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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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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I’m working with colleagues on this - I don’t think it’s a done deal by any means because it’s so damaging - it’s actually incomprehensible to me.
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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Same problem, lack of institutional memory, but I would say we’re better prepared to fix it this time (at least I hope we can fix it).
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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 · 01/10/2025
Yes! You must have recorded it on a TDK AD-C90 or something!
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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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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Those were the days …. brains in buckets ….
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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
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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Yes indeed - 20 years ago …. I don’t think we’ve changed much :-)
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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
I think we should go for both - sort of like the 12 days of Christmas. A 2 week-long Feast of Astronomy.
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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Huge congratulations - I agree that completing a PhD is both tremendously difficult and tremendously rewarding.
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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
It does doesn’t it! Total bollocks.
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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
:-)
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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I could not agree more. I think most people vote optimistically - for the party they believe will offer a better future. Aiming for competence is not a compelling vision, although admittedly at the last election it was sufficient given the circumstances!
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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 don’t agree. I can’t see the big picture - what is the U.K’s place in the world? Are we to regain our place in Europe or attempt to be a lower-tax, deregulated country which is more US facing? The big strategic questions can’t be dodged much longer.
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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
It’s called Titanic.
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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Yes. I’m pretty fed up with ‘red lines’.
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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I still agree with myself - I think that was 2014!
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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 · 27/11/2024
It is the same, yes. Which leads to the twins paradox. The resolution is the symmetry between the clocks is broken when one accelerates (changes direction) to return and meet the other. If you google it, note that the AI summary is wrong. You don’t need General Relativity to deal with the problem.
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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Everyone has to have the same protection going down there whether they are mining or not - so I suppose it’s to do with mining!
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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
It’s a very impressive operation. The first time I went down was in the late ‘90s. Maybe he was as manager then?
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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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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Greenfield originally. I used to live in Lydgate.
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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
My family are from Saddleworth which really should be thought of as the West Riding of Yorkshire. Although I was born in Oldham and that is certainly Lancashire.
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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
Yes. I’m the real one!
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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Sherry.
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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
That’s great - say hello from me !
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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
No - just under I presume !
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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
That’s Taiyō …
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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I thought you’d be more interested in the biology than the engineering :-)
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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
It’s not me to be fair - it’s Einstein. And yes, he’s right.
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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Won’t work. AI’s are sort of Californian and I’m from Oldham. Far more difficult to replicate.
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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Yes!
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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Yes indeed!
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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
It’s the breed. I think it comes from the American Curl I initially
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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
It’s just the rate of change of position generalised to spacetime. So velocity = dx/dt basically. Think miles per hour …
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ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
The problem with that joke is that everything with mass or energy generates its own gravity field.
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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
I’ve got more chance of doing that than putting my feet on my head to be honest ..
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