Alom Shaha
@alomshaha.bsky.social
Dad. Science Teacher. Author of books including “Why Don’t Things Fall Up?”, "Mr Shaha's Recipes for Wonder" and “How to Find a Rainbow”. Lots of free stuff and more about me at alomshaha.com
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Alom Shaha
@alomshaha.bsky.social
· Oct 12
I’ve spent 25+ years teaching and “ communicating” science. As well as being a schoolteacher, I’ve worked with scientists and science institutions to help them explain their work to the public. This book is the culmination of all that work. Out in paperback Nov. 7th www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1529...
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I'm on shared parental leave for three months after this weekend 🎉 (Once I've covered Your Party conference)
Very excited & lucky to have the opportunity.
Shared parental leave is a right in the UK for employees but not many people use it, in large part because it's unpaid. If you have Qs, do ask.
Very excited & lucky to have the opportunity.
Shared parental leave is a right in the UK for employees but not many people use it, in large part because it's unpaid. If you have Qs, do ask.
November 27, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I'm on shared parental leave for three months after this weekend 🎉 (Once I've covered Your Party conference)
Very excited & lucky to have the opportunity.
Shared parental leave is a right in the UK for employees but not many people use it, in large part because it's unpaid. If you have Qs, do ask.
Very excited & lucky to have the opportunity.
Shared parental leave is a right in the UK for employees but not many people use it, in large part because it's unpaid. If you have Qs, do ask.
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It supremely fucks me off that EVERY YEAR some fash troglodyte starts this kind of absolute rubbish, easily disproved, but so many of the racist and incredibly stupid want to believe it
Social media posts have claimed that Tesco is not celebrating Christmas, because it has described one of its trees as an “evergreen” tree.
This is misleading—the retailer sells other artificial trees labelled as Christmas trees.
This is misleading—the retailer sells other artificial trees labelled as Christmas trees.
Tesco hasn’t rebranded all its Christmas trees to ‘evergreen trees’ – Full Fact
Claims that Tesco is not celebrating Christmas because it is selling an “evergreen” tree are missing context.
fullfact.org
November 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
It supremely fucks me off that EVERY YEAR some fash troglodyte starts this kind of absolute rubbish, easily disproved, but so many of the racist and incredibly stupid want to believe it
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Jennifer Egan: “The reason I like writing from a male point of view has to do with why I love writing, period, which is that I love the feeling of being delivered out of my self, out of my own life, and into another world.”
November 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Jennifer Egan: “The reason I like writing from a male point of view has to do with why I love writing, period, which is that I love the feeling of being delivered out of my self, out of my own life, and into another world.”
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I don’t usually feel like £9m is a relative bargain but this wouldn’t need a complete overhaul of the interior for a start
Check out this 5 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove
5 bedroom detached house for sale in Schreiber House, Shreiber House, NW3 for £9,500,000. Marketed by The Modern House, London
www.rightmove.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I don’t usually feel like £9m is a relative bargain but this wouldn’t need a complete overhaul of the interior for a start
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Pediatricians say vaccines do not cause autism. A bear-eating heroin addict who fantasizes about sucking his own semen out of his lovers' orifices says they do. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Pediatricians say vaccines do not cause autism. A bear-eating heroin addict who fantasizes about sucking his own semen out of his lovers' orifices says they do. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
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UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts.
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts.
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
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It’s completely primal. I honestly think my son could chop my legs off and commit genocide and I would still love him.
November 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
It’s completely primal. I honestly think my son could chop my legs off and commit genocide and I would still love him.
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I think our children are never going to understand what a gift we find them to be, until they have their own.
November 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I think our children are never going to understand what a gift we find them to be, until they have their own.
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Is there any object that has changed less in the last 4000 years than a gaming die? There's an astonishingly human and above all social story around that profound survival.
This terracotta die comes from the ancient city of Mohenjo-Daro, one of the first urban centres in human history 🎲⠀
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Gaming with dice has been a popular pastime in India for millennia, with this object dating back to 2500–1900 BCE.
🎲 Terracotta Die, 2500–1900 BCE. 2 x 2 x 2 cm. EAMd.25
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Gaming with dice has been a popular pastime in India for millennia, with this object dating back to 2500–1900 BCE.
🎲 Terracotta Die, 2500–1900 BCE. 2 x 2 x 2 cm. EAMd.25
November 27, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Is there any object that has changed less in the last 4000 years than a gaming die? There's an astonishingly human and above all social story around that profound survival.
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This is quite shockingly racist and I don't know why this is getting a pass from the media. If Goodwin were still gainfully employed in a proper workplace, this is the kind of shit that gets you hauled up in front of HR and issued with a formal warning.
Reflections on the budget from the head of Students4Reform
November 27, 2025 at 8:42 AM
This is quite shockingly racist and I don't know why this is getting a pass from the media. If Goodwin were still gainfully employed in a proper workplace, this is the kind of shit that gets you hauled up in front of HR and issued with a formal warning.
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Then they washed it in the sink and put it back in the box. So I got wet and still hairy chocolate presented to me with much love.
November 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Then they washed it in the sink and put it back in the box. So I got wet and still hairy chocolate presented to me with much love.
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Ha, I don't need them but the absolutely appalling presents they have given me over the years have been amazing. Best was the chocolate they decided to open to put in a special box (you can't keep the box mum, it's mine) sadly they got excited and dropped the chocolate on the cat fur covered floor.
November 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Ha, I don't need them but the absolutely appalling presents they have given me over the years have been amazing. Best was the chocolate they decided to open to put in a special box (you can't keep the box mum, it's mine) sadly they got excited and dropped the chocolate on the cat fur covered floor.
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My children have been such a gift to me - I love telling them that I don’t need presents for Christmas because their mum gave me the best ones ever.
November 27, 2025 at 7:36 AM
My children have been such a gift to me - I love telling them that I don’t need presents for Christmas because their mum gave me the best ones ever.
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Gift giving is a reciprocal joy, the gift giver thinking about you with their gift, and the you seeing the care they feel for you
November 27, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Gift giving is a reciprocal joy, the gift giver thinking about you with their gift, and the you seeing the care they feel for you
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Thanksgiving in the US today - although it’s got a dodgy back story, I think idea of thanksgiving is a good one. On my way to work, a job which I‘ve felt particularly thankful for, considering negative experiences in my other work. Mostly thankful for my family who make me feel lucky every day.
November 27, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Thanksgiving in the US today - although it’s got a dodgy back story, I think idea of thanksgiving is a good one. On my way to work, a job which I‘ve felt particularly thankful for, considering negative experiences in my other work. Mostly thankful for my family who make me feel lucky every day.
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The Artist by Lucy Steeds wins Waterstones book of the year
The Artist by Lucy Steeds wins Waterstones book of the year
The debut novel took the top prize while The Café at the Edge of the Woods by Mikey Please was named children’s book of the year
The Artist by Lucy Steeds has been named this year’s Waterstones book of the year.
The novel, which is set in 1920s Provence and blends mystery with a love story, also took home the Waterstones debut fiction prize earlier this year, and was longlisted for the Women’s prize for fiction. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:19 AM
The Artist by Lucy Steeds wins Waterstones book of the year
This is some good news:
Following a public consultation, the UK gov has published its North Sea Future Plan. It includes both detail on its approach to new oil & gas exploration licensing AND details on its support for the O&G workforce & communities. The headline is that there will be no new exploration licences issued
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November 27, 2025 at 7:43 AM
This is some good news:
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The fact that more than half the Senate abdicated their responsibility to approve a competent cabinet, all in the name of letting Trump have the advisors he wanted, is the worst scandal ever. They could have stopped Kennedy and Hegseth and demanded some form of normalcy.
November 26, 2025 at 11:52 PM
The fact that more than half the Senate abdicated their responsibility to approve a competent cabinet, all in the name of letting Trump have the advisors he wanted, is the worst scandal ever. They could have stopped Kennedy and Hegseth and demanded some form of normalcy.
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The sex scandal is stupid and revolting. It's also boring and immaterial.
The real scandal is the destruction of our public health system while we watch in real time and do nothing.
The real scandal is the destruction of our public health system while we watch in real time and do nothing.
November 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
The sex scandal is stupid and revolting. It's also boring and immaterial.
The real scandal is the destruction of our public health system while we watch in real time and do nothing.
The real scandal is the destruction of our public health system while we watch in real time and do nothing.
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People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
Thanksgiving in the US today - although it’s got a dodgy back story, I think idea of thanksgiving is a good one. On my way to work, a job which I‘ve felt particularly thankful for, considering negative experiences in my other work. Mostly thankful for my family who make me feel lucky every day.
November 27, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Thanksgiving in the US today - although it’s got a dodgy back story, I think idea of thanksgiving is a good one. On my way to work, a job which I‘ve felt particularly thankful for, considering negative experiences in my other work. Mostly thankful for my family who make me feel lucky every day.
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The cruelty of Tory austerity remains breathtaking.
November 27, 2025 at 7:22 AM
The cruelty of Tory austerity remains breathtaking.
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I did a charity mailing years ago about a single mum with a severely disabled son whose diagnosis meant he, for eg, has sleep issues & a lot of equipment. She was fighting to keep their home as under the bedroom tax she was told he could share with his sister.
November 27, 2025 at 7:18 AM
I did a charity mailing years ago about a single mum with a severely disabled son whose diagnosis meant he, for eg, has sleep issues & a lot of equipment. She was fighting to keep their home as under the bedroom tax she was told he could share with his sister.
I‘m sure lots of us know people who’ve been screwed over by the leasehold system - a license granted to unscrupulous people to take money from people for little to nothing in return. Government should act to stop it. Hope Labour will.
The whole leasehold system is massively corrupt. Whilst their service charges weren't awful, my parents' old place before moving was run by a negligent company that only deigned, after years of complaints, to do essential pointing when masonry fell in the street that could easily have killed someone
November 27, 2025 at 7:22 AM
I‘m sure lots of us know people who’ve been screwed over by the leasehold system - a license granted to unscrupulous people to take money from people for little to nothing in return. Government should act to stop it. Hope Labour will.
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The whole leasehold system is massively corrupt. Whilst their service charges weren't awful, my parents' old place before moving was run by a negligent company that only deigned, after years of complaints, to do essential pointing when masonry fell in the street that could easily have killed someone
November 27, 2025 at 7:17 AM
The whole leasehold system is massively corrupt. Whilst their service charges weren't awful, my parents' old place before moving was run by a negligent company that only deigned, after years of complaints, to do essential pointing when masonry fell in the street that could easily have killed someone