Hope everybody had a nice Valentine's - now let's start the week off right! Thanks to @photojobby on Insta for this beautiful shot of a leafy Whitworth Arch 📸 We'd love to see any pictures of campus you've been capturing - please do share them below!

“The UK should be expanding its support for communities on the front lines of the climate crisis - not shrinking it." Following reports of planned cuts to the UK's climate finance budget, Oxfam GB joins calls for the UK government to increase climate finance and pay its fair share. 👉 bit.ly/4rvEN0X

Some beautiful soldering today by Freya for her CanSat team! Thanks to @esa.int @ukspaceagency.bsky.social and lots of others for running the competition and thanks to @pimoroni.com and @raspberrypi.com for the amazing kit! 🛰️🚀

Some nice work on some S3 revision posters task this week. Good luck to everyone in the upcoming exams! 💡🔋🧑‍🔬

Users of Meta’s social platforms can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS employees.

From equations on a blackboard to engines of the global economy, physics has always been the spark behind transformation. Breakthroughs in physics shape industries, create jobs, and redefine what’s possible. Investments in physics are investments for tomorrow: perimeterinstitute.ca/investments-...

A pretty unambiguous top line judgement in the UK's "National security assessment on global ecosystems" report, released today: "Global ecosystem degradation and collapse threaten UK national security and prosperity" Confidence: high. Time to speed up action, then? www.gov.uk/government/p...

How do cats always land on their feet? Scientists believed they use the dropper's hand as a fulcrum until these images, captured at 12 frames per second, debunked that in 1894. More on the Falling Cat Problem here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/p...

We couldn't let World Handwriting Day go by without sharing Kathleen Lonsdale's penmanship ✍️ Lonsdale conducted pioneering research in X-ray crystallography and worked at the Ri. In 1929, she proved that the structure of benzene was flat—the chemical was also discovered here, by Michael Faraday.

It’s #CleanAirNight! Did you know that wood burning contributes to serious health conditions for people across the UK? Wood burning smoke produces fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5), which can cause heart & lung disease and increase your risk of diabetes and dementia when inhaled.

Countries have spent beyond their sustainable water budgets for so long that critical assets are depleted and the world faces huge economic, social and environmental costs

"Julia" harvest mushrooms at Monterey Mushrooms. She's very pleased she works under a UFW contract. "We have a positive work environment where we can speak up and the company listens to us respectfully. And we get great benefits like a medical plan and a pension plan." #WeFeedYou

The official explanation they’re apparently going with here is that they aren’t 100% convinced that breathing soot and ozone is actually bad for you.

The world’s ocean absorbed more heat in 2025 than in any other year on record

London is on track to be diesel‑free by 2026 — this is a huge win! ⚡️🚌🚲 BUT cleaner air won’t happen with EVs alone. We need to invest in reliable public transport and protected cycling & walking routes to finally get fossil fuels off our streets. https://bit.ly/4ssd6HL

One of the 1st sediment cores from Greenland shows a 500m thick ice dome melted entirely at warming similar to what we'll likely see by 2100. "This is very direct evidence that the ice sheet is as sensitive as we feared to even a relatively small amount of warming." newscientist.com/article/2510...

Christmastime at Jodrell Bank! 🎄 The Lovell Telescope in all its glory 🔭❄️

Under current climate policies, 79 per cent of the world’s glaciers will disappear by 2100, endangering the water supply for 2 billion people and raising sea levels dramatically

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

ARISS Ops is anticipating the SSTV Series 30-1 event from satellite RS-38S will start around 00:01 UTC on Friday 05-Dec. (7:01 PM ET Thu 04-Dec). Event is expected to run until December 13. Details in the graphic.

This once-overlooked invention from the 1800s was crucial in getting astronauts to the Moon 🌕 Follow us behind the scenes in the Ri Archives as @katysduncan.bsky.social uncovers the history of the Grove voltaic cell.

"Dora" tells us that harvesting season is her favorite season as she gets to watch the early a.m. sunrise. It's also much cooler to work as they harvest the grapes at night when it's cold so the sugar levels are at its peak and the grape isn’t soft due to the heat. #WeFeedYou

Did you know that wood burning is the most polluting way to heat your home? Save the date for #CleanAirNight! To find out more visit cleanairhub.org.uk from @globalactionplan.bsky.social#CleanAirNight

A nice close up of some cheek cells, any thanks to the Scientist based in Lochailort who donated an incredible microscope to the school! 🔬🦠

After 3 days of troubleshooting the ARISS ops team has determined SSTV Series 30 can not continue. Please follow ARISS social for updates on repair and future SSTV events.

“Ale" works in the carrot harvest in CA. She earns $3.05 for every box of carrots she packs. One box has 24 bunches of 7 carrots each. To earn $100 she has to pack 34 boxes or 816 bunches which represents over 5000 carrots picked in a day. #WeFeedYou

Here's an update from ARISS regarding SSTV Series 30.

Did you know you pay more fuel tax on a single car journey than a billionaire does on a private jet flight? Right now the gov is subsidising tax breaks, when they could be using that tax to generate billions for public services. Help us change this: https://bit.ly/43NAeFN

Today for #AdaLovelaceDay, which celebrates the achievements of women in STEM, read about the 10 most influential women in British science history, as chosen by leading female scientists: #WomenInSTEM royalsociety.org/about-us/who...

Quick replication of a cool result from @veritasium.bsky.social!

Today we marched through London with @makethempay.bsky.social and over 100 other organisations to demand a wealth tax and to fairly tax polluters 📢 #MakeRichPollutersPay #ClimateJustice

Very grateful to the team at @highland.gov.uk for fixing up our greenhouse last week! Many thanks also to the contractors for doing such a great job! #sciencegreenhouses

Susan Monarez told a Senate committee that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. demanded she dismiss career officials without cause—and accept vaccine recommendations regardless of whether science backed them up.

All avoidable injuries are bad, but context is essential. Alongside this story, it's surely essential to say that there were 133,000 car-related injuries in 2024 in the UK, including 1624 fatalities & 28k "serious" injuries. E-bikes aren't the major problem. Data: www.chas.co.uk/blog/uk-car-...

Carl Sagan's 'Baloney Detection Kit' – a set of tools for sceptical thinking and scientific reasoning from @humanists.uk

A short clip of one of the simple motors built by S2 and S3 this week ⚡🧑‍🔧. Many thanks to @exploratorium.bsky.social for clear and detailed instructions!

This is what "Pepe's" hands looks like after harvesting tomatos all day. He has the option of wearing gloves, but they slow him down. When you're working piece rate you can't afford to be slowed down. He needs to make every penny he can during the peak season. #WeFeedYou

We’ve collected the oldest ice core, now it’s time to analyse it! 🔍 💻 The @newscientist.com have a new icy-cool video, speaking to BAS scientists about the Beyond EPICA project, highlighting why this work is so important in the face of climate change. www.newscientist.com/video/249042...

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

Carl Sagan's 'Baloney Detection Kit' – a set of tools for sceptical thinking and scientific reasoning, designed to help people spot logical fallacies, misinformation, rhetorical tricks, and deceptive arguments 👀

Highlighting black engineers throughout history and celebrating their contributions to the world of STEM. From the IET #iTeachPhysics #SciTeachUK education.theiet.org/media/h1yhsv...

Influential women engineers from the IET A look at how women are involved in the engineering industry #iTeachPhysics #SciTeachUK education.theiet.org/media/akwjwz...

The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia. It's the the first-ever planned migration of an entire country. Read more: www.wired.com/story/the-fi...

Rising temperatures are causing water to evaporate and driving humans to extract more groundwater, which is moving freshwater from the land to the seas and creating a "continental drying" trend

Proposed budget cuts in the US will lead to the loss of vital carbon dioxide measurements, but so far no other countries are preparing to step in, researchers warn.

Mary Gaillard's calculations correctly predicted the mass of the charm quark and contributed to the discovery of the Higgs boson as she triumphed over sexism in the field of physics. R.I.P. #physics

The Met Office State of the UK Climate Report for 2024 shows that record breaking and extreme weather has become increasingly commonplace in the UK as our climate has changed over the last few decades Published today by @wiley.com in @rmets.org Learn more 👇

Double-exposure photograph, staged for Century magazine in 1899, showing Nikola Tesla — born #onthisday in 1856 — seated beneath a giant “magnifying transmitter”, arcing 22-foot-long bolts of electricity: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/nikola-tesla-in-his-laboratory

The tomato season is going full blast in quick start CA's Central Valley. Work starts at 5am which means many workers get up at 3am to drive one hour to the site. The early start time is to beat the heat as 100°+ temps are common. It's not easy but it pays their rent. #WeFeedYou

DOGE cut hundreds of jobs at the National Weather Service, but experts who spoke to WIRED say the agency accurately predicted the state's weekend flood risk. What’s more, they say it underscores the need to sustain funding to the crucial agency.