Alom Shaha
@alomshaha.bsky.social
Dad. Science Teacher. Author of books including “Why Don’t Things Fall Up?”, "Mr Shaha's Recipes for Wonder" and “How to Find a Rainbow”. Lots of free stuff and more about me at alomshaha.com
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Alom Shaha
@alomshaha.bsky.social
· Oct 12
I’ve spent 25+ years teaching and “ communicating” science. As well as being a schoolteacher, I’ve worked with scientists and science institutions to help them explain their work to the public. This book is the culmination of all that work. Out in paperback Nov. 7th www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1529...
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Lent 🤝 Ramadan. Shoutout to everyone in austerity mode for the next month
February 18, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Lent 🤝 Ramadan. Shoutout to everyone in austerity mode for the next month
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I agree with the Stop Ecocide folks that this needs to be criminalised. They can always budget for fines. CEOs or whoever makes these calls must face prison time or there will never be any real protections of these ecosystems and the people who inhabit and rely on them 🥺
February 18, 2026 at 7:29 AM
I agree with the Stop Ecocide folks that this needs to be criminalised. They can always budget for fines. CEOs or whoever makes these calls must face prison time or there will never be any real protections of these ecosystems and the people who inhabit and rely on them 🥺
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$55 million is pittance against the money they'll have made from the bauxite, it's just another line in the budget. Not a deterrent to further ecocide.
"US mining giant Alcoa has been forced to pay $55 million after unlawfully clearing parts of a Western Australian native forest to mine bauxite."
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
Alcoa hit with record fine for clearing world's only jarrah forests
US mining giant Alcoa is forced to pay $55 million after unlawfully clearing parts of a Western Australian native forest to mine bauxite.
www.abc.net.au
February 18, 2026 at 7:22 AM
$55 million is pittance against the money they'll have made from the bauxite, it's just another line in the budget. Not a deterrent to further ecocide.
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Imagine doing this with your one precious life. Other people are out there teaching children and curing cancer and you decide to spend your time telling outrageous, laughably unbelievable lies about a dementia-addled rapist and fraud whose legacy will be nearly ending US democracy
Leavitt: "I think it's frankly ridiculous that anyone in this room would even suggest that President Trump is doing anything for his own benefit. He left a life of luxury and a life of running a very successful real estate empire for public service."
February 18, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Imagine doing this with your one precious life. Other people are out there teaching children and curing cancer and you decide to spend your time telling outrageous, laughably unbelievable lies about a dementia-addled rapist and fraud whose legacy will be nearly ending US democracy
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Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.
before antibiotics did people just die all the time from everything?
February 17, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.
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ALSO - if you missed out on your childhood measles vaccine and haven't had measles, you can get *free* MMR vaccination from your GP! (whether as an older child, teenager or adult).
I got my MMR about 10 years ago!
www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...
I got my MMR about 10 years ago!
www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...
February 17, 2026 at 3:45 PM
ALSO - if you missed out on your childhood measles vaccine and haven't had measles, you can get *free* MMR vaccination from your GP! (whether as an older child, teenager or adult).
I got my MMR about 10 years ago!
www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...
I got my MMR about 10 years ago!
www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...
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People that are so proud of their European heritage generally forget one thing - their ancestors generally had such a shit time in their home countries (and/or they were criminals) that they risked their (& in many cases their families) lives to travel across the world for a better life elsewhere
February 17, 2026 at 4:35 PM
People that are so proud of their European heritage generally forget one thing - their ancestors generally had such a shit time in their home countries (and/or they were criminals) that they risked their (& in many cases their families) lives to travel across the world for a better life elsewhere
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Joyce Carol Oates being a *gigantic* Musk-hater with a A+ posting game is one of those uniquely online phenomena that I'm glad I'm alive to see even as I recognize that describing it will make me sound insane to future generations.
February 17, 2026 at 5:11 AM
Joyce Carol Oates being a *gigantic* Musk-hater with a A+ posting game is one of those uniquely online phenomena that I'm glad I'm alive to see even as I recognize that describing it will make me sound insane to future generations.
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This is worth a read, as I’m sure the whole book is. A remarkable woman. i was really glad to read the last line of this, “The feeling persists: love is not dead.”
February 17, 2026 at 9:20 AM
This is worth a read, as I’m sure the whole book is. A remarkable woman. i was really glad to read the last line of this, “The feeling persists: love is not dead.”
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🪧✊🏽📣Dear fans of social justice children’s books:
You likely heard that the #LittleRebelsAward for Radical Children’s Fiction is on ⏸️/seeking funding.
The smallest thing you can do to offer support is to follow the award at @littlerebsprize.bsky.social
+ Insta
Thank you!
#KidLitUK
You likely heard that the #LittleRebelsAward for Radical Children’s Fiction is on ⏸️/seeking funding.
The smallest thing you can do to offer support is to follow the award at @littlerebsprize.bsky.social
+ Insta
Thank you!
#KidLitUK
📣Little Rebels Award Folk!
An Announcement:
Award organisers @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social & @housmansbookshop.bsky.social are pausing the Little Rebels Award for Radical Fiction this year.
Full announcement below.
#KidLitUK
An Announcement:
Award organisers @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social & @housmansbookshop.bsky.social are pausing the Little Rebels Award for Radical Fiction this year.
Full announcement below.
#KidLitUK
February 16, 2026 at 1:42 PM
🪧✊🏽📣Dear fans of social justice children’s books:
You likely heard that the #LittleRebelsAward for Radical Children’s Fiction is on ⏸️/seeking funding.
The smallest thing you can do to offer support is to follow the award at @littlerebsprize.bsky.social
+ Insta
Thank you!
#KidLitUK
You likely heard that the #LittleRebelsAward for Radical Children’s Fiction is on ⏸️/seeking funding.
The smallest thing you can do to offer support is to follow the award at @littlerebsprize.bsky.social
+ Insta
Thank you!
#KidLitUK
This is worth a read, as I’m sure the whole book is. A remarkable woman. i was really glad to read the last line of this, “The feeling persists: love is not dead.”
February 17, 2026 at 9:20 AM
This is worth a read, as I’m sure the whole book is. A remarkable woman. i was really glad to read the last line of this, “The feeling persists: love is not dead.”
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This duet cover of Radiohead's "Creep", between a son and his Shastriya Sangeet classically trained mother, is the mash-up I didn't know how much I needed in my life. Totally spontaneous sobbing may have taken place.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZoH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZoH...
Mom & I Cover Creep By Radiohead (she is a classical Indian singer 🕉️)
YouTube video by Avie Sheck
www.youtube.com
February 15, 2026 at 1:32 PM
This duet cover of Radiohead's "Creep", between a son and his Shastriya Sangeet classically trained mother, is the mash-up I didn't know how much I needed in my life. Totally spontaneous sobbing may have taken place.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZoH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZoH...
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Also, if you borrow an author's book from a library in the UK, that author gets more than 12 pence per loan in Public Lending Rights. Any author can earn up to £6,600 per year this way.
Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.
February 17, 2026 at 8:08 AM
Also, if you borrow an author's book from a library in the UK, that author gets more than 12 pence per loan in Public Lending Rights. Any author can earn up to £6,600 per year this way.
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Very fascinated by the adult outrage over a possible ban on children using social media. I really don’t get it.
We have age of consent/access laws for sex, alcohol, driving, tattoos, voting, marriage etc.
Why so much hysteria about this one?
We have age of consent/access laws for sex, alcohol, driving, tattoos, voting, marriage etc.
Why so much hysteria about this one?
February 16, 2026 at 11:14 AM
Very fascinated by the adult outrage over a possible ban on children using social media. I really don’t get it.
We have age of consent/access laws for sex, alcohol, driving, tattoos, voting, marriage etc.
Why so much hysteria about this one?
We have age of consent/access laws for sex, alcohol, driving, tattoos, voting, marriage etc.
Why so much hysteria about this one?
I’m having a rather nice first day of half term which has been made even better because I have just found a lychee flavoured boiled sweet (in a tin of Simpkins‘ mixed “tropical” flavoured ones).
February 16, 2026 at 11:54 AM
I’m having a rather nice first day of half term which has been made even better because I have just found a lychee flavoured boiled sweet (in a tin of Simpkins‘ mixed “tropical” flavoured ones).
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Amazing that governments would rather ban groups of the public from corporate apps rather than regulate those apps for the public good
February 16, 2026 at 11:49 AM
Amazing that governments would rather ban groups of the public from corporate apps rather than regulate those apps for the public good
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On almost everything – fraud, polarisation, radicalisation, misinformation – evidence suggests that over 60s are in much more urgent need of online protection and education than teenagers.
But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.
But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.
This was a minor story on London news this morning - but suspect is a real cautionary (and alarming) tale of an older man getting radicalised online.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sidcup man convicted aover explosive attack on Ulez camera
Kevin Rees's homemade bomb caused damage to vehicles and property including a child's bedroom.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 9:43 AM
On almost everything – fraud, polarisation, radicalisation, misinformation – evidence suggests that over 60s are in much more urgent need of online protection and education than teenagers.
But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.
But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.
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Won't be a revelation to anyone but the reason all the worst people on the right are pivoting to talking about race and culture rather than immigration is so they can keep banging the drum even as net migration figures fall (UK) and even reverse (US).
This is the next step and it always was.
This is the next step and it always was.
February 16, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Won't be a revelation to anyone but the reason all the worst people on the right are pivoting to talking about race and culture rather than immigration is so they can keep banging the drum even as net migration figures fall (UK) and even reverse (US).
This is the next step and it always was.
This is the next step and it always was.
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My 1949 Penguin paperback edition of Wuthering Heights.
The pages have not yellowed, the sewn binding is still tight.
The prevalence of non-acid-free paper and glued bindings means I have hardbacks published less than ten years ago that have aged less well.
The pages have not yellowed, the sewn binding is still tight.
The prevalence of non-acid-free paper and glued bindings means I have hardbacks published less than ten years ago that have aged less well.
February 16, 2026 at 9:38 AM
My 1949 Penguin paperback edition of Wuthering Heights.
The pages have not yellowed, the sewn binding is still tight.
The prevalence of non-acid-free paper and glued bindings means I have hardbacks published less than ten years ago that have aged less well.
The pages have not yellowed, the sewn binding is still tight.
The prevalence of non-acid-free paper and glued bindings means I have hardbacks published less than ten years ago that have aged less well.
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It’s not actually thinking. Please, stop this.
February 14, 2026 at 9:51 PM
It’s not actually thinking. Please, stop this.
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Gotta say, in some ways it's quite useful to humanity that the anti-science guys, the white supremacists, the fossil fuel boosters and the pedophiles are *the same people*
February 16, 2026 at 8:38 AM
Gotta say, in some ways it's quite useful to humanity that the anti-science guys, the white supremacists, the fossil fuel boosters and the pedophiles are *the same people*
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This one is still up at the very affordable price of £150 plus P&P.
I thank ye.
I thank ye.
The Nine Lives Causeway and Eel Marsh House. An original pen and printing ink on paper unpublished illustration for The Woman in Black.
£150 plus P&P
Email me at: nicktankardart@gmail.com to purchase or for more details.
£150 plus P&P
Email me at: nicktankardart@gmail.com to purchase or for more details.
February 16, 2026 at 9:11 AM
This one is still up at the very affordable price of £150 plus P&P.
I thank ye.
I thank ye.
Also made some blueberry / chocolate chip pancakes which did impress them a little more. ("American" pancakes seem much easier to get right than crepes, which I prefer).
Tried to make one this morning, daughters not as impressed by it as I was!
February 16, 2026 at 9:10 AM
Also made some blueberry / chocolate chip pancakes which did impress them a little more. ("American" pancakes seem much easier to get right than crepes, which I prefer).
Tried to make one this morning, daughters not as impressed by it as I was!
February 16, 2026 at 9:08 AM
Tried to make one this morning, daughters not as impressed by it as I was!
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2/ @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social's piece on Goodwin for Prospect is excellent & identfies what looks to be his driving motivation. Standing in Gorton & Denton may well prove more humiliating than he hopes.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/philos...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/philos...
February 15, 2026 at 3:15 PM
2/ @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social's piece on Goodwin for Prospect is excellent & identfies what looks to be his driving motivation. Standing in Gorton & Denton may well prove more humiliating than he hopes.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/philos...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/philos...