Oh Bluesky hive mind - I’m looking for recommendations for heat pump/battery/solar consulting for my London Victorian era home - I’d like to swap out gas boiler for heat pump, ideally have a battery and either have solar or definitely be able to go there in the future

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Siamese cat stretched out on a black lidded box with his eye closed against the sun

Cats have a wonderful knack for finding the warmest spot in the garden

Pretty much.

We're proud to announce an art competition to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Leeds Charter.

There are 2 categories: under 16s & people aged 16+. 6 entries from each category will be exhibited at Leeds Corn Exchange in July.

🔗Details zurl.co/vIyut

New paper from Peter Taylor and me on priorities to accelerate industrial decarbonisation in the UK

#energysky

overlooking a series of circular water filled tanks of a sewage treatment plant at night. lights line a long brick building on the horizon as a blue-black sky is stark behind a veil of thin puffy clouds in the distance.

good night, sewers.
good night, streams.
good night, operations and maintenance teams.
good night, settling tanks.
good night, stream banks.
good night, engineers, scientists, crews, managers, inspectors, analysts too.
a good night for us means serving with care.

good night, sewers, everywhere.

Photo of people standing in a storage room with produce placed in boxes. The text: 12 March 2026. International School Meals Day. By transforming procurement, SchoolFood4Change cities deliver better food to +3200 schools! SchoolFood4Change. Funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme.

🍎 Happy International School Meals Day!

For many children, school meals are the only reliable source of quality nutrition – how they look and taste matters.

SEI experts analysed school food provision in 12 European countries. Read the article: buff.ly/oaifr7V

#ISMD2026

Principles of Boogie Management     Don't blame it on the sunshine Don't blame it on the moonlight Don't blame it on the good times   Establish a collaborative working environment coupled with individual accountability to prevent a blame culture from developing in the first place Brian Bilston

Principles of Boogie Management.

I’m now wanting to know what’s to the left. The pub, the train station, the moors, the canal?

Please circulate! Are you or do you know someone from groups particularly affected by Mpox, & those less likely to be heard by researchers? We are working with @thelovetankcic.bsky.social to organise workshops seeking to improve modelling response.

www.coproductioncollective.co.uk/news/commet-...

Regret to announce that we’ve reached Wrong Coat season. Every coat you wear from now til mid April will be The Wrong Coat for the weather

More on the need for a global assessment of avoidable risks
climate.leeds.ac.uk/news/leeds-r...

PhD position (Lancaster, UK)
Modelling infections within and between schools to reduce illness, absence and learning days lost.
with Jonathan Read
at Lancaster University
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2478

This amazing bus is the Moon Palace - a wonderful project between art and Physics to create a space to inspire people how the universe works. If you’re in London over 20-21 Feb, drop into the courtyard outside Royal Astronomical Society and take a look eps.leeds.ac.uk/faculty-engi...

Tread Softly, painting by Peak District artist Clare Allan. Kinder Scout from Mellor Road, New Mills.

no greater love than swan courtship
🦢🤍🦢

Ice spike - Wikipedia

It's like ice spikes, isn't it?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_spike

I think that’s what it is

I don’t think it was this as there doesn’t appear to be a hole. Could be a drip from the gutter above but even that looks to be in the wrong place

It’s just a shallow puddle on top of a plastic container and there’s no hole so I don’t think it’s expansion.

Yes it did

Does anyone know how this formed? Ice funnel about 7cm high and 2cm diameter sticking up from a sheet of ice on a horizontal plastic surface.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

A piece of covid pandemic history spotted yesterday. This must have been from sometime in Feb 2020 and the poster was probably only relevant for 2-3 weeks. It’s easy to forget now how little we knew and how fast things moved in the early days.

The sneeze secret: how much should you worry about this explosive reflex? It is one of the most powerful involuntary actions the human body can perform. But is a big sneeze a sign of illness, pollution or something else entirely?

Great to chat with Joel Snape about all things sneezing. Great seeing comments from @cathnoakes.bsky.social too

I was really pleased when I saw he’d spoken to you too!

Hyde Park Picture House, Headingley, Leeds, painting by Allen Tortice (b.1948).

My cat will eat almost anything left out. Most annoying is if we leave bread out to defrost he’ll tear through the plastic to get too it 🤷‍♀️

'Some people have 10 million times more virus than others': Are you a flu superspreader? A growing body of research suggests that everything from the shape of your lungs to how you enunciate your Ts and Ks could make you a flu superspreader.

I was recently asked to comment on superspreading for a BBC article. Little did I know, my quote would become the title!

www.bbc.com/future/artic...