Too often, teaching is treated like pass fail for promotion, whereas the research is the focus. We are trying to change it in our school but it is a hard road to travel. Teaching is more readily quantifiable in terms of hours, student scores, student numbers etc. Research is more challenging

Excellent parenting. Hope they aren't sick for too long.

Interesting work Sean

Should be big data

You seem to miss a few really pretty ones:
Bin chicken
Lesser tit
Shag
Noisy (mynah)