Ian Horsewell

IOP and @ioppublishing.bsky.social extend our warmest congratulations to Prof Francis Halzen, awardee of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics "for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin".👏 www.iop.org/about/news/f...

Quite a contrast to the aims of the Sutton Trust which he founded. "We want the kids who survive air pollution to have the chance for a great education,"

Thanks to austerity, 31% of UK children are living in poverty.

Cc @rachelphysics.bsky.social and anyone interested in assessment of physics understanding

SCOOP: Meta execs announced that its much-hyped AI agent, Muse, had a new feature: It could call businesses for you to do things like make a restaurant reservation or a haircut appointment. In reality, Meta is testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers, 404 Media learned.

Just discovered that Forensic Seismology is a thing. Now *that* feels like a career we should be telling kids about. #iteachphysics

Not new, and not discovered...still great news. I offer a, perhaps, more accurate, less colonizing, title: "Western scientists describe a felid known to local communities as Tilcayo. It is the first description of its kind in over a century"

It has been an excel-heavy week but I've gotten my dashboards talking to each other properly *and* I've just got my first power query doing what I wanted. I know nobody cares but I'm pleased.

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See also: private ownership of firearms in the US.

Is it "anything my teenager has touched"?

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For the first time in fourteen years I've woken up in our home without a cat. I don't like it.

«students who do not use AI outperform those who do, on average, by around 20 points – equivalent to being around one year of schooling ahead of their peers.» Trippelwhammen Tiktok 2018, Covid i 2020, kronet med ChatGPT i 2022 har gjort underverker for kidsa våre. www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now

Astonishing to hear people say they'd rather asylum seekers drowned than be saved by the RNLI. Next comes letting people die in burning hostels rather than be saved by the fire brigade and letting people get kicked to death in the street rather than be saved by the Police. Don't platform this hate.

#Edinburgh! What are you doing on Friday night? Come to my book launch at Dynamic Earth! There will be: 🍺 A bar 🎶 Music 💃 Dancing (well, I'll be dancing from all the excitement) 🪐 Planetarium 360 visuals 🧪 Science + a little bit of philosophy 🎟️: dynamicearth.org.uk/event/how-to... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🔭

I made somebody's blog. For something I did literally *years* ago. mycharisma.com/culture/youn... (also featuring @alomshaha.bsky.social and @humanists.uk )

Third day of secondary school and they've left both coat and drinks bottle there already. Blazer was missing this morning but found on the coat rack. Give me strength.

I feel like Bluesky is the place where people will appreciate how envious I still am of my sister, around 35 years after she achieved her (and my) top bucket list item of being locked in the bookshop when it closed, and having the place to entirely to herself.

I think for me it's at least 24 hours. Each night.

I hope the kids of all these protesters are having a lovely day out with their Mums and new Stepdads.

oh protesters are they? if just stop oil block a street for an hour thats a criminal offence and when a nice old grammy holds up a pro-palestine sign shes a domestic terrorist but seizing a port still counts as a protest then, i see

‘These are not random conference oddballs caught saying something stupid after several drinks. ‘They were the people meant to turn Faragism from an insurgency into a government.’ unherd.com/newsroom/ref...

And remembering that the most effective modelling in the classroom shows the students your thought process - can you do that when a robot has done the thinking?

A reminder for all the people who are still using genAI images to express their opposition to right-wing crap. Please, find another way.

@cstross.bsky.social they're sharing her superpowers!

Cat is poorly. At 14 he's done really well, but it never feels like enough. Small paws leave big gaps.

Hey... just checking - there's no historical precedent in which a fascistic and brazenly racist government goes after abstract and modernist art while rounding up and expelling undesirables, right?

Teenager just slipped in the shower and the tray has cracked under them... no hairline, completely gone. Just what we needed the first week of term...

lmao

Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.

A party of famous physicists! #iteachphysics #physics #chatphysics

I may have fallen down a rabbit hole with all the cool things I can do with programmable NFC tags.

You fuckers made me do it. The Racist Academicals Patter Song.

Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.

Don't mean to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but did anyone ever see Tim Curry and Dolly Parton in the same room?

Words you love you hear at an academic panel: "This isn't a question, but more a comment..."

New lesson: build a real parallel plate capacitor from aluminum foil and printer paper, measure its capacitance, and experimentally determine the dielectric constant of printer paper. Then discover it is not quite ideal! youtu.be/WmzqDjl_7Z8 #iTeachPhysics #Physics #Science #EduSky #SciComm

Today's allotment project - water harvesting. Tested fine, now to see how it works next time it rains.

@bpsofficial.bsky.social can I flag that at least one of your members (and a Chartered Psychologist according to their website) has publicly supported a racist and eugenicist? Presumably against sections 3.1 and 3.3 of your code.

@collegeofteaching.bsky.social can I flag that at least one Chartered Teacher is publicly supporting a racist and eugenicist? Presumably this is not in keeping with the expectations...

I don't know who needs a real pickmeup today, but in recent court filings about the wealth owned by Andrew Tate, they indicate the Bugattis and Aston Martin he always bragged about owning... were rented. All of them.

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Confused Brit trying to follow an American recipe: How many tablespoons is that, for heaven’s sake?