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A healthy surge in signatures overnight - over 1600 members of the scientific community have now signed to express their dismay at the Royal Society's inaction over Musk's contravention of their code of conduct. Please keep signing and sharing: forms.gle/pmyzLXcgpQaJ...

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This is a serious point - I will elaborate when I have more time. But one thing new authors should be very aware of is that “pastoral care” does not seem to be a priority for publishers or agents. And it should be.

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Donald Trump’s second term as US President has begun with staff layoffs, slashed budgets, axed diversity programmes and cancelled conferences in what some see as a new "dark ages" 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/us-science...

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Great to chat with Mark for this podcast and hear his plans... he has a busy few years ahead! 🧪⚛️

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We are covering the recent executive orders in the US and the impact on the scientific community. If you have been affected then feel free to get in touch (anonymous or otherwise) by sending an e-mail to physics.world AT ioppublishing DOT org🧪⚛️

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This week US fantasy author George R R Martin published a physics paper ⚛️🧪 physicsworld.com/a/the-physic...

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The darkest, clearest skies anywhere in the world could suffer “irreparable damage” by a proposed industrial megaproject from AES Andes, a subsidiary of the US power company AES Corporation 🧪⚛️🔭 physicsworld.com/a/worlds-dar...

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NEW: Fermilab boss Lia Merminga resigns following a turbulent year at the lab that saw accusations of a toxic atmosphere, a change in the lab’s management contractor and staff layoffs 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/fermilab-s...

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ICYMI over the holiday period, here's a thread of articles summarizing some of the most interesting developments in various areas of physics in 2024, compiled by my @physicsworld.bsky.social colleagues and myself. (1/n) 🧵🧪⚛️

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I did it again! Jurassic Park with accurate raptors, a short part 2 #jurassicpark #blender3d

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🎄 𝗜𝘁’𝘀 𝗕𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗟𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗮 𝗟𝗼𝘁 𝗟𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗮𝘀... 𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗲! 🔬 Why buy Christmas trees when you can "grow" one using micropatterning and @alleninstitute.bsky.social cells that come with their own LaminB1 "ornaments"? Happy #FluorescenceFriday! ✨❄️

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It's nearly time to reveal my Quote Of The Year 🥳 In preparation, here's last year's one: a corker, from The Guardian 🤣

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My first story in @physicsworld.bsky.social Africa targets 2035 start date for synchrotron construction physicsworld.com/a/africa-tar...

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As the Biden administration departs and Donald Trump is sworn into office on 20 January, many scientists will be hopeful, but unconvinced, that science 🧪 is heading in the right direction physicsworld.com/a/scientists...

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The physics ⚛️ of the Gee-Haw-Whammy-Diddle mechanical toy arxiv.org/abs/2412.04891

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Book birthday... 🥳 Published two years ago today🧪

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You won’t find it on any ‘best of the year’ lists. It hasn’t sold loads. But a kid told me last week that it had got him ‘back into reading’ and I almost cried. #kidlituk

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The first financial scandal/crisis to defeat all attempts at satire. There's nothing to say

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ICYMI... how the squirting cucumber spreads its seeds 🥒 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/the-mechan...

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on this - always find it vv funny how shocked non-publishing people are when you tell them that at least in non-fic publishers don't fact check your manuscript and they don't do structural edits either, you'll get a copy edit but for the rest you're on your own

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"University leaders should have been up in arms when student fees were introduced in the early 2000s. Instead, most went along with them, and are now reaping what they sowed", writes Jonte Hance physicsworld.com/a/why-academ...

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New blogpost: deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...

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There's lots of buzz about scientists on #bluesky! Don't forget to make room for the medical and science historians, too! Here's my #starterpack of some awesome people (and institutes). From medieval astrolabes to Victorian corsets, radium soap, and beyond! I got you covered. go.bsky.app/3DuVT6Z

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For folks just arriving in #AcademicBsky or #ScienceBsky, here are a couple of Biophysics starter packs. Biophysicists, pls tag yourself and others and I will add you to the new starter packs. go.bsky.app/4AUjqVz

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Anyone fancy 372 nanometre diameter spaghetti? At least it would cook in less than a second. physicsworld.com/a/noodles-of...

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What better way to broaden your horizons than to follow a bunch of scientists on Bluesky? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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JWST observations of the ice giant Uranus over 1 year! Full size, more info & single images: flic.kr/p/2pUN7Ec 🔭 Credit Processing: Andrea Luck CC BY Raw Data: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI 3 Frames 2023-02-06, 2023-09-04 PI: Klaus Pontoppidan, JPL 2024-02-06 PI: Naomi Rowe-Gurney, RAS

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JPL director Laurie Leshin has reassured the lab’s staff that the current layoff should be the final one "for the foreseeable future" physicsworld.com/a/nasas-jet-...

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Snow is falling in London (son sent us a video!) so thought you might like a reminder that here in Scotland we name the gritting machines and there’s a site that tracks where they all are! My favs are Gritty Gritty Bang Bang and Spready Mercury ☃️😂 #writingcommunity #scotland

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On International Day of LGBTQIA+ People in STEM, Wendy Sadler and Artemis Peck write that we need more initiatives to make sure queer people feel comfortable and welcome in science physicsworld.com/a/why-we-nee...

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Cover for the Chinese translation of THE SECRET SCIENCE OF BABY 🇨🇳. Out later this month.

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I expanded the Astronomy starter pack a little bit with a few more people who post regularly. Check it out if you're new here! 🔭

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Hey this was really helpful to find the people I want to follow on Bluesky! Hopefully some of those folks will follow me back and we can get this thing cookin!

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Starting to put together a UK Physics Teacher starter pack. Reply if you’d like adding or let me know who needs including. #chatphysics #scieduk #iteachphysics go.bsky.app/ERKyHSM

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Hey all! If you like physics, I recommend this starter pack. 🧪 go.bsky.app/CH3YDz7

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I put together a starter pack for people working in particle physics experiments (for now only collider based). Suggestions are very welcome! ⚛️ go.bsky.app/TFne5pM

submitted 110 days ago • 17 comments

Here's a starter pack of people on here who I've found and who I know are excellent Science Communicators. Give them a follow: go.bsky.app/4SAvt2B

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