Ed Southall
@edsouthall.bsky.social
Maths Edu & Oak National maths lead | Speaker | Author http://amzn.to/2JmoTFv | Doctor (not the save your life kind, just the useless philosophising kind.)
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Ed Southall
@edsouthall.bsky.social
· Sep 17
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #508
(I do not believe that I was #508, but I'll take it).
(I do not believe that I was #508, but I'll take it).
mmhmmm
October 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
mmhmmm
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Think we’ve crossed a pretty major threshold – and a very bad one – if a journalist working in the lobby for a major newspaper group can tweet like this without professional consequences.
A mainstream “journalist” calling for a British MP to be deported. Is it because I’m Muslim? Next time, just say it with your chest.
October 18, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Think we’ve crossed a pretty major threshold – and a very bad one – if a journalist working in the lobby for a major newspaper group can tweet like this without professional consequences.
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“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
September 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
Saw this AI prompt being used and thought I'd give it a spin.
August 9, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Saw this AI prompt being used and thought I'd give it a spin.
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None of this happened, none of these pictures are real, AI slop like this makes the world dumber and worse and the companies peddling it 24/7 are destroying civilization.
August 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
None of this happened, none of these pictures are real, AI slop like this makes the world dumber and worse and the companies peddling it 24/7 are destroying civilization.
Managed to run a total of >40k two weeks in a row. Training officially begun for Arc of Attrition in January 😅
#edurunners
#edurunners
July 20, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Managed to run a total of >40k two weeks in a row. Training officially begun for Arc of Attrition in January 😅
#edurunners
#edurunners
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But AI is promised to "save schools time"?
"schools are not only getting an increasing number of complaints generated by AI but they are also having to dedicate more staff time to dealing with them ... 'and that really multiplies the workload'" www.tes.com/magazine/new...
"schools are not only getting an increasing number of complaints generated by AI but they are also having to dedicate more staff time to dealing with them ... 'and that really multiplies the workload'" www.tes.com/magazine/new...
Schools face ‘unsustainable’ rise in AI-generated complaints
Parents’ use of AI in making complaints means schools are having to deal with complex letters loaded with references to the law, leaders warn
www.tes.com
July 15, 2025 at 8:10 AM
But AI is promised to "save schools time"?
"schools are not only getting an increasing number of complaints generated by AI but they are also having to dedicate more staff time to dealing with them ... 'and that really multiplies the workload'" www.tes.com/magazine/new...
"schools are not only getting an increasing number of complaints generated by AI but they are also having to dedicate more staff time to dealing with them ... 'and that really multiplies the workload'" www.tes.com/magazine/new...
Thinking of Batman today
June 15, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Thinking of Batman today
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Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years.
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
June 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years.
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
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Good question, quote posting to answer, the illegal tariffs are the baseline 10%, suspended reciprocal tariffs, and a few others. The UK US deal focused on other tariffs - cars and other products - which remain in force.
Morning @davidheniguk.bsky.social
Can I just check where this leaves the US-UK?
Is it possible that we've now enshrined in law bad terms that were actually illegal when Trump threatened them? But we've made legal via the deal?
Can I just check where this leaves the US-UK?
Is it possible that we've now enshrined in law bad terms that were actually illegal when Trump threatened them? But we've made legal via the deal?
May 29, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Good question, quote posting to answer, the illegal tariffs are the baseline 10%, suspended reciprocal tariffs, and a few others. The UK US deal focused on other tariffs - cars and other products - which remain in force.
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📉 Year 7 school switch-off begins before Easter
Our new research featured in @tesmagazine.bsky.social shows a 15 percentage point drop in enjoyment + rising stress levels by Term 2.
The socio-economic gap in enthusiasm and support for high attainers is growing.
#MathsEd #Year7 #EdResearch
Our new research featured in @tesmagazine.bsky.social shows a 15 percentage point drop in enjoyment + rising stress levels by Term 2.
The socio-economic gap in enthusiasm and support for high attainers is growing.
#MathsEd #Year7 #EdResearch
Students’ enjoyment of their education suffers a substantial decline during the first year of secondary school, according to two separate studies
School engagement plummets in Year 7, research finds
Separate studies warn that students’ enjoyment of lessons drops, and stress levels rise, after moving to secondary school
www.tes.com
May 21, 2025 at 8:31 AM
📉 Year 7 school switch-off begins before Easter
Our new research featured in @tesmagazine.bsky.social shows a 15 percentage point drop in enjoyment + rising stress levels by Term 2.
The socio-economic gap in enthusiasm and support for high attainers is growing.
#MathsEd #Year7 #EdResearch
Our new research featured in @tesmagazine.bsky.social shows a 15 percentage point drop in enjoyment + rising stress levels by Term 2.
The socio-economic gap in enthusiasm and support for high attainers is growing.
#MathsEd #Year7 #EdResearch
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This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
May 20, 2025 at 11:04 AM
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
Draft of my next book “Bothered about maths” 🧮 is almost complete 😃. Been a joy to write a guide to developing a strong positive classroom culture & enthusing children (& teachers!) about teaching & learning maths. An expansion of the wonderful book Botheredness by
@hywelroberts.bsky.social
@hywelroberts.bsky.social
May 18, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Draft of my next book “Bothered about maths” 🧮 is almost complete 😃. Been a joy to write a guide to developing a strong positive classroom culture & enthusing children (& teachers!) about teaching & learning maths. An expansion of the wonderful book Botheredness by
@hywelroberts.bsky.social
@hywelroberts.bsky.social
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I ordered some hobby knickknacks on Etsy and they offered me the option to personalize the carrying case
May 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I ordered some hobby knickknacks on Etsy and they offered me the option to personalize the carrying case
Watched Sinners last night. What a movie! 🎬 🍿
a group of people sitting in a church with the words #sinnersmovie on the bottom
ALT: a group of people sitting in a church with the words #sinnersmovie on the bottom
media.tenor.com
May 10, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Watched Sinners last night. What a movie! 🎬 🍿
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The closing date for these vacancies is Monday ...
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There’s something special about working for MEI. We work at the forefront of innovation in education, developing innovative ideas and…
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May 9, 2025 at 11:22 AM
The closing date for these vacancies is Monday ...
anyone have a handy Oura recommend discount code thingy?
April 28, 2025 at 8:32 AM
anyone have a handy Oura recommend discount code thingy?
Got a little extravagant with my spending after seemingly never being able to clean my glasses fully. It’s either this or I become some kind of OCD maniacal scrubber of lenses
April 27, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Got a little extravagant with my spending after seemingly never being able to clean my glasses fully. It’s either this or I become some kind of OCD maniacal scrubber of lenses
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Like any serious athlete I have a plan for the #LondonMarathon today:
1. Run until my hip stops working;
2. ????????
3. Collect medal
1. Run until my hip stops working;
2. ????????
3. Collect medal
April 27, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Like any serious athlete I have a plan for the #LondonMarathon today:
1. Run until my hip stops working;
2. ????????
3. Collect medal
1. Run until my hip stops working;
2. ????????
3. Collect medal
Rewatching the wire and omg it’s even better than I remember!
April 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Rewatching the wire and omg it’s even better than I remember!
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Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine
April 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine
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I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.
The Department of Homeland Security denied Mahmoud Khalil permission to attend the birth of his first child, who was delivered at a New York hospital on Monday, according to emails reviewed by The New York Times.
Mahmoud Khalil’s Son Arrives After ICE Refuses to Let Him Attend Birth
Mr. Khalil, a permanent resident detained in Louisiana, had requested a monitored furlough for the birth. His request was denied in less than an hour.
www.nytimes.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.
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I am still in need of a term of 0.6FTE Maths supply.
North Yorkshire school.
Days are Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays.
All KS3 teaching from set curriculum and pupils have work booklets so very limited planning/ marking.
Please share with anyone you might know.
North Yorkshire school.
Days are Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays.
All KS3 teaching from set curriculum and pupils have work booklets so very limited planning/ marking.
Please share with anyone you might know.
April 21, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I am still in need of a term of 0.6FTE Maths supply.
North Yorkshire school.
Days are Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays.
All KS3 teaching from set curriculum and pupils have work booklets so very limited planning/ marking.
Please share with anyone you might know.
North Yorkshire school.
Days are Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays.
All KS3 teaching from set curriculum and pupils have work booklets so very limited planning/ marking.
Please share with anyone you might know.
Loving the new Bon Iver album
April 21, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Loving the new Bon Iver album