Athelstan Spilhaus, a geophysicist, oceanographer, and inventor at WHOI, spent his life redefining boundaries on maps, technological possibilities, and how people imagined the future. Learn more about this ocean pioneer: go.whoi.edu/spilhaus

The headline: "Northern Lights set to dazzle UK once again tonight" The forecast: 🌧️🌧️😭

Another example of "hey, we could use the noise in GPS to measure..." This time it's the ionospheric delay being used to observe tsunami propagation in near real time (10s of minutes). @sdpwilliams.bsky.social @funwithgps.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

I could imagine if sediment continued to fill up the area around them, given enough geologic time maybe the Great Lakes drain and begin solidifying into rock then it would fossilize? Also not a geologist so 🤷🏻‍♂️

Is this the beginning of a fossilisation process? ⚒

Spinosaurus Swimming with Fishes ❤️🐟 #berensart2025 #paleoart

🌊Online Ocean Tipping Points talk🗣️ Next Monday we’re hosting a panel of experts to discuss Ocean Tipping Points, as part of #COP30 Virtual Ocean Pavilion webinar series. Add to your calendar 🗓️ brnw.ch/oceantipping... 🇧🇷 10:00 GMT-3 🇬🇧 13:00 GMT #UNOceanDecade #TippingPoints #GTPR2025 #OceanScience

Lugged a suitcase packed to the density of a neutron star all the way from London to Exeter to perform a science show based on “How to Find a Rainbow”. Kit includes an old-fashioned slide projector, various bits of glassware, a metal clamp and stand, bottles of vegetable oil, vinegar, a red cabbage

One nice detail that can easily be lost in this graph - even right wingers trust the BBC more than the right wing tabloids

This #MapMonday we've #MoreMaps for you to explore. We've just added Survey of India half-inch to the mile maps, published between 1915 and 1948, to our website. These cover most of India and Myanmar in colourful detail. maps.nls.uk/additions/#187 #India #HistoricMaps

🌊 How do we collect sea ice to measure tor trace elements and isotopes? You need a big drill to collect the core and then a lot of patience to shave down the outsides with a ceramic blade…to get clean ice to melt and analyze. Dr. Tia Anderlini on the trigger here.

Quoted supporting our counterparts and friends at the Alaska Earthquake Center. The cost of the U.S. tsunami warning and mitigation effort is really a pittance. None of it has ever been adequately funded in any administration, and now things are worse. ⚒️ www.nbcnews.com/science/tsun...

This could equally apply to about 5 stories in completely different areas of the news. 👇 We have to use simplified stories to communicate and make sense of a complex world. How can we avoid the Hero/Villain narratives that cause so much harm? What are good examples of story telling that avoids it?

Fellow seismologists, we're going to get a lot of mileage out of the latest @xkcd.com

Look out for this later #histSTM (And on Franklin, about whom lots of myths are circulating today, read this: www.nature.com/articles/d41...)

It’s #RadonAwarenessWeek. The UK Health Security Agency (UKSHA) recommends that radon levels should be reduced in homes where the annual averages is at or above 200 becquerels per cubic metre.

For the love of God please stop

ok, this is maybe a long shot, but anyone here using GPS tags (the ones you can put in luggage etc) for self-built surface drifters? 🌊 So far we've used raspberry-pi with a GPS module, but we have lots of connection problems, so we're looking to simplify this....

This includes coverage for approximately 99 per cent of the bedrock and approximately 95 per cent of the superficial deposits across the country. These geological maps provide crucial information like rock types and faults, forming a valuable resource for a wide range of uses.

Since it's coming up again in the Discourse: GPS (GNSS) is a passive system and does not itself actually track anything. The satellites just shout out their own position & time. Your device just listens to that, works out its position, and may store or transmit that data through a phone connection.

You know how kingfishers are a glorious rare sight, a flicker of blue dashing by? Look at this handsome lady carrying her lunch:

Watching Shada, the Doctor Who episode by Douglas Adams. The shade on the annoying computers is as good as Hitchhikers. In order to persuades a ship he's not a threat he tells it he's dead ... and it promptly conserves resources by turning off the oxygen 🙃

GUYS! IT'S FINALLY HERE! My first dissertation chapter has been published in Climatic Change!!! We read 194 papers on environmental justice on the coast and our findings are free for the public 🌊🌎🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Relatable.

🌊 Today is World Tsunami Awareness Day! We can't stop tsunamis, but we can prevent them from becoming disasters 💪 🔗 https://bit.ly/3J4saJO

🌊 Today is #WorldTsunamiAwarenessDay While 5 Nov is known for Guy Fawkes Night in the UK, globally it’s a day to raise awareness of tsunami risk. At NOC, we're advancing detection & resilience, from tide gauges to fibre optic sensing. Discover more lnkd.in/gEfxCrSF #GetToHigherGround #TsunamiDay

Remember remember the 5th of November! Did you know, Bonfire Night is also World Tsunami Awareness day? The date is chosen in honour of Hamaguchi Goryo, who in 1854 set fire to his crop to warn villagers nearby to evacuate from the oncoming wave. tsunamiday.undrr.org

The shutdown has left NOAA's network of cooperative research institutes locked out of federal labs and cut off from federal collaborators. In some cases, it's affecting research aimed at public safety—like toxic algae monitoring in the Great Lakes. My story 🔏 & quick 🧵 www.eenews.net/articles/shu...

What does a geodesist look like, and what happens if you don’t “look the part”? @franckghomsi.bsky.social, a Black African scientist, takes us on his journey across South Africa, Canada & Cameroon, researching coastal climate change while battling racism and visa struggles. #Geodesy

As a dad who loves maths and Christmas (and bad jokes) I could not love this more.

So everyone says we were unreasonably made afraid of quicksand relative to real risk but today I literally almost died in quicksand

Not unexpected, given everything, but not good. Hard choices for NOAA. I don't know how much of a hole this puts in the Pacific tsunami warning system further afield. It's so sad and frustrating to see America pull apart some of its greatest assets in real time. It will take longer to rebuild.

Ok I was offline for the critical day to figure out what the Ozymandias thing was about. Anyone? (I know the original)

Experiment complete, or so the @sosbangor.bsky.social students have declared! We are heading back into Menai Bridge on this glorious day

Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term www.gov.uk/government/p...

I have just discovered "self-threading" needles and if you struggle to thread a needle give them a go! Fine needle threaded in poor light, almost by feel, first time. Came undone twice while sewing, but easy to redo.

👩‍🎓 PhD position at the National Oceanography Centre 👨‍🎓 🔍 Project: Heat, Freshwater and Oxygen Budgets in the Eastern Subpolar North Atlantic: Implications for UK continental shelf and European Weather. 🤝Team: Tiago, Neil, Lidia, & Bieito @bfcastro.bsky.social 🌊 Info: www.o-snap.org/phd-at-noc-uk/

UTTERLY SURREAL LOW ANGLE GLACIER SLIDE!! 😮😱 On Saturday at 11:00 am, a 2 km-long, 25 m-high, and 150-200 m in width section detached off the Ismoil Somoni Glacier (Tajikistan) and slid down the gorge! 🧊🌊 asiaplustj.info/en/node/354309 📽️ via @volcaholic1

Heads up, diary date for next week! It's a day to commemorate and promote the best of humanity, working together for mutual protection.🌊 Remember remember the fifth of November, Tsunami Awareness Day. If you feel the earth shake, Hear a roar, see a wave, From the sea you must swift run away.

Look, I don't believe in hell and there are few crimes that are utterly unforgivable. But. May the person who sold the mass lie that you can "save" daylight by enforcing communal messing with the measurement of time be cursed to eternity+1 of sleeplessly resetting misaligned clocks.

Last time I was in this bookshop they only had one by @tkingfisher.com ... Pleased to see they've got the message!

My favourite example of this stuff is lists of phobias. Loads of them include "lutraphobia, fear of otters". A reclusive, rare and cute mammal you never see. It has got to have come from a joke or typo for "fear of others", but once it's been set in latin it gets copied all over the place.

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

Saw this tonight in New Brighton and if there's still tickets going grab them. Atmospheric and well done, suitable for the season. CW apply.

Pigeonholes

and if you think that if we let the BBC get destroyed what would come in its place would be *more* left-wing... I think you haven't really been paying attention to how money works, how much money tech billionaires have, and what they're doing with it in the UK media landscape *already*.

In people who make Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli look like amateurs news: a runner has just done 475 miles (765km) in 4 1/2 days.