Earth scientist, physicist, old university archery admin, sport fanatic. Likes the colour orange and launching water rockets.
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Dr Stephen Fawcett retweeted
Jodrell Bank is the most visible causality of UKRI’s short sighted ‘vision’ for science, but as you’ll see below, there are many other valuable UK facilities and collaborations at risk. We became aware of the problem in the autumn of last year. It is not a result of the overall funding settlement for science after the spending review, which was quite generous I would say in the circumstances. Neither as far as we can tell is it a direct decision by ministers (all of whom have now gone in any case). Rather the problems appears to have been caused by senior management at UKRI focusing on short term economic ‘impact’ (whatever that means) rather than doing their job as custodians of the foundations of science. What must happen now is that the new ministerial team make the time (and space ;-)) to review the upcoming catastrophe, and instruct UKRI to do their job and focus on making Britain the best place in the world to do science, now and in the future.
Dr Stephen Fawcett retweeted
Male Field Athlete of the Year nominee ✨
Repost to vote for Miltiadis Tentoglou 🇬🇷 in the #AthleticsAwards.
Voting closes on Sunday 20 October at 11:59 PM CEST.
Dr Stephen Fawcett retweeted
Female Field Athlete of the Year nominee ✨
Repost to vote for Yaroslava Mahuchikh 🇺🇦 in the #AthleticsAwards.
Voting closes on Sunday 20 October at 11:59 PM CEST.
Dr Stephen Fawcett retweeted
I've FINALLY uploaded a YT video of me and my friends playing D&D! More to come.. eventually :P
youtube.com/watch?v=mvwYgyrz…
Dr Stephen Fawcett retweeted
You probably know the start of this Olympic story, but do you know how it finished?
This photo is of Eric Moussambani, aka 'Eric the Eel' from Equatorial Guinea, competing in the 100m Freestyle event at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, alone.
Why?
/1
Dr Stephen Fawcett retweeted
Any northern DE and/or Philly folks want to help me figure out where to watch the FA cup final on Saturday? Still too new to this area to know where the soccer bars are.
Dr Stephen Fawcett retweeted
During a solar eclipse, the gaps between leaves on trees act as multiple pinhole cameras,
and each gap projects its own crescent-shaped image of the eclipsed sun onto the ground.
📹gottigreen
Dr Stephen Fawcett retweeted
What has played out over the last 24 hours under this post is just absolutely brilliant
#JungleImAfraid
Please, please will someone sample @amolrajan saying: "I can't accept Drum & Bass. We need Jungle, I'm afraid." 👊
Dr Stephen Fawcett retweeted
Please, if you have time, watch this today.
And remember to always check in with those around you.
#WorldMentalHealthDay
Dr Stephen Fawcett retweeted
Since this is doing the rounds again, here's a reminder that few on the list were actual climate scientists. Many were linked with the fossil fuel industry.
Also: I can't stop looking at the CO²
Dr Stephen Fawcett retweeted
If you were given an honour by a man who that very day resigned from parliament in disgrace after a report by his fellow MPs would you keep it?
Dr Stephen Fawcett retweeted
This has genuinely made me crack up… just putting the names above the logos has done me. Top work @Titans social team.
Dr Stephen Fawcett retweeted
Why it’s hard naming a child as a teacher:
“No, not Paige. A Paige threw a dozen pairs of scissors at me as an NQT”
Dr Stephen Fawcett retweeted
miSTEAKs were made last week, clearly we need some help... Join us in the Flappie kitchen this week, where @StephensRocket will teach us the ways of the kitchen!
Live over at twitch.tv/whattheflappies!
Dr Stephen Fawcett retweeted
To celebrate Total War: WARHAMMER III's anniversary we're giving away this daemon of a gaming PC powered by Intel! 😈 To enter:
1⃣ Follow @totalwar and @IntelGaming
2⃣ Retweet this tweet by March 5th
🗓️ Winners announced on March 7th
📝 Full T&Cs: sega.co.uk/sega_prize_draw_t…
ALT Picture of a PC branded with Total War: WARHAMMER III logo and artwork, alongside text that says "Total War: Warhammer III PC Giveaway in partnership with Intel Gaming". Intel, Creative Assembly and SEGA logos at the bottom.
Dr Stephen Fawcett retweeted
Do you want to win one of these insane prizes?
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All you have to do is like, RT, & comment below using #NVIDIAOverwatch2!
Thank you @NVIDIAGeForceUK, this is amazing! #ad
ALT A graphic with text that reads: "GG WP! All prizes unlocked! Comment & win; #NVIDIAOverwatch2 Reflex Challenge". Text is over a green and black background, next to NVIDIA 4090 graphics cards, Overwatch figurines and memorabilia, and Overwatch 2 gameplay on a monitor. At the bottom of the screen are the Overwatch 2, Nvidia GeForce RTX, and Scan Computers logos.
Dr Stephen Fawcett retweeted
Deeply saddened to hear that the great John Bird has left us. One of the most modest of men and most brilliant of satirists. And one of the last surviving pillars of the anti-establishment. 1/4
Dr Stephen Fawcett retweeted
Aand thats us done! Thank you all for being so generous! We raised 1420 pounds for @HDA_tweeting and @theCALMzone
The fundraiser will be up until the 14th, so get those sneaky donos in if you haven't done it already!
#jinglejam2022 @yogscast @jinglejam
Dr Stephen Fawcett retweeted
Could it be!? Hell yes! We'll be teaming up with @yayruthie to raise money for the #JingleJam2022!
We'll be playing games all day, including the ones from the bundle, invited a couple of special guests to join us and got donation goals! Hope to see you on twitch.tv/whattheflappies!
Dr Stephen Fawcett retweeted
"the secret scientists don't want you to know!!" Dude have you ever met a single scientist? My scientist friends are desperate for me to know about the changing mating habits of Brown marmorated stink bugs. They're screaming at the top of their lungs to tell you EVERYTHING.