Rob Cain @cain_rob@qoto.org

RT @UNSW
UNSW quantum engineers have designed a high precision spin measuring device a million times more sensitive than commercial spectrometers. The device could help scientists understand the structure and purpose of materials better.

https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/quantum-engineers-have-designed-new-tool-probe-nature-extreme-sensitivity?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

RT @doug_parr
Such a good graphic from @FT on the difference between a climate warming of 1.5C and 2C

On many of the metrics like crop yields, species loss, heatwaves, the impacts don't just go up a little, they double

https://www.ft.com/content/450a59bb-7c83-4d04-851f-0bbc120c09f7

RT @jasoncrawford
Fascinating experiment: can GPT-4 run an online business? https://twitter.com/jacksonfall/status/1636107218859745286

RT @chakrabortty
Beware Hunt’s hype. There’s more poverty ahead and his budget did nothing to change that. My col on the events of today https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/15/jeremy-hunt-poverty-budget-childcare-britain-economic

RT @jeremycorbyn
Today, the Chancellor could have announced a wealth tax to give people a proper pay rise & save our NHS.

His failure to do so will prolong the suffering of those in poverty & deepen the crisis in our public services.

Inequality is a political choice, not an economic necessity.

RT @JamesBrowneRTC
Chancellor just announced a massive inheritance tax loophole - put as much as you can into your pension, then take it out if you need it, if not it goes to your heirs tax-free

RT @PhysicsMagazine
Researchers have found a way to make large, pristine atom arrays for use in quantum computing and quantum simulation. Read the story by @Ry_Wilk. https://physics.aps.org/articles/v16/s33

RT @Peston
For top rate tax payers who have already stopped saving for a pension because they’ve reached their lifetime limit, the abolition of the limit looks to me like an annual £27,000 a year tax saving - because most will restart saving. Quite a bung for the rich #Budget2023

RT @NASAWebb
There is beauty in transience. 🌸

Webb’s stunning image of a super bright, massive Wolf-Rayet star calls forth the ephemeral nature of cherry blossoms. The Wolf-Rayet phase is a fleeting stage that only some stars go through, soon before they explode: https://go.nasa.gov/3Ln74VC

RT @JujuliaGrace
💙CHALLENGE!💙
I’m looking for 5616 people to donate £1, right now, so that we can build a whistleblowing portal for NHS staff to raise the alarm about problems. We’ll hold the government to account for what they’re doing to the NHS💙🚨

Can we do this?🤞

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-build-a-whistleblowing-portal-for-nhs-staff#start

RT @valentinapop
The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor investigating alleged war crimes in Ukraine will travel to London next week as he prepares the first arrest warrants against Russians for their alleged wrongdoing in the year-long conflict.
https://www.ft.com/content/83102b3e-bba7-4242-9cf0-cd45c8163081 @HenryJFoy

RT @robhastings
🚢 When P&O Ferries instantly fired 786 workers to use cheaper agency workers, the PM said they "aren’t going to get away with it"

A year on, what's happened?

No criminal prosecution
Same boss
Fire & rehire/replace still legal

My @theipaper long read:
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/p-and-o-ferries-get-away-with-sacking-workers-2200637

RT @MrJohnNicolson
How come Tory MPs are interviewing the Tory Chancellor on GBNews?

@Ofcom rules are clear. MPs may not present the news or conduct political interviews.

I challenged the Ofcom boss today in the Culture Select Committee- are you satisfied with the answer?
@CommonsDCMS

RT @TechXplore_com
Scientists enhance recyclability of waste #plastic @J_A_C_S https://doi.org/grjd8h https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-scientists-recyclability-plastic.html

RT @Nick_Pettigrew
Those BBC negotiations in full:
“Delete the tweets”
“No”
“Okay, well, apologise for them”
“No”
“We’ll get somebody else in to do your job if you don’t”
*Everyone downs tools*
“Will you at least promise not to tweet political stuff in the future?”
“No”
“Okay, we have a deal”

RT @premnsikka
For the 2nd time House of Lords rejects clause in the Public Order Bill (242 votes to 196) which enables Police to stop/search and arrest people without suspicion on the basis that they might take part in disruptive demonstrations.

Senior Tory peers voted against the govt.

RT @docrussjackson
"The home secretary, in her opening statement, said that she can’t be xenophobic or racist just because of her colour and her origins. Well, I say to her, of the same colour & same origin, that that is exactly what her politics are about." - Khalid Mahmood MP.

RT @CarolineLucas
So this illegal & immoral #RefugeeBanBill passes second reading, 312 to 270, trashing international law, running roughshod over human rights, & shaming us all. It’s not refugees who are threat to this country, it’s the Tory government. But opposition will only grow #StopTheBill

RT @Neuro_Skeptic
Oculomotor self-touch induces illusory body ownership https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36895648/ This is a really interesting study, but I can't help but think that "oculomotor self-touch" is a great euphemism for watching porn

RT @premnsikka
BP CEO paypacket doubled to £10m.
BP profits doubled, fuelled inflation.
Real wage cuts for workers - private sector pay rising by 7.3%; govt offering public sector 3.5%; inflation (RPI) 13.4%.
No Govt curbs on corporate profiteering or fat-cat exec pay.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/10/bp-bernard-looney-pay-package