Charles Hay, PhD

Moon through morning clouds

Unfiltered moon is early morning sky looking like a painting

From the CasualUK community on Reddit: The Tower of London through time, from the years 40 to 2000, by Ivan Lapper (swipe right). Explore this post and more from the CasualUK community

This is fantastic. The Tower of London from the year 40 to 2000. Fairly sure it's the oldest standing building in London. It's gotta be up there.

Fantastic paper from the @campainstudy.bsky.social programme. Absolutely huge epidemiological study of consultation patterns of children and young people with musculoskeletal pain in the UK.

Very important new info in a wildly under-researched area. Read read read!

Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

My cat, an idiot: Those ornaments look exactly like my toys. Why can’t I play with them?

Me, pinnacle of animals: That felt frog wearing a top hat is to celebrate The Lord

Well if you’re a fan of being insanely depressed, I can certainly recommend watching Aniara. Overall a very good film but it turns out a film about a spaceship drifting into the endless void resulting in its population going mad is actually quite sad.

I have now reached the age where the person at the till ID’d me ironically.

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

For a short time in utero, we do!

Exciting new #Zebrafish research from the #WeinsteinLab, led by Jong Park!
“Specialized gas-exchange endothelium of the zebrafish gill” —

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Amazing to see red blood cells moving through the gills! Don’t forget to check out the supplemental movies ;-)

😂 I’m imagining something a bit like the process they have to go through in Star Trek to get the starship to self-destruct.

Didn’t the NHS get taken down by these sorts of shenanigans back in the day?

Hate makes the world smaller. Choose love. Be welcoming. Choose grace.

I’m rebelling against all those flags hung everywhere. Not by tearing them down, but choosing what to think.

When I see them I choose to focus on how much I love the diversity of this country. I think of my friends from immigrant families. I think of the immigrants in my family.

Today I learned that “energy” literally means “with work”. En - with or in, ergon - work.

If you like this kind of thing, befriend me, because I unrepentantly won’t shut up about etymology.

PSA for husbands: only 23 days before Christmas shopping day!!

I get my microprocessors from the local butchers

Think it’s a three or four hundred coffee morning

As a wise man once said…

A cartoon from May 21, 1960. Boy coming home from school saying "our current events teacher keeps bursting into tears." Artist: Chon Day

Then as now ...

Beautiful frosty morning

I’ll have to have a look into them. Love the name Swiss Cows, that really appeals to me!

I really wish some of the European alternatives would catch up. Currently I just don’t think they have the funding or scalability but I’d happily defer to someone who knew more about this kind of thing.

Prohibition has historically of course been oh so successful and changing behaviour and not at all just criminalising something that will continue anyway.

In a million years I’ll never understand why they thought he was a good idea. I know there’s endless and very credible talk of corruption and kompromat but the short sightedness is genuinely baffling.

Icy sunroof this morning!

Happy Tuesday all. Here is a slimy capybara.

Every time I check in on Threads it’s mainly creatives arguing with bots about AI. I don’t think the Metaverse is well.

Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...