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But it was funny how the food always happened to be really good when admin was visiting (ie when the contract was up) 😅

(We also don’t talk about the ‘theme days’ anymore… eg on 🇦🇺 day someone thought a bloomin’ onion was a quartered (and otherwise untouched) onion, fried so it was still raw inside)

At UChicago, one of the best things about moving off campus (apart from saving money even after the financial aid cut you’d get for leaving the dorms) was finally having a good kitchen and no longer relying on the company that also makes the US’s most terrifying prison food for sustenance 🙄

Never ask postdocs what they'll be doing next year, that's considered terribly offensive in their culture.

And the only (very noisy) way to walk across the river when you once again have a long LSL layover at ALB 😅

Ngl, the job location may ... limit... the applicant pool

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Full-time, permanent Lectureship in Forestry or Agroforestry at Bangor University, which has an excellent reputation in forest sciences.

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www.reddit.com/r/drehscheib... Here’s where I saw it - looks like it was Leo Express that submitted the app. I wonder if track charges are cheaper? The comments are skeptical, though one person said that they’re assuming 4.5h to Vienna, which is not uncompetitive with intercity buses

It sounds like they want to take the loop and stop at Ottakring, but either way it won’t be fast (though, since they’re already taking the route via Gmünd I have a feeling they’re very much not prioritizing speed anyways 😅)

RegioJet even already goes Prag - Budapest via Vienna instead of via Bratislava like the ECs.

Some private operator (forgot which one) even just submitted an application to do Prag - Vienna - points east, but via Budweis, Velenice/Gmünd and the S45 line around Vienna (😅)

Tell that to the Germans, the Austrians did their best 🙄

Seit Anfang 2022 waren in Österreich 6 Monate kühler, 3 relativ normal (=im Schnitt der aktuellen Klimanormalperiode), 34 Monate lagen, zum Teil sehr deutlich, über dem Schnitt, waren also wärmer als üblich. Ohne Klimawandel sollten sich die 3 halbwegs gleichmäßig verteilt haben.

Ich lese oft: „Schade, dass sich Zeitungen nicht zusammentun. Ich würde 19 Euro im Monat zahlen, um Artikel aus mehreren Zeitungen auswählen zu können.“
Es gibt sowas. Klingt nicht so cool wie „News Prime“ oder „Newsflix plus“, aber „Mitglied der Büchereien Wien“ - und kostet 34 Euro im Jahr.

Yeah, in the US there’s very little culture of sidewalk parking (except by cops, around police precincts), at least compared to eg France

Internet Roadtrip Let's take a streetview roadtrip

The Internet Roadtrip is now trying to cross Labrador. A 100-foot gap in Street View coverage almost forced them to turn back, but as they approached the break, someone got a friend in Labrador City to drive to the spot IRL and take and upload a panoramic photo to fix it. neal.fun/internet-roa...

Chart showing risk of being murdered in the subway if you rode 500 times last year (0.4 in 100,000) versus other risks such as that of dying in a traffic accident in the US last year (12.1 in 100,000)

The subway risk chart you've been waiting for (Sawyer County, Wisconsin, is where Sean Duffy is from). Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

I grew up with us scrimping and saving so that every few years we could go spend a few hours weeks in Germany so that we could know our family, our culture, our language, and our people.

This is a common working class third culture kid experience

There have been 87 car deaths in NYC so far this year, 51 of them pedestrians killed by cars

There have been 2 homicides in the subway*

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We have decided to ban the use of GenAI for research, writing & creative work at our organization.

In fact, we make people sign an agreement saying that their research, analysis, writing, and creative work are *theirs* and not done by GenAI.

Incredible shrinking Cone of Uncertainty! Kartina 2005 vs Helene 2024. Dramatic improvement in hurricane forecasting due to expertise of NOAA scientists at NHC & AOML. Since 2005 forecast error on 5-day track has decreased by ~50%! We often take these accurate forecasts for granted but... 1/

Rare American-designed train still running in Europe - 70+-year-old stainless steel car produced by license from Budd, being used by private open access operator European Sleeper…

For these reasons, we cannot simply look to trends in mean precipitation, or mean evaporation, to tell us anything about changes in *extreme* precipitation or evaporative demand (i.e., atmospheric "thirst"). To do so would be deeply misleading. Yet it remains common practice.

Snapshot of graphic from Swain et al. 2025 review paper describing "Expanding Atmospheric Sponge Effect."

This is the basis for "Expanding Atmospheric Sponge" effect that we coined to help visualize practical implications stemming from more heavier downpours (i.e., flash floods) & also more extreme evaporative demand (e.g., faster-developing droughts, more intense wildfires).

It’s funny how this is separate from the *other* long-running billboard campaign to get NYCers to move to Ohio, but that one seems like it was the state gov or tourism board or whatever, and was mainly talking about how Ohioans have yards

Thanks to Jeremy for this great graph.

For city residents who work, low income are ~evenly represented among cyclist commute trips, $25k-$100k are underrepresented, and $100k+ are overrepresented.

We at Policy Integrity recently concluded our analysis of major rules in the courts through the Biden Administration. Links below to our study and op-ed. The bottom line? Forum-shopping has skyrocketed and is having an effect. \1

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The 28th st station is built on top of an ancient stream that drains the slightly higher ground to the east. (1865 Viele map via davidrumsey.com)

Munich, Vienna, Hamburg all have plug doors on their new trains I believe - I think it’s pretty common on latest-generation European rolling stock

Picture of a Munich U-Bahn C stock train, featuring very large windows and beautiful light laminated wood longitudinal seating

Also in case you haven’t seen the even prettier newish Munich U-Bahn Stock

This is one of my biggest complaints about US rolling stock! Beyond the lower claustrophobia, easier wayfinding, easier time trying to figure out which door to enter to minimize crowding, it’s just so much nicer. Imagine going through the Chicago loop on one of these, or over the Gowanus F/G bridge