Hamish Chalmers
@hwc001.bsky.social
University of Oxford. Education. EAL.
The ‘you can’t even call it Christmas any more’ seems to come earlier each year.
Let’s have a look at a crazy Twitter to newspaper pipeline story and debunk as we go! 🔎👍🏼
16th Nov the “Britain is Broken” account shared the following post claiming “Tesco are no longer celebrating Christmas”
With a picture of their “Evergreen” Trees
2.2Million views to date🙄
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16th Nov the “Britain is Broken” account shared the following post claiming “Tesco are no longer celebrating Christmas”
With a picture of their “Evergreen” Trees
2.2Million views to date🙄
🧵1/26
November 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The ‘you can’t even call it Christmas any more’ seems to come earlier each year.
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November 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Reposted by Hamish Chalmers
Our @education.ox.ac.uk
Applied Linguistics Lunchtime Seminars continue Tues 4th Nov 13-14:00GMT with a review of the research on Arabic as an additional language by Drs @robertwoore.bsky.social and Anna-Maria Ramezanzadeh. Join us online via Teams - details: www.education.ox.ac.uk/event/review...
Applied Linguistics Lunchtime Seminars continue Tues 4th Nov 13-14:00GMT with a review of the research on Arabic as an additional language by Drs @robertwoore.bsky.social and Anna-Maria Ramezanzadeh. Join us online via Teams - details: www.education.ox.ac.uk/event/review...
Reviewing Research on the Teaching and Learning of Arabic as an Additional Language: Challenges, Opportunities and Implications
www.education.ox.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Our @education.ox.ac.uk
Applied Linguistics Lunchtime Seminars continue Tues 4th Nov 13-14:00GMT with a review of the research on Arabic as an additional language by Drs @robertwoore.bsky.social and Anna-Maria Ramezanzadeh. Join us online via Teams - details: www.education.ox.ac.uk/event/review...
Applied Linguistics Lunchtime Seminars continue Tues 4th Nov 13-14:00GMT with a review of the research on Arabic as an additional language by Drs @robertwoore.bsky.social and Anna-Maria Ramezanzadeh. Join us online via Teams - details: www.education.ox.ac.uk/event/review...
All new material from Oxford’s legendary drunk-rock anti-heroes. Check out the thunder-toms on the title track.
open.spotify.com/album/2XSOXD...
open.spotify.com/album/2XSOXD...
Spotify – Web Player
open.spotify.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
All new material from Oxford’s legendary drunk-rock anti-heroes. Check out the thunder-toms on the title track.
open.spotify.com/album/2XSOXD...
open.spotify.com/album/2XSOXD...
Full version, featuring the late great Benjamin Zephaniah.
October 17, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Full version, featuring the late great Benjamin Zephaniah.
Reposted by Hamish Chalmers
Reposted by Hamish Chalmers
Schools, teachers & parents often face new initiatives designed to improve education — but every change comes with a cost.
🎧 Listen to @education.ox.ac.uk Deanery’s Digest episode about our Questioning guide that helps you assess education claims confidently.
podcasts.ox.ac.uk/confident-qu...
🎧 Listen to @education.ox.ac.uk Deanery’s Digest episode about our Questioning guide that helps you assess education claims confidently.
podcasts.ox.ac.uk/confident-qu...
The Confident Questioner’s Guide - Assessing Claims in Education
Schools, teachers and parents are regularly introduced to new measures designed to improve education. However, education is a zero-sum game. The introduction of a new initiative inevitably comes at…
podcasts.ox.ac.uk
October 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Schools, teachers & parents often face new initiatives designed to improve education — but every change comes with a cost.
🎧 Listen to @education.ox.ac.uk Deanery’s Digest episode about our Questioning guide that helps you assess education claims confidently.
podcasts.ox.ac.uk/confident-qu...
🎧 Listen to @education.ox.ac.uk Deanery’s Digest episode about our Questioning guide that helps you assess education claims confidently.
podcasts.ox.ac.uk/confident-qu...
New digital cassingle now available for preorder from Oxford’s premium 90’s drunk-rock superstars, Arthur Turners Lovechild?
The Last Hoorah of the Electric Kid., by Arthur Turners Lovechild?
5 track album
arthurturnerslovechild.bandcamp.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
New digital cassingle now available for preorder from Oxford’s premium 90’s drunk-rock superstars, Arthur Turners Lovechild?
Reposted by Hamish Chalmers
Our first #appliedlinguistics lunchtime seminar @education.ox.ac.uk is on 21st Oct, 1-2pm, with @dkcayado.bsky.social talking to us about morphology in Tagalog. Join us in person or online! Details ➡️ www.education.ox.ac.uk/event/tracki...
October 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Our first #appliedlinguistics lunchtime seminar @education.ox.ac.uk is on 21st Oct, 1-2pm, with @dkcayado.bsky.social talking to us about morphology in Tagalog. Join us in person or online! Details ➡️ www.education.ox.ac.uk/event/tracki...
“Doxxing. Ghosting. Felching. Dorries. New words frame hideous new concepts for which there were previously no words.”
‘Dorries’ 😂
‘Dorries’ 😂
And he’s back!!
Sunday isn’t Sunday without Stewart Lee. We were so thrilled at @thenerve.news that Stewart came with us.
His satirical columns for the Observer were some of our most-read content: funny, surreal, angry true. Essential weekend reading.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Sunday isn’t Sunday without Stewart Lee. We were so thrilled at @thenerve.news that Stewart came with us.
His satirical columns for the Observer were some of our most-read content: funny, surreal, angry true. Essential weekend reading.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
DOUBLETHINK DOES DOUBLETIME
STEWART LEE
www.thenerve.news
October 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
“Doxxing. Ghosting. Felching. Dorries. New words frame hideous new concepts for which there were previously no words.”
‘Dorries’ 😂
‘Dorries’ 😂
Reposted by Hamish Chalmers
Needs more cowbell.
October 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Needs more cowbell.
Buy our album … please
This Friday is Bandcamp Friday, where all proceeds from sales on the site go directly to the artist. Support independent music, and especially this banger of an album by Oxford’s drunk rock legends Arthur Turners Lovechild?
The Very Most of ...., by Arthur Turners Lovechild?
25 track album
arthurturnerslovechild.bandcamp.com
October 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Buy our album … please
I’m starting to think that maybe the last time was never
Kemi Badenoch: "Last time I checked Northern Ireland did vote to leave."
Might be good idea to check again.
Might be good idea to check again.
October 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I’m starting to think that maybe the last time was never
This Friday is Bandcamp Friday, where all proceeds from sales on the site go directly to the artist. Support independent music, and especially this banger of an album by Oxford’s drunk rock legends Arthur Turners Lovechild?
The Very Most of ...., by Arthur Turners Lovechild?
25 track album
arthurturnerslovechild.bandcamp.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:58 AM
This Friday is Bandcamp Friday, where all proceeds from sales on the site go directly to the artist. Support independent music, and especially this banger of an album by Oxford’s drunk rock legends Arthur Turners Lovechild?
I have just left a lengthy Pubpeer comment on the autism/Tylenol study being cited by the Trump administration. There appear to be a number of fairly straightforward errors in the paper.
pubpeer.com/publications...
pubpeer.com/publications...
PubPeer - Evaluation of the evidence on acetaminophen use and neurodev...
There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Evaluation of the evidence on acetaminophen use and neurodevelopmental disorders using the Navigation Guide methodology (2025)
pubpeer.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Liquid Glass is ugly AF.
September 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Liquid Glass is ugly AF.
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🎙️ How can teachers become confident questioners of new education initiatives?
David Schley (@senseaboutsci.bsky.social) & Hamish Chalmers discuss new guidance on what questions to ask to make informed decisions about what’s truly worthwhile.
🔗 Listen: podcasts.ox.ac.uk/confident-qu...
#Edusky
David Schley (@senseaboutsci.bsky.social) & Hamish Chalmers discuss new guidance on what questions to ask to make informed decisions about what’s truly worthwhile.
🔗 Listen: podcasts.ox.ac.uk/confident-qu...
#Edusky
September 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
🎙️ How can teachers become confident questioners of new education initiatives?
David Schley (@senseaboutsci.bsky.social) & Hamish Chalmers discuss new guidance on what questions to ask to make informed decisions about what’s truly worthwhile.
🔗 Listen: podcasts.ox.ac.uk/confident-qu...
#Edusky
David Schley (@senseaboutsci.bsky.social) & Hamish Chalmers discuss new guidance on what questions to ask to make informed decisions about what’s truly worthwhile.
🔗 Listen: podcasts.ox.ac.uk/confident-qu...
#Edusky
Reposted by Hamish Chalmers
If you're a parent, teacher, or councillor concerned about education proposals affecting your local schools and colleges, make sure to ask for the evidence behind them. Here are our three Key Questions in Education from our guide. Take a look!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2Sq...
@hwc001.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2Sq...
@hwc001.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 8:26 AM
If you're a parent, teacher, or councillor concerned about education proposals affecting your local schools and colleges, make sure to ask for the evidence behind them. Here are our three Key Questions in Education from our guide. Take a look!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2Sq...
@hwc001.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2Sq...
@hwc001.bsky.social
Reposted by Hamish Chalmers
When faced with claims about new educational initiatives, what questions should you ask to help evaluate the claim and its applicability to your context? David Schley from @senseaboutsci.bsky.social tells me about their new Questioning Guides, designed to help educators make informed choices #EduSky
The Confident Questioner’s Guide - Assessing Claims in Education
Podcast Episode · Deanery Digests · 19/09/2025 · 22m
podcasts.apple.com
September 20, 2025 at 9:25 AM
When faced with claims about new educational initiatives, what questions should you ask to help evaluate the claim and its applicability to your context? David Schley from @senseaboutsci.bsky.social tells me about their new Questioning Guides, designed to help educators make informed choices #EduSky
When faced with claims about new educational initiatives, what questions should you ask to help evaluate the claim and its applicability to your context? David Schley from @senseaboutsci.bsky.social tells me about their new Questioning Guides, designed to help educators make informed choices #EduSky
The Confident Questioner’s Guide - Assessing Claims in Education
Podcast Episode · Deanery Digests · 19/09/2025 · 22m
podcasts.apple.com
September 20, 2025 at 9:25 AM
When faced with claims about new educational initiatives, what questions should you ask to help evaluate the claim and its applicability to your context? David Schley from @senseaboutsci.bsky.social tells me about their new Questioning Guides, designed to help educators make informed choices #EduSky
Reposted by Hamish Chalmers
🌍 WEBINAR: What to read for climate & nature in the classroom
Join Megan Murray-Pepper, Phoebe Mortimer & Nicole Dingwall to explore literature that sparks discussion of ecological themes in English classrooms.
📅 23 Oct, 4:15pm
Register: bit.ly/4nGMyzu
Join Megan Murray-Pepper, Phoebe Mortimer & Nicole Dingwall to explore literature that sparks discussion of ecological themes in English classrooms.
📅 23 Oct, 4:15pm
Register: bit.ly/4nGMyzu
September 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
🌍 WEBINAR: What to read for climate & nature in the classroom
Join Megan Murray-Pepper, Phoebe Mortimer & Nicole Dingwall to explore literature that sparks discussion of ecological themes in English classrooms.
📅 23 Oct, 4:15pm
Register: bit.ly/4nGMyzu
Join Megan Murray-Pepper, Phoebe Mortimer & Nicole Dingwall to explore literature that sparks discussion of ecological themes in English classrooms.
📅 23 Oct, 4:15pm
Register: bit.ly/4nGMyzu
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The Biggest Far Right March in British History. Worried? Here's how we stop them .... The Biggest Far Right March in British History paulmasonnews.medium.com/the-biggest-...
The Biggest Far Right March in British History
Worried? Do something…
paulmasonnews.medium.com
September 14, 2025 at 6:53 AM
The Biggest Far Right March in British History. Worried? Here's how we stop them .... The Biggest Far Right March in British History paulmasonnews.medium.com/the-biggest-...
That's me out of a job then.
h/t @sararatner.bsky.social
h/t @sararatner.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
That's me out of a job then.
h/t @sararatner.bsky.social
h/t @sararatner.bsky.social
The flag shaggers have been at it at Barton Roundabout, Oxford. Now, don’t get me wrong, I like a good flag of St George, like when the our awesome multiethnic Lionesses won the European Cup and stuff. I probably wouldn’t fly one at half mast though. Are the flag shaggers in mourning?
September 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The flag shaggers have been at it at Barton Roundabout, Oxford. Now, don’t get me wrong, I like a good flag of St George, like when the our awesome multiethnic Lionesses won the European Cup and stuff. I probably wouldn’t fly one at half mast though. Are the flag shaggers in mourning?
Reposted by Hamish Chalmers
Farage promise to "stop the boats within two weeks of winning gov't" unravelling.
Apparently, it means "after passing laws", "as quickly as possible", he "believes", the boats will still cross, but all will be deported "if necessary" and "sensible", "unless we have a duty of care".
Bravo, Beth! 👏🏽
Apparently, it means "after passing laws", "as quickly as possible", he "believes", the boats will still cross, but all will be deported "if necessary" and "sensible", "unless we have a duty of care".
Bravo, Beth! 👏🏽
September 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Farage promise to "stop the boats within two weeks of winning gov't" unravelling.
Apparently, it means "after passing laws", "as quickly as possible", he "believes", the boats will still cross, but all will be deported "if necessary" and "sensible", "unless we have a duty of care".
Bravo, Beth! 👏🏽
Apparently, it means "after passing laws", "as quickly as possible", he "believes", the boats will still cross, but all will be deported "if necessary" and "sensible", "unless we have a duty of care".
Bravo, Beth! 👏🏽