Richard Wood
@mrwoodphysics.bsky.social
Teacher of Physics and Director of Teaching And Learning (Digital) at University College School. Watcher of birds, occasional gardener and Diamond I Rocket Leaguer.
Morning all. #earlyautumn #viewfromtheplatform
October 1, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Morning all. #earlyautumn #viewfromtheplatform
Another way of looking at it might be; without AI, Sandra's report was so long it needed a summary, and didn't address information that Bill might have needed; Jane didn't bother reading the report so needed Bill as a middleman just to put it into a different format. Both cases are stupid.
June 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Another way of looking at it might be; without AI, Sandra's report was so long it needed a summary, and didn't address information that Bill might have needed; Jane didn't bother reading the report so needed Bill as a middleman just to put it into a different format. Both cases are stupid.
Incredible albino just arrived outside my house. I think a sparrow? I was in the middle of sponsoring a neighbour for charity and had to ask him to take his clipboard back while I rushed to grab my phone! #birding #birbs #birds #rspb #bbcspringwatch @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Incredible albino just arrived outside my house. I think a sparrow? I was in the middle of sponsoring a neighbour for charity and had to ask him to take his clipboard back while I rushed to grab my phone! #birding #birbs #birds #rspb #bbcspringwatch @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social
If you ignore all the news, it's a beautiful day, isn't it?
March 18, 2025 at 7:29 AM
If you ignore all the news, it's a beautiful day, isn't it?
Daily is a tough ask in a busy job. But Cryptic Clue Collection continues.
Craft throws off petty officer?
(9)
Craft throws off petty officer?
(9)
February 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Daily is a tough ask in a busy job. But Cryptic Clue Collection continues.
Craft throws off petty officer?
(9)
Craft throws off petty officer?
(9)
Amusing clue in Guardian's Everyman crossword today;
Crossword setter's into dictionary, mate: that's kind of complex (7)
Crossword setter's into dictionary, mate: that's kind of complex (7)
February 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Amusing clue in Guardian's Everyman crossword today;
Crossword setter's into dictionary, mate: that's kind of complex (7)
Crossword setter's into dictionary, mate: that's kind of complex (7)
Starting my daily clues again for a couple of weeks.
Couple of bits cut up (7)
Couple of bits cut up (7)
January 30, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Starting my daily clues again for a couple of weeks.
Couple of bits cut up (7)
Couple of bits cut up (7)
FT crossword today has the brilliant
"Wandering on Mars, idiotic chap regularly waves from space (6,9)"
"Wandering on Mars, idiotic chap regularly waves from space (6,9)"
January 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
FT crossword today has the brilliant
"Wandering on Mars, idiotic chap regularly waves from space (6,9)"
"Wandering on Mars, idiotic chap regularly waves from space (6,9)"
It was of course the wonderful Fabio Di Salvo. fabiodisalvo.com/2021/03/14/r...
January 23, 2025 at 11:50 PM
It was of course the wonderful Fabio Di Salvo. fabiodisalvo.com/2021/03/14/r...
HoD bought graphics tablet with screen ("so, a tablet?" "Yes") for annotating and live modelling. I told him maybe the laptops we currently have with touchscreens and styluses are actually fine? He did not listen. Tablet arrived today, setup and use is fiddly and annoying, he is frustrated. Me:
a man in a police uniform and tie is making a funny face and saying vindication !!! .
Alt: a man in a police uniform and tie is making a funny face and saying vindication !!! .
media.tenor.com
January 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
HoD bought graphics tablet with screen ("so, a tablet?" "Yes") for annotating and live modelling. I told him maybe the laptops we currently have with touchscreens and styluses are actually fine? He did not listen. Tablet arrived today, setup and use is fiddly and annoying, he is frustrated. Me:
Blocked by an author whose books massively helped in my early career, apparently because I replied to her in earnest on a subject where she didn't want that. Baffling.
January 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Blocked by an author whose books massively helped in my early career, apparently because I replied to her in earnest on a subject where she didn't want that. Baffling.
Just before Christmas I went to Forest Farm nature reserve in Cardiff, managing to see these two stunning creatures. I cannot imagine a future of mine in which seeing a kingfisher is not a delight. Will be searching again in Rickmansworth in the next couple of months.
January 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Just before Christmas I went to Forest Farm nature reserve in Cardiff, managing to see these two stunning creatures. I cannot imagine a future of mine in which seeing a kingfisher is not a delight. Will be searching again in Rickmansworth in the next couple of months.
It's been a very busy year. I feel like I haven't had a lot of time to sit down and relax. So, this holiday's present to myself is a detailed simulation of the industry, transportation and economy of Soviet satellite states in the 1960s for long, uninterrupted gaming sessions.
December 24, 2024 at 6:20 PM
It's been a very busy year. I feel like I haven't had a lot of time to sit down and relax. So, this holiday's present to myself is a detailed simulation of the industry, transportation and economy of Soviet satellite states in the 1960s for long, uninterrupted gaming sessions.
Reposted by Richard Wood
Whoa black betty
December 7, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Whoa black betty
1) Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End) - The Darkness
2) Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen
3) Baby, It's Cold Outside - Tom Jones and Cerys Matthews
4) Santa Clause Is Coming To Town - The Jackson Five
5) Just For Now - Imogen Heap
#FridayFive
2) Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen
3) Baby, It's Cold Outside - Tom Jones and Cerys Matthews
4) Santa Clause Is Coming To Town - The Jackson Five
5) Just For Now - Imogen Heap
#FridayFive
#FridayFive.
It's CHRISTMAAASS!
1. It's a Big Country. Davitt Sigerson.
2. River. Joni Mitchell.
3. When the Thames Froze. Smith and Burrows.
4. Christmas Wrapping. Waitresses.
5. Thank God It's Christmas. Queen.
It's CHRISTMAAASS!
1. It's a Big Country. Davitt Sigerson.
2. River. Joni Mitchell.
3. When the Thames Froze. Smith and Burrows.
4. Christmas Wrapping. Waitresses.
5. Thank God It's Christmas. Queen.
December 6, 2024 at 5:14 PM
1) Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End) - The Darkness
2) Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen
3) Baby, It's Cold Outside - Tom Jones and Cerys Matthews
4) Santa Clause Is Coming To Town - The Jackson Five
5) Just For Now - Imogen Heap
#FridayFive
2) Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen
3) Baby, It's Cold Outside - Tom Jones and Cerys Matthews
4) Santa Clause Is Coming To Town - The Jackson Five
5) Just For Now - Imogen Heap
#FridayFive
I, personally, knew all of this already, of course.
"Bullshitters. Who Are They and What Do
We Know about Their Lives?"
Just read this brilliant paper that used the PISA tests to look at who bullshits.
It asked 40,000 15yos to explain a fake maths term, eg Subjunctive scaling.
So guess what it found? 🧵
We Know about Their Lives?"
Just read this brilliant paper that used the PISA tests to look at who bullshits.
It asked 40,000 15yos to explain a fake maths term, eg Subjunctive scaling.
So guess what it found? 🧵
December 6, 2024 at 1:49 PM
I, personally, knew all of this already, of course.
I love my job because of its variety, and because I am mainly my authentic self. I have always found it really hard to, for example, script an explanation or a conversation with students. I am aware of how useful it may be in many situations. But if I am required to deliver something in a certain...
#EDUSKY Thread: Why deliberate practice and habituation might accidently lead to reduced teacher motivation.
There is a strange phenomena in teaching. In some cases new teachers join the profession and over a few years we teach them all the best ways to do things and they become amazing teachers...
There is a strange phenomena in teaching. In some cases new teachers join the profession and over a few years we teach them all the best ways to do things and they become amazing teachers...
December 2, 2024 at 4:04 PM
I love my job because of its variety, and because I am mainly my authentic self. I have always found it really hard to, for example, script an explanation or a conversation with students. I am aware of how useful it may be in many situations. But if I am required to deliver something in a certain...
TODAY'S CLUE: Conflict in underworld with silver spears (9)
Friday's answer: SEVERE (homophone of "Sevilla")
Friday's answer: SEVERE (homophone of "Sevilla")
Today's clue:
City in Spain reported dangerous (6)
Yesterday's answer: MASTICATE (anagram of "eats cat I'm")
City in Spain reported dangerous (6)
Yesterday's answer: MASTICATE (anagram of "eats cat I'm")
Today's clue: Wolf eats cat - I'm devastated (9)
Yesterday's answer: HONESTY (Saint, ST, surrounded by, or smothered with, with HONEY)
Yesterday's answer: HONESTY (Saint, ST, surrounded by, or smothered with, with HONEY)
December 2, 2024 at 7:46 AM
TODAY'S CLUE: Conflict in underworld with silver spears (9)
Friday's answer: SEVERE (homophone of "Sevilla")
Friday's answer: SEVERE (homophone of "Sevilla")
I agree with some but not all; anxiety is poorly dealt with in today's schools, but knowing the needs and diagnoses of pupils is more likely to help us meet them than not knowing them. Human judgement is poor in general; it's why we test and do science. I would rather have 30 labels than none.
December 2, 2024 at 7:44 AM
I agree with some but not all; anxiety is poorly dealt with in today's schools, but knowing the needs and diagnoses of pupils is more likely to help us meet them than not knowing them. Human judgement is poor in general; it's why we test and do science. I would rather have 30 labels than none.
"Four Christmas trees, Jeremy? FOUR?! That's insane"
December 1, 2024 at 4:51 PM
"Four Christmas trees, Jeremy? FOUR?! That's insane"
Today is nuclear physics revision and practice with sixth form, PSHE with my year 7 form, practice Oxbridge interviews with our partner school, and gas laws with year 11. I may find time to have a coffee at some point.
November 29, 2024 at 8:14 AM
Today is nuclear physics revision and practice with sixth form, PSHE with my year 7 form, practice Oxbridge interviews with our partner school, and gas laws with year 11. I may find time to have a coffee at some point.
Today's clue:
City in Spain reported dangerous (6)
Yesterday's answer: MASTICATE (anagram of "eats cat I'm")
City in Spain reported dangerous (6)
Yesterday's answer: MASTICATE (anagram of "eats cat I'm")
Today's clue: Wolf eats cat - I'm devastated (9)
Yesterday's answer: HONESTY (Saint, ST, surrounded by, or smothered with, with HONEY)
Yesterday's answer: HONESTY (Saint, ST, surrounded by, or smothered with, with HONEY)
Today's crossword clue: Smothering holy figure with flattery is virtuous behaviour (7)
The answer to yesterday's clue is PHOTO (the skin of the word PotatO with HOT loaded into it)
The answer to yesterday's clue is PHOTO (the skin of the word PotatO with HOT loaded into it)
November 29, 2024 at 7:57 AM
Today's clue:
City in Spain reported dangerous (6)
Yesterday's answer: MASTICATE (anagram of "eats cat I'm")
City in Spain reported dangerous (6)
Yesterday's answer: MASTICATE (anagram of "eats cat I'm")
#viewfromtheplatform Not as stunning today as yesterday but still pretty awesome.
November 29, 2024 at 7:55 AM
#viewfromtheplatform Not as stunning today as yesterday but still pretty awesome.
November 28, 2024 at 7:50 AM