Dr (of rocks) Marcus Badger

Lovely datavis!

Do they still use prison labour to make them?

And that Lord Kelvin, with his heat flux methodology of 1862 was almost as many orders of magnitude out as Ussher.

13!? Who wants a phone 0.2 mm too thick??

In the footsteps of giants - BBC News One of the longest sets of dinosaur footprints in the world has been discovered in a limestone quary near Bicester, in Oxfordshire, England.

Back in June we were back on the Oxfordshire “dinosaur highway”, excavating more dinosaur tracks with our teams from the Universities of Birmingham, Oxford & Liverpool John Moores. The BBC have a story out today about our work at the site:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

I guess there's nobody she can really punch up at anymore so maybe it's not fine that she writes diss tracks anymore.

Or perhaps it's all just conflated to encourage more column inches and sales.

Oh! Well maybe Actually Romantic isn't about Charli XCX either?

What's the comprehension/reading issue on the album? I've listened to it many times in the last few days but I've not spotted a problem....

I don't think its necessarily a blind spot - I think a lot of people recognise we need system change not individual behaviour change, so until meat is as expensive as it should be, alternatives are good, and food education comprehensive, people are going to eat what the like.

Still time to apply:

And even on a very grey day my house is only drawing 14 W from the grid.

Storm Amy getting the UK to only 9.3 % fossil fuel in our electricity right now!

grid.iamkate.com

The NOAA data is showing broadly similar thing, and presumably(?) they have access to the US data. bsky.app/profile/zack...

If anyone has any questions about working at the OU please to get in touch!

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Do they realise they're singing?

And it's more than double what gas is generating right now.

The funders are getting better - data and code is required to be deposited in a national repository for grant funded work at least (BGS have been reminding me of this today)

Everything about this is fucking adorable.

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I was afraid this would be the answer!

Where can I get a good baguette in England?

NERC: We need to open up environmental science! Why is it not diverse?

Also NERC: We're scrapping Independent Research Fellowships, New Investigator Grants, Small Grants, are limiting applications from institutions based on past success rates and will only allow you to submit your proposal once.

Comic. [two people in labcoats look at body pierced with blade draped over bench] PERSON 1: We found him lying uncomformably on the lab bench. I wonder if the iron-rich intrusion in his back is related. PERSON 2 with ponytail: It could be clastic. Maybe a rift opened in his body, and the intrusive material later fell into the hole. [caption] The Geology Department Investigates Their First Murder

Geology Murder

xkcd.com/3112/

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Used to be some good vintage buses on Gozo, don't know if they're still there.

I think it's people who think audiobooks are somehow "cheating" and allow people to read more books than they have time/effort for. Which is weird.