The Guatemalan Seismology Institute reported a lava fountain up to 1,000 feet high.
Guatemala is on alert and evacuates hundreds of villagers after eruption of the Fuego volcano
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Phil Benson
@physicistphil.bsky.social
Physicist with a penchant for politics and philosophy. And occasional amateur photographer and astrophotographer! Photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/194710934@N05/
Interesting article in @thenerve.news today. Is AI a waste of time? Are people pretending to use it to please the boss? I've long suspected it was over hyped maybe Cory Doctorow is on to something here? www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
thenerve.news
FYI Science Policy News: More U.S.-trained physicists are leaving the country, an exodus that adds to fears of a U.S. "brain drain" www.aip.org/fyi/physics-... a near-doubling of non-US citizens left the US after receiving their PhD, around 29%, in 2025 @aip.bsky.social
Physics PhDs Are Leaving the US at a Record-high Rate
The exodus of non-US citizens has “certainly” been influenced by science funding and visa policy changes under Trump, a new AIP report says.
aip.org
This is fantastic! And now, being a freelancer, I definitely don't miss being passed around, that's for sure!
Anne Green@ultrawimp.bsky.social · yesterday3 Globular clusters and funeral... nope... wrong movie. Actually an open cluster and very much alive! Messier catalogue objects M2, M11, M12 and the open cluster M35. Taken 1/Jun, 20/Jul, 26/Jun, and 29 March respectively. My aim being to photograph the entire catalogue myself with my own kit...
Here's a graph of global surface temperatures since 1940 by their decadal average. Notice any pattern?
World-class Jodrell Bank is under threat and UK risks a physics brain drain
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
So tragic and backwards-thinking. Abandoning a world class facility and something we do *really well* for what, exactly? Closing Jodrell = Huge mistake.
Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · last wk.Just off #BBCR4 World at One, arguing the importance of discovery science (like Jodrell) for long-term economic growth. I said I was heartbroken at the news: evidence just look at how exceptionally excited me & @mamaphysikerin.bsky.social were when we got to stand inside Lovell back in 2017 🥰 🔭🧪
#StarsOnSunday 😎 The Dumbell Nebula, The Veil Nebula, and two versions of the Elephant's Trunk nebula - the wide angle version using a SeestarS30Pro smart 'scope that I recently bought and am playing with. All taken from my rooftop in Central London, around 2hours exposure each.
Nolans The Odyssey about to start in the Leicester square Odeon.... Let's see if my @alexpodyssey.bsky.social training is up to the task!
Crikey the QR crew are on fire these days: Sunday School, Midnight Mass extra on Mon/Tues, and now another Bonus Economy episode... Someone's angling for extra applause for the Live show? 😬😎
Quiet Riot@quietriotpod.bsky.social · 2w ago📈 QR ECONOMY SPECIAL: Head over Healey Economist Vicky Pryce knows John Healey from his Treasury days. With her help, @sturdyalex.bsky.social pieces together what sort of Chancellor he might be - and what sort he must become. 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/25fL... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
Fantastic long read on the deficiencies of the UK higher education funding system from @johndavidblake.bsky.social. Summary: it's a mess! post18.co.uk/silence-of-t...
Silence of the Loans: How Loan Book Fictions Prevent Higher Education Reform
New thinking, ideas & policy solutions for post-18 education in the UK
post18.co.uk
D Miliband ended his lecture tonight calling for AV (which is not a proportionate system) & endorses electoral reform. Which is baby steps in the right direction. Attitudes have changed markedly since 2011, just as they have since an even more recent referendum... www.arguably.uk/p/david-mili...
David Miliband: how to end the democratic depression
We must take on the concentration of economic and political power in Westminster
arguably.uk
Labour, Lib Dems, Conservatives, The Greens, Restore, all say they will not play Farage’s game and join his circus. There is however an independent that we can all get behind. Count Binface! #CountBinfaceForClacton
Tiddles The Cat@tiddlesthecat.bsky.social · 4w ago
Nigel Farage vs "the establishment" He went to private school, worked as a stockbroker, has been a professional politician for 31 years, has his own TV show, is a brand ambassador for gold, is mates with POTUS, accepted a secret £5m gift, and owns five houses bought outright with cash What a rebel
“an almost-universal consensus that Brexit has been a disaster..majority of people now think this…nations have looked on in bafflement at the UK’s decision to shoot itself in the foot – or, as Finland’s president put it amputating your leg for no reason.” www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/us-...
US media has just summed up 10 years of Brexit in one devastating clip
A devastating four-minute segment from CNN in the wake of Keir Starmer's resignation laid bare the idiocy of Brexit ten years on.
thelondoneconomic.com
While UKRI ponders our fate it was deeply disappointing to see the 🏴Royal Observatory MP responding to our concerns with "funding for STFC has not been cut". True, but flat-cash to cover rising UK facility electricity costs and inflation = cuts to physics and astronomy. #AnswerTheQuestion 😡🔭🧪
Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · last mo.At today's UKRI board meeting, the fate of UK particle physics and astronomy will likely be decided. Have we done enough to convince the powers-that-be to halt the proposed funding cuts? 🤞 Read Prof. Hiranya Peiris in Nature today eloquently explaining why these cuts are wrong.🧪🔭⚛️ 📖: rdcu.be/friwM
So long #LHC and thank you for all the collisions 👋 Today, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, comes to the end of an extraordinary chapter in its scientific journey. Find out more: home.cern/cern-bids-fa...
Messier M42/43 “three ways” the classic standard Colour (RGB) palette, the “Hubble” palette (RGB=SHO) and the HOO palette. Total exposure 1h28m (1, 15, 21 March 2026); 540mm/F6 SM90 telescope, Atik Ex460 CCD camera, LRGB filters, PixInsight. #astrophotography
4 More globular clusters! Slowly getting through the backlog of processing for my "Messier Marathon". Here are M3, M5, M53 and M56. #astrophotography
Globular cluster tastic! The nights being far too light for anything faint, these mighty objects (relatively close to us) are an easy spot. M92, M12, M14 and M13 (the great Hercules Cluster). Slowly getting through the backlog!
Naomi Smith explains why the new research by Frontier Economics is crucial in shaping the debate around EU membership: "We've had lots of political figures calling for different kinds of relationships with the EU. We wanted to ensure that those debates were happening armed with actual numbers."
On the fateful decennial, I am reissuing this podcast episode with the wonderful @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social from @europeanmovement.co.uk about Rejoin. Not a naive, overnight or easy project, but one that needs planning and preparation. It's an uplifting listen! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
Behind the Lines Episode 13: The UK's Long March back to Europe?
Podcast Episode · Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell · 23 June · 1hr 2min
podcasts.apple.com
Why are #BBC News not covering this? Why have they always played down support for #RemainEU #RejoinEU
Mike Galsworthy@mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 2mo agoNational Rejoin March 🙌
