ProfBrianCox
@profbriancox.bsky.social
Professor of Particle Physics at The University of Manchester and Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science
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I've summarized the truth about Loeb's 10 "anomalies" about 3I/ATLAS in one post.
Thanks to @deschscoveries.bsky.social @michael-w-busch.bsky.social @cometary.org and @marshall-eubanks.bsky.social for contributing their expertise!
Thanks to @deschscoveries.bsky.social @michael-w-busch.bsky.social @cometary.org and @marshall-eubanks.bsky.social for contributing their expertise!
Loeb’s 3I/ATLAS “Anomalies” Explained
Avi Loeb continues to claim that 3I/ATLAS has many anomalous behaviors that lead to the conclusion that it “might” be an alien spacecraft. He carefully hedges the probability that it is a spacecraft ...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I've summarized the truth about Loeb's 10 "anomalies" about 3I/ATLAS in one post.
Thanks to @deschscoveries.bsky.social @michael-w-busch.bsky.social @cometary.org and @marshall-eubanks.bsky.social for contributing their expertise!
Thanks to @deschscoveries.bsky.social @michael-w-busch.bsky.social @cometary.org and @marshall-eubanks.bsky.social for contributing their expertise!
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Hey space fans! The podcast I recorded with @profbriancox.bsky.social and other fab folks is out now! www.lnk.to/AQOSSpacePA
It’s all about who owns space - increasingly important as we rely on it for so much of our communication.
Bonus photos here too: crick.chorus.thirdlight.com/link/5r04kyg...
It’s all about who owns space - increasingly important as we rely on it for so much of our communication.
Bonus photos here too: crick.chorus.thirdlight.com/link/5r04kyg...
Who Owns Space?
Professor Brian Cox and an expert panel tackle the technology, politics and ethics of space exploration.
From space tourism to the search for life on Mars, space is a rapidly expanding, multi-trill...
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October 30, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Hey space fans! The podcast I recorded with @profbriancox.bsky.social and other fab folks is out now! www.lnk.to/AQOSSpacePA
It’s all about who owns space - increasingly important as we rely on it for so much of our communication.
Bonus photos here too: crick.chorus.thirdlight.com/link/5r04kyg...
It’s all about who owns space - increasingly important as we rely on it for so much of our communication.
Bonus photos here too: crick.chorus.thirdlight.com/link/5r04kyg...
This was a great gig - if I remember right, Scott Gorham played the encore with us - Don’t Believe a Word and The Boys Are Back In Town.
#OTD #OnThisDay - they were really good - also included everyones favourite scientist none other than @profbriancox.bsky.social on keyboards :)
September 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
This was a great gig - if I remember right, Scott Gorham played the encore with us - Don’t Believe a Word and The Boys Are Back In Town.
This was great fun to record and challenging and fascinating, but honestly I still don’t know what conscious is - beyond an emergent property of a network - and I’m not even sure @anilseth.bsky.social agrees with that :-)
I'm looking forward to "What is consciousness?" tomorrow 9/9, 2:45pm @crick.ac.uk, w/ @profbriancox.bsky.social @smfleming.bsky.social @kathaschmack.bsky.social & Alex O'Connor @cosmicskeptic.bsky.social www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/a-q...
A Question of Science | What is consciousness?
A new podcast produced for the Crick by BBC Studios Science Unit.
www.crick.ac.uk
September 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This was great fun to record and challenging and fascinating, but honestly I still don’t know what conscious is - beyond an emergent property of a network - and I’m not even sure @anilseth.bsky.social agrees with that :-)
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Join the live studio audience at the recording of our new podcast, A Question of Science 🎙️
On 21 March, we’re talking all things ageing with @statto.bsky.social, Paul Nurse, Linda Partridge and Lynne Cox.
Book your free ticket to put your questions to the panel ⤵️
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On 21 March, we’re talking all things ageing with @statto.bsky.social, Paul Nurse, Linda Partridge and Lynne Cox.
Book your free ticket to put your questions to the panel ⤵️
lostintv.com/aqos.htm
March 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Join the live studio audience at the recording of our new podcast, A Question of Science 🎙️
On 21 March, we’re talking all things ageing with @statto.bsky.social, Paul Nurse, Linda Partridge and Lynne Cox.
Book your free ticket to put your questions to the panel ⤵️
lostintv.com/aqos.htm
On 21 March, we’re talking all things ageing with @statto.bsky.social, Paul Nurse, Linda Partridge and Lynne Cox.
Book your free ticket to put your questions to the panel ⤵️
lostintv.com/aqos.htm
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In person tickets are full, but online viewers still very welcome for tomorrow's Gresham lecture.
Still time to register for @chrislintott.bsky.social's free talk tomorrow...
Brilliant speaker, so interesting and LOADS of hinterland for physics lessons...
#iteachphysics #sciteachUK
www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/bla...
Brilliant speaker, so interesting and LOADS of hinterland for physics lessons...
#iteachphysics #sciteachUK
www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/bla...
Black Holes and Bangs
Space itself is wobbly. We exist on a choppy sea, its surface roiled by disturbances caused by the movements of black holes hundreds of millions of light-years away. The recent detection of these ‘gra...
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December 3, 2024 at 1:32 PM
In person tickets are full, but online viewers still very welcome for tomorrow's Gresham lecture.
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🚨🚨 "Brexit makes no sense in a world dominated by Trump. Britain’s place is back in the EU". Great column by @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social on #brexit and the election of Donald Trump which I think has been widely misconstrued in some quarters. /1 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Brexit makes no sense in a world dominated by Trump. Britain’s place is back in the EU | Jonathan Freedland
From defence to trade, the incoming US president is upending the old order – and standing apart from our neighbours leaves us dangerously exposed, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2024 at 4:24 PM
🚨🚨 "Brexit makes no sense in a world dominated by Trump. Britain’s place is back in the EU". Great column by @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social on #brexit and the election of Donald Trump which I think has been widely misconstrued in some quarters. /1 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I would add that Labour’s relaunch reads as a list of policies they would like to enact if the plan works. But I don’t see a plan. In 2025 (in my view) they will have to either set the country on trajectory to rejoin SM and CU or align more closely with US. Rudderless mid-Atlantic is unsustainable.
All of this and more. Not only does the government not 'speak human' or have a good story about what it wants to achieve, it also doesn't have a particularly convincing account of the country or the world as it is. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour’s big relaunch won’t solve its biggest problem: this government doesn’t speak human | John Harris
Farage and Trump are winning because they understand the politics of emotion, while Labour is lost in numbers and statistics, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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December 2, 2024 at 9:12 AM
I would add that Labour’s relaunch reads as a list of policies they would like to enact if the plan works. But I don’t see a plan. In 2025 (in my view) they will have to either set the country on trajectory to rejoin SM and CU or align more closely with US. Rudderless mid-Atlantic is unsustainable.
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"Chris Rea is from Middlesbrough. This means that Driving Home For Christmas is essentially a song about being stuck in a traffic jam on the A1(M)."
Anyway, it's December, and you know what that means.
Anyway, it's December, and you know what that means.
Every dumb thought I have ever had about Christmas songs
Ho ho bleedin’ ho.
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December 1, 2024 at 9:27 AM
"Chris Rea is from Middlesbrough. This means that Driving Home For Christmas is essentially a song about being stuck in a traffic jam on the A1(M)."
Anyway, it's December, and you know what that means.
Anyway, it's December, and you know what that means.
Spent the day at Boulby Underground Lab near Whitby - 1.1km underground. Dark matter searches, neutrino physics, very low cosmic ray and background radiation suitable for (amongst many other things) quantum computing. It’s a pretty unique facility and the mine is remarkable - over 100km of tunnels!
November 21, 2024 at 7:18 PM
Spent the day at Boulby Underground Lab near Whitby - 1.1km underground. Dark matter searches, neutrino physics, very low cosmic ray and background radiation suitable for (amongst many other things) quantum computing. It’s a pretty unique facility and the mine is remarkable - over 100km of tunnels!
I finally started watching The Last of Us (I know I’m very late) and now I’m paranoid about getting athletes foot.
November 17, 2024 at 9:09 PM
I finally started watching The Last of Us (I know I’m very late) and now I’m paranoid about getting athletes foot.
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This is really good
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Bluesky Network Analyzer
Find accounts that you don't follow (yet) but are followed by lots of accounts that you do follow.
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November 17, 2024 at 7:53 AM
This is really good
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The best thing about this image: the night side of Saturn. It’s not totally dark. Why not? Because it’s vaguely lit by light that has reflected from the rings. If you could somehow stand on the top of Saturn’s clouds, when it’s night, your world would be brightly lit by the huge yellow arc of rings.
Titan in front of Saturn - From Val Klavans - https://flic.kr/p/sAJDww
November 16, 2024 at 7:19 AM
The best thing about this image: the night side of Saturn. It’s not totally dark. Why not? Because it’s vaguely lit by light that has reflected from the rings. If you could somehow stand on the top of Saturn’s clouds, when it’s night, your world would be brightly lit by the huge yellow arc of rings.
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Good morning! If you've found my 'UK news and politics' starter pack useful to get you up and running on @bsky.app, please spread the word to new users by giving this a repost.
Cheers!
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Cheers!
go.bsky.app/VNsC9bL
November 12, 2024 at 7:37 AM
Good morning! If you've found my 'UK news and politics' starter pack useful to get you up and running on @bsky.app, please spread the word to new users by giving this a repost.
Cheers!
go.bsky.app/VNsC9bL
Cheers!
go.bsky.app/VNsC9bL
And one last picture of my cat, just to round off this initial short series of physics and cat posts, this time with my radiator also in shot.
November 15, 2024 at 4:31 PM
And one last picture of my cat, just to round off this initial short series of physics and cat posts, this time with my radiator also in shot.
Here’s a picture of my cat asleep with its feet on its head. I can’t do this.
November 15, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Here’s a picture of my cat asleep with its feet on its head. I can’t do this.
I’ve been lecturing today at Manchester - special relativity - and for no good reason other than I want to post stuff here, here’s my lecture notes introducing the concept of invariant mass :-)
November 15, 2024 at 3:38 PM
I’ve been lecturing today at Manchester - special relativity - and for no good reason other than I want to post stuff here, here’s my lecture notes introducing the concept of invariant mass :-)
I am going to start following people by the way - just getting started :-)
November 14, 2024 at 10:54 AM
I am going to start following people by the way - just getting started :-)
I saw Bob Dylan last night at The Royal Albert Hall - it was wonderful. They made everyone put their phones in little bags so they couldn’t be used. I was ambivalent initially but the result was wonderful. Everybody just listened and the audience was dark. I think it’s a good thing. Thoughts?
November 14, 2024 at 10:44 AM
I saw Bob Dylan last night at The Royal Albert Hall - it was wonderful. They made everyone put their phones in little bags so they couldn’t be used. I was ambivalent initially but the result was wonderful. Everybody just listened and the audience was dark. I think it’s a good thing. Thoughts?
Right. Hello. Is this place any good?
November 14, 2024 at 12:01 AM
Right. Hello. Is this place any good?