Please help if you can. The School of Geography, Geology and the Environment at Leicester is under extreme threat of closure. I was an undergraduate in the Geology Department. It was an inspiring place, full of dedicated staff who don’t deserve this. Please sign. c.org/yxGbGdNwYd

If you don't like #Cricket, but you love it, then you need to click follow all on these Starter Packs before Friday... ...and if you don't know what's happening on Friday, then you probably shouldn't. #Ashes

@waymo.bsky.social will start allowing its autonomous, driverless robotaxis to use interstate highways in Los Angeles, Phoenix and the San Francisco Bay Area, the first company to do so. www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovat...

An absolutely beautiful image of Saturn, with moons Dione and Enceladus along the rings, courtesy of the Cassini spacecraft and NASA's wonderful Astronomy Picture of the Day: @apod.shinyakato.dev

Also, strong week for the Northern Hemisphere! Well done to #Ireland. Clearly, #Australia are struggling, and just in time for the Ashes!

Wait, what’s going on? #Italy beat #Australia?! More here: www.autumn-internationals.co.uk/2025/

In the early hours of this morning, following 119.6mm of rainfall in 12hrs, the River Monnow burst its banks and flooded Monmouth. The usual river level is just under 2m, this morning it was 6.63m- even higher than the record-breaking level during the floods in 2020 (6.57m). Absolutely devastating.

What a win from #England! Dominant second half except for an inevitable, but thankfully brief attempt to panic and throw it all away. England’s last ten matches: 33-19 NZL  38-18 FIJ  25-7 AUS 40-5 USA 22-17 ARG 35-12 ARG 68-14 WAL 47-24 ITA 16-15 SCO 26-25 FRA #Rugby #AutumnInternationals

England storm back to topple All Blacks at Twickenham (✍️@RTErugby) #Rugby #EnglandRugby #AllBlacks

I really don’t want to jinx this but…I can’t help myself. England lead the All Blacks by 25-12 in the second half. If they win, that would be 10 matches in a row… www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-...

Some VERY excited commentary on the landing of the New Glen NG2 booster (stage 1) on the autonomous barge 'Jaclyn' in the Atlantic ocean yesterday, per @nasaspaceflight.com

LANDED IT! That was crazy! Looked like it was going to miss, but slid back into the target and pretty much hovered to the deck and nailed it!

The New Glenn heavy launcher (Blue Origin) became the third partially-reusable (unmanned) launch system in history by landing on a barge in the Atlantic after launching the two #NASA ESCAPADE #Mars orbiters, built by @rocketlabcorp.com. • S1 = methalox • S2 = hydrolox • Specific Impulse = 445 sec

Does anyone out there have any sense as to what degree #AI is playing into this increase in the unemployment rate in the #UK? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BIG NEWS indeed!

🌍➡️🌙 @esa.int’s fourth European Service Module is about to leave Airbus in Bremen 🇩🇪 for NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Once there, it will be joined with Orion’s crew module and its European-built solar array wings to power Artemis IV on its journey to the Moon. www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

As per BBC World Service on 9/11/25: astonishing suggestion that if no significant rain falls in Nov, #Tehran, a city of 10 million, could be evacuated and permanently moved. Local reservoir is at 8% of capacity. #ClimateChange and mismanagement are the major factors. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The blue arrows of deliverance are upon us.

Good morning to these future governors!

It turns out, to everyone’s complete surprise, that replacing part of the worlds most iconic building with a gold-lined vanity ballroom as your people struggle economically and simultaneously having their loved ones deported by mask-wearing goons is not, I repeat, *NOT* good electoral strategy.

Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.

Democrats routed the Republican Party from high-profile governors’ races to obscure local contests, sweeping statewide races in Virginia and New Jersey while electing New York City’s first Muslim mayor. www.semafor.com/article/11/0...

The #Tesla sales slump continues in #Europe: in #Germany, sales dropped 50% over the last month when #EV sales in general rose 38%. In the #USA, the expiry of the EV tax credit in September might explain relatively strong sales there (i.e. that’s bad news too). financialpost.com/commodities/...

A reminder that the #Cricket World Cup is on *right now* between #India 🇮🇳 and #SouthAfrica 🇿🇦 after India knocked out #Australia 🇦🇺 and SA knocked out #England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 - both of which seem like pretty remarkable results to me. Follow here via @espncricinfo.com: www.espncricinfo.com/series/icc-w...

#Ukraine is rapidly expanding its long range air campaign against #Russia beyond oil refining capacity to include infrastructure for electricity generation and transmission. This list is just last nights targets; recent attacks have also included combined heat and power plants.

This is potentially VERY important. Tuapse is one of the most important ports for Russian oil exports. Ukrainian naval drones attacked a different part of the port in September. bsky.app/profile/spec...

Presumably as soon as they are done with #Venezuela?

Incredible satellite imagery of hurricane #Melissa before it made landfall in #Jamaica on Tuesday.

And, of course, Nobel prizes are awarded for work that often takes decades to move from inspiration to proof, guided by scientists free of ideological concerns and interference. Trump’s legacy, if any, will be a dearth of such prizes awarded to American scientists in the future.

Happy #Halloween everyone!

This could be one of the more significant events in Russia’s illegal attempt to annex #Ukraine. It has already triggered a 5% jump in the global oil price which would normally be good for Russia, but not in this case.

Should be printed and posted on the wall of every lab!

For context: October 21st, 2025 Atmospheric CO2 = 424.93 ppm (www.co2.earth/daily-co2) #climatecrisis

#England have been through to the semis for a while, but today’s loss against #Australia isn’t a huge surprise: Aus have the top run scorer (Healey) and top wicket taker (Sutherland) in the tournament. #CricketSky

India cuts Russian oil purchases by 50% and buys oil from South America for the first time - Reuters

Russia’s Submarine Problem Is Much Worse Than Many Imagine It’s not just the tale of one unfortunate submarine, it’s a growing hole in capacity and capability www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

Congratulations to the Radiomineralogy Lab's specialist technician @sophielitherland.bsky.social, who has just officially became a Radiation Protection Supervisor! 💯🎉☢️ And happy 1st work anniversary, we'd be totally lost without you! ❤️

That is a huge win for #England! Go Smith & Jones! Fingers crossed for another today against #Bangladesh SA-W 69 ENG-W 73/0 ENG Women won by 10 wickets (with 215 balls remaining) www.espncricinfo.com/series/icc-w...

Worried about the rise of the (bipedal, humanoid) #robots? There are probably more pressing things to worry about: spectrum.ieee.org/humanoid-rob...

It always surprises me gow much mire tilted the Earth is in reality compared to how i see it in my head. Also, calm down Jupiter… youtu.be/my1euFQHH-o?...

@anthropic.com have released Claude Sonnet 4.5 which can apparently work on task for *30 hours* unsupervised. Th e scary thing: if you got a job there, or failed to, that decision was probably made with the help of the LLM! www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Scientists @caltech.edu have made a #quantum computer with 6100 qubits breaking the record of 1180 held by Atom Computing since 2023. The new machine maintained superposition for 13 seconds, ten times longer than the previous record. www.sciencealert.com/6100-qubit-p...

Maia Sandu’s victory in #Moldova, and the failure of the #Russia backed patriotic bloc is great news for #Europe and #Ukraine!

For a country with an economy underpinned by the export of oil products, this is a very serious situation and one that is particularly hard to hide from the population.

My super-talented tutee there with her balloon skills that says it all. When I have a moment I’ll do a thread explaining what is going on but in brief LEICESTER IS ON STRIKE!

And that’s that: #Kinlochleven, #Scotland field trip day 5. Not only the last day of this trip, but the last time students from the School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol come to this beautiful place. Good luck to the students on their independent mapping projects starting tomorrow!

#Kinlochleven University of Bristol School of Earth Sciences geological mapping training fieldtrip Day 4: more sunshine, plus vegetarian Paella for 32!

Mind blowing rocks of Rosso Levanto: mantle peridototes that were carbonated and then weathered on the ocean floor of the Piemont-Ligiria ocean.

Yes, that deserves to be amplified!

Incredible good news