Mark Miodownik
@markmiodownik.bsky.social
Materials scientist & engineer; Director of the UCL Institute of Making; Author of New York Times best selling book Stuff Matters and others; Occasional BBC TV/radio presenter.
Count Binface gets New York Times coverage. Unfortunately it probably wont help him win: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/o...
Opinion | Farage vs. the Man With the Trash Can on His Head
This is how elections are so often fought now. Politicians slink into a constituency to meet fans, make content for their social media and melt away.
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Child environmental activist finds a effective way to highlight that flying is unsustainable. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/09/t...
Flight Is Canceled After a Child Refuses to Be Seated
Passengers aboard a Porter Airlines plane headed to Toronto had to wait for a flight the next day after a child remained standing in a seat and would not get buckled in, the company said.
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A new proposed babies law is a recognition that it takes a society to bring up children: www.1001criticaldays.com/news/back-th...
Babies Bill: What It Would Do — 1001 Critical Days Foundation
Learn what the Babies Bill would do, why the first 1,001 days matter, and how MPs and the public can support it before Second Reading.
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Using scratched nonstick pans is not a good idea for many reasons. Here’s how to keep them looking good, along with alternative pans you might want to try. nyti.ms/4x3Y0JU
Ask Wirecutter: My Family Uses Scratched Nonstick Pans. Is That Bad?
Using scratched nonstick pans is not a good idea for many reasons. Here’s how to keep them looking good, along with alternative pans you might want to try.
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Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan
Our paper on the sustainability of diapers, incontinence products and period products is out. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Research priorities for addressing global absorbent hygiene product waste - Nature Sustainability
Absorbent hygiene products (AHPs) — child diapers, adult incontinence products and period products — are a major source of plastic waste. This Perspective highlights the materials and societal complex...
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The Daily Mail reporting on our work on nappies/diapers. www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/...
Parents should potty train sooner to protect environment, study says
Parents need to start potty training their children earlier because nappies are bad for the environment, scientists have claimed.
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Our paper on the sustainability of diapers, incontinence products and period products is out. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Research priorities for addressing global absorbent hygiene product waste - Nature Sustainability
Absorbent hygiene products (AHPs) — child diapers, adult incontinence products and period products — are a major source of plastic waste. This Perspective highlights the materials and societal complex...
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We are going to need Lunar compost if a moon base is going to happen.
Cowleyforniadreaming@holybollards.bsky.social · 4w agoThere’s 96 bags of poo on the moon, 96 bags of poo.
There’s 96 bags of poo on the moon, 96 bags of poo.
Also who remembers Max Headroom? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...
Max Headroom - Wikipedia
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Of course if you are looking for a commentary for the likely future of our relationship with AI robots, its hard to beat Douglas Adams. Marvin the Paranoid Android is surely coming to home near you soon. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Ann Droid review – Diane Morgan and Sue Johnston’s fresh, funny robot comedy is just wonderful
It’s silly, singular and occasionally tearjerking: this tale of a mechanical companion to an elderly widow is shot through with love and care
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Oooh. The RI just announced the debut performance of my talk "You Don't Know What You're M ss ng". If you're in or near London on 19th September, please do come along and pack the place out. Come and say hi afterwards too. It would be great to see you.
You don't know what you're m ss ng: The hidden data shaping our behaviour | Royal Institution
Mathematician and author Kit Yates returns to the Ri to explore how our understanding of reality is shaped b
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Are you experienced with X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and looking for a new role? Or do you know someone who might be looking? We are recruiting for a Staff Scientist position at UBC. Find out more 👇 Please repost. 🧪🔬 ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcfac...
Research Scientist: X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
Staff - Non Union Job Category M&P - AAPS Job Title Research Scientist: X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy Department Research | B. Britton| Department of Materials Engineering | Faculty of Applied ...
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"The firm stopped using Pfoa in 2012 but continues to produce and emit another type of Pfas chemical called EEA-NH4."
pippaneill.bsky.social@pippaneill.bsky.social · last mo.A Pfas factory in Lancashire has announced plans to close down, just days after I reported that more than 90 residents had signed up to be involved in a potential legal claim over contamination of the local area. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The current top story on the FT Magazine is pay-walled but features some mentions of #curl and yours truly... (the picture shows the start of it) https://www.ft.com/content/cec8df9e-b43b-4cd1-8feb-c07e804e8d33
Join physicist and presenter Lucie Green and Astronomer Royal Michele Dougherty FRS as they explore the remarkable life and work of Caroline Herschel, who discovered comets and changed the way we study the stars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JsSqxbfqLE
The amazing story of astronomer Caroline Herschel | The Royal Society
YouTube video by The Royal Society
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This will sell out.. Sunday.. Sept 27th Hosting this @c20society.bsky.social event about Listing, Love and hate for Brutalism.. www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/bru...
Brutal(ism) Love and Hate | Southbank Centre
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"a group of men in hi-vis jackets came to the allotment to test the soil and produce. A few months later Hodson received a hand-delivered letter informing him that his beetroot contained the highest level of Pfoa of all of the products tested." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘I just want to know if it has caused my cancer’: life in the shadow of Lancashire Pfas factory
People in Thornton-Cleveleys want answers on the impact of widespread contamination around the chemical plant
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Your regular reminder if you fly in airplanes: wear your seatbelt. This is why, its not for crashes www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Ryanair passenger almost sucked out of shattered window during flight
Serbian man reportedly saved by wife hanging on to his legs after window shattered on journey from Greece
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What is it with economists and their blind faith in linear interpolation. It all sounds so wise and yet not one mention of the severe non-linear effects of climate change in the whole essay. I guess they can't say "we have no idea what will happen next".
The New York Times@nytimes.com · last mo.In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The leaders of tomorrow must adapt to a new world of geoeconomics, Mohamed El-Erian writes in a guest essay. “Whether you are a country, a company, a household or an investor, your well-being is increasingly dictated by a fundamentally different calculus.”
Part Seven of For the Record is out at 9pm tomorrow night and here's some of the topics we're going to be looking at. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAbD...
Buy a good mini fan and it will last you a lifetime.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last mo.Britons to buy 8m mini fans this year – but almost half will end up in landfill
In case you want to watch something brilliant on YouTube this afternoon: www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
For the Record: An Incomplete History of Music review – it’s amazing that this staggering show exists
Charlotte Ritchie presents a wildly ambitious and unapologetically brainy YouTube documentary that takes in Big Bang soundwaves, singing dolphins and an astonishing amount in between. Don’t miss it fo...
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i like the sound of this: Burnham calls for 'complete rethink' in schools, with technical education getting 'parity' with university. We have lots of ideas to contribute at the Institute of Making. www.instituteofmaking.org.uk
Fly the angel sleeves of your hostess dress at half mast, dim the standard lamps of all suburbia and please be seated at the telephone table to make the gossipiest call you can from a landline in memoriam💙
Kirkdale Bookshop@kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 2mo ago
Hot sausages from a thermos dipped into mustard eaten after on a bracing swim off a Dorset beach.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo agoSun, salt and sand: the best beach food from around the world
