Les Hopper 🤠👨‍🔬🇪🇺💙

Father of two, husband of one. Palaeo nerd, geologist, product director, facial hair enthusiast. Enjoys tea and sleeping in corners. Views my own...of course!

[no context the west wing @LemonLymancom]

Here is how you should NOT vote 😂😂

[Bradley Whitford @bradleywhitford]

God, I love that guy.

[Les Hopper 🤠👨‍🔬🇪🇺💙 @leshopper]

It has to be said: if you haven’t tried #StarTrekProdigySpoilers you really must!

It’s truly great trek for fans, and a great way to introduce the universe to your kids! 🖖🏻

#StarTrek #Prodigy @StarTrek @netflix @NetflixUK

[Les Hopper 🤠👨‍🔬🇪🇺💙 @leshopper]

@BeanoOfficial 🚀 Sounds like a blast for my boys!

[Beano @BeanoOfficial]

It's #BeanoWednesday! 🙌

This week, Minnie is out of this world!

We have a copy to giveaway to a lucky follower.⁠

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[Les Hopper 🤠👨‍🔬🇪🇺💙 @leshopper]

I entered the Hamilton Lottery for £10 tickets on @TodayTix! Tap here to enter: https://t.co/nC4QPAmjce

[The Pearson National Teaching Awards @TeachingAwards]

Thank you so much @LesHopper from @PearsonSchools for presenting our Impact Through Partnership Award 🤩🙌 #teachingheroes

[Les Hopper 🤠👨‍🔬🇪🇺💙 @leshopper]

A fantastic evening @TeachingAwards and an absolute pleasure to present this award to these #teachingheroes

[The Pearson National Teaching Awards @TeachingAwards]

Thank you so much @LesHopper from @PearsonSchools for presenting our Impact Through Partnership Award 🤩🙌 #teachingheroes

[Les Hopper 🤠👨‍🔬🇪🇺💙 @leshopper]

Hear hear

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

Good evening . Today has been a satanic day on the moors . . . the inglorious 12th . It may have just cost some mainly men thousands of pounds to kill birds for fun but it’s come at terrible cost to UK wildlife and the environment . @WildJustice_org @ReviveCoalition @LeagueACS @wildmoorsuk

[Brian Cox @ProfBrianCox]

It’s not too hard, but let’s spell it out! Science is a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance. One starts in a position of not knowing and being comfortable and indeed delighted and excited in not knowing. One then starts to investigate - do experiments or observe Nature. The key is not to get into an entrenched position and instead to allow your knowledge to develop as new data and understanding emerge. If you truly don’t have the data or understanding to come to an informed view, then the advice is not to guess and loudly proclaim your guess to the world but to shut up and do some work. A little northern in phrasing perhaps, but I am from Oldham.

[Brian Cox @ProfBrianCox]

This is my default position and I think it’s a useful assumption - because even if there is a slim chance it’s true (and we may well never know) then it should focus our collective minds on the task in hand - which is to avoid fucking it up.

[Robert Massey @RobertMMassey]

Astronomy is incredibly international, from what I recall 50% of papers have multinational teams. This policy (and for that matter the ongoing delay to Horizon) further diminishes our global participation and certainly our reputation.

[Brian Cox @ProfBrianCox]

The PM really does need to understand that he is now further damaging U.K. science by not immediately rejoining Horizon, presumably to placate some know-nothing fringe bloviators who know nothing about science, its value or how it’s conducted. As Lord Rees says below, it is baffling. Get on with it.

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

🔥 *New Zealand* has just joined Horizon Europe, yet we are still out - that's nuts.

Sunak needs to sort this out asap. Horizon Europe is now THE global multinational science platform... and the UK used to lead it. Without it we're just not leading big science collaborations.

[Paul Halpern @phalpern]

'If science, like art, is to perform its mission truly and fully, its achievements must enter not only superficially, but with their inner meaning, into the consciousness of people.'

-Albert Einstein (Speech at opening of 1939 World's Fair)

Video here: https://t.co/mmTIaAOyxw

[Les Hopper 🤠👨‍🔬🇪🇺💙 @leshopper]

A pointy building

[Les Hopper 🤠👨‍🔬🇪🇺💙 @leshopper]

Just another one of those moments when it's worth taking time to think about the sheer ingenuity, creativity, teamwork and determination that made these images possible! #Science #Mars

[ARCHIVED - NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover @NASAPersevere]

Have you ever found an old book and blown the dust off to see what story it might have to tell? That’s pretty much what I’m doing here. I came upon an interesting boulder, hit it with a puff of compressed air, and am taking a closer look. I’ll see if I can get a peek inside, too.

[Les Hopper 🤠👨‍🔬🇪🇺💙 @leshopper]

A tremendous pleasure to meet and have a quick chat with the one and only @ChrisGPackham today @EducationFest

Curiosity, art, romance, and their place in #Science and #education