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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I am going to stick some triggers warnings in here, and none of this is a "cry for help" or wanting sympathy, it's context. This dismissal of the impact of burnout is harmful. Whereas @carladenyer.bsky.social acknowledgment is important. 1/5

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Andrea Chlebikova @stareatair.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Lovely event honouring Nick Drake last night.

A printed concert programme. Titled: "Recreating and Honouring the Nick Drake Bateman Room Recital with special guests Peter Rice and Henry & Constance Kirby".

Text reads: "Bateman Auditorium (formerly Bateman Room), Gonville & Caius College, Friday 1st May 2026, 19:45."

"In 1968, Nick Drake and Robert Kirby organised an evening recital which would be their first dedicated concert. This took place in the Bateman Room of Gonville & Caius College."

"Over half a century later, this recital will replay the songs of this concert with arrangements, and other since popular songs from Nick Drake’s discography, in the same location where the original took place."

The programme is split into two sets. Set 1, titled "Original Set", consists of "Time Of No Reply", "My Love Left With The Rain" marked with an asterisk, "Made To Love Magic", "Day Is Done", and "The Thoughts Of Mary Jane". Set 2, titled "Solo", consists of "River Man", "Northern Sky" marked with a dagger symbol, "Things Behind The Sun", "Place To Be", and "From The Morning".

A musicians section lists the performers and their colleges as follows: Cameron Fox on guitar and vocals from Gonville & Caius College; Pollyanna Chamberlain on violin from Homerton College; Oscar Lloyd on violin from Selwyn College; Hope Broome Saunders on viola from Homerton College; Celso Laque on cello from Homerton College; Hei-Lam Wong on double bass from Homerton College; and Evie Hrydziuszko on flute from Homerton College.

Additional notes state: "All songs written by Nick Drake", "Transcriptions made from the Robert Kirby arrangements by Lucas Harley, Homerton College". The asterisk indicates an original arrangement by Lucas Harley, and the dagger indicates a duet with Niamh Gallagher of Homerton College.

At the bottom, the programme notes that the event is supported by the Gonville & Caius College Music Society, with thanks to the Homerton College Music Society, and that it is raising money for Mind.

Selfie-style photo of people queuing for the event in a stone-walled passage (in front of Bateman Auditorium at Caius in Cambridge). At the front, I am smiling alongside my friends.

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Andrea Chlebikova @stareatair.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Great show by @misterabk.bsky.social in Cambridge today! (And so I do my job: @algebraist.bsky.social, you should go and see the postponed Canterbury show on Sunday!)

Alasdair Beckett-King with three of us, attempting to summon vegan power with our hand gestures.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The UK must immediately and unequivocally suspend support for the US military. The Government have tried to appease him, then they tried to say they're standing up to him. Words aren't enough - it's time for action.

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Andrea Chlebikova @stareatair.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

The place to be today, at the @togetheralliance.bsky.social march! And great to hear @zackpolanski.bsky.social speak for the second weekend in a row 😀 Hope is in the air!

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Andrea Chlebikova @stareatair.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Last chance to get your ticket for tonight's show at the Portland Arms in Cambridge, as part of @cambridgefestival.bsky.social, where you can hear us communicate science through the medium of stand-up comedy! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-variab...

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The Variables Present: An Evening of Science Comedy

Festival favourites The Variables return once more to the Portland Arms and the Cambridge Festival, to show the funny side of science.

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Andrea Chlebikova @stareatair.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Zack has definitely made hope normal again! Excellent speech as usual, and what a turnout for a day of leafletting this has managed to attract 💚

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Andrea Chlebikova @stareatair.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

In #MathsToday, while the teams work on the shuttle rounds, we get to have a look at the short-listed posters on Voronoi diagrams. @ukmathstrust.bsky.social

A series of colourful posters on Voronoi diagram attached to poster boards

Another series of colourful posters on Voronoi diagram attached to poster boards. In the foreground, one is referencing giraffes, while in the background one features a heart design.

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Andrea Chlebikova @stareatair.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Looking forward to today's @ukmathstrust.bsky.social STMC National Final in Manchester! Good luck to all the teams taking part 😀

Photo of me inside a frame stating "I attended the UKMT National Final".

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Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 08/01/2026

Getting snow where you are? Did you know that there are 121 categories of snowflake? ❄️ This graphic is an old favourite which gives an overview of the 39 intermediate categories: www.compoundchem.com/2014/12/10/s... 🧪

Infographic titled “Snowflakes: Classifications & Shapes” showing how snowflakes are categorized by crystal form. Sections illustrate column crystals, plane crystals, combinations of column and plane crystals, rimed snow crystals, aggregation, germs of ice crystals, irregular particles, and other solid precipitation. Each category uses simple blue icons with codes (e.g., C1, P3). A key explains three classification levels: 8 general, 39 intermediate, and 121 elementary categories, highlighting the wide variety of snowflake shapes found in nature.

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Andrea Chlebikova @stareatair.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates! 🧪

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Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 24/12/2025

It's Christmas Eve and the final day of #ChemAdvent! We're finishing off with Christmas pudding and why you shouldn't hide a coin in the mixture as was customary in the past 🪙 #ChemSky 🧪

Infographic on the chemistry of Christmas puddings. The graphic shows the chemical structures of tartaric acid (from raisins) and citric acid (from citrus peel). It also explains how the custom of hiding small silver coins in the mixture is not advisable with modern coiins due to their nickel content.

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Andrea Chlebikova @stareatair.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I learned a fair bit while writing this question about candles (part of our festive calendar of questions) the other week. Check it out if you want to learn a bit too! #ChemChat🧪

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Isaac Science @isaacscience.org · 07/12/2025

How do Christmas crackers work? Test your chemistry knowledge and skills while learning some history of chemistry: isaacscience.org/questions/ch... #ChatChemistry #ITeachChem #RealTimeChem #EduSky 🧪

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Isaac Science @isaacscience.org · 04/12/2025

Spend a merry moment or two pondering this moments question: isaacscience.org/questions/me... #ChatPhysics #iTeachPhysics #SciTeachUK #EduSky ⚖️

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Isaac Science @isaacscience.org · 04/12/2025

Thank you to all of our student and teacher users, you have reached 200 million question attempts! #SciTeachUK #EduSky

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Isaac Science @isaacscience.org · 02/12/2025

Today's question uses the core GCSE and A Level Chemistry skill of calculating empirical formulae on two compounds responsible for the bitter taste (to some!) of Brussels sprouts: isaacscience.org/questions/bi... #ChatChemistry #ITeachChem #RealTimeChem #EduSky 🧪

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Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 01/12/2025

A bit late kicking off #ChemAdvent day 1, but here we are! This year I'm finding chemical connections between some previous ChemAdvent editions 🧪 First up, earthy pyrazines are the connection between the smells of chocolate and green bean casserole 🍫

Infographics on the chemistry of chocolate smell and the flavour chemistry of green bean casserole. The two are linked by the presence of earthy pyrazines.

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Isaac Science @isaacscience.org · 01/12/2025

Every day of December, in the lead-up to the Christmas holidays, we will be posting a seasonal question from our platform. The questions will be linked to from: isaacscience.org/pages/202512... #ChatPhysics #iTeachPhysics #SciTeachUK #EduSky🎄

Screenshot of a Christmas tree-like shape made up of a rectangular, brown block at the bottom, green-coloured hexagons arranged in a tree shape and a grey star at the top. Each hexagon contains a number: the integers from 1 to 24. The hexagon numbered 1 is coloured purple, the colour used for physics questions on the platform.

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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

#OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was first published. Much of the original manuscript was used as scrap paper by Darwin's children. On the back of this painting of a house is an original manuscript page from Origin! #CambridgeUniversityLibrary (DAR 185)

A painting of a house by one of Charles Darwin's children. We see a simple outline of a house with a pitched roof, two chimneys and some lead-paned windows. We see the kitchen fire, with a clock on a mantle, and some cast iron pots on a window sill. In a window at the stop of the house we see a cat, or possibly a squirrel!

A hand-written page of Charles Darwin's original manuscript for the Origin of Species. There are many ink blots and crossings out, and some foxing consistent with its age.

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Andrea Chlebikova @stareatair.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Happy bonfire night! Enjoyed giving a quick talk about the science of fireworks at the Ray Dolby Centre tonight. Since I couldn't do the live demos there, they were pre-recorded in the morning, so here they (see comments) are for everyone's benefit! #ITeachChem #RealTimeChem #EduSky #ChatChemistry

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UK Maths Trust @ukmathstrust.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Teachers! View our Competitions Calendar and sign up here: ukmt.org.uk/competitions #MathsToday #UKMT #MathsCompetitions

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Andrea Chlebikova @stareatair.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

In #MathsToday, welcome to Bluesky, @ukmathstrust.bsky.social Looking forward to seeing some of you at the upcoming TMC development weekend 😃

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Andrea Chlebikova @stareatair.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I'll miss my official "Welcome to bye-fellowship at Catz" dinner this evening as I'll be in London watching Operation Mincemeat, but I've managed to pop in for lunch and a cuppa at least!

Photo of main courtyard in St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

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Isaac Science @isaacscience.org · 29/09/2025

Applications for the STEM SMART programme are open for Year 12 (or equivalent) state school students until the 31 October 2025. Watch our video: www.tiktok.com/@cambridgeun... Read more and apply: www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/stem-smart #EduSky #SciSky

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Are you a UK state school Year 12 student studying A level Maths, with either Further Maths, Biology, Physics, Chemistry or Computer Science (or equivalent)? ⚛️ Our STEM SMART programme by @cambridgep...

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Michael O’Neill @michaeloneill.org · 25/09/2025

Please enjoy today, 25/9/2025, the last square date until 2116 (5^2/3^2/45^2).

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Andrea Chlebikova @stareatair.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

The Home Office claiming there is no evidence that one moved to the UK with one's parents, as a child, hits rather close to home... (Lest a team turn up at my door, I did, after many stressful months, get the decision to deny me permanent residence overturned and indeed am now a British citizen.)

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Andrea Chlebikova @stareatair.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

It's been another successful STEM SMART residential this year, hosted in our new RDC building this time. Thanks to everyone who supported the event: the students really appreciated it!

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Andrea Chlebikova @stareatair.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

A really enjoyable event every year. Great to meet so many new teachers as well as seeing returners again. Lots interested in chemistry this year: hope the keenest ones enjoyed the detour to @stcatharines.bsky.social to see the orbitals exhibit 😀 Have a well-deserved summer break! #ChatChemistry

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Andrea Chlebikova @stareatair.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Do you have experience teaching science at secondary/sixth form? Come join us at Isaac Science as a project biologist, chemist or physicist! We're a small, friendly team and the work is very rewarding. #iTeachPhysics #ChatPhysics #iTeachChem #ChatChemistry #iTeachBio #ChatBiology #SciTeachUK #UKEd

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Andrea Chlebikova @stareatair.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

First Cambridge Open Days with Physics based in the new RDC building have been a success, though the weather has been rather too hot... Thanks to everyone who stopped by, and good luck to everyone planning to apply!

Photo of tables with an Isaac Physics branded table cloth. Two staff members are standing behind the tables with a banner in the background. There are Isaac books and leaflets on the tables, a laptop, and a bowl of apples.

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Isaac Science @isaacscience.org · 10/07/2025

Congratulations to the 47 students who attended the 2025 Senior Physics Challenge on an excellent week of quantum mechanics problem solving and experiments! #iTeachPhysics #EduSky #ChatPhysics

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St Catharine's College @stcatharines.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Everything would be awesome if we could build the Catz periodic spiral in LEGO! A design has been created & needs 10k votes before LEGO will consider it so let's get voting at ideas.lego.com/proje.... Learn about the original: caths.cam.ac.uk/abou... @chemlibcam.bsky.social‬ ‪@chemistryworld.com‬

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Periodic Tower of Elements | LEGO® Ideas

"Unleash Your Creativity: Craft the Universe’s Building Blocks with the 3D Periodic Tower of Elements! Dive into a world where chemistry, physics, and architect…

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Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 27/06/2025

The Beamish Museum (County Durham) is advertising for a Learning Coordinator (STEM): www.jobtrain.co.uk/beamishmuseu... 🏛️🎓

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Learning Coordinator (STEM):Beamish Museum Co Durham

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Euro notes contain a pigment which includes (very appropriately!) the rare earth metal Europium. It glows red under UV light. On this week's Rare Earth on BBC Radio 4 we dug deep into the environmental benefits & costs of rare earths and other critical minerals. Do listen! www.bbc.co.uk/progra...

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Andrea Chlebikova @stareatair.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

In #MathsToday, it is time for the UKMT Team Maths Challenge National Final! Good luck to all the teams taking part 🙂

Photo of inside of Royal Horticultural Halls building (a very large hall) with tables set up throughout the hall and "UK Maths Trust" and "Team Maths Challenge" banners set up at the front. A few people are continuing to set up the hall.

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Education in Chemistry @rsc-eic.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

🥽Goggles or 👓 safety specs – how are they labelled in your classroom or lab? edu.rsc.org/endpoint/do-... #iteachchem

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Education in Chemistry @rsc-eic.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Do you know your safety specs from your goggles? Chemist @stareatair.bsky.social‬ shares why it's crucial we all know what to use when 👇 edu.rsc.org/endpoint/do-...

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CLEAPSS @cleapss.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Quick poll time, it would be very useful for our work to know how many labs you have in your school. Sadly we can't do this via a voting poll, so please just reply with how many labs (teaching labs + prep rooms) you have. Please also share this with others Thanks for your help in this 👍

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Andrea Chlebikova @stareatair.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

In #MathsToday, time for the UKMT AGM at the London Mathematical Society's De Morgan House. As a chemist, couldn't help noticing it opened on Mole Day!

Photo of front entrance signs of 'De Morgan House'.

Plaque commemorating opening of De Morgan House, headquarters of the London Mathematical Society opened by Fields medalist Sir Michael Atiyah in presence of other Fields medalists.

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Andrea Chlebikova @stareatair.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

And so the building we moved into in January, new home of the @cambridgephysics.bsky.social, is now officially open!

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IUPAC @iupac.org · 09/05/2025

Thanks @chemistryworld.com, #Chemsky please vote to help @iupac.org to define key molecular machinery terms 👍 🔗 www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/4021... Task Group Members: @aprahamian.bsky.social @deanst.bsky.social @sgoldup.bsky.social @daisypooler.bsky.social Carson Bruns Pierangelo Metrangolo

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Andrea Chlebikova @stareatair.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

New design of the Isaac page coming soon, with chemistry content featured more prominently than before!

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Andrea Chlebikova @stareatair.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

You can beat Zr, Rf and Pr with "quicksilver" though 😉

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Andrea Chlebikova @stareatair.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Well done everyone! Was a pleasure to lead the Cayley marking this year and to have so many great volunteers contributing their time and expertise, such as @ridermeister.bsky.social, @algebraist.bsky.social, @heerpal.bsky.social and also great to finally meet @dannykodicek.bsky.social #MathsToday

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Andrea Chlebikova @stareatair.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Some data on the success of our STEM SMART programme! #ChatChemistry #EduSky

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