Giving an undergraduate lecture on the outer planets, and it feels weird to introduce Uranus as "discovered near the big Sainsburys'". However, since it was discovered in Bath, they all live here but won't know the street name, and that's the nearest major landmark...
October 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Giving an undergraduate lecture on the outer planets, and it feels weird to introduce Uranus as "discovered near the big Sainsburys'". However, since it was discovered in Bath, they all live here but won't know the street name, and that's the nearest major landmark...
I am currently writing a set of *three* lectures in which I describe the whole atmosphere from surface to geocorona for an audience of electrical engineers. It is ... compressed. After this I get another set of three lectures to cover all solar and space physics, then one lecture for the planets.
September 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I am currently writing a set of *three* lectures in which I describe the whole atmosphere from surface to geocorona for an audience of electrical engineers. It is ... compressed. After this I get another set of three lectures to cover all solar and space physics, then one lecture for the planets.
Just to contradict the tube strike horror stories, this is my trip from King's Cross to Paddington (Thameslink then Elizabeth Line) at 4.45pm during today's strike. Not quite sure where all the people are - maybe scared off by the crowds earlier in the week?
September 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Just to contradict the tube strike horror stories, this is my trip from King's Cross to Paddington (Thameslink then Elizabeth Line) at 4.45pm during today's strike. Not quite sure where all the people are - maybe scared off by the crowds earlier in the week?
FAAM science flight (@ncas-uk.bsky.social) currently up over the Alps with all three mission scientists aboard from
@uniofbath.bsky.social @caer-bath.bsky.social - hopefully Neil Hindley, Phoebe Noble and Tim Banyard will get some good data to help make the @metoffice.gov.uk model better :-)
@uniofbath.bsky.social @caer-bath.bsky.social - hopefully Neil Hindley, Phoebe Noble and Tim Banyard will get some good data to help make the @metoffice.gov.uk model better :-)
July 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
FAAM science flight (@ncas-uk.bsky.social) currently up over the Alps with all three mission scientists aboard from
@uniofbath.bsky.social @caer-bath.bsky.social - hopefully Neil Hindley, Phoebe Noble and Tim Banyard will get some good data to help make the @metoffice.gov.uk model better :-)
@uniofbath.bsky.social @caer-bath.bsky.social - hopefully Neil Hindley, Phoebe Noble and Tim Banyard will get some good data to help make the @metoffice.gov.uk model better :-)
Is this a better or worse name than my old one?
July 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Is this a better or worse name than my old one?
Booked a hotel for a work trip to ESTEC to discuss satellite design. After receiving my booking the hotel sent me this response. I think I am not their usual type of guest.
June 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Booked a hotel for a work trip to ESTEC to discuss satellite design. After receiving my booking the hotel sent me this response. I think I am not their usual type of guest.
This is also what my students say :-(
May 18, 2025 at 2:57 AM
This is also what my students say :-(
Thanks Acrobat, without you I don't know if I could manage to read *eight whole pages at double-line spacing.*
May 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Thanks Acrobat, without you I don't know if I could manage to read *eight whole pages at double-line spacing.*
I GOT TO PUT 15 BOTTLES IN THE PFANDMASCHINE! I think the lady who came up to use the machine while I was halfway through thought I was mad because I was so excited, until I explained I was English and we don't have them.
May 1, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I GOT TO PUT 15 BOTTLES IN THE PFANDMASCHINE! I think the lady who came up to use the machine while I was halfway through thought I was mad because I was so excited, until I explained I was English and we don't have them.
I have eduroam in here, and the signal is stronger than in my concrete box in Bath. So: new office? Could put the desk between the end pillars, just need somewhere to hide the cables.
April 25, 2025 at 7:26 AM
I have eduroam in here, and the signal is stronger than in my concrete box in Bath. So: new office? Could put the desk between the end pillars, just need somewhere to hide the cables.
At FAAM training today for TeamX later this year.
March 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
At FAAM training today for TeamX later this year.
People say UK rail tickets are complicated and there's too wide a variety of different ticket types, but I don't know why. 58 subtly-different purchase options for a one-way ticket between Didcot and Lincoln seems perfectly normal to me...
February 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
People say UK rail tickets are complicated and there's too wide a variety of different ticket types, but I don't know why. 58 subtly-different purchase options for a one-way ticket between Didcot and Lincoln seems perfectly normal to me...
We are an ENTIRELY NORMAL household that just happens to have made a bulk purchase of ENTIRELY NORMAL stamps for sending all our letters.
February 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
We are an ENTIRELY NORMAL household that just happens to have made a bulk purchase of ENTIRELY NORMAL stamps for sending all our letters.
The classic combination.
December 20, 2024 at 12:23 PM
The classic combination.
I guess that after a long day on the Highway to Hell, it's good to be Back in Black for the night.
December 14, 2024 at 2:03 PM
I guess that after a long day on the Highway to Hell, it's good to be Back in Black for the night.
I don't think the airport lounge has quite the same view.
December 6, 2024 at 12:18 PM
I don't think the airport lounge has quite the same view.
After nine months part-time at the FCDO, I seem to have gone full Civil Service numbered-paragraph-with-bold-lead for my (very much draft-state) "e-lightning" AGU poster. I can't work out if this is good (helps people follow the flow) or bad (looks more like a legal document than some fun science).
November 30, 2024 at 7:03 PM
After nine months part-time at the FCDO, I seem to have gone full Civil Service numbered-paragraph-with-bold-lead for my (very much draft-state) "e-lightning" AGU poster. I can't work out if this is good (helps people follow the flow) or bad (looks more like a legal document than some fun science).
I'm not the most imaginative human being.
November 30, 2024 at 10:32 AM
I'm not the most imaginative human being.
Bit soggy coming into Bath today - this is normally mostly fields.
November 25, 2024 at 1:11 PM
Bit soggy coming into Bath today - this is normally mostly fields.
I am pretty sure GenAI was used for the backdrops in this museum exhibition. The faces will fuel my nightmares, and I'd love to see anyone play that music.
November 17, 2024 at 11:01 AM
I am pretty sure GenAI was used for the backdrops in this museum exhibition. The faces will fuel my nightmares, and I'd love to see anyone play that music.
Dressing appropriately today for my day out in Stuttgart.
November 17, 2024 at 7:32 AM
Dressing appropriately today for my day out in Stuttgart.
It's crazy how good the Emperor Augustus' personal branding was, given that you can walk into a museum 2000 years after he died, see a bust in the distance in a general sculpture gallery (i.e. not even one themed as Roman), and know instantly it's him. I think it's the haircut?
October 15, 2023 at 12:02 PM
It's crazy how good the Emperor Augustus' personal branding was, given that you can walk into a museum 2000 years after he died, see a bust in the distance in a general sculpture gallery (i.e. not even one themed as Roman), and know instantly it's him. I think it's the haircut?
Nornally an intercity rail replacement bus is a coach, not an actual *bus*.
September 24, 2023 at 2:52 PM
Nornally an intercity rail replacement bus is a coach, not an actual *bus*.