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HGourlayUCL @HGourlayUCL@mastodon.education · Jul 08, 2026

Replying to @ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk

@ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk The maddest thing about the Exeter one is that it doesn't even appear to lack sufficient monies to keep running its courses. #UKHE

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HGourlayUCL @HGourlayUCL@mastodon.education · Jun 28, 2026

Replying to @mikegalsworthy@mas.to

@mikegalsworthy@mas.to Oh, for goodness' sake, where is the vision thing?

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HGourlayUCL @HGourlayUCL@mastodon.education · Mar 11, 2026

Replying to @sellathechemist@mastodon.social

@sellathechemist @martinvermeer I think there are two ideas coming up in this discussion. One is about having a feel for the approximate size of the value calculated. Does this seem about the right size? The second is about certainty/uncertainty. How sure can we be that this value is correct?

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HGourlayUCL @HGourlayUCL@mastodon.education · Mar 11, 2026

Replying to @sellathechemist@mastodon.social

@sellathechemist @martinvermeer Experience from school suggests that even where teachers are confident, there's sometimes a 'receptiveness' barrier with students. In one school a student regularly referred to my 'obsession with significant figures' and did not act on advice!

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HGourlayUCL @HGourlayUCL@mastodon.education · Mar 11, 2026

Replying to @martinvermeer@fediscience.org

@martinvermeer @sellathechemist Yes, or a close member of my family calculating that a satellite was in orbit at a height burrowing just below the Earth's surface.

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HGourlayUCL @HGourlayUCL@mastodon.education · Mar 10, 2026

Replying to @sellathechemist@mastodon.social

@sellathechemist Do you think the high school curriculum would do better to focus on concepts? Leave the maths to the maths teachers and programmes, and have chemistry (or in my case physics) teachers focus on the chemistry (or physics)? #chemistryeducation #physicseducation

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HGourlayUCL @HGourlayUCL@mastodon.education · Jan 23, 2026

Replying to @LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot

@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot With Mark Carney's 'rupture' speech and this ad from Zak Polanski (UK Green Party) it's beginning to feel like more positive change is coming (eventually) #politics #ukpolitics

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HGourlayUCL @HGourlayUCL@mastodon.education · Oct 05, 2025

Replying to @mythologyandhistory@mas.to

@mythologyandhistory@mas.to And we wonder why it is difficult to increase the number of young women studying physics.

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