It feels like physics/astrophysics/astronomy is being dismantled in this country. LHCb funding, Vera Rubin, now Lovell? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands
Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.
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1/🧵EXCLUSIVE: @bylinetimes.bsky.social's six-month investigation into Reform UK's policy chief: a secret donation from Peter Thiel, Thiel's life-changing offers to Cambridge scholars, and a far-right, theocratic student recruitment drive in breach of safeguarding bylinetimes.com/2026/07/09/p...
Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed
The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at...
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earth.nullschool.net is a great resource for viewing the weather. Here we can see the extent of the wildfires in Canada.
Very sad to hear about Sam Neill. He played the worst of characters, and the best, all of the very well. Event Horizon, Jurassic Park, The Dish are all classics. The film of his I same most recently was more disturbing than Event Horizon, Possession (1981) www.imdb.com/title/tt0082...
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UMA is not a new concept, but the application here is. The SGI O2 (1996) is the first I can think of where UMA was touted as a defining characteristic. wccftech.com/amd-unified-...
AMD Believes Unified Memory Architectures Open Up a "World of Possibilities", Will Shape Their Product Choices & Roadmaps In Future
UMA or Unified Memory Architectures are picking up the pace in the PC segment, and AMD believes that they have an opportunity there.
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Well done USA, they're getting closer to a Schriftleitergesetz. www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/
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Trying to Tell Myself I'm Cultured by Listening to Radio 3 in the Car But Then This Happens
Trying to Tell Myself I'm Cultured by Listening to Radio 3 in the Car But Then This Happens
YouTube video by Michael Spicer
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Step-by-step it's important to express the sentiment in this country or it will be overlooked.
Mike Galsworthy@mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 3mo ago💥 70,000 signatures! 💥 ...and the petition closes on June 8th. Imagine if we can get it over 100,000 before then - and open a Parliamentary debate in time for the 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote on June 23rd 2026. That'd be powerful. All hands to the pump! Sign and share, share, share! 👇
A few home truths for the University of Nottingham’s senior management, in this open letter (nottinghamphysics.github.io/Open_Letter/) But will they even read the letter, let alone reconsider their disastrous policy? I doubt it. But please prove me wrong.
Good to see a thousand signatories. If you work in academia, please consider signing this letter expressing horror at the proposed destruction of one of the UK’s most successful physics departments. 🔭🧪 nottinghamphysics.github.io/Open_Letter/
Save Nottingham Physics and Astronomy
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If you work in a university, please consider signing this petition against the destruction of the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Nottingham. I doubt it’ll do much good, but the staff deserve all the positive words they can get. nottinghamphysics.github.io/Open_Letter/...
Save Nottingham Physics and Astronomy
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They do know it is based on an arcade beat-em-up, and not Shakespeare? Don't they?
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 3mo agoThis sequel to the 2021 videogame-inspired feature threads its nonsensical story through a relentless procession of fight scenes. on.wsj.com/4tYfIxh
Someone this greedy and corrupt will never act in the best interests of the country. He showed you with Brexit. He showed you with Reform councils. He showed you with his own constituency. He’ll lie to your face and sell you out. Do not let him win because then we all lose. Do not vote Reform.
Sam Bright@writesbright.bsky.social · 3mo ago🔴 NEW - Nigel Farage has accepted £2 million since becoming an MP @desmog.com’s analysis, published by The Guardian, shows that the Reform leader has raked in millions on top of the £5 million handed to him by Harborne
NEW: Reform UK billboard has been torn down in Greenock after the picture of Scottish leader Malcolm Offord was vandalised with graffiti stating 'I have six houses'
Reform UK billboard torn down in Greenock after 'I have six hooses' graffiti
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It smells Trumpian too. Trump wants to, and tries to treat Democrats majority states in the same way. Our elected representatives represent everyone in the parish, council and ward, not just the ones who voted for them. Often they are in the minority.
Russ Jones@russincheshire.bsky.social · 3mo agoReform's latest wheeze doesn't actually seem to break criminal law. But it's almost certainly unconstitutional. I'm not an expert, but as far as I can see (short thread):
Just a reminder that kings do vary in quality. The English Henry VI wasn't great, Henry VIII famously made his own religion to divorce.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo agowhen you're not reading the room
Washington Hilton, where Trump will soon be arriving for the White House correspondents’ dinner. End the cover-up.
It's a shame the Comet didn't go into production with its main undercarriage having a single tyre with a big wheel :-) youtu.be/alk5ESU4MXU?...
First flight of DH Comet airliner
YouTube video by Graham Simons
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Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 4mo agoAlways fun to watch the big airplanes take off and then tuck their little feet in 🥹
It is breathtaking the degree in which this has happened and is still happening.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4mo agoThe United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit
He is from the country whose president has threatened Canada, Panama, Greenland and Cuba. Most recently they have said that they are now ready for their next conquest. Just exactly which side of WWII is today's USA behaving like?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoRick Scott: "Europe would all be speaking German if it wasn't for the American service members and what we did to save their butts in the second world war. For them to not support what we're doing in Iran is foolish. So NATO is gonna have to change."
It would be almost reassuring if Timothy Snyder was a crank, but he's not.
Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social · 4mo agoGiven Trump’s Easter threats to carry out new war crimes in Iran, we should think one or two steps ahead about a coup attempt connected to the war. And then deter it. (1/17)
For rest-of-world in UTC: 17:00 - NASA+ Coverage 17:56 - Passes Apollo 13 record 18:45 - Lunar flyby begins 23:02 - Closest approach to Moon 23:07 - Max distance from earth 00:35 - Orion solar eclipse
Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 4mo agoNASA #Artemis II flyby coverage schedule; all times in Eastern. You can follow along live on NASA+ (plus.nasa.gov) or on the NASA YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/@NASA). It should be amazing to watch!
Just watched a fantastic film "The Bedford Incident" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bed... Around the mid-point there is a fantastic scene were Sidney Poitiers's reporter and Richard Widmark's captain reverse dominance in a conversation about the captain's past.
The Bedford Incident - Wikipedia
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I am reminded of how Mr Spock has three ears. He has a left ear, a right ear and the final front ear.
Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4mo agoHey, so several of you wanted me to comment on a post about space and colonialism. I don't like quote-tweeting, basically because it violates the idea that good discourse should be about discussion in order to approach truth and/or mutual understanding, rather than, like, dogpiling. My thoughts:
