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ietbristol.bsky.social @ietbristol.bsky.social · 3d

Hello Bristol! Less than a week to our next free talk. No need to be an IET member. One hour continuous professional development and a cake!
Hope too see you there

events.theiet.org/events/micro...

#electronics
#engineering
#healthcare
#engineer
#technology

Microwave Applications in Healthcare Technologies

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Engineer Mel O @engineermelo.bsky.social · 3d

Looking forward to this one, always a super evening at the IET. This one in the Merchant Ventures building, full details in the link.

ietbristol.bsky.social @ietbristol.bsky.social · 3d

Hello Bristol! Less than a week to our next free talk. No need to be an IET member. One hour continuous professional development and a cake!
Hope too see you there

events.theiet.org/events/micro...

#electronics
#engineering
#healthcare
#engineer
#technology

Microwave Applications in Healthcare Technologies

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Engineer Mel O @engineermelo.bsky.social · 18d

@ietbristol.bsky.social free talk klaxon!

ietbristol.bsky.social @ietbristol.bsky.social · 19d

Save the date 15th October, no need to be an IET member. Sign up on the link!
#bristol #electronic #engineering #heathcare #nerds #radiofrequency

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Teeny dolls house size microwave for medical applications

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Engineer Mel O @engineermelo.bsky.social · Jul 2

Hello! Fancy the free #IET #Bristol Annual Prestige Lecture, Wed 9 July: "40 Years of Quantum Technologies", Prof. John Rarity. More info & to register: events.theiet.org/events/40-ye... Uni of Bristol Queens Building Room QB1.06. Free refreshments from 18:30.

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Engineer Mel O @engineermelo.bsky.social · Jul 1

Free #IET #Bristol Annual Prestige Lecture, Wed 9 July: "40 Years of Quantum Technologies", Prof. John Rarity. More info & to register: events.theiet.org/events/40-ye... Uni of Bristol Queens Building Room QB1.06. Free refreshments from 18:30
See you there?
#IYQ

40 Years of Quantum Technologies

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Engineer Mel O @engineermelo.bsky.social · Jun 24

Congratulations!

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Engineer Mel O @engineermelo.bsky.social · Jun 24

Crikey, this is amazing news!

Mark Miodownik @markmiodownik.bsky.social · Jun 24

So chuffed about this. Big shoes to fill.

The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · Jun 24

We're happy to announce @markmiodownik.bsky.social as our new Professor for Public Engagement in Science! His mission will be to transform our understanding of how we make, use, reuse & recycle products, & explore how we can live more sustainably. Watch this space! royalsociety.org/news/2025/06...

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Engineer Mel O @engineermelo.bsky.social · Jun 24

No need to be a member of the IET for these talks. Come along for a guaranteed quality talk. See you there?

ietbristol.bsky.social @ietbristol.bsky.social · Jun 24

Free #IET #Bristol Annual Prestige Lecture, Wed 9 July: "40 Years of Quantum Technologies", Prof. John Rarity. More info & to register: events.theiet.org/events/40-ye.... Uni of Bristol Queens Building Room QB1.06. Free refreshments from 18:30.

40 Years of Quantum Technologies

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Engineer Mel O @engineermelo.bsky.social · May 24

VAPE! PHONE! KEYS! LIPGLOSS!

Engineer Mel O @engineermelo.bsky.social · May 16

Did someone say free quantum computing talk in #Bristol ?
#quantumcomputing #cpd #nerd

ietbristol.bsky.social @ietbristol.bsky.social · May 15

Free #IET #Bristol event, Wed 11 Jun: "BT’s Pathway to Quantum", Dr Zoe Davidson. More info & to register: events.theiet.org/events/bts-p.... Uni of Bristol MVB 1.11. Free refreshments from 18:30.

BT's Pathway to Quantum

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Engineer Mel O @engineermelo.bsky.social · Apr 11

Well said Goldacre

Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre.bsky.social · Apr 9

SUVs increase the odds of killing in a collision. They're high at the front, your children get dragged under then crushed to death. They're also too big for parking spaces. They shld just be treated like vans, subject to lower speed limits, higher parking charges. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Please, for the love of God, stop buying supersized cars | Arwa Mahdawi

Why would anyone want a car that’s too big for parking spaces, or that’s a menace to other road users? Arwa Mahdawi has a theory

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · Apr 7

"rail engineers Amey explained that the company was already delivering the South Wales Metro, and the lessons learned there could be applied to a Metro system for Bath and Wiltshire" @transportfornewhomes.org.uk

www.railadvent.co.uk/2025/04/plan...

Plans discussed for a Metro system for Bath and Wiltshire

A public meeting held at Chippenham has heard how a planned MetroWest Bath & Wiltshire could provide a more frequent rail service.

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Royal Astronomical Society @royalastrosoc.bsky.social · Mar 13

⏰ Time to set those alarm clocks! ⏰

A lunar eclipse will be visible from the UK tomorrow – and no specialist equipment is needed!

The fascinating spectacle will begin shortly before 04:00 GMT but the best time to see it will be around 06:20 GMT, before the Moon sets.

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · Mar 5

The techniques to do this have been around for years. It's technically proficient but not any great accomplishment. And we minimise animal use in biological research to reduce suffering. SO WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU WANT A HAIRY MOUSE.

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Engineer Mel O @engineermelo.bsky.social · Dec 22

2/2...It's a very easy read without jargon and, unusually for anything written about railways, very few acronyms (VFA).
Maybe you're organised and all your Christmas shopping's done, buy a copy as a gift for yourself!
#HowTheRailwaysWillFixTheFuture
#railway #engineering #climatechange #politics

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Engineer Mel O @engineermelo.bsky.social · Dec 22

I'm only thirty pages into @garethdennis.bsky.social How The Railways Will Fix The Future but I can already recommend it as a last minute Christmas gift for the general reader as well as anyone with a passing interest in railways, history...(1 of 2)

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Engineer Mel O @engineermelo.bsky.social · Dec 20

Wow! I've spent so many evenings in The King's Head, the best pub in Deal (a town that has A LOT of pubs)

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Engineer Mel O @engineermelo.bsky.social · Dec 16

Yeah!

Engineer Mel O @engineermelo.bsky.social · Dec 7

When the first kid arrived I got rid of the car. Sink or swim! Learned how to use the busses (it wasn't so easy in 2006!) and used hire cars for holidays. Otherwise we did not go to places where there was no public transport. My three kids are all proficient in public transport.

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Engineer Mel O @engineermelo.bsky.social · Nov 20

Are we doing music here? #futureoftheleft at The Fleece, Bristol last Sunday. Audience singing along joyfully most of the time, good job Falco couldn't hear us 😀

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Engineer Mel O @engineermelo.bsky.social · Nov 13

If only booking trains across Europe was as easy as booking a flight. We did London to Verona and back over the summer, I was only stressed out about the journey for the whole ten weeks between booking and traveling. And the whole holiday.

Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · Nov 13

I was annoyed by this Euronews piece about rail ticketing earlier: www.euronews.com/travel/2024/...

Some people asked me why I was annoyed. This 🧵 – a kind of fisking – will explain!

Europe’s on track to deliver single-ticket train travel

The complexity of train travel across Europe’s borders could soon be made easier with plans for a single ticket.

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · Nov 11

We've welcomed the publication of the Assisted Dying Bill tonight.

This is a historic Bill which would give many suffering people the choice and dignity they desire and deserve.
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Humanists UK welcomes Assisted Dying Bill

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill has been published. Introduced by Kim Leadbeater MBE, the Labour MP for Spen Valley, the Bill will allow adults who are terminally ill with six months left...

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · Sep 28

This graph is astonishing. The people that bang on about “natural birth” and “women have been doing this forever without help” need to be forced to stare at this until their eyes water.

Graph of maternal mortality rate against year for the UK. Rate bounces until and down around 500 deaths per 100,000 births until about 1940, when it falls sharply. It’s been very low (~1–3 per 100,000) ever since.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · Sep 28

a Dr wept as they talked of Covid and avoidable deaths if government had not been so criminally incompetent. Unlike health secretary, he didnt get cash for going on a TV reality show, unlike ex PM he isn’t on front of daily mail with a highly paid column

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

Doctor in tears at Covid inquiry says what NHS staff saw was ‘indescribable’

Prof Kevin Fong, who was on shift during 7/7 bombings, says height of pandemic was like a ‘terrorist attack every day’

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Engineer Mel O @engineermelo.bsky.social · Sep 28

A tiny #succulent growing from a fallen leaf. Taken with a teeny clip on macro lens

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