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Roxå et al. (2025): “Entangled in context: addressing academic development and choice architecture”

May 20, 2025

My colleague Torgny Roxå had a new paper come out (on our shared Birthday no less!) on how academic development depends on context. Together with colleagues from Bratislava, they investigate…

Currently reading: “Why do teachers matter?” by López-Martín et al. (2023)

May 1, 2025

The study I am summarising here is a meta-analysis of 40 studies on how teacher characteristics influence secondary-school students, and they find that teacher characteristics and competencies explain 9% of…

Currently reading: Ellis et al. (2014) on “Systematic reflection: Implications for learning from failures and successes”

March 31, 2025

Since I referred to it in the post I just published, here is a quick summary of Ellis et al. (2014) on “Systematic reflection: Implications for learning from failures and…

Total internal reflection

February 25, 2023

In the “static apnea” discipline in freediving, many cool pictures of athletes are taken underwater in a way that plays with the reflection of the athlete in the still water…

Wave watching by proxy — looking at how waves focus light on the sea floor

March 1, 2019

What is it that we actually look at when we go wave watching? Water is pretty much clear (or at least it is in the spots where I like to…

Reflecting waves, reflected and refracted light, and a Fata Morgana

February 23, 2019

How much physics can you spot in a single picture? What I see here: Waves and their reflection on the sea wall (Do you see the two main fields? One…

Total reflection and fishies

September 6, 2017

Do you know the phenomenon that once you start noticing something, you see it everywhere? That’s been the case with me and total internal reflection. Not quite as impressive as…

Total internal reflection

September 5, 2017

Have you ever wondered why at some angles the sea looks blue (or whatever the color of the sky that day) and at others you can actually look into the water?…

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Roxå et al. (2025): “Entangled in context: addressing academic development and choice architecture”

Currently reading: “Why do teachers matter?” by López-Martín et al. (2023)

Currently reading: Ellis et al. (2014) on “Systematic reflection: Implications for learning from failures and successes”

Total internal reflection

Wave watching by proxy — looking at how waves focus light on the sea floor

Reflecting waves, reflected and refracted light, and a Fata Morgana

Total reflection and fishies

Total internal reflection

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