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We did a thing! @misstray_chem and @Sci_DrScott and I looked at when the Advanced Higher Project came back into Scottish Schools post-COVID, and whether they could resource it.
Stark finding: over half of teachers reported asking pupils to buy reagents. degruyter.com/document/doi/1…
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Heading to #ViCEPHEC25, posting about it on bluesky.
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27 Nov 2024
Should be a great event so please come join us @OxfordChemistry @craigdc1983 @eforsyth1194 @S_J_Lancaster @EddevJanep @DrLinneaSoler @dr_odedra @patrickthomson @jswrightshef @doc_kristy
27 Nov 2024
Two days left to register!
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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…
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Patrick Thomson 🦋 @patrickthomson.bsky.social retweeted
29 Oct 2024
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/…
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Looking forward to welcoming Scottish chemistry teachers to #WoSChem25 hosted at
@StrathChem
in January! Advanced Higher Project CLPL as always! Signup/info: strath.ac.uk/science/chemist…
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Patrick Thomson 🦋 @patrickthomson.bsky.social retweeted
10 Sep 2024
Many thanks to @seerymk, @patrickthomson, @DrNMistry, @stewart_malcolm, @craigdc1983, @anna_bertram, and others, for talking to me for this article chemistryworld.com/features/…
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We did a thing! Inspired by @dave2004b, we put Integrated Instructions into a first year distillation lab AND also dyed the fractions to make them easier to follow. Obligatory "dusting of inquiry" ofc dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchem…
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I'm no on my way to #ViCEPHEC24 and will be live-skying the event over on bsky.app/profile/patrickthom…
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Outstanding work!
26 Aug 2024
I love YouTube chemistry channels, so my team have produced a first-of-a-kind study analyzing over 1600 channels producing Chemistry-related content. 🧵👇
#ChemTwitter #Scicomm #YouTube #Preprint #science
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As sometimes leader of departmental chemistry education research meetings, I feel quite judged by this
30 Jul 2024
Hi all,
Great news! Mr Johnson has been awarded Teacher Of Specialist Skills in Education Research. Congratulations to him! It’s a great achievement. How many other teachers can officially claim TOSSER status?
Thanks x
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Patrick Thomson 🦋 @patrickthomson.bsky.social retweeted
16 Aug 2024
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
15 Aug 2024
Lecturer in Chemistry Education | King's College London @kclchemistry
kcl.ac.uk/jobs/094385-lectur…
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Patrick Thomson 🦋 @patrickthomson.bsky.social retweeted
15 Aug 2024
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
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Cross-posted from BlueSky:
Chemists: what chemistry threshold concept have you internalised elsewhere? For me, it's dynamic equilibria, and the idea that most things which look static aren't. The shelves are always stacked because ... bsky.app/profile/patrickthom…
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Patrick Thomson 🦋 @patrickthomson.bsky.social retweeted
13 Aug 2024
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
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Huge congratulations to National Teaching Fellow @kjhaxton ! Richly deserved!
8 Aug 2024
It’s our favourite day of the year! Congratulations to everyone celebrating becoming a new #NTF and welcome to our community 🥰 Make sure to tag & follow us so we can follow you back & RT you!
Full list here: advance-he.ac.uk/news-and-vi…
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scottish Admissions tutors this morning, dealing with the SQA blank email debacle
27 Jan 2020
Quick question:
Is it "for fucks sake" or "for fuck sake" ?
It's for a work email so has to sound professional.
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Chem Ed people: I'm sure there was a website out there with about 100 different CER survey instruments catalogued in it, but mind (and bookmarks) drawing a blank!
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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.
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Ah for... Hull closing chemistry department. Booooooo
The Department of Chemistry at Hull is most famous for creating the first liquid crystal display at room temperature hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hul…
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