Caspar Addyman 🏳️‍🌈

Oct 2023: Left for 🐘.cloud
Blue-haired, rainbow-flavoured infantologist at large.
Author of The Laughing Baby (pop science) and Babies Laugh (picture books)

[Caspar Addyman 🏳️‍🌈 @czzpr]

One of the most fun bits of writing The Laughing Baby was naming the chapters and picking epigraphs for each one. So here they all are.
🤣👶📘🧵

Thanks to @AstroKatie for the idea.

[Caspar Addyman 🏳️‍🌈 @czzpr]

13 Years since I joined Twitter. 3 months since I left for the Fediverse.
It was good while it lasted.
#MyXAnniversary

[Caspar Addyman 🏳️‍🌈 @czzpr]

I have a new website. It's a work in progress. 🏗️(Modern Wordpress is miserable to use.)
But expect more laughing baby blogging in near future. 😆👶
https://t.co/hFYk5QrQJg

[Caspar Addyman 🏳️‍🌈 @czzpr]

I keep getting recruitment spam from MI6. Letting you all know in the hope they'll stop pestering me.

[Caspar Addyman 🏳️‍🌈 @czzpr]

@BlokesClub @MrBuddwing65 Good luck. I'm one month into a year off alcohol. I gave up from my 39th to 40th birhhday. Learned a lot in the process. So I'm doing it again from 49 to 50. In the past decade non-alcoholic beers have improved massively. 🍻

[M O R G Y @RJMrgn]

It’s true.
– 1 day for doing all your chores and bits
– 1 day for doing something fun
– 1 day for just flopping about like a goblin

[Anthony Burt 🏴‍☠️ @AnthonyJBurt]

Another marvellous day at @edbookfest starting with Peekaboo baby psychology with @czzpr then cookery-science with @sai_path followed by drawing trees and animals with @LydiaMonks then a wonderful, creative, seriously cool high-fantasy storytelling event with @JanelleLMccurdy!

[Caspar Addyman 🏳️‍🌈 @czzpr]

@AnthonyJBurt @edbookfest @sai_path @LydiaMonks @JanelleLMccurdy Thank you for looking after me and helping with the baby wrangling. Good look with your own reading and the rest of the festival. Hope to see again next year!

[Ruth Boreham @RuthBoreham]

Am very excited to be @edbookfest for my @Bookbug_SBT day job, listening and watching the brilliant @czzpr do a session with some wee ones & their adults on laughing, tickling, peekaboo & their importance.

[Caspar Addyman 🏳️‍🌈 @czzpr]

Stuff stolen *from* the British Museum?
Now they know what it feels like.
https://t.co/szvPNcCMZb

[Caspar Addyman 🏳️‍🌈 @czzpr]

@nosilverv 100 minutes.

[Simon Hix @simonjhix]

Great graphic by ⁦@jburnmurdoch⁩. In other words, Britain is a poor country, with 1 moderately wealthy region.

[Caspar Addyman 🏳️‍🌈 @czzpr]

Floaty rock is another cold fusion.. 😢

[⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker]

summary of my current view of LK-99 superconductor saga:

- LK-99 levitation is likely due to its relatively strong diamagnetism combined with weak ferromagnetism in parts of the sample causing a torque (https://t.co/iOpQygx8lX)

- LK-99 high-low resistivity transition is likely due to Cu2S contamination (https://t.co/XjSkSHFGXV)

- inconsistency of replication is likely due to contaminants and under-specified synthesis (without Cu2S contaminant, you won't observe resistivity transition, and without some non-uniformly-distributed ferromagnetism, you won't observe half levitation)

- The "second" phase transition in which they claim to measure zero resistance is likely due to measurement error; they're measuing extremely low current without very-low-temp instruments.

researchers spend a decade+ dicerolling lead crystal synthesis and measuring it with extremely low current. they diceroll into something contaminated with Cu2S, giving a resistivity cliff at 380K, which they assume is superconductivity. They observe half-levitation caused by ferromagnetism and diamagnetism in the sample, which they assume is meissner effect. one person on the team publishes early and things get out of hand

[Caspar Addyman 🏳️‍🌈 @czzpr]

@salonikrishnan Congratulations, Prof Krishnan. 🎊
Do you get a new hat? 🎓

[Caspar Addyman 🏳️‍🌈 @czzpr]

@_phzn @puntofisso Time travellers have removed all evidence of the existence of that book. The reasons why are complicated.

[Jamie Raines 🦖🥔 @jammi_dodger94]

So @CostaCoffee depicted a trans masc person, and transphobes are angry and shouting #BoycottCostaCoffee (obvs). Shockingly to them trans people exist, and might drink coffee. Anyway, as a trans man with similar scars, thank you Costa for the representation 🏳️‍⚧️

[Caspar Addyman 🏳️‍🌈 @czzpr]

My new hero..

[Thomas Reis @peakaustria]

Simona Kossak (1943-2007) Polish biologist, ecologist, author, PhD in forestry, and uncompromising conservation activist
They called her a witch because she chatted with animals and owned a crow, who stole gold and attacked bicycle riders.
She spent more than 30 years in a wooden hut in the Białowieża Forest, without electricity or access to running water. A lynx slept in her bed, and a tamed boar lived under the same roof with her. She was a scientist, ecologist, and the author of award-winning films, as well as radio broadcasts. She was also an activist who fought for the protection of Europe’s oldest forest. Simona believed that one ought to live simply, and close to nature. Among animals, she found that which she never found with humans.
Photo Lech Wilczek.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

In this poll of LGBTQ+ Britons, just 3% opted for ‘LGB’ - the acronym used to deliberately exclude trans people.

This shows lesbian, gay and bi people overwhelmingly see trans people as part of their community.

So stop pretending there’s a civil war over this. There isn’t.