Let's be honest, we've all had a colleague like Larry

It’s HOT! Don’t forget to unplug your local Data center to stay cool.

I would like a journal that publishes papers entitled "I set out to do cool science but have instead spent the last two years trying to figure out why this model produces plants that look like matchsticks and have no roots"

We spend so much time talking about how horrible some people in academia are and not enough about the wonderful connections and communities we build

Saw someone say "fork found in kitchen" to mean something is very obvious but finding a fork in any workplace kitchen is usually a miracle. Is this just a scientist thing or a general phenomenon? What do scientists do with forks?

I'm looking forward to the storms later this year

🥵 Europe has been affected by a terrible heatwave, with impacts across the continent & record-breaking temperatures in many countries. The @ipcc.bsky.social #AR6 conclusions show that that heat extremes have become more intense & more frequent across the world due to human-induced climate change.

I'm generally an advocate for eating the rich but this graph puts my teeth on edge. Why compare top 5 with top 15? If you multiply the 1918 values by 3 to get to 15 you end up with about the same. Plus the legend us pointless.

Morning Womble! I've just finished Written on the Dark by Guy Gavriel Kay and starting The Given World by Melissa Harrison. Very distinct but very different writing styles so I'm struggling a bit with the transition. Love them both though!

Can't shake the feeling us scientists have shot ourselves in the foot by switching to saying AI rather than ML This study is so freaking cool but getting swept away by thr AI hype

I understand that universities choose to not have staff emails on their websites to minimise phishing and spam but how exactly am I supposed to contact reviewers?

No one could have predicted this

PhD position available: Predicting impacts of extreme heat on Australian forests The world is heating up and forests are starting to show the effects. Like maths? Love trees? Apply your skills to help understand and adapt vegetation to heat extremes! www.westernsydney.edu.au/schools/grs/...

I'm at 175 responses for my survey on personal tutoring! I want to smash the 200 threshold, so if you're an academic in UK HE who's had pastoral repsonsibility for students in the last 5 years under any title, I'd love to hear from you - it only takes ten minutes. Please do share.

I was flicking through an old booklet from a leadership skills training course and I found this note. I don't remember the context but they seem like wise words

This is what I keep saying to students. I'd much rather you worked together on assignments, I'd much rather yoi asked each other when you don't know things.

ICYMI -- this is a big deal, and we have a limited time to comment. We need everyone, including (especially!) non-academics to 1) make public comments, 2) write op eds, 3) contact your elected representatives, and 4) ask societies and advocacy groups to speak out against this and mobilize members.

This is fucked up, until you remember universities see PhD students as cheap labor and then it all makes sense 🧪

What is wrong with people

You know how to model biodiversity change in response to climate and land-use change? You dream of working with top climate scientists? Come work with me, @ybuckley.bsky.social and @scaldararu.bsky.social, hosted by @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

The contrast between the number of media requests I got when rich people on a cruise were facing a deadly, but contained outbreak versus now that some of the poorest people in the world are facing a deadly and devastating epidemic is just so so stark and it just really annoys the hell out of me.

I see that in between this morning and now we've gone from grumbling about that 100 greatest novels list to being extremely silly about it. Never change, Bluesky

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

AI experts discover data assimilation problems 101

1/- VERY important new article to describe our current moment: "Fossil fascism is defined here as a political, legal & cultural system revolving around an ultra-nationalist defence of fossil fuel extraction, while silencing & suppressing any opposition to it." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sometimes we all need a reminder: When optimism is in short supply When you’re having real trouble believing in a better tomorrow When the despair comes Remember There’s always spite Endure, because those fuckers don’t get to WIN Fuck ‘em Sometimes that helps Sometimes it’s enough

Better safe than sorry

We'll be there over the weekend and Monday, come chat to us about ash dieback and why some trees are tolerant. We have stickers.

Join us this weekend at the Native Species Festival at Dublin Zoo to find out about ash trees, why they are dying and what we can do to keep them around www.dublinzoo.ie/events/nativ...

Four talks and posters from our group happening today at #EGU26

Come see Camille's talk this morning on modelling below ground competition and plant diversity at 11 in room 2.95 #EGU26 🧪🌎🌾

Now I could be convinced these things are sentient

At #EGU26 next week? Come and see our presentations from process models to ML and from plant competition to grassland management. 🧪🌍🌾

Some people continue to advocate for regenerative grazing as a big climate solution. But it's not. The better answer is to cut back on beef consumption, curb food waste, and rethink the food system. drawdown.org/insights/gre...

The only planet with books!

I want to be excited by all the moon stuff but what's being done to earth and space science is dismal

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Why is Irish electricity so expensive? Economists from the ESRI crunched the numbers - and generating a large share of our electricity using gas is a big factor. jrnl.ie/7011725t

Okay okay but can we have trains

Now, you might say, "What about all the knowledge we'd lose if we push all the abusive geniuses out of academia?!" But I'd counter and say, "Well, what about the knowledge we've already lost from the budding scholars whose careers they've derailed with their abuse?"

Seriously, after 10 years in the UK plus almost 4 years in Ireland and I still sometimes answer if I'm not paying attention

I went to block this but discovered it was already on a block list I follow. Phew.

Spain invested heavily in clean energy over the last 6 years. Now, as gas prices rise, Spain has some of the lowest electricity costs on the continent. In August 2025, Spain used zero coal — just 10 years ago it powered 25% of the country. This is what energy independence actually looks like. 🌎

Given that most major media and nearly every social media company is owed by people pushing fascist agendas and AI is rampant, we all have to be extra careful to practice media literacy. Slow down. Don’t share what you haven’t read. Be wary of confirmation bias. Check the source. Verify.

Meanwhile proeminent scientists are leaving NASA because they can't do science there anymore but sure, never give up the moon or whatever.

Every fuppin time. Story of climate breakdown accompanied by a nice picture of people at the beach. This is not a good news story.

Crazy idea but what if the government itself invested in housing and public transport and put in place regulation that enhances both

Hey fellow scientists, I'm just letting you know that if you're promoting something with some junky AI image, I'm not gonna click. You've got a workshop, a conference, a new paper? Just not gonna bother. You want a bespoke image? Hire an illustrator.

I'd love to talk to prospective postdocs who are thinking about the role of land in the climate system about applying! If that's you please reach out!

We could look at this another way and say we had half a century or thereabouts when this kind of prejudice was not normalised across Europe. We have a long history of this shit.