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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 4d

Gutted: clearly missed a Nobel nomination after having editor remove word “unprecedented” from paper title in 2016.

Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 6d

Ooh ooh it’s Nobel Prizes week! Scientists win Nobel Prize for discovering why immune system does not destroy the body www.bbc.com/news/article...

Scientists win Nobel Prize for groundbreaking immune system work

The prize-winning discovery explains how the immune system attacks hostile infections, but not the body's own cells.

www.bbc.com

Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 15d

Whoa!

Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 15d

Presumably the haricot beans are cooked before they are covered in tomato sauce…

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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · 15d

The meaning(fulness?) of science. Read on: medium.com/@gcampsvalls...

Why We Write in Science

A hard look at today’s science system — why we publish, what’s gone wrong, and how we might recover the broken joy of writing.

medium.com

Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · Sep 3

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Quarter of schools in England lack a physics teacher, analysis finds

Institute of Physics says ‘critical’ shortage means 700,000 pupils are deprived of a subject specialist

www.theguardian.com

Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · Sep 2

They do say that it would attract 1.5M people annually and would all but pay for itself after one years operation. Could be worse though, it could be a Disney theme park.

Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · Sep 2

Regular annual updates needed of climate forcers to enable prediction and attribution of environmental change www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Climate models need more frequent releases of input data — here’s how to do it

Annual updates to ‘climate forcing’ data sets would allow simulations to keep pace as global warming accelerates.

www.nature.com

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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · Jul 31

Australian-made rocket crashes with Vegemite payload left spread over wide area. apple.news/A3AMUiAV-S8S...

Australian-made rocket crashes with Vegemite payload — The Telegraph

Orbital rocket hovers off ground for 14 seconds before running out of steam

apple.news

Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · Jul 2

NASA cancels subscription to @nature.com as federal funding cuts have unexpected impacts www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Trump team axes contracts with publishing giant Springer Nature

The action comes as high-ranking US officials criticize top journals as ‘woke’ and ‘corrupt’.

www.nature.com

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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · Jun 21

For an analogy similar to the quantum well, one can think of a laser cavity. Light of a particular wavelength is amplified (via stimulated emission) in the laser tube. The ends of the tube are mirrors reflecting the light into the tube building power. But light leaks through the mirrors nonetheless.

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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · Jun 21

Rossby waves reflect & evanesce when they travel in the atmosphere meeting winds they cannot pass through (like the polar vortex after it breaks down). This general characteristic of waves is called total internal reflection and waves can leak through if the barrier is thin.

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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · Jun 14

Can you give some advice of other places to go for similar information?

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · Jun 13

Lots of King’s Birthday Honours for UK climate scientists…

Many congratulations to Andrew Charlton-Perez, Jolene Cook, Gabi Hegerl, Tim Lenton, Peter Cox, and Emily Shuckburgh!

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Corwin Wright @corwinwright.bsky.social · May 18

This is also what my students say :-(

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Jon Robson @jonrobson.bsky.social · May 16

Come and work with us!

Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · May 15

Postdoc position available at University of Reading

Interested in doing research to better understand the predictability of sub-polar North Atlantic tipping points?

jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Research Scientist (North Atlantic Climate Tipping Points, PROMOTE WP3):Whiteknights Reading UK

jobs.reading.ac.uk

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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · May 12

UK universities face added head-winds with likely new levy on international students www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce...

Starmer unveils 'tighter' immigration policy promising numbers will fall significantly - live updates

Proposed changes include English tests and cuts to recruitment of overseas care workers, as Tory leader Kemi Badenoch says Labour

www.bbc.co.uk

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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · May 9

Doesn’t the ARIA programme require an act of parliament to be discontinued within 10 years of operation? That all being said, what evidence would the funding agencies require for any SAI research funding to be discontinued?

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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · May 7

A likely outcome? "Scientists conclude solar geoengineering is a bad idea, please do not give us any further funds" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The UK’s gamble on solar geoengineering is like using aspirin for cancer | Raymond Pierrehumbert and Michael Mann

Injecting pollutants into the atmosphere to reflect the sun would be extremely dangerous, but the UK is funding field trials

www.theguardian.com

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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · May 5

Wow, who knew of the hidden shield within the UK coins?

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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · May 3

How long door to door?

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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · May 3

Is there any merit in GE research funding being setup up more like a science debate, with for and against funding streams. The traditional science funding approach risks sleepwalking into eventual deployment.

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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · May 2

www.nbcnews.com/science/spac...

Proposed 2026 NASA budget slashes $6 billion, mostly from science programs

The cuts would reduce NASA's budget by roughly 25% and phase out spacecraft that were planned for a return to the moon.

www.nbcnews.com

Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · Apr 29

A greater awareness and scrutiny of the upper atmosphere is a must to inform on impacts and future regulation of satellite reentry. Let’s hope upcoming missions like the European www.cairt.eu and similar US missions go forward.

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Scott Osprey @sosprey.bsky.social · Apr 28

Well there you go: I have been meaning to cut back on baby formula www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ultra-processed foods may be linked to early death

UPFs, such as crisps, biscuits, ice cream, hot dogs and fizzy drinks, are increasingly common in diets worldwide.

www.bbc.co.uk