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Bryan Mathers
@visualthinkery.bsky.social
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Conversations -> cartoons.

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visualthinkery.bsky.social
Sense-making a Blog-a-thon...
(what do those words even mean?)

Well I try to explain here:

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Blog-a-thon Sensemaking - Visual Thinkery
visualthinkery.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Reposted by Bryan Mathers
marendeepwell.bsky.social
Thanks to @visualthinkery.bsky.social my contribution for the #ReclaimOpen25 Blog-A-Thon now looks more super! Thanks, Bryan! #Blogging4life #4life reclaimopen.com/session/blog...
November 6, 2025 at 9:13 AM
visualthinkery.bsky.social
Montaigne and the Open Web
Visual Sensemaking from this week's blog-a-thon at Reclaim Open.
Montaigne and the Open Web - Open Visual Thinkery
Here’s another little visual absorption from the Reclaim Open blog-a-thon, relating to a blog post by Doug Belshaw. At the top of his post, he outrageously includes an illustration by me from many…
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November 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
visualthinkery.bsky.social
My website is a junk drawer...
(I'm visual sense-making at a blog-a-thon.)
My website is a junk drawer - Open Visual Thinkery
This week I'm tuning into Reclaim Open to try and make some visual sense of it. I really resonate with the metaphor used by Laura Hilliger...
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November 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
visualthinkery.bsky.social
Making sense of Sensemaking...
The new edition of The Visual Thinker is out - for those that like to make sense of things...
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A landscape showing a hot air balloon entitled "Characteristics of Sensemaking" - thinking by Karl E. Weich, thinkery by Bryan Mathers.
November 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
visualthinkery.bsky.social
It's not unusual for my sense-making cartooning process to produce rhyming triplets it seems...

Created along with some other AI reflections for the Visual Thinker > buff.ly/LIXLRwQ
#ai #cartoon
Computer says No. Search says Go. AI says hello!
October 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
visualthinkery.bsky.social
Sometimes a contrast just presents itself - embedded within a conversation... I enjoyed sense-making with the Mycelial Network at a two-day gathering of people involved in Community Asset Development - distilling out conversational themes as they surfaced...
An cartoon by Bryan Mathers, Visual Thinkery showing a signpost with "Change maker" written below contrasted with a wooden fence with "Gatekeeper" written below.
October 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
visualthinkery.bsky.social
Monday's webinar on Carbon Finance and Climate Action expertly facilitated by Fauna & Flora, Plan Vivo, and Level was bursting with ideas! — here’s how the visual sense-making evolved in real time...
October 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Reposted by Bryan Mathers
wipcomics.bsky.social
Now only £27 left on Kickstarter to make our WIP Infinity book happen!

Put us over the top and win our limitless gratitude!

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∞: The new WIP Comics Anthology
∞ (infinity/loop/ouroboros) is the new group anthology from WIP Comics, a UK-based community of independent comic creators.
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August 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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marendeepwell.bsky.social
Love the artwork for @www.reclaimhosting.com ‘s conference created by @visualthinkery.bsky.social . 📮Submissions are open now, submission deadline extended to 15 September 🙌
August 19, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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gravesle.bsky.social
Very happy to share this open access publication from myself, @sheenahyland.bsky.social & @geraldineoneill.bsky.social in Educational Action Research - featuring visuals from our collaboration with @visualthinkery.bsky.social
Embracing uncertainty: action research and the collaborative development of an assessment for inclusion framework
This paper details a collaborative action research journey undertaken by three educational developers to create an Assessment for Inclusion (AfI) framework at a large Irish university. While the re...
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July 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
visualthinkery.bsky.social
Delighted to see Leigh, Geraldine and Sheena's work on Assessment for Inclusion published. Here's a visual thought to emerge from the project:

Research buff.ly/jYk9L0a

@gravesle.bsky.social @geraldineoneill.bsky.social @sheenahyland.bsky.social
Cartoon, Emoji faces stacked on top of each other in a staggering pile. The emojis at the bottom of the pile are red with sad and disappointed faces, in the middle of the pile they are orange with neutral expressions, and at the top they are yellow smiling happily. hand drawn black Text to the middle right of pile reads "The issue with ranking".
July 22, 2025 at 12:11 PM
visualthinkery.bsky.social
Make your research come alive with Visual Thinkery - this time using the playful mask of a cartoon character to explore a very serious topic: different types of PhD supervisors!
(created for GO-GN Guide to Doctoral Supervision) with @rfarrow.bsky.social.

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Cartoon, ten penguins stand next to each other in two rows of five. Each has their own prop and/or costume relating to their title. The first row of penguins (from left to right) are labelled "The pragmatist, The Philospher, The Unknown, The Explorer and The Maverick." The second row "The Famous Scientist, The Absent Minded Professor, The Wizard, The Maestro and The Master."
July 21, 2025 at 12:09 PM
visualthinkery.bsky.social
Recently, I've really enjoyed stepping into academic researcher's worlds to bring their thinking and findings to life, like this collaboration with @gravesle.bsky.social and @geraldineoneill.bsky.social at University College Dublin, around their work on Educator use of GenAI.

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Cartoon, a man holds a human skull to his eye-level and says "To use GenAI or not to use GenAI that is the question..."
July 17, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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dougbelshaw.com
Many thanks to @helenbeetham.bsky.social for inviting me onto her podcast to talk about #AI and #DigitalLiteracy - but also ambiguity, vibe coding, and the importance of play.

helenbeetham.substack.com/p/doug-belsh...

Image CC BY-ND @visualthinkery.bsky.social for @weareopen.coop
July 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
visualthinkery.bsky.social
What an interesting little tool!

#DailyRemix by Galgalon

Here's a link to the O'meter Remix:
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Cartoon, o-meter tool labelled "Fan-o-Meter" Split into seven sections labelled (Starting left to right) "Epic, Based, Chill, Average, Cringe, Pathetic, Braindead". The needle of the o-meter is pointing to section "Epic" at the bottom left. The band of colour behind the sections of the o-meter is a gradient of bright leaf green to fire engine red.
July 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
visualthinkery.bsky.social
Ladders, see-saws, giant gas planets and blue whales. Just a few visual metaphors used in this fascinating report on Fiscal Hosting by the Thirty Percy Foundation. It was a pleasure to work with their team!

Report >> buff.ly/aFbHHDO
Cartoon, A see-saw with a woman calmly sat on the left side and a man dangling his legs in panic on the right, tipping down to the left and lifting up to the right. Above the woman is text "Power" written in blue. Below the man is text "Risk" written in Red.
July 7, 2025 at 12:17 PM
visualthinkery.bsky.social
The latest edition of the Visual Thinker - about magic hats, HAL9000, cognitive amplification, and lots of AI cartoons...

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#cartoons #ai
June 26, 2025 at 12:08 PM
visualthinkery.bsky.social
Following on from the recent AI related drawings, here's some magical thinkery from a comment by Helen Beetham during a live conversation on #AI in Education.

Image available to use CC-BY-ND here:
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Cartoon, detailed hardback book with raspberry red cover, with white text "An Educator's Repository of ethical statements to opt out and other spells". To the bottom left of the cover a black and white hand pointing up with lines appearing above the finger.
June 24, 2025 at 12:13 PM
visualthinkery.bsky.social
The latest edition of the Visual Thinker - about magic hats, HAL9000, cognitive amplification, and lots of AI cartoons...

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#cartoons #ai
Cartoon of three images next to each other: Computer with text "Computer says no" on its screen, to its right is a search bar with text "Search says" in the bar and "Go" in the search button, to the right of the search bar is the ChatGPT logo with speech bubble to its right saying "AI says hello!"
June 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
visualthinkery.bsky.social
Is it possible to ethically engage with an unethical tool? Maybe it's naive to call AI a tool - when it consists many tools within many systems...

Drawn from a live conversation on #AI with @dougbelshaw.com and @epilepticrabbit.bsky.social

Image available to use CC-BY-ND here:
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cartoon, hand drawn black text "Ethically engaging with an Unethical tool". the 'i' in "Ethically" is a daisy flower. To the top left of Text is a yellow closed-eye smiley face emoji with a halo, and to the bottom left of text is a red, angry devil emoji.
June 19, 2025 at 12:06 PM
visualthinkery.bsky.social
What makes you distinctively human? (It might not be your humour. Still, outsourcing that to #AI might actually be a step forward...)

Image available to use CC-BY-ND here: buff.ly/Hy62PmZ
(greyscale cartoon) Man drawn from waist up, hands tucked behind his back, with a speech bubble to his right saying "I'm focusing on the stuff that makes me Distinctively human..." To the right is a hand drawn Chat GPT logo with a speech bubble to its right saying "Dad jokes? How very predictable..."
June 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
visualthinkery.bsky.social
I'll always enjoy seeing a new Hat Tip Remix popping up on the machine!

#DailyRemix by @marendeepwell.bsky.social‬

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Here's a link to Hat Tip Remix:
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Hat Tip remix: (cartoon) A hand with fair skin is holding a forest green snap back cap by its mustard yellow brim. On the head of the cap is tangerine orange text "h/t". To the left of the cartoon is text "Thanks for all the blogging!".
June 17, 2025 at 11:43 AM
visualthinkery.bsky.social
The comments that appear in open dialogue are always worth reflecting on. Here's a Kierkegaard quote from a conversation about #AI in #Education last week.

Image available to use CC-BY-ND here: visualthinkery.com/project/ai-f...
Greyscale cartoon of a man with short hair driving a car, one hand on the steering wheel and the other on the gearstick, whilst he checks his rearview mirror and whistles along to a song on the radio. On the dashboard is text "h/t Kierkegaard". Above the cartoon is text "Life is lived forward but it understood backwards" (Kierkegaard quote).
June 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
visualthinkery.bsky.social
I had the pleasure of live cartooning a webinar on AI and the future of education. facilitated by ‪‪dougbelshaw.com‬ and ‪epilepticrabbit.bsky.social‬ of weareopen.coop‬.#AILiteracyc#AIA#Cartoonon

This is image is available to use under a CC licence here:
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June 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM