Mr E
@theniceman.bsky.social
French and Spanish teacher. I like to play football in the park with my brother. Last weekend I went shopping. Next weekend if it is sunny I would like to swim.
https://whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/
https://whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/
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White maths is pitched as being necessary for life and a window into beautiful thought inherited from important men. It's then taught as a series of operations to be got right/wrong in an exam which is labelled as "basic" and used to bar a % of the population from further education and certain jobs
November 19, 2025 at 6:32 AM
White maths is pitched as being necessary for life and a window into beautiful thought inherited from important men. It's then taught as a series of operations to be got right/wrong in an exam which is labelled as "basic" and used to bar a % of the population from further education and certain jobs
Allegedly
This is incredibly accurate😬
A “Maga Years” explainer…
A “Maga Years” explainer…
November 19, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Allegedly
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Do what you can to save our planet 🫵
November 15, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Do what you can to save our planet 🫵
Trump just said:
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Trump just said:
Kids doing really well on the gchq challenge! Don't know if it's the new platform. Or if they are just a genius bunch.
November 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Kids doing really well on the gchq challenge! Don't know if it's the new platform. Or if they are just a genius bunch.
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This shouldn’t need saying; it should be so obvious.
Have been thinking about “immigration has been tearing this country apart.” Surely I’m not the only person to think that it isn’t true, but inflamed rhetoric about immigration by politicians is what is tearing this country apart and so statements like that only makes it worse.
November 18, 2025 at 6:47 AM
This shouldn’t need saying; it should be so obvious.
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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¿Por qué decimos “buenos días” además de “buen día”?
“[…] puede deberse a la analogía con otros plurales expresivos típicos […] (saludos, recuerdos, gracias, felicidades, etc.) o al acortamiento de alguna expresión más larga”
www.rae.es/espanol-al-d...
#AprendeEspañol #LearnSpanish
“[…] puede deberse a la analogía con otros plurales expresivos típicos […] (saludos, recuerdos, gracias, felicidades, etc.) o al acortamiento de alguna expresión más larga”
www.rae.es/espanol-al-d...
#AprendeEspañol #LearnSpanish
¿Cuál es la fórmula de saludo más adecuada, «buen día» o «buenos días»? ¿Y durante la tarde y la noche?
Como saludo matutino, la fórmula generalmente empleada en todo el ámbito hispanohablante es buenos días. Esta fórmula, única usada en España, alterna en el español de América con buen día, que está so...
www.rae.es
November 18, 2025 at 8:02 AM
¿Por qué decimos “buenos días” además de “buen día”?
“[…] puede deberse a la analogía con otros plurales expresivos típicos […] (saludos, recuerdos, gracias, felicidades, etc.) o al acortamiento de alguna expresión más larga”
www.rae.es/espanol-al-d...
#AprendeEspañol #LearnSpanish
“[…] puede deberse a la analogía con otros plurales expresivos típicos […] (saludos, recuerdos, gracias, felicidades, etc.) o al acortamiento de alguna expresión más larga”
www.rae.es/espanol-al-d...
#AprendeEspañol #LearnSpanish
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I wonder which came first the music or the language. The beauty and confusion of a tonal language
youtube.com/shorts/QfcBF...
youtube.com/shorts/QfcBF...
Yoruba is both amazing and difficult #maziakinola #language #yoruba #lostintranslation
YouTube video by Mazi Akinola
youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Very on brand. This is what French past and present in Africa looks like. Profane desecration and depraved inhumanity.
Soldiers based at French energy giant TotalEnergies gas plant rounded up 500 villagers, separated men from women & children, raped several women, then crammed 180 to 250 men into windowless metal shipping containers.
The men were were suffocated, starved, beaten, shot over 3 months. 26 survived.
The men were were suffocated, starved, beaten, shot over 3 months. 26 survived.
TotalEnergies accused of complicity in war crimes over Mozambique container massacre
French legal complaint claims the firm paid and supplied soldiers who carried out mass killings first uncovered by POLITICO.
www.politico.eu
November 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Very on brand. This is what French past and present in Africa looks like. Profane desecration and depraved inhumanity.
How to learn a language:
November 18, 2025 at 5:18 PM
How to learn a language:
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"Though it may seem surprising, we are living in an era of unprecedented engagement with language learning across the US."
languagemagazine.com/2025/11/17/a...
#languages #languagelearning #languageeducation #languageresearch #langchat
languagemagazine.com/2025/11/17/a...
#languages #languagelearning #languageeducation #languageresearch #langchat
America the Multilingual
María Carreira recognizes the value of apps in making language learning more popular and teachers more effective There’s an old joke widely used among language teachers: What do you call someone who s...
languagemagazine.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
"Though it may seem surprising, we are living in an era of unprecedented engagement with language learning across the US."
languagemagazine.com/2025/11/17/a...
#languages #languagelearning #languageeducation #languageresearch #langchat
languagemagazine.com/2025/11/17/a...
#languages #languagelearning #languageeducation #languageresearch #langchat
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Brand new materials for translating poetry and fiction in the classroom have been added to our Anthea Bell Prize Resources page. Teachers can still register to access over 100 resource packs, including PowerPoints, student worksheets, and teaching notes! www.queens.ox.ac.uk/research-at-...
Anthea Bell Prize Registration - The Queen's College, Oxford
Please complete the below form to register your interest in the Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators. After registering, you will be able to access creative translation teaching resources in six la...
www.queens.ox.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Brand new materials for translating poetry and fiction in the classroom have been added to our Anthea Bell Prize Resources page. Teachers can still register to access over 100 resource packs, including PowerPoints, student worksheets, and teaching notes! www.queens.ox.ac.uk/research-at-...
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There’s a reason I asked a human!
it's so deeply rude to answer someone's question with the output from a chatbot, or even to reference prompting the chatbot. they asked a person for a reason. if they wanted to see what output the chatbot would barf out, they could get it themselves.
November 17, 2025 at 10:41 PM
There’s a reason I asked a human!
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Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this:
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this:
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Rosalia hablando en inglés por los programas y podcasts es PERFECTA. Si hablara como una nativa no tendría ni gracia ni carisma. Ella es televisiva, tiene telegenia, es LA estrella española, ahí dandole la réplica como si ná al Jimmy Fallon. Bravísima.
youtu.be/s3u935UwHPA?...
youtu.be/s3u935UwHPA?...
Seductive, Insulting, or Nonsense with ROSALÍA | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
YouTube video by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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November 17, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Rosalia hablando en inglés por los programas y podcasts es PERFECTA. Si hablara como una nativa no tendría ni gracia ni carisma. Ella es televisiva, tiene telegenia, es LA estrella española, ahí dandole la réplica como si ná al Jimmy Fallon. Bravísima.
youtu.be/s3u935UwHPA?...
youtu.be/s3u935UwHPA?...
I really don't like this answer.
November 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I really don't like this answer.
Interesting and astute comments on grading and uptake of languages at GCSE.
ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/2025/11/what...
ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/2025/11/what...
What difference will the proposed changes to Attainment 8 and Progress 8 make? - FFT Education Datalab
The proposed new method of calculating Attainment 8 will not affect schools' Progress 8 scores greatly but will shift the incentives to enter particular subjects
ffteducationdatalab.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Interesting and astute comments on grading and uptake of languages at GCSE.
ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/2025/11/what...
ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/2025/11/what...
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Applications for this year's Simon Gaunt Postgraduate Travel Grant are now open. The closing date is 7th April 2026.
For more information about eligibility criteria and how to apply, see the link below:
www.sfs.ac.uk/funding/the-...
For more information about eligibility criteria and how to apply, see the link below:
www.sfs.ac.uk/funding/the-...
The Simon Gaunt Postgraduate Travel Grant
The Society for French Studies is the UK's premier scholarly organisation for encouraging and supporting intellectual enquiry in French studies at all levels.
www.sfs.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Applications for this year's Simon Gaunt Postgraduate Travel Grant are now open. The closing date is 7th April 2026.
For more information about eligibility criteria and how to apply, see the link below:
www.sfs.ac.uk/funding/the-...
For more information about eligibility criteria and how to apply, see the link below:
www.sfs.ac.uk/funding/the-...
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This book from @versobooks.bsky.social is interesting to think with.
"The Eye of the Master" argues that the code of AI is shaped not by the imitation of biological intelligence, but the intelligence of labour and social relations, as it is found in Babbage's "calculating engines" of the industrial age & in recent algorithms for image recognition and surveillance.
The Eye of the Master
What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest "to solve intelligence" - a solution supposedly to be found in the secret logic of the mind or in the deep physiology of the brain, such as in its...
www.versobooks.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This book from @versobooks.bsky.social is interesting to think with.
Need to keep an eye on this. And if it means schools have to change options structures.
NEW POST: What difference will the proposed changes to Attainment 8 and Progress 8 make?
The proposed new method of calculating Attainment 8 will not affect schools' Progress 8 scores greatly but will shift the incentives to enter particular subjects.
vist.ly/4esnb
The proposed new method of calculating Attainment 8 will not affect schools' Progress 8 scores greatly but will shift the incentives to enter particular subjects.
vist.ly/4esnb
What difference will the proposed changes to Attainment 8 and Progress 8 make? - FFT Education Datalab
The proposed new method of calculating Attainment 8 will not affect schools' Progress 8 scores greatly but will shift the incentives to enter particular subjects
ffteducationdatalab.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Need to keep an eye on this. And if it means schools have to change options structures.
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❗️ Proposed changes to league tables will make 'little difference' to the progress 8 scores of most schools, but will likely affect entries, with just 65% of current students filling all slots on the reformed measures, @fftedudatalab.bsky.social analysis suggests
schoolsweek.co.uk/progress-8-a...
schoolsweek.co.uk/progress-8-a...
Progress 8: Many pupils' entries don't fit reformed measure
Changes will make 'little difference' to scores but likely to affect qualification entries, finds analysis
schoolsweek.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 9:32 AM
❗️ Proposed changes to league tables will make 'little difference' to the progress 8 scores of most schools, but will likely affect entries, with just 65% of current students filling all slots on the reformed measures, @fftedudatalab.bsky.social analysis suggests
schoolsweek.co.uk/progress-8-a...
schoolsweek.co.uk/progress-8-a...