Assistant Prof of Phys Chem @chemistryUoN ; Making machines to do ultrafast dynamics @nurd_lab ; Postdoc @oxfordchemistry @bristolchem ; PhD @LIMSLTU ; he/him
Nottingham, England
Joined July 2009
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Dr Patrick Robertson retweeted
Citizen Kane is famous for it's "deep focus," a sort of visual glitch caused by using too narrow of a lens aperture. If it was made today, a more modern shallow depth of field would help audiences to know exactly where they should be looking.
Dr Patrick Robertson retweeted
We spent $100m building a robot that can pirouette at 5000 rpm and performs Swan Lake beginning to end in 30 seconds. Ballet is solved.
Dr Patrick Robertson retweeted
This shows the differences between MJ and LeBron’s games. MJ was more of a score first gambling addict. LeBron’s much more comfortable creating (gambling addiction) for others
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Dr Patrick Robertson retweeted
It's all a big fucking stew brotha you just gotta grab life by the ladle and pour
Just been looking over my 6 year olds school work collection and found this little gem about the etymological origin of, and nuclear decay pathways of protactinium.
I was literally thinking about exactly this interaction with Boltzmann this morning. What an absolute unit.
Dr Patrick Robertson retweeted
‘Nothing is so fatal to the progress of the human mind as to suppose our views of science are ultimate; that there are no mysteries in nature; that our triumphs are complete, and that there are no new worlds to conquer.’ Sir Humphrey Davey. 1810.
‘Overall, we will drive to be more entrepreneurial, to engage more with industry, to realize greater revenue and greater income into our program, which means there's less pressure on the public purse.’ Sir Ian Chapman. 2026.
If you want to understand why science in the UK is in such a mess ……..
Dr Patrick Robertson retweeted
10 years of Brexit. Here’s a 10 year old comment from an FT reader that still sums up the whole Brexit debacle beautifully.
Photo doesn’t really do justice to just how much of the room this painting consumes. Couldn’t look away for almost 20 minutes. Great end to Stereodynamics2026.
Dr Patrick Robertson retweeted
Young men from ages 16-29 should be reading as many tweets about Hemingway, Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, Kerouac, and Whitman as possible
Dr Patrick Robertson retweeted
I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to call this the greatest piece of prediction market content created to date.
Dr Patrick Robertson retweeted
Absurd and inhuman violence is spreading ferociously through the sacred places of the Christian East, profaned by the blasphemy of war and the brutality of business, with no regard for people’s lives, which are considered at most collateral damage of self-interest. But no gain can be worth the life of the weakest, children, or families. No cause can justify the shedding of innocent blood.
Dr Patrick Robertson retweeted
Hundreds of millions of people throughout the world are immersed in extreme poverty. Yet, disproportionate wealth remains in the hands of a few. It is an unjust scenario, in the face of which we cannot fail to question ourselves and commit to change things. There is no lack of resources at the root of disparities, but the need to address solvable problems related to a more equitable distribution of wealth, to be achieved with moral sense and honesty.