Dr Samuel Saunders

@samfordsaunders.bsky.social

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Educational Developer at the University of Liverpool (@livunicie.bsky.social): assessment and feedback, academic integrity, curriculum design, and (sceptical thoughts on) Generative AI. PhD: English, LJMU (2018) C19 crime fiction. SFHEA. He/him.

A picture of the back of a dining chair with two cat paws poking out from the top and left side simultaneously. I think it's hilarious.
A decoration of a felt mouse. She is wearing a red dress, a red fur boa, and a gold necklace. She is fabulous.
A small red enamel pin badge of a Cacodemon from the Doom series. Best described as a 'bitey meatball', he is round, red, horned, and with a single green eye in the middle above a very wide, toothy mouth used to eating people, that he looks very proud of.
A beautiful pink and peach rose surrounded by green foliage.
A frankly magnificent rose flower, with bright pink edges, fading to white in the middle of the petals, and then a deep orange at the centre of the flower. It's surrounded by deep green foliage.
An absolutely enormous, fluffy cream-pink coloured rose with a slightly yellowed centre. There's not really anything else in the picture because it's so huge.
A bright pink open rose flower surrounded by green foliage. The middle has a slight yellowness in it.
A pale cream/pink rose flower in full bloom, surrounded by lush green foliage.
A wooden pergola in a garden, with a gravel floor underneath and green plants in a raised bed behind it. It has two wooden chairs and a metal bench underneath, and there is a small half-moon flowerbed in front of it with green plants in it.
An image of PM Keir Starmer at a lectern giving a speech. He is stood in front of two flags - one representing the UK and the other the USA. The closed captions read 'there's a famous slogan in the United Kingdom'.
A black cat is sat staring up at the camera. She looks very sleek and shiny, although the fact that she looks very photogenic conceals the fact that she was actually asking for food at the time.
A black cat on a cream-coloured miniature couch. She is on her back, utterly out cold, with all four legs in the air.
Another snip from the roast. I am a scholarly socialite (not sure about that one). I am also 88% 'keeping it real', and I have no idea what that means.
A snip of my BlueSky roast. Apparently I 'bring the academic heat like a high-stakes lecture room, but somehow manage to make us feel like we're here for a chill study group instead'. I'll take that. I am also sceptical about AI (true) and champion local journalism (also true).
A social media card that shows a professional headshot, that I dislike on principle simply because it is a picture of me, and advertises the fact that I am speaking at an upcoming AdvanceHE webinar on Using the Framework for Enhancing Assessment.
A clip of a transcript showing that I achieved a distinction in Grade 4 piano.
A small snip of my screen showing that I have deactivated my Twitter account.
A black cat lying on her back on a cream-coloured couch. She is out cold, and her back feet are raised in the air.
A view of the back of a pickup truck, carrying a box that says 'complete toilet' on it. Superimposed text above the box reads 'he sounds like a', creating the phrase 'he sounds like a complete toilet'. This is applicable in most situations.
An extremely comfortable black cat. Her head is resting on my arm, and her face essentially says 'I never want to move from this position'.
A lilac-coloured rose dubbed Blue Moon against some trellis.
A card celebrating the first 10m users of Bluesky, which states that I was number 687,446.
A black cat with her head on a pink fluffy throw. She looks, and is, extremely comfortable.
Album cover for Thrice - Major/Minor. It is essentially two shades of brown, with the upper three quarters a dark shade, while the lower quarter is almost cream.
A set of around 7 peach-coloured rose blooms set against a fence.
The sun breaking through the clouds as it sets over the sea at Crosby beach. The sea is a silver grey colour and wind turbines are just visible on the horizon.
A large rose, lilac-purple in colour, with a slightly smaller one emerging underneath.
Movie poster image for the film 'Hot Fuzz' (2007), with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, dressed as UK police officers and carrying guns, emerging from a large explosion.
A black cat's face looking sleepy and laying on a soft cushion. She is surrounded by fairy lights.
A jack o' lantern made from a white pumpkin with the face of Ghostface from the 'Scream' movie franchise carved into it. The pumpkin is illuminated from within.
An extremely relaxed black cat on her back on top of a beige couch
A very comfortable black cat lying sideways on a cat-shelf. Her face is half-squashed into the surface of the shelf, which is carpeted, and her expression is one of 'what are you looking at?'
A view of the ruins of Whitby Abbey with blue sky and sun behind it.
An AI-generated man in a blue shirt looking somewhat intensely to the right. He is stood in front of some slightly over-romantic out-of-focus lights.
A screenshot of the 1992 Graftgold video game Fire and Ice for the Commodore Amiga. The protagonist, Cool Coyote (yes, really), is located in an ice-world, surrounded by enemies such as penguins and seagulls that drop snowballs.
Black cat on scratching mat.