Robert McDougall
@sylvanheathcote.bsky.social
Researcher in sustainable agriculture. Hoping to save the world, maybe through science, maybe though politics.
Full of laughing gas and ennui.
Full of laughing gas and ennui.
Wow, this is about the best ad ever.
There’s renewable energy ads and there’s mother**cking wind farm ads. This, blissfully, is the latter.
August 2, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Wow, this is about the best ad ever.
What a massive lier @albomp.bsky.social is.
May 28, 2025 at 4:31 AM
What a massive lier @albomp.bsky.social is.
Something I love about science is using mundane objects for another purpose and ordering numbers of them that would seem silly for their intended purpose. Why yes, I would like $200 worth of frat-boy-solo-cups please!
May 6, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Something I love about science is using mundane objects for another purpose and ordering numbers of them that would seem silly for their intended purpose. Why yes, I would like $200 worth of frat-boy-solo-cups please!
@alexschmidty.bsky.social oh no - Preston wouldn’t want his beloved USPIS doing this!
Exclusive: The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service has quietly begun cooperating with federal immigration officials to locate people suspected of being in the country illegally, according to documents obtained by The Post.
USPS law enforcement assists Trump ‘mass deportation’ effort, sources and records show
The Postal Inspection Service recently joined a federal task force to locate undocumented immigrants using data from mail and packages, according to people familiar with the effort and records obtaine...
www.washingtonpost.com
April 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
@alexschmidty.bsky.social oh no - Preston wouldn’t want his beloved USPIS doing this!
So apparently the biggest panic in #auspol today is a warmongering dictator might want to base military assets in a neighbouring country, while the fact that we’re paying hundreds of billions to have a different warmongering dictator base military assets here is totally fine. Cool cool.
April 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
So apparently the biggest panic in #auspol today is a warmongering dictator might want to base military assets in a neighbouring country, while the fact that we’re paying hundreds of billions to have a different warmongering dictator base military assets here is totally fine. Cool cool.
Don’t forget, they can agree on using taxpayers money to prop up the fossil fuel industry too.
February 12, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Don’t forget, they can agree on using taxpayers money to prop up the fossil fuel industry too.
So this thing that was big on Facebook in 2011 is now a thing here - hooray!
February 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
So this thing that was big on Facebook in 2011 is now a thing here - hooray!
Weird thing that I’m into as a scientist - scientific papers that start with esoteric history of the subject. Like a paper on pesticides that mentions how Pliny the Elder had things to say on the subject. Adds very little value but for some reason it tickles me.
January 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Weird thing that I’m into as a scientist - scientific papers that start with esoteric history of the subject. Like a paper on pesticides that mentions how Pliny the Elder had things to say on the subject. Adds very little value but for some reason it tickles me.
Just checking, has the war in Ukraine ended yet?
January 21, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Just checking, has the war in Ukraine ended yet?
Does Facebook have its equivalent of Bluesky, i.e. a fairly similar platform that isn’t owned by a billionaire funding and promoting a racist climate denying demagogue? As much as FB isn’t what it once was, a lot of groups there are very useful, would love if I could find that elsewhere…
January 21, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Does Facebook have its equivalent of Bluesky, i.e. a fairly similar platform that isn’t owned by a billionaire funding and promoting a racist climate denying demagogue? As much as FB isn’t what it once was, a lot of groups there are very useful, would love if I could find that elsewhere…
So democratic!
January 15, 2025 at 9:12 PM
So democratic!
Reposted by Robert McDougall
“Will pay any amount.”
Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.
Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.
January 8, 2025 at 6:16 AM
“Will pay any amount.”
Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.
Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.
Ahh yes, the candidate who said he’d end wars, and who the media simply uncritically accepted that from, despite him being from the party that bought us the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
Trump declines to rule out using military force to control Greenland and Panama Canal – US politics live
President-elect also suggests renaming Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America in series of remarks likely to raise concerns
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Ahh yes, the candidate who said he’d end wars, and who the media simply uncritically accepted that from, despite him being from the party that bought us the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
Ahh yes, an early warning system, to be ignored by governments of all stripes like that 60 years of warnings we’ve already had…
Wanted: An early-warning system for the end of the world
Some experts believe we could hit catastrophic climate ‘tipping points’ in a matter of years. The U.K. government, with a bit of help from Dominic Cummings, is trying to prepare.
www.politico.eu
December 31, 2024 at 8:34 PM
Ahh yes, an early warning system, to be ignored by governments of all stripes like that 60 years of warnings we’ve already had…
I’m also old enough to remember BoJo saying before the ‘advisory’ vote that we’d still be able to live and work in the EU whatever happened. But apparently now, having that freedom would be ‘anti-democratic’.
I’m old enough to remember Boris Johnson telling businesses Brexit paperwork could go in a bin. Now they need a warehouse to store it in
December 16, 2024 at 8:58 AM
I’m also old enough to remember BoJo saying before the ‘advisory’ vote that we’d still be able to live and work in the EU whatever happened. But apparently now, having that freedom would be ‘anti-democratic’.
This is beautiful- and a reminder of what we could have if the UK government weren’t such cowards about undoing a harmful and entirely politically motivated Brexit.
The first time there have been no checkpoints or physical border checks between Vienna and Varna since the Ottoman Empire
December 13, 2024 at 11:12 AM
This is beautiful- and a reminder of what we could have if the UK government weren’t such cowards about undoing a harmful and entirely politically motivated Brexit.
It’s publication time! In this paper, we tried to test whether new generation, high resolution land cover maps could track wildlife distribution well enough to be used to monitor efficacy in agri-environnement schemes. But did we find that? 🧵
Project MUSE - Use of Remotely Mapped Land Cover Features as a Proxy for Irish Bird and Butterfly Abundance and Distribution
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muse.jhu.edu
December 7, 2024 at 7:41 AM
It’s publication time! In this paper, we tried to test whether new generation, high resolution land cover maps could track wildlife distribution well enough to be used to monitor efficacy in agri-environnement schemes. But did we find that? 🧵
Not an original statement I’m sure, but by the gods, graphical abstracts are such a useless waste of time. Damn all the journals that make them compulsory.
November 19, 2024 at 12:46 PM
Not an original statement I’m sure, but by the gods, graphical abstracts are such a useless waste of time. Damn all the journals that make them compulsory.
After not publishing anything* in 2023 today I woke up to an email telling me I had one paper accepted, followed by another telling me another needed only minor revisions for publication. If I can keep this rate up throughout 2024 it’ll certainly make up for last year.
January 4, 2024 at 5:47 PM
After not publishing anything* in 2023 today I woke up to an email telling me I had one paper accepted, followed by another telling me another needed only minor revisions for publication. If I can keep this rate up throughout 2024 it’ll certainly make up for last year.