Adam Squires
@adsquires.bsky.social
Biophysical Chemist. Aerosol scientist. Jew. Likes lipids, nano materials, x-ray / neutron scattering, pretentious coffee. (he/him/his). Twitter @adsquires
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Adam Squires
@adsquires.bsky.social
· Feb 12
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@adsquires: The new COVID variant and how we should behave to be safe. tl;dr: it hasn't acquired resistance to anything; soap, distancing, masks and fresh air all still work; but we should act like pe...
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Here are my previous main twitter threads on aerosols and airborne disease mitigation from 2020-2022:
5 Jan 2022 Classrooms: threadreaderapp.com/thread/14788...
23 Dec 2020 new variant threadreaderapp.com/thread/13416...
12 Oct 2020 Aerosols and COVID threadreaderapp.com/thread/13157...
5 Jan 2022 Classrooms: threadreaderapp.com/thread/14788...
23 Dec 2020 new variant threadreaderapp.com/thread/13416...
12 Oct 2020 Aerosols and COVID threadreaderapp.com/thread/13157...
Still can't believe journalists and political commentators were genuinely thinking they were getting a sense of the public mood in [UK / USA] *from X*, and are surprised that some accounts weren't actually from where they pretended to be...
Twitter has that "sweet spot" where anonymous accounts give an impression of an identity - British Jew; working class northerner; Black woman - without you having any way of knowing if they actually are. Add in "this is where commentators go to get out of their echo chambers", and... 3/
November 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Still can't believe journalists and political commentators were genuinely thinking they were getting a sense of the public mood in [UK / USA] *from X*, and are surprised that some accounts weren't actually from where they pretended to be...
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Meanwhile... we could have seen this coming:
Medical bodies warn that hostility towards migrants is behind a 26% rise in departures that imperils NHS
> Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Medical bodies warn that hostility towards migrants is behind a 26% rise in departures that imperils NHS
> Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers
Medical bodies warn that hostility towards migrants is behind a 26% rise in departures last year that imperils NHS
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Meanwhile... we could have seen this coming:
Medical bodies warn that hostility towards migrants is behind a 26% rise in departures that imperils NHS
> Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Medical bodies warn that hostility towards migrants is behind a 26% rise in departures that imperils NHS
> Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Just finished Blue Lights season 1. It is ridiculously good. Why is noone going on about it?
November 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Just finished Blue Lights season 1. It is ridiculously good. Why is noone going on about it?
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The basic problem with the temporary refugee status policy - especially one lasting up to 20 years - is it leads to very few removals (based on Denmark's experience) but does significantly worsen integration.
November 18, 2025 at 9:05 AM
The basic problem with the temporary refugee status policy - especially one lasting up to 20 years - is it leads to very few removals (based on Denmark's experience) but does significantly worsen integration.
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It's a revealing moment...
J.D. Vance welcomes a two-legged robot helping on the job site. But if that helper is a person named Jose, he calls it a threat. Same tasks, same productivity boost.
The inconsistency reveals this isn’t about economics.
J.D. Vance welcomes a two-legged robot helping on the job site. But if that helper is a person named Jose, he calls it a threat. Same tasks, same productivity boost.
The inconsistency reveals this isn’t about economics.
November 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
It's a revealing moment...
J.D. Vance welcomes a two-legged robot helping on the job site. But if that helper is a person named Jose, he calls it a threat. Same tasks, same productivity boost.
The inconsistency reveals this isn’t about economics.
J.D. Vance welcomes a two-legged robot helping on the job site. But if that helper is a person named Jose, he calls it a threat. Same tasks, same productivity boost.
The inconsistency reveals this isn’t about economics.
If you're in the UK and use electrochemistry in research - either in industry or as an early career researcher in academia - there are still places available at the Electrochemistry Winter School at the University of Bath 12-16 Jan 2026
www.bath.ac.uk/publications...
www.bath.ac.uk/publications...
www.bath.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
If you're in the UK and use electrochemistry in research - either in industry or as an early career researcher in academia - there are still places available at the Electrochemistry Winter School at the University of Bath 12-16 Jan 2026
www.bath.ac.uk/publications...
www.bath.ac.uk/publications...
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Hey Labour
Remember the majority of voters who believe in treating people decently and not stealing from those who've endured months and years of hardship fleeing war and persecution to seek a place of safety?
We're still over here 👋
Remember the majority of voters who believe in treating people decently and not stealing from those who've endured months and years of hardship fleeing war and persecution to seek a place of safety?
We're still over here 👋
November 17, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Hey Labour
Remember the majority of voters who believe in treating people decently and not stealing from those who've endured months and years of hardship fleeing war and persecution to seek a place of safety?
We're still over here 👋
Remember the majority of voters who believe in treating people decently and not stealing from those who've endured months and years of hardship fleeing war and persecution to seek a place of safety?
We're still over here 👋
Kelston Round Hill looking lovely on today's walk
November 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Kelston Round Hill looking lovely on today's walk
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Chirality is such a useful word for how rarely it is used in normal conversation.
November 16, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Chirality is such a useful word for how rarely it is used in normal conversation.
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“if we remember the refugees we protect are people”
Here, exactly, many Brits have simply forgotten themselves. Refugees are reified (‘illegals’) or de-individualised (‘hordes’, ‘armies’, ‘an invasion’) or pre-judged (‘criminals’).
*Refugees are people*
Here, exactly, many Brits have simply forgotten themselves. Refugees are reified (‘illegals’) or de-individualised (‘hordes’, ‘armies’, ‘an invasion’) or pre-judged (‘criminals’).
*Refugees are people*
November 15, 2025 at 9:45 AM
“if we remember the refugees we protect are people”
Here, exactly, many Brits have simply forgotten themselves. Refugees are reified (‘illegals’) or de-individualised (‘hordes’, ‘armies’, ‘an invasion’) or pre-judged (‘criminals’).
*Refugees are people*
Here, exactly, many Brits have simply forgotten themselves. Refugees are reified (‘illegals’) or de-individualised (‘hordes’, ‘armies’, ‘an invasion’) or pre-judged (‘criminals’).
*Refugees are people*
New paper led by the Southampton team - how to make our high performance metal electrode nanomaterials even better
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 15, 2025 at 9:15 AM
New paper led by the Southampton team - how to make our high performance metal electrode nanomaterials even better
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This is hilarious.
EXCLUSIVE | Rabbi pal of RFK Jr. in all-out war with condo board over ‘antisemitic’ $710 amenity fee
Rabbi pal of RFK Jr. at war with condo board over ‘antisemitic’ $710 amenity fee
www.independent.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 11:12 PM
This is hilarious.
I didn't know he was a pal of RFK Junior, but just from the sentence "Rabbi pal of RFK Junior" I assumed it was him.
EXCLUSIVE | Rabbi pal of RFK Jr. in all-out war with condo board over ‘antisemitic’ $710 amenity fee
Rabbi pal of RFK Jr. at war with condo board over ‘antisemitic’ $710 amenity fee
www.independent.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I didn't know he was a pal of RFK Junior, but just from the sentence "Rabbi pal of RFK Junior" I assumed it was him.
Two PhD projects in my lab: 1) making stimuli-responsive smart coatings for tunable microlasers, lead by Dr Soraya Caixeiro www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 2) studying model systems for respiratory aerosols, through the aerosol centre for Doctoral Training www.aerosol-cdt.ac.uk/2026-projects/
November 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Two PhD projects in my lab: 1) making stimuli-responsive smart coatings for tunable microlasers, lead by Dr Soraya Caixeiro www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 2) studying model systems for respiratory aerosols, through the aerosol centre for Doctoral Training www.aerosol-cdt.ac.uk/2026-projects/
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Very excited that Blueprint Biosecurity is funding studies that will evaluate the real-world effectiveness of far-UVC light as a pandemic countermeasure! We're looking at infectious flu virus in respiratory particles with and without far-UVC.
blueprintbiosecurity.org/building-the...
blueprintbiosecurity.org/building-the...
Press Release: Building the Evidence Base for Far-UVC – Blueprint Biosecurity
New research initiative aimed at evaluating the real-world effectiveness of far-UVC light as a pandemic countermeasure
blueprintbiosecurity.org
November 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Very excited that Blueprint Biosecurity is funding studies that will evaluate the real-world effectiveness of far-UVC light as a pandemic countermeasure! We're looking at infectious flu virus in respiratory particles with and without far-UVC.
blueprintbiosecurity.org/building-the...
blueprintbiosecurity.org/building-the...
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my new book is published tomorrow! I have put an extract here for free of what I think might be the most important thing I say in the whole book - how to preserve friendships during an information crisis (and why it's important to try, if you can)
naomialderman.substack.com/p/how-to-pre...
naomialderman.substack.com/p/how-to-pre...
how to preserve your friendships during an information crisis
and why it's really important to try (if you can, and they're committed to it too)
naomialderman.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:22 AM
my new book is published tomorrow! I have put an extract here for free of what I think might be the most important thing I say in the whole book - how to preserve friendships during an information crisis (and why it's important to try, if you can)
naomialderman.substack.com/p/how-to-pre...
naomialderman.substack.com/p/how-to-pre...
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The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
Don't ruin this for us @dieworkwear.bsky.social
“I like to be a gentleman. It’s important to be chic.”
After the Louvre heist, a photo of a dapper man became an internet sensation. Now we know who he is, what brought him to the Louvre — and why he typically reserves his fedora for weekends and special occasions. nyti.ms/47Co8C1
After the Louvre heist, a photo of a dapper man became an internet sensation. Now we know who he is, what brought him to the Louvre — and why he typically reserves his fedora for weekends and special occasions. nyti.ms/47Co8C1
November 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Don't ruin this for us @dieworkwear.bsky.social
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it happened very insidiously, slowly and from multiple different fronts.
*for all its problems, which I do not dispute*, the conversation about ending the BBC is absolutely being pushed by the rightwing, because (of their ideological goals and) they simply disagree with public-service anything.
*for all its problems, which I do not dispute*, the conversation about ending the BBC is absolutely being pushed by the rightwing, because (of their ideological goals and) they simply disagree with public-service anything.
Can't believe there are conversations about ending the BBC. This is like listening to a family calmly discussing whether to shoot it's dog, or burn down the house.
November 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
it happened very insidiously, slowly and from multiple different fronts.
*for all its problems, which I do not dispute*, the conversation about ending the BBC is absolutely being pushed by the rightwing, because (of their ideological goals and) they simply disagree with public-service anything.
*for all its problems, which I do not dispute*, the conversation about ending the BBC is absolutely being pushed by the rightwing, because (of their ideological goals and) they simply disagree with public-service anything.
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yes. being a leftwing ex-Orthodox Jew, I maybe straddle a wider range of views among my friends and family than some (than many?)
it may be shocking to learn that: every bias I have ever seen the BBC accused of, I have also heard someone else say they have the precise opposite one
it may be shocking to learn that: every bias I have ever seen the BBC accused of, I have also heard someone else say they have the precise opposite one
In response to some of the comments:
If you agree with *all* the reporting of a news organisation that is both independent *and* non-partisan, then it's very unlikely to be independent and non-partisan.
This is true regardless of your politics.
Agreeing with all its reporting is the wrong test
If you agree with *all* the reporting of a news organisation that is both independent *and* non-partisan, then it's very unlikely to be independent and non-partisan.
This is true regardless of your politics.
Agreeing with all its reporting is the wrong test
Information underpins democracy and the BBC is a key part of that.
We need to protect our institutions
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
We need to protect our institutions
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
November 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
yes. being a leftwing ex-Orthodox Jew, I maybe straddle a wider range of views among my friends and family than some (than many?)
it may be shocking to learn that: every bias I have ever seen the BBC accused of, I have also heard someone else say they have the precise opposite one
it may be shocking to learn that: every bias I have ever seen the BBC accused of, I have also heard someone else say they have the precise opposite one
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In response to some of the comments:
If you agree with *all* the reporting of a news organisation that is both independent *and* non-partisan, then it's very unlikely to be independent and non-partisan.
This is true regardless of your politics.
Agreeing with all its reporting is the wrong test
If you agree with *all* the reporting of a news organisation that is both independent *and* non-partisan, then it's very unlikely to be independent and non-partisan.
This is true regardless of your politics.
Agreeing with all its reporting is the wrong test
Information underpins democracy and the BBC is a key part of that.
We need to protect our institutions
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
We need to protect our institutions
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
Information underpins Democracy – why the BBC must be defended
Recent events at the BBC have wide-reaching implications for our democracy - and the sooner we realise it, the better
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:18 AM
In response to some of the comments:
If you agree with *all* the reporting of a news organisation that is both independent *and* non-partisan, then it's very unlikely to be independent and non-partisan.
This is true regardless of your politics.
Agreeing with all its reporting is the wrong test
If you agree with *all* the reporting of a news organisation that is both independent *and* non-partisan, then it's very unlikely to be independent and non-partisan.
This is true regardless of your politics.
Agreeing with all its reporting is the wrong test
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Information underpins democracy and the BBC is a key part of that.
We need to protect our institutions
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
We need to protect our institutions
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
Information underpins Democracy – why the BBC must be defended
Recent events at the BBC have wide-reaching implications for our democracy - and the sooner we realise it, the better
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Information underpins democracy and the BBC is a key part of that.
We need to protect our institutions
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
We need to protect our institutions
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
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that was BRILLIANT telly and I am wrung out now #CelebrityTraitors
November 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
that was BRILLIANT telly and I am wrung out now #CelebrityTraitors
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Suella Braverman has every right to make her own choice for herself about her own identity
If her argument is to refuse to accept that Ian Wright & Michelle Agyemang, Rishi Sunak, David Lammy and Priti Patel are English - their identity & birthright - on grounds of race, she should lose the whip
If her argument is to refuse to accept that Ian Wright & Michelle Agyemang, Rishi Sunak, David Lammy and Priti Patel are English - their identity & birthright - on grounds of race, she should lose the whip
November 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Suella Braverman has every right to make her own choice for herself about her own identity
If her argument is to refuse to accept that Ian Wright & Michelle Agyemang, Rishi Sunak, David Lammy and Priti Patel are English - their identity & birthright - on grounds of race, she should lose the whip
If her argument is to refuse to accept that Ian Wright & Michelle Agyemang, Rishi Sunak, David Lammy and Priti Patel are English - their identity & birthright - on grounds of race, she should lose the whip
⬇️ Imagining being an American Muslim and having to read this sort of poison from (relatively) mainstream voices in my country.
just gutter Islamophobia
Checking in on Rudy Giuliani, I see he's having an insane one
November 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM
⬇️ Imagining being an American Muslim and having to read this sort of poison from (relatively) mainstream voices in my country.