Prof Paul Glover

Do they ride in sleighs pulled by reindeer, too? Being Canada, you'd think they might.

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

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Let's keep walking down that path while gathering fellow travellers.

Hawthorn is one of my favorite plants. My painting is from a photo I took earlier in the year (for the flowers) and a branch of berries from a tree on the Nunnington Ridge near where I live. @awatercolouraday.bsky.social @flowerpainting.bsky.social #watercolour #watercolor #flowerpainting

Science Cat is noting down important data:
• PHYSICS FOR CATS is out on Thursday!
• There is a launch party at @goshcomics.bsky.social!
• More details are at www.tomgauld.com

What was she thinking?

Dame Jane Goodall remembered as 'true hero for the planet' Leonardo DiCaprio and Barack Obama are among those paying tribute to the leading conservationist.

Jane Goodall RIP. She has been a Titan that helped teach the World to respect the planet and all of its inhabitants. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... We must member her by action. @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @priestleycentre.bsky.social @egu-ere.bsky.social @unileedsglobal.bsky.social

... and ... silver birch woodland near home. #watercolour #watercolor @awatercolouraday.bsky.social

The last 24 hours painting (and sleeping) have been quite productive :)

Ripe plums, fuchsias dropping red tears on parched earth and too many tomatoes to eat even for a tomato fiend like me! Bank holiday weekend!

Did not realise Tom Gault knew about what Leeds University is like.

I love that it is playing the air guitar! Well, you never know!

Every library needs a cat. Every laboratory needs one, too - as a source of serendipity & chaos which lead to unexpected advances - The Scientific Meowthod! @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @priestleycentre.bsky.social @egu-ere.bsky.social Even Nicolai Tesla had a cat & Socrates had a feline assistant.

Piroska Lorinczi, Wei Wei and I are happy to announce the acceptance of a new TIPM paper entitled "Connectedness Theory of Relative Permeability", applying topological treatment of electrical conduction to relative fluid flow for the first time @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @egu-ere.bsky.social

All the British Bees would appreciate it, as well as all of the birds and the other insects. Image courtesy of Angie Spurgeon.

Earth at night viewed from space (watch fullscreen).

Image: A small, pretty English village. A girl with a bag on her shoulder runs towards a van on the other side of the village green. She says to herself "I've got to follow my heart and leave this sleepy village behind. A new life awaits on the open road, touring from town to town in a merry band of brilliant eccentrics!" Title: “Rebecca runs away to join the travelling library”

My cartoon for this week’s Books pages in @theguardian.com

Pore textures to adsorb CO2 in shales

Pore textures to adsorb CO2 in shales

Pore textures to adsorb CO2 in shales

Pore textures to adsorb CO2 in shales

There is a brilliant collaborator of mine who is just about to publish some stunning images of the pore textures that make shales so good as a carbon capture and underground storage target, as well as being beautiful @egu-ere.bsky.social @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @priestleycentre.bsky.social

Kamchatka tsunami waves apparently travel backwards in time. The quake struck offshore Kamchatka at about 11:24 Wednesday local time, but arrived in Hawaii the previous Tuesday evening there! And all because it crossed the International Date Line. @egu-ere.bsky.social @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social

Recent top 10 largest earthquake had 6 preshocks >6.6. The largest came last, between the others. Ther'll be more siginificant post-shocks until that section of the plate boundary stabilises. Images courtesy of USGS. #earthquake @egu.eu @egu-ere.bsky.social @bgs.ac.uk @earth-science.bsky.social

...and the thing is, Northern England looks exactly like this at the moment!

via I Love Bees

You know now what to bring to the next lab meeting 🍫

It has probably happened before, but solar electricity generation has just become the biggest source of electricity generation in the UK. Who would have thought it! @priestleycentre.bsky.social @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @egu-ere.bsky.social @iisd.org
Data courtesy of grid.iamkate.com

I was in Waterstones in Wimbledon in London last Friday. They have 3 times as much shelf space dedicated to Smart Thinking than to Military. Great progress, but let's DEMILITARISE bookshops totally. #Peace

Annoyingly, Gemini started to pop up everywhere on my 'phone after an update. All I did was ask it to delete itself, and this is what I got as a reply!!

What's up in the garden - courgettes! Now just a few days away from gloriously light courgette fritters! @vegplotter.bsky.social #gardening #courgettes

I have reposted this before, but it always deserves posting again. Thanks to the anonymous cartoonist. @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @egu-ere.bsky.social
I tried something similar on a set of low-hanging hanging baskets at my local garden centre last weekend. Not sure I am welcome there anymore!

A useful look-up table for 3rd Year PhD students and ECRs. Courtesy of someone who pinched it from someone who pinched it from... Well, perhaps courtesy is not the right word either. @earth-science.bsky.social @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @egu-ere.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social