What is at about these non-existent giant Chinese offshore windfarms? So well hidden that Trump's intelligence sources can't spot them, yet I can find them with two mouse clicks.

Zoology building at Liverpool closed down. First year practicals in the lab on the left mainly doing repeated dissections of dogfish. No wonder I turned vegetarian.

anyone doing the January 100 push-ups a day challenge for @cancerresearchuk.org ? I'm on track so far.

Magic of the FA Cup not working at the MKM. There’s only about 5,000 here.

Saturday shopping and a million other things on hold until the end of Macc v Palace.

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looking at a loop on netweather of the 15 minute radar data for this extraordinary storm. Savage beauty. The remaining clifftop homes in Norfolk will get absolutely battered again when the wind and waves go north-easterly during the night and through tomorrow.

Newish paper (i.e. it was out last summer and just now seeing it) out on Alicella gigantea, the world’s largest amphipod. Long thought to be rare because we almost never see it. Turns out it may occupy ~59% of the global ocean. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

29 years and a day since the last Elfstedentocht. Will the Dutch ever see another one?

All signs point to Trump’s second term creating a hotter and less affordable future for Americans. Without new offshore turbines going up, millions of households across the Northeast will soon pay more money for dirtier and less reliable electricity. My latest 👇

Tried and true tactic of fossil fuel disinformation machine. An excerpt from #ScienceUnderSiege:

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If people could just intuitively understand the difference between a million, a billion, and a trillion, we’d all be better off. That applies to dollars. To tons of carbon. And so on. Math. It matters.

All sounds very familiar to those who took part in campaigning before brexit. We had one paid volunteer for the whole of Yorkshire from Leeds to the coast, a rickety table and a few leaflets. UKIP had a complete stage, sound systems and a WW2 tank driving around. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.

I won a thing! I’m so honoured to have won the NBN newcomers award at the @nbntrust.bsky.social conference today, for the work I’m doing around plankton sampling and data collection. #marineplankton 🦑

#uksnow HU17 6/10 snow since 07:45, starting to lie

Reminder: If it's snowing where you are, post with the hashtag #uksnow, the first-half of your postcode and a snow-rating out of 10 (x/10) and help draw a real-time map of where it's snowing right now on uksnowmap.com ❄️

Mission confirmed ✅ #CopernicusEU Sentinel-6B is now in orbit and ready to begin its Launch & Early Operations phase with @operations.esa.int. The satellite is ready to continue a decades-long mission to track the height of the planet’s seas – a key measure of climate change.

Now that the Sept and Oct data are (belatedly) in, it looks like 2025 will be the second warmest year in the record (~80% probability). The last three years are in a class of their own.

Today's challenge is to try once again to get into the Canvas system of neighbouring Bantchester University, to do my external examiner role. Involving burner phones, burner laptops, incognito mode, multiple email accounts and long calls with their IT desk.

Les températures observées cette après-midi sont tout simplement délirantes : les 30°C ont été approchés mi-novembre. Je répète au cas où : mi-novembre. Boosté par un vent de foehn dans un air surchauffé par le changement climatique, on a atteint 29.8°C à Trois-Villes et 29,5°C à Aicirits 1/2

Leitmotif through this year's Coastal Seas field course is for the students to use their own data to decide whether the Clyde is ecologically dead (T&R, 2010), or whether it is alive, but different, and likely to have a cetacean-rich future (L&F,2021). Final hour of today's survey was like this:

I wondered why there were so many people doing the litter pick on the beach yesterday.

Nice optics this morning looking south from FSC Millport to a floating Ailsa Craig. Pods of dolphins in the far distance.

Millport field trip week, with an unusually fantastic weather forecast ahead of us.

that's three full weeks clean from twitter now, onwards to the next milestone at three months.

I have a little side-hustle to monitor changes in wildlife at a local site. I've installed a Song Meter in the grounds with dawn/dusk monitoring, analysis with Chirpity. Here's the data showing the arrival and build-up of the spectacular skeins of pink-foot that are now filling the evening sky.

Fork lifting in the first few of our intact macrofaunal sediment communities ! Thanks team, great day, and plenty of exciting data to come for our NERC funded Ecowind project (ecological effects of offshore wind).

Great to make observations throughout an entire offshore wind farm to investigate the ecological effects of offshore wind expansion in our shelf seas. Fieldwork led by @krysiamazik.bsky.social and looking forward to receiving intact communities for follow-up lab experiments.

Wondering whether Gladstone Dock lock is the largest structure of its type in the world? Seems larger than what I remember of Panama locks. And we saw a pirate ship earlier in the day.

Seaforth container terminal as we wait for the dock gates to open. I’m in the minority of about 0.1% of people that think the second Stone Roses album was better than the first.

End of a day’s sampling out on the wind farm for NERC Ecowind project.

Zeus the olympic wonder horse on display in Nantes this evening.

Why there will be two RRS Discovery ships in Dundee today

First sight of Discovery returning after cruise DY197, berthing not far from the original Discovery this evening @carolinehack.bsky.social

By the look of those groups of gents walking around town this morning, today is the opposite of Ladies’ Day at the races.

Interesting sites in the North Sea spotted by Sentinel-2 this week. Left, an oil or gas platform in the centre of a small but intensely white phytoplankton bloom. Right, a survey ship near the Silver Pit towing a wide array of probably siesmic survey gear.

⚠️Anomaly to August (year so far) *: 2.01 ⚠️

Treac’h Salus on a busy day. Kelp (Saccorhiza) forest around the point still in good shape, lots of wrasse.

Perfect beach read

Had to wade out some distance to get the angle for tonight’s big red sunset.

To swim or not to swim? Beach closed by mystery pollution, the mayor is furious. But green flag flying and the sailing schools have gone out as normal.

First samples are about to be taken on the North Sea windfarms this evening www.hull.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

'with none selected between Birmingham and Glasgow'. Except QUB and Strathclyde. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

🌿 Last week, our team was on the ground (and in the mud!) in the Scheldt Estuary Our REWRITE field campaigns are helping piece together a complex puzzle: how #CoastalWetlands store #carbon, support #biodiversity, and respond to environmental pressures Read more 🔗 rewriteproject.eu/blog/post/79...

is anyone else seeing University of Hull adverts during the final of Love Island? Is it some kind of micro-targeting aimed ay my postcode?

Our researchers are part of a new research expedition to find out if offshore wind farms could increase biodiversity and boost fisheries 🌊🌪️ Find out more 👉 https://tr.pulse.ly/yku9yvbnyh @sotonoceanearth.bsky.social ‬

Motherfucking wind farms…

Mix Tape really got me, right to the end.