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Mark Miodownik

@markmiodownik

Materials scientist & engineer; Director of the UCL Institute of Making; Author of It's a Gas; Occasional tv/radio presenter.

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Bergson was once so famous that people climbed up the side of the College de France to hear him. It seems hard to imagine any current philosopher causing so much excitement. To revisit a time when this was possible, preorder my biography of Bergson Preorder links in thread 🧵

Bergson was once so famous that people climbed up the side of the College de France to hear him. It seems hard to imagine any current philosopher causing so much excitement. To revisit a time when this was possible, preorder my biography of Bergson  
Preorder links in thread 🧵
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📢 I have a fully funded 2-year #postdoc position open in my group. Apply if you have demonstrated experience with novel gas exchange measurement techniques OR mechanistic #ecosystem #modelling. Topic is flexible 😉 FLUXNET Early Career Network Humboldt-Stiftung ICOS RI

📢 I have a fully funded 2-year #postdoc position open in my group. Apply if you have demonstrated experience with novel gas exchange measurement techniques OR mechanistic #ecosystem #modelling. Topic is flexible 😉
<a href="/Fluxnet_ecn/">FLUXNET Early Career Network</a> <a href="/AvHStiftung/">Humboldt-Stiftung</a> <a href="/ICOS_RI/">ICOS RI</a>
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Good to see some crisp manufacturers finally using 50% recycled plastic in their wrappers and verifying that content rigorously 👍

Good to see some crisp manufacturers finally using 50% recycled plastic in their wrappers and verifying that content rigorously 👍
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Tough times for UK steel but this investment in electric arc recycling of steel is undoubtedly the right way forward. The world has enough virgin steel capacity.

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If this carbon capture method really works, it could end up saving the aviation industry who desperately need ways to decarbonise. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

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As part of our Big Repair Project we have been doing a systems analysis of the UK electronics and appliance repair economy. We have now published this study: frontiersin.org/journals/susta…

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There are huge environmental, social and employment benefits to growing the UK electronics and appliances repair economy. In our latest paper we lay it all out using a systems approach. Brilliant work by Danielle Purkiss frontiersin.org/journals/susta…

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Our students get to do this with Zoe Laughlin - ucl.ac.uk/engineering/co… Making a difference is the DNA of UCL with emphasis on 'making'. All students from all disciplines arts and sciences alike have FREE access to Institute Institute of Making

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I talk about the incredible properties of the invisible gases that surround us in the Something You Should Know Podcast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…