Alastair Baker
@alastairbaker1
Welsh Chemical Scientist in #FlowChemisty. Experimental Officer of MULTIForm Users Facility, part of the NNUF. Tech-Editor of Nuclear Future Journal. Chemist by training, Chem’Eng’er through practice. Loves a puns. linktr.ee/alastairbaker1
theanthropocene.org Great to see Bagger 288 being used as part of the face of The Anthropocene Project. Combining art, film, virtual reality, augmented reality, and scientific research, the project investigates human influence on the state, dynamic and future of the Earth.
Before any advanced separations, safeguards assay, forensic analysis, or fuel-cycle research can happen, somebody has to get a representative sample into solution without losing the information contained within it. [1] link.springer.com/article/10.1...
MSCopilot still rubbish in lab, still a need for lab rats and wrench monkeys like me
*premium, not new. I feel it’s analogous to; While we in the UK use curtains to keep out the heatwave, The germans have Rollläden (the exterior window covering roller shutters) You just have to pay for extra mechanisms
I am no longer a member of the UK YGN Young Generation Network, Not sure what I added other than having the UK Nuclear Institute pick up UNFT and PINE meetings so that PhDs and Postdocs have a summer and easter calendared events. It is an asset to this country
UK 6x DFAs for Nuclear Energy; PANDA DRIVERS SCANS RAPTOR PLANET SATURN-2
This review focuses on consolidating the sequential selective element extraction performed in the process intensification equipment known as Annular Centrifugal Extractor (ACEs), the unpredicted precipitation that arises, and solutions for inhibiting solids formation. doi.org/10.1039/d2cs...
This data has cracked me up EnergySky, Data shows the English chose sleep over football
This arrived rapidly, kessler syndrome is my second biggest fear, is it covered in this @bleddb.bsky.social. Again Llongyfarchiadau on publishing
So this is part of what the UKRI, since their freeze on funding[1] 5months ago… figuring out instagram ads [2] [1] www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... [2] www.instagram.com/reel/DZ9quRe...
The beard on Fridays bus, it was cooler outside than in the bus somehow
4yo just shaved a decade of my life… Involved him because he wanted me to grown a santa beard lol i said i needed to restart
@bleddb.bsky.social… Blighty has more than the ruskies? Well i never
It looks like the sun has slept as badly I have, its already been up for 2h too
So my PhD experience results in an entire paragraph in my acknowledgement of just the names of the friends that came through the synthesis lab I was part of… A school I am a part of just limited visitors to 5 per year… because of admin load and technicians doing to many inductions… makes me sad
This says a lot about the research culture in UKHE without saying anything
Glass bottles! Deposit return scheme finally coming to England, lovely spot for lunch