Diego Reading Jack Chambers 1971

It is likely that 2025 will be the warmest year on record for the UK. Why does this matter? Burning fossil fuels is warming the planet, including the UK, causing heatwaves to get hotter. For Central England this is happening 2x faster than the mean change. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wishing you warmth, peace, and so much love this holiday season ❤️

In case you are worried, the cat returned. Enjoy the art in peace

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar Window 20 ‘Winter Sunrise’ Artist: SR Badmin

In case anyone was looking for a last minute Christmas gift

the parade is starting!

A miracle! Duck walks on water 🌟🙏

Politicians wringing their hands over why teachers are leaving the profession. The truth is, we'd get more people staying in teaching if our various Governments understood that the real purpose of education is *not* to build a compliant workforce, but a society of well-rounded individuals...

I remember Hayley Cropper featuring in Coronation Street in the late 1990s. If Janice Battersby could get over her prejudices over a quarter of a century ago, then I can't believe the British public can be that far behind.

On this day, for #LPF10anniversary: following the successful separation from the launch vehicle, the mission operations team at ESOC undertook one of the most complex Launch and Early Operations Phases (LEOP) ever undertaken or an ESA mission. Watch it here 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=maKX...

Deeply disappointed to hear that the BBC has pushed out one of the most brilliant presenters in all of science communication for speaking with integrity and honor in support of human rights and dignity.

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

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Tighter visa rules will cost UK up to £10.8bn giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

This is a thoughtful dive into science communication from an important perspective I had not considered before 🧪🎢

Not The Onion

2015 was a good year for gravitational-wave astronomy 🔭🧪🛰️ #LPF10anniversary #GW10Years

I haven’t seen this label used before but it seems apt. The video contains a good discussion of what “science populism” is and how it’s harmful. youtu.be/sQnOFGWsXNM?...

honey bees 🐝🍯 #art

was really inspired by the alpaca festival i went to a couple of weeks ago! i want to make this a screen printed shirt (minus the text at the bottom) early next year :)

The 2025 winner of the LIGO Laboratory Award for Excellence in Detector Characterization & Calibration is Dr. Jane Glanzer in recognizition of critical and timely contributions to both calibration and detector characterization for the fourth observing run www.ligo.caltech.edu/WA/news/ligo...

Once again I have been compelled to draw an Absolute Unit.

A remarkable Ministerial Council for @esa.int & @science.esa.int. Record €22.1 bn overall & historic budget for Science.Thanks to our member states for this vote of confidence & to our DG @josefaschbacher.esa.int for putting frontier science & technology at the heart of European leadership in space

This! I so far think that the students who use LLMs too much are in a minority, and (at least here) a lot still seemed to engage with our course & cared about trying to learn. Quite a few obviously didn't, though, and it does a big disservice to their education.

Toilets have often been used as a weapon to make it difficult for women to participate in science. This was Lise Meitner's experience in 1907. (From Wikipedia) #WomenInSTEM 🧪

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Wishing Scots all around the world a happy St Andrew's Day! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Note, you don't need to be Scottish to celebrate! How about a nice bowl of porridge for breakfast or a wee dram of whiskey at the end of your day? 🥃 📷: @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social "Saltire on the Moon"

Dreamt that using nacho cheese flavoured chips to make nachos inspired me to invent set-of-all-sets-that-contain-themselves flavoured crisps. The list of ingredients was hilarious

Why do we keep insisting universities are run like businesses? Apart from the fact they are not meant to extract profit, they actually seem to do pretty well—Cambridge has been a leading university for 800+ years, Glasgow is almost 600 years old. How many businesses can boast that?

gotta sit down and take a lil break first

Looking at the people sharing this, I can tell these biscuits are universally popular

SCOOP: Carbon Brief has exclusively obtained a list of 84 countries "opposed" to adding a fossil-fuel roadmap to COP30 deal – but our analysis found a series of contradictions & likely errors For eg 14 on list are also roadmap "supporters" Read more➡️ www.carbonbrief.org/...

A thread of interesting statistics

Women scientists often do not get recognition and visibility for their achievements as their male peers. Thanks to @indianexpress.com for highlighting stories like ours which go unnoticed, that hopefully will help to change the gender bias that still exists in society.

I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.

Happy Thanksgiving :) @desisurvey.bsky.social

Sharing another fab starter pack - for astrophysics. 🌌😀

A tariff on one of the UK's principal exports. Universities are one of the largest employers in the UK. Their impact can be difficult to notice as they are spread across the country instead of concentrated, but this means they support many local economies.

I think these articles are great examples of science journalism—not all science is clear cut. Sometimes results are inconclusive. The mystery can dive us on to collect more data to figure things out. Much of being a scientist is not making breakthroughs, but wondering why that odd thing happened? 🧪🔭

How can a PhD blend science with art, and dessert with creativity? 🤔 I tried it by making a “night-sky cake“— colored with phycocyanin, the same vivid blue pigment 💙 found in the algae I study. My supervisor recognized the source of the color immediately — he’s incredibly sharp!

Great to see Dr Christopher Berry (@cplberry.bsky.social) of @uofgphysastro.bsky.social and @uofgravity.bsky.social quoted in this @science.org piece on the intriguing possibility of a new detection of gravitational waves from primordial black holes. Read here: www.science.org/content/arti...

Academics! I have experienced a huge drop in student questions both online (I keep a discussion forum) and offline for my class. Attendance is good (maybe even great I’d say). Am I an anomaly? My suspicion is that student are asking LLM questions. Thoughts ?

Just want to emphasize here that this is an image of an INTERSTELLAR COMET taken by a camera orbiting MARS. Space is so cool!

A new mini-documentary by our colleagues at @uofgravity.bsky.social celebrating the 10th anniversary of our first detection and the progress in #GravitationalWave astronomy youtu.be/SqhFtkQ4f2c #GW10Years 🔭🧪⚛️🎢

saturation with Tolkien spinoffs has somehow not prepared our culture for the arrival of dark lords bearing a gift that everyone becomes convinced they can wield to accomplish great things but just makes them dependent and start whispering about preciouses if you suggest just throwing it away

Remember that lovely aurora last week? Well...um...this is what Euclid saw... 😱 🧵

Our Rapid Response Teams celebrate the end of our fourth observing run. Well done everyone! www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo202... O4 was a success thanks to lots of hard work from across the world. 🔭⚛️🧪

The government is unable to give any statistical basis or evidence base for this "destination of choice" claim, beyond making the (different) claim that claims are going up in the UK and failing in the UK [while being higher in Germany, France, Spain and Italy]

Our fourth LIGO @egovirgo.bsky.social KAGRA observing run has now drawn to a close. We will be busy analysing data for a while to come—watch out for more discovery announcements. We will be back next year observing.docs.ligo.org/plan/

I have been WAITING for a journalist to write this story. I specialize in manuscripts produced in England between 1300 and 1500. If this had occurred in the midst of writing my dissertation or first book, it would have exploded my career.