Just been awarded an oboe for services to autocorrect.

Bluesky wants a Head of Communications which is fully remote (overlap with PST hours so effectively shift work) and pays between $187,000 - 235,000 USD as base salary. 🦄 👀 jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i... via bsky.social/about/join - seems all their jobs are #FullyRemote

Did Maggie draw her own 'Draw An Alien' alien? That's very good :) #XmasLectures Love the space-time carpet. Wonder who's hallway that's going to end up in :)

Episode 3 klaxon, ~7mins for @rigb.org's #XmasLectures on BBC Four at 7pm (and iPlayer) with Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, as we head further out into space.

It's mad that if a European person from between 1634 and 1637 time travelled to now, aside from accent issues they would completely understand what is going on with AI if you simply said 'Tulips'

GIS Qn When I am fiddling about w Google MyMaps creating a) grit bins in Blackheath b) gas lamps in London c) cherry tree locations in Greenwich Park d) all the countries that have visited our blog am I using GIS? I think my uses are a bit less sophisticated but not sure how broad the term is.

Strong prospects if they ever bring back the 3-legged race

4.6k people tracking this flight from Moscow to Kaliningrad which is circling, but not landing www.flightradar24.com/SDM6309/3db4...

I would like to add a fourth, 'Distribution', to the models of #scicomm & #PublicEngagement (PE). Logistically identical to 'Deficit' but assumes, or hopes to encourage, a public enthusiasm towards science and a willingness to pick up scientific concepts if they're clearly explained :) Brodie (2025)

Maggie's whirlwind tour of the Solar System tonight was amazing! Join us tomorrow for the last lecture 🚀 We're grateful to our supporters who helped make the 2025 Christmas Lectures happen: our Title Partner CGI, our Supporting Partner Aberdeen Investments, and our supporters UKRI and Viasat 👏

Impressed that the children in the @rigb.org #XmasLectures audience know the order of the planets in our solar system. I was definitely an adult before I decided to mnemonic 'M-VEM-JSUN-P' (I included Pluto, of course, mumble grumble), prompted by a point lost in a pub quiz 'order the planets' Qn.

BBC Four - #XmasLectures have just started. Are we alone - search for life - in the solar system :)

UK Money for #scicomm Money for #PublicEngagment with science Money for #Outreach - that's mostly standalone, not tied-in to a specific research project :D

Getting into the mood for part 2 of this year's excellent 'Are we alone?' space-themed @rigb.org Christmas Lectures with Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock (7pm tonight on BBC Four) with a bit of Stern Combo Meissen's 'In den Kosmos' from 1978 www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uKm...

BCS Essential Digital Skills Qualifications (EDSQ) - free courses available from several providers for people in the UK with very basic or no digital skills, whether in employment or not. www.bcs.org/qualificatio...

Oodles of moolah (£7m) for a gang of folk to put together a bid to support Creative Careers for 11-24 year olds. Sounds cool, I love career infrastructure stuff, objective 1 is my favourite :) find-government-grants.service.gov.uk/grants/creat...

Interactive space mission thingy from the Open University in partnership with the @rigb.org #XmasLectures connect.open.ac.uk/ri2025/

Cool - exoplanet Top Trumps on #XmasLectures / #RiXmasLectures :-) Which audience member* might be able to support life... haha. *they have a card with an exoplanet on the front and a table of info on the back.

@rigb.org This is awesome btw! :)

Delighted that the wonderful Tower Hamlets Cemetery and its moss is featuring on the #RiXmasLectures. Definitely recommend a visit and they also do events during the London Month of the Dead (October) londonmonthofthedead.com/deathdisease...

I didn't know about the @rigb.org's Youth Summit but if you follow them on Eventbrite that's likely where the free tickets will go www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/royal-inst... and this is the info page for the Sep 2025 summit www.rigb.org/whats-on/sol... #RiXmasLectures (no idea what the hashtag is, oops!)

If you're watching the @rigb.org's Christmas Lectures and your children aged 11-17 are pestering you to get tickets for next year you need to be a member to apply for the ticket ballot (for in-person in the Faraday Lecture theatre) www.rigb.org/christmas-le... but...

Emits space klaxon sounds (bleeps, bloops and warbles)

Me, absolutely buzzing to be heading up the road to the cats after a lovely but slightly hectic Christmas spent in London.

I do miss Terbil Draems ("Draems what's terbil") on Twitter. x.com/TerbilDraems

A big list of science communication and public engagement funding from UK grant awarders, ordered by time of year when they'll likely open scicommjobs.wordpress.com/uk-funding-s...

@davidarnold.bsky.social Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader is on ITV2 today at 4.20pm. (Unrelated but also nice: 7pm for 1st of 3 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures for children, on space w Maggie Aderin-Pocock). For others seeing this David scored the lovely music for the film :)

Today :)

From 7pm tonight BBC Four will broadcast the 3 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures given by Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, theme: Is there life beyond Earth? 1. Destination Moon 🌓 (today, Sun) 2. Searching the Solar System ☀️ (Mon) 3. To the stars and beyond 🌠(Tue) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

This British Academy grant is open to UK university researchers (post-doc onwards): "Measurement of social and cultural infrastructure in the higher education sector", £60k, closing 4 Feb 2026, complete by Dec 2026 www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche... cc @engageqm.bsky.social

Congrats to the projects (funded by the Civil Aviation Authority and Department for Transport's "Reach for the Sky" £750,000 grant) who'll run a series of events to inspire young people to consider careers in aviation www.gov.uk/government/n... cc @cs4fn.bsky.social

This will never not make me laugh. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11453473/ "An odor judge assigned an odor rating to each flatulence episode..."

Happy "Pint of Wine" anniversary - a supposed #Brexit benefit. Hands up if you've seen any for sale this year?

Laughed myself silly reading this aged 10. 'To craunch the marmoset' from Pedro Carolino's Portuguese to English dictionary (he only had Portuguese:French and French:English dictionaries to work from). Also the holidaying couple who took a mystery bus tour and landed back in their home town.

Hardest question in any Christmas pub quiz - what day of the week is it today?

Paddington 2 klaxon, BBC 1 today 5.20pm. Just enough time to do the festive dishes :) #Paddington2

I forgot to tell you all that it's FRIDAY today so I hope this hasn't arrived too late and you've been left wondering.

The Apartment, free to watch on ITVx. It's actually black and white so not sure why they're using a coloured image. www.itv.com/watch/the-ap...

Time to watch Elf I think :) Eternal thanks to @qmul.bsky.social for having a subscription to the excellent BoB (Box of Broadcasts) from Learning on Screen. It does also have lots of academically-relevant content there but, today, Elf :) learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/ind...

Today is THURSDAY (as well as being Christmas Day). A cruise ship I went on back in 2015 had implemented (I think they all have it to be fair) this helpful carpet-based daily bulletin. Every lift had its carpet changed daily to the correct day. You can lose all sense of time on holiday.

Ooh, a new-to-me festive banner on the Gov UK's "when is bank holidays?" website. I was expecting tinsel but will check back tomorrow and on New Year's Day to see what is gracing the top of the page then www.gov.uk/bank-holidays

Today's @cs4fn.bsky.social Christmas Computing Advent Calendar has a Christmas tree on the front, so the post is about the Wood Computer. A computer both made OF wood (punched paper cards) & designed to help you 'compute' different woods by telling them apart. Merry Christmas :) cs4fn.blog/advent/

If you have a UK university or further education email address your login credentials *might* let you access an inordinate amount of TV programmes and films recorded from terrestrial (main channels) broadcasts, depending on your institution's subscription learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/ind...

Very enjoyable edition of #DuvetKnowItsChristmas this year! Two of my all time faves showed up again - Lemon Meringue Prison and Formica Stool of Chastity! 🥳 Best newcomer: Unfinished Attic Meth Den. Sublime. 😆

Alas this Wikipedia page didn't stand the test of time but I did copy it to one of my blogs :) #TwitterTraditions brodiesnotes.blogspot.com/2019/03/list... x.com/JoBrodie/sta... #DuvetKnowItsChristmas (and all the rest)

Along with #duvetknowitschrismas, time for a new yearly tradition: #ITschristmas, where we share IT support horror stories from helping family over Christmas. Here's mine to start:

Americans and others who do not know: tonight is the night for #duvetknowitschristmas. Enjoy.

Today's post on the @cs4fn.bsky.social CS4FN Christmas Computing Advent Calendar lists some of the online ways you can 'track' Santa's sleigh including NORAD, FlightRadar and Google. Also how to see the International Space Station (cloud permitting) - updated for 2025 cs4fn.blog/advent/

More than 25,000 people watching Father Christmas', on FlightRadar24, doing a test run before tomorrow :) I like that the sleigh icon is animated with the reindeer galloping. Also when the page loads snowflakes come tumbling down the screen. www.flightradar24.com/R3DN053/3d9f...