I've been waiting for this since 2005. Check out my article on SLP about the upcoming #ArtemisII mission to the moon.

Iupac announces it is moving from the US to a joint home in Spain and Italy Dual headquarters decision a result of strong bids from both cities

Via Chemistry World, IUPAC are moving their headquarters from the United States to Spain and Italy; I cannot possibly imagine why... www.chemistryworld.com/news/iupac-a...

THE TENACITY OF HOPE | Sea Lion Press

Did we say Monday? Early #Christmas present! Tom Anderson's #AlternateHistory #USpolitics tale of a delayed #BarackObama #presidency, "The Tenacity of Hope" is out now! #NewBook #Obama www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...

The Tenacity of Hope The Tenacity of Hope eBook : Anderson, Tom: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

And here's the #Amazon link to buy "The Tenacity of Hope", Tom Anderson's new #AlternateHistory #Kindle #book about a delayed #Obama #presidency, available now! www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G9QN1DLG

From the Final Frontier to the Audacity of Hope: How Star Trek Voyager led to the Obama Presidency By Tom AndersonFor today’s article in my ‘Chains of Consequences’ series, we won’t be going so many years back in time. Only about a decade separates the start and end of this chain, which makes it al...

Here's a look at the original article by Tom Anderson which ultimately inspired his new #AlternateHistory #book "The Tenacity of Hope" -see reply. Who knew that the casting choice for #SevenOfNine in #StarTrekVoyager could have changed the rise of #BarackObama? www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/from-th...

The Tenacity of Hope The Tenacity of Hope eBook : Anderson, Tom: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

My new #Kindle #book "The Tenacity of Hope", concerning how (of all things) a #StarTrekVoyager #casting choice could have delayed the #BarackObama #presidency, is available now! www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G9QN1DLG

Check out this article I wrote on the unexpected origins of many names in #science and #technology. Via the #ion , #cation , #anion we then got #electron and ultimately every bit of technology that ends in #tron.

I was looking in the Radio Times for September 11th, 1959 (as one does) and came across this... it has been going on for a while!

I've seen it in Janice Hallett's latest book (which is excellent as usual). Have editors forgotten there's a difference between these two words? (2/2)

My faith in editors is cracking - a while back I spotted an error in Brian McClellan's "Sins of Empire" in which he'd written 'phase(d)' for 'faze(d)' and it hadn't been corrected, and now (1/2)

Students may have seen me use this #book by @cepmurphy.bsky.social as an example of why it's important to fill out feedback surveys: if you don't do it, all the decisions will be made on the basis of readers who give a three-star Amazon review to a wonderfully clever parody they don't understand.

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.

University of Sheffield ranked within top 100 universities in QS World University Rankings The University of Sheffield has been ranked within the top 100 universities in the world in the QS World University Rankings 2026, reaffirming its place as a leading global university for teaching and...

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...

John Hemingway: Last surviving Battle of Britain pilot dies aged 105 Mr Hemingway, who is originally from Dublin, joined the RAF as a teenager before World War Two.

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

NMS Ceefax An up-to-date version of the BBC's teletext service, Ceefax.

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