A background in Astrophysics, I'm a lecturer and researcher with a passion for science and education. Suffice it to say, I'm a bit of a nerd.

London, England
Joined July 2010
I went for a walk today.
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Throwing everything at the ragù for dinner. Smoked pancetta, black garlic, port, porcini, fresh basil, and two hours on the stove.
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I can’t cave or I’ll never reset, but I’m so hungry!
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I’m on a group at the university who is helping to design a flagship new teaching space, which is rather fun. Although it’s quite strange to find yourself venturing a professional opinion at lunch about things you never really expected to in your career. Is this the right chaise?
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Some of the choices though. Glad they asked. Not at all chic. And in that colour?
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Pumpkin mousse
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Ahh, Walter Koenig died 🖖
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I may need to scale up a recipe 👀
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Disgusting insinuation. Absolutely appalling.
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Apologies. I forgot you would have to be chronically online to get this. As it happens, I could only see an old man or a member of Daft Punk.
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Quite how significant it actually was is obviously unclear, but *every* outlet this is reported on highlights the HQ location. I’ve only seen that detailed as a resistance to being dual-located, but it is telling that almost everyone is reading the same thing into it.
NEW: Britain is walking away from joining the Canada-led international Defence, Security & Resilience Bank @FT first revealed last month that the UK was exploring the proposal, including an option to merge the DSRB with the Multilateral Defence Mechanism (MDM), a separate UK-spearheaded international defence initiative. Talks broke down over merger, including disagreement about locations of proposed headquarters, acc to officials briefed on the matter. Via @GeorgeWParker & me ft.com/content/1f7924c1-ab63…
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Seemed like I may as well watch the second. It doesn’t feel in the slightest bit necessary, but 🤷
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almost annoying that I had no excuse because of the time shift
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Ghosts, mushroom and chestnut soup, and apple crumble.
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Found myself on the front row for opening/press night of ‘Classic Penguins’, an unhinged late-night naked one-man audience-participatory comedy semi-circus show about Penguin Classic books. With latex gloves, a food fight, and Penguin bars.
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Did I miss the apocalypse?
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I'm not really sure that those talking about this really understand that there are different ways of approaching this. Firstly, this isn't accompanied by one of the most important factors - one's science teacher. 65% of science teachers are female. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c69w…
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It's not necessarily the case that many female scientists have been erased from a hegemonic science curriculum by a group of men in STEM. It's that a lot of the science done by female scientists isn't of the kind of level that would go on a GCSE science exam in a meaningful way.
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Which isn't to say that you shouldn't ensure that female scientists are highlighted when they were behind the scenes, sidelined or ignored. You do it in a way that explains why there aren't many female historical scientific figures. But science's history, is its history.
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