 19,000 people, and there is no sign that the killing will slow in the days ahead" My thoughts on Gaza and media representation in Aotearoa e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-an…

A Christmas message from Rev. Munther Isaac منذر اسحق. “If you are not appalled by what is happening in Gaza…there is something wrong with your humanity… we, the Palestinian people, will recover… but for those who are complicit, I feel sorry for you. Will you ever recover from this?”

"Golriz herself has been subject to pretty much continuous threats of sexual violence, physical violence, death threats, since the day she was elected to Parliament" [in 2017] (James Shaw, today). Totally shocking. Shame on you, trolls.

This reading group looks amazing! Also, it's at 5am for Aotearoa NZ peeps😴

My colleagues and I have two NSF-funded postdocs openings. They're at the intersections of computational social science, governance, social networks, and open source software: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06297 careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-us/… Kindly spread the word.

Ok Tangata Tiriti I need you to listen up. 🧵 We need to talk about comments and how you manage them. I pretty strictly manage my social media. I limit who can comment on my tweets, and block liberally - if you play up in the slightest, you're muted or blocked.

Minister needs to have evidence to back claims about structured maths: aec.org.nz/press?fbclid=I…

New article alert: "Learning from survivors: Reporting parties' perspectives on how higher education institutions should address gender-based violence and harassment" in Higher Education Quarterly. 🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/he…

✍️Petition: Stand with early childhood teachers to save pay parity ✍️ our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/prot…

I just signed - will you join me? our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/prot… via ActionStation

Great piece on prevalence of streaming maths in Australia - and reasons not to! By Elena Prieto Teachers and Teaching Research Centre AERA Tracking and Detracking SIG Grouping Study #MixedAttainmentMaths

"In schools with a socioeconomically and ethnically heterogeneous student population, distinguishing between tracking and segregation is very problematic, as these types of selection mechanism are deeply intertwined..." (p. 161)

Briefing to the soon-to-be-incoming UK govt about primary education. New NZ govt wants to do many of the things that England & Wales implemented in 2014 and, according to this, aren't good for children 🤔🤔🤔

I just signed - will you join me? Save ECE Pay Parity our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/prot… via ActionStation

‼️ UCL ACADEMIC BOARD VOTES IN FAVOUR OF MOTIONS TO REVIEW TIES WITH ARMS COMPANIES, INVESTMENTS AND SET UP A SCHOLARSHIP FOR PALESTINIAN STUDENTS AND ACADEMICS ‼️ Long live the Apartheid Free Zone! For Palestinian liberation and life, from the river to the sea 🇵🇸🙏🏽❤️‍🔥

This two-year ethnography demonstrates how science teachers categorize students as "not honors material" even as school attempted to detrack. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…

A response to the NZ govt's rapid changes to maths education, with Dr Lisa Darragh. TLDR: not *all* bad but govt using a crisis narrative to justify fast-tracking implementation of poorly justified changes. theconversation.com/the-numbers-do… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand UC Education Research University of Canterbury