Andrew Yool
@dryool.bsky.social
Novel reader, 🐈 lover, amateur 📸, gamer 🎮, slow 🚲, coattail-rider, rare blogger & ocean 🌊 biogeochemistry modeller (in that order). Views=own, RTs≠endorsement.
Environmental science
47%
Geology
23%
Apologies. Sarcasm does not work well in 300 characters.
Of course he's a mofo but, in being so unhinged, he's wildly inconsistent, with the result that his actions occasionally have (presumably unintended) positive outcomes. Admittedly, amid the planned negative fallout.
Of course he's a mofo but, in being so unhinged, he's wildly inconsistent, with the result that his actions occasionally have (presumably unintended) positive outcomes. Admittedly, amid the planned negative fallout.
I used to think that the #KesslerSyndrome depicted in the film Gravity seemed a bit far-fetched (or, at least, far-off), but now I'm seeing it hoving into view, riding on the back of internet connectivity and, now, solar power.
To be fair, she was onboard with understanding climate change - I once saw the plaque commemorating her opening of the Hadley Centre for studying this (then in Bracknell, now possibly in Exeter with the rest of the @metoffice.gov.uk ).
You see - it starts making sense! 🤣
Wait - is he maybe *on our side* but in deep, deep cover and just making the all "right" (=wrong) noises while actually waving through the right result on the quiet?!?
Got to admire the architects who, when designing it, thought "And if it doesn't work out as an incinerator outflow, we can just shove an elevator in there and use it as a radio studio".
Leaving aside the 8 legs (maybe ants can't count?), the extent to which this spider otherwise resembles an ant is quite something. It certainly suggests ant vision must be pretty good if you need to fake your appearance this much to fit in. I'd have guessed using would pheromones be sufficient.
... and the basic truth that business interests (and their govt stooges) dodge - or act against - regulation in order to commonise costs and privatise profits ( #CCPP ). Any "solution" focused on lack of knowledge overlooks the more significant role that reigning-in of self-interest needs to play.
Economics has failed on the climate crisis. This complexity scientist has a plan to fix that
Doyne Farmer says a super-simulator of the global economy would accelerate the transition to a green, clean world
www.theguardian.com
While it's impossible to disagree with the motive, this seems another muddled appeal to a technological solution to a problem ( #ClimateChange ) that overlooks facts like decision-making being as much political as economic (and, when economic, ignoring subsidies and externalities), ...
Reposted by Andrew Yool
In celebration of International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we’re shining the light on just some of the brilliant women we have here at NOC, as well as sharing some pearls of wisdom to people who are considering, or currently pursuing a career in science!
#womeninscience #womeninSTEM #ocean
#womeninscience #womeninSTEM #ocean
The Stupidest Sport of All Time Has Been Found: Professional Concussion Receiving
Runit is a "collision sports" league that simply involves two men running full speed at each other. A 19-year-old has already died doing it.
www.jezebel.com
Somehow humans got the idea that they're the preeminent intelligence on this planet ...
Computation of fish larvae self-recruitment in using forward- and backward-in-time particle tracking in a Lagrangian model (SWIM-v2.0) of the simulated circulation of Lake Erie (AEM3D-v1.1.2)
Abstract. Accurately estimating self-recruitment (SR), which is the fraction of recruits at a location that originated locally, is fundamental to understanding population connectivity. Biophysical mod...
gmd.copernicus.org
🚨New GMD publication alert!🚨 🌊
A new #LagrangianModelling study from Wei Shi and colleagues at #QueensUniversity and #OceanUniversityOfChina that helps answer the perennial question for 🐟: "Are you from around here?"
#FishRecruitment #SelfRecruitment
A new #LagrangianModelling study from Wei Shi and colleagues at #QueensUniversity and #OceanUniversityOfChina that helps answer the perennial question for 🐟: "Are you from around here?"
#FishRecruitment #SelfRecruitment
Anyway, that's my pitch @itvx.com - happy to work up those scripts and work out what the fuck the #Thunderbirds are supposed to do about those societal, #TragedyOfTheCommons type problems!
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Possibly it's just the scale that matters - invading a small ostensibly problematic nation homing #TheHood probably seems easier (in a very narrow sense) than rebooting our energy systems. But is it really?
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It's often struck me that we (and the original #Thunderbirds) focus on problems with a discernible, malevolent human behind them totally at the expense of genuinely more serious problems where we've all ultimately got a hand in them.
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So, the obvious episodes are #Wildfire in high-tech California, #SeaLevelRise flooding in London, #ClimateChange driven avalanche at an Alpine resort, #ExtremeHeat in the Midwest, #IceShelfCollapse at an Antarctic base, heat-buckled rails and a high-speed train, ...
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Having just heard its theme on today's #DesertIslandDiscs, here's my capsule pitch for a remake of #Thunderbirds: exactly the same except all the problems are wholly side effects of civilisation, like #ClimateChange
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🚀 We're hiring a Scientific Software Engineer!
Join the UKESM team to help develop and optimise the next generation UK Earth System Model for tipping point research.
💼 Grade 7 (£41k–£48k) Location: Met Office, Exeter
🌍 Apply today! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Closes: 26 February.
Join the UKESM team to help develop and optimise the next generation UK Earth System Model for tipping point research.
💼 Grade 7 (£41k–£48k) Location: Met Office, Exeter
🌍 Apply today! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Closes: 26 February.
Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Scientific Software Engineer in Earth System Modelling
Scientific Software Engineer in Earth System ModellingSalary: Grade 7 (£41,064 – £48,822 p.a. depending on experience)Location: Met Office, Exeter (with scope for hybrid working)Are you keen to apply ...
jobs.leeds.ac.uk
And there's also an associated scientific software engineer position on the same project!
Reposted by Scott C. Doney
🚀 We're hiring! Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Earth System Modelling: develop the UKESM2 model and use it to investigate tipping points.
📍 Grade 7 (£41,064–£48,822) Location: Met Office, Exeter
🌍 Apply today! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Closes: 26 February
📍 Grade 7 (£41,064–£48,822) Location: Met Office, Exeter
🌍 Apply today! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Closes: 26 February
Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow in Earth System Modelling
Research Fellow in Earth System ModellingSalary: Grade 7 (£41,064 – £48,822 p.a. depending on experience)Location: Met Office, Exeter (with scope for hybrid working)Would you like to join a team asses...
jobs.leeds.ac.uk
Come join us! #UKESM has a great team of (geographically-distributed) experts across all areas of the #EarthSystem, 🌍🌊🌳🏔️⛅. The role will involve examining #TippingPoints as part of the #ARIA project, #PROMOTE.
Reposted by Scott C. Doney, Andrew Yool
Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow in Earth System Modelling
Research Fellow in Earth System ModellingSalary: Grade 7 (£41,064 – £48,822 p.a. depending on experience)Location: Met Office, Exeter (with scope for hybrid working)Would you like to join a team asses...
jobs.leeds.ac.uk
🚀 We're hiring! Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Earth System Modelling: develop the UKESM2 model and use it to investigate tipping points.
📍 Grade 7 (£41,064–£48,822) Location: Met Office, Exeter
🌍 Apply today! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Closes: 26 February
📍 Grade 7 (£41,064–£48,822) Location: Met Office, Exeter
🌍 Apply today! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Closes: 26 February
Reposted by Andrew Yool
Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Scientific Software Engineer in Earth System Modelling
Scientific Software Engineer in Earth System ModellingSalary: Grade 7 (£41,064 – £48,822 p.a. depending on experience)Location: Met Office, Exeter (with scope for hybrid working)Are you keen to apply ...
jobs.leeds.ac.uk
🚀 We're hiring a Scientific Software Engineer!
Join the UKESM team to help develop and optimise the next generation UK Earth System Model for tipping point research.
💼 Grade 7 (£41k–£48k) Location: Met Office, Exeter
🌍 Apply today! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Closes: 26 February.
Join the UKESM team to help develop and optimise the next generation UK Earth System Model for tipping point research.
💼 Grade 7 (£41k–£48k) Location: Met Office, Exeter
🌍 Apply today! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Closes: 26 February.
- "The Other 70%"
- "Not Yours, Apes!"
- "Take Only Measurements, Leave Only Ripples"
- "The Ancestral Home"
- "Why You're Made Of Water"
- "We're Coming For Your Coastal Towns!"
- "Mostly Deep, Dark And Cold"
- "One Day You'll Regret Warming Me"
I'm possibly channeling the wrong emotion here ... 🌊
- "Not Yours, Apes!"
- "Take Only Measurements, Leave Only Ripples"
- "The Ancestral Home"
- "Why You're Made Of Water"
- "We're Coming For Your Coastal Towns!"
- "Mostly Deep, Dark And Cold"
- "One Day You'll Regret Warming Me"
I'm possibly channeling the wrong emotion here ... 🌊
Never forget Epstein’s little helpers – the powerful men who knew about his crimes, and helped him out anyway | Marina Hyde
I’m sorry, but this is not just a political scandal. Time to refocus on the horrific mistreatment of women and girls, and the role of these ghouls, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
www.theguardian.com
While it's unlikely to ever get the same traction as the ongoing political Punch and Judy show, I'm very glad that someone's actually thinking about (a) the actual victims and (b) what this whole sorry affair tells us about the elites who shape our lives. Thank you #MarinaHyde!
Meanwhile, quite possibly the very same people are pretending that all of those thousands of protestors in Minnesota (risking life and limb, let's not forget) are somehow paid for by communists (or some other convenient bogeyman).
I see that you're keeping quiet about the thick carpet of cloud / all-encompassing haze of precipitation that will be separating those 10 hours of sunlight from attendees at ground level ... 😉
This is a post about animal excrement and the English language.
bull$#!% = nonsense/lies
chicken$#!% = petty or cowardly
horse$#!% = nonsense/lies
dog$#!%= low quality
ape$#!% = wild
bat$#!%= crazy
Ordered above from oldest to newest: bull$#!% (1914), bat$#!% (1971).
bull$#!% = nonsense/lies
chicken$#!% = petty or cowardly
horse$#!% = nonsense/lies
dog$#!%= low quality
ape$#!% = wild
bat$#!%= crazy
Ordered above from oldest to newest: bull$#!% (1914), bat$#!% (1971).
These are all words I expect to continue making solid use of for the next 3 years.
It'd be a minor footnote for this whole debacle, but I'm sure that there's a PhD thesis waiting to be written contrasting how the politically powerful bitch about the education system and standards of writing in public and how they write and conduct themselves in private. Wankers.
Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Andrew Yool, Frank C. Thames
This is a post about animal excrement and the English language.
bull$#!% = nonsense/lies
chicken$#!% = petty or cowardly
horse$#!% = nonsense/lies
dog$#!%= low quality
ape$#!% = wild
bat$#!%= crazy
Ordered above from oldest to newest: bull$#!% (1914), bat$#!% (1971).
bull$#!% = nonsense/lies
chicken$#!% = petty or cowardly
horse$#!% = nonsense/lies
dog$#!%= low quality
ape$#!% = wild
bat$#!%= crazy
Ordered above from oldest to newest: bull$#!% (1914), bat$#!% (1971).
She'll mess with Texas: Nurse keeps mailing abortion pills, despite Paxton lawsuit
Texas sues Delaware nurse practitioner shipping out hundreds of abortion pills each month.
arstechnica.com
Summary: authoritarian man tells knowledgeable woman what to do. The US's war on safe healthcare in microcosm.
Annual reminder of how many days there are in each month.
This reminds me how bullshit our calendar is.
We totally could've shaved a day each from January and March to give Feb its 30-day dues.
*Or* ... we could have gone for 13 months of 28 days to better line-up with the Moon's sidereal orbit, and then kept the extra day (or 2 if leap) as holidays.
We totally could've shaved a day each from January and March to give Feb its 30-day dues.
*Or* ... we could have gone for 13 months of 28 days to better line-up with the Moon's sidereal orbit, and then kept the extra day (or 2 if leap) as holidays.