Christian Moore-Anderson
@cmooreanderson.bsky.social
Biology Teacher & Head of Bio (11–18)
📗Teaching Meaning (Forthcoming)
📘Difference Maker (🇬🇧 & 🇪🇸)
📙Biology Made Real (🇬🇧 & 🇪🇸)
Blog: rb.gy/dyi5a
#EnactiveCogSci #Cybernetics
📗Teaching Meaning (Forthcoming)
📘Difference Maker (🇬🇧 & 🇪🇸)
📙Biology Made Real (🇬🇧 & 🇪🇸)
Blog: rb.gy/dyi5a
#EnactiveCogSci #Cybernetics
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Something that applies to the human child/education too - both moving from lab to classroom and perhaps even more so when school is not part of the equation at all.
Having attended the Neuroethology Gordon conference last year, I can tell you that the study of naturalistic behaviors (across all kinds of species) is incredibly exciting and revealing and also much, much harder than doing things with mice in the lab!
January 9, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Something that applies to the human child/education too - both moving from lab to classroom and perhaps even more so when school is not part of the equation at all.
Let's keep posting and conversing here to build a new environment, without someone's algorithmical interference, in which people can feel those professional benefits here too.
I can see that it's a hard decision for anyone who feels professionally dependent on it as infrastructure.
January 9, 2026 at 8:08 AM
Let's keep posting and conversing here to build a new environment, without someone's algorithmical interference, in which people can feel those professional benefits here too.
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And, unpopular opinion here- I don’t think Ofsted should be developing the inspection framework.
I think it should be developed by an external group of experts (drawing on research and international expertise), and then Ofsted are charged with implementing it.
I think it should be developed by an external group of experts (drawing on research and international expertise), and then Ofsted are charged with implementing it.
January 7, 2026 at 2:43 PM
And, unpopular opinion here- I don’t think Ofsted should be developing the inspection framework.
I think it should be developed by an external group of experts (drawing on research and international expertise), and then Ofsted are charged with implementing it.
I think it should be developed by an external group of experts (drawing on research and international expertise), and then Ofsted are charged with implementing it.
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The dry tone throughout is perfect 😂
"...he said, to which I must have emitted an observable psychometric signal."
"...he said, to which I must have emitted an observable psychometric signal."
If you made a Venn diagram of every weird person I knew in Silicon Valley during the first dot-com boom, centrifuged it, extracted the pellet, and re-suspended it in high-proof eugenics with a splash of AI, you'd end up with something like this.
It'll take a strong stomach to read this "gift" link.
It'll take a strong stomach to read this "gift" link.
Can You Optimize Love?
www.nytimes.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:57 AM
The dry tone throughout is perfect 😂
"...he said, to which I must have emitted an observable psychometric signal."
"...he said, to which I must have emitted an observable psychometric signal."
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🔥🇪🇺 “Europeans enjoy more free time than Americans, a higher life expectancy and lower levels of inequality – all with roughly comparable productivity.
Whichever way you look at it, this is a significantly superior economic performance.”
Whichever way you look at it, this is a significantly superior economic performance.”
Decline, what decline? The myth of dying Europe
There is a widespread view that, by comparison with the USA, Europe is in economic and social decline. But, Zucman argues, it's not true
eastangliabylines.co.uk
January 6, 2026 at 9:07 PM
🔥🇪🇺 “Europeans enjoy more free time than Americans, a higher life expectancy and lower levels of inequality – all with roughly comparable productivity.
Whichever way you look at it, this is a significantly superior economic performance.”
Whichever way you look at it, this is a significantly superior economic performance.”
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Permafrost (frozen ground) is the backbone of northern ecosystems. Watch this field video for a visual demonstration of what happens when we lose that permafrost to thaw.
January 6, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Permafrost (frozen ground) is the backbone of northern ecosystems. Watch this field video for a visual demonstration of what happens when we lose that permafrost to thaw.
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Surreal to be recording back to back @humanrestorationproject.org episodes with @dianeravitch.bsky.social today & @rweingarten.bsky.social tomorrow!
Search & subscribe to 'Human Restoration Project' on any podcast app or listen directly on our website: humanrestorationproject.org/podcast
Search & subscribe to 'Human Restoration Project' on any podcast app or listen directly on our website: humanrestorationproject.org/podcast
January 6, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Surreal to be recording back to back @humanrestorationproject.org episodes with @dianeravitch.bsky.social today & @rweingarten.bsky.social tomorrow!
Search & subscribe to 'Human Restoration Project' on any podcast app or listen directly on our website: humanrestorationproject.org/podcast
Search & subscribe to 'Human Restoration Project' on any podcast app or listen directly on our website: humanrestorationproject.org/podcast
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Embarking on a writing project about enactivism; spent the morning w/ Chapter 1 ("Biodynamic Enactivism") of @kathrynnave.bsky.social's 'A Drive to Survive' and it is a *GIFT* 🍰.
Whole book is open access –– an actual gift!! –– here:
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
Whole book is open access –– an actual gift!! –– here:
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
A Drive to Survive: The Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of Life
How the purposive behavior of living systems outstrips the constraints of the free energy principle.Since 2005, Karl Friston's proposal that the principle
direct.mit.edu
January 5, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Embarking on a writing project about enactivism; spent the morning w/ Chapter 1 ("Biodynamic Enactivism") of @kathrynnave.bsky.social's 'A Drive to Survive' and it is a *GIFT* 🍰.
Whole book is open access –– an actual gift!! –– here:
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
Whole book is open access –– an actual gift!! –– here:
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
Another good reason to support EU companies.
See @euroalternative.co for EU alternatives.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
See @euroalternative.co for EU alternatives.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
US will be exempt from global tax deal targeting profits of large multinationals
Agreement finalised by the OECD waters down a landmark 2021 deal that set a minimum global corporate tax of 15%
www.theguardian.com
January 6, 2026 at 6:50 AM
Another good reason to support EU companies.
See @euroalternative.co for EU alternatives.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
See @euroalternative.co for EU alternatives.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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I am feeling impatient with misinterpretations of Stafford Beer. He was NOT saying that system behavior reveals its architects’ intentions! The whole point is that system behavior diverges from the architects’ intent!
The purpose of a system is what it does - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 5, 2026 at 4:39 PM
I am feeling impatient with misinterpretations of Stafford Beer. He was NOT saying that system behavior reveals its architects’ intentions! The whole point is that system behavior diverges from the architects’ intent!
Are there teachers on Threads?
my strongest social media belief is that threads isn’t real
Threads passes Twitter
January 5, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Are there teachers on Threads?
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The New Year is a good time for making changes, and we’ve decided the time is right to use BlueSky and LinkedIn as our main social media platforms, and to no longer post on X.
Do give us a follow and please do share this post.
Do give us a follow and please do share this post.
January 5, 2026 at 12:26 PM
The New Year is a good time for making changes, and we’ve decided the time is right to use BlueSky and LinkedIn as our main social media platforms, and to no longer post on X.
Do give us a follow and please do share this post.
Do give us a follow and please do share this post.
Finally locked into a title:
📗 Teaching Meaning: What Works When Telling Isn't Enough
Coming soon, it will explore teaching and learning according to *enactive* cognitive science.
#EduSky
📗 Teaching Meaning: What Works When Telling Isn't Enough
Coming soon, it will explore teaching and learning according to *enactive* cognitive science.
#EduSky
January 5, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Finally locked into a title:
📗 Teaching Meaning: What Works When Telling Isn't Enough
Coming soon, it will explore teaching and learning according to *enactive* cognitive science.
#EduSky
📗 Teaching Meaning: What Works When Telling Isn't Enough
Coming soon, it will explore teaching and learning according to *enactive* cognitive science.
#EduSky
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Explicit teaching & retrieval practice are key--but not enough to ensure deep learning.
Students with some knowledge of a topic can deepen it by making connections and engaging in analysis--as long as we modulate cognitive load.
More in my new post:
nataliewexler.substack.com/p/dont-forge...
Students with some knowledge of a topic can deepen it by making connections and engaging in analysis--as long as we modulate cognitive load.
More in my new post:
nataliewexler.substack.com/p/dont-forge...
Don't Forget to Elaborate
Explicit instruction and retrieval practice are fundamental components of learning, but students need more than that to acquire deep knowledge.
nataliewexler.substack.com
January 4, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Explicit teaching & retrieval practice are key--but not enough to ensure deep learning.
Students with some knowledge of a topic can deepen it by making connections and engaging in analysis--as long as we modulate cognitive load.
More in my new post:
nataliewexler.substack.com/p/dont-forge...
Students with some knowledge of a topic can deepen it by making connections and engaging in analysis--as long as we modulate cognitive load.
More in my new post:
nataliewexler.substack.com/p/dont-forge...
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A major problem with the EduCognitivist revolution was trying to algorithmise teaching.
Algorithms are such thin rules that they can only ever work in a tightly controlled environment (no exceptions).
Therefore, to allow their algorithms to work, they also had to homogenise students & classrooms.
Algorithms are such thin rules that they can only ever work in a tightly controlled environment (no exceptions).
Therefore, to allow their algorithms to work, they also had to homogenise students & classrooms.
January 4, 2026 at 9:16 AM
A major problem with the EduCognitivist revolution was trying to algorithmise teaching.
Algorithms are such thin rules that they can only ever work in a tightly controlled environment (no exceptions).
Therefore, to allow their algorithms to work, they also had to homogenise students & classrooms.
Algorithms are such thin rules that they can only ever work in a tightly controlled environment (no exceptions).
Therefore, to allow their algorithms to work, they also had to homogenise students & classrooms.
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In my view they reduced teaching too much in an effort to simplify complex interactions. That's why there was an over-emphasis on "learning" but an underemphasis on "thinking". Truly many of those though probably have had minimal interaction with great teaching.
January 4, 2026 at 12:45 PM
In my view they reduced teaching too much in an effort to simplify complex interactions. That's why there was an over-emphasis on "learning" but an underemphasis on "thinking". Truly many of those though probably have had minimal interaction with great teaching.
How does this feature work?
January 4, 2026 at 12:16 PM
How does this feature work?
A major problem with the EduCognitivist revolution was trying to algorithmise teaching.
Algorithms are such thin rules that they can only ever work in a tightly controlled environment (no exceptions).
Therefore, to allow their algorithms to work, they also had to homogenise students & classrooms.
Algorithms are such thin rules that they can only ever work in a tightly controlled environment (no exceptions).
Therefore, to allow their algorithms to work, they also had to homogenise students & classrooms.
January 4, 2026 at 9:16 AM
A major problem with the EduCognitivist revolution was trying to algorithmise teaching.
Algorithms are such thin rules that they can only ever work in a tightly controlled environment (no exceptions).
Therefore, to allow their algorithms to work, they also had to homogenise students & classrooms.
Algorithms are such thin rules that they can only ever work in a tightly controlled environment (no exceptions).
Therefore, to allow their algorithms to work, they also had to homogenise students & classrooms.
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I am writing. Part 1. The tragedy of hidden schools, in hidden communities
meganjanedixon.co.uk/2026/01/03/p...
meganjanedixon.co.uk/2026/01/03/p...
Part 1.
My writing, I have decided, will include reflections, thoughts and ideas about education. But, I cannot ignore the situation I am in (see previous writing) and so, I will also be adding bits and pi…
meganjanedixon.co.uk
January 3, 2026 at 3:23 PM
I am writing. Part 1. The tragedy of hidden schools, in hidden communities
meganjanedixon.co.uk/2026/01/03/p...
meganjanedixon.co.uk/2026/01/03/p...
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Recall 11 Sep 1973 when the Chile military ousted Salvador Allende's democratically elected government & installed Gen. Pinochet in a coup d'état supported by the CIA?
Allende was implementing a socially planned economy based on Stafford Beer's Viable System Model. He died by suicide or murder.
Allende was implementing a socially planned economy based on Stafford Beer's Viable System Model. He died by suicide or murder.
US interventions 1898 to 1994 changed governments in Latin America 41 times - once every 28 months for 100 years & "Direct intervention in 17 cases [with] U.S. military forces, intelligence agents or local citizens employed by U.S. government agencies."
revista.drclas.harvard.edu/united-state...
revista.drclas.harvard.edu/united-state...
United States Interventions
In the slightly less than a hundred years from 1898 to 1994, the U.S. government has intervened successfully to change governments in Latin America a total of at least 41 times...
revista.drclas.harvard.edu
January 3, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Recall 11 Sep 1973 when the Chile military ousted Salvador Allende's democratically elected government & installed Gen. Pinochet in a coup d'état supported by the CIA?
Allende was implementing a socially planned economy based on Stafford Beer's Viable System Model. He died by suicide or murder.
Allende was implementing a socially planned economy based on Stafford Beer's Viable System Model. He died by suicide or murder.
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Not for the first time, where other European leaders wring their hands over Trump, Spain’s Sánchez draws a line. A stance that is only looking more sensible (more *realistic*) as time goes on.
Pedro Sánchez afirma que España no reconoció al régimen de Maduro, “pero tampoco reconocerá una intervención que viola el derecho internacional”
Sánchez asegura que España no reconocerá “una intervención que viola el derecho internacional”
El Gobierno llama a la “desescalada” en Venezuela tras el ataque de EE UU y se ofrece a mediar; y Feijóo pone el foco en la “férrea dictadura” de Maduro
elpais.com
January 3, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Not for the first time, where other European leaders wring their hands over Trump, Spain’s Sánchez draws a line. A stance that is only looking more sensible (more *realistic*) as time goes on.
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Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.
January 3, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.
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It's almost as if Maduro's kidnapping has nothing to do with drug trafficking at all.
fwiw it’s been about six weeks since Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who had been convicted of trafficking drugs into the US
January 3, 2026 at 1:50 PM
It's almost as if Maduro's kidnapping has nothing to do with drug trafficking at all.
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I’m a developer for a major food delivery app. The 'Priority Fee' and 'Driver Benefit Fee' go 100% to the company. The driver sees $0 of it. : r/confession www.reddit.com/r/confession...
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January 2, 2026 at 8:05 PM
I’m a developer for a major food delivery app. The 'Priority Fee' and 'Driver Benefit Fee' go 100% to the company. The driver sees $0 of it. : r/confession www.reddit.com/r/confession...
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Video rolling in of pretty massive airstrikes across Venezuela, plus low-flying helicopters which *appear* to be American.
January 3, 2026 at 6:40 AM
Video rolling in of pretty massive airstrikes across Venezuela, plus low-flying helicopters which *appear* to be American.