@lauraleecosmos.bsky.social
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Physicists working on the ALPHA experiment at CERN have trapped and accumulated 15,000 antihydrogen atoms in less than 7 h. This accumulation rate is more than 20 times the previous record. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/iKgP50XvMEC
Sympathetic cooling gives antihydrogen experiment a boost – Physics World
Having more antimatter could help solve profound mysteries of physics
ow.ly
November 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Physicists working on the ALPHA experiment at CERN have trapped and accumulated 15,000 antihydrogen atoms in less than 7 h. This accumulation rate is more than 20 times the previous record. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/iKgP50XvMEC
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📢📢📢We made it to the national news! This time with an important win for our branch!
Management has decided to withdraw compulsory redundancies for academic staff at least until July 2026. ASOS and next week's strikes are therefore called off.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Management has decided to withdraw compulsory redundancies for academic staff at least until July 2026. ASOS and next week's strikes are therefore called off.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Strikes suspended in Lancaster University staff job cuts row - BBC News
The university is trying to save £30m amid rising costs and a fall in international student numbers.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
📢📢📢We made it to the national news! This time with an important win for our branch!
Management has decided to withdraw compulsory redundancies for academic staff at least until July 2026. ASOS and next week's strikes are therefore called off.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Management has decided to withdraw compulsory redundancies for academic staff at least until July 2026. ASOS and next week's strikes are therefore called off.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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4 days left to vote safely.
Get your ballot in the post today to make sure it’s counted.
Vote YES.
#WeAreTheUniversity
Get your ballot in the post today to make sure it’s counted.
Vote YES.
#WeAreTheUniversity
November 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
4 days left to vote safely.
Get your ballot in the post today to make sure it’s counted.
Vote YES.
#WeAreTheUniversity
Get your ballot in the post today to make sure it’s counted.
Vote YES.
#WeAreTheUniversity
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Please consider donating to the Lancaster UCU Hardship Fund as we prepare to go on strike next week against the threat of compulsory redundancies at Lancaster University. #ukhe
www.peoplesfundraising.com/donation/lan...
www.peoplesfundraising.com/donation/lan...
November 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Please consider donating to the Lancaster UCU Hardship Fund as we prepare to go on strike next week against the threat of compulsory redundancies at Lancaster University. #ukhe
www.peoplesfundraising.com/donation/lan...
www.peoplesfundraising.com/donation/lan...
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📢 EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING📢
Lancaster UCU members, don't forget the Extraordinary General Meeting tomorrow at 2:00pm. Check emails for meeting link
Lancaster UCU members, don't forget the Extraordinary General Meeting tomorrow at 2:00pm. Check emails for meeting link
November 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
📢 EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING📢
Lancaster UCU members, don't forget the Extraordinary General Meeting tomorrow at 2:00pm. Check emails for meeting link
Lancaster UCU members, don't forget the Extraordinary General Meeting tomorrow at 2:00pm. Check emails for meeting link
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We have made it clear to management that we will not take their unjust and unethical proposals lying down and we have completely demolished their credibility.
November 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
We have made it clear to management that we will not take their unjust and unethical proposals lying down and we have completely demolished their credibility.
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There is no financial reason for management's cost-cutting spree. Our most recent calculations indicate that the £35m “savings” target set by management has already been met.
November 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
There is no financial reason for management's cost-cutting spree. Our most recent calculations indicate that the £35m “savings” target set by management has already been met.
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If Compulsory Redundancies (CRs) are not withdrawn by 9am on Wednesday 26 we have no choice but to go on with our industrial action!
November 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
If Compulsory Redundancies (CRs) are not withdrawn by 9am on Wednesday 26 we have no choice but to go on with our industrial action!
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Study Finds Most Americans Can't Find Where They Are Being Deported On Map
November 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Study Finds Most Americans Can't Find Where They Are Being Deported On Map
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Hello all on bsky 👋
As with so many of our @ucu.org.uk sister branches, here @brunelucu.bsky.social we are again this year fighting compulsory redundancies.
Please circulate and sign: Stop compulsory redundancies at Brunel University of London 👇
speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/stop-brunel-...
As with so many of our @ucu.org.uk sister branches, here @brunelucu.bsky.social we are again this year fighting compulsory redundancies.
Please circulate and sign: Stop compulsory redundancies at Brunel University of London 👇
speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/stop-brunel-...
Stop compulsory redundancies at Brunel University of London
Brunel University of London management have expressed their intention to move forward with plans for further compulsory redundancies in 2025-26. This comes after a year of decimation in 2024-25, when ...
speakout.web.ucu.org.uk
October 1, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Hello all on bsky 👋
As with so many of our @ucu.org.uk sister branches, here @brunelucu.bsky.social we are again this year fighting compulsory redundancies.
Please circulate and sign: Stop compulsory redundancies at Brunel University of London 👇
speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/stop-brunel-...
As with so many of our @ucu.org.uk sister branches, here @brunelucu.bsky.social we are again this year fighting compulsory redundancies.
Please circulate and sign: Stop compulsory redundancies at Brunel University of London 👇
speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/stop-brunel-...
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Teaching Term Week 1
- the @lancasterucu.bsky.social ballot to determine strike action against redundancies closes on Friday
🗳☑️
- the @lancasterucu.bsky.social ballot to determine strike action against redundancies closes on Friday
🗳☑️
- 400 jobs to go at Lancaster University
- 1 in 4 people will be made redundant
But where's the financial evidence for this extreme action?
Please read 👇
Sign the petition 👇
chng.it/7F52bThYqn
- 1 in 4 people will be made redundant
But where's the financial evidence for this extreme action?
Please read 👇
Sign the petition 👇
chng.it/7F52bThYqn
Sign the Petition
Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable
chng.it
October 6, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Teaching Term Week 1
- the @lancasterucu.bsky.social ballot to determine strike action against redundancies closes on Friday
🗳☑️
- the @lancasterucu.bsky.social ballot to determine strike action against redundancies closes on Friday
🗳☑️
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The BBC gives a sympathetic headline to a criminal who called for the murder of refugees.
Sky asks if we should threaten to drown them.
Much of the media do their best to incite riots.
It's two years since I wrote this for @westcountryvoices.bsky.social
westcountryvoices.com/it-could-nev...
Sky asks if we should threaten to drown them.
Much of the media do their best to incite riots.
It's two years since I wrote this for @westcountryvoices.bsky.social
westcountryvoices.com/it-could-nev...
'It could never happen here': the normalisation of the unthinkable
For many years, Alastair Stewart was an ever-present on ITV news. He always had a likeable demeanour, a pleasant voice, and a professionalism that made sure he never betrayed his political allegiances...
westcountryvoices.com
August 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The BBC gives a sympathetic headline to a criminal who called for the murder of refugees.
Sky asks if we should threaten to drown them.
Much of the media do their best to incite riots.
It's two years since I wrote this for @westcountryvoices.bsky.social
westcountryvoices.com/it-could-nev...
Sky asks if we should threaten to drown them.
Much of the media do their best to incite riots.
It's two years since I wrote this for @westcountryvoices.bsky.social
westcountryvoices.com/it-could-nev...
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Going in town today with leaflets and my easygoing personality to gather support from the community against the mass redundancies at Lancaster University. If you see us (wearing some fancy UCU garmets) please come to say hi!
chng.it/qbVXbwydfy
chng.it/qbVXbwydfy
Sign the Petition
Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable
chng.it
August 9, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Going in town today with leaflets and my easygoing personality to gather support from the community against the mass redundancies at Lancaster University. If you see us (wearing some fancy UCU garmets) please come to say hi!
chng.it/qbVXbwydfy
chng.it/qbVXbwydfy
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A MASSIVE WIN AT NEWCASTLE UNI ICU
June 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
A MASSIVE WIN AT NEWCASTLE UNI ICU
Honeysuckle in the woods along the cycle path.
June 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Honeysuckle in the woods along the cycle path.
Easter Sunday hike up the Fairfield Horseshoe.
April 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Easter Sunday hike up the Fairfield Horseshoe.
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Beautiful days for a walk to work.
April 2, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Beautiful days for a walk to work.
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Love is the deep inelastic scattering
Of my soul with yours:
All that is weak and strong revealed.
The structures of our bound hearts made manifest
In countless luminous collisions
That only we can detect.
Of my soul with yours:
All that is weak and strong revealed.
The structures of our bound hearts made manifest
In countless luminous collisions
That only we can detect.
February 14, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Love is the deep inelastic scattering
Of my soul with yours:
All that is weak and strong revealed.
The structures of our bound hearts made manifest
In countless luminous collisions
That only we can detect.
Of my soul with yours:
All that is weak and strong revealed.
The structures of our bound hearts made manifest
In countless luminous collisions
That only we can detect.
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Donald Trump’s second term as US President has begun with staff layoffs, slashed budgets, axed diversity programmes and cancelled conferences in what some see as a new "dark ages" 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/us-science...
US science in chaos as impact of Trump's executive orders sinks in – Physics World
US science hit by staff layoffs, slashed budgets, axed diversity programmes and cancelled conferences
physicsworld.com
February 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Donald Trump’s second term as US President has begun with staff layoffs, slashed budgets, axed diversity programmes and cancelled conferences in what some see as a new "dark ages" 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/us-science...
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Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.
February 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.
www.cbc.ca/player/play/... Go British Coumbia! YAY BC premier David Eby.
B.C. premier bans 'red-state' American liquor in response to U.S. tariffs
Premier David Eby announced immediate countermeasures to U.S. tariffs on Saturday, including banning "red-state" American liquor from public stores. He says the province will also fast-track permits f...
www.cbc.ca
February 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
www.cbc.ca/player/play/... Go British Coumbia! YAY BC premier David Eby.