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Margaret Harris @drmlharris.bsky.social · 9d

Okay, today is physics #NobelPrize day, so there's just enough time for another instalment of...

PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZES YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF – PART 2

In 1912, a Swedish inventor called Gustaf Dalén beat Albert Einstein and Max Planck (inter alia) to the biggest prize in physics. How? Well...🧵🧪⚛️

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Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · 22d

Trump links paracetamol use in pregnancy to increased risk of autism - here's what the evidence says

While most doctors would advise women only to take medicines in pregnancy when necessary, avoiding paracetamol could do more harm than good.

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Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · Aug 6

The chilling document that traces nuclear weapons back to Britain - and the threat we now face

Nuclear weapons have not been used in warfare since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years ago this week. However, experts warn today's conflicts put the world in a precarious state.

National Grid's maintenance the damning failure identified by report into fire that sparked Heathrow chaos

Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · Jul 2

Perhaps it's just me, but I can't get over the fact that in our digital age our electricity grid relies on the decidedly analogue insulating power of paper and oil: news.sky.com/story/nation...

The "catastrophic" blaze that forced Heathrow to shut for 16 hours could have been avoided if a fault at a nearby National Grid substation, first spotted in 2018, had been fixed, according to a new re...

Boom or bust for fishing industry as octopuses swarm in UK waters?

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Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · Jun 3

I once watched a pigeon ride the tube from leafy Maida Vale to food rich Paddington station. But this is a whole other level!

Paige Byerly, PhD @paigebyerly.bsky.social · Jun 3

A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius.

This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology

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Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · May 27

British fishermen are up in arms…

Victoria Seabrook @seabrookclimate.bsky.social · May 27

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Friend or foe? And what's causing the "explosion" of octopus in UK waters?

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Regulators, fishers, academics and conservation bodies are trying to work out what has fuelled the "octopus bloom" in the South West, and whether the creatures are here to stay.

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Tara Connolly @taraconnolly.bsky.social · May 23

Wow. An honest review of an SUV.

www.irishtimes.com/motors/revie...

For the rest of us? We need to stop. Not only does the International Council on Clean Climate (ICCC) reckon that the extra weight and bulk of SUVs outmatches the gains in efficiency we’ve made with improved petrol engines and electric power, but more recently Imperial College London has released a study that shows you’re 44 per cent more likely to die if you’re struck by an SUV as opposed to a more conventional saloon, hatchback or estate. For children, chillingly, that figure rises to 130 per cent. I’ve been known to soften my SUV stance in the face of examples that are charming, or stylish, or notably comfortable, practical or good to drive, but those figures are enough to make any potential SUV purchaser blanch at the prospect. Or, at least, they ought to.

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Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · Apr 28

The anti-Net Zero lobby has been quick to highlight the fact Spain was at the time of the outage relying on more than 60% solar generation. I read it’s unlikely solar caused grid failure but could lack of dispatchable power have been a factor in subsequent collapse?

We rarely think about how essential and reliable electricity grids are until they fail.

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Sky News @news.sky.com · Apr 28

How electricity grids fail - and why restoring Spain and Portugal's power will be a nightmare

Government to decide on 'postcode pricing' plan for electricity bills by summer

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Victoria Seabrook @seabrookclimate.bsky.social · Apr 24

US representative at London energy security summit Tommy Joyce says climate policies “harms human lives” and that Biden regulated oil and gas out of existence in favour of “net zero agenda”.

But US oil and gas production reached record levels under Biden

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Victoria Seabrook @seabrookclimate.bsky.social · Apr 24

Government to decide on regional pricing by summer, Sky News understands

Meanwhile Trump's guy at energy security summit quotes the Bible to back up US energy policy, says God's "golden rule" is to love your neighbour, which means selling them oil, gas and coal

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So-called "zonal pricing" could see the south of England pay more for electricity bills than parts of Scotland. It comes as energy secretary Ed Miliband doubles down on the case for more clean power, ...

Donald Trump has finally blinked - but it's not the stock markets that have forced him to act

Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · Apr 10

Its the bonds what done it. Great analysis by my colleague Ian King news.sky.com/story/trump-...

The US president had brushed off the sour equity market reaction to his tariffs as being akin to "medicine" that had to be taken. But, as ever, it is the bond markets that have forced Mr Trump to blin...

Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · Mar 31

Top tip if you're home late and reheating pasta carbonara: don't

The Seventh Carbon Budget - Climate Change Committee

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · Mar 18

I remember it being unpleasant & a lot less fudge-y.

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Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · Feb 26

This is an important point. Unless people plan now for replacing their boiler when it -- probably unexpectedly-- packs up, they'll have little choice but to get a new gas boiler. Should advice be: sort home energy efficiency now, upgrade heating system so you're "heat pump ready"?

Joe Lo @joeloclimate.bsky.social · Feb 26

The UK’s climate advisers here envision gas boilers only being replaced by heat pumps when they break down. But that relies on wait times for heat pumps being very low. Nobody’s going to live in a cold house for months waiting for an installer! www.theccc.org.uk/publication/...

Presented to the Secretary of State pursuant to Section 34 of the Climate Change Act 2008. Footnotes have…

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Make the Moon Great Again—or lose it to China? The new space race heats up

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · Feb 10

Interested in using data on human behaviour to understand and predict epidemics? Come do a PhD with us! Deadline 7 March – please get in touch if interested!

www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

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Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · Feb 9

Estonia flips the switch

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · Feb 9

⚡️ The historic moment of Estonia leaving the Russian-fed power grid.

On February 8, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia left Russia and Belarus energy system. By the end of the day today, they will have joined the European grid.

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Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · Feb 7

Make the Moon Great Again? We delved into the future of human space exploration under Donald Trump news.sky.com/story/make-t...

Why despite all the technological advances since America first landed on the Moon, is its bid to return so fraught with uncertainty? The answer isn't really rocket science, it's politics.

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Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · Feb 7

Right there with you. Who knew conditioner would be the Archduke Ferdinand of our times

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Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · Feb 7

Well that's something at least!

Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · Feb 7

Nor was I. She deserves a statue!

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Feb 1

Saturday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the *lowest* on record (JAXA data)

• about 640,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,280,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,850,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,290,000 km² below the 1980s mean

Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

Line graph time series of 2025's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2024. 2025 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between January and April by looking at the decadal average line positions.

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Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · Jan 27

I know. But imagine you staggered away from Season 2 half way and missed the Christmas ep! About as fun as norovirus, but the best bit of telly to come out of America in years IMO! Ok season 3 not as good -- but even Mrs C thought birth ep (8?) was amazing and she's a harsh judge of screen mothers.

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Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · Jan 27

I hear you. But now glad I endured the mauling.