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Heard this on the radio: "drill a hole through the imaging lens". Any 🧪 expert here on electron microscopes? The 'lenses' that focus the beam are electromagnetic fields, not a refacting medium, so can anyone explain about drilling through them? science-education-research.com/reference/sc...

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Just found myself agreeing with something the President of Mesonorthamerica, DJT, was claiming. (Yes I do think the Concorde was aesthetically a great design.) Really must get an early night. ['We (USA) won WW2' Hm. (Never heard of 'the Allies'?) 'We had concorde'. No, that was us with the French.]

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Newton's 3rd law 🧪. Pretty straightforward? But a common area of misunderstanding for many learners. Time to drop notions of action and reaction? science-education-research.com/an-unfortuna...

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Apparently I taught an aeronautics engingeering course despite having no qualifications in the subject. And I cannot recall anything about my supposed studies into composite materials. science-education-research.com/about-keith/ Do not believe what you read on these sites (even about yourself!)

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Seems a very odd mistake to have made (not even close) but I guess the name was not changed on template used for a rather different book? Mistakes happen but it says something about quality control that no one at the publishers noticed. Nor Amazon but they think 🧪chemist John Dalton is still alive.

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Amazon www.amazon.co.uk/Micrographia... is selling a digital edition of the 🧪classic Micrographia (using text freely available from 'Project Guttenberg'), but the publishers, 'Prabhat Books', seem to have made a slight typo on the cover? What do you think, Holmes? An elementary mistake, Watson.

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It was nice of Co-op bank to email me about account security, to tell me they will never (sorry, 'NEVER') send me an email with a link, and to include a link for me to follow up for more details… @cuebcustomerunion.bsky.social Am I the one being especially thick here, or is the Bank?

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Certainly worth sharing this (although as a scientist I would prefer to see a qualifying 'probably', 'most likely' or similar, unless Dan has good convincing evidence for the definitive claim 😉) science-education-research.com/public-scien...

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🧪 Scientists Prof. Leslie Vosshall @leslievosshall.bsky.social‬ and Prof. Sarah Reece @reecelab.bsky.social‬ were talking on BBC Curious Cases with @daraobriain.bsky.social & @fryrsquared.bsky.social But which claims can be scientifically justified? science-education-research.com/what-it-is-l...

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Bemused to find that I can 'follow' the school teacher and scientist (pioneering chemist) 🧪 John Dalton (who died 1844, but looks remakably healthy, considering) on Amazon. I've just 'Report[ed] an issue with this product', so (given past experience) wonder how long it will take to be corrected?

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Are you an ECT or trainee teacher? Could #CPD on #microscale boost your confidence and your learners’? Read this to find out 🔽 #SciTeachUK #chemed (Spoiler: yes is the answer) edu.rsc.org/feature/micr...

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Ever wondered if #CPD on #microscale chemistry boosts early career and trainee teachers’ confidence to include practical work? Wonder no more. Robert Campbell from St Mary’s has discovered it does. And it impacts learners’ practical abilities too #SciTeachUK #ASEChat edu.rsc.org/feature/micr...

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Is there a known condition 🧪 where you are impelled to find matching clothes pegs for any washed items needing more than one peg? I will never get those seconds back! "I left the room for just a couple of brief moments, but when I returned those moments were gone." (Ancient Chinese Proverb?)

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1/7 💔 We are very disappointed to announce that on April 25, NSF terminated a $1.5M PhET grant – our Pathways to Open Source Ecosystems Phase II grant for advancing PhET’s SceneryStack project. Learn how this impacts our work and how you can help: bit.ly/PhETNSF2025

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Imagine the Mexican president sitting there in the White House suggesting to Mr Trump that the Mexico-US border was just a line that someone drew…

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What kind of logic says we should go to colonise inhospitable Mars (which may be possible in time but with immense costs) rather than protect the beautiful planet we know can already support life? Will the rich climate change deniers finance relocatng Bangladesh and low lying islands etc. to Mars?

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Do you use colour to show way the current splits and rejoins at junctions?

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Struggling to explain condensation polymers to your post-16s? 🤔 Use this poster, fact sheet and classroom activity to simplify the formation and applications of these crucial molecules: edu.rsc.org/infographics... #teachingresources #chatchemistry

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🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨 WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people. 4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic. Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com

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A #TeacherAppreciationWeek giveaway from our friends at Climate Generation - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @climategenorg.bsky.social #EduSky #ForTeachers

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"RFK Jr says vaccines have DNA particles." 🧪 Does Mr. Kennedy eat any food with animal, plant or fungi sourced substances? Is someone going to tell him?

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Yes, exactly. It is all about context. A word or phrase does not have a meaning in isolation. You cannot take an expression out of context and assume it has a fixed meaning that others with different lived experience will share.

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Come on @rsc.org - we are better than this. Which is it?

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Dr Penny Sarchet @pennysarchet.bsky.social of New Scientist (@newscientist.com) has a theory 🧪 about why all your washing ends up inside your duvet cover …or does she? science-education-research.com/thats-my-the...

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"I don't believe in magic I don't believe in I-ching I don't believe in Bible I don't believe in Tarrifs I don't believe in Hitler…" With apologies to John Winston Ono Lennon and his lyrics 🙂 Have a good weekend every one

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It is #WorldBookDay and we are happy to say RSC Books is now officially on Bluesky. Follow us for regular updates on newly published books and to find out more about book publishing at the Royal Society of Chemistry

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Just a thought. Good night everyone.

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Teaching polymers and their properties at 14–16? You need this experiment: edu.rsc.org/exhibition-c... #teachingresources #chemed

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Wikipedia: 'Tourette syndrome was named by French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot for his intern, Georges Gilles de la Tourette, who published in 1885 an account of nine patients with a "convulsive tic disorder".' "Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. (born January 17, 1954)…" Hm.

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Celebrate Earth Day with free STEM resources! 💚🌎 Discover interactive resources that bring Earth science to life. Dive into real data, powerful models, and engaging lessons designed to spark curiosity and inspire stewardship. hashtag #EarthDay #STEMeducation learn.concord.org/Earth

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