Jackson’s Oxford Journal, London, December 28 (1820) William Edwards, of Leavesden-green, Watford, Herts, (formerly post-boy at the Salisbury Arms, at Hatfield,) was robbed of 30/. 14s. on Tuesday, the 14th inst. in the following manner: A female gipsy, who had been encamped in the neighbourhood for several days previous, entered the house of Edwards in […]
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The Great Pepper Pruning Adventure: navigating the Ups and Downs of Summer Pruning
Pruning is always a scary topic, especially if you are relatively new to gardening so this is your advanced warning that today there is going to be some serious pruning going on. Buckle up because we’re diving headfirst into the wonderful world of summ…
AI and ethics, welcoming our robot colleagues
I am delighted that this summer we have 2 student interns working in LTW to help us understand how Chat GPT and Open AIs can help us in our work. We have long welcomed our robot colleagues. We already use AI in our transcriptions and captioning services to add speech to text versions for students, …
AI and ethics, welcoming our robot colleagues
I am delighted that this summer we have 2 student interns working in LTW to help us understand how Chat GPT and Open AIs can help us in our work. We have long welcomed our robot colleagues. We already use AI in our transcriptions and captioning services to add speech to text versions for students, …
discussing the work at Leeds ( way back)
I was in Leeds again this week. It’s always nice to visit and I do get a wee bit nostalgic for places and times passed. I worked at Leeds 2001-8. One of the things we did back then was to develop institutional services for blogging, podcasting and wiki-ing. I called it ‘LeedsFeeds’. We also had …
Data and Equality Officer
I am gutted to lose my current Data and Equality Officer, she’s been excellent and has rightly moved to greater things. But I’m recruiting for a new one.
apply before 14th July
Data and Equality Officer – University of Edinburgh Jobs…
1901: Alleged Housebreaking By A Woman
Watford Observer, Saturday 7th September 1901 Annie Overend (40)1, of no fixed abode, was charged with larceny on August 30th. Police-Constable Westrope deposed that on Thursday, August 29th at 9.30p.m. he went to Trowley Bottom, Abbots Langley. He went into the Brickmakers’ public house, and saw the prisoner sitting on a seat with a sack beside […]
How I deal with aphids in the greenhouse and garden
There are certain topics (or questions) that I can always expect at certain points throughout the year, and May until August is always about aphids or whitefly. usually, it’s how can I get rid of “said pest”. OK here’s the hones…
athena swan insights
I am spending some time assessing Athena Swan Applications. It is making me ponder a lot of things. Guidance for giving feedback is to focus on what is included, not what is missing. Here are some: The experiences of professional staff are given very little attention and seem to be poorly understood. particularly in relation …
athena swan insights
I am spending some time assessing Athena Swan Applications. It is making me ponder a lot of things. Guidance for giving feedback is to focus on what is included, not what is missing. Here are some: The experiences of professional staff are given very little attention and seem to be poorly understood. particularly in relation …
on your marks
According to some recent on- the-ground research this is the list of tools being used by schools at University of Edinburgh for summative assessment and marking (below) Some Schools have tried to standardise their assessment practices as much as possible, making things more consistent for students, markers and teaching office staff. In these Schools, the …
on your marks
According to some recent on- the-ground research this is the list of tools being used by schools at University of Edinburgh for summative assessment and marking (below) Some Schools have tried to standardise their assessment practices as much as possible, making things more consistent for students, markers and teaching office staff. In these Schools, the …