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I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understandsAstronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.www.bbc.co.ukAstronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans“What will the Lovell Telescope discover/enable 20 yrs from now? I can’t tell you, and that’s the point. It will either be something extraordinary that none of us can yet predict, or we will defund it and leave Cheshire with a rusting monument to unfulfilled potential and discoveries never made.” 🔭🧪
First time Reform has lost the lead with any pollster since mid-April 2025
Luke TrylOur latest voting intention sees cross over. Labour move ahead by 4. Their first lead since March 2025 & highest share since Nov 24 🌹 LAB 28% (+4) ⏩ REF 24% (-2) 🌳 CON 22% (nc) 🔶 LIB DEM 12% (+1) 🟢 GREEN 8% (-3) 🟡 SNP 2% (nc) N = 2061| Dates 24-27/7| Change w 22/7
Strange decision given Jodrell Bank is probably the most iconic symbol of science in the North of the England. I would imagine our new Prime Minister, who is very focussed supporting the North, will have something to say about it.
Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understandsAstronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.www.bbc.co.ukWe'll also talk about these new findings from PNAS about evolution of mathematical thinking, which compared Monkey's geometric intuition with the of humans and found they were surprisingly similar. www.pnas.org/doi/10.... 4/4
Continuity in geometric intuition between humans and monkeys | PNASGeometric intuition is regarded as a hallmark of human intelligence. Humans hold a unique advantage in recognizing geometric shapes with Euclidean features (e.g., parallelism, symmetry) and have mo...www.pnas.orgWe'll also be covering this supposed counterexample to the Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture that was posted yesterday (you should check out the prompts that were used to find the counter example - they are hilarious) x.com/dmitryrybin1/s... 3/4
Dmitry Rybin (@DmitryRybin1) on XDinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture is false. This graph theory problem was open for ~30 years.
The graph below has fractional flow cost 58. Any unsplittable flow (with capacity violation <=15) has x.comWe'll be talking about this counter example that disproves the Jacobian conjecture that was tweeted earlier this week x.com/__alpoge__/sta... 2/4
levent (@__alpoge__) on Xhello there the jacobian conjecture is false thanx to my close friend akhil for asking about it and my other close friend fable for working during the world cup final
((1+xy)^3 z + y^2 (1+xy) (4+3x.comI'm on BBC Inside Science again as presenter's friend this afternoon at 16:30. We'll be talking about Beavers, Orcas, Testosterone, Mathematical Monkeys and Mathematical Machines. Check it out: www.bbc.co.uk/progra... 1/4
BBC Radio 4 - BBC Inside ScienceA weekly programme looking at the science that's changing our world.www.bbc.co.uk“Millionaires including former footballer Gary Lineker and music producer Brian Eno have written to new prime minister Andy Burnham asking to be taxed more.”
UK millionaires ask Andy Burnham to tax them moreA group including former England footballer Gary Kineker write to the new PM telling him "we can afford it".www.bbc.co.uk
“The ex-chief exec of Southern Water has been charged with three others over an alleged plan to manipulate water quality tests to avoid paying financial penalties of about £45m” 😡 Why are we not surprised that this sort of thing might have been going on
Ex-Southern Water boss charged over alleged plan to manipulate water testsMatthew Wright is accused alongside three others of trying to save the firm millions in penalties.www.bbc.co.uk“The ex-chief exec of Southern Water has been charged with three others over an alleged plan to manipulate water quality tests to avoid paying financial penalties of about £45m” 😡 Why are we not surprised that this sort of thing might have been going on
Ex-Southern Water boss charged over alleged plan to manipulate water testsMatthew Wright is accused alongside three others of trying to save the firm millions in penalties.www.bbc.co.uk
If anyone in the rest of the world wants to be appalled, this is how we do Covid in the UK. No vaccines for children, pregnant women, and we honestly haven't got many people over the age of 80 left anymore after letting covid run wild in care homes (notice - no healthcare staff vaccines). Yup.
Kit YatesUK restricts Autumn boosters to 80 year olds. "JCVI noted in their cost-benefit analysis that willingness to pay privately increases with age"
Saw Arcadia last night. A delicious brainfeast. Just found out that @kityates.bsky.social helped with this production kityates.substack.com/p/et-in-arca.... Is it true that Sir Bob May worked on the original?
Et in Arcadia egoMaths, desire and time’s arrow meet at the Old Vic: as I discover as Arcadia's science consultantkityates.substack.comExcited to say that I'll be presenter's friend on Inside Science tomorrow covering an extravaganza of maths related stories from mathematical monkeys to mathematical machines. Give it a listen at 16:30 on Thursday on BBC Radio 4:
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