I have given in, driven by plan S, I have decided to join twitter. My problem is I have too many opinions. I will hopefully restrict myself to science.

Fabulous appointment.

Bayeux has the largest WW2 UK & commonwealth cemetery; around 5000 graves in France. There are allied Polish graves here too. Unusually, there are just 500 German graves here buried by the UK authorities.

Very moving day, Bayeux to Caen (train), then bike to sword to juno to gold to Bayeux.

Oor other national drink is Big in Japan.

RT @acmedsci: Congratulations to the 54 exceptional scientists who have been elected to the Academy Fellowship today in recognition of thei….

Thrilled to celebrate @mplsoxford colleagues election to @royalsociety - @davidmpyle @OxUniEarthSci, @PooleLabOxford @OxfordBiology Mike Giles @OxUniMaths, Shivaji Sondhi @OxfordPhysics, Philip Kukura @OxfordChemistry. Congrats to Jim Hall @oxsocsci & Kevin Foster @OxfordMedSci.

Opera dei Pupi Carlo Magno

Not official opinion or advice follows. <code switch> If youse r doon in London & fancy a proper roll an square, The shoap has ye sorted. They even do ya a pint o the big T. </code switch> @auldhag

Good thread by @simonpittaway on his report . @RichardALJones @UofGVC, does not go as far back early 2000’s; but chimes with my sense the uk has been grinding seed corn to eat (failing to invest). Consequently the loss productivity & unappetising choices.

Immodest boasting here that I have contributed the square root of very little to, nonetheless immensely proud to be part of this performance. Top 3 across the board.

I hope everyone is enjoying the final volume of British naval history. It’s a marvellous achievement and fitting end to the trilogy. I had the honor of lunch with the great man himself who signed my copy. @alexmassie

Just a treasure trove of materials.

The famous Copernicus heliocentric model.

Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) book shows the understanding of optics essential for observation. He sketches the human eye and is commemorated on the banknote, note the lens next to his image.

The teams there are doing the most amazing stuff including the optics for space based gravitational wave detection. It also has the best view of any lab I know of. Thanks for hosting @OxfordPhysics @mplsoxford today.

A real privilege today to visit @STFC_Matters @RoyalObs & @ukatc. @mplsoxford work with them across a range of projects including HARMONI. I saw the MOONS project, both the part for telescope and the cryostat for the camera

This thread worth your time. Bottom line for me, unless we make infrastructure cheaper quicker to build, grow talent then no growth. No growth will make us v unhappy & give rise to simplistic zero sum politics.

The UK needs to decide whether it wants the current “market” to decide on experimental science course numbers. If so, then more will close, as the loss per uk undergraduate becomes increasingly unbearable. Even if fixed, we collectively need to inspire kids.

Closing such expensive depts is a rational financial response for individual Universities especially when applications are down, but for UK this may not turn out to our advantage. The turning away from experimental science occurs at school.