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ProfBrianCox

@profbriancox.bsky.social
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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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Dan Davis @dandavis101.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
OUT TODAY IN PAPERBACK IMMUNE HEALTH: A Myth-busting Guide. 'Beautifully written overview' @profbriancox.bsky.social 'Best book on immune health I have ever read' @thealiceroberts.bsky.social 'Utterly absorbing' Bill Bryson 'Brilliant' Chris Van Tulleken
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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Entertaining and wide-ranging panel discussion on consciousness at the @crick.ac.uk hosted by @profbriancox.bsky.social and featuring me, @anilseth.bsky.social @kathaschmack.bsky.social and @cosmicskeptic.bsky.social Check it out, let us know what you think! www.lnk.to/AQOSConsciou...
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What is consciousness?
Professor Brian Cox and an expert panel explore the elusive science of consciousness – what it is, how it arises, whether it can be observed in the brain, and the most compelling theories explaining i...
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Jason Wright @astrowright.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
I've summarized the truth about Loeb's 10 "anomalies" about 3I/ATLAS in one post. Thanks to @deschscoveries.bsky.social @michael-w-busch.bsky.social @cometary.org and @marshall-eubanks.bsky.social for contributing their expertise!
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Loeb’s 3I/ATLAS “Anomalies” Explained
Avi Loeb continues to claim that 3I/ATLAS has many anomalous behaviors that lead to the conclusion that it “might” be an alien spacecraft.  He carefully hedges the probability that it is a spacecraft ...
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carlyhowett.bsky.social @carlyhowett.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Hey space fans! The podcast I recorded with @profbriancox.bsky.social and other fab folks is out now! www.lnk.to/AQOSSpacePA It’s all about who owns space - increasingly important as we rely on it for so much of our communication. Bonus photos here too: crick.chorus.thirdlight.com/link/5r04kyg...
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Who Owns Space?
Professor Brian Cox and an expert panel tackle the technology, politics and ethics of space exploration.   From space tourism to the search for life on Mars, space is a rapidly expanding, multi-trill...
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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
This was a great gig - if I remember right, Scott Gorham played the encore with us - Don’t Believe a Word and The Boys Are Back In Town.
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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
This was great fun to record and challenging and fascinating, but honestly I still don’t know what conscious is - beyond an emergent property of a network - and I’m not even sure @anilseth.bsky.social agrees with that :-)
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The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 12/03/2025
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
Promotional banner for 'A Question of Science' with Brian Cox. The title is in bold white text placed over a large black question mark. Surrounding the text are science-related images, including colorful capsules, a pink brain, and a bitten glazed donut. The Francis Crick Institute logo and the BBC Studios logo appear. Brian Cox’s face also appears at the bottom center.
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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
In person tickets are full, but online viewers still very welcome for tomorrow's Gresham lecture.
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
🚨🚨 "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...
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Brexit makes no sense in a world dominated by Trump. Britain’s place is back in the EU | Jonathan Freedland
From defence to trade, the incoming US president is upending the old order – and standing apart from our neighbours leaves us dangerously exposed, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
"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.
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Every dumb thought I have ever had about Christmas songs
Ho ho bleedin’ ho.
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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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!
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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I finally started watching The Last of Us (I know I’m very late) and now I’m paranoid about getting athletes foot.
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Dr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
This is really good bsky-follow-finder.theo.io
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Bluesky Network Analyzer
Find accounts that you don't follow (yet) but are followed by lots of accounts that you do follow.
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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
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.
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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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.
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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Here’s a picture of my cat asleep with its feet on its head. I can’t do this.
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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I’ve been lecturing today at Manchester - special relativity - and for no good reason other than I want to post stuff here, here’s my lecture notes introducing the concept of invariant mass :-)
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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I am going to start following people by the way - just getting started :-)
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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I saw Bob Dylan last night at The Royal Albert Hall - it was wonderful. They made everyone put their phones in little bags so they couldn’t be used. I was ambivalent initially but the result was wonderful. Everybody just listened and the audience was dark. I think it’s a good thing. Thoughts?
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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Right. Hello. Is this place any good?
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