David Young

Research Development Manager at Northumbria University. Focus on funders: EPSRC, NERC, STFC, Royal Society, RAEng. Header:

[Marc Kenneth Etherington @m_k_etherington]

The @NorthumbriaUni #EnergyFutures Bulletin Q1 at (https://t.co/CiOXeF3ZJJ). Prof. Neil Beattie elected Fellow of @PhysicsNews, our hosting of the EFORES workshop, @yongtao_qu receives a @royalsociety Newton International Fellowship and the latest from @CDT_ReNU #TakeonTomorrow

[Andrew Steele @statto]

‘2022 UK Government crisis’ now needs disambiguating on Wikipedia.

[David Young @davidyoungres]

Has there ever been a convincing explanation of why full economic costing is often abbreviated as fEC with a small 'f'? Why is the 'f' small, but the other two letters are capitalised?

[Geog & Env Sciences @NUGeog]

BSc Geography and Physical Geography have been touring the Cheviots, Coasts and Castles of Northumberland, travelling through 300million years of history as part of Geography Up and Running Week

[David Young @davidyoungres]

Now this is email best practice...

[David Young @davidyoungres]

Each week I get an email summarising open govt consultations. This week it features the consultation on units of measurement, aka do we want to switch back to imperial units? You too can respond to this complete waste of time and resources, here: https://t.co/9FSHoipkdK

[Dr David Berger BSc MBBS MRCP(UK) FRACGP-RG DTM+H @YouAreLobbyLud]

1/ WHY OUR "LET IT RIP" APPROACH TO COVID IS SO BIZARRE
I don't think people realise quite how odd this all is. The history of medicine is one of relentless improvement in health, against seemingly improbable odds. In my 30 years as a doctor, just some of the things I have seen:

[David Young @davidyoungres]

@AnnaMGrey If you believe that I have a bridge to sell you etc

[David Young @davidyoungres]

Blast from the past for anyone that can remember that far back... Here we are in 2022 still Je-Sing it up! Though for how much longer...?

[Stan's Account @tristandross]

spending billions on a supposedly liberatory techno-utopia that should, in theory, allow us to occupy any reality we can imagine, and just filling it with facsimiles of all the bland retail experiences of our present, because we can no longer conceive of anything else. i love it

[David Young @davidyoungres]

@UKRI_News I'm getting a 503 Service Unavailable message on https://t.co/H0eKzOiCMu. Is this a temporary problem as I was wanting to use it in a presentation later today?

[David Young @davidyoungres]

Not much of what we do today will stop what's going to happen wrt sea level rise and extreme storms. It's going to get worse. We are going to have to adapt.

[David Young @davidyoungres]

Looking forward to hearing @SaleemulHuq speak to celebrate the start of the new partnership between @ICCCAD and @NorthumbriaUni

[David Young @davidyoungres]

Students have the energy to make positive changes happen. "We should not lose heart, we should not give up... Our role is to support them, help them organise...."

[Michael Jacobs @michaelujacobs]

So this #COP26 thing – what happened? Agreement wasn’t reached until late Saturday evening – and only after a last-minute weakening of the text by India which left COP President Alok Sharma in tears. Here's a🧵with the highlights (and a few lowlights). I hope helpful. /1