Alison Adam

Professor Emerita of Science, Technology and Society, Sheffield Hallam University. I research history of forensic science in 20th C Scotland. I sew a lot.

[Alison Adam @AlisonAdam99]

@SimonHarrisMBD Yes the Clockwork Orange is truly wonderful. A favourite student pastime is the Sub Crawl. You go round the circle getting off at each stop for a drink. You have to start early in the afternoon to get round in the same day though!

[Alison Adam @AlisonAdam99]

@DrNeilStone Ahem! Some vaccinated people managed to choose cloudy places to view the eclipse (just like 1999 😭)

[Alison Adam @AlisonAdam99]

@supertanskiii Cloudy both times for me. I jinx them!

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@DrNeilStone

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@redrumlisa Great article. Thank you.

[Bridget Phillipson @bphillipsonMP]

Labour MPs just voted to expand free school meals to half a million more children, lifting 100,000 children out of poverty.

The Tories and Reform UK voted against.

Only Labour will give children growing up in our country the best start in life.

[Jon Pike @runthinkwrite]

This is utter bollox. I knew Keir both in Oxted, before he went to Leeds, and later when we overlapped at Oxford. He was never 'involved' with Militant - he was very critical of them - and he wouldn't touch the WRP with a barge pole. He was later, from about '87, on the editorial board of Socialist Alternatives, run by Ben Schoerndorf, and his politics were broadly Bennite, narrowly 'pabloite'. This is well known, never hidden, and broadly commendable, in my view. He was a lefty student, who was unusually hard working. Not a surprise. There is plenty to criticize about Keir, if you want, and lots to commend, in my view
But this is nonsense, and I was there.

[tern @1goodtern]

aaaarg

Two days ago my visibility on here was great.

Now it's been shut down again.

Please, please share this important post. ❤️😥👇🙏

[tern @1goodtern]

Totally the wrong day for twitter to throttle my visibility again.

I'd really appreciate any shares and retweets for the important thread.

❤️😥

[Alison Adam @AlisonAdam99]

@Wisdom_HQ A baby!!

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@SGriffin_Lab Thank you. Very useful thread.

[Alison Adam @AlisonAdam99]

@PrognosticChats Did you hear Fergus Walsh on BBC 1 10 pm news last night say that surgical masks don't protect us and we should wear a well fitting respirator? My jaw would have dropped to the floor if I hadn't been wearing my FFP3 mask at the time. Not heard that msg on mainstream media before.

[Alison Adam @AlisonAdam99]

@northernassist Thank you to the guard who held the 13.46 Stoke-on-Trent train on platform 7 at #ManchesterPiccadilly just long enough for me to sprint along the platform from the bridge to catch the train today. 👍

[Alison Adam @AlisonAdam99]

@SGriffin_Lab Thank you. Very useful and informative thread.

[Alison Adam @AlisonAdam99]

@PrognosticChats Private covid boosters are £90 (at Tesco) and you have to search around a bit to find a pharmacy that does them. Many people will find it too expensive and too difficult to get one.

[Alison Adam @AlisonAdam99]

@BBCRadio3 @PetrocTrelawny A fantastic day. Thank you to everyone involved. Worth it alone to hear @MannGeorgia running from platform 6 to 1 at King's Cross on live radio.

[Alison Adam @AlisonAdam99]

@PrognosticChats Interesting - that BBC article does mention COVID now - don't remember seeing that in the first version of it.

[Alison Adam @AlisonAdam99]

@PrognosticChats Yes I saw that article! Mentioned the menopause as a possible cause so I don't know how that works with the chaps or with older or younger women or kids. No mention of covid, of course .

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@PrognosticChats Yes I was just thinking as I watched it last night- fabulous concert but packed, of course, and not a mask in sight. Land of hope and covid.....

[Alison Adam @AlisonAdam99]

@74frankfurt I was taught by the Sillitos at Edinburgh University and I remember visiting their lovely house.