But also (more seriously) this is a test of ‘legs’ as a strategy for movement, no? Not as fast as rails or jets or wheels but etc etc etc. presumably there will be a maximum possible ‘leg speed’ at some stage.
More flowers, mate, and sending love
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“hello Cleveland!”
What a nice thing to say! Ditto!
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But wierdly another win for the wonderful Helen DeWitt (one of my very favourite contemporary writers) (professional opinion!)
I was walking upstairs just now, stupidly checking my blusky, when I saw your tweet and… something else (photo recreated)
He swapped hide for grey matter/and his head got much fatter/so he went on for ever and ever. Doesn’t quite scan (or make sense)
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This isn’t convincing: eg “At national level (REF, TEF) and institutional level, academics are rewarded….” Is not right: ref does focus on strategy.
Oh my goodness - I’m so sorry.
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Not doing those either of those things but would still really love a reading list, please?
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(Beat me to it!)
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Reading, reading and reading! Thanks for posting!
(Sorry more effective than ‘just study skills’)
FWIW the evidence is that study skills embedded into a course are significantly more effective. (“Is”: maybe “was”, that’s what the Dearing report said, 1997).
It’s ’gel’.
Something something experts something something
Very impressive!
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Brilliant piece in tes by @bobeaglestone.bsky.social arguing that a simple tweak to GCSE English Lit could dramatically improve things. Really pleased to see our work with @mariakna.bsky.social on the difficult vocabulary in the spec cited. 👏 www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
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