Alex van Dijk

Head of Biology, Head of Science, ADE2015, iBooks Author. IGCSE iBooks out now! See website.

[Alex van Dijk @mravandijk]

My #ade2015 One Best Thing is live on iTunes U now. Using Keynote to make scientific animations. (https://t.co/Gyab94GBZz ) #edtech

[Alex van Dijk @mravandijk]

@ClaudeDevs So far Fable has pushed me down to Opus every time. As a biology teacher I obviously deal with biological topics but even anything without any disease or possible bioweapon link is flagged.

[Alex van Dijk @mravandijk]

Testing out Fable 5 and I got downgraded on both of the prompts I gave it. One was visualisation of survivor curves for organisms with different extrinsic mortality and the other a fairly standard visualisation of resting action potential. Restrictive safeguards @claudeai

[Alex van Dijk @mravandijk]

@RussInCheshire You could significantly increase the pension age (getting the gap between pension age and life expectancy near to where it used to be). Also not popular, though!

[Banana3 @Banana3Stocks]

$NVDA

This guy is 90% of you 🤦‍♂️

Not financial advice!

[Alex van Dijk @mravandijk]

@adamboxer1 It is good at some things though, I find. I wouldn’t do a full plan, but it is good at coming up with misconceptions and possible areas of difficulty if you set it up as a student.

[Alex van Dijk @mravandijk]

@PStyle0ne1 Can it only aim forward.

[British Ecological Society @BritishEcolSoc]

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[Ukraine / Україна @Ukraine]

aha, we can hear it

sounds like explosions, though

[Alex van Dijk @mravandijk]

@bake_play Appeltaart?

[Zero Hour @zero-hour.bsky.social @zerohour_uk]

“30 million birds have vanished from our skies in the last 50 years—97% of wildflower meadows have been eradicated since the 1930s—and a quarter of all mammals are at risk of extinction. You’d think this would send alarm bells ringing in the corridors of power, but it isn’t. The public are tired of paper thin promises—we need new environmental laws—and it’s why I’m asking @RishiSunak to deliver the #naturepositive future he’s promised by backing the Climate & Ecology Bill.”—@BirdgirlUK

https://t.co/lEDsFdP7nj #UnitedForNature #CEBill

[Alex van Dijk @mravandijk]

@AhmedKhattabUK @ClassroomSci Not too bad I think. The students liked it as far as heard. I had predicted a question on the algal ball practical and it was there even if the indicator was different. The calculations were straightforward.

[Alex van Dijk @mravandijk]

@AhmedKhattabUK @ClassroomSci Carbon cycle iirc

[Dan Fitzpatrick @theaieducatorx]

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[Alex van Dijk @mravandijk]

@AhmedKhattabUK I haven’t got the paper to hand at the moment but there’s a section on the importance of mitosis in asexual reproduction in the combined specification (2.2). I will have a look again later.

[Alex van Dijk @mravandijk]

@AhmedKhattabUK I guess if it is wind borne it is likely to be fungal whereas groundborne is more like worms/nematodes? It was an unexpected 6 mark question seeing as it is such a small proportion, though the reflex arc makes up for it.

[Alex van Dijk @mravandijk]

@AhmedKhattabUK Ours finished today but we still do CAIE exam and they start next week.

[Alex van Dijk @mravandijk]

@CMooreAnderson I think Brexit and different work permits etc. might put people off from applying to schools in the EU.

[Ben Parr @benparr]

🚨 HUGE news in AI: Google just launched Generative AI across ALL of Google Workspace -- Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Images -- EVERYTHING.

They made a video showing off the new AI's capabilities. It's AWESOME.

[Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation @OKWildlifeDept]

stranger: is this snake poisonous?

us: nah fam,

stranger: *picks up snake, gets bitten, starts foaming at the mouth*

us: it’s venomous tho