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Dr Kit Chapman @kitchapman.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

No, that ship isn’t levitating!!! The position on the horizon and the location of the clouds are creating an optical illusion that makes it look like the ship is flying 30m above the sea!

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Dr Kit Chapman @kitchapman.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

Napoleon is the most hilarious comedy I have seen in years. So-bad-it’s-good hilarious. Want to see Napoleon make pig noises and stomp his feet until Josephine will sleep with him? Or scream (at the British) “You only think you’re great because you have boats!” Like a 5 yo? Napoleon is for you.

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Dr Kit Chapman @kitchapman.bsky.social · 19/11/2023

When you’re just walking your beetle and a random dude starts hitting on you in the street.

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Dr Kit Chapman @kitchapman.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

Huge. Another retraction for Dias over superconductivity claims… including most of the team (and look at their reason!!!!) but *not* retracted by Ranga Dias. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Dr Kit Chapman @kitchapman.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

The view from Falmouth Uni has to be one of the best campus views…

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Dr Kit Chapman @kitchapman.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

I enjoyed my trip around the world. The trip:

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Dr Kit Chapman @kitchapman.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Showing my students you can go around the world for only £500 in a week. My students have set me journalism assignments at every stop. First leg - Cornwall to London.

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Dr Kit Chapman @kitchapman.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

I should be celebrating that my first ever computer game got released on Steam. Instead, some evil anonymous troll cracked it, pirated it, and put it up for free. They stole something that took me two years to make in less than 12 hours. Two years of work and they stole it. I hate this world.

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Dr Kit Chapman @kitchapman.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Tomorrow up to Worcester to talk physics. Next week? Huge adventure. I gave my students £500 and told them to fly me around the world to multiple destinations for multiple assignments as a travel writer. Let’s see where they send me…

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Dr Kit Chapman @kitchapman.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

Social media is a constant reminder that people are inherently evil.

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Dr Kit Chapman @kitchapman.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

Hey, does anyone remember NFTs? They worked really well, didn’t they? They totally weren’t a Greater Fool scam.

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Dr Kit Chapman @kitchapman.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

After a 20-year hiatus, Berkeley Lab - the most successful periodic table fillers in history - are back in the element hunting business. www.chemistryworld.com/berkeley-lab...

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Dr Kit Chapman @kitchapman.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

I always find headstones an odd thing. You boil a life down to a few words. Husband. Father. Soldier. None of which truly express the kaleidoscope of brilliance that is a life. It’s like staring at a pit after a fire and making sense of out of charcoal.

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Dr Kit Chapman @kitchapman.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

Just had a good chat with my friend Yuri Oganessian - the only living person to have an element named after him. Story will be coming to Chemistry World soon…

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Dr Kit Chapman @kitchapman.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

Also a big shout-out to my former student Simone for this *Absolutely bonkers* story about COVID-deniers trying to get MI6 to spy on the editors at Nature by accusing them of being Chinese spies… www.computerweekly.com/news/3665534...

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Top science journal faced secret attacks from Covid conspiracy theo...

One of the world’s most prestigious general science journals, was the target of a two-year long sustained and virulent secret attack by a conspiratorial group of extreme Brexit lobbyists with high-....

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Dr Kit Chapman @kitchapman.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

My take on the Nobel prize in chemistry leak: Keep in mind that finalists are discussed for two meetings before the *final* decision on the day. It is entirely possible quantum dots had been agreed and the final vote was just a formality. Still a big oopsie, though.

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Dr Kit Chapman @kitchapman.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

A little spellbook/alchemy guide from the 16th century: a copy of “Isabella Cortese”’s secrets. (Almost certainly written by a man; there was no Isabella Cortese and Cortese is an anagram of ‘secreto’…)

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Dr Kit Chapman @kitchapman.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

The best way to get all the annoying little jobs in the house done is to have a completely unrelated book deadline.

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Dr Kit Chapman @kitchapman.bsky.social · 18/08/2023

Little bit of Robert Boyle to start the day.

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