Marnie Chesterton

Me, dumb and politically correct: Firing on unarmed ships or double-tap military strikes on schools are bad things.

Please tell me you are paying the big cheque in at your local branch?

Hah bonus! Well done

Honestly the collective national level of disdain for Brits living in Dubai on all my social media platforms today really is bringing the UK together as one in a way that's hard to achieve in the modern era.

Fish Doorbell – It's almost here! — The Fish Doorbell Zie je een vis? Druk op de Visdeurbel dan opent onze sluiswachter de sluis en kunnen de vissen doorzwemmen.

FISH DOORBELL IS BACK ON MARCH 2!!!
visdeurbel.nl/en/

Pick of the Week - Anneka Rice - BBC Sounds Anneka Rice presents a weekly selection of the best bits of audio across the BBC.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... as a kid who grew up with Challenge Anneka, I was delighted to be first choice for her Pick of the Week selection on BBC Radio4 today. And to learn that she started her career 50 years ago in the Radio Science Unit! 🥰

BBC Radio 4 - BBC Inside Science, Wood, Smoke and Science: Cooking over fire The science of barbecue recorded at Abergavenny Food Festival 2025.

Snuggle round a warm fire with @amsterdammed.bsky.social this afternoon, as BBC Inside Science "brings a sprinkling of chemistry and just a squeeze of paleoanthropology" from the Abergavenny Science Festival, supported by our wonderful colleague Dr Joanna Buckley!

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On Radio 4's Inside Science this afternoon, a joyful afternoon I spent presenting The Science of BBQ at #AbergavennyFoodFestival Thanks to my panel - chemist Joanna Buckley, Hang Fire BBQ chef Sam Evans, and archaeobotanical scientist Ceren Kabukcu

I’m not trying to be a shill for Big Pottery, but these Darwin mugs are in the sale right now. Reduced from crazy pricey to still-more-than-you’d-want-to-pay. But so joyful. Happy belated #darwinday

think I'm correct in saying that constitutionally you can't change prime minister during a Winter Olympics

Ad astra Challenger crew.

40 years.

Same!!!

This is stunning work. Thank you for writing it.

Can anyone vouch for this? Whose placenta goes in it?

I’m lucky enough to be heading off to Hobart to see Devils and big trees. Any advice on where to go, or any of your must-sees, mammal-wise?

I’m on hols. & these are khai. Tiny Thai bananas. Which are 1. Delicious and 2. Remind me of a scientist I interviewed, whose job I really wanted. She travelled the world looking for local bananas, to breed resilience into the monocrop most of us eat in supermarkets. Banana Hunter = cool job.

Mammals have evolved into ant eaters 12 times since the dinosaur age, study finds Mammals have developed some unusual eating habits over the past 100 million years, but a new study has uncovered the surprising lengths to which some have gone to satisfy one of the more peculiar—a ta...

Tired: Everything evolves to be a crab.

Wired: Everything evolves to eat ants.

Some really interesting details in here: changes to the vaccine schedule for US kids, appeals to reason with ‘bringing it in line with Denmark’ plus various holes in that rational, and problems with the launch of this change.

Thank you!

This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets.

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This is just such a damned disgrace. A crime against knowledge and humanity itself.

Thank you so much! And may I say thank you for the chocolate column - you’ve introduced me to a world of ways to spend my salary.

BBC Radio 4 - What Is Quantum? Marnie Chesterton travels to the birthplace of quantum theory armed with just one question

My mate Marnie @amsterdammed.bsky.social Chesterton doing Quantum in Helgoland (Heligoland for the purists).

Absolutely sublime wireless-output! :-) <3

And you lot moaned about the lack of Wizard of Oz this year!?

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Stones. On an asteroid. The view is distorted because of the camera lens. The bright splotch at the top is the Sun. Honestly this looks like a riverbed.

This is a photo of the surface of an asteroid

It was taken from the *surface*I of that asteroid

By a *bouncing rover* the size of a lunchbox

(1/2)

Tomorrow, 9.30am, you know what you need? Half an hour of me trying to understand why Quantum is so hard to understand. Includes Carlo Rovelli, Elise Crull and @philipcball.bsky.social being brilliant. Solutions? less clear

Episode 92: Oliver Sacks Listen now | The man who mistook his diary for a case file

Ever since the Oliver Sacks article in the New Yorker, I've been mulling why he embellished his stories of his patients. The lure of a good story over truth. Pleasingly, so have Tom Chivers and Stuart Ritchie in their excellent podcast. sciencefictionspod.substack.com/p/episode-92...

Strong work. Meanwhile, I will buy some and not get around to sending them. Then consign them to the cupboard of no return

Dear maths people: How would you say this equation in words? X.sum()%2 (friend of mine narrating a book wants to know)

I picked out the chickpeas and had an okay curry

Thank you- this is it exactly