You learn something new every day! 🧪

Solar does not care about the Strait of Hormuz. Oil flows through chokepoints. Solar follows a learning curve. Great piece @azeem.bsky.social www.exponentialview.co/p/solar-supe...

Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy. This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis. 44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.

Studying at a distance doesn’t mean studying alone! 💻👥 With SCONUL Access, #OUstudents can use university libraries across the UK & Ireland. 📚 Study alongside others and feel more connected to a wider learning community, closer to where you live... 👇 https://ow.ly/LboH50YmQrz#OUstudents

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Seeing Shatner and Nimoy together 2 years before Star Trek. To quote David from the film Prometheus "Big things from small beginnings...."

Remember in 2005 seeing the agencies spending tens of millions of £s building the campus for the local community to improve access to HE. There is something badly wrong with how HE is beimg funded by successive governments in the Uk for this investment to go to waste so soon

Let's learn how to divide using rectangles

Until income inequality is properly addressed, this is just going to get worse....

Did you know you can subtract left to right?

Let's learn how to factor quadratics where the leading coefficient isn't 1 without guessing and checking. (Okay I know that sounds boring but I like this video lol)

A good subtraction strategy

Mega heat pumps are coming. It’s great to see that so many projects are now underway around the world. There’s a real competition on who builds the biggest heat pump. Technology has come a long way and keeps getting better.

Star Wars Rankings - as its doing the rounds today Top 15 1. Empire 2. Star Wars 3. Revenge of the Sith 4. Rogue 1 5. Andor 6. Last Jedi 7. Return of the Jedi 8. Mandalorian 9. Clone Wars 10. Ashoka 11. Solo 12. Phantom Menace 13. Clones 14. Rise of Skywalker 15. Boba Fett

Open Research Online (ORO) is OU’s free Open Access repository. Anyone can browse peer-reviewed papers, book chapters and more - even records where the full text isn’t available. OU researchers are pre-registered to self-deposit outputs. Explore here 👉 https://ow.ly/e7Q850XcXxb #OpenAccessWeek

Lifelong learning.... Congratulations Maryette!

Earth at night viewed from space.

I wish the geometric mean was taught this way

🌍 Peace isn’t found in treaties or speeches, but in the everyday acts of kindness and unity that colleges can nurture, writes @palvindersingh.bsky.social #InternationalDayOfPeace feweek.co.uk/world-peace-...

KEY to the story about ABC suspending Kimmel's show: Nexstar and Sinclair, two big owners of ABC-affiliated stations, both need FCC approval for pending deals. With a lot of $$ on the line, both have reason to curry favor with the Trump admin. Both decided to yank Kimmel's show.

A weird cloud appears on Mars each year and now we know why. Simulations show the cloud forms because there is an extremely high amount of water vapour in the Martian atmosphere.

This would explain quite a bit of why the current government is behaving as it is.... Warning! The rightwing junktanks behind the Tories’ worst disasters still have the keys to No 10 | George Monbiot www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Wes Streeting’s PFI plan is a disaster for the NHS youtu.be/xgDFaQ8nEEw?... Wes Streeting wants to fund 200 new NHS health centres through PFI. But the Public Finance Initiative was a disaster. This video explains why PFI 2.0 is a betrayal of the NHS.

"Health and care leadership has become enthralled by performance management: dashboards, inspections and league tables... When they dominate, care is hollowed out. People learn to perform adequacy rather than offer real care."

The long division algorithm CAN be understandable and not just a procedure to memorize. Here's how we can make sense of it:

People claim that banks lend the funds deposited with them. They don't. In fact, they can't. It is technically impossible for them to do so. In this post, I explain why that is the case and how banks really create the loans that they offer to their customers. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/08...

Why running a country isn’t like running a household youtu.be/sAKr55O7qaU?... Politicians love to say the government must “live within its means” – just like a household. But this analogy is completely wrong. In this video, I explain why.

If we subtract all the digits from any number, we will always get a multiple of 9. Let's see why!

The Israeli government has told so many lies since Oct. 7. In this video — and in under three minutes — @mehdirhasan.bsky.social debunks the top 10 Israeli lies about the genocide in Gaza. Subscribe to Zeteo to support our journalism. Tap the link in bio.

"Scottish Water is still 100% owned by the state. This begs the obvious question whether profit seeking is a priority over water quality and the consumers are left with substandard supply." #Water #Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

'Hello human, nice to meet you'

Another day of reminding everyone that: "If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

Of course, Barry Goldwater was talking about how he viewed President Johnson and the Democrats. Little did he know that his observations would actually come to fruition under Republican president Donald Trump. Goldwater must be spinning in his grave.

A curious Arctic Fox pup checks out a nature photographer

Once Upon a Forest Susan van den Munckhof Trail Camera Wildlife Photography

Aidan Bedford "Interspecies interaction between humpback whale and bottlenose dolphins."

It’s Friday. This pleases me.

Cutting "red tape" (aka public protections), as Reeves is doing, does not save money. Instead, it transfers costs from the rich to the poor. Other people pay for financial recklessness, filthy rivers, air pollution, lax building standards and consumer rip-offs. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Suddenly feeling old? Evidence now suggests that rather than a long, steady decline, we dramatically age around three specific times in our lives. Might it be possible to stay younger for longer?

The state isn’t broken, but the politics of the market is. Years of cuts have gutted public services to feed private profit. We need a state that serves people, not markets.

Stunning light shows (Auroras) on Jupiter as captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. -Credits: NASA

DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

Mount Etna erupted on June 2, 2025, sending a massive plume of ash, gas, and rock into the sky. ESA's Sentinel-2 satellite captured this dramatic event. Here's a view of Etna's eruption from space #VolcanoMonitoring #EarthObservation #MountEtna ⚒️🌋🧪 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱 Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated". #climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience

Rachel Reeves vs reality: The economics of the two-child cap youtu.be/b3GFjLR0Wjs?... The government claims it cannot afford to pay benefits for the elderly, children in poverty, and people with disabilities. That is nonsense. Simple economic analysis shows that these benefits pay for themselves.

The awesome might of a raging supercell with a wedge tornado at night in the Nebraska Sandhills, April 27, 2025. #newx

Sounds like a plan

BREAKING: “We will be closing the care worker visa for overseas recruitment” - Home Secretary Yvette Cooper Don’t we have a desperate shortage of care workers?

In space, Venus flanks Earth on the left, with a hellfire greenhouse effect. Mars on the right, which long ago had running water. Today, it's bone dry. Something bad happened on each planet. Seems like the wrong time to limit the Nation’s capacity to conduct climate research.