Fire bosses keep calling wildfires "unprecedented" as they try to deflect attention from their and the government's underresourcing. What a joke - you can't cut a fifth of the workforce and expect the service to work fine. We can all see what's happening.

New polling shows that 66% of the public support public ownership of energy. So it (i) is popular, (ii) makes economic sense, and (iii) gives democratic control to put our need before their greed. The case for public ownership is overwhelming.

Mechanochemical synthesis of inverse vulcanized polymers nature.com/articles/s4146…

Today our paper about #PFAS destruction (at much milder conditions than previously thought possible) is out in Science Magazine. We also present a detailed, evidence-based degradation mechanism. This paper is my entire PhD and I'm very proud of it. A 🧵: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

New paper on oxygen heteroatom enhanced sulfur polymers for LiS batteries. Congratulations to Haoran Wang and thanks to all authors @Bowen__ZHANG @dop_romy Peiyao Yan Alex Neale and L. Hardwick as well as livunisire MIF and School of Physical Sciences doi.org/10.1016/j.jpow…

As if the person that coined "guardian reading tofu eating wokearati" is in the cabinet. It's actually my favourite insult of the year tho

Yesterday my partner passed her viva. She was really nervous but she absolutely smashed it. Her PhD was really difficult and interdisciplinary, she worked so hard all the time and I am so proud of her!

theguardian.com/science/2023/m… Get rid of them all imo. All science on a GitHub style system. Thieves and conmen standing in the way of human progress.

New Chemical Communications paper from Arman Garcia on S8 solubilization by surfactants & activation by thiols in water. Key finding: anionic & cationic surfactants differentially impact availability & distribution of anionic reactive sulfur species in solution. pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/Art…

I know nothing about any of this. These graphs don't look ordinary though.

It takes a brave and mature adult to speak from their heart and still function in the world. Children do speak from their hearts all the time but usually lose it by early to mid teenage years.

Last year I was diagnosed with ADHD. I haven't written about it much because the diagnosis was a shock. Now I have a more solid understanding of ADHD, how it presents for me, and ways to mitigate some of the downsides. So, for threadapalooza 2023, here's 100 tweets on ADHD

Quite easily the funniest journal suggestion ever. Yes, I would relish the opportunity to relive the trauma Apple Journal. 😂

The biggest challenge I ever faced was learning to accept who I am, and not be afraid to express myself. Years of conditioning force us to suppress some of our most valuable qualities

there’s no reason to believe a brain contains only a single consciousness

NEW 🧵: how Britain became gripped by the worst homelessness crisis in the developed world

Got a 3D printer coming for my birthday, today. Birthday isn’t for a while. Will not be allowed to open. Can finally print endless organisational items for the house.