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Patrick Thomson 🦋 @patrickthomson.bsky.social retweeted
Should be a great event so please come join us @OxfordChemistry @craigdc1983 @eforsyth1194 @S_J_Lancaster @EddevJanep @DrLinneaSoler @dr_odedra @patrickthomson @jswrightshef @doc_kristy
Patrick Thomson 🦋 @patrickthomson.bsky.social retweeted
**New blog post** Reflections on the closure of Hull's Chemistry Department, where I used to work. #ChemTwitter michaeloneill.org/blog-1/202…
Patrick Thomson 🦋 @patrickthomson.bsky.social retweeted
We're hosting a #ChemEd meeting!
Delighted to share that registration for Chemistry Teaching in Practice (CTiP), a free one-day workshop for chemistry HE practitioners taking place @OxfordChemistry on 9th January 2025, is now open: rsc.org/events/detail/80274/…
Patrick Thomson 🦋 @patrickthomson.bsky.social retweeted
Many thanks to @seerymk, @patrickthomson, @DrNMistry, @stewart_malcolm, @craigdc1983, @anna_bertram, and others, for talking to me for this article chemistryworld.com/features/…
Patrick Thomson 🦋 @patrickthomson.bsky.social retweeted
We are also looking for 2 teaching focussed lecturers with expertise in green chemistry and/or automation to join our chemistry education team to modernise our chemistry curriculum. #chemjobs #greenchem
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Patrick Thomson 🦋 @patrickthomson.bsky.social retweeted
Scotland's finest civil engineering achievements: updated
ALT It's the Forth Bridge
ALT It's the Falkirk Wheel
ALT The Caledonian Canal
ALT Stonehenge
Patrick Thomson 🦋 @patrickthomson.bsky.social retweeted
We’re looking for two senior laboratory instructors to join our team for the new academic year. Please share with anyone with an interest in lab teaching. Applications from recently completed (or completing very soon) PhD students welcome. kcl.ac.uk/jobs/093589-techni… #chemjobs
Patrick Thomson 🦋 @patrickthomson.bsky.social retweeted
You've got to appreciate honest feedback 🤣
ALT A photo of a feedback form where the writer (16 years old) repeatedly writes "my mum made me come" and "I want to go home" under any other comments.
Patrick Thomson 🦋 @patrickthomson.bsky.social retweeted
It is less than a month now until #ViCEPHEC24 ! EXCITED!!!
REMINDER: Registration closes a week today (12th August)! For more information visit the website:
vicephec24.wordpress.com/
@ViCEPHEC
Patrick Thomson 🦋 @patrickthomson.bsky.social retweeted
Saddened to see the “anyone but England” attitude of some of my fellow Scots today. Some of the stuff I've seen nearly made me choke on my paella.
Patrick Thomson 🦋 @patrickthomson.bsky.social retweeted
This is also an issue for PGT students - my students are juggling paid work with their studies and not always successfully.
More than half of UK students working long hours in paid jobs | Students | The Guardian theguardian.com/education/ar…
Patrick Thomson 🦋 @patrickthomson.bsky.social retweeted
I keep this on the back of my door and I think of it often.
Patrick Thomson 🦋 @patrickthomson.bsky.social retweeted
🔴 NEW: Mark Fortune is facing 89 criminal charges including unlawful eviction and harassment of tenants, theft, threatening or abusive behaviour, fraud, and extortion.
Read more here: theferret.scot/mark-fortune-…
Patrick Thomson 🦋 @patrickthomson.bsky.social retweeted
"Dear Editor,
I have incorporated all suggestions from reviewer 2, and I hope you find the changes an improvement to the manuscript as a whole."
Patrick Thomson 🦋 @patrickthomson.bsky.social retweeted
Research shows that listening to music while revising is not as beneficial as doing it in silence. Students who revised in quiet environments performed over 60% better in an exam than their peers who revised listening to music that had lyrics. Read more innerdrive.co.uk/blog/music-…
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Free @RSC_HEG meeting online/London on Weds March 6th. Programme and tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/rsc-he-ch…
ALT Flyer for an RSG HEG event on Weds March 6th hosted by Helen Coulshed, Simon Gerrard and the ICL team, and Anna Roffey. Hybrid online/London (KCL). Blurb: "the Winter meeting aims bring together chemistry educators specifically to kickstart collaborative chemical education research projects. During the event, participants will identify research areas and shared interests in educational development, find potential collaborators they want to work with, and start to design research questions and projects."