Dr Joanne Williams

Dr Joanne Williams

@jowilliams.bsky.social

Sea-level and tidal scientist. Liverpool, UK. Opinions own!

4,809 Followers 949 Following 9,176 Posts Joined Sep 2023
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We had a hit on a phone line that fried a dialup modem and wiped a hard drive.

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1 hour ago

(Not the water but the pipework)

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) About Lightning Get answers to frequently asked questions about lightning.

Lots of sources agreeing with Stylist's Mum, including the cdc www.cdc.gov/lightning/fa... !

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4 hours ago

Well done! I look forward to getting a copy for my mum, who as a student spent several weeks chipping bits off a cliff in the middle of nowhere. Alone, which I'm assuming is not considered best practice these days!

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10 hours ago

Either you or someone else told that story on radio too. I thought even longer ago, before the Dismaland thing and that was 2015. Definitely knew he was local when that was on.

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11 hours ago
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Doomed hereditary peers spy chance to stay in the Lords The Tories are deciding which hereditary peers to keep after being offered 15 seats in a compromise deal.

"Doomed hereditary peers" BBC? Bit over-dramatic surely. Or does the bill have some unnoticed clause for these people involving something other than just losing their job-for-life*?

*lives. Their life, their kid's life, their grandkid's life...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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11 hours ago

The most frustrating is when there's a conversation you really want them to have, about maybe contemporary relevance of their old work, then there's this awkward pivot to "and you're in this new film that you don't actually care much about but it's paying the T&S bill?"

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11 hours ago

REFERENCE ONLY

(Or maybe not. Maybe they let you borrow it?)

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16 hours ago
Civil partnership in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

I wondered if they were referring to civil partnerships, but that legislation was simultaneous across the UK en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_p...

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1 day ago
Online | National Theatre

Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest is on National Theatre online, this week for free. With fabulous Sharon D Clarke (Lady B), Hugh Skinner (Earnest) and Ncuti Gatwa (Algernon) and I haven't laughed so much in ages.
www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/event/type/o...

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1 day ago

Fair, I think, given he says he's an artist in bio. He should know better. Anyway, blocked is best. Don't feel bad about it.

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1 day ago

Sounds lovely. I hope you enjoyed the carrots.

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Can you really trek in Surrey? Over the precipitous heights and treacherous wilderness, sometimes two or three miles from a Waitrose?

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1 day ago

Dug a little and it's part of a back and forth of rage-baiting that dates back at least a year. Best stay clear probably.

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1 day ago

Ah yes, see what you mean. Pretty tricky to implement live though.

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1 day ago

Reliable non amazon supplier would be RS.

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1 day ago

bsky.app/profile/jowi...

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1 day ago

Wales has separate databases, through NRW. (ditto Scotland and NI). The FT work is built on the Environment Agency data which only covers England.

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1 day ago

It'll be like the cars. Trained in really simple versions of the tasks for people in simple houses, then claiming it can operate in a real world environment, where the cupboards have child locks and there's a school bag dumped on the floor.
And make a furious cup of cat.

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1 day ago

He'd only be 74 now, quite likely someone on here knows him.

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1 day ago

Trashing understorey and letting their dogs run everywhere too, even in nesting season.

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1 day ago

Bet they were arsy about having their bags checked too.
"Don't you know who I am?"

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1 day ago

One for the flood and mapping geeks here. Aendra has embedded the mapping from www.gov.uk/check-long-t... in combination with road and rail infrastructure.

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1 day ago

Very nice article, thank you for the gift link. Good use of the EA data! A lot of places there are existing embankments etc but I notice you are careful to say "through areas vulnerable to " rather than "flooded", which I guess covers that raised infrastructure can need monitoring and maintenance.

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2 days ago

Coo Moulin Rouge is on for weeks and there's still 20 quid tickets going for weeknights. Another for the list!

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2 days ago

Whatever it was, I've already blocked him so I can't see. Is it that Shakespeare stalker again? Best yeeted.
Did you have a Fabulous show?

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2 days ago

If you're ever off sick and watching daytime tv gambling ads alternate with funeral parlours and money lending. It's pretty grim.

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2 days ago
A picture of a blue research ship with "sea research" on the side.

A new ocean research ship is a rare and exciting event, but today the Netherlands said an official hello to its brand new ship RV Anna Weber-van Bosse. 🌊🌊 80 metres long, 47 berths and with high sustainability ambitions. Hello Anna!

www.nioz.nl/en/facilitie...

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Terry Pratchett died 11 years ago today and he still brings me great pleasure to this day. Here is a #dataviz showing his published discworld books by year.

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2 days ago

Should be fun! Probably my favourite theatre, always a lively atmosphere.

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