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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The UK Daily Mail obviously did not like the results of its own poll. Its own graphic portrays 75% as less than 50%. #UKPolitics #Brexit #EuropeanUnion

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Malcolm Fairbairn @malcfairbairn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You can say what you like about my departed father, and he was a complicated man, but he took us to see the Bayeux Tapestry in Bayeux. This has recently led to many smug responses to questions in conversations, so cheers Dad!

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Stevie Kilner @1steviekilner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Man City’s top lawyer mounting a robust defence and providing a full explanation to each of the charges from the Premier League. #ManCity #PremierLeague

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Malcolm Fairbairn @malcfairbairn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So my wonderful student Clelia is now a doctor, so that's more quantum computing in the world and fewer treats from southern Italy for me, which I guess is OK...

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Yukon @craymor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One additional 'quick fact': if your name is John, the Nobel committee is twice as likely to award you the Prize for Physics, compared to scientists who are female - Number of physics prizes to a John: 10 - Number of female physics Nobel laureates: 5 Best wishes to all the John-hopefuls this yr 👩‍🔬⚛️

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just a reminder that RFK Jr. diverted $12 million from the Office of Minority Health to cover his soaring security expenses.

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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 25/09/2026

It’s sad to see Daft Punk struggling financially these days

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happy Kicked In The Head By A Horse Day, to all who celebrate. It's the 7th anniversary of this absolute banger.

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John Appleton @oddbodd13.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

To the tune of Jive Talkin': Vibe codin', You code with AI, Vibe codin', Your CV's a lie.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

OH FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. Help us get this dumbass fired HERE: secure.actblue.com/donate/scien... youtu.be/PIwWsHy9RfE?...

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Bessent: “Robert Oppenheimer was not a physicist...”

YouTube video by American Bridge 21st Century

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Malcolm Fairbairn @malcfairbairn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I found a night at home to myself for the first time ever and decided to play bass to the most listened to tracks in the history of my Spotify and my god Dutch uncles. What a brilliant mad genius band.

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Dutch Uncles · Big Balloon · Song · 2017

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

'The University and College Union (UCU)’s Edinburgh branch said staff had been called into “informal meetings at less than 24 hours' notice” and told not to bring union representatives.'

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Fear and anger as university set to announce 'massive course and programme closures'

Asked to respond, a university spokesperson said that staff and students were recently informed of changes to “our future academic offering across…

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eminemerald fennell @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA

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Malcolm Fairbairn @malcfairbairn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

WE DONT NEED MORE REGULATION ON GUN USE says man who sells bullets...

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A hill I intend to die on, except so far it's kept me alive in all sorts of ways: the best way to fight cynical doomerism is with cheerful, enthusiastic kindness. Look at that tiny blue slice in the onlooker, bottom-left. (Wish I knew who the creator of this cartoon is! Will keep hunting.) 1/

Cartoon showing someone yelling "you're a terrible person!" in view of an onlooker, with everyone having a pie chart for a head showing their ideological preference, and because the yeller is sounding so obnoxiously strident, not only does it nearly completely polarise the person being yelled at, it also starts to make the onlooker more sympathetic to the target of all this yelling.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 10/09/2026

🎯 by @ellabaron.bsky.social The abuse directed towards RNLI volunteers is horrendous. Solidarity with RNLI volunteers. They are doing incredible work.

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Truth 💥

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Simon Williams @si-wills.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Growing up watching the Cromer lifeboat launch, I have nothing but respect for the crews of the #RNLI who go to sea when others won’t. They go to sea to do one thing, save lives. Their mission is one of compassion: #savinglivesatsea regardless of who they may be.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Our planet is very old. We, on the other hand, are not. And when I say "not", I probably cannot convey to you how astonishingly, eye-swivellingly, knee-tremblingly non-old we are compared to the Earth under our feet. But I'm going to try. Please wish me luck. 1/

Photo of the Earth seen from over the crater-pocked brown-grey surface of the Moon, from Artemis II.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Map produced from the perspective of Galicia but applicable to the world before the revolutionary changes brought by arrival of the railway. By sea: A Coruña to London: 5 days. By land: Coruña to Madrid; 20 days.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Mutuals from twitter times will remember my very dark yrs of Long Covid 😵‍💫 I lost so much, but found a wonderful silver lining to the dark cloud: I decided to use all the time in bed to v slowly write a book. It took 3yrs. I can't quite believe that tomorrow is publication day & Fri is book launch! 🥹

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Update: having a lovely time at the workshop (on "Fundamental Physics From Galaxies"), got to see @malcfairbairn.bsky.social and meet a bunch of new people, very light on the murder and skullduggery thus far. Maybe that's more of an evening thing.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🥳 Congrats to MOONS which saw its first light last night! The STFC CEO described it as a "tremendously exciting..landmark moment". I agree! So why has STFC cut all funding for the MOONS data processing archive that UK-folk were planning to use to carry out their "transformational science"? 🤔🤷‍♀️🔭

A computer screen showing spectra from the 1000 robotic eyes of the MOON spectrograph

A team of happy people in hardhats standing in front of the massive MOONS instrument.

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Malcolm Fairbairn @malcfairbairn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It's chucking it down in London, I'm soaked. I'd forgotten how this rain stuff works.

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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"I want your children's lungs to be smaller and less functional" is a bold electoral strategy.

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Laura Baudis @lbaudis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

With XENONnT we observed solar pp neutrinos via neutrino-electron scattering. With an exposure of 2.46 t x y and electron recoil energies from 1 keV to 140 keV (probing neutrinos with energies down to 17 keV) the measured flux is (10.2±2.0)x10^10 cm^-2 s^-1. Read more at: arxiv.org/abs/2608.29450

The solar pp flux estimated from the inference results. Top: The best-fit result is shown as a solid red point. Also plotted are results from combining GALLEX/GNO and SAGE, Borexino, and PandaX-4T. The prediction from the B16-GS98 solar model is indicated by a vertical grey dashed line. Bottom: Log likelihood ratio as a function of the solar pp-flux. Dashed lines indicate different significance levels.

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Yukon @craymor.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Actual CEO of a space company people actually invest in says "by the early 2030s" -- just 5 to 7 years from now -- there will be mines and factories and large human workforce on the Moon, such that we'll be able to see lights of the lunar city from our front porches fortune.com/2026/08/17/b...

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Billionaire founder agrees with Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Jeff Bezos: We will live and work in space—and could be commuting to the moon by 2030 | Fortune

“We'll have a moon base, people living and working on the moon,” says billionaire Voyager Technologies founder Dylan Taylor.

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I don’t think there’s ever been a clearer example of the British media bullying someone, who was so clearly vulnerable, to death so shamelessly in my lifetime for engagement and clicks And now we’ll have to watch the people that did it claim they’re shocked, and horrified Revolting

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Malcolm Fairbairn @malcfairbairn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Fuck. I have zero idea whether this guy should have been hired or not. Seen a diversity of rigour in hiring decisions, hopefully not ones I am involved in (come at me). I'm sure we are where we are today because this man was black and the culture war is real. Be careful with your words friends.

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Jason Arday: Former Cambridge university professor found dead

His family said it was "in shock to have lost this amazing father, partner, brother, uncle and son" after the academic was found dead in London on Friday.

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Malcolm Fairbairn @malcfairbairn.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I could share pics, tell you about how I spotted the flare before totality,blah blah but there is nothing like seeing a total solar eclipse with your own eyes. It is breathtaking. The first time I saw it I was 24. I'm more than twice as old now but the sense of euphoria was just as strong.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Military history dad's holiday reading, cartoon by Tom Gauld. www.theguardian.com/books/pictur...

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Baptism on a Yorkshire hillside, date and publication unknown.

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Malcolm Fairbairn @malcfairbairn.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

People looking for eclipse glasses in London, they aren't super available. Try am2pm convenience store 129 Whitechapel high st.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

It’s the 88th anniversary today of this immensely enjoyable headline 🧵

12 boys rout fascists
Twelve boys, some of them less than 10 years old, went to Weymouth beach and barracked Mr Robert Saunders, a Fascist speaker.
He ignored them, so they went away and returned with toffee tins half filled with stones.
Using the tins as rattles, they made so much noise that Mr Arthur England, a 63-year-old Weymouth magistrate and superintendent of the beach, approached to stop them.
A crowd of holiday-makers, sympathising with the children, booed Mr England and a sock filled with sand caught him behind the ear.
In the sand battle that followed, the Fascists were pelted off the beach.
About 5,000 people followed them to their car, overturned the trailer attached it, and filled the loud speaker equipment with sand.

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Lt Nono @ltno2.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Quick #astrophotography trial on the galaxy NGC1961. It still needs more subs in luminance - just 3.5 hrs so far, but the satellite trails (a bit enhanced so they pop out) seem to say it's already too much 😢. It's crowded up there, stop sending #satellites 🥵 Where is this @quantumkat.bsky.social ?

The galaxy NGC1961 shot at 762mm of focal length with amateur gear. 3.5 hours of luminance data and 1.5 hrs of RGB.

The galaxy NGC1961 shot at 762mm of focal length with amateur gear. 3.5 hours of luminance data boosted so the many satellite trails pop out.

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Liz Ahern 🌈🇲🇽🏳️‍⚧️☮️ @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Billy, the music loving dog is taken to the music hall filled with musicians practicing and listens for the sound that pleases him the most. It’s the cello. 🎻 He lays down basking in the waves of sounds he chose out of all the others. Music is the universal language. #DogsofBluesky #MusicSky

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Prof Jim Wild @jim-wild.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Speaking in an interview for Times Radio, Lord Martin Rees (the UK’s previous Astronomer Royal and a former President of the Royal Astronomical Society) notes that UKRI “does have a reputation for rather poor decision-making”. youtu.be/8NLQTi-2h-I?...

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The Shutting Of Jodrell Bank Is A Mistake | Lord Rees

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Prof Jim Wild @jim-wild.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"UKRI wants to tell a big story about science funding going up, but instead is mired in a row over a fairly minor sum that has angered scientists and sections of the public. One does not have to be an astronomer to know that optics matter." 💯

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The Guardian view on the Lovell telescope: budget cuts to physics are bad science and worse politics | Editorial

Editorial: Funders have picked a damaging fight with scientists and the public. They should reconsider their plans

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South Carolina Department of Propaganda @southcarolinadop.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

For the enlightenment of the 💩🤡s going after Fauci:

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Malcolm Fairbairn @malcfairbairn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

New house, new oven, new banneton (can you tell 😬), new starter, new start

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I always wondered what it would take for the Telegraph to decide there might be a downside to climate breakdown. Well, now we know. Even so, this article manages not to mention it.

Victoria Moore: It may already be too late for Bordeaux's wine.

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