Eclectic Bluesky-Rambler - It's not random...honest/ Marine-Arctic-Antarctic-Climate Biologist/ Slow but enthusiastic cyclist/ Woke academic still aspiring to be a scholar/ 🇬🇧 diaspora in 🇫🇮
Books: https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B001HOBI0E ..
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Eclectic Bluesky-Rambler - It's not random...honest/ Marine-Arctic-Antarctic-Climate Biologist/ Slow but enthusiastic cyclist/ Woke academic still aspiring to be a scholar/ 🇬🇧 diaspora in 🇫🇮
Books: https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B001HOBI0E
The j-index: J = W ÷ Y
Where W is the total weight (in km) of all books a scientist has authored, and Y is the number of years since the author earned their doctorate
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Wind chill factor:
5 to 0 ℃ = cool
-1 to -5 ℃ = chilly
-6 to -10 ℃ = cold
-11 to -15 ℃ = freezing
-16 ℃ & below = painful
#HelsinkiBikeCommute
today.
Felt like the first real #wintercycling of the season (but no snow). & so I thought I would re-share my practical winter cycling temperature scale ⬇️
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
Reposted by David N. Thomas, Césari Laurent
Reposted by Jonathan Portes, Cas Mudde, Ben H. Ansell , and 68 more Jonathan Portes, Cas Mudde, Ben H. Ansell, Richard S.J. Tol, Dorothy Bishop, David M. Farrell, Will Jennings, Stefan Rahmstorf, David N. Thomas, Gavin A. Schmidt, Patrick A. Jansen, John Horgan, Steve Peers, Andrew Scott, Colin Murray, Mark D. White, Huw Price, Rosemary A. Joyce, Dirk Pilat, Charles West, Martijn W. Hesselink, Chris Hanretty, Simon Wren‐Lewis, Alison Phipps, Mary Corcoran, Anand Menon, Michelle Everson, Rebecca Tushnet, Ben Worthy, David R. Miller, Robert Wolfe, Gary D. Rawnsley, Aileen McHarg, Jacob T. Levy, Simon Glendinning, Scott A. Imberman, Julie Cupples, Lyndsey Stonebridge, Stephen Ryan, Samantha Brennan, Jonathan Birch, Anne Norton, Hubert Zimmermann, Leo McCann, Manuel Puppis, Graeme Warren, David Bartram, Lisa Diedrich, Brian Doucet, Ann Bartow, Stuart White, Pauline Stafford, Clayton Littlejohn, Rense Corten, Greg Linden, Jack Stilgoe, Jon Dean, Klaus Oschema, Christina Pagel, Daxton R. Stewart, Rune Møller Stahl, Olivier Mannoni, Camille Lefebvre, Aviel Roshwald, Colin Talbot, Tarik Abou‐Chadi, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Jeroen Van Bouwel, David Spurrett, François Guesnet, Speranţa Dumitru
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
Reposted by David N. Thomas, Christopher Wright, Richard Larouche
Discovering the world’s most endangered great whale species did not advance an issue-attention cycle in news media: Implications for Rice’s whale conservation and management
Open access link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Reposted by David N. Thomas
Exporting environmental democracy to international forums: Understanding the role of the Aarhus Convention
Open access link:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Reposted by David N. Thomas
Discovering the world’s most endangered great whale species did not advance an issue-attention cycle in news media: Implications for Rice’s whale conservation and management
Open access link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Reposted by David N. Thomas
The transformation-mainstreaming conundrum: Making sense of tensions in adaptation practice
open access link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Me - "I didn't have my glasses on & couldn't see the surface"
#BeyondHope
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
Of course waiting stupidly excited for #Ashes2025 to start
#BBCCricket #BBCTMS
Reposted by David N. Thomas
National biodiversity and ecosystem assessments for conservation impact: Uptake and lessons learnt from the South African experience
Open access link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Reposted by Dominik Wiedenhofer
Will we ever move away from these? - there is a lot of talk but not a great deal of action?
The comment ⬇️ is a refreshing look at the problem.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Reposted by Graeme S. Cumming, David N. Thomas
Ecosystem accounting through first nations’ lenses: Integrating the SEEA-EA and Indigenous knowledge systems
open access link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Reposted by David N. Thomas
Beyond the finite pool of worry: War experiences and climate change concerns in Ukraine
open access link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Reposted by David N. Thomas
Blue economy for sustainable fisheries and aquaculture in Egypt: Towards resilient food security
link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Reposted by David N. Thomas
The costs of connection: Socioenvironmental risks of the Brazil-China railway across the Amazon
link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Reposted by David N. Thomas
Making water knowledge with Artificial Intelligence: A qualitative study of expert interviews on water diplomacy
open access link: Making water knowledge with Artificial Intelligence: A qualitative study of expert interviews on water diplomacy
the set up I am using is 55-21
If you look at the picture the still exciting aspect of the bike for me (even after having the bike for >13 years) is the belt drive rather than a chain. It is so quiet & of course saves a whole deal of mess.
I clearly have to work a lot harder on the no-gear format to achieve this....effort that on normal days I am unconsciously content to not do,,,, hence the "lazy" comment. 😂😱
……or just how lazy I have become on the #HelsinkiBikeCommute
Reposted by Craig R. Primmer
A framework for assessing global health impacts of polar change: An urgent call for interdisciplinary research
Open access link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
This really is an urgent call
#Arctic #COP30 #ClimateChange
Reposted by David N. Thomas, Silvia Secchi
Rethinking desert definitions: Bridging the gap between science, policy, and conservation
Open access link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Reposted by Graeme S. Cumming, David N. Thomas
The gendered costs of human–wildlife conflict: A global systematic review
Open access link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Reposted by David N. Thomas
Towards improved ecosystem service assessments in marine systems: A systematic review and evaluation of effectiveness
Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...