Hahaha ‘new technology,’ Mate, its a steam engine again. www.ft.com/content/926e...

And for that we thank Dame Caroline Haslett, that British plugs are the best plugs. She helped to set up the Women's Engineering Society in 1919, the first editor of the Woman Engineer magazine, and in the 1920s, before the formation of the National Grid, she wired her own home.

Today i book annual leave

The 1st law of thermoacademics: the amount of urgent work to be done is constant. The 2nd law of thermoacademics: the amount of work previously deemed urgent is ever increasing #academicchatter #chemsky

Me: Can I have sone acetone? Steve: Dont drink it all at once 😂

Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!

Today in 1981, Soviet Whiskey-class coastal patrol diesel-electric submarine S-363 hit an underwater rock and ran aground about 6.2 miles from the large Swedish naval base at Karlskrona. This international incident—which wags dubbed “Whiskey on the Rocks”—occurred during a Swedish naval exercise.

The detonation of SS Richard Montgomery will bring a 5m tsunami up the Thames river in London

Memes for #NukeSky, It used to be a McDonalds toilet

Yorkshire PhD: Nit-rick acid Me, am I saying it wrong? night-rick acid... Help me @susiedent.com, it is written nitric acid, is it German, because the center of the chemistry universe being Mannheim BASF (Badische Anilin- & Sodafabrik), and even recently the generation before me were taught german

Memes for #NukeSky

are we an intelligent customer and importer or  do we want to be technology owner?

Earlier this year I said goodbye to my mentor who cruelly passed from aggressive motor neuron disease. I began lecturing, and I asked him for a slide, which I am now removing from this semesters upload, but for one last time here it is... I may leave it in the actual lecture...

When discussing if the UK should drop net-zero 2050 targets, I say that we do it because it is the right thing to do for civilisation, and the UK leads the way like it did with abolishing Slavery

Just seen 'classic PhD' defined as non-CDT PGR... I am not keen on this, especially with the move to DFA PGRs now

Really enjoyed a discussion on the 'Digital Estate' from our communications managers

Can generative AI be trusted to draw chemical structures? Not yet, according to two chemists who want to see the community take a tough stance against its use.

What we teach, has already happened, we learn from history and what we pass forward is a kindness knowing we may never see its fruits; The Royal Navys slavery-fighting West Africa Squadron en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Af... The film Amistad, directed Steven Spielberg en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amistad...

Calling your reaction “metal-free” just because the metal isn’t d-block is…certainly a choice #ChemSky

Fwd: Fwd: “I hope this email finds you well”

Truly in a social media pandemic - say boy posting into the void- irony

So is it a slop machine? Yes. Yes, I think it is. But it's more than that. Sora can also bring your favorite fringe ideas to life... like chemtrails! (this is seriously maybe the video I'm most proud of so far...)

Memes for #chemsky #overlyhonestmethods

This morning i went for a virtual walk around the google maps reviews on Ascension Island while my 8mo slept poorly, interesting place, especially from a British geopolitical perspective

My comfort show is getting a reboot and I am very hesitant about getting excited for it

Nuclear microreactors are different from flowchemistry microreactors; doi.org/10.1080/0029... But you cannot argue with the dispatachable energy of burning diesel

Radioactive materials are vital for medicine, agriculture and for nuclear energy - but the challenge is to ensure that the 20 million packages sent each year can be transported safely and speedily to where they need to go. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/mul...

Is it OK for me to collect NMR data while the magnet is being refilled with liquid helium? u-of-o-nmr-facility.blogspot.com/2011/09/reso... #nmr #nmrchat #chemsky

Is it national clean fumehoods day today @rsc.org ?

Scientists who studied drunken bats’ ability to fly, zebra stripes painted on cows, and Teflon as a zero-calorie food additive were among those who took home top honors at the 35th #IgNobel Prize ceremony. cen.acs.org/education/sc... #chemsky 🧪

Wikipedia: ▫️Free ▫️Sources at the bottom ▫️Full edit history ▫️Discussion page to check controversies ▫️Openly stated editing policies Academia: "This isn't trustworthy!!" AI: ▫️Literally none of the above and, usually, the complete opposite Academia: "I guess we have to embrace this!"

The UK is not geared up to make MOx/Plutonium fuels - Dominic Rhodes, Independent Consultant

If I had to choose, plutonium is deffinetly a top 3 - Matthew Higginson, AWE

OOO

Babe, wake up, a new USCSB video just dropped. (Stay Frosty #ChemSafety #ChemEng) youtu.be/ReYsPKwVy64?...

AFTER A YEAR OF SCIENTIFIC SCRUTINY, A REACTION SAMPLE FROM MY LAB HAS BEEN CONFIRMED TO CONTAIN A POTENTIAL PRODUCT!!!!

#ChemSafety notice re-issued

At the same time, the human metabolism is generating about 100 watts of power. Put these together and it means that humans need to dump 100 watts into the environment while maintaining this 98°F temperature.

Having the frenchwoman replying to my stag planning emails with; Cordially, is lovely, an improvement on my best regards. If I were born again I think I would like to be french.

Standing or stirring? Nah staring at this beautiful figure

Stress is a normal part of life, but stress that lasts for a long time can cause changes in behaviour, depression and mental illness.

New GOV.UK alarm just dropped on my phone while playing chess and holding infant. Thankfully 7MO slept through it. I swear it was the same noise from this film 🤣 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

3YO: I will pick your coffee today, you can have the zebra. Jackpot for me as thats the one I wanted

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

witness that big unshielded fusion reactor in the sky: 93 million miles away and you can still feel it on your face while its ultraviolet flux burns your skin - Derek. Such a beautiful way to explain why with earthly elements we will never achieve fusion power imo