Stunning conditions (and enthusiastic students!) for the first few days of the @es-ucl.bsky.social mapping course in North West Scotland! ☀️ ⛰️ ⚒️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🗺️ #fieldworkfriday

Neat idea from psephology that might be useful for geological ternary plots too. Similar to the 4 component solid solution of garnet.

Given that universities/gov are savaged in the media even for increasing fees with inflation, is there anything meaningfully lost from advocating for a one-off step change back to an inflation adjusted £9k (~£13k)?

Me to students: "Keep field notebooks legible, and only write down the most relevant information". My own notebooks:

Shocked to hear that Stream, which has given Esri huge sums of bill payer money to create an extremely basic API, has won an award from…. Esri! Trebles all round…

eartharxiv.org/repository/v... In our new preprint we describe in detail the software & workflows behind www.SewageMap.co.uk! One for the open environmental data nerds out there :) 💩 🧑‍💻 🏞️

Related reminder that the student loan repayment threshold for current students is now *£25000*... i.e., if you now graduate and get *any full time job* you will be paying back your loan. (www.gov.uk/repaying-you...)

Shamelessly replugging this from two years ago. We would never look at the proportion of, say, schools, that don't turn out literate pupils and go 'oh well, probably those kids were better off out of it'. We shouldn't view the short tail of bad courses and/or outcomes any differently:

Putting together a NERC proposal and somewhat baffled by what NERC mean when they want a Summary to be suitable for "opinion-formers". Who are these people and how am I meant to write for them?!

We are offering a full-time permanent academic post at Lecturer level (Grade 8) in UCL Earth Sciences. Research areas include the climate crisis, hydrogeology, sustainable resources, the energy transition, natural hazards, and planetary science. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

We at @es-ucl.bsky.social are hiring a Lecturer! Research area is broadly defined within the climate crisis, hydrogeology, sustainable resources, the energy transition, natural hazards, and planetary science. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Total ignorance here that Universities *already offer* vocational training. The whole point of the 92 reforms was to give these vocational courses at polytechnics the same level of accreditation as academic degrees...

My favourite fact about crushing rocks is that it uses up **1%** of all global energy usage…

Really excellent news, and should never have been doubt. The original protest on Dartmoor was a hugely moving event and has sparked a new wave of R2R movement ⛰️ 🏕️ 🌱

New Job! Please repost! We have a NERC funded PDRA position here @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social, 2 yrs, on modelling cryosphere change and hydrochemistry #models, #carbon, #permafrost, #deglaciation Come join our friendly team! Apply by 11/06, any Qs get in touch! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

www.theguardian.com/business/202... I really question how useful this type of reporting is in practice. The question to ask is "Is This A Big Number?" and I just don't think we have enough years worth of data (3 years tops) to work out if 4m is, or is not, a big number...

Does the UK state have a vendetta against universities?

www.theguardian.com/environment/... The new government policy on bathing water status seems to be taking direct inspiration from the survivorship bias meme, for some reason?!?

"The intersection of science and politics is both inescapable and of vital importance. Scientists possess unique expertise that is crucial for informed policymaking and societal progress. Embracing political engagement allows scientist" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In this ancient Assyrian letter, astronomers complain that they can’t do their jobs or teach astronomy “because of the ilku-duty”, a type of taxation in the form of labour. “we cannot keep the watch of the king, and the pupils do not learn the scribal craft” cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/33...

Question for #hydrology #dataviz and #webdev folks… has anyone seen a visualisation like the below from earth.nullschool.net (by @cambecc.bsky.social) but for river discharge not wind speed?? Sure I saw something similar previously but now can’t remember where!

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Are you passionate about science communication and spreading the word about the diamond open access revolution in geosciences? Here's your chance! Join the Seismica movement as a volunteer for our Media & Branding team. Details and application here: forms.gle/D5QWWFZY65GP...

www.sewagemap.co.uk now covers the whole of England. The picture is pretty horrifying.

www.sewagemap.co.uk now has national coverage! North Devon getting a bit of a pasting right now 💩 💩…

Working on some exciting updates to www.SewageMap.co.uk with @jonnydawe.github.io!!

Be sure to visit our website journals.uu.se/AGC and let us know if you are planning to submit your work to AGC in the upcoming months (link below). We appreciate your support and are looking forward to receiving your manuscripts!

Happening all morning at poster board #1224 in Earth & Planetary Surface Processes!

This was a really great poster on a fascinating topic! #AGU24

Now up! Come learn how cocaine enters rivers in London! (…and if someone could also bring me a coffee… ☕️)

This is my personal "evenings and weekends" project. Mathematically adjusted football league tables. Quite interesting at the moment for the Premier League.

Really excited to share that as of January I will be joining @es-ucl.bsky.social as a Lecturer! Looking forward to getting stuck in and being a part of an exciting and growing cluster in #surfaceprocesses and #geochemistry expertise! 🗻🧪🧑‍🔬🏞️

I'm attending #AGU24 all of next week in DC and excited to have some great chats with folks about pollution, weathering, & landscapes! 🇺🇸 I'm presenting and involved in a few talks and posters this year...👇1/5

There it is! @weareagc.bsky.social is opening for submission next month. It's been quit a ride so far and we're excited for the future! Go check our policies and team on www.agcj.org And help us plan our initial workloa by telling us if you plan to submit a paper to AGC here: t.co/Ji7NnCOBCC

Really excited to be a (small) part of this endeavour as a copy editor! AGC is a new community led, *free to read, free to publish* journal of geo+cosmochemistry! Open for submissions 20th of January! Please share widely 🧪⚒️☄️💫📝💎

🌎 Are you an early career researcher keen on Earth surface processes? Want to learn about numerical modeling & software development? Apply for the *free* @csdms.bsky.social ESPIn immersive training experience May 5-12, 2025 in Boulder Colorado. Apply starting 02 Dec buff.ly/40Uefwu

I'm in The Conversation discussing the new release of nationwide sewage spill data in the wider context of open data, open models and environmental transparency. 1/n #opendata 🧪 theconversation.com/water-compan...

Water companies now have to release live sewage spill data – here's why more transparency is the key to cleaner rivers theconversation.com/water-compan... by @alexglipp.bsky.social #StormOverflows Data www.streamwaterdata.co.uk/pages/storm-... (England) #opendata (CC BY)

I'm in The Conversation discussing the new release of nationwide sewage spill data in the wider context of open data, open models and environmental transparency. 1/n #opendata 🧪 theconversation.com/water-compan...

Last week I had the pleasure of hosting a Euro-CSDMS workshop to envision future models of the natural world. Inspirational discussions & tangible next steps towards a thriving international community pioneering the next generation of environmental models! @csdms.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social

Thinking about next-generation environmental models and societal implications with #EuroCSDMS never felt more pressing. With @alexglipp.bsky.social @mdpiper.bsky.social @gregtucker.bsky.social @csdms.bsky.social and many more!

To date the best conference freebie I have ever received!

Enjoyed a discussion today on #models and #modelling in geochemistry as a group w @alexglipp.bsky.social Took away the idea of empirically adequate models, and how to design model experiments alongside data 🧪⚒️🖥️📈 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

www.nature.com/articles/s44... Very well written piece: "Challenging the neutrality myth in climate science and activism"

Really pleased that my sewage pollution tracking package POOPy (github.com/AlexLipp/poopy) merged in its first public contribution (thank you github user JTC-0!), so that it can now map out polluted rivers in Wales (in real time!) 💩🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

This is absolutely bonkers. Who exactly at NOAA thought this was a good idea…

Journals need to stop start-ups publishing descriptions of models unless they open-source the code... it means companies can free-ride off a peer-reviewed tag without allowing methods to be scrutinised or contributing to the wider field #opendata 🧪⚒️ (e.g., www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...)

Job opportunity! We're looking to hire a Research Software Engineer for a cool new project that involves coupling tectonic and geomorphic models. 🧪 @csdms.bsky.social Details here: bc.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

www.theguardian.com/education/ar... Refreshing to hear ministers actually talking up the sector, and movingly too.

Hydrology Papers of the Day @alexglipp.bsky.social on an approach to determine sources of river pollution by working backward from locations with known concentrations: a Directed Acyclic Graph and an optimization problem; an open source implementation; and application to an urban UK river.