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Tom Wells
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Work for UK govt chief science adviser on tech and foresight. Former green chemist, science & media advisor, and science diplomat. All views personal.
Is that a second whale behind the main one to begin with?
September 24, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Indeed!
July 22, 2025 at 10:06 AM
DIUS gave me my first job, but it was BIS by the time I arrived. Didn’t stay in Kingsgate for long after that (also now long demolished). Of course, DSIT (a reasonable successor to DIUS minus education funding?) also started life in 1VS
July 22, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Ah, but do you also take a bite out of the unpeeled carrot to show Rudolf came with?
December 24, 2024 at 8:13 PM
Can’t beat muppets Christmas Carol for me
December 21, 2024 at 6:58 PM
German friends in my lab once introduced me to Feuerzangenbowle (the punch, but led me to believe it was a Christmas classic film). True or just an excuse to set fire to sugar?
December 21, 2024 at 6:57 PM
V interesting, thank you. You don’t talk about demographics as a potential difference but would be very interested in your take on analyses like this www.sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/Wea... (which frustratingly stops in 2019)
www.sas.upenn.edu
December 11, 2024 at 6:28 PM
That’s the conclusion we reached too, talking to a range of experts, so produced five scenarios for govt without ascribing probabilities (summary here www.gov.uk/government/p...)
November 12, 2024 at 8:56 AM
Mostly
Listening
Foresight
November 7, 2024 at 6:47 PM
(Now gone down a worm hole on history of PUA definitions and redefinitions)
November 4, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Also some interesting combinations in that Wikipedia article. Wolverhampton a biggish city in its own right bundled into greater Birmingham. Growing up near Ipswich, not sure I met anyone who saw there and Felixstowe as a single conurbation
November 4, 2024 at 8:55 PM
Bournemouth, which appears to be much bigger than I thought (when combined with Poole)
November 4, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Thanks! Maybe a Montana too then, picture there and the same yellow/gold
August 14, 2024 at 6:26 PM
Thanks! This ones in South London, UK
August 13, 2024 at 7:07 AM