Richard Sear

I was watching Lord of the Rings last night and realized there are many parallels with academia! A thread 🧵👇

I’m proud to have our latest research published on how long #SARSCoV2 remains infectious while airborne! We studied the fundamental processes that drive the loss of viral infectivity in the aerosol phase. #COVIDisAirborne Here’s a thread going over some of the findings.

@LawtonTri commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plot… Not an aerosol scientist but aerosol scientists produced this for distribution of droplet sizes from someone speaking. Droplets from less than micrometre to much larger

Also fascinating that breathing and coughing produce large droplets which never become smaller for any reason, but putting a laryngoscope in someone's mouth makes tiny ones... Any aerosol scientists care to comment?

This is dynamite from Kaveh Solhekol on Sky Sports News. Absolutely nails it. He has the Tories and BBC on toast. Well done!! 👏 Take 2 mins and watch👇#garylineker #ImWithGary #MOTD #ToryFascists

Enthusiastically starting a new @EPSRC Impact Acceleration project with @ipwilliams working in collaboration with Pulpex to develop #sustainable #packaging pulpex.com @FEPSInfo aligned with @SurreySustain

In 14 years as a doctor I’ve never known such horrific conditions. Patients dying on trolleys with zero dignity. Or screaming & moaning in corridors. Dickensian overcrowding, total implosion. Despair. Weeping staff. Abject misery. Do you care at all @Jeremy_Hunt? @SteveBarclay?

@nadhimzahawi Hi from traffic jam in part caused by whole train line shut by the train company/government. Strikes can't do much here!

🥀 Strikes won’t only hit train passengers, it’ll mean more time in traffic for 17 million motorists. 🤫 24 hours before Christmas strikes chaos from Labour’s mate Mick ‘the Grinch’ Lynch and Keir Starmer is still silent.

Our paper modelling how badly cloth masks filter, w @BristolUniPhys, has made the cover of @AIP_Publishing Physics of Fluids! More proof that physics is at most 50% carefully analysed quantitative data, other half is pretty pictures ....

New blog post on how its nice to be back to almost normal face-to-face teaching chanceandnecessity.net/2022/03/25/bac… enjoy the sunny weekend!

Bah, should have picked stronger password I guess ....

@james_t_wilson Ta but I only really tweet via @PhysicsatSurrey ...... you can follow that for Dept stuff, my blog posts ....

New blog entry http://tinyurl.com/6d9n2e3 on physicists taking inspiration from fairy tales