Richard Dunn (@lordoflongitude) 's Twitter Profile
Richard Dunn

@lordoflongitude

Keeper of Technologies and Engineering @sciencemuseum four days a week. All views and opinions my own.

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The TLS (@thetls) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'A cartoon in Punch in 1879 showed an English couple in their living room viewing their children in Ceylon on a large screen and talking with them.' (Richard Dunn) the-tls.co.uk/articles/how-t…

MapAction (@mapaction) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We don't talk about #MapAction's laptops much, but everywhere we go, they go and it takes a toll. Now 14 of them need replacing. Please email [email protected] if you would like to sponsor 1 or more at £950 each. (Below are 2 of them supporting the Madagascar floods in 2022.)

We don't talk about #MapAction's laptops much, but everywhere we go, they go and it takes a toll. Now 14 of them need replacing. Please email idavis@mapaction.org if you would like to sponsor 1 or more at £950 each. (Below are 2 of them supporting the Madagascar floods in 2022.)
Royal Institute of Navigation (@at_rin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We're delighted to finally release the recordings from February's event "An Afternoon With Traditional Pacific Navigators"! You can now watch back all of the presentations plus the panel session at: rebrand.ly/n0jo4ms #TraditionalNavigation

We're delighted to finally release the recordings from February's event "An Afternoon With Traditional Pacific Navigators"! 
You can now watch back all of the presentations plus the panel session at: rebrand.ly/n0jo4ms
#TraditionalNavigation
Glasgow 2024, A Worldcon For Our Futures (@glasgowin2024) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Glasgow 2024 Presents is excited to announce our next virtual event will be taking place in two weeks on Monday 24th April 2023 7pm (BST). (1/5)

Glasgow 2024 Presents is excited to announce our next virtual event will be taking place in two weeks on Monday 24th April 2023 7pm (BST).

(1/5)
Richard Dunn (@lordoflongitude) 's Twitter Profile Photo

JOB KLAXON: come and work as a curator in the technologies and engineering team Science Museum (12-month contract). Details at: ce0111li.webitrent.com/ce0111li_webre…

North East Heritage Library (@neheritagelib) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Shipbuilding Archive is now LIVE! 🎉 The database is fully interactive, with nearly 80 of the known Tyne shipyards covered from Stella to Shields. You'll find maps, photographs and detailed info researched over the past 3 and a bit months. northeastheritagelibrary.co.uk/shipbuildingar…

The Shipbuilding Archive is now LIVE! 🎉

The database is fully interactive, with nearly 80 of the known Tyne shipyards covered from Stella to Shields. You'll find maps, photographs and detailed info researched over the past 3 and a bit months. 

northeastheritagelibrary.co.uk/shipbuildingar…
Poetry School (@poetryschool) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Announcing our NEW Writing Poetry MA Tutor: Meryl Pugh @merylE11💥 Meryl says: 'The Poetry School always seems to be in the thick of things, sparking interesting conversations, programming inspiring events & classes – so I am over the moon to have been appointed as MA tutor...'

Announcing our NEW Writing Poetry MA Tutor: Meryl Pugh @merylE11💥

Meryl says: 'The Poetry School always seems to be in the thick of things, sparking interesting conversations, programming inspiring events & classes – so I am over the moon to have been appointed as MA tutor...'
Richard Tutton (@tuttonrichard) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Are you working on social, technological, political, legal or environmental aspects of spaceports? With Dr Ellie Armstrong (she/her) Matjaz Vidmar and Alex Taylor I'm organising a two day event at SATSU York. Find out more here: york.ac.uk/satsu/events/2… EASST The Society for Social Studies of Science Social Studies of Outer Space

Dr Amy C. Chambers (@amycchambers) 's Twitter Profile Photo

NEW PUBLICATION: ‘#Contagion Went Viral: #Microbiology, Entertainment Media and the Public Understanding of Science’ for Current Clinical Microbiology Reports #OpenAccess #SciComm #SciEnt #PUS link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Ethical Consumer (@ec_magazine) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This month is #AmazonFreeAugust Amazon has long been called out for Tax avoidance, workers’ rights abuses, poor climate policy, etc, it's time to hold them to account. Pledge to #BoycottAmazon for August and find alternatives here: bit.ly/455bDuz

This month is #AmazonFreeAugust

Amazon has long been called out for Tax avoidance, workers’ rights abuses, poor climate policy, etc, it's time to hold them to account.

Pledge to #BoycottAmazon for August and find alternatives here:
bit.ly/455bDuz
Celia Richardson (@celiarichards0n) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Campaigners claim the National Trust needs to be ‘returned to its real mission.’ Meanwhile the Trust has again broken its records for fundraising & conservation investment. It’s an enduring national success story, thanks to millions of members, donors & volunteers.

Campaigners claim the National Trust needs to be ‘returned to its real mission.’ Meanwhile the Trust has again broken its records for fundraising & conservation investment. It’s an enduring national success story, thanks to millions of members, donors & volunteers.
Thony Christie (he/his/him) (@rmathematicus) 's Twitter Profile Photo

An overlong and meandering review of Katy Barrett's Looking for Longitude: A Cultural History. Don't read the review read her excellent book instead! thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/09/20/she…

An overlong and meandering review of Katy Barrett's Looking for Longitude: A Cultural History. Don't read the review read her excellent book instead!
thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/09/20/she…
Ethical Consumer (@ec_magazine) 's Twitter Profile Photo

To continue to help you #BoycottAmazon, we updated our guide to ethical online shops. We also look at the UK ethical shopping market, product ranges, eBay, #environmental issues, and give 7 Best Buy's including Veo® | shop sustainably, Shared Earth and Back Market bit.ly/3rQ5TXB

To continue to help you #BoycottAmazon, we updated our guide to ethical online shops.

We also look at the UK ethical shopping market, product ranges, eBay, #environmental issues, and give 7 Best Buy's including <a href="/veo_world/">Veo® | shop sustainably</a>, <a href="/SharedEarthUK/">Shared Earth</a> and <a href="/backmarket/">Back Market</a>
bit.ly/3rQ5TXB
SMGResearch (@smgresearch) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Our next free Space Seminar on Sample Return Missions and Analysis - Asteroids #Hayabusa2 #OSIRISREx - will be next Tuesday 14 November, 12.30 - 14.00. Sign up here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist… @jaxa_education JAXA Institute of Space and Astronautical Science Rowan University IAC Astrofísica

Our next free Space Seminar on Sample Return Missions and Analysis - Asteroids #Hayabusa2 #OSIRISREx - will be next Tuesday 14 November, 12.30 - 14.00. Sign up here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist… 
@jaxa_education <a href="/ISAS_JAXA_EN/">JAXA Institute of Space and Astronautical Science</a> <a href="/RowanUniversity/">Rowan University</a> <a href="/IAC_Astrofisica/">IAC Astrofísica</a>
The TLS (@thetls) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'When the Moon moves further away the loss of its influence will threaten all terrestrial life' Richard Dunn (Richard Dunn) on the ties that bind us to the Moon the-tls.co.uk/articles/our-m…