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Professor of Particle Physics at The University of Manchester and Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science

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Join the live studio audience at the recording of our new podcast, A Question of Science 🎙️ On 21 March, we’re talking all things ageing with @statto.bsky.social, Paul Nurse, Linda Partridge and Lynne Cox. Book your free ticket to put your questions to the panel ⤵️ lostintv.com/aqos.htm

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In person tickets are full, but online viewers still very welcome for tomorrow's Gresham lecture.

submitted 157 days ago • 3 comments

🚨🚨 "Brexit makes no sense in a world dominated by Trump. Britain’s place is back in the EU". Great column by @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social on #brexit and the election of Donald Trump which I think has been widely misconstrued in some quarters. /1 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 158 days ago • 13 comments

I would add that Labour’s relaunch reads as a list of policies they would like to enact if the plan works. But I don’t see a plan. In 2025 (in my view) they will have to either set the country on trajectory to rejoin SM and CU or align more closely with US. Rudderless mid-Atlantic is unsustainable.

submitted 158 days ago • 19 comments

"Chris Rea is from Middlesbrough. This means that Driving Home For Christmas is essentially a song about being stuck in a traffic jam on the A1(M)." Anyway, it's December, and you know what that means.

submitted 159 days ago • 40 comments

Spent the day at Boulby Underground Lab near Whitby - 1.1km underground. Dark matter searches, neutrino physics, very low cosmic ray and background radiation suitable for (amongst many other things) quantum computing. It’s a pretty unique facility and the mine is remarkable - over 100km of tunnels!

submitted 169 days ago • 27 comments

I finally started watching The Last of Us (I know I’m very late) and now I’m paranoid about getting athletes foot.

submitted 173 days ago • 30 comments

The best thing about this image: the night side of Saturn. It’s not totally dark. Why not? Because it’s vaguely lit by light that has reflected from the rings. If you could somehow stand on the top of Saturn’s clouds, when it’s night, your world would be brightly lit by the huge yellow arc of rings.

submitted 175 days ago • 8 comments

Good morning! If you've found my 'UK news and politics' starter pack useful to get you up and running on @bsky.app, please spread the word to new users by giving this a repost. Cheers! go.bsky.app/VNsC9bL

submitted 179 days ago • 33 comments

And one last picture of my cat, just to round off this initial short series of physics and cat posts, this time with my radiator also in shot.

submitted 175 days ago • 88 comments