GENERAL CALL TO SCOTTISH/UK ACADEMIA
Does your group/dept have any old laptops (basic access to internet via WiFi is all) that you could donate? This would allow
#refugees
and
#asylumseekers
access to
#scicomm
resources in
#Glasgow
. I know many just get ditched.
Please
#RT
I can now reveal last night's action as one of the funniest of
#COP26
. We ended up in a projection fight where the official projectionist only ended up drawing more attention to our action and then came out and congratulated us 🤣
NEW: Asylum seekers are set to be detained on Monday in a surprise Home Office operation in preparation for deportation to Rwanda, reports suggest
Police in Scotland have subsequently been put on alert because of the high risks of street protests and attempts to stop detentions
Niche callout to twitter but please share around - we're looking for policy, climate and science experts to be spokespeople in the run up to COP26. We're ideally looking for people on the more radical end too who aren't afraid to speak their mind with their expertise.
Our students are literally self-organising shifts to take out trash that is all sorted for recycling.
This was post-attack from a militarised police force, you fucking cretin.
Clarification points:
1) I'm a local, born and brought up on the west coast of Scotland, not some randomer from London or activist parachuted in
2) 99% credit must go to
@gastivists
@ShaleMustFall
@ScotClimateCamp
, I only transported the projector
3) Glasgow already has activists
[BREAKING] Activists use a huge projector on the
#COP26
venue because the
#MethanePledge
is NOT ENOUGH
The negotiations are failing to deliver real action. The ask is simple: stop extracting fossil fuels now, not in 2050
#CutMethaneEU
#MethaneLeaks
I swear to fuck the people of Glasgow better not have not been "sacrificing" and "holding on that little bit longer" for the sake of a few fucking football matches.
"The hope is that this will be very well controlled"
Glasgow is set to host a 3000-person capacity Euro 2020 fan zone from 11 June, but the city remains in Level 3 restrictions this week. We ask National Clinical Director
@jasonleitch
if this makes sense on
#BBCSevenDays
.
12 years in glasgow and it only took until 3 months before I leave for someone to actually brandish a weapon and threaten to stab me.
You guessed it, a car driver because they nearly killed me at a junction and I called them out on it 🙃
I am tired of nearly dying on the roads.
11 months left of funding. All experiments ground to a halt due to people shortage or equipment failure & my cryostat compressor has majorly failed. On top of a year WFH as an experimentalist.
I cannot "adapt my thesis" when my experiments are broken and time has gone
@UKRI_News
@BrentGreens
How exactly can you "treat fellow members with respect and empathy" if you don't believe they should be allowed to exist or enjoy the same rights as you?
I'm hoping this week to have the first draft of my thesis. Combined with my bank balance, things look pretty bleak at the moment and I'm *still* in a far more fortunate position than thousands of fellow PhD students over-charge for rent and underpaid for labour.
@AcademicChatter
It’s not everyday you can say you fulfilled a lifelong dream. After saving up 12 years for it, today I passed my flight test and earned my Private Pilots License.
I 100% cried when I was told I passed. A huge thanks to my instructor Kwan, my examiner Laurie and everyone at MFC.
You can't polish a turd, but ahead of
#COP26
,
@GlasgowCC
thinks you can paint one. Painting over the M8 to make it look "prettier" ahead of the conference isn't going to fool anyone.
@blairanderson35
@PaulJSweeney
Worse Paul, as an MSP, you're encouraging Scottish youth to use their STEM education for the benefit of the wider UK military industrial complex.
As an ex-defence worker like you, I try every day to take responsibility for my mistakes, meanwhile you are actively recruiting kids.
It's as frustrating to watch people praising Javid and Sunak as it was to watch these same two do nothing for years. Cut out the praising of these equally awful people.
As
#COP26
gets closer, its time to start organising and mobilising. From trade unions to faith groups, social justice campaigns to charities, local communities and citizens of the city - you are all invited along to our
@COP26_Coalition
#Glasgow
Assembly!
If you needed *any* more evidence of how much of a fucking joke
#COP26
is look no further. The security apparatus should be looking to arrest cunts like this rather than the people of
#Glasgow
. As a scientist I am sickened by anyone who supports this billionaire "space race"
And here he is.
@JeffBezos
tells
#COP26
that 'when I was in space' earlier this year he realised just how thin the globe's atmosphere was.
Think he forgot to mention just how many fossil fuels he spent getting into space.
Solidarity to each and every person blockading these defence companies ✊
No longer should Glasgow accept the hypocrisy of having refugees and asylum seeking people living next to the very companies that displaced them from their homes and murdered their loved ones.
🇵🇸BREAKING: Glasgow residents shut down a site run by Britain’s largest weapons company over its ties to Israel.
They are demanding an end to arms sales to Israel and a permanent ceasefire.
What happens when you hook up an interferometer (what we use to detect
#GravitationalWaves
) with a modular and visual synthesiser while live coding over the top of it?
You get the Gravity Synth.
Come see us at the Dream Machine, as part of
@IoPScotland
's
#BigBounce
Festival!
Well, last Tuesday's interview obviously went well as I've just been accepted into the Life In Flight programme meaning, upon completion of my CPL training, I have a guaranteed contract as a flight instructor followed by flying for Air Borealis - an actual dream come true!
I want to thank every single Legal Observer from
@activists_legal
that helped keep us all safe during COP26. I couldn't be prouder to have worked alongside such amazing people who worked literally 24 hours round the clock to support us always with a smile and top chat - thank you
As we head into the final hour of SCALP’s COP26 legal support provision we’d like to say some thank yous.
The idea that a single person or group ever really pulls off anything big on their own is a myth, one we’d like to challenge & acknowledge all the ways we've been supported
@PandemicPGRs
Either PhD requirement is less (but no one wants to be "that year" of PhDs who didn't make the mark) or extensions are provided *TO ALL STUDENTS* doing a PhD *AT ANY STAGE* not just us senior experimental students. Many 👏experimental 👏PhDs👏*can't*👏 be 👏meaningfully👏adapted
Writing my PhD extension application has almost brought me to tears acknowledging how little I have done, how heavily I've been impacted and how shit my PhD is. I haven't even been able to begin to think about any data analysis because I'm too busy doing tiny tasks myself, alone.
Bit controversial
#COP26
post here but I'm already worried about London-based groups coming into Glasgow and taking over community spaces.
#Glasgow
and
#Scotland
already has already has the campaigns, communities, talent & artists here and I just want that to be kept in mind.
Thank you to
@PhysicsNews
's
@IOP_APP
selection committee for awarding me the 2022 Astroparticle Physics Group's Thesis Prize! A huge thanks to my supervisors and everyone in
@UofGravity
for supporting my work - for once, I'm actually quite proud of my work 😅
Confratulations! 2022
@IoP_APP
thesis prize goes to Dr. Graeme Eddolls (Glasgow), "Design, build and characterisation of a prototype single crystalline silicon cryogenic suspension for 3rdgeneration gravitational wave detectors"
@UofGravity
@GEddolls
A very happy birthday to
@deepseadeb
, who not only delivered
@GlasgowSciFest
on her birthday but continues to deliver free
#science
activities throughout
#Glasgow
(and has done since 2007!) *even with* all the extra covid precautions *as well* as tons of online content!!!
Request from pal at Nicholson Street immigration raid, can anyone bring a PA down?
Pal says apparently some people inside de-arrested but still need people to observe no one is removed against their will.
Photo credit: ma pal
@no_evictions
@Refuweegee
I loved my PhD until the pandemic started.
Today - with experiments broken, no data, no physical support, an inability to consolidate/retain theory, time/funding running out and the news of restrictions stretching in 2022 - I really just want to quit.
Was lovely to bump into
@patrickharvie
on Ingram Street to have a wee chat on our bikes in amongst the hype and energy of
#COP26
. As a cyclist, I couldn't be happier to see elected politicians on their bike and I know Patrick's been leading the way for years 🚲
Thanks to my pal Agne and her amazing bakery A.Pastry for the well wishes (which I totally missed initially because I was too distracted by her cakes as usual).
Give them a visit if you're ever on Glasgow southside, or order online on their website:
SO EXCITED FOR
@octo_octa
+
@ErisDrew
@T4TLUVNRG
ON SUNDAY (and to see the return of a no phones/photos policy that's so important in the club scene to let *everyone* feel comfortable)
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It breaks my heart to keep seeing my mum back in hospital. It breaks my heart to see my dad struggle to care for her and himself. All care in Scotland is for profit and yet the people doing the caring are so woefully underpaid and overworked that they too struggle. It's criminal.
Tonight I cried for the first time in the cinema. I was watching Supernova. It reminds me of the current situation with my Mum and how I have struggled to deal with her decline for these last few years.
“You’re not supposed to mourn someone before they die.”