I’m completely obsessed by click farms - where thousands of machines are lined up to generate fake engagement. x.com/EnglishRussia1…

It’s amazing to have 2 winners in the Foyle Young Poets Competition from OxfordSpiresAcademy because there are more than 11k international entries! So proud of Annie Davison.

When I am stuck for a lesson with young students, I ask them to 'tell me a lie about the sea.' Helen was 12.

A monumental loss. Shocked, sad, but some consolation to see the brilliant, beautiful Modernism-family that Laura has created and inspired showing in so many places today.

New College Reads to You - Laura Marcus reads 'To The Lighthouse' by Vir... youtu.be/r_jE6cxRm8E via YouTube

The 17th Christopher Tower #Poetry Comp is open for entrants 16-18 yrs, to write a poem on the theme of ‘Stone’. towerpoetry.org.uk/prize

Be it a poem, short story, play or anything you fancy –we want to hear it– enter our #NationalWritingCompetition firststory.org.uk/footprints/

Love this from a Humanities classroom Nova Hreod Academy today.

Books in 2017: a literary calendar theguardian.com/books/2017/jan…

Inspiring @LamptonSch pupil Shambhavi talks about how @RISchools has helped her. Including visiting GSK and taking part in Uni Pathways.

A chat with Tennessee Williams that ultimately sounds more like jazz than words newstatesman.com/culture/tv-rad…

No big deal, just teleportation bbc.co.uk/news/av/scienc…

Thanks again to @LamptonSch for all your support with hosting the event. Couldn't have done it without your staff! x.com/michaelslav/st…

Reflecting on learning at #ristraining Marc McLaughlin explains how he'll be "planning for forgetting". Ebbinghaus strikes again cc EvidenceIntoPractice

#bbcsatyurdaylive Would somebody PLEASE find a producer to allow Brendan Gleeson to film At Swim-Two-Birds?

John Ashbery, regarded as one of the world's greatest poets, dies at age 90 lat.ms/2vD5MR1

Any chance of us having a political culture in which we can unashamedly kick off with Hegel-chat anytime soon? m.spiegel.de/international/…

“I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. And it that's sinful, then let me be damned for it!” ― Tennessee Williams #BOTD in 1911

Test your problem-solving: recommended if you're interested in cognitive biases nytimes.com/interactive/20…