Keith Taber
@drkeithstaber.bsky.social
Retired former school and college science teacher; science teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge. Interested in HPS, music, photography, peace & justice.
Nothing tells me that the Annals of Urology & Nephrology is a serious scientific 🧪 journal rather than a predatory journal more than writing to me with a subject heading i?n?t?e?r?s?p?e?r?s?e?d w?i?t?h? i?r?r?e?l?e?v?a?n?t? q?u?e?s?t?i?o?n? m?a?r?k?s?.
November 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Nothing tells me that the Annals of Urology & Nephrology is a serious scientific 🧪 journal rather than a predatory journal more than writing to me with a subject heading i?n?t?e?r?s?p?e?r?s?e?d w?i?t?h? i?r?r?e?l?e?v?a?n?t? q?u?e?s?t?i?o?n? m?a?r?k?s?.
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Someone at a Journal thought that this email would get my attention.
It did.
But, …
It did.
But, …
November 6, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Someone at a Journal thought that this email would get my attention.
It did.
But, …
It did.
But, …
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Use colourless nitrogen monoxide and oxygen gases to produce orange-brown nitrogen dioxide gas with chemistry teacher Declan Fleming’s latest Exhibition chemistry demo
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November 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Use colourless nitrogen monoxide and oxygen gases to produce orange-brown nitrogen dioxide gas with chemistry teacher Declan Fleming’s latest Exhibition chemistry demo
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#scienceeducation #chemed
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#scienceeducation #chemed
If they need to cut costs, they could spend less on all those pointless BBC shows with people competing to dance or cook or lie etc- shows which the BBC shamelessly promotes by finding excuses to feature them on news and current affairs programmes at any excuse.
I was shocked to learn that the BBC is cutting its 30 min radio show 🧪 'Science in Action' @peaseroland.bsky.social after next week's episode. But at least the schedulers think it is continuing…
October 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
If they need to cut costs, they could spend less on all those pointless BBC shows with people competing to dance or cook or lie etc- shows which the BBC shamelessly promotes by finding excuses to feature them on news and current affairs programmes at any excuse.
I was shocked to learn that the BBC is cutting its 30 min radio show 🧪 'Science in Action' @peaseroland.bsky.social after next week's episode. But at least the schedulers think it is continuing…
October 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I was shocked to learn that the BBC is cutting its 30 min radio show 🧪 'Science in Action' @peaseroland.bsky.social after next week's episode. But at least the schedulers think it is continuing…
Waiting for my Amazon delivery - which today seems to be being delivered by one of their new quantum trucks powered by the Adams infinite improbability drive.
October 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Waiting for my Amazon delivery - which today seems to be being delivered by one of their new quantum trucks powered by the Adams infinite improbability drive.
Anyone interested in explaining 🧪 science (teaching or science communication) may wish to download this resource - a compilation of examples of science analogies, similes, metaphors, etc., from across a wide range of topics from various sources.
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October 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Anyone interested in explaining 🧪 science (teaching or science communication) may wish to download this resource - a compilation of examples of science analogies, similes, metaphors, etc., from across a wide range of topics from various sources.
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Okay, I ordered this on Amazon.
Wondering:
a) It will arrive within a month;
b) it will arrive on, or around, 12th Feb, 2026;
c) when it gets close to 12th Feb., Amazon will cancel the order.
Hoping for (a).
Past experience prepares me for (c). Not sure if others have experienced that?
Wondering:
a) It will arrive within a month;
b) it will arrive on, or around, 12th Feb, 2026;
c) when it gets close to 12th Feb., Amazon will cancel the order.
Hoping for (a).
Past experience prepares me for (c). Not sure if others have experienced that?
August 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Okay, I ordered this on Amazon.
Wondering:
a) It will arrive within a month;
b) it will arrive on, or around, 12th Feb, 2026;
c) when it gets close to 12th Feb., Amazon will cancel the order.
Hoping for (a).
Past experience prepares me for (c). Not sure if others have experienced that?
Wondering:
a) It will arrive within a month;
b) it will arrive on, or around, 12th Feb, 2026;
c) when it gets close to 12th Feb., Amazon will cancel the order.
Hoping for (a).
Past experience prepares me for (c). Not sure if others have experienced that?
Reposted by Keith Taber
Time for a quick #quiz! Comment your guess below!
Thanks to our amazing global community of #translators, how many languages do you think our sims are translated into? #OER #edtech
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How to translate phet.colorado.edu/en/for-trans...
Thanks to our amazing global community of #translators, how many languages do you think our sims are translated into? #OER #edtech
Hint 🤩 phet.colorado.edu/en/simulatio...
How to translate phet.colorado.edu/en/for-trans...
August 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Time for a quick #quiz! Comment your guess below!
Thanks to our amazing global community of #translators, how many languages do you think our sims are translated into? #OER #edtech
Hint 🤩 phet.colorado.edu/en/simulatio...
How to translate phet.colorado.edu/en/for-trans...
Thanks to our amazing global community of #translators, how many languages do you think our sims are translated into? #OER #edtech
Hint 🤩 phet.colorado.edu/en/simulatio...
How to translate phet.colorado.edu/en/for-trans...
(3) even though the stats in the paper gave a non-significant result, the authors concluded a positive outcome.
The JChemEd 🧪 editor was not interested in publshing a comment on this (let alone a retraction).
science-education-research.com/falsifying-r...
Poor scientific practice & peer review
The JChemEd 🧪 editor was not interested in publshing a comment on this (let alone a retraction).
science-education-research.com/falsifying-r...
Poor scientific practice & peer review
August 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
(3) even though the stats in the paper gave a non-significant result, the authors concluded a positive outcome.
The JChemEd 🧪 editor was not interested in publshing a comment on this (let alone a retraction).
science-education-research.com/falsifying-r...
Poor scientific practice & peer review
The JChemEd 🧪 editor was not interested in publshing a comment on this (let alone a retraction).
science-education-research.com/falsifying-r...
Poor scientific practice & peer review
(2) Despite the lack of equivlence between groups, the very similar (bizarrely so, from my teaching experiecne) successive average course scores were used to argue for a positive experimental outcome.
science-education-research.com/falsifying-r...
The editor was not interested in acknowledging. …
science-education-research.com/falsifying-r...
The editor was not interested in acknowledging. …
August 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
(2) Despite the lack of equivlence between groups, the very similar (bizarrely so, from my teaching experiecne) successive average course scores were used to argue for a positive experimental outcome.
science-education-research.com/falsifying-r...
The editor was not interested in acknowledging. …
science-education-research.com/falsifying-r...
The editor was not interested in acknowledging. …
Well it does not seem to apply in chemistry education.
(1) These results poltted here justified claiming in an American Chemical Society 🧪 journal that an innovation (red) was effective.…
science-education-research.com/falsifying-r...
(1) These results poltted here justified claiming in an American Chemical Society 🧪 journal that an innovation (red) was effective.…
science-education-research.com/falsifying-r...
August 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Well it does not seem to apply in chemistry education.
(1) These results poltted here justified claiming in an American Chemical Society 🧪 journal that an innovation (red) was effective.…
science-education-research.com/falsifying-r...
(1) These results poltted here justified claiming in an American Chemical Society 🧪 journal that an innovation (red) was effective.…
science-education-research.com/falsifying-r...
You could say the Dept of Education being excited about going back to slates…oh, hang on a minute - that needs a Department for Education 🤔
struggling with an analogy here but imagine NASA posting a meme about how excited they are to return aviation to the pre-jet age
![u.s. department of energy post on x praising coal:
"She's an icon
She's a legend
And she is the moment
[sparkly picture of coal]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fwks525g7gw5wc7ul2wg4wj5/bafkreiemlnocjpmihyy2yegdsvokmpk3vdrwkvaqbgpopxqbb4bgiebtqm@jpeg)
August 1, 2025 at 10:58 PM
You could say the Dept of Education being excited about going back to slates…oh, hang on a minute - that needs a Department for Education 🤔
A quick typographic question if you will:
tbe, or not tbe?
That is the question.
🧪
tbe, or not tbe?
That is the question.
🧪
![short incompelte extract from JJ Thomosn's 1899 paper on the masses of 'ions' [actually electrons] in gases at low pressure.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fkrue2iokhe2cslgnnodlqpa/bafkreidaeom54uwa437qbanuvgv77ystkjtl7oo7bgqt64vrt2bqdeo7ve@jpeg)
July 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
A quick typographic question if you will:
tbe, or not tbe?
That is the question.
🧪
tbe, or not tbe?
That is the question.
🧪
I'll raise you.
Europe after the rain.
Europe after the rain.
July 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I'll raise you.
Europe after the rain.
Europe after the rain.
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This is FAR more serious than the wife voluntarily dosing. This is assualt on his wife as well as the baby. And she was drugged not by some stranger but the perosn who was most supposed to love, cherish and protect her. (Not sexist- that should work either way round.) Was he charged for both crimes?
July 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
This is FAR more serious than the wife voluntarily dosing. This is assualt on his wife as well as the baby. And she was drugged not by some stranger but the perosn who was most supposed to love, cherish and protect her. (Not sexist- that should work either way round.) Was he charged for both crimes?
Do not believe everything you find on line.
I am not sure which is worse / funnier
the claimed distance to the nearest doctor being so wrong (its actually right in the middle of town)
the claimed precision for the measurement!
345.9270 miles!
Oh, and we have a fire station.
I am not sure which is worse / funnier
the claimed distance to the nearest doctor being so wrong (its actually right in the middle of town)
the claimed precision for the measurement!
345.9270 miles!
Oh, and we have a fire station.
July 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Do not believe everything you find on line.
I am not sure which is worse / funnier
the claimed distance to the nearest doctor being so wrong (its actually right in the middle of town)
the claimed precision for the measurement!
345.9270 miles!
Oh, and we have a fire station.
I am not sure which is worse / funnier
the claimed distance to the nearest doctor being so wrong (its actually right in the middle of town)
the claimed precision for the measurement!
345.9270 miles!
Oh, and we have a fire station.
Surely the real issue here is how @trussliz thinks it was the wrong decision to offer admission to Afghans who had supported the British agaisnt the Taliban, when their identities were leaked into the public domain. Her financial incompetence was lack of ability: but this shows lack of moral fibre.
July 16, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Surely the real issue here is how @trussliz thinks it was the wrong decision to offer admission to Afghans who had supported the British agaisnt the Taliban, when their identities were leaked into the public domain. Her financial incompetence was lack of ability: but this shows lack of moral fibre.
Does this mean they will no longer teach English (which comes from Britain), and instead only teach Cherokee and Chickasaw?
WATCH: TN State Board of Ed Chair Bob Eby moves to eliminate the foreign language requirement from Tennessee schools
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July 16, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Does this mean they will no longer teach English (which comes from Britain), and instead only teach Cherokee and Chickasaw?
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July 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Except victims of sexual assualt do not sin, they are sinned against.
I don't think Jesus ever specifically mentioned not committing child sexual abuse - almost as if it could be take for granted that does not need pointing out.
I don't think Jesus ever specifically mentioned not committing child sexual abuse - almost as if it could be take for granted that does not need pointing out.
(For those who aren't famililar:
"If any of you cause one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for you if a great millstone were fastened around your neck and you were drowned in the depth of the sea" -Matthew 18:6)
"If any of you cause one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for you if a great millstone were fastened around your neck and you were drowned in the depth of the sea" -Matthew 18:6)
July 15, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Except victims of sexual assualt do not sin, they are sinned against.
I don't think Jesus ever specifically mentioned not committing child sexual abuse - almost as if it could be take for granted that does not need pointing out.
I don't think Jesus ever specifically mentioned not committing child sexual abuse - almost as if it could be take for granted that does not need pointing out.
Reposted by Keith Taber
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July 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Recently, my book THEY CALLED US ENEMY was banned – again – in Tennessee. Book bans are out of control. Huge parts of American history are being restricted. To join me in standing up for the freedom to read, go to pen.org/action. @penamerica.bsky.social @topshelfcomix.bsky.social @idwpublishing.com