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Tom Anderson

@drtomanderson.bsky.social

Head of Chemistry Subject Group Lead at the University of Sheffield, writer on the side at @sealionpress.co.uk

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Sea Lion Press@sealionpress.co.uk · last mo.

The #Smashwords #Summer #Sale is back! Many SLP #AlternateHistory #books are available at a #halfprice #discount! Click below for more details. #Fiction #Writing #Book #Booksale www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/somehow...

Somehow, the Summer Sale returned...

The Smashwords summer sale has come round again, and throughout the whole of July, dozens of Sea Lion Press books are 50% off!We've got thematic anthologies and we've got big chunky series, we've got ...

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Tom Anderson@drtomanderson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

One of my favourite random historical discoveries: London has a Nando's in 1789. (But it was a coffee-house not a chicken place). As listed here on this list of marriages in "The Gentleman's Magazine".

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Sea Lion Press@sealionpress.co.uk · 3mo ago

It's #ElectionDay in the #UK with votes for #devolved #parliaments in #Scotland and #Wales and #localelections across much of #England. Let's remember how hard people fought for the vote with Ishan Sharma's article on the introduction of the #secretballot here. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/the-his...

The History of the Secret Ballot

By Ishan SharmaToday, the secret ballot, which allows voters to secretly mark their favoured candidate on a slip of paper printed by the government, is a mainstay of democracy. It is widely considered...

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AJR Election Maps@ajrelectionmaps.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The first in a new series of #localelection #maps to accompany #Election2026: Local elections across #Yorkshire, starting in 2002. Click the link for a more detailed write-up. www.deviantart.com/ajrelectionm...

Yorkshire and the Humber Local Elections 2002 by AJRElectionMaps on DeviantArt

Yorkshire and the Humber Local Elections 2002 — artwork by AJRElectionMaps on DeviantArt. Local elections were fought in 2002 across all Metropolitan Boroughs in Yorkshire as well as in two of the Nor...

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Tom Anderson@drtomanderson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

If you're interested in following the #localelections this Thursday, check out this account run by myself and two colleagues where we post our #maps of election coverage.

AJR Election Maps@ajrelectionmaps.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#England will hold #localelections this Thursday across many boroughs and counties including the whole of #London. For that reason, it's time to go over our #maps of the last quarter-century of #local #election #results in the capital. #Election2026 #Psephology #UK /thread

Sea Lion Press@sealionpress.co.uk · 3mo ago

Tom Anderson discusses why he wrote his recent exploration of #USpolitics in a world where #BarackObama didn't run for #president in 2008, "The Tenacity of Hope". #AlternateHistory #WhatIf #Writing #AuthorInterview #WritingCommunity #Author www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/why-i-w...

Why I Wrote... The Tenacity of Hope

By Tom Anderson.While I am a veteran writer of both published and unpublished alternate history (AH) fiction, The Tenacity of Hope is my first published foray into the dicey world of American politics...

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Tom Anderson@drtomanderson.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I've been waiting for this since 2005. Check out my article on SLP about the upcoming #ArtemisII mission to the moon.

Sea Lion Press@sealionpress.co.uk · 4mo ago

Humanity is about to go back to the #Moon for the first time in 54 years with the #ArtemisII mission. Tom Anderson, a longtime #space enthusiast who's been waiting for this half his life, looks at the long wait and the #WhatIf moments. #NASA #Moonshot www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/it-s-be...

Sea Lion Press@sealionpress.co.uk · 8mo ago

Here's a look at the original article by Tom Anderson which ultimately inspired his new #AlternateHistory #book "The Tenacity of Hope" -see reply. Who knew that the casting choice for #SevenOfNine in #StarTrekVoyager could have changed the rise of #BarackObama? www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/from-th...

From the Final Frontier to the Audacity of Hope: How Star Trek Voyager led to the Obama Presidency

By Tom AndersonFor today’s article in my ‘Chains of Consequences’ series, we won’t be going so many years back in time. Only about a decade separates the start and end of this chain, which makes it al...

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Tom Anderson@drtomanderson.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Check out this article I wrote on the unexpected origins of many names in #science and #technology. Via the #ion , #cation , #anion we then got #electron and ultimately every bit of technology that ends in #tron.

Sea Lion Press@sealionpress.co.uk · 8mo ago

Tom Anderson explores the little-known but hugely influential #poet William Whewell, whom scientists came to to name new technologies and discoveries - we owe him words like #carnivore, #linguistics, even #scientist itself and every word that ends with #tron. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/alterna...

Tom Anderson@drtomanderson.bsky.social · 8mo ago

My faith in editors is cracking - a while back I spotted an error in Brian McClellan's "Sins of Empire" in which he'd written 'phase(d)' for 'faze(d)' and it hadn't been corrected, and now (1/2)

Tom Anderson@drtomanderson.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Students may have seen me use this #book by @cepmurphy.bsky.social as an example of why it's important to fill out feedback surveys: if you don't do it, all the decisions will be made on the basis of readers who give a three-star Amazon review to a wonderfully clever parody they don't understand.

Sea Lion Press@sealionpress.co.uk · 9mo ago

Charles EP Murphy ( @cepmurphy.bsky.social ) discusses the #writing of his marvellous 'double blind #WhatIf' #WW2 book " #Chamberlain Resigns": a parody of overly-smug and prescriptive " #AlternateHistory " essay collections by #historians with blinkered views. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/why-i-w...

Tom Anderson@drtomanderson.bsky.social · last yr.

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them" - Frank Herbert, Dune While googling this quote to check it, I got interrupted by a google pop-up about why don't I get Gemini to do it for me.

Tom Anderson@drtomanderson.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hello everyone. Like everyone else in the civilised world, I have decamped from Twitter (which I always saw as a net negative for humanity even before Recent Events and only joined it under protest in 2020 as it had become nigh compulsory for academics). I'm a chemical scientist, a writer, and the c