Budget Day Surprise…

I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"

The most on-the-money statement you’ll read today.

Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer

It’s hard to decarbonise, unless we all do it.

Imagine objecting to this.

Buy 3 get 1 free. What physics department could resist!

"We may cry for the environment, the vulnerable, the homeless, but those tears fall in equity-shaped droplets." Buladh bos do Colin Sheridan, this piece is exquisite 👏 www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu... #Speirgorm #IrishPol

⚡️ Physics teachers! Always worth teaching about the drop from 240 to 230 V, but this is new! www.efixx.co.uk/Articles/Pro...

Critically important article finds the Windows man guilty of inventing his own reality. Science doesn’t care about wealth.

How should we represent humankind to aliens? In the 1970s, Nasa fell short. Next time, we must do better

Apparently, it's the International Day of Medical Physics next week www.iomp.org/idmp-2025/ so in tutor time we'll be celebrating our (one and only) Nobel-Prize winning alumnus Sir Godfrey Hounsfield en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey... @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social

Me discussing how Trump is weaponising his Justice Dept to attack his enemies "Justice is meant to be about "here's a crime, let's find out who did it and prosecute them", but instead Trump is saying "here's the person I want to prosecute, find me the crime".

Ofgem should use firms’ windfall profits to fund energy debt relief, say MPs The ESNZ Committee called it “completely inexcusable” that households are forced to choose between eating and heating while companies behind Great Britain’s gas pipes and power lines amass huge profits. buff.ly/5sLZDJD

🎶 We all live in a Brexit tragedy… 🎶

I'll be on #BBC News in the 4pm ET hour speaking to presenters Annita McVeigh and Caitriona Perry about climate change-supercharged cat 5 hurricane #Melissa as it tragically bears down on Jamaica: www.bbc.com/news/live/cv...

Bill Gates sure picked an interesting day to downplay the threat of climate change

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This is how it’s done:

Aged 18, all the world’s politicians promised they’d fix global warming. 33 years of adult life and we hear they shrugged, lied and walked away. I feel let down, but what about the next generation?

Fight breaking out in Waterstones.

'2025 is the first time we reach a 3-year average global temperature anomaly above 1.5°C in one or more data sets!' Within two years of publication of this paper: 'Approaching 1.5 °C: how will we know we’ve reached this crucial warming mark?' In @berkeleyearth.org and (likely) @ecmwf.int ERA5

If you think mis- and disinformation is no big deal , read this: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In the latest issue of Private Eye (thanks to a friend for sharing) - "So farewell then, Science in Action..." Wishing I could tell EJ Thribb that reports of the programme's demise are premature, but that may depend on support from outside the BBC. ☹️

It’s more than just bad priorities. It’s about lack of basic decency.

One heck of a mandate for Catherine Connolly, the 10th president of the Republic of Ireland. Congratulations!

It's just the beginning...

This vacancy remains open. If you are looking for an exciting teaching roll for January, come say hello! 👋🏻

Marginal Gains: how wind is pushing gas out of the power market and cutting costs Growth in British renewables cutting electricity prices by up to a quarter. eciu.net/analysis/re...

Airport expansion will put UK’s net zero goal in ‘serious jeopardy’, MPs warn Committee urges ministers to set out measures to reduce carbon emissions before work starts on new runways. buff.ly/6578DJe

Physics teachers! New ultrasound use to add to your growing arsenal! www.cam.ac.uk/news/addenbr...

Went through the "White House" today. It was just beautiful.

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

This is great work, America but I know we can do better.

The metaphors keep coming...

🚀Physics teachers! Come and work in the heart of Cambridge, home to more Physics Nobels than anywhere in the UK. 🤝 www.theleys.net/vacancies/te...

Bad actors ahoy! Landmark global shipping deal suspended under US / Saudi pressure. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Thank goodness. At last. I’m delighted to pay more tax in exchange for some desperately needed community and infrastructure building. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Teens who won a lawsuit requiring Hawaiʻi to eliminate carbon emissions from the state’s transportation system in the next 20 years rightly call out sustainable aviation fuel as bullshit.

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) now has an observed brightness of magnitude 5.0. Its brightest so far. A week away from closest approach to Earth. By coincidence also a week away from the peak of the Orionids meteor shower. 🔭 🧪

Went on a little pilgrimage today to Parton, the resting place of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scotland’s very own Einstein, James Clerk Maxwell. Quite the pause when I realised he was only one year older than me (48) when he died. ⚛️🔭

⚠️ England has 2nd worst harvest on record New Defra data shows that 2024 harvest has been pushed into 3rd place, as 3️⃣ of the 5️⃣ worst harvests on record seen this decade alone. Net zero only credible solution to reduce impacts of climate change. eciu.net/analysis/re...

This was written in 1879, just a few years before passenger pigeons disappeared from the wild. These people are still out there

It’s Roger Moore’s birthday Here’s a classic anecdote about the great man to cheer you up on a damp Tuesday.

Dire warning: “…if America continues down this path of anti-science, constituting an existential threat to the rest of the world, then other nations will have to make difficult decisions about what they choose to do about this. We may not like what they decide.” ~ @michaelemann.bsky.social

What has technology ever done for the Global Goals?

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...” apnews.com/article/pope...

This will be popular!

What does your bank think the temperature should be? Disagree with them? Change your bank! on.ft.com/4o1qTlq

Tragic. Education failure at the highest level.