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Oliver T Lord @olivertlord.bsky.social · 1d

That is a huge win for #England!

Go Smith & Jones!

Fingers crossed for another today against #Bangladesh

SA-W 69
ENG-W 73/0
ENG Women won by 10 wickets (with 215 balls remaining)

www.espncricinfo.com/series/icc-w...

ENG-W vs SA-W Cricket Scorecard, 4th Match at Guwahati, October 03, 2025

Live Cricket Scoreboard: Get England Women vs South Africa Women 4th Match, cricket scorecard, ICC Women's World Cup 2025/26 dated October 03, 2025.

www.espncricinfo.com

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Oliver T Lord @olivertlord.bsky.social · 5d

Worried about the rise of the (bipedal, humanoid) #robots? There are probably more pressing things to worry about: spectrum.ieee.org/humanoid-rob...

Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype

It takes more than building a humanoid robot to build a humanoid robot product.

spectrum.ieee.org

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Oliver T Lord @olivertlord.bsky.social · 6d

It always surprises me gow much mire tilted the Earth is in reality compared to how i see it in my head. Also, calm down Jupiter… youtu.be/my1euFQHH-o?...

Planets of the Solar System: Tilts and Spins

YouTube video by APOD Videos

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Oliver T Lord @olivertlord.bsky.social · 7d

@anthropic.com have released Claude Sonnet 4.5 which can apparently work on task for *30 hours* unsupervised. Th e scary thing: if you got a job there, or failed to, that decision was probably made with the help of the LLM! www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.5 in latest bid for AI agents and coding supremacy

It can run autonomously for 30 hours straight, per Anthropic.

www.theverge.com

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Oliver T Lord @olivertlord.bsky.social · 7d

Scientists @caltech.edu have made a #quantum computer with 6100 qubits breaking the record of 1180 held by Atom Computing since 2023. The new machine maintained superposition for 13 seconds, ten times longer than the previous record. www.sciencealert.com/6100-qubit-p...

6,100-Qubit Processor Shatters Quantum Computing Record

Another major quantum computing record has been broken, and by a considerable margin: physicists have now built an array containing 6,100 qubits, the largest of its type and way above the thousand or ...

www.sciencealert.com

Oliver T Lord @olivertlord.bsky.social · 7d

Maia Sandu’s victory in #Moldova, and the failure of the #Russia backed patriotic bloc is great news for #Europe and #Ukraine!

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 10d

Moldova 🇲🇩 👍

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Oliver T Lord @olivertlord.bsky.social · 7d

For a country with an economy underpinned by the export of oil products, this is a very serious situation and one that is particularly hard to hide from the population.

NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 7d

RU media report a record refinery crisis: 38% of capacity is offline, mostly due to Ukrainian drone strikes that have hit over 20 plants. In September, four major refineries, including Kinef and Rosneft’s Ryazan, stopped operations. Gasoline output fell by 1M tons, leaving a 20% domestic shortage.

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Gawen Jenkin @gawenjenkin.bsky.social · 9d

My super-talented tutee there with her balloon skills that says it all.

When I have a moment I’ll do a thread explaining what is going on but in brief LEICESTER IS ON STRIKE!

Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 9d

Pickets in full force on the first day of strike - see you all tomorrow!

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Oliver T Lord @olivertlord.bsky.social · 12d

And that’s that: #Kinlochleven, #Scotland field trip day 5. Not only the last day of this trip, but the last time students from the School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol come to this beautiful place. Good luck to the students on their independent mapping projects starting tomorrow!

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Oliver T Lord @olivertlord.bsky.social · 13d

#Kinlochleven University of Bristol School of Earth Sciences geological mapping training fieldtrip Day 4: more sunshine, plus vegetarian Paella for 32!

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Johan Lissenberg @lissenbergjohan.bsky.social · 13d

Mind blowing rocks of Rosso Levanto: mantle peridototes that were carbonated and then weathered on the ocean floor of the Piemont-Ligiria ocean.

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Oliver T Lord @olivertlord.bsky.social · 13d

Yes, that deserves to be amplified!

John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 14d

Incredible good news

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

www.bbc.co.uk

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 14d

Incredible good news

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Oliver T Lord @olivertlord.bsky.social · 13d

Excited to confirm the invited speakers for the #Mineral #Physics session: "Evolving mineralogy of the Earth system: interactions within the crust, mantle and core"

🔊 Jennifer Jackson (@caltech.edu)

🔊 Thomas Breithaupt (Cambridge)

🌐 @manchester.ac.uk

🗓️ 23rd-25th June 2026

🔗 minsoc-150.org

Oliver T Lord @olivertlord.bsky.social · 14d

Conference Alert!

@minersoc.bsky.social at 150: Past Discoveries and Future Frontiers

➕ Mineral Physics Special Interest group session: "Evolving mineralogy of the Earth system: interactions within the crust, mantle and core"

🌐 @manchester.ac.uk

🗓️ 23rd-25th June 2026

🔗 minsoc-150.org

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Prof Claire Corkhill @clairecorkhill.bsky.social · 15d

Interesting development in how things are going with the UK's geological disposal facility siting process... www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/54c7f75... #NukeSky #RadioactiveWaste #Nuclear

Miliband poised to overrule local opposition to build nuclear waste dumps

Review considers scrapping public votes on sites for radioactive storage facilities

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Oliver T Lord @olivertlord.bsky.social · 14d

Conference Alert!

@minersoc.bsky.social at 150: Past Discoveries and Future Frontiers

➕ Mineral Physics Special Interest group session: "Evolving mineralogy of the Earth system: interactions within the crust, mantle and core"

🌐 @manchester.ac.uk

🗓️ 23rd-25th June 2026

🔗 minsoc-150.org

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Oliver T Lord @olivertlord.bsky.social · 14d

Conference Alert!

@minersoc.bsky.social at 150: Past Discoveries and Future Frontiers

➕ Mineral Physics Special Interest group session: "Evolving mineralogy of the Earth system: interactions within the crust, mantle and core"

🌐 University of Manchester

🗓️ 23rd-25th June 2026

🔗 minsoc-150.org

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Oliver T Lord @olivertlord.bsky.social · 14d

Very much tectonic - the result of the Caledonian orogeny, approximately 400 million years ago, when Avalonia and Laurentia were sutured together.

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Oliver T Lord @olivertlord.bsky.social · 15d

#Kinlochleven University of Bristol School of Earth Sciences geological mapping training fieldtrip Day 2: for three years in a row, awesome weather and awesome views. Plus *folded* cross-bedding!

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Oliver T Lord @olivertlord.bsky.social · 16d

#molybdenite is commonly found with sulphides inside diamonds. Diamond inclusions are the only samples we have from depths greater than 250km, i.e. most of Earth. That’s why we study them in the Petrology Group, School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Oliver T Lord @olivertlord.bsky.social · 16d

#Kinlochleven University of Bristol School of Earth Sciences geological mapping training fieldtrip Day 1: great views and Neoproterozoic cross-bedding! #geology

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Oliver T Lord @olivertlord.bsky.social · 16d

#Kinlochleven University of Bristol School of Earth Sciences geological mapping training fieldtrip Day 0: what you can’t see is how incredibly fresh the air is!

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Oliver T Lord @olivertlord.bsky.social · 17d

#Kinlochleven University of Bristol School of Earth Sciences geological mapping training fieldtrip Day 0: weather playing ball (so far).

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Oliver T Lord @olivertlord.bsky.social · 18d

I’m backing the underdog, #Carpathite in today’s #MinCup vote: I wasn’t aware that crystalline polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons existed in nature! PAHs in Antarctic Martian meteorite Allan Hills 84001 were briefly considered as evidence that it once contained microbial life.

Mineral Cup #MinCup25 @mineralcup.bsky.social · 19d

#MinCup Round 2 Match 4:
It’s a battle of mineralogical oddities as organic mineral #Carpathite battles against vs #Tugtupite, a mineral that looks like reindeer blood!

Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r2...

Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...

Vote in Round 2 Match 4 — Mineral Cup

Click here to vote in Carpathite vs Tugtupite Photo credits: Michael Roarke

www.mineralcup.org

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Oliver T Lord @olivertlord.bsky.social · 19d

Some very useful context here about the incursion by #Russia into the airspace of #Estonia yesterday: unprecedented in its details but not unique.

ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 19d

1/ While today's incursion into Estonian airspace by three Russian MIG-31s is the most serious such incident in 30 years, it's not the first time that it's happened. It also highlights a strategic vulnerability for Estonia: it does not have a fully agreed border with Russia. ⬇️

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