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Dr Peter H. Sneddon

@DrPHSneddon

Senior Lecturer in Learning, Teaching & Scholarship, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Glasgow Bit of a Dr Who nut too.

Joined August 2012
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Thanks everyone who came to the inaugural Science In Stewarton IOPScotland talk - it was a great success. And special thanks to our speaker @Toland92 and demonstrators @cosmo__jess and @rhonamcteague @IoPScotland @Stewarton_Acad @UofGPhysAstro @UofGravity
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For the first time in ... no idea how long ... it looks like I might get the chance to do/present some proper SOTL this year. Managed to secure a SOTL grant from UofG (Huzzah!) *and* got a talk accepted for @ViCEPHEC this year. (Huzzah Huzzah!) 😂 @UofG_APE @UofGPhysAstro
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Less than two weeks to go to the Quantum Technology School 2021! Programme details at gla.ac.uk/schools/physics/re… Organised by @UofG_APE, @UofGPhysAstro, @GlasgowCS, @UofGEngineering
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The Myth Makers Merry fun in Troy Larks with Paris and his pals Then: horse and carnage #DoctorWho #HaikWho Three episodes of some of the best comedy the show has ever had, then a crunching gear change as people start getting massacred all over the place.
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It's the Siege of Troy, as filtered through the historical lens of "bits of history you vaguely remember from school, or did I read that in a book?" It's great fun, though, and sees Vicki leave us.
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And, completing her character arc of being a carbon copy of Susan, she goes off to marry someone she just met. Though, again, like Susan, it's a passably convincing romance.
Mission to the unknown Dalek Cutaway A plan to destroy the Earth Main cast get a break #DoctorWho #HaikWho This is a one episode teaser for a 12 part Dalek "epic" which will be arriving shortly.
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It's another audio-only remnant, seeming to consist of some spies wandering around a particularly dangerous garden centre, whilst aliens from various galaxies plot with the Daleks to destroy the Earth. And none of the regulars are in it, which makes it a bit weird.
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But I guess if you're making 45+ episodes a year it's nice to let people have a lie down occasionally.
Galaxy 4 A doomed planet Drahvin versus Rill, Magma Will kill them all now #DoctorWho #HaikWho Erm ... only one episode of this still remains, and it seems to find the Doctor and friends wandering around the Blue Peter studio.
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Underneath all the terrible acting (not the regulars, they're fine as always) there is something clever about our pre-conceptions trying to get through (the pretty aliens turn out to be evil; the hideous ones turn out to be good). But this really is awful.
The Time Meddler Saxons! Vikings! Oh! The Meddling Monk interferes! The Doctor stops him #DoctorWho #HaikWho This is our first "pseudo-historical", a term used by Doctor Who fans who feel the need to categorise and list everything about the show. i.e. all of us.
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Anyway, that means it's a tale set in Earth's history - 1066 Northumbria in this case - but with some alien involvement. And great involvement it is - our first guest Time Lord, although that term is still a few years away from being introduced.
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Peter Butterworth is brilliant as the Monk, a character determined to change history. He seems to genuinely think he's doing this for the right reasons, though is also determined to have some fun too.
Well... What's up? For us today's quite a special day since we're officially launching the Astronomy & Physics Education group! More details at gla.ac.uk/schools/physics/re… @UofGPhysAstro @UofGlasgow @UofGLEADS
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The Chase Daleks go after “Their greatest enemies” and Babs and Ian leave. #DoctorWho #HaikWho The Daleks are back, and now they have their own time machine!
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Oh well. My Nation will have to limit himself to just the occasional mansion and yacht I suppose. The story sees the departure of Ian and Barbara, and that's a real shame because they have been phenomenal.
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They've actually felt like real people, not just for a TV show of that period, but for any series. They were really well written and acted. They will be missed!
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