Oscar O'Flanagan
@owoflanagan.bsky.social
PhD student researching Arctic aerosol-cloud interactions, occasionally quizzing
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October 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
@pritchardjr.bsky.social thanks for the cosmology lectures, sure came in handy :)
October 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
@pritchardjr.bsky.social thanks for the cosmology lectures, sure came in handy :)
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Imperial returns to #UniversityChallenge next month! Our team will be playing Churchill College, Cambridge for their first round match.
Catch it on BBC 2 on 6 October or join us at the students' union for a watch party.
Catch it on BBC 2 on 6 October or join us at the students' union for a watch party.
September 27, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Imperial returns to #UniversityChallenge next month! Our team will be playing Churchill College, Cambridge for their first round match.
Catch it on BBC 2 on 6 October or join us at the students' union for a watch party.
Catch it on BBC 2 on 6 October or join us at the students' union for a watch party.
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🗺️NEW: BAS Map Catalogue is live!
Explore Antarctica and the Arctic through our collection of professional maps. Perfect for educators, adventurers, and polar enthusiasts. Many available on open licence for free download. #PolarMaps #Antarctica
Explore Antarctica and the Arctic through our collection of professional maps. Perfect for educators, adventurers, and polar enthusiasts. Many available on open licence for free download. #PolarMaps #Antarctica
September 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
🗺️NEW: BAS Map Catalogue is live!
Explore Antarctica and the Arctic through our collection of professional maps. Perfect for educators, adventurers, and polar enthusiasts. Many available on open licence for free download. #PolarMaps #Antarctica
Explore Antarctica and the Arctic through our collection of professional maps. Perfect for educators, adventurers, and polar enthusiasts. Many available on open licence for free download. #PolarMaps #Antarctica
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We are happy to announce that the Royal Society's Copley Medal 2025 is awarded to Professor Sir John Pendry FRS for work on the concept and designs of metamaterials that represent the greatest advance in electromagnetism since Faraday and Maxwell. #RSMedals royalsociety.org/medals-and-p...
August 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
We are happy to announce that the Royal Society's Copley Medal 2025 is awarded to Professor Sir John Pendry FRS for work on the concept and designs of metamaterials that represent the greatest advance in electromagnetism since Faraday and Maxwell. #RSMedals royalsociety.org/medals-and-p...
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In light of the recent university department cuts, one may refer to CS Lewis’ sermon “Learning in Wartime” on the importance of the continuous pursuit of knowledge in the face of adversity. (1/4)
August 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
In light of the recent university department cuts, one may refer to CS Lewis’ sermon “Learning in Wartime” on the importance of the continuous pursuit of knowledge in the face of adversity. (1/4)
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Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 94?
Happy Birthday Roger.
Happy Birthday Roger.
August 8, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 94?
Happy Birthday Roger.
Happy Birthday Roger.
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Tournament locations have now dropped, in a new Lioness-themed map!
If you’re part of a quiz society, or just interested in quiz, and want to get involved with any of these tournaments, feel free to DM us or contact us through the email in our bio.
If you’re part of a quiz society, or just interested in quiz, and want to get involved with any of these tournaments, feel free to DM us or contact us through the email in our bio.
August 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Tournament locations have now dropped, in a new Lioness-themed map!
If you’re part of a quiz society, or just interested in quiz, and want to get involved with any of these tournaments, feel free to DM us or contact us through the email in our bio.
If you’re part of a quiz society, or just interested in quiz, and want to get involved with any of these tournaments, feel free to DM us or contact us through the email in our bio.
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We've had a Very Important Ice delivery!
These precious ancient ice core samples from Antarctica are expected to reveal a climate record stretching back more than 1.5 million years 🤯
That's further than we've ever looked back before.
🧵 1/4
These precious ancient ice core samples from Antarctica are expected to reveal a climate record stretching back more than 1.5 million years 🤯
That's further than we've ever looked back before.
🧵 1/4
July 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
We've had a Very Important Ice delivery!
These precious ancient ice core samples from Antarctica are expected to reveal a climate record stretching back more than 1.5 million years 🤯
That's further than we've ever looked back before.
🧵 1/4
These precious ancient ice core samples from Antarctica are expected to reveal a climate record stretching back more than 1.5 million years 🤯
That's further than we've ever looked back before.
🧵 1/4
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Figure I might get back to this on the better website. Stats below for tonight's incredibly close #UniversityChallenge match featuring for the first time ever 8 people all of whom I know and hold very dear. A pity one of yous had to win but a commendable effort from all. Hope to see Sheffield again!
July 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Figure I might get back to this on the better website. Stats below for tonight's incredibly close #UniversityChallenge match featuring for the first time ever 8 people all of whom I know and hold very dear. A pity one of yous had to win but a commendable effort from all. Hope to see Sheffield again!
Excited for the return of #UniversityChallenge tonight, I can promise the players tonight are all excellent people - shame that one team will have to lose.
July 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Excited for the return of #UniversityChallenge tonight, I can promise the players tonight are all excellent people - shame that one team will have to lose.
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The tournament schedule for the autumn term has dropped!
If any society is interested in hosting any of these tournaments, drop us a message or fill out the form below. If you or your society wants to attend any of these tournaments, we'd love to have you so feel free to DM us!
If any society is interested in hosting any of these tournaments, drop us a message or fill out the form below. If you or your society wants to attend any of these tournaments, we'd love to have you so feel free to DM us!
July 14, 2025 at 12:42 PM
The tournament schedule for the autumn term has dropped!
If any society is interested in hosting any of these tournaments, drop us a message or fill out the form below. If you or your society wants to attend any of these tournaments, we'd love to have you so feel free to DM us!
If any society is interested in hosting any of these tournaments, drop us a message or fill out the form below. If you or your society wants to attend any of these tournaments, we'd love to have you so feel free to DM us!
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Check out our latest blog post for the MRNA tournament, as well as a reflection on the year as a whole!
quizbowl.co.uk/articles/mrn...
quizbowl.co.uk/articles/mrn...
MRNA IV: A New Hope
An overview of the antepenultimate tournament of the 2024-2025 UK QuizBowl season from moderators and players.
quizbowl.co.uk
July 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Check out our latest blog post for the MRNA tournament, as well as a reflection on the year as a whole!
quizbowl.co.uk/articles/mrn...
quizbowl.co.uk/articles/mrn...
Final year of undergrad vs first year of PhD :)
July 8, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Final year of undergrad vs first year of PhD :)
Exeter I am inexorably on my way
July 7, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Exeter I am inexorably on my way
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this was tough. left some good ones off the list but this is what i ended up with:
June 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
this was tough. left some good ones off the list but this is what i ended up with:
Anyway, Strasbourg: it's a place and it's nice
June 12, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Anyway, Strasbourg: it's a place and it's nice
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⚖️History made!
In a landmark case, a German court today confirmed that corporate emitters can be held liable for their contribution to climate impacts.
The Grantham Institute’s Dr Noah Walker-Crawford was in Hamm to hear the verdict 👇
In a landmark case, a German court today confirmed that corporate emitters can be held liable for their contribution to climate impacts.
The Grantham Institute’s Dr Noah Walker-Crawford was in Hamm to hear the verdict 👇
May 28, 2025 at 1:27 PM
⚖️History made!
In a landmark case, a German court today confirmed that corporate emitters can be held liable for their contribution to climate impacts.
The Grantham Institute’s Dr Noah Walker-Crawford was in Hamm to hear the verdict 👇
In a landmark case, a German court today confirmed that corporate emitters can be held liable for their contribution to climate impacts.
The Grantham Institute’s Dr Noah Walker-Crawford was in Hamm to hear the verdict 👇
Enjoy this cat from Martin McCall's classical mechanics textbook
May 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Enjoy this cat from Martin McCall's classical mechanics textbook
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Here is our tournament schedule for the summer term! Please note that MRNA IV and Deep Bench are being played on the same set, so Deep Bench players and mods will not be able to play MRNA IV. SOTON TRASH and THIING are non-UKQB affiliated, so please contact the organisers in relation to those.
April 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Here is our tournament schedule for the summer term! Please note that MRNA IV and Deep Bench are being played on the same set, so Deep Bench players and mods will not be able to play MRNA IV. SOTON TRASH and THIING are non-UKQB affiliated, so please contact the organisers in relation to those.
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ten thousand lifetimes have passed since this happened
1 year ago today, the infamous 'Willy Wonka Chocolate Experience' took place.
February 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
ten thousand lifetimes have passed since this happened
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Kicking off a productive CERTAINTY meeting!
We are planning for Year 2 and beyond, aligning on current progress, and strengthening collaborations with our partners and International advisory committee.
Exciting coordinated modeling case studies ahead.
Welcome to all new team members & ECRs!
We are planning for Year 2 and beyond, aligning on current progress, and strengthening collaborations with our partners and International advisory committee.
Exciting coordinated modeling case studies ahead.
Welcome to all new team members & ECRs!
February 13, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Kicking off a productive CERTAINTY meeting!
We are planning for Year 2 and beyond, aligning on current progress, and strengthening collaborations with our partners and International advisory committee.
Exciting coordinated modeling case studies ahead.
Welcome to all new team members & ECRs!
We are planning for Year 2 and beyond, aligning on current progress, and strengthening collaborations with our partners and International advisory committee.
Exciting coordinated modeling case studies ahead.
Welcome to all new team members & ECRs!
I'm in France and I'm having an egg and bacon mcmuffin at 5 pm. Some things they just do better
January 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I'm in France and I'm having an egg and bacon mcmuffin at 5 pm. Some things they just do better
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Save Page Now is back online via the Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/save
Web pages archived since October 9 will start being added to the Wayback Machine.
Web pages archived since October 9 will start being added to the Wayback Machine.
November 4, 2024 at 9:13 PM
Save Page Now is back online via the Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/save
Web pages archived since October 9 will start being added to the Wayback Machine.
Web pages archived since October 9 will start being added to the Wayback Machine.