Engineer, Associate Professor and author. Any opinion or views expressed are my own and not that of my employer.
Hampshire, UK
Joined September 2011
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Huge congratulations to #SolentUni and #Warsash course leader in yacht engineering, Giles Barkley, who was presented with the award for Outstanding Contribution to the Marine Industry at last month’s 2025 #Seawork Awards. 🎉👏 ⚓
#Maritime #Yachts #Celebrating Success
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We’re delighted to be welcoming 120 new #maritime officer #cadets to #SolentUni's #WarsashMaritimeSchool today – in what is our largest ever New Year cohort. 🎉
Please join us in wishing all our cadets the very best of luck! ⚓ 👏👏
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The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus is the oldest manuscript written in algebra and trigonometry, dating back to 3,550 years ago.
It shows that the Egyptians used first-order equations, geometric series and a second-order algebraic equation, related to the Pythagorean theorem a² + b² = c²
It also describes how to obtain an approximation of π accurate to within less than 1% and one of the earliest attempts at squaring the circle.
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How the world has evolved over the last century in terms of:
- Child mortality
- Life expectancy
- GDP
- Women's education
- Basic water source
- Basic sanitation
[📊 toddrjones]
jonathan ridley retweeted
Time to launch my manifesto:
1. Creation of a new meal between breakfast and brunch
2. If it's not sunny on a bank holiday everyone gets a rollover until it is
3. Legally declare that nostalgia isn't as good as it used to be
4. Rename the Isle of Dogs (it's actually a peninsula)
5. Rejoin the EU but let everyone who voted to leave pretend that we still have
6. Creation of a new meal between brunch and lunch
jonathan ridley retweeted
Don't waste precious experience only to prove someone else wrong.
[🎞️ Birdbox Studio]
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For friends around the world asking how the general election campaign in the UK is going: here's a video of a government minister calling a journalist who's live presenting news about a disastrous poll for the government. He hung up. 31 days to go...
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Visualization of Euler's polyhedron formula:
V - E + F = 2
or
Vertices - Edges + Faces = 2
[🎞️ Beau Janzen / reason4math]
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Clearing the sky with the wingtip vortices.
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Rare sighting of the deep blue underside of a glacier during a collapse caused by glacier calving
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I was delighted to show Andy Haldane, Paul Kett & Julian Gray around our @SolentUni campus today. We house extensive facilities, from a Human Health Lab to a maritime simulation centre, and we discussed the ways Solent is advancing learning in HE as a TEF Gold institution.
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Our University Librarian, @Amyodo @SolentUni has shared her expert insight into the use of library data for student success in a new article by @Wonkhe.
Want to learn more about how HE can better utilise library services? Read more⬇️
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Guests at Nigel Farage's 60th birthday party include former Prime Minister Liz Truss. She couldn't stay long – force of habit
