Uber-dumbass Trump seems to have conveniently forgotten the long-standing mantra around the Middle East: You break it, you own it.
Still, gotta credit his brass neck trying to get everyone else to chip-in for the raging bin-fire that he started.
Wow - so we're firmly in the "no price tags" era of late-stage, self-devouring capitalism, eh? #KarlMarx would be absolutely pissing himself. "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs", indeed.
Satellite map of the immediate vicinity around the Dungeness nuclear power station. Note the proximity of guesthouses and nature sites. The scale in the bottom right corner indicates the closest guesthouse is ~100m from Dungeness.
Guardian headline: "Miliband reveals plans that could mean nuclear power plants built near homes"
Hate to burst @theguardian.com's bubble here, but homes already exist close to #NuclearPower stations in the UK. Hell, you can go ON HOLIDAY right next to #Dungeness nuclear power station. Stop fear-mongering. ⚛️
As someone whose surname has naturally put them at the end of author lists (e.g. Orr et al., Nature, 2005) ... (a) not all last authors deserve adulation, (b) it's absolutely not something I do when ranking coauthors for my own first author papers. But fields differ on their norms with this.
Does this square the circle by crediting British heroes (for Farage) while also revering British "wildlife" (for the entirety of the rest of the British public)? Could be win-win ...
Paging nanotech luthiers to create world's smallest violin ...
Accurate title: "I've lost friends since publicly aligning with nakedly racist party, says Lord Offord"
I'm sure there's a little study to be written around the quantitative change in regional and global forecast accuracy caused by illegal wars ...
My *next* one? 😂 I fear I'm running on empty. 🤣
Hahaha! Finding the scumbag was the main reason I read the article. After what should have been a good academic start (+ born with a silver spoon in his mouth) Ridley jumped off the deep end: destroying the bank he chaired, serving the GWPF, being a Brexit scummer, etc. And now the US grift ...
Back in the day, before Nature fragmented into a broader stable, it was (IIRC) actually *free* to publish in it ... assuming you could get passed the editor-gatekeepers and (often ludicrous) referees. Now, not so much.
Anyway, to self-cite shamelessly ...
#NASA *really* thought through their logo. Delighted to have their logo merch on my laptop.
Have *finally* remembered where I've seen the logo of @anthropic.com's AI, #Claude, before - it's a copy of one of the illustrations drawn by #KurtVonnegut for his magnificent 1973 novel, #BreakfastOfChampions. I think they're taking the art of self-deprecation a little far though.
Still, #FirstWorldProblems, eh? I'm not under fire from an #OrangeTyrant or living day-to-day with the consequences of the (as we were reminded at #OSM26) eminently predictable anthropogenic #ClimateCrisis.
The worst bit of leaving #OSM26 or @biocarbon-nerc.bsky.social is the return to half-completed tasks, understandably-frustrated colleagues and mundane bureaucracy where normal worklife gravity crushes the dreams of the imaginative scientific work you'd conjured for yourself and your collaborators.
A cat who seems pleased to see me after almost two weeks away for OSM26 and BIO-Carbon
Although #OSM26 was brilliant and all, it's also good to (finally) be home
He should just reply by noting that Trump is not even a George W. Bush ...
Flowering plants: using animals - *any* animals - as a sex aid since the Cretaceous ...
A photograph of random oceanographers attending the BIO-Carbon workshop
Discussions around the @biocarbon-nerc.bsky.social workshop rumble on into the evening ...
The post #OSM26 @biocarbon-nerc.bsky.social workshop gets underway ...
High hopes, no pressure. 😂
Always a joy to take in the historical, archaeological, biological, and cultural gems of #KelvingroveMuseum.
Accurate title: "Farage: I will tax without representation in Britain"
Night-time view of the Scottish Event Campus from the south side of the Clyde. The shot is long exposure to "smooth" reflections from the river.
Night-time view of the Scottish Event Campus from the south side of the Clyde. The shot is long exposure to "smooth" reflections from the river.
Night-time view of the Scottish Event Campus from the south side of the Clyde. The shot is long exposure to "smooth" reflections from the river.
Night-time view of the Scottish Event Campus from the south side of the Clyde. The shot is long exposure to "smooth" reflections from the river.
Although at #OSM26 all last week, I didn't think to cross the #RiverClyde to see the @secglasgow.bsky.social from the other side till afterwards. In case fellow #oceanographers 🌊 didn't either, here's some night snaps ...
Did you manage to get your picture? The big OSM seemed to be in high demand for the rest of the meeting.
Surprised to be missing these staples of #OSM26 already. 😢 But what a great week! Safe onward travels ... except @biocarbon-nerc.bsky.social - see you next week! See y'all in 🇨🇦 for #OSM28.
*Very* disappointed that the #OSM26 team didn't make this advice clearer earlier. I mean, there's a sign opposite the #ScottishEventCampus and everything. What am I supposed to do with my radioactive sea monster now?!? 🌊
The full citation for Martin et al. is ...
Martin, John H.; Knauer, George A.; Karl, David M.; Broenkow, William W. (1987). "VERTEX: Carbon cycling in the northeast Pacific". Deep Sea Research Part A. Oceanographic Research Papers. 34 (2): 267–285. doi: 10.1016/0198-0149(87)90086-0.
Figure 5 from Martin et al. (1987)
A 2026-era curve based on the synthesis of BIO-ARGO data
A 2026-era curve based on "gravity machine"-derived sinking velocities
It's almost 40 years since #JohnMartin (et al.) published what's now known as the #MartinCurve. So it's reassuring to hear that, despite much better data and measurement techniques, support for the Curve is still being reported at #OSM26. Who says that there's no such thing as progress?!? 😂 🌊
