New video just dropped from Ian Chapman @ukri.org youtu.be/Z1OcZl224qo
05.03.2026 15:37
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New video just dropped from Ian Chapman @ukri.org youtu.be/Z1OcZl224qo
It's always a priviledge to process at Open University graduations at the Barbican.
Delighted to see the future of this brutalist masterpiece is secure.
Good to have hard data confirming that this winter has been bleak as fuck in the midlands.
HSE will have a field day.
I have a very pleasing one for gaming, but also a more regular one for emails and such.
I would hope so.
That is a very whimsical keyboard.
(I also remember a rather wonderful visit with Mark)
Well I feel seen.
Very cool map of historic floodplain meadows by @floodplainmead.bsky.social - giving insights into lost habitats and places that will need restoring if we're to become more climate resilient:
floodplainmeadows.org.uk/discover/lea...
New paper out in Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology: We used Cenozoic-spanning marine sediments to determine whether archived grain-size sorted sediments can be resurrected for biomarker analysis.
Great to see my first piece of PhD work published, available #openaccess: doi.org/10.1029/2025...
The #BM100 sheet has a 2026 tab now!
- Not a primary source, and neither are most of its sources, WILL contain misinformation
- Don't share screenshots, share the link, so people see corrections
- Refresh the page manually even if it says it can do it automatically
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
The conch was blown at 5:00am. The 2026 Barkley Marathons begins in one hour. #BM100
It’s possible to reduce emissions while growing the economy. Many countries have decoupled economic growth from CO₂ emissions, even if we take offshored production into account.
You can see this in the chart for a selection of large economies.
As a geologist, as it comes up as a debate on our student forums quite often, I have searched "what is a rock?" more than you might think.
Brutal but beautiful: Southbank Centre’s Grade II listing is the cherry on a concrete cake
You know it's Sunday right?
It's an alternative pirate flag: "Rrrrr"
There are many ways to expand this list just so long as you don't include Reading for some reason.
Me too (and I still do). It also features the Hermit of the Southern March, who is the character I would most like to be in the series.
@morethanadodo.bsky.social have a stuffed American black bear that you are encouraged to touch. I always do. It is very soft.
Tch-verch-chess
I think the band are on record as regretting the spelling.
The people who do it for OU have it written phonetically on their order paper and you can spot them leaning over to check some of the trickier ones with the graduands. It's a nice touch.
I love my editors. "I have written this thing which says essentially what I want it to but is an incoherent mess please fix" is the subtext of most of my writing.
Well that's caused me to learn a fun new thing. Thankyou.
The day I realised that listening to radio 4 was bad for my wellbeing and switched to 3, 6 and KEXP was a good day.
There you go:
(Also important to remember that the 1.5 °C threshold is a decadal average too, so we're not there yet)
I think the issue is as you identified they *don't* really age at the same rate - they catch up because everyone 30-50 is essentially the same. We've hit the plateau and they've hurried up behind.
Yup. I grew up in a village and my grandad was a game keeper. I hate fox hunting and so did he.
