🧪 I have a new TV offering: a 2-part Horizon special on BBC2 going out on 29th Sep and 6th October. It is called Secrets of the Brain. See See www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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🧪Physicists disagree wildly on what quantum mechanics says about reality, Nature survey shows From nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why should we let science 🧪 get in the way of making America sick again. We and our kids are fully vaccinated. theconversation.com/im-a-physici...

The Life Scientific at the Mary Rose Museum Jim Al-Khalili in conversation with Eleanor Schofield, Director of Collections @jimalkhalili.bsky.social @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social maryrose.org/events/the-l...

Many tens of thousands of people in the years to come will have better lives and better deaths because of @kimleadbeatermp.bsky.social - her calm principled leadership has been an inspiration. Few legislators have so great and permanent a positive impact and she takes her place among that noble few.

Honoured (though a little surprised) to be last lab coat up in the current series of #LifeScientific. Lovely to chat with @jimalkhalili.bsky.social for this. Tune in tomorrow Radio 4 9am. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Really enjoyed chatting with @jimalkhalili.bsky.social on the Life Scientific episode that was broadcast this morning. Thank you for having me on. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Put it this way, Elon Musk may be an FRS, but he’ll never be an FLS. But listen out for first ep of Life Scientific’s next run (29 Apr) when my guest will be Tony Fauci (FRS, FLS).

For my scientific and engineering colleagues, what are the more prestigious letters after a name: FRS (Fellow of the Royal Society) or FLS (Fellow of the Life Scientific)? 😊🧪

🧪 Yes, LLMs can now pass the Turing test, but don’t confuse this with AGI, which is a long way off. arxiv.org/abs/2503.23674

My review of Quantum Drama by physicist and science writer Jim Baggott and the late historian of science John L Heilbron. cerncourier.com/a/beyond-boh... 🧪

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If dark energy is weakening then, yes this means it could approach zero in the future and gravity may yet gain the upper hand and lead to a Big Crunch. But this is preliminary data. It does hint at dark energy changing over time, but my money is still on a big freeze (not big rip or Big Crunch).

Too early to call this a discovery, but not too early to sit up and take notice.

Why so serious? Scientists should crack more jokes when communicating their work, study finds 🧪🤣 It would boost engagement and trust in their research Plus, 12 of my favourite science jokes, including submissions from @jimalkhalili.bsky.social and Martin Rees www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

And the second day is here, ending with a panel discussion including me and @jimalkhalili.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/TMi8pDQ...

The videos of the Royal Society's Quantum Information meeting last month are now online. The first day is here: www.youtube.com/live/ytqFQxP...

Ahead of this International Women's Day, we're celebrating the women changing the research landscape! Watch Dr Priya Sharma explain her work in quantum computing to @jimalkhalili.bsky.social: daphnejackson.org/fellow/dr-pr...

Related, @toriherridge.bsky.social, a palaeobiologist specialising in mammoths and extinct elephants (and my fabulous friend!), just did the most wonderful & refreshing #TheLifeScientific episode, interviewed by @jimalkhalili.bsky.social, mentioning these issues www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

🔁 Tune in to #BBCRadio4 tonight at 21:00 GMT for the second broadcast of @doynefarmer.bsky.social's interview with @jimalkhalili.bsky.social for #thelifescientific 🧙‍♂️ Featuring Doyne's stories on #roulette #jurassicpark and more! 🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... @inet-complexity.bsky.social

Thought provoking talk from @jimalkhalili.bsky.social at #gcsesciencelive - are there time travellers amongst us?! @thesnaithschool.bsky.social

The #DarwinDayLecture 2025 – the biggest in our Annual Lecture Series – with @jimalkhalili.bsky.social, chaired by @evoswami.bsky.social, starts at 19:30! There's still time to book your livestream tickets and grab a cuppa. We'll be live skeeting the evening here on this 🧵🤘

Packed audience at Conway Hall! Wonderful to celebrate #DarwinDayLecture, or annual celebration of the birth of Charles Darwin, with @evoswami.bsky.social, @jimalkhalili.bsky.social, our in-person and online audience this evening.

'Altruism, compassion, empathy... are evolved. These are traits that define us as human... and of course, speaking as a humanist, we don't need god to be good. These are essential mechanisms for human cooperate and social cohesion.' @jimalkhalili.bsky.social #DarwinDayLecture

Congratulations to @jimalkhalili.bsky.social for receiving the #DarwinDayLecture Medal! @evoswami.bsky.social awarded Jim for 'Transforming our understanding of unusual atomic nuclei with groundbreaking theoretical models, shedding light on the complex structures of matter...'

Thinking about the curriculum review…re-reading this excellent article on learning science by @jimalkhalili.bsky.social Instead of obsessing over learning facts, let’s teach children how to think | Jim Al-Khalili www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Always nice to have feline fysics fans.

We're excited for the Darwin Day Lecture on 7 February with @jimalkhalili.bsky.social. Book your tickets and join us as we track the brain's 700 million-year evolutionary history, and explore how it developed from simple nerve cells to a remarkably complex human system. humanists.uk/events/darwi...

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We don’t need better stories. We need to be humble. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Glad to see that my work with @jimalkhalili.bsky.social on the decoherent arrow of time is featured in this New Scientist article by @kpc.bsky.social, alongside comments by Vlatko Vedral and Emily Adlam. www.newscientist.com/article/2457...

When I met Philomena Cunk | Cunk on Life fb.watch/w_aGD7QYWZ/ via @FacebookWatch

Happy New Year everyone.

Coming up in half an hour at 4.30, a special NYE edition of The Life Scientific on BBC Radio 4 with astronaut Tim Peake. It was recorded in front of an audience at London's @royalsociety Image

There’s a special NYE special edition of The Life Scientific this afternoon on Radio4 at 4.30pm. My guest is astronaut Tim Peake. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Cosmologists, what is your take on this work? Is dark energy seriously under threat? Could the accelerating expansion of the universe just be because time runs faster in the voids between galaxies? academic.oup.com/mnrasl/artic...

More fun and profound nonsense from the wonderful Filomena Cunk, with cameos from me and @ProfBrianCox, in Cunk on Life, 30 Dec on BBC2. See trailer here: youtu.be/ByCxxZOwQUI?... via @YouTube

Congratulations to @daphnejacksontr.bsky.social on their new look! I'm so grateful to them for giving me a route back to science and proud to be a case study ...although link preview 😱😂 DJT provide a route back into academia for people who have had a career break daphnejackson.org/case-study/p...

It’s an honour to become a patron of the Daphne Jackson Trust. Daphne was the first female professor of physics in the UK and I still remember taking her mathematical methods course on special functions in physics back in 1983.

5 authors I’ve read 5+ books by: Robert A Heinlein Iain M Banks Stephen King George RR Martin Richard Dawkins

Just finished reading a pre-pub review copy of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s @aptshadow.bsky.social new novel, Shroud. It’s out in Feb I think and fans are going to be very pleased. It’s quite superb.