was just on my way to let you know your old X account is hacked - what's the best way to report?

that's a point, my British Leyland T-shirt has drifted out of my T-shirt rotation, wonder where I've put it.

🚨 PhD Project Alert 🚨

UK and RoI students - here's a project looking at understanding how lowering methane emissions may change the quality profile of beef produced under typical UK/Ireland production systems. #phdprojects #phd #foodsecurity

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

How Labour abandoned its own legacy and betrayed Britain’s farmers Oli Post-war policies reshaped Britain’s agricultural scene, but today's neoliberal policies threaten both food security and farmers’ survival

How Labour abandoned its own legacy and betrayed Britain’s farmers…

Post-war policies reshaped Britain’s agricultural scene, but today's neoliberal policies threaten both food security and farmers’ survival.

it's very good, in the way most of the Chinese EVs are, but it's not a proper Volvo. The interior is very Scandinavian, but lots of those little thoughtful things Volvo used to do to improve safety with their interior ergonomics are missing, like easy to use heater controls, or a clear dashboard.

Dame Joan Plowright: Acting legend dies at 95 She was one of Britain's most acclaimed stage and screen stars and the widow of Sir Laurence Olivier.

I was always enormously fond of Joan's little cameo in 'Last Action Hero' as a teacher showing Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, though obviously it's things like Equus that Joan Plowright will rightly be remembered for.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What's with the soppy messages at Kings Cross - a child telling me not to clean my shoes on the escalator brushes and a random bloke talking about the gap between the train and platform being some sort of river or ribbon.

Exciting to be able to announce a new major grant that Queen's University is a partner on, looking to improve supply chain resilience - a sister project to our RISC Network Plus reimagining supply chains project.

www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/ifm-sec...

rear wiper but steel wheels - even at that money, VW still churning out MEB kit with steel wheels and Halfords wheel trims. The 'Drammen' alloys were lovely, especially with Honey Yellow paint - VW should have taken the financial hit and shipped all the ID range with alloys and more colour choice.

yeah - it's little things like that which are missing from ID.3 and would make it feel higher quality/more premium.

Why was Glen Sannox so hard to build? The new CalMac vessel at the centre of Scotland's ferries saga has finally been delivered by Ferguson shipyard

Why was Glen Sannox so hard to build ?

1. It's made of metal, which is harder to nail together than wood
2. It's very long so can't be assembled in a garage or shed
3. Chris de Burgh's refusal to pay the ferryman in advance caused a shortage of cash.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

yes, but I do quite like the ID.4 and ID.5 interiors, though they could be higher quality still, and what the ID.4 got, that should have been the ID.3 level. The thing that annoys me most about the VW ID cars is the door feel, they lack weight and sound tinny when closing.

but it has no rear wiper...

Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Series 1 Episode 7 Tony Slattery, Jonathan Pryce, Rory McGrath and John Sessions feature in this show

It don't really know why it had to take Tony Slattery's extremely untimely death, but back to Whose Line on Channel 4 we go, and the mad mad world of Slattery next to Bond villain par-excellence Jonathan Pryce, plus Rory McGrath and John Sessions.

www.channel4.com/programmes/w...

Postdoc positions attached to my research group now available - will be recruiting for 2 positions through this advert (one for 3 years, one for 2.5 years). Supply chain, sustainability and resilience focused for someone interested in modelling and digital twins.

hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

they're the masters of airport security scanners now - don't think I've been through an airport in the last decade which didn't have a Smiths Detection systems of some sort getting upset at my laptop or rucksack.

Producing food is arguably the easy (well, easier) part - making sure all of that food is safe to eat and isn't going make human or animal consumers ill, that's the real challenge. #FoodSafety

www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/food-produ...

Tony Slattery: Comedian and actor dies aged 65 He was known for his quick-witted improvisations on shows like Channel 4's Whose Line Is It Anyway.

Really sad to hear about Tony Slattery's death - a former Rector of the University of Dundee, he was simply incredible on Whose Line, and then scene stealing in Kingdom.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Screenshot of Twitter/X showing Nigel Farage advertising nappies.

Is Nigel Farage really selling nappies over on X at the moment @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social ? It must surely be a wind-up.

I despair at Imperial - not knowing King Crimson or Brian Eno is entirely unforgivable. #universitychallenge

Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth’s magnetic field - Frontiers in Zoology Introduction Several mammalian species spontaneously align their body axis with respect to the Earth’s magnetic field (MF) lines in diverse behavioral contexts. Magnetic alignment is a suitable paradi...

The Frontiers in Zoology paper from tonight's Only Connect on pet toilet habits being on a north-south axis (and it's Open Access). #OnlyConnect

frontiersinzoology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Perth Leisure Pool to reopen as 'temporary solution' found The boiler issue remains unresolved.

Reports that the pool was being heated up by a janitor equipped with a Russell Hobbs kettle were neither confirmed nor denied by Perth and Kinross Council...

www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/pert...

'Very worrying' pass rates for maths and science in Scotland Education experts have found low attainment in subjects like maths and science in Scotland this year.

don't think anybody hates Scotland these days, it's more head scratching at the mess things are in Scotland - falling achievement in core subjects in secondary school, destitute colleges and essentially bankrupt universities.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A picture of a Waters TQ-Absolute triple-quadrupole mass spectrometer fitted with a Desorption ElectroSpray Ionisation (DESI) imaging platform source.

PhD project alert - I'm co-supervising a mass spectrometry PhD, making use of our Waters TQ-Absolute system with DESI-XS imaging platform to develop faster, more sensitive food contaminant tests. Deadline 7th February. DMs open for queries.

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

REIMS work that we've been developing for several years - quite a lot more to come from this, beyond the pre-print...

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

almost all of the cadmium and quite a lot of the lead found in chocolate is naturally occuring - geogenic in origin. Good quality elemental analysis is easily capable of detecting hazardous levels and allowing mitigation to be put in place though.

MOT data shows the UK's mileage is still around lockdown levels. A look at the 2023 MOT data to uncover mileage trends, the most reliable models, the best day to book your test - and much more.

Average car mileage in the UK is now about 6500 miles per year (based on average via MoT mileage) and that's down by around 10% from prior to COVID in 2019, when it was about 7100 miles.

www.bymiles.co.uk/insure/magaz...

was thinking the same, the Crit'Air rules have presumably all but killed off the Mk.1 Twingo.

unfortunately we're stuck with a government which is (at best) penny wise and pound foolish. They don't get that £1 invested in STEM today (whether it's university courses, facilities or apprenticeships) is £10 returned in 2035. And we're up against some countries who really get it.

Independent edition front page showing statistics highlighting the cost of Brexit to Britain’s economy

Our front page tomorrow @the-independent.com

Five years on, the true cost of Brexit - in numbers