Matt Perks
dodiscimus.bsky.social
Matt Perks
@dodiscimus.bsky.social
11-18 physics teacher, now at University of Southampton in Initial Teacher Education. School governor. Mostly edu-guessing.
By teaching, we learn!
Ha, yes, but not if you spell it correctly ;-)
November 12, 2025 at 10:17 PM
That graph, for the US though!
Good grief 🤦
Unbelievable!

Seems slack that we only managed to sell them one London bridge, tbh.
November 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Oh, and when you get to the bit about Inuit, consider Vygotsky.
If this wasn't something he would instantly recognise, then I'm even more clueless about social contructivism than I thought.
November 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
It's worth reading the whole first column and then asking yourself when it was (or could have been) written.
November 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
There's lots more, including Watson being an appalling person, and the relentless misogny in the 1950s science community but I think the key point is several scientists made essential contributions, and one of them was not properly acknowledged at the time.
November 8, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Was this a combined effort - yes.
Should Franklin have shared in the 1962 Nobel prize - absolutely, but Nobel's are not awarded posthumously.
November 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
It's great to be able to see a lot of the network, though. And to be able to get travel times.
November 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Not complete, either. I'm sure the route of the Roman road down through Totton, the Waterside, to Lepe is fairly well mapped, but it's not on here at all.
www.hantsfieldclub.org.uk/publications...
www.hantsfieldclub.org.uk
November 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
It's definitely out a bit. I've ridden several of these routes in S. Wales and long sections of roman road are unmistakeable on the satellite map and on the ground.
November 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
There are something like 100+ secondary schools with a total ban on phones on school property, and another 250+ have a safe storage system, so this seems to be a surmountable problem (although obvs easier with buses in London or disadvantaged urban catchments).
November 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
What's anchoring the vertical centreline on that graph?
November 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Same as if you remove the context from the prompt. It will just assume something generic.

And probably biased, ofc.
November 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
No. I don't think it would ask questions like "What grade?" because it is producing a statistically likely sequence of words in response to your prompt and although a grade would alter its response it doesn't require a grade to respond, it will just assume something likely.
November 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM