Dr Joanne Williams

Best WBD year at kid's primary was "bring a potato dressed as..." No ASDA or online bought tat, no literally Frozen princesses (March weather is not usually as kind as this year!), less embarrassment because home is too stressed to hack it. And much easier to do animal or fantasy characters.

Reviewer 15: Have you included the latest data from the SWOT satellite?

For those aghast at the risk on the stunts, do check out Pauline Johnson in The Flying Scotsman (1929)
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In the MPs cloakroom in the HoC there are (were?) little pink ribbons hanging from each peg, said to be for leaving one's sword, which one is not permitted to carry into the Chamber. In latter days they mostly hold umbrellas.

Fascinating, thank-you!

𝗞𝗮𝗿𝘀𝘁 '𝗯𝘂𝗿𝘀𝘁'

A karst burst is the extreme, rapid response of a karst system to intense or prolonged rainfall.

When the system becomes saturated, the increase in water pressure can cause groundwater levels to rise above ground level, leading to flash floods, sinkholes and hydroseismic activity.

Alt text: buildings and a car park on a cliff ledge. The car park is flooded to a few cm. Water is pouring over the paved surface and under a fence off the cliff, in a wide waterfall falling past the tops of tall conifer trees growing on a lower slope.

Thanks for getting it back up! Is there a system for resilience if one of the PDSs gets taken out completely? Presumably they are pretty internally resilient already as this is rare. But if one is destroyed, what happens to those accounts? Can another PDS pick up?

Seems a bit of a cop-out to stop using it. Can't they learn from cricket and stick the remains in an urn? Or just spruce it up, you'd think having survived a fire would give it more gravitas not less.

Scientists, because we have salaries and grants, have an opposite financial relationship with conferences: we pay the event to speak, they don't pay us. Ditto we pay publishers. So the spam "Your Esteemed Paper on Obscure... give us cash" has been around years. Deleting takes no decision!

Arrgh that song. Even at age 8 it annoyed me.

I'm torn between Dr Who and the Midwich Cuckoos.

Does this mean we should get a refund on our tiny violins?

(For those that don't know, VLIZ hosts www.ioc-sealevelmonitoring.org )

Fantastic! A worthy meeting place for our favourite real time sea-level monitors

Quite a sculpture @vliz.be has got on their Ostend office! I'm not sure what it's meant to depict, something like a group propping up a figure head trying to flee the concrete monstrosity that's following her and run away to sea?

The badge of the London Necropolis and National Mausoleum Company. Surrounded by an ouroboros, a skull and crossbones sits above an hourglass and the motto "Mortus quies vivis salus". I washed out of Latin shortly after discovering Caecilius was in the fucking horto, but think it's loosely "peace for the dead, safety for the living". The whole design looks like it was outsourced to a 13yo metal fan, tbh.

Bring back proper railway branding, cowards!

Definitely in the "in you put this in fiction everyone will think it's absurd" class.

Façade is better known perhaps, but not sure if it counts as English.

I'm struggling to find an English equivalent. Got a horrible feeling that attempting to do so would set us back at the ridiculous Class Discourse.

🚨 A new month rolls around which means our careers highlight is here!

We have some fantastic opportunities to join the National Oceanography Centre at our Southampton and Liverpool sites!

(More in thread!)
#careers #oceanscience #hiring #job #southampton #liverpool #nowhiring #jobsinscience

I suppose if you're sufficiently hungry or in want of nutrients you might be tempted to substitute them for the edible alliums that aren't yet up. So explicit warning might be needed.

1/ Everyone keep talking about carcinisation. Nature keeps evolving crabs. It's even a meme now.

Five ≠ origins of the crab body plan in decapod crustaceans. Truly impressive. But what if I told you that in term of convergent evolution, crabs are amateurs ?

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It looks very content. That's a dragon looking forward to a hot sausage roll *and* a mysterious vegan pasty.

Tag yourself

Screenshot of a post by "Sir Andrew Aguecheek from Shakespeare"

I keep getting bot/spam replies in faux Shakespeare language. I keep blocking them and they keep popping up. Not sure if it's bots or sock-puppets from someone who thinks they're hilarious. Anyone else seeing this? I think what I'm finding a bit creepy is I don't see it in anyone else's replies.

New continuous tidelines data | OS The new dataset will enable evidence-based decisions which will protect and monitor the nation's evolving coastlines.

How big is your county? Merseyside is up to 17% different in size depending on whether you measure at high or low tide.

(These lines are, I think, based on MHW and MLW. But I haven't found documentation to confirm that).
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This #MapMonday we have even #MoreMaps for you! 🗺️✨

We've georeferenced the 1,329 first edition Six-inch maps of England and Wales we added in November. Now you can use a special toggle button in our viewers to compare these maps side-by-side.

Explore the new tool > maps.nls.uk/additions/#194

Like a panel for a stained glass window. Would work by the front door in wide Victorian entrance.

Night-time view of the Scottish Event Campus from the south side of the Clyde. The shot is long exposure to "smooth" reflections from the river.

Night-time view of the Scottish Event Campus from the south side of the Clyde. The shot is long exposure to "smooth" reflections from the river.

Night-time view of the Scottish Event Campus from the south side of the Clyde. The shot is long exposure to "smooth" reflections from the river.

Night-time view of the Scottish Event Campus from the south side of the Clyde. The shot is long exposure to "smooth" reflections from the river.

Although at #OSM26 all last week, I didn't think to cross the #RiverClyde to see the @secglasgow.bsky.social from the other side till afterwards. In case fellow #oceanographers 🌊 didn't either, here's some night snaps ...