I'm joining Simon on this quiz stream for JingleJam, come join us!

OK we're back baby. I'm not exactly well, but well *enough* to attempt a quiz stream tonight. I'll be joined by some creator friends playing quiz games from games.city... who are offering a donation match up to £2000 during the stream! Tonight, 7:30PM GMT www.twitch.tv/drsimonclark

Extreme views are heavily over-represented on social media Social platforms’ tendency to reward hostile content creates incentives that systematically reward simplistic messages and extreme positions and this fuels populism www.ft.com/content/9251... via @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

A quick summary of everything we know about fungi and all the amazing ways we use them every day youtu.be/5FqFg-rjzPo

Here is my map of fungi. Watch a whistle stop tour of the fascinating subject of fungi in my YouTube video youtu.be/5FqFg-rjzPo

Two years ago I lost my dad to cancer. He used to run marathons for our local cancer hospice and taught me to love the water by taking me swimming every week. So in his memory I'm raising money for the hospice not by running a half marathon... but by swimming one youtu.be/w5IfDfsazog

Next month I'll be swimming for around 8 hours non-stop to raise money for our local cancer hospice Can you be the person to get the fundraiser to our £20k goal? givewheel.com/fundraising/...

Happening today! My friend Kat is doing a 12 hour, yes 12 hour twitch stream doing maths exams to raise money for the British Heart Foundation. Cheer her on! Twitch.tv.katdoesmaths

It's fun getting dressed up once in a while. Maddie's show got nominated for an Olivier award! 🤩

How to keep children safe on YouTube? And what IS the best way to use the YouTube Kids app?

If it turns out it wasn't the Russians who caused the substation fire, does that mean the neglect of critical infrastructure counts as domestic terrorism?

Curious what Microsoft's Quantum Computing announcement is about? @dominicwalliman.com made an excellent video last year on the topic of topological quantum computing. Be aware that Microsoft made similar claims in 2018 and then retracted them in 2021. youtu.be/ihZXl33t8So (1/4)

First game of 40k of the year!band it was killteam... As featured in the 4th edition rulebook from 2004. @dominicwalliman.com fielded a bunch of GSC goons and tried to stop my space marine scouts from planting melta charges on the tower, but couldn't quite get all of them! Delicious retro fun.

Did my name update?

Merry Christmas everyone!! 🎄

What on earth is going on here?

I've figured out a great recipe for the notoriously difficult yellow colour. Imperial Fists army?? 🤔🤔🤔

There's an argument that no copyright infringement happens if AI trains on people's work, because it's basically what humans do when we're learning to draw, make music, cinematography etc. I used to think this argument logically made sense, but felt something wrong about it in me guts (1/2)

Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators. More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live): 1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇 1/10

I like playing rock music I also like eBay, managed to get this amp and cabs for £187, the guitar was about £3 - I found it on the street, it was broken and I fixed it (new switch and jack also from ebay), oh yeah and £10 for new strings. Pretty good setup for about £200

Here's what's cool about Google's new Willow quantum computer

Went to an amazing Christmas science show for last night @maddiemoate.bsky.social Maddie Moate's Very Curious Christmas! If you are around London and are looking for a sciencey show for kids with panto vibes I very much recommend it www.londontheatredirect.com/play/maddie-...

Okay, I'm just getting up to speed, but am I right in thinking the underlying system for bluesky is kinda like RSS feeds for poscasts/blogs? If so, that's cool! RSS style social media is something I can get behind

I'm in a rock band, here's one of our songs youtu.be/ewiN0j4Ya08?...

Working on something new

I imagine this will be practically impossible to enforce, but I very much like the spirit of protecting children from social media. I think it'd be useful to make a distinction between algorithmic social media (TikTok, Instagram etc.) and the less bad non-algorithmic sm www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I just released a new youtube video 🥳 youtu.be/fH4MaSJ8gXU?...

Check out my latest design, The Map of Board Games 🛒 store.dftba.com/products/the...

This is my Map of Plants You can see the video here if you like: youtu.be/ONVpFtiD-fo?...

I just posted a new video on my YouTube channel summarising all the main parts of medicine The Map of Medicine https://youtu.be/CkwSeMrOPjc

The light in this wood I was in yesterday was amazing!

My friend Professor Astro Cat helps explain the possibilities for the end of the universe. From our book Professor Astro Cat's Frontiers of Space

By the way, protons are infuriating. https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/it-may-be-one-of-the-basic-building-blocks-of-all-matter-but-theres-still-a-lot-we-have-to-learn-about-the-proton/

Here's my attempt to capture the field of Engineering and show how all the bits relate to each other. ▶️ youtu.be/pQgxiQAMTTo

British people will get a bonus day off this month because a man is going to put on a hat

Last week I got invited to do a nerd burlesque and decided to try perform a Möbius striptease. Still going. Send help

It's wild that you are a direct descendant of the first life on Earth around 3.7 billion years ago. Each creature managed to avoid death long enough to make a new one. Often in rather pressing circumstances. Imagine the near misses we all escaped! #existential #science