Chris Clarkson

Cosmologist. Cyclist.

[Tim Bale @ProfTimBale]

16 July: @MarinaHyde: "If this was a proper cult, all the delegates and everyone at the next Trump rally would also stick pantyliners to the sides of their heads." https://t.co/6p6GPcIaKh
18 July......

[Thomas Haworth @TomHaworthAstro]

I am advertising two new postdoc positions. There is a great team coming together with room for two more. I'll describe core project goals below, but there will be freedom to explore other ideas (1/3)

[Damian Carrington @dpcarrington]

Climate experts were increasingly saying that keeping heating below 1.5C is near impossible, yet it remains the global goal. So I asked hundreds of top IPCC scientists what they thought. What they said shocked even me…
🧵 1/n #ClimateCrisis

[Chris Clarkson @Chrisclarkson69]

Theorists. I look forward to the Euclid results with someone spending an hour sketching data points with error bars accurately

[Will Kinney @WKCosmo]

We should have conferences where slides are banned.

[Younis Tirawi | يونس @ytirawi]

🧵on Israeli soldiers executing Palestinians in various areas across western Gaza City. Most footage were published from soldiers of the 7107 battalion. Other footage depicts the torching of homes, blowing up neighborhoods, looting, and the dehumanization of Palestinians (1/25)

[Chris Clarkson @Chrisclarkson69]

This is epic shit. They are completely mad

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

FACT: London under Labour has become a crime capital of the world 🥀

[Thomas Van Riet @ThomasVanRiet2]

"I witnessed indiscriminate killing of vast numbers of innocent civilians.I spent two weeks operating all the time.I operated on far more women than I did men.This notion that they’re targeting Hamas militants–I saw the most appalling injuries in children"
https://t.co/jA9R4t7xIs

[Chris Clarkson @Chrisclarkson69]

Please can these fucking wankers just have an election and fuck off so we never have to hear from them again. Please.

Foreign students may be undermining UK higher education, says Cleverly https://t.co/0iUORPUZ0b

[Thomas Haworth @TomHaworthAstro]

A piece on our paper published today in @ScienceMagazine , we got on the front page!

Led by Olivier Berne from, we study mass loss from a unique externally photoevaporating planet-forming disc that is beautifully consistent with my models

https://t.co/Je52RzhVFk

[Chris Clarkson @Chrisclarkson69]

@mgrsantos Finally someone noticed me even though it's like your not Roy but...

[Steve McCormick @Quasilocal]

*Collective laughter of academics*

[Chris Clarkson @Chrisclarkson69]

the economist is hardcore

[Tim Bale @ProfTimBale]

Hang on - so he was removed from the conference hall with the aid of Greater Manchester Police (18 seconds in)? Would be interested to know from @gmpolice on what grounds their officer felt obliged to get involved?

[Savanta UK @Savanta_UK]

We asked 2,000 people to give us one word to describe the Conservative Party.

#CPC23

[Philip Oldfield @SustainableTall]

Why do you think Britain is a nation of drivers?

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

🚨We went undercover to investigate the government's Rwanda plan.
Suella Braverman now has serious questions to answer.

[Chris Clarkson @Chrisclarkson69]

The Tories really are forward looking. What a bunch of cunts

[Peter Walker @peterwalker99]

NEW: No 10 & DfT have confirmed their plan to prioritise drivers, including proposals to limit:
• 20mph zones
• Bus lanes
• LTNs
• Fines imposed by councils for law-breaking
• Block 15-minute city ideas

Full details here:

https://t.co/a3NDZeodkh

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

Truly gobsmacking. Whatever the dark money junktanks say, the billionaire press will faithfully repeat, even when it is wildly, obviously false.