Stuart Swales🎄

Also, who read that and thought 'That's worth citing!'

This is terrifying

Top sciencing here!

British Science Week graphic with a large pink question mark and the text: “Why did you choose to work in astrobiology?”

Person outdoors in a hilly landscape near a lake, with a pink quote "I was always fascinated by exploring strange worlds and the prospect for finding life beyond our Earth" Jessie Hogan, PhD Student

Person standing on a path beside greenery and stone walls, with a lilac quote "Thinking about outer space and other worlds, and the possibilities of what they may be like, fires my imagination!" Emma Puranen PDRA Astrobiology Ethics

Person in a red outdoor jacket standing in a volcanic landscape, with a teal quote "It’s the chance to contribute to one of the oldest questions that people have ever asked." Mark Fox-Powell, Senior Lecturer

It's British Science Week!

This year’s theme is all about curiosity!

We asked some of our members why they chose this path, and their answers were as inspiring and diverse as the field itself

What sparks YOUR curiosity about life in the universe?

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#BritishScienceWeek #Astrobiology #Curiosity

It has been a complete PR victory for the tech industry that they have muddied the term ‘AI’ so completely that many people think that any valid application of ML = ‘we asked an LLM’

A Gary Larson cartoon, in which a caveman points to a drawing of a Stegosaurus tail and says, “Now, this end is called the thagomizer, after the late Thag Simmons.”

But without doubt, the single greatest moment is Morgan Freeman dramatically intoning that the spiked tail of the Stegosaurus is called “the Thagomizer.” It is! And here’s why:

Lookalike: Andrew / Android

From the new Private Eye, out now.

Glasgow Central Fire Sparks Travel Chaos Across the UK A major fire beside Glasgow Central has shut Scotland’s busiest station, triggering nationwide disruption and raising urgent questions over UK rail resilience.

Awful news about Glasgow Central, I'm still hoping the station itself escaped serious damage.
But while we're here, can anyone spot the problem with the news photo below, from thetraveler.org/glasgow-cent...?
We've really got to STOP using AI to fake things.

BBC News largely asleep

Happy International Women's Day!

#internationalwomensday

Don't miss our Lapworth Lecture tomorrow with Dr Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza Alessandro Chiarenza, exploring dinosaur ecosystem responses to climate change in the Mesozoic.

Watch in-person or on Zoom, the lecture is free and open to all.
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June Saunders, Women's Royal Naval Service, stands on the fo'c'sle of her boat preparing to make fast. Official Admiralty photograph by Harold William John Tomlin, Plymouth, November 1944. Imperial War Museum: A 26516.

Women have always gone to sea and faced the sea's dangers. Women were in many of the naval losses chronicled here, and are numbered among the casualties. Remembering them, and all the women afloat and ashore whose lives are caught up with the sea, on this #InternationalWomensDay #NavalHistory

YouTube video by Rob Butler Hutton's outcrops in Glen Tilt

A video explaining the outcrop of Glen Tilt, following the observations made by James Hutton in 1785 in demonstrating that granite is an intrusive igneous rock 🌋
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-bP...

Another shot from last night's trip along the Clyde in the gloaming. I love the mix of shapes, colours and silhouettes in this photo.

#glasgow #glasgowatnight #nightphotography #theclyde #finniestoncrane

Bugger.

kevinrkirk 2d @ Threads Why are we bothering with the Strait of Hormuz when we could simply do this? Explain it to me like l'm 5. (Drawing of chopping of part of land) suahuatica 2d MOUNTAIN HARD AND BIG, WATER NO UP. MANY MANY DIG DIG.

Happy Friday. Don’t skip school.

Join us in Scotland for a rare field experience exploring remarkable landscapes. Stand at Siccar Point, visit Glen Tilt and Jedburgh, and reflect on the legacy of James Hutton—whose observations reshaped our understanding of deep time.

Register today: geosociety.co/ScotlandFieldTrip

Can you see your house from up there?

Ha. I have some emails from 1988 still.

But use the tumble dryer, that gives a much better finish. (And won't wash itself when it all goes horribly wrong)

Today's random interaction - a lady at the bus stop showed me some LLM slop on her phone. I think it was a woman making a cake in a washing machine.

Her: "Look at this! It can't be real"
Me: "Mmm, no, the Internet is all fake now. Burn your phone"

Nice run over the hill. Open University used to run Geology (3rd year hard rock course) Summer School field & lab work weeks at Kindrogan. No more, sadly.

“Millions of years old and they look as if they were laid yesterday!”

“Millions of years old and they look as if they were laid yesterday!”

Dear Morrissey. Here is a Top Tip courtesy of Viz: "Drill a one inch diameter hole in your refrigerator door. This will allow you to check that the light goes off when the door is closed."

Still have my ancient vinyl :-)

Iranian missile stuck in a field like an oversized lawn dart, with a surprised audience looking on to see what it does for its next trick. Possibly a unwise decision, to be brutally honest, but human nature is universal...

I'm old enough to remember when this was how German F-104s were delivered...

((burp))

Our first boxed copy of OS/2 was shipped with 5 1/4 floppies that were all factory write-protected. Smashing, except that Install Disk 1 needed to write config info back to disc.Scissors came in handy.

I haven't had enough coffee to figure that one out!