Bryn Jones
@bryn00.bsky.social
An asylum seeker from X and refugee escaping Musk. With posts about the physical sciences, classical music, current affairs, the history of astronomy, pethau Cymraeg a Chymreig, and the great political fraud that is Brexit. Location: Ynys Môn, Wales.
Popular astronomy: a total solar eclipse will take place on Wednesday, 12th August, a week today. It will be total in the Arctic Ocean, eastern Greenland, western Iceland, parts of the North Atlantic, and parts of northern and eastern Spain. #TotalSolarEclipse #SolarEclipse #Eclipse
NASA's Orion crew module for the Artemis III space mission has been attached to the European Service Module. NASA is working on the launch rocket which will put the spacecraft into Earth orbit. The mission, an engineering test, awaits the completion of the two lunar landers by private corporations.
ESA Exploration@exploration.esa.int · 7h agoA match made in cleanrooms 🫶 Last week engineers connected @esa.int's European Service Module with the crew module for NASA's Artemis III Orion spacecraft 🚀 Now attached they will stay linked until the final moments of the mission, before reentry in Earth's atmosphere 🔗 blogs.esa.int/orion/2026/0...
Matt @MattCartoonist on the #Prison early release @Telegraph – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
Badenoch won’t give Shapps a second chance, but will give Bonehill-Paine. Interesting choices she makes.
Letters to The Guardian newspaper about United Kingdom state funding for basic science, including one from Prof. George Miley: www.theguardian.com/science/2026... #UKScienceCuts #STFCFundingCrisis
Science funding cuts will harm Britain’s global standing | Letters
Letters: Readers respond to an editorial about the threat to research funding, including plans to close the Jodrell Bank Observatory
theguardian.com
180 years ago today, James Challis, Plumian professor of astronomy at the University of Cambridge, observed Neptune in a search for a planet beyond Uranus, but failed to recognise it as being different to a star. Challis had started the search after a request from the Astronomer Royal George Airy.
I found a food item in a kitchen cupboard with a "best before date" of August 2010.
And that music's finale has put me into a manic state. I'm shaking.
Bryn Jones@bryn00.bsky.social · 2d agoThen the close of Shostakovich's Eleventh Symphony is extraordinary: from pathos and mourning, to energy and determination, then overwhelming unstoppable power but perhaps with a frightening menace. #BBCProms #SirHenryWoodPromenadeConcerts
Indeed he did - things like "the one thing stopping me from being a teacher was that I could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids"
I've heard Shostakovich's Eleventh Symphony live many times. Live performances usually make me physically shake with the violence and horror of the massacre of the political protestors. #BBCProms #SirHenryWoodPromenadeConcerts
Bryn Jones@bryn00.bsky.social · 2d agoAnother highlight of this season's BBC Proms is coming up tonight from 7:00 p.m. live on Radio 3. It's the Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Thomas Søndergård in Oliver Knussen's Flourish with Fireworks, Sergei Rachmaninov's ever popular Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini ... #BBCProms
Another highlight of this season's BBC Proms is coming up tonight from 7:00 p.m. live on Radio 3. It's the Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Thomas Søndergård in Oliver Knussen's Flourish with Fireworks, Sergei Rachmaninov's ever popular Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini ... #BBCProms
Bryn Jones@bryn00.bsky.social · 3w agoThe 2026 season of the BBC Proms begins at 19:00 tonight with Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man, and music by Gershwin, Ravel, a premiere by Josephine Stephenson, and Finzi. There'll be a concert every evening until 12th September, all available on BBC Radio 3: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
FACT OF THE DAY. 3 August 1936. American sprinter Jesse Owens won the 100 metres at the Berlin Olympics. It was the first of 4 Gold Medals Owens won at the Berlin Games. He was credited with “single-handedly crushing Hitler’s myth of Aryan supremacy”.
Greater Manchester Mayoral By-Election Result: 🌹 Craig | LAB: 47.2% ➡️ Astley | RFM: 21.0% 🌍 Coggins | GRN: 12.2% ◼️ West | RES: 8.7% 🌳 Eckersley | CON: 7.7% 🔶 Kilpatrick | LDM: 2.2% 🙋 Farmer | Ind: 0.6% 2nd Round: 🌹 Craig | LAB: 66.3% ➡️ Astley | RFM: 33.7% Labour HOLD.
NEW: Bev Craig wins the Greater Manchester Mayoralty. Reform second.
🚨 BREAKING: Labour's Bev Craig has won the Greater Manchester Mayoral election 🔴 LAB: 309,525 - 66.3% ➡️ RFM: 157,178 - 33.7%
From Physics World ( @physicsworld.bsky.social ): "Future of UK physics threatened by ‘ruinous’ funding cuts, says Institute of Physics". physicsworld.com/a/future-of-...
Future of UK physics threatened by 'ruinous' funding cuts, says Institute of Physics – Physics World
The cuts at UK Research and Innovation have resulted in the cancellation of several significant international projects
physicsworld.com
I bought a hibiscus plant in a local supermarket last year. It has produced two flowers this year, and I'm pleased with the result.
BBC Wales News: "Homes flooded and residents evacuated after quarry 'incident'" All of Wales was declared to be in drought, and shortly afterwards, the village of Gwalod-y-Garth was flooded by dirty water escaping from a quarry. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Gwaelod-y-Garth residents evacuated after flood strikes village
One resident says he was met with a "wall of water" when he went to see what was going on.
bbc.co.uk
Reform UK Councillors Gone: Updated Karl Perks (Worcestershire CC) has defected to the Conservatives. Joe Garner (North Northants) is now an independent. Bella Simon (Walsall) is now an independent. Bruce Craze (Cornwall) is now an independent.
Aerial images of charred charred pine trees in a forest in southwestern France's Gironde region as a wildfire in the area has "stabilised... meaning it is not advancing," according to Sophie Brocas, the government's top official in Gironde. She added that 14 blazes around Bordeaux have reignited
In a surprising turn of events, the French have declared war on Chris Philp www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
French patrol boat heard firing shots during BBC interview in Channel, MP says
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp says the vessel fired 17 shots as he was giving a BBC interview.
bbc.co.uk
"A recent survey found that nearly 80% of early-career physicists were considering leaving the UK after the funding crisis. The loss of even a fraction of that would be a blow for UK science and also national growth. The task now is to persuade them to stay." www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
World-class Jodrell Bank is under threat and UK risks a physics brain drain
Funding crisis could lead to an exodus that would be a blow for British science and national growth
theguardian.com
