Science Museum is doing screenings of the Star Trek movies as part of its 60th anniversary celebration. I’ve booked Wrath of Khan director’s cut. You should too. www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do/s...
Speaking of Star Trek. Very proud to be involved in creating a season of celebrations at the Science Museum for the 60th anniversary or Star Trek. Including a WORLD FIRST screening of all 13 Star Trek films in our IMAX theatre. Find out more:
www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/star-trek-60
#StarTrek #IMAX
Glad this has a name. Of course, pertinent to Freud, this is the same psychology that drove 1930s fascism: manufacturing false nostalgia for a lost "golden age" and then generating anger and resentment at its loss, scapegoating another section of society for this wrongdoing.
Discussing importance of m & f scientists to take parental leave. Need better childcare.
Dame Jocelyn: On site at unis.
Prof Uta Frith: (with glee) and then the psychologists cd do experiments!
Michele Dougherty's story on the Cassini mission is inspiring. Equipment that almost didn't get included, lobbying for a daring low flyby of Enceladus, completely changing the character of the mission through shocking discovery of atmosphere and water sprays. There's a miniseries in there so where!
I'm lucky enough to be at this event today. Some great notes from Samira in this thread. There was audible horror when Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell told her story. I suppose it's good that these stories are shocking now rather than normal, but still. Disgusting.
With 80 years since Kathleen Lonsdale FRS and Marjory Stephenson FRS were elected to our Fellowship, Professor Dame Athene Donald FRS looks at the progress since 1945, and what we need to do to keep moving forward. #IWD2026 https://royalsociety.org/blog/2026/03/looking-back-moving-forward/
Trailblazing perspectives, chaired by Jim Al Khalili. On stage a BSL signer stands to the left. The panel sit left to right: Ijeoma Uchegbu, Michele Dougherty, Uta Frith, Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Jim. On stage at the Royal Society.
Spending today and tomorrow at the @royalsociety.org for the "Women and the future of science" conference. First panel is an amazing line-up with @jimalkhalili.bsky.social interviewing Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Uta Frith, Michele Dougherty and Ijeoma Uchegbu.
Clockwise, from top left: Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus. None of the worlds is to scale, but all are imaged with JWST's near-infrared (NIRCam) instrument.
The giant planets of the Solar System, by JWST.
An Edward Gorey drawing showing a morose looking black bird on a branch. He (and this feels very much like a he) is pointing downwards with one scraggly wing, and looking straight ahead with debt-filled eyes. His beak is long and sharp, like winter on the Great Plains. He is pointing with his right wing, but this means he is pointing to your left. Your wicked, sinister side. This is no accident. The Bird makes no such mistakes. But he is talking, and the text tells us that he is saying, "Beware of this and that." Honestly, you feel his message in your bones.
Some days I just feel like this Edward Gorey bird gets it.
A screenshot from the 1898 Insurance and Financial Gazette. The plaintiff is named as "Mr Samuel Frankenstein"; "Mr H. F. Dickens Q.C." appears on behalf of the plaintiff. Frankenstein wants his £52 back, that he paid for shares in the "Gavin House-to-House Cycle and Insurance Company Limited", which proved fraudulent.
Today I learned that, in 1898, Charles Dickens's son Henry Fielding Dickens, a barrister, prosecuted a fraudulent Insurance Office on behalf of a client called Frankenstein.
Yes but it was pronounced Fronkensteen
I wanted to share this with you. Hawaiians have a name for each phase of the moon. They were very serious about astronomy!
Programmer noir
This looks like an essential purchase!
Finally someone explains key facts about the Italian renaissance to me in my kind of language. Really loving Verity Babbs’s book..
It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.
Yes! Normalise this in all serialised fiction
A colourful cartoon poster advertising holidays in North Wales. The poster features a man and woman canoeing in the foreground, with a green train in the background. Behind them are illustrations of Conwy Castle, Snowdonia, and other Welsh landmarks. The text reads "NORTH WALES" in bold letters, with the tagline "UNSURPASSED IN THE VARIETY OF ITS HOLIDAY ATTRACTIONS—YOU GET THERE QUICKLY BY TRAIN" at the bottom. British Railways logo is also present.
For St. David's Day, presenting this delightful British Railways poster from 1963 promoting holidays in North Wales, with artwork by Reginald Lander. "Unsurpassed in its variety" and "you get there quickly by train", it boasts. It still is, and you still can 🏴
This St David's day why not find out about Owain Glyndwr!
✅The Man
✅The Myth
✅The massive fantasy nerd
✅The incredibly gracious host
✅May have accidentally got into a huge rebellion to try to liberate Wales after a dispute with his neighbour got out of hand
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Black and white photo of Marjane Satrapi with the quote: "The world is not divided between East and West. You are American. I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."
Once again.
Congratulations to everyone nominated for a BSFA Award: www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...
Beautiful diagrams from a circa 17th-century copy of Muslim polymath Ismail al-Jazarī’s *Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices*, originally published in 1206: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/arabic-machine-manuscript
☀️🌑🛰️ 2026: The year we arrive at Mercury!
After almost 8 years since its launch in 2018, BepiColombo is entering its most critical phase yet. It is about to end its interplanetary phase and initiate its Mercury approach.
"The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot"
HELL. YES.
*Finally* able to talk about the Star Trek @sciencemuseum.org.uk team-up we are organising for the 60th anniversary! Special events, world first film season, exclusive merch, props and costumes from the Paramount archives, and more! www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/star-trek-60
"as well as expressing our frustrations with the disenchanted world, it’s also our best means for capturing the ways in which the world remains enchanted"
A futuristic illustration of a city built upwards, with buildings on top of buildings, and a railroad wrapping around it all.
A Victorian's vision of the future - by Grant E. Hamilton for Judge Magazine in 1895. What will people say of our predictions in 100+ years?
Reposting for the weekend crew, hit the link for more info, to book your free ticket to the Star Trek Lates, and buy tickets to every Star Trek film showing in our IMAX 🖖
