Dr Joanne Flanagan

Fusion Physicist. Passionate about science, equality and cake.

she/her 🏳️‍🌈

[Dr Joanne Flanagan @cakenlasers]

Day job: firing a mega-watt laser into the heart of a mini sun. That doesn't get old. #iamaphysicist @fusionenergy

[Pete Firman @petefirman]

Cheers Didcot! Had a great time last night at @CORNERSTONEfun. Fantastic audience and brilliant staff, thanks if you were there. #twowines

[Prof Catherine Rowett 💚 Ex-MEP @catherinerowett]

This level of turnover is not normal. It's because all the decent people, who understand what is threatening our human rights, are quitting for principled reasons.
As you would, if the body was betraying the very equalities it was supposed to protect.

https://t.co/Xa1pDHZcbg

[Samantha @itssamanthaaaa_]

Inequalities Minister, Kemi Badenough, the EHRC met with members of the LGBTQ+ community to discuss what they were up to.

Below is an extract detailing questions asked and answers given (or in many cases not given) to TransActual Chair, Helen Belcher.

Link Below.

[Dr Joanne Flanagan @cakenlasers]

Find your MP's contact info:
https://t.co/LXM4w4CSsJ

ECRH's complaints via:
(https://t.co/iXR6r9dsTI)

e-mail:  [email protected]

post:
Correspondence Unit
Equality and Human Rights Commission
Arndale House
The Arndale Centre
Manchester
M4 3AQ

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

Naked cruelty from Conservative Chair Jake Berry today:

“People know that when their [fuel] bills arrive, they can either cut their consumption or get a higher salary, higher wages, go out there and get that new job. That’s the approach the govt is taking".

[Lucy_of_somewhere🇺🇦🇪🇺💙 @LucyofL]

A 🧵on Covid vaccines, global divergence, schools and equity, ethics and choice & a small request.

[Lucy_of_somewhere🇺🇦🇪🇺💙 @LucyofL]

In addition, the withdrawal of the offer to kids in UK (which will fuel further hesitancy amongst those still eligible) is going to ensure we have another winter of school carnage - and as we ought to know by now, schools are the tinder that fuels spread in the wider community

[Martin Bauer @martinmbauer]

The UK is *out* of all R&D programmes: Horizon, Copernicus and EUratom

We had no science minister representing the UK at the meeting, because the position has been left unfilled for 77 days

This will cause lasting, extraordinary damage to UK science!

[Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward]

On 20 October 2021, 265 Tory MPs voted to allow raw sewage to keep on being dumped into rivers and seaways.

No MPs for any other party voted in favour.

You can click the link below to see who voted, and who abstained...
https://t.co/9KKHufSDsP

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

The record of privatised water utilities:-

•No new water reservoirs in 30yrs+;
•3.2bn litres of water lost every single day;
•2bn litres of raw sewage dumped in the Thames in two days;
•£72bn in dividends paid to shareholders;
•Debt of £56bn;
•Bills up by 40%

Nationalise.

[Madi Hilly @MadiHilly]

MYTH: We don't have a solution to nuclear's "waste problem"

REALITY: Nuclear waste isn't a problem. In fact, it’s the best solution we have to meeting our energy needs while protecting the natural environment!

Here's what you need to know:

[Hope Bastine | Psychologist @hopebastine]

This week the UK Government quietly removed ‘sexual and reproductive health and rights’ and ‘bodily autonomy’ from an international statement on human rights. #abortionrights are in trouble

[Liberty @libertyhq]

The purpose of a Bill of Rights is to protect the people from their Government.

UK Gov's plans are to protect the Government from the people.

More power for them. Fewer rights for you. Zero accountability.

A #RightsRemovalBill https://t.co/aqpZm6QBBN

[Burel Goodin @PainBurel]

Sometimes it’s not you, it’s them 🙄😂😭 #academia

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In very few words, Lenz law says that when a current is induced in a conductor, a magnetic field is generated that opposes the action that produces the current. This video provides a pretty nice visualization of this [source: https://t.co/mFqCvIeI5P]

[Kit Yates @Kit_Yates_Maths]

I've been working on this new diagram so I'd be happy to hear feedback on it.

I've also made a version with the current UK prevalence highlighted for ease of use.

[Oregon Zoo @OregonZoo]

Cub in a tub

[Scott Duncan @ScottDuncanWX]

Exceptional and record breaking heat from North Africa to Norway. Unbearably hot around the central Mediterranean especially.

Note the split in temperature in Europe with relatively cool air in the west. Intense thunderstorms can be found along the strong thermal boundary.