Michael Seery
@mkseery.bsky.social
Deputy Director of Centre for Academic Language and Development, University of Bristol. National Teaching Fellow. Visiting Professor at OU. Interested in all things higher education and history 🏳️🌈 🇮🇪
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Michael Seery
@mkseery.bsky.social
· Jul 11
What an amazing week! Thank you everyone who made it so special. This was a career highlight that will be tough to beat. #GRCCERP #MoonAgents
2026 will be (I think) the 10th MICER... we are now looking for expressions of interest to host it rsccerg.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/o...
Open Call for Organisers of 10th MICER 2026
ICER runs annually under the auspices of the RSC Chemistry Education Research Group, and the group are issuing a call for organisers of the 2026 meeting. Details are provided below. Submissions sho…
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October 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
2026 will be (I think) the 10th MICER... we are now looking for expressions of interest to host it rsccerg.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/o...
Something new from me. The Chris Adams symposium prompted me to think the role of virtual laboratories in chemistry and I have been slowly thinking it through since. It turns out that there is a lot to do. Sharing as a preprint and really welcome comments while I work it up. osf.io/preprints/ed...
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September 23, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Something new from me. The Chris Adams symposium prompted me to think the role of virtual laboratories in chemistry and I have been slowly thinking it through since. It turns out that there is a lot to do. Sharing as a preprint and really welcome comments while I work it up. osf.io/preprints/ed...
National Archives (UK) running 3 events on Irish history this month. Yes pleeeeze www.eventbrite.com/cc/finding-i...
September 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
National Archives (UK) running 3 events on Irish history this month. Yes pleeeeze www.eventbrite.com/cc/finding-i...
Sometimes it is hard being a chemist and a gardener
September 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Sometimes it is hard being a chemist and a gardener
Sometimes this is a very difficult country to live in
September 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Sometimes this is a very difficult country to live in
One of the fascinating if depressing things about “the literature” is the extent to which people cite other work that completely misrepresents what the cited article says. And that’s going to get so much worse with AI “insights”.
September 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
One of the fascinating if depressing things about “the literature” is the extent to which people cite other work that completely misrepresents what the cited article says. And that’s going to get so much worse with AI “insights”.
Happy Putting those Aspirations for Completing Tasks Back On Ice For Another Year Day to all who celebrate. 🙌
September 1, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Happy Putting those Aspirations for Completing Tasks Back On Ice For Another Year Day to all who celebrate. 🙌
You *can* have it all.
August 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
You *can* have it all.
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**New blog post** A reflection on how moving city made me less productive this year. www.michaeloneill.org/blog-1/2025/8/18/the-academic-productivity-cost-of-moving
The academic productivity cost of moving — Michael O'Neill
A reflection on the way I became less productive in the year I moved from one University to another.
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August 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM
**New blog post** A reflection on how moving city made me less productive this year. www.michaeloneill.org/blog-1/2025/8/18/the-academic-productivity-cost-of-moving
It's 4 years since everything upended, and having this month just finished the first year in my new role, I am (over)sharing some reflections. Short version: all is well :D michaelseery.com/reflecting-o...
Reflecting on moving career, moving life: 4 years on
I’ve recently completed my first year in my new job and as part of my annual review was prompted by my Director to reflect on learnings over the year past (I work in a Faculty of Arts now; it’s wha…
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August 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
It's 4 years since everything upended, and having this month just finished the first year in my new role, I am (over)sharing some reflections. Short version: all is well :D michaelseery.com/reflecting-o...
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Paging the #CompChemSky and #iTeachChem communities: Could you please help my MSc student with an education project, exploring how gen AI shapes the way we think, solve problems, and build confidence.
August 8, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Paging the #CompChemSky and #iTeachChem communities: Could you please help my MSc student with an education project, exploring how gen AI shapes the way we think, solve problems, and build confidence.
I've spent a bit of time thinking and writing about GRC CERP; how it came together, and how it came to be. Thank you to everyone who played a part and the many messages since. It's long, so a main take away message, it is: *conference organisers should always have a "meal with speakers" system*.
A Maine Meitheal: Reflecting on the 2025 GRC Chemistry Education Research and Practice
In early July in rural Maine, I chaired the 2025 Gordon Research Conference Chemistry Education Research and Practice meeting. I was elected way back in 2019 as Vice Chair to Ellen Yezierski (Vice …
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July 31, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I've spent a bit of time thinking and writing about GRC CERP; how it came together, and how it came to be. Thank you to everyone who played a part and the many messages since. It's long, so a main take away message, it is: *conference organisers should always have a "meal with speakers" system*.
First day//last day of GRC CERP. Who needs sleep?!.Thanks so much to Erin Saitta for photos.
July 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
First day//last day of GRC CERP. Who needs sleep?!.Thanks so much to Erin Saitta for photos.
Was an amazing week - thanks for presentation and bringing *all* the gang from Texas 🤣 They made an enormous contribution to the meeting.
PHOTO DROP from the 2025 CERP GRC!
I feel so excited for what’s to come in our field. I’m intellectually overwhelmed in the best way possible, and I’m so happy I got to connect again with #CER friends and meet so many new people this year. My heart is absolutely full.
I feel so excited for what’s to come in our field. I’m intellectually overwhelmed in the best way possible, and I’m so happy I got to connect again with #CER friends and meet so many new people this year. My heart is absolutely full.
July 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Was an amazing week - thanks for presentation and bringing *all* the gang from Texas 🤣 They made an enormous contribution to the meeting.
What an amazing week! Thank you everyone who made it so special. This was a career highlight that will be tough to beat. #GRCCERP #MoonAgents
July 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
What an amazing week! Thank you everyone who made it so special. This was a career highlight that will be tough to beat. #GRCCERP #MoonAgents
At Trinity last night for book launch of 300 years of Trinity. Launched by Peter Boyle (who turned to history when he retired - role model ❤️); met up with JMK; and a talk from Peter Morris on history of chemistry lab.
July 1, 2025 at 7:37 AM
At Trinity last night for book launch of 300 years of Trinity. Launched by Peter Boyle (who turned to history when he retired - role model ❤️); met up with JMK; and a talk from Peter Morris on history of chemistry lab.
RIP Edmund White. As a very confused young adult I somehow came across his work and it was a lightbulb. A world I never thought I could connect with, but was a comfort to know it existed. Some lovely tributes www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Edmund White remembered: ‘He was the patron saint of queer literature’
Colm Tóibín, Alan Hollinghurst, Adam Mars-Jones and more recall the high style and libidinous freedom of a writer who ‘was not a gateway to gay literature but a main destination’
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June 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
RIP Edmund White. As a very confused young adult I somehow came across his work and it was a lightbulb. A world I never thought I could connect with, but was a comfort to know it existed. Some lovely tributes www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
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We are organising a one-day symposium in memory of Chris Adams, here in Bristol Chemistry on 27th June 2025, from 10 am. Details, programme and registration form here: cjasymposium.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
Please register by the end of this week if you plan to come for dinner.
Please register by the end of this week if you plan to come for dinner.
June 3, 2025 at 10:22 AM
We are organising a one-day symposium in memory of Chris Adams, here in Bristol Chemistry on 27th June 2025, from 10 am. Details, programme and registration form here: cjasymposium.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
Please register by the end of this week if you plan to come for dinner.
Please register by the end of this week if you plan to come for dinner.
Reposted by Michael Seery
Are you attending GRC CERP this summer? If so, I have made a short presentation giving an overview of the conference, the flow of the week, and my top tips for attendees...! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrok...
GRC CERP 2025 Participants' Briefing
YouTube video by Michael Seery
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May 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Are you attending GRC CERP this summer? If so, I have made a short presentation giving an overview of the conference, the flow of the week, and my top tips for attendees...! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrok...
As a lifelong academic I’m here for it.
May 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
As a lifelong academic I’m here for it.
Are you attending GRC CERP this summer? If so, I have made a short presentation giving an overview of the conference, the flow of the week, and my top tips for attendees...! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrok...
GRC CERP 2025 Participants' Briefing
YouTube video by Michael Seery
www.youtube.com
May 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Are you attending GRC CERP this summer? If so, I have made a short presentation giving an overview of the conference, the flow of the week, and my top tips for attendees...! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrok...
For Trinity Chemistry alumni (and interested others) Book launch of "Trinity College Dublin - 300 years of Chemistry" in Dublin on 30th June with a talk from Peter Morris on the history of the chemistry laboratory. What's not to love?!
May 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
For Trinity Chemistry alumni (and interested others) Book launch of "Trinity College Dublin - 300 years of Chemistry" in Dublin on 30th June with a talk from Peter Morris on the history of the chemistry laboratory. What's not to love?!
God I hope the answer is yes 🤞
(it was, but only because of a few extra hundred thousand details not mention in headline)
(it was, but only because of a few extra hundred thousand details not mention in headline)
May 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
God I hope the answer is yes 🤞
(it was, but only because of a few extra hundred thousand details not mention in headline)
(it was, but only because of a few extra hundred thousand details not mention in headline)