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Kelly Smith
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Enterprise and entrepreneurship educator at the University of Birmingham. Art collector and greyhound guardian. PFHEA, Fellow and Life Fellow of EEUK, and Fellow of ISBE.

Education 26%
Business 23%

Impressed I got 8!!!
An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
You’ll be doing well to spot 12 deliberate mistakes.

From Treasure magazine, 1963
Official answers coming soon

(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)
So glad this is being used in schools and universities.
Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal
Guardian found OpenAI’s platform cited Grokipedia on topics including Iran and Holocaust deniers
www.theguardian.com
An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
You’ll be doing well to spot 12 deliberate mistakes.

From Treasure magazine, 1963
Official answers coming soon

(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)

In a world that feels so full of angst (to put it mildly), l need these little moments of joy.
🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:

Two tiny humans (1?) are being carried in different directions down a busy street. Their mums cross paths and Tiny Human Strangers reach out their hands, momentary touching fingers, expressions marvelling at seeing another so small as themselves. (1)

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🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:

Two tiny humans (1?) are being carried in different directions down a busy street. Their mums cross paths and Tiny Human Strangers reach out their hands, momentary touching fingers, expressions marvelling at seeing another so small as themselves. (1)

Do you think something like a ‘primary focus’ on research, teaching, or working with business might work for your question?

Understood!!!

I’m assuming here you don’t want to ask them which Uni are they from?

With cluster definitions in Appendix C

Doesn’t meet a) or c) unless you’re into knowledge exchange, but the KEF cluster distinctions are interesting (may be just to me!). Listed in Appendix B www.ukri.org/wp-content/u...
www.ukri.org

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My four favourite facts about the cockchafer beetle:

1. It's called a cockchafer beetle.
2. It’s also sometimes known as a “billywitch”.
3. It’s unusually loud and clumsy by beetle standards and bangs into lots of things when it flies into your house by mistake.
4. It looks like this, close up.

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Can't resist revisiting this Art Nouveau winding staircase decorated with metal flowers and vines, designed by architect Ede Magyar, at Reök Palace in Szeged, Hungary (1907)

Gah. Earworm.

Or follow up with ‘grind coffee’

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Birdsong is something that can be a vital part of your well-being for years without you noticing or appreciating it, like having intact internal organs.

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So very sorry for you all. Big hugs and lots of love from me and Daz.
My daughter has asked me to circulate the attached survey on attitudes to the economic impact of immigration for her National 5 Modern Studies assignment. If you live in the UK, please consider filling it in (it is very short). Thanks.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Immigrations economic impact on the uk
This survey links to my National 5 Assignment - please answer as honestly as you can! Thank you.
docs.google.com
New systematic review of academic burnout
(exhaustion, inadequacy, and cynicism) among students

Open Access: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

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Ladies and gentlemen, the weekend

Not in her Google AI summary *yet*. Say it enough times and it’ll be there soon.

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Here's a #HigherEducation cigarette card showing the arms of @bristoluni.bsky.social

This is a spin-off from #HigherEducationPostcard

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NEW on Wonkhe: Grade inflation is falling, but OfS still thinks too many are getting good degrees. David Kernohan asks what it would take to know what is really going on buff.ly/TaEnE8y

Love to Bonesy and Fire. Took a big double take at your photo. Wondered what Richard and Daz were doing there for a split second!

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🧵Spotted While in Golden Bay in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A woman (60s?), with silver hair in a gloriously chaotic bun is walking down the street singing George Michael's "Freedom! '90". Grinning as a passing stranger (40s?) joins in the chorus with her. (1)

This made me laugh out loud

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“Stop crying about Google Glass and get used to how it’s going to accelerate the blending of the public and the private. Yes, it’s scary...The sooner you adapt, the sooner you’ll be able to profit from it instead of being paralyzed by it.” Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Computerworld (May 2013)
The funny thing is that you can see these exact same articles written about Google Glass in 2012. Casting them as inevitable is part of the hype cycle.
You Won’t Be Able to Escape Smart Glasses in 2026
Meta is betting big on AI eyewear, with production of its Ray-Ban collaboration expected to hit 10 million pairs annually by the end of the year. But will the tech-ified accessory ever actually be con...
www.gq.com

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The UK state now obviously accepting, and preparing for, the inevitable university closures. You've just got to hope it's not you or your kids caught up in the mess - which you were never clearly warned about.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Jacqui Smith: government would step in over university liquidation - Research Professional News
Skills minister says government has a “fundamental responsibility to protect students and research”
www.researchprofessionalnews.com

The glass would probably be reinforced these days and your brain is telling you she’d comically bounce back! Back then though… shudder.