Richard Laugesen

Richard Laugesen

@laugesen.com.au

Researcher stuck somewhere in the intersection of decision theory, hydrological modelling, and water resource management. Everything I share here reflects my personal views, not my employers’ 2050 is closer than 1995 - what!? laugesen.com.au

388 Followers 403 Following 67 Posts Joined Nov 2024
1 month ago

I want to see Pulp cover Olivia Rodrigo's Vampire

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3 months ago

Thanks James

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3 months ago
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So, your forecasts are sharp and reliable, but are they valuable? Our new EMS paper on RUVPY is out - reference implementation of RUV. Honest assessment needs to be tailored to the specific decision. RUV is general enough to model almost any context. Go forth and tinker. doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

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5 months ago
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The flowerpot hats are the low-res pixelated version you got when you drew normal hats on computers in the 80s, but in real-life. Was that intentional or is my brain playing tricks? #devo #genius

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6 months ago
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The coming and going of air masses and jet streams over Australia and New Zealand during winter 2025.

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1 year ago
New York Times headline: "Raw water devotees swear by natural springs despite the risks"

Modern water treatment may be the most important life-saving invention of the human race.
If these people forgo this, that's on them (but also their vulnerable children), but know what the outcomes can be: bacteria, parasites, cholera, dysentery, typhoid, and other horrible, preventable illnesses.

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1 year ago
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Water on Mars: New study uncovers ancient aquifers beneath the surface Rice University research has uncovered novel insights into water on Mars. Find out if these findings could support life on the Red Planet.

Finally, a story about #water on Mars that doesn't refer to #groundwater as an "underground ocean". Interesting work. www.innovationnewsnetwork.com/water-on-mar...

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1 year ago

Thanks for all your efforts on The Last Drop @timsmedley.bsky.social. It's a fantastic overview of the water emergency and even as a hydrologist I really learnt a lot. Anything you would change in the book following your recent work on degrowth?

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1 year ago

Wow I love supercomputers! Just finished a run in 4 hours that would have taken 18 days on my laptop. We have come a long way since these were a thing 💾

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1 year ago

And more intense rainfall causes larger sediment and nutrient plumes over the inshore reefs. It's all a bit sad

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1 year ago

It's going to be another difficult summer for the reef. Hard to recover from the last marine heatwave when almost each spring sets a new record

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1 year ago

I've just seen them as an enticement to read the actual abstract, not really a substitute

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1 year ago

Loving all the graphic abstracts these days, but what do you all use to make them? My attempt looks pretty crap

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1 year ago

Australia's warmest spring since national records began in 1910, 2.08 °C above the 1961–1990 average

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1 year ago

haha sure is James

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1 year ago
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Here's another one

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1 year ago
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#Custard were on fire last night at The Baso in Canberra, seemed to be enjoying it as much as we all were. You nailed that cow bell Sam!

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1 year ago

I could watch Gurdeep all day

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1 year ago

The program basically unfollows everyone unless their description contains one of the keywords I give it, or I've engaged with them in some way.

The API makes it really easy, this #ATProtocol is pretty impressive.

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1 year ago

Just unfollowed 502 accounts, please dont take it personally.

I got a bit excited clicking on all those starter packs and my feed stopped reflected what I wanted it to be about.

Clicking is a bit of a drag so I wrote a little program to talk to the API and do it for me, thanks @bsky.app!

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1 year ago
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Land use for palm oil production An interactive visualization from Our World in Data.

Looks like that could be it.

I was thinking Malaysia was the big palm oil exporter, looks like my knowledge was a bit out of date!

ourworldindata.org/grapher/land...

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1 year ago

Hopefully bio-thermal wouldn't have that scale of impact! Seems a bit short sighted if that's the case since they have so much geothermal capacity

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1 year ago

Indonesia sure stands out. I wonder what's driving that level of deforestation. Is it for timber exports or new mines?

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1 year ago

Success! Actually avoided this place for a day and got some real work done

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1 year ago

That is mind blowing

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1 year ago
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One of my favourite data discoveries this year: Google's mind-blowing ARCO-ERA5 dataset: hourly data for ~300 climate variables, available globally from 1940! 🤯

Loadable with a single line of Python code from a single cloud-friendly Zarr file! Below: a month of wind waves + swell: 🌊

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1 year ago

That sounds nice and simple, why didn't I think of that haha

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1 year ago

That's crazy

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1 year ago

Yeah same, my feed no longer reflects what I want 😞

I'm writing a python script at the moment to automagically unfollow people. Anyone I haven't engaged with or whose description doesn't include a keyword is gone, sorry

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1 year ago

I've heard rumours that some have forgone getting the $10k back just so they can get around the rules, but now we are just gossiping ;)

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