Richard Laugesen

I want to see Pulp cover Olivia Rodrigo's Vampire

Thanks James

So, your forecasts are sharp and reliable, but are they valuable? Our new EMS paper on RUVPY is out - reference implementation of RUV. Honest assessment needs to be tailored to the specific decision. RUV is general enough to model almost any context. Go forth and tinker. doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

The flowerpot hats are the low-res pixelated version you got when you drew normal hats on computers in the 80s, but in real-life. Was that intentional or is my brain playing tricks? #devo #genius

The coming and going of air masses and jet streams over Australia and New Zealand during winter 2025.

New York Times headline: "Raw water devotees swear by natural springs despite the risks"

Modern water treatment may be the most important life-saving invention of the human race.
If these people forgo this, that's on them (but also their vulnerable children), but know what the outcomes can be: bacteria, parasites, cholera, dysentery, typhoid, and other horrible, preventable illnesses.

Water on Mars: New study uncovers ancient aquifers beneath the surface Rice University research has uncovered novel insights into water on Mars. Find out if these findings could support life on the Red Planet.

Finally, a story about #water on Mars that doesn't refer to #groundwater as an "underground ocean". Interesting work. www.innovationnewsnetwork.com/water-on-mar...

Thanks for all your efforts on The Last Drop @timsmedley.bsky.social. It's a fantastic overview of the water emergency and even as a hydrologist I really learnt a lot. Anything you would change in the book following your recent work on degrowth?

Wow I love supercomputers! Just finished a run in 4 hours that would have taken 18 days on my laptop. We have come a long way since these were a thing 💾

And more intense rainfall causes larger sediment and nutrient plumes over the inshore reefs. It's all a bit sad

It's going to be another difficult summer for the reef. Hard to recover from the last marine heatwave when almost each spring sets a new record

I've just seen them as an enticement to read the actual abstract, not really a substitute

Loving all the graphic abstracts these days, but what do you all use to make them? My attempt looks pretty crap

Australia's warmest spring since national records began in 1910, 2.08 °C above the 1961–1990 average

haha sure is James

Here's another one

#Custard were on fire last night at The Baso in Canberra, seemed to be enjoying it as much as we all were. You nailed that cow bell Sam!

I could watch Gurdeep all day

The program basically unfollows everyone unless their description contains one of the keywords I give it, or I've engaged with them in some way.

The API makes it really easy, this #ATProtocol is pretty impressive.

Just unfollowed 502 accounts, please dont take it personally.

I got a bit excited clicking on all those starter packs and my feed stopped reflected what I wanted it to be about.

Clicking is a bit of a drag so I wrote a little program to talk to the API and do it for me, thanks @bsky.app!

Land use for palm oil production An interactive visualization from Our World in Data.

Looks like that could be it.

I was thinking Malaysia was the big palm oil exporter, looks like my knowledge was a bit out of date!

ourworldindata.org/grapher/land...

Hopefully bio-thermal wouldn't have that scale of impact! Seems a bit short sighted if that's the case since they have so much geothermal capacity

Indonesia sure stands out. I wonder what's driving that level of deforestation. Is it for timber exports or new mines?

Success! Actually avoided this place for a day and got some real work done

That is mind blowing

One of my favourite data discoveries this year: Google's mind-blowing ARCO-ERA5 dataset: hourly data for ~300 climate variables, available globally from 1940! 🤯

Loadable with a single line of Python code from a single cloud-friendly Zarr file! Below: a month of wind waves + swell: 🌊

That sounds nice and simple, why didn't I think of that haha

That's crazy

Yeah same, my feed no longer reflects what I want 😞

I'm writing a python script at the moment to automagically unfollow people. Anyone I haven't engaged with or whose description doesn't include a keyword is gone, sorry

I've heard rumours that some have forgone getting the $10k back just so they can get around the rules, but now we are just gossiping ;)