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Tony Padilla #JFT97 Don’t buy the S*n

@proftonypadilla.bsky.social

Physics, Socialism and Liverpool FC. Author of Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them (views are all mine, nowt to do with anyone or anything else)

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Let’s be honest, Britain doesn’t *really* have its own independent foreign policy does it.

03.03.2026 10:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Top academics warn UK physics cuts threaten effort to boost economy More than 50 heads of departments tell science minister that changes risk undermining crucial tech growth fields

"Planned cuts to physics and astronomy funding threaten to undermine a core UK government strategy to harness innovation to boost economic growth, leading researchers have warned ministers."

Thanks @financialtimes.com for covering this really important story

🗞️: www.ft.com/content/a235...

02.03.2026 07:27 — 👍 99    🔁 39    💬 1    📌 2

Stay out of Trump and Netanyahu’s stupid war please, Britain. Keep em off our bases.

02.03.2026 07:50 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Really concerned to hear the Defence Secretary refuse to rule out UK's involvement in future strikes on Iran.

Iraq lessons must be learned.
Further escalation in the Middle East makes us all less safe.

Starmer must rule out UK involvement immediately.

01.03.2026 09:48 — 👍 4663    🔁 1071    💬 210    📌 52

How many more countries does Donald Trump have to bomb before he gets a Nobel Peace Prize?

01.03.2026 08:52 — 👍 371    🔁 65    💬 6    📌 0
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Jewish Voice for Peace denounces the immoral and illegal war on Iran launched by the United States and Israel last night. These attacks expand the endless wars that could destroy the lives of tens of millions of people.

28.02.2026 22:07 — 👍 368    🔁 136    💬 5    📌 5

Please, Britain, don’t get involved in helping the terrorists do terror.

01.03.2026 09:06 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

STFC CEO responds to @jonbutterworth.bsky.social

"it is important for all of our ... programmes ... to contribute to us making savings across our entire portfolio"

No mention that *all* is disproportionately falling on the particle-astro-nuclear programme 🤷‍♀️😡

www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

26.02.2026 09:39 — 👍 56    🔁 24    💬 7    📌 3
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Unions pass no confidence vote in University of Nottingham bosses They say it follows

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

24.02.2026 19:28 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I mean, I’d scrap tuition fees in a heartbeat. They are bad for graduates crippled with debt. And they are bad for students because it’s actually led to a worse uni experience. Style over substance. Shiny new buildings over lecturers who teach. VCs who’ve forgotten what a uni was meant to be about

24.02.2026 08:04 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

You almost feel sorry for these Labour sell outs having to go on TV to defend the latest awful move from their govt.

“We’ll keep [our terrible plans] under review”

I feel much more sorry for students and graduates though. Not good enough Labour

bsky.app/profile/pete...

24.02.2026 08:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

BREAKING: Richard Tice is to announce Reform UK's plans to introduce a "Great Repeal Bill" that will scrap Labour's Employment Rights' Act and rent reforms

JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM

24.02.2026 07:16 — 👍 1862    🔁 821    💬 103    📌 55

I think the right word to describe that away end today after Macca scored a second time is “limbs”

My voice is gone.

#ForestvLiverpool

22.02.2026 19:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’ve been researching for a new book. I don’t think me and Cauchy would have got along …

16.02.2026 11:14 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Antonio Padilla, "Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them: A Cosmic Quest from Zero to Infinity" (FSG,2022) - New Books Network

I did a podcast on Fantastic Numbers with the New Books Network …

newbooksnetwork.com/fantastic-nu...

16.02.2026 08:02 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This is the bizarre birthplace of the universe: a daring young physicist solves the mystery of how our world could originate from nothing What was there before the Big Bang? The question has been nagging 27-year-old Benjamin Muntz for years. Now he has found a surprising answer – involving tinfoil.

My student Ben featured in Science illustrated, talking about our work

scienceillustrated.com/space/this-i...

08.02.2026 10:12 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

My cousin and his son were at the game. They aren’t happy with the linesman

16.01.2026 08:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Base Fibonacci - Numberphile
YouTube video by Numberphile Base Fibonacci - Numberphile

Bit slow to the party on this one, but a new numberphile vid this week

youtu.be/S5FTe5KP2Cw?...

16.01.2026 07:53 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Congrats again!

15.01.2026 22:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Unlucky Racing. 💚

15.01.2026 22:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Just reading through the 14 characteristics of fascism. These two weren’t the only ones to catch the eye

08.01.2026 08:20 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Has Netanyahu broken international law?

Has Trump broken international law?

Is the Pope catholic?

Funny how U.K. politicians find it so hard to have an opinion on the most obvious of things.

(Except @zackpolanski.bsky.social ofc - the only one with any backbone)

06.01.2026 08:06 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bloody ‘ell. Unapologetic empire building and boasting that no one will stand up to Trump.

bsky.app/profile/lewi...

05.01.2026 09:37 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Jeez. Greenland is in the NATO alliance. How hard can this be?

05.01.2026 08:55 — 👍 1757    🔁 514    💬 269    📌 169

Someone came into my house and nicked all my stuff, leaving me with scraps. I decided to fight back because I wanted to keep my own stuff. But they didn’t like that so they started dropping bombs and kidnapped me so they could have all my stuff again

05.01.2026 07:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Here lies Nottingham’s finest mathematician

03.01.2026 17:17 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You don’t much like the leader of another country? Don’t worry. You can just send in the marines to kidnap him and his wife.

Precedent set.

03.01.2026 10:07 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Man who supported governments that cut public services for fourteen years complains about cuts to police, schools and healthcare.

31.12.2025 21:39 — 👍 710    🔁 174    💬 67    📌 13

The temper tantrums being thrown by tepid centrists in Labour and the media since Zack started ruffling feathers is probably my second favourite thing of 2025

31.12.2025 10:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Courtesy of @fermatslibrary.bsky.social on insta

31.12.2025 09:56 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0