Stuart Swales
@taynappe.bsky.social
Botherer of the rocks of Highland Perthshire, Scotland.
Open University Geological Society Chairperson (and Webmaster)
For OUGS Social Media follow: https://bsky.app/profile/ougeolsoc.bsky.social
Open University Geological Society Chairperson (and Webmaster)
For OUGS Social Media follow: https://bsky.app/profile/ougeolsoc.bsky.social
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Eyebrow raising claims have been made to justify Scot Gov’s bond issuance plan.
Repeated FOI requests for the calculations underpinning these claims were refused. Scot Gov eventually released the relevant spreadsheet, with its entire contents redacted. Every tab looks like this.
Repeated FOI requests for the calculations underpinning these claims were refused. Scot Gov eventually released the relevant spreadsheet, with its entire contents redacted. Every tab looks like this.
December 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Eyebrow raising claims have been made to justify Scot Gov’s bond issuance plan.
Repeated FOI requests for the calculations underpinning these claims were refused. Scot Gov eventually released the relevant spreadsheet, with its entire contents redacted. Every tab looks like this.
Repeated FOI requests for the calculations underpinning these claims were refused. Scot Gov eventually released the relevant spreadsheet, with its entire contents redacted. Every tab looks like this.
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🧪⚒️Just released: Anat Shahar of Carnegie Science on what makes a planet habitable. Her work shows that water may be very common on rocky exoplanets as a result of interaction between a hydrogen atmosphere and a magma ocean. #geology #exoplanets
December 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
🧪⚒️Just released: Anat Shahar of Carnegie Science on what makes a planet habitable. Her work shows that water may be very common on rocky exoplanets as a result of interaction between a hydrogen atmosphere and a magma ocean. #geology #exoplanets
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For those of you without an aeronautics degree, this outcome is considered bad
This is a spectacular view of the fiery descent and failed landing attempt of the Zhuque-3 first stage. m.weibo.cn/detail/52397...
December 3, 2025 at 5:42 AM
For those of you without an aeronautics degree, this outcome is considered bad
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My god AI is so terrible/useless/wrong. Please don’t use it!!
December 2, 2025 at 11:52 PM
My god AI is so terrible/useless/wrong. Please don’t use it!!
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Here is a godawful joke in chart form to ruin your Christmas season 🤪🎄
December 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Here is a godawful joke in chart form to ruin your Christmas season 🤪🎄
Yay! 🥳 ⚒️
We did it! We are going to build the Deep Time Trail at Siccar Point! 🥳
Thank you so much to everyone who donated, and everyone who supported the campaign by sharing it.
We couldn’t be doing this without you.
We raised a whopping £61,488 on the Crowdfunder platform 🧵⬇️
Thank you so much to everyone who donated, and everyone who supported the campaign by sharing it.
We couldn’t be doing this without you.
We raised a whopping £61,488 on the Crowdfunder platform 🧵⬇️
December 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Yay! 🥳 ⚒️
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The BBC Micro is 44 years old today, Happy Birthday! However, many customers had to wait until early 1982 for delivery of theirs due to limited supply availability before Christmas. During its lifespan just over 1.5 million were sold - exact figures are not known. I still have my original one.
December 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The BBC Micro is 44 years old today, Happy Birthday! However, many customers had to wait until early 1982 for delivery of theirs due to limited supply availability before Christmas. During its lifespan just over 1.5 million were sold - exact figures are not known. I still have my original one.
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If you fancy another (much more informative!) advent series this December, do check out @matt.godbolt.org 's advent of compiler optimisations, first episode here: youtube.com/watch?v=eLjZ48gqbyg
[AoCO 1/25] Why xor eax, eax?
YouTube video by Matt Godbolt
youtube.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
If you fancy another (much more informative!) advent series this December, do check out @matt.godbolt.org 's advent of compiler optimisations, first episode here: youtube.com/watch?v=eLjZ48gqbyg
Mineral Monday: the MSA You Tube channel
MSA has a You tube channel:
www.youtube.com/channel/UC43D1PLrmBkChtrsNi2y7YQ
Featured in this post are images from Jeff Scovil’s video on photographing minerals: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EgvXuBibuA&t=711s
#MSACommunications #MineralMonday #mineral #Youtube
MSA has a You tube channel:
www.youtube.com/channel/UC43D1PLrmBkChtrsNi2y7YQ
Featured in this post are images from Jeff Scovil’s video on photographing minerals: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EgvXuBibuA&t=711s
#MSACommunications #MineralMonday #mineral #Youtube
December 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Don’t think much of the Amazon Black Friday sales. I ordered The Two Ronnies on DVD but instead I got four Kindles
December 1, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Don’t think much of the Amazon Black Friday sales. I ordered The Two Ronnies on DVD but instead I got four Kindles
My most-ascended hill! Scotland - not bad.
Simply glorious conditions on Sgòr Gaoith in the Cairngorms today. A favourite hill, but seldom more beautiful than this. Hope you had time to get out and enjoy the conditions, wherever you went - whether up high, down in the glens, out on the coast or deep in the woods.
November 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
My most-ascended hill! Scotland - not bad.
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🌊🧪 Of this some is rejected in fecal pellets which fall toward the sea floor. - Broecker and Peng (1982), Tracers in the Sea
November 30, 2025 at 6:57 AM
🌊🧪 Of this some is rejected in fecal pellets which fall toward the sea floor. - Broecker and Peng (1982), Tracers in the Sea
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These are amazing!
No. I don’t just draw dinosaurs! These illustrations were commissioned for the Feeding Without Jaws Exhibition at @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social Check out their website - www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/feedi... - for more details of the exhibition, which runs until the end of February. (1/4)
November 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
These are amazing!
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We *really* need to actively differentiate Machine Learning from GenAI. GenAI is riding the Machine Learning coattails and risks destroying an incredibly useful innovation by conflating it with absolute slop that codes decently.
November 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
We *really* need to actively differentiate Machine Learning from GenAI. GenAI is riding the Machine Learning coattails and risks destroying an incredibly useful innovation by conflating it with absolute slop that codes decently.
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“Firstly, I’m infallible. Secondly, my ticket has that seat number on it.”
Muscular Christianity.
“Wear some headphones, kid. And put your shoes back on”
“Wear some headphones, kid. And put your shoes back on”
November 29, 2025 at 10:03 AM
“Firstly, I’m infallible. Secondly, my ticket has that seat number on it.”
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Why not start off your December with an interesting FREE lecture by Prof. Antony Morris?
Antony will explore seafloor spreading through grain-scale studies of oceanic crustal rocks.
🌊 Mon 1 Dec, 17:30
💻 Live at Uni of Bham and/or Zoom
🌞 Open to all
More info: www.birmingham.ac.uk...
Antony will explore seafloor spreading through grain-scale studies of oceanic crustal rocks.
🌊 Mon 1 Dec, 17:30
💻 Live at Uni of Bham and/or Zoom
🌞 Open to all
More info: www.birmingham.ac.uk...
November 29, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Did you know that squirrels don’t hibernate? Despite this common misconception, both red and grey squirrels are active all year round.
📷 Raymond Leinster
📷 Raymond Leinster
November 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Did you know that squirrels don’t hibernate? Despite this common misconception, both red and grey squirrels are active all year round.
📷 Raymond Leinster
📷 Raymond Leinster
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I see from my timeline that today's the day lots of Americans like to celebrate with a turkey.
I trust this suffices?
I trust this suffices?
November 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I see from my timeline that today's the day lots of Americans like to celebrate with a turkey.
I trust this suffices?
I trust this suffices?
Thin Section Thursday!
Ophitic texture of plagioclase laths encased in clinopyroxene in a gabbro from the Glen Mtns. Layered Complex in southwestern Oklahoma. Contributed by Robert Puckett. You can contribute too! Send images to akoziol1 at udayton dot edu. #thinsectionthursday
Ophitic texture of plagioclase laths encased in clinopyroxene in a gabbro from the Glen Mtns. Layered Complex in southwestern Oklahoma. Contributed by Robert Puckett. You can contribute too! Send images to akoziol1 at udayton dot edu. #thinsectionthursday
November 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
AI FTW! Yay!
Uhh,,, Figure 1 shows you... what exactly? Trying to understand Medical fryrmbial, runctitional features and mum's legs going through concrete.
This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
November 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
AI FTW! Yay!
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Prove you are a genuine Russian armed auxiliary ship with this simple Kamcaptcha...
November 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Prove you are a genuine Russian armed auxiliary ship with this simple Kamcaptcha...
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Lovecraft & M. R. James could only dream of writing a sentence like this.
November 26, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Lovecraft & M. R. James could only dream of writing a sentence like this.