Ooh, this is some lovely BOC content. youtu.be/wubkrBd3-gg?...

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You asked a question at the end of a work meeting. Prepare to die.

Really enjoyed this one. Yes it's true that grain alcohol would avoid autoignition and engine knock, same as tetraethyl lead (TEL). I was teaching my students about it this week. But ethanol was expensive and you would need a lot hence less profitable. Thomas Midgely Jr introduced lead to petrol 1/2

Back to life drawing today. The class did a joint 'frieze' with charcoal.

I see it's time for me to make the point again that the poppy is a fundraising campaign for the Royal British Legion, a specific, mundane entity that is not exempt from scrutiny and does not own the concept of remembrance. You can read its 2024 accounts here: storage.rblcdn.co.uk/sitefinity/d...

In honor of the upcoming #WomenInPhysics Day, let's create a thread of amazing women physicists. I'll start with one my favorites, Chien-Shiung Wu, who is best known for conducting the Wu experiment, which proved that parity is not conserved. ⚛️ 🧪 👩‍🔬 🎢

A new preprint and two firsts: Joana Bustamante's first first-author preprint in our group and us developing a model for thermal conductivity! Feedback welcome! arxiv.org/abs/2510.23133 #compchem

“Now go to sleep, Kevin—or once again I’ll have to knock three times and summon the Floating Head of Death.”

In case you haven't seen it yet, the 2023 film Rye Lane is on the BBC iPlayer and is a total delight ▶️📺 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.

A piece in the Guardian today focuses on the Irish game of road bowling; it reminded me of this work (1941) by Gabriel Hayes showing the game in action - it used to be confined to West Cork. share.google/6u9a5XNcui7J...

Worrying - Quarter of UK university physics departments at risk of closing, survey finds | Physics | The Guardian share.google/OloD34Di6p9D...

This isn't my idea it's @alicebennett.bsky.social 's as I recall, but I think it's time for this meme to join our HE binfire pantheon.

Remember this? In the 1990s, a popular view of nanotechnology claimed that molecular gears like this, made of diamondoid carbon, were going to be the components of molecular-scale assemblers and nanobots. But that vision hasn't come to pass. My article in Aeon explores why. aeon.co/essays/no-su...

“Oh boy! ... It’s dog food again!”

In my latest (and last!) column for Science’s Expert Voices series, I write about the reasons behind AI chatbots’ “deceptive” behaviors (and why Claude threatened a fictional CEO with blackmail). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

If you’re based in Britain and are hurling-curious, the final will be on BBC 2 tomorrow afternoon: www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/... It might help put the article below (or indeed, my annual fretting about the fortunes of the Cork hurling team) into context.

Claire is very happy with this present! Always love a maths joke. Thanks to @mooseallain.bsky.social !

Bjork bouncing.

Conscientious SUV Shopper Just Wants Something That Will Kill Family In Other Car In Case Of Accident theonion.com/conscie...

Tonight’s huge climbdown is testament to the countless disabled people who have tirelessly fought these cuts. Yes, UC was a loss and there’s more to do on PIP, but let’s not underplay this: a government with a vast majority has been forced to u-turn. Because of the disabled community.

Kneecap set was great. Why is there only 12 mins of Amyl and the Sniffers on iplayer though? #Glastonbury

yeah that's right fuck off

Neighbor-Source Heat Pump xkcd.com/3099/

Alright scrotum throat, what’s the craic?

Collage work from today's life drawing lesson! #art

It's incredible to think that British liberal democracy is (maybe) going under because the labour party outsourced its entire intellectual apparatus to some gobshite from *Macroom.* Truly, the long tail of empire.

The first release of our text-to-crystal model, Chemeleon, is out in @natcomms.nature.com 🌈 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Code: github.com/hspark1212/c... You can sample an inorganic structure in minutes on a laptop thanks to @hspark1212.bsky.social - #CompChem that gives me goosebumps!

Lovely to hear from the Prime Minister that the historical policies which allowed my Mum to remain in the UK after studying here, thus enabling my existence, was a “squalid experiment in open borders”.

First life drawing class since January! The Saturday classes keep getting cancelled and today only 3 of us were there, but hope to have some more in the next few weeks

Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object xkcd.com/3084

poster session B at #QCTIP on day one in Berlin

Was once asked to paint all 31 counties of Ireland as a commission, a task that was uncontroversial and made nobody shout at me.

There are many sides to "defect tolerance" in metal halide perovskite solar cells 🛑. Our discussions with @hoyegroupox.bsky.social led to a new review in @natrevchem.bsky.social led by @ireaml.bsky.social. Out today #ChemSky: rdcu.be/egK3Z

What do you mean the stock market lost 3.1 trillion dollars Go find it

Partial eclipse!

Hmm. Probably won't plan on going to APS, MRS or ACS anytime soon

RIP to a true legend. I still have the copy of Zany Tales I got as a child and have read it to my own kids. So many great poems too

Stefan Collini in @londonreview.bsky.social, October 2013

Great thread!

Analysis of the confined crowds at the San Fermín festival in Spain shows that dense crowds can self-organize into macroscopic chiral oscillators, coordinating the orbital motion of hundreds of individuals without external guidance, according to a paper in Nature. https://go.nature.com/3WKkb8r 🧪

A couple of recent sketches and a few 7 min drawings from a life drawing class last weekend #art

🤖 Interested in automated DFT or ab initio calculations for crystals or molecules? atomate2 could be your package! doi.org/10.26434/che... #compchem

This thread recreates the warm feelings of walking through a natural history museum. I see titania and think of @scanlond81.bsky.social's study with @robertpalgrave.bsky.social and @johnbuckeridge.bsky.social (based on solid-state QM/MM #CompChemSky) www.nature.com/articles/nma...

Good stuff. "Pepper nodded, put its hands on its hips, raised a hand to its head, swooped forward, jerked its head and announced that it was not physically able to move because it was an AI language model"

⚠️ Original pirate material! I’ve spent the last few weeks digitizing cassette tapes from my early days of pirate radio in the 90s on radio friendly, and from the clubs of that era such as Sir Henry’s. Continued below