Graeme Burt

@CommonsSITC @ChiOnwurah This is very worrying, the PM here explaining that they have the blinkers on for quantum and AI. Important areas but cutting all other physics will cripple so many sectors skills pipeline particularly in nuclear.

Chair @ChiOnwurah questioned the Prime Minister at the Liaison Committee yesterday about how the government decides which areas of scientific research to prioritise funding. Hear what he had to say 👇

Animal rescue facing funding crisis bbc.in/3TkKy2H

@the_cynical1 @DrAllyLouks Clinicians aren’t really doctors. The term comes the fact that clinicians used to do a PhD, most don’t now (it was felt on the job training as a junior clinician was better) but they incorrectly kept the title. So yes clinicians need a new title, as Dr should mean doing a PhD

@DrAllyLouks We need a new prefix for people with academic PhD's. "Dr" should mean something.

Thrilled to say I passed my viva with no corrections and am officially PhDone.

@MrJamesMay Because farmland has inflated value as an excellent inheritance tax loophole, or at least did.

I’m trying to follow the great farming debate but, as an economics illiterate, I’m baffled. If a farm has a nominal value of, say, £3m but generates an income of only c. £40k, how can it really be worth that much? This is not, bt dubs, a loaded question. I’m interested.

@Diggers71 @GdnUniversities Apparently PPE is one, as it’s clear this graduate hasn’t learned who to research an article and how to use quality sources

@GdnUniversities What is a "poor quality degree". How is that measured?

England's universities flex their muscles to hike fees, while students get a bum deal | Sonia Sodha dlvr.it/TG5lBb

@PhysWiz Actually speaking to humans in person, I tried it, you don’t want to go there.

I am getting closer to giving up on Twitter, what's the leading alternative these days?

@ThePhysicsMemes Well you definitely picked the wrong subject, theoretical physics just has more questions. I believe you want experimental physics for answers.

When someone asks whywant to do theoretical physics instead of engineering #physics

I think it's a strat. #science

@sigirides You want to risk your life jumping red lights that on you, but don’t risk that cats life. Idiots like you shouldn’t have animals. It’s a living being not a social media prop.

@XRPSPEED @rickygervais @TomFlanner99201 Atheists are intrinsically better people, we are good as we have empathy rather than just being good to avoid punishment from their god.

@graemeburt32 @rickygervais @TomFlanner99201 Honestly, I personally believe it's about being a good individual. Regardless, of your beliefs, just be good.

Hey @rickygervais where does intelligence come from? Genius? Human consciousness? Conscience? Atheism sure doesn't have the answers.

@XRPSPEED @rickygervais @TomFlanner99201 Do religious people ever wonder if they picked the wrong one? The difference between sects is minuscule and get it slightly wrong and they believe they are going to hell. If I’m wrong it was unlikely I would have picked the right one anyway (it would be an old obscure one)

@rickygervais @TomFlanner99201 I would think that atheist sometimes wonder or question what if I'm wrong, what if there are gods?

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@Chris_Segroves @DKiSAerospace @DrChrisCombs After discovering electromagnetic (the basis for all telecommunications) Faraday was asked by the prime minister what was it for and he replied “I know not, but I wager that one day your government will tax it”

@DKiSAerospace @DrChrisCombs 👀 Dude, you are not a serious person. People do science when it has value, because it produces things people will pay for. The government doesn’t exist to blow money on things that doesn’t produce value. They exist to keep people from killing each other.

It's amazing what NASA can do with a functional budget

Leeds Trinity’s viral marketing campaign for their open days is a step too far.

Still my favourite meme

@DrBrianKeating Because you chose two quantities that gave those answers. If you chose say the size of a proton and the universe the geometric mean would be much larger.

The geometric mean of the size of a neutrino and the size of the universe (90 Giga light years) is ~ 1 meter. The geometric mean of the age of the universe since the formation of the elements (last known physics, ~1 nanosecond) and the age of the universe (14 billion years) is approximately one day. The geometric mean of the mass of a typical galaxy and the mass of a neutrino is 1000 kg. Why are these values so close to human scale units?

@cockcroft_news I’m gonna need a 30 day run on Clara, no particular reason just need to irradiate something

@EntangledLogic @WKCosmo Gonna need some really big magnets for that 🧲

Happy one-year anniversary to possibly the stupidest idea to ever come out of a high energy physics committee.

@CorriganPaul @MichaelRosenYes You are making an assumption that private schools are better, while they get higher school grades, the students struggle at university without all the extra help (unless they go to oxbridge and still get the tutors). Studies show they are 8% less likely to get a 2.1 or better

@MichaelRosenYes My preference is for places to be open to all at 11+ if they pass an entrance test. The state pays a bursary equivalent to state school cost and schools need to take them. In return make fees tax deductible for middle earners and taper it as salary rises and deduction not needed.

Statistic wanted please in order to justify claim that private education is being used by people who 'scrimp and save'. Further statistic needed that if VAT is put on, that this group will not be able to afford private education. Gross numbers and/or percentages please.