Chris Hughes

Misunderstanding the tide is putting millions at risk on UK coasts – here’s what you need to know Four in ten people surveyed were unaware that tides come in twice daily, that they vary in timing each day, and that they differ in height across the country.

"Four in ten people were unaware that tides come in twice daily, that they vary in timing each day, and that they differ in height across the country. Over a quarter of struggled with basic tide-table reading, and only a quarter could extract more complex information--such as when to safely return."

Worth sharing for insight into how astro publishing works (some useful ideas for others?!), but especially for the numbering of posts in the thread.

I think it must have been a bit like the normal tide machines but in miniature - each constituent makes a small pulley wheel rise and fall, and a wire goes over and under alternating wheels to add up the movements. Which would mean every other cutout template must be upside down.

Nice! And please invite Alan Garner as a bonus too! He wouldn't have gone, but the thought is there.

Ben Elton has some family connection too, if I remember correctly.

I think tide guages must be how you measure seal level.

I never get that wrong because my Dad always pronounced it neckersessaary!

Bureaucracy is even worse.

Time in Australia - Wikipedia

Just got a book about Greenwich time, and got intrigued by the strange GMT+9.5 hours zone in the middle of Australia, so I had to find out more. Turns out they have 11 time zones, one used by ~200 people. Nah mate, it's too dark to play cricket at half past. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in...

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My guess - the sample size is too small to develop a LLM. Physics papers before 1920? An actual human being could probably read them in a lifetime. Physics papers since 2020? Probably not.

A fantastic opportunity for an open-ended senior post in sea level science in Liverpool. These do not come up very often! Closing date 19th June. @noc.ac.uk 🌊
careers.noc.ac.uk/vacancy/seni...

Not what I guessed would be the biggest hazard in Texas - there's something to be said for tin hats. Big ones, with cushions on top!

US folks - please help protect trans healthcare access. Text SIGN PCCOMC to 50409 and letters will be sent to your representatives.

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Wow, what an image! Space is big...

There are capybaras in Chester Zoo, in with the giant anteater. They seem very phlegmatic creatures.

A victory for the federal scientific workforce! We could not stand by while this irreparable harm continues at NSF, NOAA and all our scientific agencies.

TODAY the judge granted our request to temporarily HALT the mass firings at federal agencies under Trump’s Executive Order.

Who chose to have red negative and on the right of the colour scale, blue positive and on the left? My brain hurts looking at it!

There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

Yes, so much easier since I randomly discovered that it had learnt LaTeX rules! It's still awful, but a lot less painful now.

That's everything from the mundanity of public toilets, through free library access, to funding fundamental science. GFDL has been so influential because it supports the foundations of science, as well as producing "impact". Killing institutions like GFDL is book burning on a grand scale.

The measure of civilization is collectively working to support things that aren't to our immediate personal gain, because they will make the world better in the long run.

I've got a slightly different take on this. Yes, climate science, important stuff, excellent people, etc. But this is symbolic of something deeper too.

White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The 30-cm-long Colossal squid should be the mascot of the Atacama Large Millimeter Array.

A suggestion for graphics - no matter how you smooth that curve it will show a dip followed by a bulge. More smoothing just pushes the bulge later. But if you show the cumulative number of immigrants since year x it will show that the trajectory is just now getting back to normal.

Helping Liverpool out... it's nice to see community spirit!

They're not ducks. Although some of their descendents might be.

So, speaking of Universities caving to government demands and people bringing up loyalty oaths, here's a story that involves a well known oceanographer.

In 1935 Massachusetts enacted a law that required teachers in public and private schools to take a loyalty oath to teach in the state 1/n

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In the early years of RAPID, Carl wrote about how eddies dominate the flow to such an extent that we can't meaningfully monitor large scale ocean dynamics without very high resolution measurements throughout the ocean. He was mostly right, but if you go right to the boundaries it's not a problem.