Paul Savage

PREACH!

I didn't realise shandy was such a big deal in diplomatic circles.

Fired and confirmed in the same day! Catholics are all about forgiveness I guess.

But at least we got a month of uninterupted Hundred content at the height of summer, eh?

Quentin Let's Not

Suicide statistics are sobering, but there is hope.

74% of people with had suicidal thoughts say these were interrupted by a friend, loved one or even a stranger. Find out more @samaritans.bsky.social #WorldSuicidePreventionDay 👇 samaritans.org/support-us/campaign/world-suicide-prevention-day

Police seargents straight from central casting!

Starmer to Northern Ireland secretary
Ed Miliband is the prime minister

Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities

V much looking forward to @redlettermedia.com having a go on this.

Ah man. RIP Ozzy.

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.

HAHA! *Of course* there's a dark metal band called Dysentery!

Oasis are only marginally better than dysentery

Our Euro Cup hopes have petered out as a superb performance by Poland leads to us slipping to a 91 run defeat. We finish on 9 points, the same number as the tournament winners, but a little behind on Net Run Rate. Victories over Lithuania, Latvia, and Ukraine leave us proud.

Hotel room name panel says "Pietra di Luna"

Auspicious hotel room name en route to @goldschmidt-confer.bsky.social See you in Czechia!

Starmer, or a certain McSweeney?

Half of doing academia is pretending you've read something everyone's pretending they've read

QUICK EVERYONE! Now's our chance! SET THE STUDENTS SOME ESSAYS!!!

Silicon isotopic signatures of granitoids support increased weathering of subaerial land 3.7 billion years ago - Communications Earth & Environment Emergence of land and continental weathering feedbacks likely started around 3.8 to 3.6 billion years ago, according to silicon isotope analysis of Archean granitoids.

Now published in Communications Earth & Environment @commsearth.nature.com: "Silicon isotopic signatures of granitoids support increased weathering of subaerial land 3.7 billion years ago" by N. Greber, M. E. Murphy, J.-C. Storck, J.R. Reimink, N. Dauphas & P.S. Savage www.nature.com/articles/s43...

The issue isn't whether or not it was announced promptly; it's whether it is a good idea and provides value for money for remote attendees.

I assume it's to get more money in though registrations, but I'm a cynic.

And don't forget, you're paying for that privilege! I heard about the Gottfried thing, great work.

@eageo.bsky.social not really doing a great job for their remote "presenters" - i.e. they aren't presenting, just putting a video together which will be buried on the conference website. No engagement with the in-person attendees, not even played during the oral session. Not worth the money.

I can understand wanting to avoid online live presentations as it can be a techincal nightmare, but pressing "play" on a piece of video software is not so difficult?

Wow - didn't realise this. Seems pretty bad that invited speakers won't even get their oral presentation videos played during the in-person session.

At our GGRiP meeting this year, we held an art & photography competition. Over the next few weeks we will be sharing our entries here.

First up is a stunning photo by Thomas Marquand ‪@tommarquand.bsky.social titled 'The start of the field day on the Ouse Washes'

E-scooters only gather like this when they're very distressed.

Ooh sounds just up my street (track?)! Will check it out post haste. thanks Andy!