In cooperation with RWE, we proudly announce the installation of the first #MOTUS station in an offshore wind farm (Amrumbank West) in Germany and in Europe. This will help to fill key knowledge gaps in offshore environmental monitoring. We were supported by our colleagues from Wind Energy Systems

2nd edition of our The AI Shift newsletter is out. The question today: could AI be making us LESS productive? @jburnmurdoch.ft.com www.ft.com/content/2480... At the individual level, it's clear we're not reliable witnesses on this Q. At an organisational level, it gets even more interesting...

The eye of Hurricane Melissa. Image taken today by Sentinel-2.

Nobody wanted this kind of sky. At least no one who, you know, likes the world.

#Melissa latest satellite view and rain radar. Winds 180 mph. Pressure 896 mb. 25 miles from landfall over Jamaica 🇯🇲🙏

4 days of seismic records from a seismic station in Jamaica shows Hurricane Melissa roaring towards the island. Hurricanes increase the amplitude of ocean waves which beat on the coast and sea floor. These produce Rayleigh waves that can be seen as increasingly thick “wiggles” in seismic records 🧪

We’re hiring a doctoral researcher in the area of migration ecology. The work will focus on the question of how and when migratory songbirds learn where their home is using #Motus. Part of the Cluster of Excellence NaviSense and linked with @sfb1372.bsky.social uol.de/job788en #ornithology

1 week left to apply to our Postdoc job with our lab using AI to analyze camera trap images at the NC Museum of Natural sciences and NCSU and in collaboration with Wildlife Insights https:/​/​jobs.ncsu.edu/​postings/​223025

After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results: - AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2% - ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1% - ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

Evidence from 14 research funding programmes confirms that early winners tend to keep winning (Matthew effect). But the idea that an early setback makes you stronger later doesn’t replicate widely. buff.ly/UEtcRd4

"It's just the weather" "Mosquitoes have been found in Iceland for the first time. Iceland was one of the only places in the world that did not have a mosquito population. The other is Antarctica." #GlobalBoiling

😎 First glimpses from space! The new #Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission has delivered its first preliminary images during commissioning. Sentinel-4’s spectrometer is hosted on @eumetsat.int's MTG-S1 satellite 🧪🌍 @josefaschbacher.esa.int @ec.europa.eu @esaearth.esa.int

I'm offering a funded PhD position on nighttime lights #RemoteSensing in the Institute of #Geography at the @ruhr-uni-bochum.de#RemoteSensing#geographyttps://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/62065e5be70a916f65edd647cd1b1740b04cd72e0 I'd love for the ad to be seen by as many potential candidates as possible, so […]

Autumn Days 🍂 The Old Packhorse Bridge, which dates back to 1717. Dulnain Bridge Scottish Highlands #Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #Bridges #History

Starting a new week with another sumptuous selection of lakeside reflection photography from around Finland. Photos shared on IG by huulari85, riittarauta, aerijyr, and silvop: www.instagram.com/p/DQBq4tkjGhx/

📷 This was our #WeekInImages 13-17 October 2025 👇 www.esa.int/About_Us/Wee...

The team just picked up the latest data from the Swiss National Parc. Full of goodies - find out more about the first paper from the project: eceo-epfl.github.io/MammAlps/

But no major grants and his teaching evaluations suck.

I've received an 'exclusive' invite to try Nature's new 'research assistant', which will burn down a forest to provide a 'summary of the paper' I'm reading and I have SUCH exciting news for them, that's called an 'abstract' and the actual authors already wrote it for me, no forest-burning required.

'The long and winding road'

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

When you start a #PhD you are learning how to do research. You don't know how to do it so ask questions. Lots of questions. If you already knew how to do a PhD there wouldn't be any point in doing it. You are doing it to learn #PhDchat #PhDforum #ECRchat #postdoc #AcademicChatter

New visual story: Bird migration is one of nature’s greatest spectacles — and scientists are uncovering extraordinary insights into how new threats are reshaping these epic journeys. Follow the remarkable travels of three birds as they fly across the planet. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky retractionwatch.com/2025/10/03/w...

My Saturday Stile 👣🐾🌊😎 Scottish Highlands

The wonderful aptly named Amethyst Deceiver 💜 🍄‍🟫 On my Friday dog walk…perfect timing for #FungiFriday Scottish Highlands 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #mushrooms #Fungi #mycology

Starling wings! 😍 Taken this weekend at the Huntspill seawall in Somerset. 😊🐦 #birds 🪶 All my links; linktr.ee/carlbovis

🌍✨ Our next seminar is with @grantdmckenzie.bsky.social "Place, Privacy and Mobility: Navigating the intersection of location science and human dynamics" Date: 4th November 2025 @ 2pm UK time (online only). Register here: tinyurl.com/3bzv63rj ✨🌍

when you try and get your PhD advisor to review your manuscript 😂

"Don't lose hope" Jane Goodall, an inspiration to the end. If you watch one thing today, let it be this.

If you'd asked me which celebrity would posthumously unveil a list of people she wanted fired into the sun, I would not have guessed Jane Goodall

🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

A 3,500 year-old Egyptian glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads! Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so this jar would have been a precious possession. From Merit’s beauty case, found inside Theban tomb (TT8) of Merit and her husband Kha in 1906. 📷 Museo Egizio #Archaeology

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

My voyage to explore how Marshallese sailors find their way at sea without technology ⚓️ The ‘person of the sea’ 🌊 the ‘Ri Meto’, navigation 🧭 without instruments.

#StormAmy ’s magnificent swirl as seen from @eumetsat.int’s Meteosat-12 satellite 🛰️

The Geese Dawn Chorus… volume up! Just a few of the hundreds this morning … the geese are on the move South from Iceland 🇮🇸 over the Scottish Highlands 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 View from my house door this morning and caught the last few #Migration @rspb.bsky.social @rspbscotland.bsky.social #geese

Some things never change! 4,000 year-old ancient Egyptian writing board with a student’s many spelling mistakes corrected in red ink by the teacher! 😂 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology

Once more I urge everyone to read news from across the European continent and beyond the Anglosphere.

They've lost the 9yos

🌍✨ Our second seminar is with @miladmzdh.bsky.social - a Postdoc from @digigeolab.bsky.social "Towards Democratizing VR, AI, and Mobility Data: Insights from GreenTravel, MobiTwin, and OpenGPS" Date: 7th October 2025 @ 2pm UK time (hybrid). Register here: tinyurl.com/3dj46bcp ✨🌍

🌍✨ Our first seminar of AY25-26 kicks off with St Andrews Alumni @sila-gisci.bsky.social "From seconds to lifetimes: challenges in measuring environmental exposure across spatial and temporal scales" Date: 30th September 2025 @ 2pm UK time (hybrid). Register here: tinyurl.com/ybaz2e6d ✨🌍

Look, the ball is wound in the same way we do today, 6000 years later. Mindboggling.

The condition of fabrics from pile dwelling and wetland settlements is amazing. This charred ball of thread was found at the site of Marin-Epagnier/Préfargier. It was made of hemp or lime fibres, and dates about 3900 to 3300 BC. The thread measures a total of about 10 m in length. 📷 Laténium 🏺

“you died without making something that no one else could make” 🔥🔥🔥 You enrich the world with *your* unique lived experience, memories, viewpoints. You bring nothing new to the world by prompting an algorithm to regurgitate a meaningless amalgam of experiences other people have previously shared.

People who use AI think that they’re skipping to the success when they’re skipping to the failure. You begin and end your life as someone who has not written the novel, you did not teach yourself to express what was inside of you, you died without making something that no one else could make.

It's interesting that anyone would be surprised by this. They are large language models, not large fact models. They are very good at language; it's unsurprising that they aren't terribly good at facts.

The call for participation is out for the 9th Spatial Knowledge and Information Conference #SKI2026 Canada. The conference will take place February 19-22, 2026 in Banff, Alberta. Ski all morning, conference all evening. skiconference.ca

New research from the School of Psychology and Neuroscience has revealed the brain’s built-in distance tracker, and its link to early Alzheimer's diagnosis. DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2025.08.011 Read more... 👇 ow.ly/HL5S50WZh2l #EverToExcel