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Oscar O'Flanagan

@owoflanagan.bsky.social
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PhD student researching Arctic aerosol-cloud interactions, occasionally quizzing

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026
Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.
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Oscar O'Flanagan @owoflanagan.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
well then...!
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Oscar O'Flanagan @owoflanagan.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Not much if at all. Humidity forecast looks quite low during the day.
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Dr Ella Gilbert @drgilbz.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Made some videos with @certainty-aci.bsky.social about the climate impact of clouds and aerosols. And you can check out the first one here 👇
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Our climate is surprisingly sensitive to these tiny particles
YouTube video by CERTAINTY-ACI
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Imperial College London @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Our Queen’s Tower is back! After restoration works lasting over three years, our beautiful tower is reopening today. Built to mark Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee in 1887, the tower opened in 1893 in a ceremony attended by the Queen herself.
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Oscar O'Flanagan @owoflanagan.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Bray, as in Sir Hilary Bray, the alias of James Bond?
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Robin Bougie @robinbougie.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.
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Oscar O'Flanagan @owoflanagan.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
We got to watch that in the waiting area after our match, it was a bit mad seeing it unfold. Best part of it was Elliot tapping Eveline on the shoulder for the fist bump after a long adjudication on thiols, we all laughed.
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Oscar O'Flanagan @owoflanagan.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Nice time at the @royalsociety.org PhD training thingy last couple of days, cool to see what everyone's up to with and after their research. Also got a little peek at the fellows' signature book :) (Photo from the scavenger hunt)
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 24/02/2026
Plums xkcd.com/3209/
Comic. [Person is sitting at a desk with a laptop, turned toward voice coming from off-panel.] VOICE FROM OFF-PANEL: I got you the ingredients for dinner tonight. Oh, and the plums in the fridge drawer are for my yogurt tomorrow; you should just leave them. Be back later! PERSON’S THOUGHT BUBBLE: Oh no. [caption] Help. It actually happened. I shouldn’t. But how can I not!?
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Imperial College Quiz Society @imperialquiz.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Imperial will face Warwick tonight on #UniversityChallenge! That's 8:30 pm on BBC 2- we'll be watching it in the students' union. Both teams will return regardless, but there will be a two week break of UC after that for the Winter Olympics 😓
The 2025-26 University Challenge teams of Imperial College London and the University of Warwick. 

L-R, top: Rahim Dina, Eugenia Tong, Oscar O'Flanagan and Justin Keung, from Imperial.

L-R, bottom: Josh Howarth, Antoni Kluzowski, Chris Levesley and Lucy Dennet, from Warwick.
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Jimmy Two Heads 💀🎃 @jimmytwohands.bsky.social · 27/01/2024
Happy large boulder the size of a small boulder day for all who celebrate
large boulder the size of a small boulder tweet from San Miguel sheriff, dated 1/27/20
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Oscar O'Flanagan @owoflanagan.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
yeah, particularly with success on the show already being effectively restricted to teams from unis that do quizbowl - in the years that quizbowl has been a thing in the UK, no university that doesn't/didn't partake in it has ever won a series.
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Oscar O'Flanagan @owoflanagan.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I think preventing repeat appearances is good for forcing variety. Maybe if like Mastermind, you could be back on sooner if you're out in R1. People often are surprised when I tell them that once you're on once, that's it (unless you're Ian Bayley or Robin Bjattacharyya!)
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Uni Challenge Rv @quizposting.com · 12/01/2026
review of last week's #UniversityChallenge, in which I propose a major change to the show semi-seriously www.quizposting.com/the-college-...
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The College Sports Piece
It's too late to say Happy New Year, so I'm not going to do that. Instead, I'm going to say well done to Durham, who became the first quartet in University Challenge history to retain their trophy in ...
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Oscar O'Flanagan @owoflanagan.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
They're LEDs, not halogen lamps - it's not that warm
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Enough Of That Now @andygilder.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Never worry Never weep Oscar O'Flanagan Is watching you sleep #UniversityChallenge
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Oscar O'Flanagan @owoflanagan.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
As it turns out, Shiv Seshan good (:
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Oscar O'Flanagan @owoflanagan.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
@pritchardjr.bsky.social thanks for the cosmology lectures, sure came in handy :)
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Oscar O'Flanagan @owoflanagan.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
I was, but we went camping on the other side of Cornwall ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Oscar O'Flanagan @owoflanagan.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Michael Berry, although I'd like for it to be John Pendry
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Imperial College Quiz Society @imperialquiz.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Imperial returns to #UniversityChallenge next month! Our team will be playing Churchill College, Cambridge for their first round match. Catch it on BBC 2 on 6 October or join us at the students' union for a watch party.
The team representing Imperial College London for the 2025/26 series of University Challenge. 
Front: Rahim Dina, Eugenia Tong, Oscar O'Flanagan, Justin Keung. 
Back: Joshua Bobin (reserve player) and Amol Rajan.
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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · 18/09/2025
🗺️NEW: BAS Map Catalogue is live! Explore Antarctica and the Arctic through our collection of professional maps. Perfect for educators, adventurers, and polar enthusiasts. Many available on open licence for free download. #PolarMaps #Antarctica
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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 27/08/2025
We are happy to announce that the Royal Society's Copley Medal 2025 is awarded to Professor Sir John Pendry FRS for work on the concept and designs of metamaterials that represent the greatest advance in electromagnetism since Faraday and Maxwell. #RSMedals royalsociety.org/medals-and-p...
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Abigail Tan @symmetr1cgroup.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
In light of the recent university department cuts, one may refer to CS Lewis’ sermon “Learning in Wartime” on the importance of the continuous pursuit of knowledge in the face of adversity. (1/4)
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Oxford Mathematics @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 94? Happy Birthday Roger.
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UK Quizbowl @ukquizbowl.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Tournament locations have now dropped, in a new Lioness-themed map! If you’re part of a quiz society, or just interested in quiz, and want to get involved with any of these tournaments, feel free to DM us or contact us through the email in our bio.
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Oscar O'Flanagan @owoflanagan.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
At least the background matches.
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Oscar O'Flanagan @owoflanagan.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
so not only do we have the same scores as last week, but the starters answered even have the same spatial distribution among the winning team
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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · 18/07/2025
We've had a Very Important Ice delivery! These precious ancient ice core samples from Antarctica are expected to reveal a climate record stretching back more than 1.5 million years 🤯 That's further than we've ever looked back before. 🧵 1/4
Liz stands in a walk-in scientific freezer, wearing a warm jacket. She's holding a long ice sample - a narrow stick of ice about a metre long and only a few centimetres wide. It's from a box containing many ice cores. Photo credit: Jamie Oliver, BAS.
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B. W. E. Bethlehem @bwebethlehem.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Figure I might get back to this on the better website. Stats below for tonight's incredibly close #UniversityChallenge match featuring for the first time ever 8 people all of whom I know and hold very dear. A pity one of yous had to win but a commendable effort from all. Hope to see Sheffield again!
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Oscar O'Flanagan @owoflanagan.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Excited for the return of #UniversityChallenge tonight, I can promise the players tonight are all excellent people - shame that one team will have to lose.
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UK Quizbowl @ukquizbowl.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
The tournament schedule for the autumn term has dropped! If any society is interested in hosting any of these tournaments, drop us a message or fill out the form below. If you or your society wants to attend any of these tournaments, we'd love to have you so feel free to DM us!
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Oscar O'Flanagan @owoflanagan.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
if only the tests they made you do in the application process involved that, rather than the dregs of an 11+ non-verbal reasoning paper!
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UK Quizbowl @ukquizbowl.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Check out our latest blog post for the MRNA tournament, as well as a reflection on the year as a whole! quizbowl.co.uk/articles/mrn...
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MRNA IV: A New Hope
An overview of the antepenultimate tournament of the 2024-2025 UK QuizBowl season from moderators and players.
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Oscar O'Flanagan @owoflanagan.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Final year of undergrad vs first year of PhD :)
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Oscar O'Flanagan @owoflanagan.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Exeter I am inexorably on my way
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Oscar O'Flanagan @owoflanagan.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
If we had an average summer for once I can't imagine how many would be complaining about the cold
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Brandon Blackwell @brandon-2.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
this was tough. left some good ones off the list but this is what i ended up with:
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Oscar O'Flanagan @owoflanagan.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Anyway, Strasbourg: it's a place and it's nice
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Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment @granthamicl.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
⚖️History made! In a landmark case, a German court today confirmed that corporate emitters can be held liable for their contribution to climate impacts. The Grantham Institute’s Dr Noah Walker-Crawford was in Hamm to hear the verdict 👇
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Oscar O'Flanagan @owoflanagan.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Enjoy this cat from Martin McCall's classical mechanics textbook
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UK Quizbowl @ukquizbowl.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Here is our tournament schedule for the summer term! Please note that MRNA IV and Deep Bench are being played on the same set, so Deep Bench players and mods will not be able to play MRNA IV. SOTON TRASH and THIING are non-UKQB affiliated, so please contact the organisers in relation to those.
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Sarah Everett @goddammitsarah.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
ten thousand lifetimes have passed since this happened
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CERTAINTY-ACI @certainty-aci.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Kicking off a productive CERTAINTY meeting! We are planning for Year 2 and beyond, aligning on current progress, and strengthening collaborations with our partners and International advisory committee. Exciting coordinated modeling case studies ahead. Welcome to all new team members & ECRs!
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Oscar O'Flanagan @owoflanagan.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
I'm in France and I'm having an egg and bacon mcmuffin at 5 pm. Some things they just do better
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Oscar O'Flanagan @owoflanagan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I don't think so
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 04/11/2024
Save Page Now is back online via the Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/save Web pages archived since October 9 will start being added to the Wayback Machine.
Save Page Now
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Oscar O'Flanagan @owoflanagan.bsky.social · 22/05/2024
So, how many prime ministers is this going to be for Larry?
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