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@ProfBrianCox · Somewhere in Spacetime · joined 07 Dec 2008

Professor of Particle Physics at The University of Manchester

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Looking forward to Bucharest this evening - this is what our show looks like at 10am …. They do build things fast :-) https://t.co/brwS3hm2Ge
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If you were at my show this evening in Ljubljana when we looked live at the Deep Space Network and saw it communicating with @NASARoman - this is what was going on :-) 104.2K views · 758 likes · 30 reposts · 35 replies Open on X →
Sometimes your eyes need a minute to focus when you wake up. Roman's Wide Field Instrument just woke up for the first time EVER, and scientists have started adjusting its "eyes" so they can focus on the bigger picture. Check out its first test image below https://t.co/lkv3LFMyMR
This test image captures the very first photons of starlight to reach the Wide Field Instrument on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. It was taken as an initial performance assessment with the detector array still stowed as it was for launch, far from best focus. Roman’s primary science instrument has opened its eyes to the universe for the first time, revealing a sea of out-of-focus stars, each spread out over many thousands of pixels. The image, which zooms into one detector and zooms again to a single star in the insets, offers a baseline the Roman team will work from to align the telescope’s optics and tune the focus. The team will soon activate the instrument’s fine-guidance system, which will mean Roman can lock onto targets. They’ll also focus the observatory, which will shrink each star’s light to appear as a crisp point, rather than the broad, donut-like features seen here (which appear as expected given the instrument’s present configuration).
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This is good news, and as the article points out, signals a welcome change from the previous administration. There is a sense of optimism for the first time in a while - UKRI should read the room and reverse the damaging (and I have to say not well documented) decision to 118.6K views · 1.5K likes · 227 reposts · 33 replies Open on X →
Jodrell Bank reprieve fuels hopes of STFC cuts rethink Experts urge Burnham government to scrutinise wider decisions on Science and Technology Facilities Council funding https://t.co/jbotRbyzN7 125.2K views · 120 likes · 22 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
Walking home a few minutes ago across the Charles Bridge in Prague ahead of the live show here tomorrow - it will be a special night for me because the entire Emergence show is inspired by the story of Johannes Kepler walking across this bridge in a New Year’s snow storm in 1609
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That was wonderful wasn’t it ! https://t.co/PB05oliRnT
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We need a major structural review of UK science. A series of government decisions over the last decade (including but not limited to the Brexit referendum and the subsequent fall out) have undermined this vital foundation of our economy - that is unarguable. The problems have 148.7K views · 2.2K likes · 515 reposts · 112 replies Open on X →
The UK's Earth Observation sector lost on the order of £150–300m during 2021–2025 as a result of the Brexit withdrawal from Copernicus. Loss of contract eligibility, industrial capability, influence, and market position. Can we claw our way back? Read the value for money report: 166.7K views · 81 likes · 18 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →
On the physics funding crisis in the UK - there are some issues of nuance, shall we say, in the attached article below. The reason STFC had 'no choice' but to cut so many projects (Jodrell and many more) was NOT the government's spending review settlement. It was a deliberate htt
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Jodrell Bank is the most visible causality of UKRI’s short sighted ‘vision’ for science, but as you’ll see below, there are many other valuable UK facilities and collaborations at risk. We became aware of the problem in the autumn of last year. It is not a result of the overall 442.9K views · 5.7K likes · 1.7K reposts · 212 replies Open on X →
The announced closure of the UK's largest telescope at Jodrell Bank is only a small part of the cuts in UK physics https://t.co/rq4Zz0Kiui 231.3K views · 734 likes · 225 reposts · 49 replies Open on X →
@ProfBrianCox @andyburnham They jailed the hooligans who chopped down the Sycamore Gap tree. This vandalism of a national icon is much, much worse 3.1K views · 266 likes · 13 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
@ProfBrianCox @andyburnham They’d rather spend the money the money on international aid and welfare for foreign nationals. We all know, people are just too afraid to say it. 3.3K views · 234 likes · 0 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →
@ProfBrianCox @andyburnham £3m per annum... we spend £76 million per week on illegals. 1.7K views · 201 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
This is the result of many bad legacy decisions taken by UKRI hastily and without proper consultation, overseen by a government department that no longer exists. Surely the new @andyburnham government will want to take time to review this. 588.9K views · 11.7K likes · 2.3K reposts · 594 replies Open on X →
🚨 NEW: The UK’s largest telescope for studying space is now set to close after the Government pulled its funding It supported various Apollo missions and tracked Soviet rockets in the Cold War https://t.co/e3Bdyz76yB 2.6M views · 6.5K likes · 716 reposts · 631 replies Open on X →
@ProfBrianCox Imagine having an idea, and several countries spend billions to build a giant underground machine to see if you're right. Then they find you are. Pretty nice. #RIP 4.1K views · 64 likes · 8 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@ProfBrianCox The ultimate irony is that pretty much no theoretical physicist thought the Higgs existed and then they find the damn thing! Fantastic that it was in his lifetime. RIP. 4.3K views · 42 likes · 6 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@ProfBrianCox In Sir Terry Pratchett's novel "Nation", one of the members of a ship's crew is called Bosun Higgs. 7.5K views · 87 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →
Very sorry to hear Peter Higgs has died. I was fortunate enough to meet him several times, and beyond being a famous physicist - I think to his embarrassment at times - he was always charming and modest. And of course his name will be remembered as long as we do physics in the 478.1K views · 6.2K likes · 605 reposts · 146 replies Open on X →

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

7.30%27 Jul
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1.64%3 Aug
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 1M–10M accounts is 0.70%.

What the audience does

Likes81.1%61 866 in total
Reposts11.3%8 654 in total
Replies3.7%2 808 in total
Quotes1.3%1 017 in total
Bookmarks2.6%1 961 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

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