Tim Peacock

"Survivors from the bomb tell horrific stories."

Eighty years ago, an American B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

The bomb changed the world forever - Sky's Helen-Ann Smith explains why we need to remember it.

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Encouraged to have been promoted to Senior Lecturer in History and War Studies at the University of Glasgow @uofglasgow.bsky.social.

Ever wondered why historic places matter to you?

Watch @imadgination03.bsky.social give a preview of her new book on emotion and place.

'Why Historic Places Matter Emotionally’ - coming soon to a bookshop near you…

AI skills are about more than a workplace technology We must get away from the exclusion, elitism, and corporate capture that has dominated AI development to date

With the promise of Google AI training for civil servants, Dr Mark Wong and Tim Davies @connectedbydata.org write for
@heraldscotland.bsky.social on why everyone should be included in AI conversations - especially under-served and marginalised communities.

www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2533...

YouTube video by atomcentral Crossroads Baker

Right now in 1946 at Bikini Lagoon (8:35am local time, July 25), 42,000 people witnessed Shot BAKER of Operation Crossroads, the second post-war US atomic test. A 23-kiloton Mark-III Fat Man-type A-bomb was detonated 90 feet underwater to assess its effects on 95 US, Japanese, and German warships.

RSE Curious event: Unreal pasts, playful presents: history and fantasy in games and media | Historical Games Network This September, in collaboration with the Imperial War Museums Institute and the Royal Society of Edinburgh‘s Curious Festival 2025, the Historical Games Network will be hosting a discussion panel eve...

We've got a bonus discussion panel event coming up September 10th! In collaboration with the IWM Institute, we're hosting this brilliant lineup of speakers for a hybrid discussion, as part of @royalsoced.bsky.social Curious 2025

Read more and register here!
www.historicalgames.net/rse-curious-...

If I do say so myself, a brilliant lineup of speakers to chat about video games, fantasy, history and conflict in Edinburgh this September! Online and in person (and free!!) 👇🎮 @historygamesnet.bsky.social
@chriskempshall.bsky.social @drtimpeacock.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org

Unreal pasts, playful presents: history and fantasy in games and media Can video games help us understand history, or do they distort it? This hybrid event explores how games and media can mix real and imagined pasts to shape how we see history today.

Very much looking forwards to taking part in this panel with @enwright.bsky.social, Fruzsina Pittner, & Mimi Markham at @royalsoced.bsky.social's Curious Festival in September!

rse.org.uk/event/unreal...

Oppenheimer the actor: the curious 1946 film Atomic Power featuring the scientist as himself Atomic Power was pioneering in communicating the history behind Robert Oppenheimer’s work.

The first #Nuclear bomb detonation, #TrinityTest, occurred 80 years ago #OTD 1945. Key #ManhattanProject figures, from Robert Oppenheimer to Leslie Groves, played themselves in an often overlooked 1946 film about it, explored in my 2023 'The Conversation' article. theconversation.com/oppenheimer-...

Most Massive Black Hole Ever Detected By University Of Glasgow Team | Glasgow City Of Science & Innovation Scientists have detected the most massive black hole merger ever observed through gravitational waves—thanks in part to analysis led by an astrophysicist at the University of Glasgow.

🌌 A record-breaking black hole merger—led in part by researchers at the University of Glasgow—has been captured through gravitational waves.

📍 @uofglasgow.bsky.social
👇 Learn more

glasgowcityofscienceandinnovation.com/most-massive...

#BlackHoleDiscovery #GravitationalWaves

A graduate holding two bunches of flowers standing with another person holding gold and black balloons.

A graduate standing with their family behind big letters which spell out UofG.

A graduate holding a child with the historic tower in the background.

A graduate wearing robes and holding flowers standing the in the quad with his family.

Such an amazing atmosphere on campus! We love seeing our graduates celebrating with family & friends. 🤩

Huge congratulations to you all. Enjoy every moment, you’ve earned it! 🎉 🎓

#TeamUofG #UofGgrad25

Dr Michael Simpson wearing graduation robes and standing with his family in front of a banner which reads 'World Changing Glasgow'.

Congratulations to Dr Michael Simpson, who graduated yesterday with a PhD by Published Works at the age of 87 years young. 🎓

So proud to have you as part of #TeamUofG, Dr Simpson! ♥️

#UofGgrad25
@uofgartshums.bsky.social

Astronomers detect pulse from satellite that has been dead for decades Scientists in Australia detected a brief, powerful radio burst from NASA’s Relay-2 satellite, which has been inactive since 1967. Space experts suggest the signal may have been caused by an electrosta...

Satellites don't just die
HT @woollahra.bsky.social

Photos of the five professors awarded ERC grants - Professor Steve Brewster, Professor Adam Carter, Professor Ruth Dukes, Professor Fergus McNeill and Professor Simon Hanslmayr.

Five Professors have been awarded @erc.europa.eu Advanced Grants – the most the UofG has ever received in one round.

Congratulations @jadamcarter.bsky.social, @sabrewster.bsky.social, @fergusmcneill.bsky.social, Ruth Dukes and Simon Hanslmayr!

More: gla.ac/4lb3FIl

#ERCAdG

OTD 6 yrs ago we staged biggest 28mm tabletop wargame ever - over 24,000 figures & 120 players. Table mats formed prob biggest battle map ever printed (based on Siborne). Raised £20,000 for Waterloo Uncovered. Most insane thing l’ve ever come up with. French lost again!

A graphic with a blue background and a photograph of a student wearing graduation robes in the University of Glasgow cloisters. Text reads: Uni Compare. Top university in Scotland. Winner: University of Glasgow. University rankings 2026.

We've placed first in the list of Top Scottish Universities 2026 by Uni Compare! 🏅

The rankings reflect what matters to students, including accommodation, course quality, employability & student life. Thanks to everyone who makes #TeamUofG the best! 💙

universitycompare.com/rankings/sco...

YouTube video by University of Glasgow College of Arts & Humanities History, Global History & War Studies Postgraduate Programmes Live Q&A

Making History at University of Glasgow - Want to know what it's like to study a #postgraduate degree in #History & #WarStudies @uofglasgow.bsky.social? Hear our colleagues & current students share experiences & answer questions in today's live Q&A video. #TeamUofG. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGQ3...

Do we even do starter packs any more on BSky? Kind of seems like the need is still there for new people joining us and old people finding us. Sooo
As always, not a gatekeeper -- if you talk/post (formally write or not) abt hist game stud: hist games as history in & out of history ed, I can add you.

BBC Four - The Sky at Night, Greenwich: A Journey Through Space and Time The team celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory.

There's a special episode of The Sky at Night tomorrow night, celebrating thee 350th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. I was delighted to be asked to take part in the dinner party and discussion! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Unlike the June 3 false alarm, this one (which lasted 17 minutes) was not entirely a surprise because technicians at NORAD had configured the computers to recreate the conditions preceding that incident in order to troubleshoot the problem and isolate the exact cause of the error.

A color photograph of the six-man crew of a B-52 bomber runs across the apron toward their aircraft during an alert exercise. The photograph appears to be taken from atop the right wing of the plane, which is painted in camouflage colors.

Copy of an Associated Press article in the June 18, 1980, edition of the Baltimore Sun headlined, “46-cent circuit set off 2 false missile alarms."

OTD 45 yrs ago at 1:38 P.M.—for the second time in three days—a faulty 46¢ circuit in a NORAD communications multiplexer generated false warnings of a Soviet nuclear attack: 2,000 inbound ICBMs on SAC displays and 2,020 at the ANMCC/Site R. SAC ordered all alert bomber crews to start their engines.

A color photograph of a Minuteman ICBM launch officer or missileer, likely at Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota, sitting in his underground launch control capsule talking on the telephone at his large launch console, which is painted pale green and covered in buttons and switches. At least 13 large black conduits holding electrical cables rise from the back of the console toward the ceiling. A large analog clock sits above the console. On the far right, propped against the console is a cover sheet for a folder or document with a thick blue border and the word "CONFIDENTIAL" stamped in blue at the top and bottom.

Launch officers for 1,000 Minuteman ICBMs were also alerted to be ready to receive an Emergency Action Message—a coded launch order.

(Three minutes later, duty officers at NORAD determined this was a false alarm because early-warning satellites and ground-based radars had not detected an attack.)

A color photograph of the crew of a B-52 strategic bomber runs across a wet apron toward their aircraft during an alert exercise at Grand Forks Air Force base, North Dakota, with both their figures and the plane reflected on the wet pavement.

45 years ago this morning at 2:26 A.M. EDT, warning displays at the Strategic Air Command suddenly indicated a Soviet SLBM attack on the United States was underway, first showing 2 and then, 18 seconds later, 200 inbound ballistic missiles. SAC ordered all alert bomber crews to start their engines.

There are thousands of metal satellites orbiting Earth. 🛰️

In this week's #SparkOfScience💥 episode, we will explore a new type of satellite made of wood! 

🎧: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4wPDuTUsWVJWI4mQue6XlM?si=47c35234795842d6

Soviet era space junk represents the interplanetary Cold War – Australian Academy of the Humanities Soviet space junk provides unique insight into Cold War space race, according to space archaeologist Alice Gorman FAHA.

Last weekend, the Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 fell back to Earth, after failing to make it to Venus in 1972. Why was this a big deal?
🧪 @humanitiesau.bsky.social #SpaceJunk

I much appreciated the opportunity in March to design & lead Exercise HOPE AGE in Geneva at #HNPW with @unocha.org & @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofggameslab.bsky.social. Using #SeriousGames we explored ways #humanitarian organisations may navigate complex environments of a hypothetical major conflict.

Lunchtime Live - 08/05/2025 - BBC Sounds News updates from Scotland and beyond, plus all your lunchtime sport, travel and weather.

Today marks the 80th anniversary of VE Day.

Listen to UofG historian Dr Rachel Chin discuss why this WW2 milestone remains historically significant on BBC Radio Scotland.

Her analysis begins at 1:06:22 ⬇️

'Our Archives & Special Collections go back as far as 2,000 years, with some of the earliest documents from First Century Greece.'

In this edition of UofG Community, Archivist Michael Gallagher shares about his role and his journey to the University.

Read more: gla.ac/3GTf3cO

darth vader says you were right about me while wearing a mask Alt: A short GIF film clip animation in which Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker, his scarred faced visible while wearing the lower part of his mask, says to his son Luke "you were right about me", in reference to Luke saying that he could still sense the good in him and Vader having sacrificed himself to save Luke, alluding to the overarching concept of Darth Vader's redemption, one of the themes in the original Trilogy of the Star Wars films.

Alongside imaginatively blending Sci Fi & Fantasy, stories of good vs evil, relatable characters, & a vast universe, #StarWars' themes resonate with questions asked by so many - Finding hope in overwhelming odds, & the possibility of redemption. #MayThe4thBeWithYou #StarWarsDay

Fantastic to have @drtimpeacock.bsky.social and Marita from the @uofggameslab.bsky.social on Campus today for one of the CO-GREAT Workshops on Flood Resilience Gamification. A thought-provoking afternoon of discussion around flooding, transport infrastructure and storytelling.