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Midnight street The sheen of rain on cobble stones Black fur bristling Tails are agitated bottle brushes Careful circling round and round Avoiding eye contact But never loosing sight of one another Neither knows If the other one is save to be around Who approaches first?

Join us on Bluesky on Wednesday 24th September 2025 at 20:00 BST At the University of Glasgow we are in our first teaching week, the topic of note making, and its related systems seems appropriate, to set ourselves and our learners up for the new academic year. Notemaking I am not going deeply into the differentiation between note-taking versus note-making, but I will leave some references in the footnote…

So I did a thing. I am trying to organise myself better, and I have one and a half decades worth of notes on Google Keep, in various accounts. I tagged all the notes that were work related, set the view as list, saved as pdf and then asked NotebookLM to collate my key insights from this time. These are the key points

There is one mistake I am still making when mountain biking I focus on the obstacle rather than the path around the obstacle. Particularly, when I am getting tired. Why does this matter? Your bike goes where your eyes (focus) go. If you focus on the obstacle involuntarily your bike will steer towards the obstacle. I thought that is a useful metaphor…

You can’t move these days in Higher Education without reading about how AI has completely compromised most, if not all, the approaches to assessment that require a student to produce an artefact e.…

Reflections from the archives A long time ago, in a place far far away ... well alright not that long and not that far away but you get the point. I ran a small change management project for an institution I worked in. The issue was that I moved from one of the newest and youngest members of staff to being responsible for making this happen. I did the whole shebang internal, external stakeholder consultation etc so I am not boring you with process details instead I want to reflect on…

Since we are in the midst of our annual reviews, I have been pondering this topic extensively. Particularly, still remembering the early 2000s where centres of excellence sprouted like mushrooms in autumn. So I figured I ask AI for a useful definition: Excellence is a dynamic concept that refers to the exceptional quality and impact of academic endeavors across various domains. It goes beyond mere competence, signifying an outstanding level of achievement and a commitment to continuous improvement. The second sentence of this definition is rather interesting. What is outstanding?

Social media only ever shows the fun stuff my friend said. Well then let's explore last Sunday's bike ride... A poem A dotted double line is a forrestry roadRight!?We all know that!But the cartographer!One must approach inebriation with great solemnityTo denote the hand’s width hell of rock and mud a forrestry roadNot to mention the 14% incline.Thick grass wrapped around my front tire,While my back tire still tried to move.The rest was physics,as I tumble into the bogunder the worried watch of dragonflies…

Overcoming writer’s block and fighting inner demonsInner demons 101Why are you telling us this?Writing as identity negotiation: This is why it is so difficult!Things that have helped meFun Fa…

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