Shout out to @drjuliehyde.bsky.social who has just joined BlueSky as well!

Fantastic #VICEPHEC keynotes from Jacqui Robson yesterday, Shane Bergin and especially my colleague Julie Hyde (I am biased!) today. Really interesting stuff ranging from public trust in science to the career impact of GTA programmes.

Here at the start of #VICEPHEC 2025 and big kudos to @liverpooluni.bsky.social for a very well organised setup, especially the check-in and accommodations. Looking forward to the speakers, especially tomorrow's keynote from my colleague Julie Hyde.

Some good news for a change - the University of Sheffield is back in the QS Top 100 rankings. www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/univers...

Days off: 5; unread emails to come back to: 118 spread over 3 inboxes; time to zero unread emails: 1 hour 6 minutes. I worry sometimes that academia has honed this skill more than any other...

The last of Churchill's 'The Few' has passed away. RIP. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

While not as comprehensive as the real thing, this is impressive work considering it's just a guy on the internet. (It updates with actual current news stories). www.nathanmediaservices.co.uk/ceefax/#id=W...

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them" - Frank Herbert, Dune
While googling this quote to check it, I got interrupted by a google pop-up about why don't I get Gemini to do it for me.

My publisher has also joined me over here, so why not check out their collection of over 100 works of fiction by myself and many other authors?

Excellent to see you here!

haracter limit is still not my favourite feature of microblogging websites.

Hello everyone. Like everyone else in the civilised world, I have decamped from Twitter (which I always saw as a net negative for humanity even before Recent Events and only joined it under protest in 2020 as it had become nigh compulsory for academics). I'm a chemical scientist, a writer, and the c