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Marcus Chown

@marcuschown.bsky.social

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Writer. Books include A Crack in Everything, Breakthrough, The Ascent of Gravity, Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand, Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You & Solar System for iPad. See www.marcuschown.com

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · Jan 5

"The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening."
- Rosa Luxemburg

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 8h

Saddest thing I saw today: a three-legged dog trying to cock his leg – and he only had one back leg!

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 8h

Very pleased to be published alongside Mary Berry’s Best Recipes!

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 8h

Saddest thing I saw today: a three-legged dog trying to cock his leg – and he only had one back leg!

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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 19h

If the Norwegians had a sense of humour, they'd give Obama a second peace prize today.

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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 1d

What's wrong with the remaining 41% www.npr.org/sections/sho...

59% of Americans disapprove of RFK Jr.'s moves as health secretary, a new poll says

A new poll shows trust in federal health policies is plummeting, and what — or who — people believe increasingly depends on their politics.

www.npr.org

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 19h

There are hundreds of years of history of women’s scientific accomplishments not being recognised or being minimised (“not notable”). It *still* happens. Many female scientists are only acknowledged on Wikipedia thanks to the efforts of, yes, other female scientists, notably physicist Dr Jess Wade.

Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 1d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19h

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 1d

Hooray! Paperback of THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO KNOW out today!

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Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social · 1d

Days after we revealed that it had been months since Farage last updated his register, he has done so - adding £190,000 worth of earnings going back as far as early May in some cases

The update is registered 3rd Oct - the day we went to his team for a right of reply

Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social · 6d

Exclusive: Nigel Farage has not updated his register since May, despite continuing to present his GB News show, record Cameo videos and being a verified X user

Qus are now being asked about the non-registration of his shareholding in GB parent co All Perspectives

observer.co.uk/news/politic...

‘Nine-jobs Nigel’ Farage denies not declaring extra earni...

Roles outside Parliament make Reform leader the highest-earning MP, but register of interests has not been updated since end of May

observer.co.uk

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Sam Missingham @samatlounge.bsky.social · 1d

Can only speak for myself, but think I'm not unusual, by the time you see a GP about mental health issues, you are at crisis point - finding it hard to get out of bed, eat, speak to anyone, deal with finances etc - but sure, tell me about the jobs I can apply for at that moment.

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Specialist employment advisers will be based in GP surgeries and mental health services as part of government plans to get people back to work.

Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden speaks to #BBCBreakfast about the government’s plan to tackle long-term sickness

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 1d

If a news organisation is making -200% margin after five years, it is not a commercial operation and should be assumed to have a different purpose.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The channel lost £33 million to communicate its content to a large audience
www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/g...

GB News suffers huge loss despite doubling revenue and growing audience

The TV channel, whose well-known presenters include Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, fell to a pre-tax loss of £33.4m in the year to 31 May, 2024

www.business-live.co.uk

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 1d

Hooray! Paperback of THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO KNOW out today!

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Alec MacKinnon @alecmackinnon.bsky.social · 1d

here's an exciting job for a solar radio astronomer, developing cutting-edge solar activity monitoring infrastructure in the Azores Archipelago raege-az.pt/en/researche... #heliophysics #solarphysics #solarradio (nothing to do with me! - questions to RAEGE_Az)

Researcher Position – SOLAR-Az Project - RAEGE-Az

Researcher Position – SOLAR-Az Project Project Overview The SOLAR-Az project aims to establish a cutting-edge solar activity monitoring infrastructure in the Azores Archipelago, integrating it into th...

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 1d

Today Dhaka; tomorrow, your city

Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 1d

"For millions of Dhaka's residents, the challenges are immediate and relentless. Climate-induced migration continues to swell the city's population as rising sea levels, cyclones, and salinity devastate coastal livelihoods."

cc @wanderinggaia.bsky.social

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Dhaka struggles to house climate migrants and growing population

Despite hundreds of acres of government land lying unused, only a handful of the nearly 50 housing projects launched over the past two decades have been completed, hampered by bureaucratic delays and ...

www.tbsnews.net

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Keep Our NHS Public @keepournhspublic.bsky.social · 1d

Our Co-Chair @drjohnpuntis.bsky.social gives an excellent
rundown of Labour Party Conference and its run-up and what was put forward around the NHS.

"time is running out and a new approach that will deliver an end to the current crisis is needed fast."

keepournhspublic.com/labour-party...

Labour Party Conference – little comfort for the NHS

Run-up to Conference In the weeks running up to Labour’s annual conference there was confusion between NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care over key aspects of the DHSC’s policy...

keepournhspublic.com

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 3d

“It’s not racist to be racist,” say the racists

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 14d

National Front —> BNP —> UKIP —> Brexit Party —> Reform

Different names, same racist bigotry.

Don’t let Reform voters claim they are anything but the National Front in disguise.

WE SEE YOU.

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 6d

Graham pretending he has no interest in my book on black holes!

A CRACK IN EVERYTHING www.hive.co.uk/Product/Marc...

@headofzeus.bsky.social

#Caturday

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 3d

It's mind-blowing to think that almost 89,000 people have now watched the video of my black hole talk at the Royal Institution. There were only 400 there on the night.
youtu.be/zju1nq3Eoqo
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Michael O'Mara Books @omarabooks.bsky.social · 25d

From gravity to black holes, special relativity to global warming...

Bestselling author Marcus Chown (@marcuschown.bsky.social) breaks down complex science into manageable chunks, explaining #TheOneThingYouNeedToKnow to get to grips with the subject.

Pre-order ➡️ buff.ly/JcwMnKL

#BookSky #Science

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Jimmy Kimmel Live @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social · 2d

Did Trump write the infamous Epstein birthday letter? You decide.

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine thinking the Tories are not vile enough for me, I think I’ll vote for Reform.

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 2d

The poorest people in society are ripping you off!

Tory/Reform policy in a nutshell.

They think we are too stupid to realise that it's the richest people in society who are ripping us off.

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 2d

I imagine most politicians think our memories are short.

The Tories think we can’t remember their 14 years of incompetence & corruption.

The LibDems think we can’t remember their going back on every principle they had and helping the Tories force through the NHS-crippling Health & Social Care Act.

Opinion Lassie @opinionlassie.bsky.social · 2d

I've just heard them whittering on about how great they are with the economy! How short are people's memories?

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 2d

Everything comes back to education.

Damian Cummings @damiancummings.bsky.social · 2d

Ignoring history is a huge problem

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