Mike Fowler

Bifurcation plots in the wild.

Competition between Airbus and Boeing - Wikipedia

Airbus currently has a larger market share of new deliveries and has over the last decade.
However, dividing 0 by anything is still 0. Kinda hard to beat that.

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Do they even still discuss midsummer ice cover on Kilpispjärvi as they line up for the ski race?

The jet stream and climate change Strong rivers of westerly winds, known as jet streams, are driven primarily by temperature differences between low and high latitudes as well as the r…

Obvious answer: in that scenario, why is the jet stream behaving differently?

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The blocking off part is the hardest. There are too many interruptions and distractions (like being here). Once you get into the actual searching/reading zone, it can be a wonderful reminder of how things used to be in days gone by, and probably very effective :)

This just reflects the current publishing/academic landscape & I'm positive you're not alone in this. It's now impossible to stay up-to-date as a PI.
My approach, imperfect in many practical ways, is to block off at least a couple of days to a week, just to do the old-fashioned search, filter, read.

Seriously folks, ordinary readers in Britain need to know more about who will be the next leader of the Green Party than they do about another mass shooting in the US

That 10% figure is higher than true "success" rates, thanks to the inflation provided by "demand management" and "quality control" mechanisms many of the UK funding councils use to outsource decision making/rejection (institutional gate-keeping).
Panel member reports back up your lottery fears 😞

It was just bants, innit? 🤮

Follow up from our #rewilding preprint: we're holding a Knowledge Exchange event @icms-edinburgh.bsky.social 20-23/10/25.
We're inviting academic and non-academic #mathematics and #ecology researchers/practitioners, to tackle current rewilding issues.
🧪🌍 🧮
Sign up here!
icms.ac.uk/activities/e...

A display of travel books for the deserts of Sudan, Japan, Yucatan, Milan, Bordeaux and Borneo

From the deserts of Sudan
to the gardens of Japan.
From Milan to Yucatan,
or the wilds of Borneo
to the vineyards of Bordeaux.

Hit me with your library card. Hit me. Hit me.

Meanwhile, public transport in South Wales be like...

Still, United won a game in Europe, took my son to his 1st European and DUFC games, and had a peh AND a bridie!

Not a bad temporal paradox to find oneself in.

Teams heading onto the pitch at Tannadice Park for Dundee United v UNA Strassen in a UEFA Conference 2nd round qualifier. Supporters arms held in the air, waiting in anticipation for a thrilling 1-0 win for the Terrors against a mediocre team from Luxembourg. United were honking. It's as if the manager doesn't actually want us to win games. Loved it anyway!

Scotland is a land of contrasts.
I can get an electric bus that picks me up in an Edinburgh suburb, 5 mins walk from my childhood home, then drops me off in Dundee, and feels like I'm living in the future.
Then I walk past the Victoria Bar on the way to Tannadice. Instantly transported back in time.

What if the secret was about something that Dad did?

But I already work 150% of my contracted hours. How could I possibly treble this?

It's utterly appalling that students find themselves in this scale of debtsituation, and definitely not at all related to the continued failure of those running UKHE to lobby for a sustainable, just funding model. /s

www.studentbeans.com/blog/uk/here...

Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower Coders spent more time prompting and reviewing AI generations than they saved on coding.

a new study found that experienced open source programmers became 19% less efficient when they used AI tools, because they spent more time prompting and reviewing AI generation output than they saved on coding.

Screenshot of a research paper that has collected six hundred and sixty six citations to date.

When citation stats go rogue.

This is... *checks notes*... unlikely to be a good thing.

doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

a group of cartoon animals standing next to each other including a mammoth ALT: a group of cartoon animals standing next to each other including a mammoth

Are you a #modeller wondering how to apply your skills to applied #conservation?
Or a #Rewilder wondering how to use limited resources to explore potential future scenarios under inevitable uncertainty?
Check our "Mathematical Perspectives on Rewilding" #preprint🧪🌍🧮
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

YouTube video by JESSE THARP Beavis and Butt-Head - Do 'Clutch - A Shogun Named Marcus'

It's amazing how a teenager's mind can act like a sponge that can still be wrung out decades later.
This is that wrungded.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxj6...

Surely there's an AI-bot for that?

(True story: only time I've used AI/LLM academically was to reduce word count for a proposal summary, after several attempts to edit it down by humans. It increased the word count at first attempt. Buyer beware?)

a group of cartoon animals standing next to each other including a mammoth ALT: a group of cartoon animals standing next to each other including a mammoth

Are you a #modeller wondering how to apply your skills to applied #conservation?
Or a #Rewilder wondering how to use limited resources to explore potential future scenarios under inevitable uncertainty?
Check our "Mathematical Perspectives on Rewilding" #preprint🧪🌍🧮
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Now I need to see a Proclaimers side project called "Basement Joxx".

(I can say that. I'm Scotch.)

And not a word about reducing the need to travel by car in the first place.

EVs may be a part of the picture of decarbonisation, but many journeys need to switch routinely to public transport, walking or cycling, so fewer people feel forced to use a car to get around - that needs investment too.

Employer: We will send you on a Mentoring course! We want to encourage certain groups.

Me: Sounds useful, where do I sign up?

Employer: Lol. 450 word application to see if we will let you attend!

Me [to mentees]: Don't waste your time on something when unnecessary barriers are placed in your way.

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New paper led by @aniekebrombacher.bsky.social using x-ray CT and laser ablation to detect plastic environmental responses in fossil individuals www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2421549122 featuring @jamesmulqueeney.bsky.social @clivetrue.bsky.social @thefosterlab.bsky.social

a cartoon drawing of a foot with a long hairy arm Alt: a cartoon drawing of a foot with a long hairy arm. SpongeBob owes a whole lot to Ren & Stinky. Errr, I mean Stimpson J. Cat.

I suppose the old "why do giraffes have long necks" gag is taking this in the wrong direction?