Colin Simpson

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Ed tech and eLearning guy, convenor of @TELedvisors SIG, PhD candidate USyd SFHEA He/Him Opinions are mine. @[email protected] Newsletter Sign up @ http://bit.ly/edtechmustreads

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jacob rees-mogg has to lose while standing next to a guy wearing a baked beans-themed balaclava

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need this so bad

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I love this polling by More in Common (via @Luke Tryl on Twitter)

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The Thesis Whisperer does good stuff and good things. So I ask my PhD candidate and academic friends, lend her your feedback! Please.

New blog post: new survey thesiswhisperer.com/2024/06/25/o...

Our new survey is live – your help please?thesiswhisperer.com By now regular readers will know I’m obsessed with how academics work. Maybe it’s because I’m constantly trying to figure out how to work better myself (aren’t we all?). Or …

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Party That Was Unable to Build Commuter Car Park Unveils Plans to Build 7 Nuclear Reactors theshovel.com.au/2023/09/20/p...

Party That Was Unable to Build Commuter Car Park Unveils Plans to Build 7 Nuclear Reactors — The Shoveltheshovel.com.au "When it comes to implementing six dozen high-tech enriched uranium reactors and then safely storing the waste, we’re the guys for the job"

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IT IS HERE. First listen impressions, fragile but assured, rambling, scattered, beautiful. Like the plinking of rain after a storm. Definitely one that will take a few listens. Secrets to be unlocked. First Dirty Three album in 12 years.

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Thinking again of Raymond Chandler taking the piss out of science fiction and, accidentally, a) writing an absolute banger, and b) inventing the word Google. If anyone has any other favourite examples of writers parodying wildly different genres/writers - I'm all ears.

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I am a Digital Humanities web developer and IT professional. My greatest hits include: * That sounds great; who is going to maintain it? * No, really; who is going to maintain it? * Lets try again; who is going to maintain it after you get bored with it / run out of grant money? * **screaming**

I am a games PR manager. My greatest hits include: * You have to talk to someone else about that game * No, we don't have any news about that yet * I really like it, and I'm not just saying that. * No, I don't do the podcast anymore.

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My latest cartoon for New Scientist.

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Friday.

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I don't think cartoonist Jeff Bell is on Bluesky but look, so good! #NZPol

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Albini casually pinning anti-woke comedians to the wall.

"Rid of Me" and "Ys" are two of the greatest albums ever made. But providing a clean, clear model for white dudes to own up to their "edgelord shit," repudiate it, and start living a real life is something very few have ever had the courage to do. RIP to a legend: melmagazine.com/en-us/story/...

‘I’m Overdue for a Discussion About My Role in Inspiring ‘Edgelord’ Shit’: A Conversation with Steve Albinimelmagazine.com In a recent Twitter thread, the famed audio engineer owned the ugly parts of his past — years of offensive music, statements and posts — and said his generation needs to talk about how culture has cha...

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RFK is the only candidate who believes in lobal worming

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This really was an excellent discussion about respectful practice in the third space - something that no learning designer (or ed tech or academic dev) can afford to miss

Kate Mitchell led a stimulating discussion about professional values in learning design (and the third space in general) for our (first) May webinar last week with Tom Cotton, Kashmira Dave, Ann Gagne, Stephen Grono, and Meredith Hinze. youtu.be/9-2yhQq96GI

TELedvisors webinar Respectful Learning Design May 2 2024youtu.be Tom Cotton, Kashmira Dave, Ann Gagne, Stephen Grono, Meredith Hinze and Kate Mitchell discuss a work in progress in relation to defining respectful, deliberate and sustainable learning design within Higher Education. They present what such concepts mean in their contexts, and advocate their hopes for the future of learning design and the role our community can play in defining and advocating this for ourselves and continuing an ongoing conversation within our profession.

Great read, smart guy

I interviewed George Miller in 1985, to tie in with Beyond Thunderdome. (The interview was spiked because Orson Welles died and the magazine dedicated all its available space to remembrances & appreciations.) multiglom.com/2015/05/12/g...

GEORGE MILLER TALKS ABOUT MAD MAX, HEROES & TINA TURNER: THE 1985 INTERVIEWmultiglom.com In October 1985 I interviewed George Miller in London for Time Out magazine, to tie in with the imminent UK release of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. Mr Miller struck me as very different from other film...

A few times recently I have read comments from academics that they don't like the term 'third space' or agree with the idea. (Here meaning people in roles with responsibilities in both academic and professional domains) Professional staff seem ok with it. Academics, why is this? (genuine curiosity)

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Best alt text.

The Scottish wildcat is absolutely, 100% fed up with your bullshit.

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Inside me there are two wolves. This is not enough to control the deer population inside me, which is degrading the river ecology inside me. I’m attempting to release more wolves inside me to address this, but the ranchers inside me object, and

This album arrived today. It is glorious. jessribeiro.bandcamp.com/album/summer... (If you aren't familiar, she has her own distinct sound but if you like Julia Jacklin, Aldous Harding, and co., it's a similar neighbourhood)

Summer Of Love, by Jess Ribeirojessribeiro.bandcamp.com 10 track album

New Ed/Tech must-reads is up. This week,Humanising learning analytics, UDL, ePortfolios and (obvs) ChattyG edtechmustreads.beehiiv.com

Ed/Tech must-readsedtechmustreads.beehiiv.com

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Where do third space practitioners go for professional development? So glad you asked - we had a webinar about that exact thing. Check out the recording here youtu.be/lGJhxzv9JTw #LearningDesigner #EducationalTechnologist #AcademicDeveloper #ThirdSpace

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My dream company Uber For Dogs is back in business thanks to chat.nyc.gov

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At the Dune 2 screening getting a “Big worm! Big worm!” chant going whenever the big worm is on screen and booing whenever it isn’t

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want to point out that NO ONE in the source material had a great time at Willy Wonka’s either. so this is the most ON POINT Willy Wonka experience i have ever seen. well done. 10/10

Glasgow Willy Wonka experience called a ‘farce’ as tickets refundedwww.theguardian.com Event billed as immersive ‘celebration of chocolate’ cancelled after children left in tears at sparsely decorated warehouse