@thenoblegasbag
Earth-scientist, energy transition expertise. Postdoc. Freelancer. Artist. Part deaf. Views my own. she / her Currently working on renewable energy storage as heat in abandoned mine shafts, breccias, uncertainty in geological interpretation, & geo-H2.
Wait.... What? <Goes to look on IMDB> All I can find is Reptilicus which is the same premise but by copper mining in Lapland, not oil drilling in Denmark 🤔 Either way, this is going on my list 😅
Peterhead Prison Museum is a nationally important heritage site that urgently needs some cash to complete and implement its plans to turn around its finances. If you have some spare cash, consider dropping it here 👇 www.justgiving.com/campaign/sav...
For anyone that thinks folks on benefits have it easy... I have a friend, disabled; council house forces her to use storage heaters; living off benefits means she needs to pre-pay energy bills. She topped up £100 electricity on Jan 2nd. That has now run out 😥 #AberdeenshireSnowpocalypse
You don't have to have an opinion on whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie: you can enjoy either Christmas or Die Hard without the other.
However, if you do have an opinion one of the opinions you could have is definitely right. The other is wrong.
Die Hard is a Christmas movie. This is a thread 🧵
Need some Christmas present ideas?
How about a wee book about volcanoes? www.foxlanebooks.co.uk/product-page...
I remain skeptical that water landing on top of a magma lake in such a large, unconfined cave would produce such a dramatic age long lived hydro volcanic explosion 🤔
But overall, it's fab! Absolutely no regrets 😁 #CochlearImplant #DeafInSTEM #DeafInAcademia
❌7) given I live by the sea and it's almost always breezy, I can't really go out without a headband or hat that covers my processor, otherwise the wind on the microphone just drowns out everything.
❌6) I'm still experimenting with finding ways to wear my hair that don't result in my processor falling off. But at least my hair doesn't cause lots of crackle like it did on my old hearing aids.
... Orchestral music is mostly rubbish now, though 😢. It just sounds like a cacophony of chaos. Even stuff I know really well, like the Lord oh the Rings soundtrack is difficult to make sense of.
❌5) music is a mixed bag. Nothing is as good as it used to be; at best it is like playing through rubbish speakers. Some music sounds flat and out of tune. But most of it sounds better than I was expecting, and I'm hoping I can train my brain to improve music perception still...
❌3) I can tell when I'm really over tired because my ability to understand speech regresses to worse than pre-op.
❌4) some sounds are still distorted, although I think that was being made worse by long COVID which has finally buggered off (🤞)
As I said, it isn't perfect, though. ❌1) Following conversations in noisy environments or in rooms with weird acoustics is still very difficult
❌2) hearing fatigue is still a thing (but nowhere near as bad as it was);
✔️9) follow online meetings without staring at the captions the entire time
✔️10)make a phone call (as long as Bluetooth is working properly; captions still help a lot)
✔️6) hear my neighbour's cats meow
✔️7) pick out familiar voices half way down a crowded and noisy bus
✔️8) actually tell what cashiers say to me when I'm shopping, rather than just guessing, smiling, and nodding
✔️3) hear mizmar in Egyptian music
✔️4) hear the doorbell with my office door closed (as long as I don't have other noise, like music or a meeting)
✔️5) hear birdsong; I can even hear the difference between swallows and house martins
Overall, it's great. My hearing is still far from perfect, but so much better; probably better than it was around 10+ years ago. Things I can now do:
✔️1) have 1-2-1 conversations in a noisy environment like a pub.
✔️2) have a conversation with my husband while we are in different rooms.
Yesterday was the 9 month anniversary of my #CochlearImplant switch on. 9 months is how long people like me are expected to take to fully adapt to a CI, so I thought I'd share some reflections 👇.
Back up now - phew!
Anybody else having trouble accessing Zoom? Getting 500 Internal Server Error. Also get it when I try and check DownDetector 😅. Yet BSky and email seem to work...
Please help build some public-facing interpretive signage at Siccar Point. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/siccar-point
The campaign is very close to 2/3 of their goal, with 9 days to go...
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John Playfair taught my biography subject #WilliamScoresbyJr in his natural history course at the U of Edinburgh in 1806—the epicenter of the Neptunism vs. Vulcanism geological debate. Scoresby leaned Neptunist! His notebook from Playfair's lectures (yes he misspelled Edinburgh on the cover):
Check out this great virtual outcrop of #SiccarPoint, photographed by @callanbentley.bsky.social! If you think Siccar Point deserves an amazing visitor experience, please support our #DeepTimeTrail Crowdfunder. #ScottishGeology sketchfab.com/3d-models/si...
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/siccar-point
Like what you see? One of these could be yours... www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/dyR5704... #scottishgeology #geologyart #historyofscience
Siccar Point is one of the most important geoheritage sites in the world; we think visitors deserve to hear why.
Help us install a Deep Time Trail - donate to the Crowdfunder now. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/siccar-point
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Has anybody ever come across Tygon tubing emitting CO or H2?
The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.
@katiemontgomery.bsky.social might like to share this?
Strathclyde University are running a study to explore the experiences of trans, non-binary, agender, and intersex individuals working (or aspiring to) in research and innovation in the UK: academia, industry, and the 3rd sector. Please share. strath.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Callan's second image from the previous post on this thread, repeated 4 times. Top left is full colour vision and shows a rainbow of colours and a pale yellow background. Top right is protanope and shows that the green-yellow-orange-red shades are all different shades of yellow-brown, and blue is purple. Bottom left is deuteranope, which is similar to the protanope panel but with different shades of brown and purple. Bottom right is Tritanaope, which shows yellow, orange, and red as pink, blue and green as teal-grey, and purple as purplish grey.
I think the yellow background reduces contrast somewhat. Here's how it would look to colourblind folk, according to my phone's chromatic vision simulator app. I don't think there's anything inaccessible there but just something to consider