Ed Strain

Parliamentary Researcher, Villa fan, socialist ex-lorry driver, UoB alumnus and Lichfield City Councillor representing Leomansley Ward.

[Ed Strain @jestrain]

Liking the look of Bsky a lot (and can't stand the idea of endorsing that Trump fanboy anymore). Find me on there with the same handle 👍

[Ed Strain @jestrain]

@Belfastpast what's the new Bsky handle?

[Ed Strain @jestrain]

@strainm you met her?

[Ed Strain @jestrain]

@LichfieldLore I wonder why 11 o'clock was chosen in 1916, before the 11/11 1100am Armistice? Was there a previous tradition of silences held at this time?

[Ed Strain @jestrain]

@PoliticsPollss Are SEN kids and middle-class kids mutually exclusive? Is it one or the other? A code for 'prole' 'chav' or 'poor'? What a load of cobblers 🤦‍♂️

[Ed Strain @jestrain]

@TyroneMings Great to have you back, Ty 🦁

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

This is probably the best political ad that I’ve ever seen, really drives home the horror.

[Ed Strain @jestrain]

@CoopInnovation @ShrewsburyTC @ball_helen It's great to see @Lichfield_DC Labour Group on that list! 😃

[Ed Strain @jestrain]

@LichfieldLore I heard it from someone on the council a few months ago 🤷‍♂️ seems a strange story to make up - seems something has been going on, but hopefully settled now

[Ed Strain @jestrain]

@LichfieldLore Maybe - although the application was first made over a year ago. It's good news though, if restoration is sympathetic 🤞

[Rosemary Coogan @Astro_Rosemary]

Last week: studying the Ries impact crater in Germany! ☄️

The crater is around 25km wide and was created from an asteroid impact 15 million years ago. Although Earth has experienced many impacts over its lifetime, a lot of evidence for that has gone, as the tectonic plates move and wipe away the craters - unlike the more preserved craters we see on the Moon 🌒

Thanks to this great analogue environment and our wonderful instructors, we studied:

⁃the processes involved in giant impacts: creating craters and rims and upturned material, sometimes coming from deep inside the planet
⁃how to estimate the age of the lunar surface based on the number and appearance of its craters
⁃how to plan spacewalks on the Moon in order to cross as many different surfaces as possible, to look for water and other volatiles, and find the most interesting lunar samples 🪨

Just one stop left on the course - volcanism in Lanzarote! 🌋

[Punjabi Villans @PunjabiVillans]

Just seen a Wolves season ticket nailed to a tree, so I took it.. You can never have enough nails I always say #vtid #utv #avfc

[Ed Strain @jestrain]

@AVFCOfficial @adidas No Tielemans? 😮

[Ed Strain @jestrain]

@DaveThroup JJA = June-July Average?

[Staffordshire Police @StaffsPolice]

Two of our brave police dogs who suffered injuries in violent disorder recently have been given welfare packs by @ThinBluePaw! 😄🐶

To say thanks, Thin Blue Paw launched a fundraiser to pay for welfare packs to send to dogs across the country.

Read more: https://t.co/rLmOnhooD8

[Ed Strain @jestrain]

Make Emotional Support Animals UK Legal - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/JpHIBIUzSg via @UKChange

[Rosemary Coogan @Astro_Rosemary]

It’s been an eye-opening first week of PANGAEA training with @Arno_astro, @Astro_Kanai and the @ESA_CAVES team! We’ve been learning which geological features are important to identify and how to report them - which is especially important for future exploration missions to the Moon and beyond, where astronauts will act as the eyes of the specialists on ground. The highlights so far:

- learning how to read the story of the Dolomites over millions of years, through its rocks and outcrops (showing whether there used to be volcanic activity, rivers, lakes etc)
- finding ancient fossils of extinct reptiles in the Bletterbach canyon, and
- studying a wonderful meteorite collection brought by the experts - including some incredible Lunar and Martian samples!

Next week we’ll be focussing on the lunar landscape through an impact crater in the south of Germany that serves as a great analogue.

I hope our instructors will be proud of us - Nemo and I were admiring some great local rocks near a service station on our road trip to Germany today 🤩

[Ed Strain @jestrain]

@AVFCStatto nah - way too Chelsea, and why the stripes? 🤢