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Botherer of the rocks of Highland Perthshire, Scotland. Open University Geological Society Chairperson (and Webmaster) For OUGS Social Media follow: https://bsky.app/profile/ougeolsoc.bsky.social
When Referee 3 is too lazy to review the paper and their AI-generated response cites hallucinated papers to “prove” non-originality! This is mind-boggling. #AcademicSky
Our friends used to have one of the houses at the bottom of the lane there.
Principles of Boogie Management.
Ticks next to a 5p coin - that’s the scale.
Nymphs (poppy-seed sized) are so easy to miss!
Check skin after being outdoors, especially hidden spots and remove ticks promptly.
Awareness prevents Lyme.
#TickAware #LymeDiseaseAwareness
![LET'S NOT PLAY FRISBEE WITH THAT POET ANYMORE.
[This is a comic strip, with a poem laid over it. On each panel a new line of the poem is written. The scene is a park, in the summer. A man in a trenchcoat - implicitly Philip Larkin - stands folorn, motionless, looking at people throwing a frisbee. It becomes apparent as the comic progresses that they are trying to play frisbee with him. He stand stock still for the whole comic, watching the frisbee as, panel by panel it soars closer and closer to him].
After contemplating the approaching frisbee for two silent panels, Philip begins his thoughts:
Unloosed, unheralded,
You soar toward me
Across the dying afternoon.
bright disc of childhood,
Long since thrown wide
Of Youth's green imaginings,
Your slow declining arc
Figures a sky-written truth:
We will all succumb, and soon
To earth's hard oblivion.
[The frisbee hits Philip on the head with a resounding DONK. He falls backwards, to the ground.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibpyscry7bddmufqnk7wsfuxsflv4fkn4brwvkzxqurjkz7z67yoi)
Let's Not Play Frisbee With That Poet Anymore
Minesweeper but it's the Strait of Hormuz. Source: sweepthestrait.com
This disaster finally settled the much-debated question of whether coal dust could cause underground explosions.
Many French mining engineers had hitherto argued that explosions were only caused by gases known in English as firedamp, but there was no gas underground at Courrières.
Also, who read that and thought 'That's worth citing!'
This is terrifying
Top sciencing here!
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’
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.
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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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
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.
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"