The CLEAR REALITY of air's role in Bird Flight, and Aviation, will at some point 'win the day'; objective FACTS always outlast the assertion of a 'preferred world' that suits Political or Social prejudices. And those who assert 'alternative facts' BLOCK THEIR OWN PLAN. bsky.app/profile/pneu...

When we talk about FAA staffing we almost entirely talk about air traffic control and that is not just short-sighted, but a very bad idea. As someone working on an article taking a broader view of staffing issues at the agency, I can tell you that we need to stop doing this & dig deeper.

Burns me up that we have to keep saying this to #AcademicSky #ScienceSky #Polisky #SciSky and anyone else who will listen: We are along way from a truly equitable scientific enterprise. Full stop. Dr. Armenteras nails it. tinyurl.com/4y8yt3nx

This position is almost perfectly mirrored in the field of Aerodynamics right now. The 'technology' I'm promoting is ridiculously simple, abundantly available - and vigorously shunned by the 'legacy players' who have the most to gain from it. Better Aero is a no-brainer, just as batteries are...

The recent invention, or REDISCOVERY, of Kite-drawn Gliders that COULD have emerged in the 1820s (if George C and George P had met & 'pooled' their specialized work...) UNLOCKS a further 'inventive step'. Right now, confusion about the OPPOSING Aerodynamics of SAILS and WINGS can be abolished.

The global pledge, already signed by over 150 organisations, is the first international effort to formally recognise clean indoor air as essential to health and well-being. Learn more: bit.ly/461pNPq #UNGA80 #IndoorAir

A Lippisch-type 'ram-hovercraft' removes the need for a skirt by moving sufficiently fast to 'recruit' air at the front of its Captive Bubble at a faster rate than it's able to 'escape' through the smaller gap at the rear of its reverse-delta, anhedral 'wing'. In effect, it's ONE-HALF OF A FUNNEL.

(In the 22nd Century, the idea that the wholly dissimilar concepts of Dimension ('space'...) & Duration ('time'...) were considered 'blendable' is comical. Spacetime ('dim-dur'...?) makes as much sense as 'teaburger' or the proverbial tasks of 'writing about art' & 'dancing about architecture'...)

An informative uplifting conversation (need one of those right now?) between Lou at the Brave New Girls podcast and me, re my book, The Stronger Sex: What Science Tells Us About the Power of the Female Body Lou's Q's dug into the details! #podcast #womenshealth podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

This area of the Atlantic from Africa to the Caribbean Sea contains the warm ocean temperatures needed for hurricane development 🌀 #HokeyWx: tinyurl.com/waveweatherv...

Great work by France, too! "We must pool resources to ensure that everyone everywhere in the world can breathe clean air inside their home, school, workplace or ---" France has already (2023) invested in improving air quality in schools and nurseries.

Scrapping visa fees for ‘top’ scientists ‘will help UK compete’. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

The knock-on effects of turning Aerodynamics into a Scientific discipline will be as far-reaching as those emanating from Pitot's quest to CORRECT Hydrodynamics, and as broad as those driven by Mikolaiy Koupernik's new ORBITAL cosmology. Because RIGHT NOW, it's clear that Aero is NOT Scientific...

This position is almost perfectly mirrored in the field of Aerodynamics right now. The 'technology' I'm promoting is ridiculously simple, abundantly available - and vigorously shunned by the 'legacy players' who have the most to gain from it. Better Aero is a no-brainer, just as batteries are...

But I can 'Science like nobody's watching' - that Scientific Revolution WILL happen sometime... "In an era of rampant disinformation, the simple act of insisting on objective reality is a profound form of resistance." Thanks, @ianbassin.bsky.social ... www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-hard-w...

I post hopeful all the time - and get very little engagement for it. The opposition shoot down Science and History because those subjects empower people to see through their flim-flam. But when I post about Making Science Bulletproof Again (a Scientific Revolution...) it's seen as unhelpful...

Here's something that could be hung on the wall of every classroom, hospital, or office: a CO2 monitor that would remind us of what good indoor air renewal can prevent: numerous contaminations. It's reliable and inexpensive to manufacture.

Persistent Aero Myths: 'The Power of the Vortex' In the early 20th Century, HYPNOTISM was feared; the sinister villain of a novel or movie would WHIRL something before a victim's eyes, urging them to focus keenly on the motion until everything else faded - and their doom was sealed...! 1/n

www.flyingmag.com/flying-along... Ground Effect is a small corner of Aerodynamics that, properly understood, can 'shine a light' onto the rest of the subject. The misapprehensions that have been 'baked into' Aero during the 20th Century show up here, as 'quirky' anomalies that can easily be ignored.

Unfortunately, it's commonplace to regard 'conceptual models' as "descriptions of nature" - rather than what they really, and self-evidently, and 'by design', are: PROXIES (substitutes...) for selected attributes we EXTRACT (take out of context...) from the natural world around us.

"And if you ask me which are the most beautiful... P.S. I'm told the blue one is pure Art Deco. I don't know much about art, so if anyone who does know can explain to me why that is said... :)"

"If the concern was shared with us in confidence, we will only include the source’s name if they have provided permission, and if the journal’s editor also agrees,” a spokesperson told us. As this process varies by journal, “we are working toward a more standard approach across our portfolio.”

Had so much fun alongside Felicity Nelson sharing our knowledge of Tiktok and how to make science-focused online videos for a variety of platforms at the Australasian Medical Writers Association!

Like the hope doesn’t lie in “It’ll be fine!” or “Surely they won’t ____”. Hope lies in saying “Man this sucks. Let’s fix it.”

Enraging, excellent doc

THIS is how you do it...! If posts bemoaning the disproportionate coverage given to 'a minor party' were regularly illustrated with pictures of BIGGER parties, or their personnel, the minor party would be LESS OVER-PRESENTED... (Could be better tho; can somebody give 'their leader' a NAME...?)

The Lib Dems beat Reform at the election but lost the media war. Now their leader warns that Farage and Robinson seek to tear Britain apart for personal gain ✏️ @jamesrball

New work - based on modelling and projection - suggests that the health impacts of climate-driven wildfire smoke could be among the most important and costly consequences of a warming climate in the US. Yet more evidence… #MedSky 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Technologically advance a band: Ian Dury and the Blockchain...

Unfortunately, it's commonplace to regard 'conceptual models' as "descriptions of nature" - rather than what they really, and self-evidently, and 'by design', are: PROXIES (substitutes...) for selected attributes we EXTRACT (take out of context...) from the natural world around us.

The Scaled Composites Model 437 re-entered flight test after completion of significant work since first flight of the vehicle in 2024. scaled.com/2025/09/20/m...

IMO, one of the biggest mistakes the Washington Post makes is hiring a columnist who thinks Democrats should attend the Republican convention to 'improve debate' there. Shadi has MIS-SPELLED: 'The platform formerly known as Twitter, now called Grok's, is tanking because of low-quality debate'...

In the 1960s and 70s, Syukuro Manabe pioneered ways to model Earth’s atmosphere. In 2021, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for this work, which is often cited as foundational to modern climate science.

As an aircraft moves along the runway, air 'collected' by its wing is SQUEEZED as MORE AIR accumulates ahead of it - like leaves PILING UP in front of a yard-broom. That's how the 'funnel' of a ram-effect hovercraft works. And it's ALSO how the 'more open' funnel of an almost-an-airplane works.

It started long before Social Media. The insanity of Quantum Mechanics is 100 years old - and the 'impossible experiment' that started it was (allegedly...) performed in 1801... bsky.app/profile/lizz...

Some scientists haven't yet internalized the "why" behind science writing for the public - not just as a service, but for themselves. (I didn't always get it). In this piece for @natrevneuro.nature.com, I draw on the neuroscience of curiosity & decision making to unpack its value. rdcu.be/eCGr7

www.Noticias-Aero.info Canada’s Coulson challenges US$135mn Q400 conversion deal www.ch-aviation.com/news/158442-...

'The Power of the Vortex' 10/n: But in a low-key way, America had already caught the Whirl-worship Bug...! Encouraged by Ludwig, Theodor Von Kármán had popularized a belief that the 'alternating' flow feature found downstream of an obstacle is formed by (dah-da-daaaa!) VORTICES...!

Boeing & Lockheed Martin are poised to win aircraft orders from Turkey for as many as 250 commercial planes & additional F-16s, with possible resolution of a long-running F-35 dispute. President Trump will host Turkish President in Washington on September 25th. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

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(5/n) But the Aerodynamics of Flight they seek to study are, in effect, very local WEATHER variations...! SOMETIMES, those changes are 'major' enough to cause effects we can see. However, most of the time the processes that Lift an aircraft are both SUBTLE in amplitude, and INVISIBLE in operation.

Love this! Would definitely go and watch.

(And if that seems like a challenge, IT IS. Aero types tend to IGNORE my material because it not only CONFRONTS their core beliefs, but is also immune to Authority-based 'fact-checking'. REALITY isn't real because 'somebody authoritative' says it is. 20th Century Aero is OBJECTIVELY untrue...) 🧪

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

The full documentary Climate Extremes: Extreme Weather is now out on YouTube:

(In effect, I'm here to QUESTION the insanity. In your time, people 'take on trust' the idea that incompressible air causes Lift by flowing over an aircraft's wing. But WHY - when the air is obviously stationary and very easy to compress...? And why do experts make the claim...?)

A related question may be: 'What does reality mean for Quantum Mechanics...?' Arising from artificially circumscribed events (which are also, as described, known to be Physically IMPOSSIBLE...) QM enjoys an artificially 'protected' existence. WITHOUT that privilege, what would become of it...?

I talked to the Stanford addiction scientist Dr. Anna Lembke for this piece, who emphasized the physical effect that social validation has on the brain, and how that may be contributing to unhealthy ChatGPT/AI dependency:

Thanks @ianbassin.bsky.social "To “fight the long defeat” is not to surrender to futility but to locate dignity and meaning in the struggle itself — and to recognize that what feels like defeat in one moment may seed the victories of another." What @sifill.bsky.social refers to as a time to plant