Deputy Director at Innovate UK for Heat & Buildings. Welsh. Chemist. Hypenotic. ChesterSciBar. Catalyst Science Discovery Centre. Passionate about the power of stories and innovation. Some whimsy. Opinions own.
Mike Pitts
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Vaccines are humanity's greatest scientific achievement.
Photographer Alan McFadyen dedicated 4,200 hours and captured 720,000 images over six years to secure the perfect shot of a Kingfisher diving into the water without creating a splash.
Big new survey of top business leaders reveals overwhelming majority expect the next decade to be shaped by rapid electrification. EVs, heat pumps, solar panels, industrial electrification, and batteries are set to become the norm surprisingly quickly. www.businessgreen.com/news/4531135...
Honoured by one of my favourite restaurants today.
Tonight's @chesterscibar.bsky.social is a UK premiere on the science of spiders in South Africa. With a trigger warning for the creepy crawly pictures!
Where else would I spend my birthday?
If I owned a cinema, I wouldn't stock any snacks in crinkly bags.
A long week ends down the club setting up for the u11 match this evening.
This piece on the Stokes thing is very good naming the hypocrisy of the situation.
Why not use the punishment my old cricket captain used when he discovered I'd been out late drinking before a match: I was made to open the bowling. Uphill.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
England just had its warmest spring on record.
The record was last set in spring 2025.
Before that, spring 2024.
9 of the 10 warmest springs have occurred since 2007.
It's almost like there's a long-term driver causing this...
www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.
