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Phil Uttley @philuttley.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

My pet wildly-speculative folklore theory: England has the highest density of reported tornadoes in the world —> The story of the Three Little Pigs

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The Universe has lost a mighty force. Farewell to a dear friend, wonderful scientist, and excellent co-conspirator. www.astronomie.nl/nieuws/en/in...

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In memoriam Ralph Wijers, astrophysicist (1964–2026)

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Phil Uttley @philuttley.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

The report classifying anti-fascists as terrorists is quite a tell…

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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

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Phil Uttley @philuttley.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Only 4? Must have cut some corners there… 😜

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

This Donnie Darko sequel SUCKS.

Demented Orange Blob with Terrified Rabbit.

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Phil Uttley @philuttley.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Ah, it’s Matthew Lynn superforecaster extraordinaire!

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Phil Uttley @philuttley.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Same, I got on the stemwijzer this morning. Sadly no party with a policy platform to chuck all speeding e-bikers in the sea, so had to make do.

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Tom Wilson @feedthedrummer.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

My humble submission to the new Bank of England with concepts for the new bank notes to please both sides.

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Phil Uttley @philuttley.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Don’t they spit in your face or is that just llamas?

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Here in a nutshell is all the failures of the "serious" media (here The Economist) regarding Trump. They have commissioned a serious grown-up commentator to write this. And look at the result. Look in particular at that "strangely lacking interest"... /1

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Phil Uttley @philuttley.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Fantastic thread, ichabbe noon beter yreden.

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Lorentz Center @lorentzcenter.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Participants of this workshop will work to fully expand X-ray analysis into the 3D world of polarimetric-spectral-timing, whereby X-ray timing methods are used to study variations across both X-ray energy and polarization. bit.ly/3Obhiw5 @philuttley.bsky.social

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Phil Uttley @philuttley.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Just get a penny-farthing and have done with it…

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Phil Uttley @philuttley.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Yeah to be fair profession-wise I would say she is a planetary scientist.

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Phil Uttley @philuttley.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

The current Astronomer Royal, no less! And STFC executive chair in 2007, Keith Mason was an X-ray astronomer (I was on at least one paper with him from his pre-STFC days…).

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Phil Uttley @philuttley.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I remember the 2007 crisis which also happened with an astronomer at the helm of STFC…

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Phil Uttley @philuttley.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Interesting inside info here: bsky.app/profile/tele...

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Great. Now someone is going to blow Boudica's trumpet, and who knows what will then happen. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Thetford dig unearths Iron Age war trumpet and boar standard

The discoveries are "extraordinarily rare", say the archaeologists who helped find them.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 19/12/2025

If the Trump administration really wanted to put the Epstein Files somewhere absolutely no one could ever find them, they'd save them to OneDrive.

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ijw @bulletsweetp.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

🤖🔨

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 19/11/2025

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

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Phil Uttley @philuttley.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." - Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, Dune

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Phil Uttley @philuttley.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Strong “Fighting Baseball” vibes here.

List of “American-sounding” player names from Japanese SNES game “Fighting Baseball”

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Phil Uttley @philuttley.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Yorkshire MPs lobbied hard for that carve-out.

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Phil Uttley @philuttley.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Just wondering about the low inclination (which has quite low probability if incoming directions are random, even more so if they’re weighted towards galactic plane). Is it an observational selection effect, i.e. are we more likely to be observing the ecliptic to look for moving bodies?

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Phil Uttley @philuttley.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Beautiful English Setter there!!!

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

In a healthy information environment, this would be front-page news.

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Phil Uttley @philuttley.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

And M-class! May the Proposal Muse grant you all a steady typing hand, a keen eye for formatting errors and inner peace after the deadline.

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Phil Uttley @philuttley.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

And M-class! May the Proposal Muse grant you all a steady typing hand, a keen eye for formatting errors and inner peace after the deadline.

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Phil Uttley @philuttley.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Also the molecular abundances need to be enormous for a detection? Would like to know the prior on abundance…

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Phil Uttley @philuttley.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

My main stats concern is that it is a 3-sigma result obtained from looking for this feature in how many exoplanet spectra by JWST? Not by a data-trawl but just the general population of people looking.

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...