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Time to update my pinned post, just because this selfie makes me very happy.
(Monku View Point on @hermisland, 26 July 2022 at 11PM. 2s exposure on @SonyAlpha 6600 with Samyang 12mm f2 lens, pushed to ISO 10000, just reprocessed with @Lightroom’s amazing AI noise reduction.)
(Monku View Point on @hermisland, 26 July 2022 at 11PM. 2s exposure on @SonyAlpha 6600 with Samyang 12mm f2 lens, pushed to ISO 10000, just reprocessed with @Lightroom’s amazing AI noise reduction.)
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Cars out of order on a wet track. What could go wrong? #F1 #SaoPauloGP
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My father served in WW2. He rarely talked about the war, and, although he respected the two-minute silence on Remembrance Sunday, he never joined in with veteran commemorations. I once asked him why. 1/3
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He replied that his perception was that for many of his peers, serving in the War was the most exciting event of their lives, and that much of that they were trying to do was to recapture that unique camaraderie. 2/3
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While he wanted to remember those who died, mostly he wanted to move on with life as the best way to honour their sacrifice, rather than being personally involved in perpetually looking back. 3/3
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Isn’t it rather depressing that some scientists are so lacking in imagination that they cannot even conceive of the idea of a universe that doesn’t function in a way to which they can relate?
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I was confused for a moment as to why Kansans voted in stripes.
This is exactly why we need a state level electoral college system.
No more having a couple largely populated areas overrun small communities with zero voice.
The issues we faced when creating the Const with states disparities, we are now seeing internally at a state level.
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Are there any senior leaders at UK universities who are willing to stand up for what universities are supposed to be? The clue is in the name.
timeshighereducation.com/news/whole-ope…
timeshighereducation.com/news/whole-ope…
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She is not wrong. But accepting responsibility for the consequences of their actions is alien to university leaders. That’s what decades of weak internal governance and a culture of promoting people away from the messes they create will do.
University leaders should accept that their own poor decision-making contributed to mass job losses in UK academia rather than simply blaming government policy, education secretary Lucy Powell has said
timeshighereducation.com/news/powell-un…
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I was strongly opposed to lecture recordings for much the reasons given here until I received a note from a student with extreme dyslexia, for whom being able to replay short segments of a lecture multiple times had revolutionised his learning. He did very well in his degree.
Lecture recordings devalue education by reinforcing the idea that lectures are just textbook-style content, and encourage students to make poor choices by giving them an inferior but easy option.
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I now think we need a more nuanced approach, whereby access to recordings is provided for documented learning reasons or sickness, not just to anyone who can’t be bothered to get up for a 9AM lecture.
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