One of the coolest photos of the lunar eclipse this week generated from over 800 images taken with a portable all-sky imager. You can see the transition of the moon into total eclipse with a very bright auroral substorm reaching overhead. What an amazing experience this was!
Thrilled to share our new preprint:
βExtreme Heat as the New Normalβ π‘οΈπ₯
We introduce a roadmap + code for identifying and mapping extreme heat π and linking it to ecology:
π§ Species distribution models π¦
πΏ Biophysical models & microclimates π¦
π Population dynamics π₯
doi.org/10.64898/202... 𧡠β¬οΈ
Tiny figures in vast snowscape
Snowy cliff edge above corrie
Walkers crossing snowy plateau with crampons and axes
Hiker in hat at frozen summit weather station
At last - a bluebird day! Fantastic conditions in the northern corries of the Cairngorms today. Hope you managed to enjoy a great walk, wherever you got out to.
We are pleased to share that the reports from the Data-Driven Mobility Analytics (#DDMA2025) Workshops 2025 (both MontrΓ©al & Aalto) have now been published and are openly available on OSF.io
platial.science/ddma-2025-mo...
I understand why chatbot cheating happens but every time I read about it I want to gently remind everyone that the point of schoolwork is not for the submission to exist. Teachers are not just greedy for more essays or solved equations. The point is to do the work WITH YOUR OWN BRAIN, FOR LEARNING.
Atlantic Puffin at HornΓΈya, Norway
New opening for a 3-year PhD project in 'Seabird Ecology in a Changing Arctic' at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (TromsΓΈ) and the Arctic University of Norway (UiT). Apply before 25 Mar 2026. #seabirdscience @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social nina.attract.reachmee.com/jobs/84-phd-...
π¨JOB alertπ¨
We have three (yes, THREE) πlectureshipsπ advertised in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol.
Broad remit, including #AnimalBehaviour & #GlobalChangeBiology
β±οΈDeadline: 8th March 2026
πPlease circulate widely
πCome join us!
Full #job details: tinyurl.com/y3us95rc
Einstein is an Al with a computer. He logs into Canvas every day, watches lectures, reads essays, writes papers, participates in discussions, and submits your homework β automatically.
There are many interesting and challenging questions about AI and education, but what to do about a student who makes use of this sort of service is really not one of them.
But where are the women? π€
The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
darksky.org/news/two-sat...
Haha, that's cool. Curling is big in Scotland. There are 22 curling ice rinks in the country I think (maybe more) and schools in some areas teach it as part of physical education curriculum.
Fun fact, all Olympic curling stones and most of the others in the world come from a small Scottish island: youtube.com/shorts/aXYoD...
The sad thing is that the same happened to the Scottish team 4 years ago, they lost the gold on the last throw of the last game.
And UK got nothing in that game - the losing team in the game gets nothing. The total score is the sum of the scores from 10 games.
No, the score is the number of stones that your team has closer to the white bullseye than the other team at the end of each game. So in game 9, Canada scored 3, because at the end they had 3 stones in the house closer to the centre than UK had.
Because at the end of 10 games they managed to have cumulatively more stones within the house and closer to the centre of the ring than UK did: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympi...
My comments on the impact of GPS on our brains.
Not all bad, but the consequences can be bad, as in the case of this amazon delivery driver!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Lots of folk talking about how AI automating coding in economics, it's easy to write a paper(dissertation etc) but should you if it ends up being low quality output? Gresham's law in action
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Using our bee-tracking drone, we discovered that honey bees π have highly precise and individual routes. Now published at @currentbiology.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
A zoomed in look at 4 scientists working with the a lava fountain covering the entire background.
A very tall lava fountain with tiny dots (people) near the base. The image is a bit forced perspective and we are not as close as it looks
Someone captured my colleagues an I servicing the cameras during KΔ«laueaβs episode 42. We stopped to discuss what we were seeing, but because I talk with my hands it looks like Iβm fixing to push someone inβ¦
Credit: Volcano Hideaways
I cannot stress enough that automatic translation into English will flatten your world. We need the delicious friction of different languages; we need to celebrate diversity.
![[V1cam] KΔ«lauea volcano, Hawaii (west HalemaΚ»umaΚ»u crater)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pnmcfac4zxc3s4jpaifhfrvd/bafkreid2qrffo2iop6yfynr2cr7pfzsrlzojnlm66dq44jikoriffhmwgu)
KΔ«lauea is doing the thing again!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk0t...
Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!
"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
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Our next seminar in March is with @martinfleischmann.net (Urban and Regional Laboratory, Prague).
"Understanding the structure of space:Β Urban Morphometrics as a Backbone of Urban Taxonomy"
Date: Tues 3rd March 2026 @ 2pm UK time (online + in person)
Register here: tinyurl.com/y4rb4bw4
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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
This is fascinating to see what communities pop out. Lovely visualisation :
We're *so* close to some students spending more time to have AI do their work, then use AI to make it not seem like AI and then have AI check it ... all taking more time and money than, you know, doing that actual work.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
And the good news continue: we have an open position for a University Professor (Β§99(1) Universities Act 2002) - in the field of "Digital Earth - Geovisualization"!
Heh, for a much funnier write up than Iβd ever manage, hereβs someone who took the hit so that you donβt have to: bsky.app/profile/kole... TL;DR: about what youβd expect given itβs been rushed out and involves the usual batch of consultancies.
