Professor Colin Turner

The Academy for the Mathematical Sciences needs to appoint a diverse group of selectors that will appoint a broad and diverse Fellowship.

Please share widely with those involved in the mathematical sciences, and please consider applying by 30th June.

www.acadmathsci.org.uk/2025/06/10/c...

Recruit placement and graduate talent Advertise vacancies and raise your profile to recruit our talent through placements, internships and graduate roles.

On Friday, we will be celebrating the huge impact our students make while on placement with our industrial partners.

If you have questions as to whether* you should hire our @ulsteruni.bsky.social students and how to, see here.

* Hint: Of course you should.

www.ulster.ac.uk/business/rec...

Toolkits - Engineering Professors Council Contribute a resource Welcome to our Toolkits portal, where you can explore a fantastic range of useful resources and links. Click here to learn more. Some toolkit content is available to members only...

Projects like @engprofcouncil.bsky.social toolkits seem fundamental. Cooperation is more efficient than competition and supports us all to provide the best possible #EngineeringEducation as we strive to meet demand. epc.ac.uk/resources/to...

Nick talks about the initiatives from government to make Universities broaden access to higher education, as well as to make a stronger contribution to economic growth and play a greater civic role. #EPCCongress25 #EANCongress25

Nick also talks to the (real terms) collapse of student maintenance and the challenging issues this is causing students in living costs. These formulations have been static since Gordon Brown was PM. #EPCCongress25 #EANCongress25

While we are often (rightly) focused on the lack of women in the engineering industries and degrees, Nick also talks to the issues of men being in general, less likely to successfully access HE. #EPCCongress25 #EANCongress25

Nick reiterates the financial challenges in the sector and his concerns about whether the UK will get the funding position right.

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Nick starts off talking about his own detailed knowledge of Manchester and that Professor Malcolm Press’s keynote show why is is the incoming Universities UK President.

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HEPI: Higher Education Policy Institute The UK's only independent think tank devoted to higher education.

Next up the always insightful @nickhillman.bsky.social from @hepi-news.bsky.social. A few folks yesterday didn’t know who HEPI were - if you work in HE you should check them out. www.hepi.ac.uk

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He reminds us of our responsibilities as professors to shape the solutions. “Engineering is a high cost subject; it’s vital to the country; we need to make this clear to the government.” #EPCCongress25 #EANCongress25

That for instance, the GVA provided by Manchester Met (alone) is larger than both the much more visible Manchester football teams combined.

We also hear that we need to be optimistic and the impact we have on young minds if we don’t take a positive view.

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This morning, we hear from Professor Malcolm Press, VC of Manchester Met about his perspectives of the financial pressures on the sector; that the funding models of the previous decade aren’t coming back and we need to better explain the value of the sector.

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And we hear about the governments efforts in its AI Action Plan and challenges in Bioengineering (both close to the heart of @ulsteruni.bsky.social (pun somewhat intended)). @chionwurah.bsky.social at #EPCCongress25

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There is a sharp disparity between the @raeng.org.uk code for Engineering Ethics and the behaviour we see. There’s also a disparity in the terms we use for negative practice and their impact. @chionwurah.bsky.social at #EPCCongress25

We hear how people now feel engineering and technology is being “done to them in opaque ways”. This was something that needed to be addressed. @chionwurah.bsky.social at #EPCCongress25

We know there is significant regional disparity that must be resolved in the funding of research and innovation. “We need the talents of our entire country”. @chionwurah.bsky.social at #EPCCongress25.

And we hear how @chionwurah.bsky.social heard too often that she was an exception. “Diversity is not a tick box or nice to have but an economic imperative.” #EPCCongress25

We hear about @chionwurah.bsky.social childhood experiments to reproduce the discovery of Archimedes, but with her Mum’s pots and pans, on her journey to becoming an engineer (and the only CEng in the Commons). #EPCCongress25

@chionwurah.bsky.social talks of the challenges the world faces and how Science and Engineering are at the heart of resolving these. #EPCCongress25

Professor Nick Brook introduces our speaker and welcomes us to the public event.

#EPCCongress25 getting off to an excellent start with a public lecture by @chionwurah.bsky.social introduced by Professor Nick Brook. Chi talks about her pride as a CEng and the engineering power of the UK.

What links an Ecowitt Weather Station, Cumulus MX, and Home Assistant? MQTT This is absolutely the type of blog post that is written only for those that come behind trying to solve the same problem, and searching the web for help. Or to remind me how I did it. If you don't…

A very niche blog post, but I've documented how I connected a weather station, Cumulus MX weather software and Home Assistant with MQTT for anyone else who spends a bit of time trying to do this.

www.piglets.org/blog/2025/06...

"I've got a brand new content harvester"

A marker has proclaimed "genuinely holy shit" in response to good answers by another table.

Yesterday I finally scanned the answer sheets from the @niscifest.bsky.social quiz for some checking around calibration for next year, and put the originals in the recyclying.

This is my favourite bit of encouraging peer assessment, from another table marking, @profvicsimms.bsky.social.

It's only with easyJet that I have recently found myself the victim of an airline overselling flights - but the most striking thing is how their customer service doesn't seem to regard it as their problem in the slightest. There is absolutely no offer to help.

Today is the day for the first meeting of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences in Northern Ireland. The meeting at Stormont will discuss how the Academy will operate in Northern Ireland. Suitable cufflinks chosen.

a netflix ad for a movie shows a cave with a lot of water Alt: an animation of a sophon returning to normal size

Having read The Three-Body Problem I have decided that the easiest way to defend oneself from a #sophon (a proton with extras) is to rub a balloon on your head and use the static charge to deflect it. Or do you have a better idea?

Merry Christmas folks. I appreciate this isn't an easy time for everyone or at least it can be complicated. So I hope you are well and if today is hard my thoughts are with you.

My weather station data confirms what you might have noticed. Yesterday was slightly damp in the morning. #stormbert www piglets.org/weather

... whether you are a man or otherwise - I hope you can reach out to your friends or the many agencies that can help. I guarantee you the others in your life will be glad you did. #InternationalMensDay