IanMBrooks

IanMBrooks, 14 days ago to random

For reasons way above my pay grade, I am babysitting a rabbit. If I am insufficiently prompt in refilling the food bowl it repeatedly picks it up and throws it at the floor until I get the message.

IanMBrooks, 1 month ago to art

Cambridge Contemporary Art are now stocking a selection of my etchings - mostly polar landscapes, including these:

1. Mount MacArthur - South Georgia
2. Calving Front - Sheridan Peak and Nordenskjöld Glacier, South Georgia
3. Port Lockroy - Goudier Island, Antarctica
4. Mount Paget - South Georgia

#art #etching #printmaking #landscape

monochrome etching of a glacier with cloud-shrouded mountain in the distance
monochrome etching of a mountain behind a group of huts and masts
monochrome etching of an ice and snow covered mountain rising behind foreground hills

IanMBrooks, 3 months ago to art

"Point of Sleat, from Rum" - etching - 30x10 cm - edition of 20.

View from the shore of Loch Scresort on Rum, across the Point of Sleat on the southern tip of Skye to the peaks of Ladhar Bheinn, Sgurr Coire Nan Gobhar, and Sgurr an Eilan Ghuibbais on the mainland.

#art #etching #PrintMaking

IanMBrooks, 4 months ago to art

Progress...getting close on this etching (detail).

#art #etching #printmaking #landscape #drawing

davidho, 5 months ago to random

We don't know what air-sea gas exchange is at high wind speeds not because we don't encounter those conditions but because it's currently impossible to deploy a CTD/rosette at those sea states.

We gotta figure out how to sample in these conditions.

Screenshot of a weather monitoring interface showing various readings such as air pressure, relative humidity, air temperature, water temperature, wind speed and direction, and radiation levels. The absolute wind speed reading is circled in red and is 31.5 m/s

IanMBrooks, 6 months ago to art

"Rain Over Sligachan" - etching - 30x10 cm - edition of 20.

#art #etching #PrintMaking #landscape

IanMBrooks, 6 months ago to art

"St Kilda Dreams" - etching - 56x15 cm - edition of 12.
Printed full-bleed on 300gm Somerset Satin paper.

#art #PrintMaking #etching #landscape

davidho, 7 months ago to random

A 2023 Nature survey of 1,600 researchers found that more than 25% use AI to help them write manuscripts and that more than 15% use the technology to help them write grant proposals. 👀

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02980-0

IanMBrooks, 7 months ago to random

Just signed this letter to the Prime Minister, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology and Chairman of the Conservative Party, protesting against their position on 'kicking woke ideology out of science'.

https://hull.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/edi_in_science

IanMBrooks, 8 months ago to random

There is a unique sense of dread that accompanies surfacing from sleep in the wee small hours and realising that what woke you is was the sound of the cat being sick somewhere...

...it's not even our cat 😶

IanMBrooks, 8 months ago to art

First life drawing session after the summer break...inevitably feeling a bit rusty, but this first 10-minute pose isn't too shabby.

#art #lifedrawing #drawing

helenczerski, 8 months ago to science

My sister has just lent me Chris Van Tulleken’s Ultra-Processed People, itself “processed” by her dog enthusiastically carrying it around the house for a couple of weeks. Apparently it was his favourite carry toy, and I’ve just temporarily deprived him of it.

#science #books #dogs

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IanMBrooks, 9 months ago to sailing

I spent last week with Sail Britain (https://www.sailbritain.org/) on their Between Land and Sea artist residency - sailing a 12m racing yacht, Merlin, around the coast and islands south of Mallaig, drawing the landscape, foraging for mushrooms, eating same, drawing more, swimming, and enjoying the company of a lovely bunch of people I'd never met before. Had a fabulous time. (photo of me by Julius Koschnick)

#sailing #art

photo of a group of people sat in the open cockpit of a 12m racing yacht

davidho, 9 months ago to random

As a professor of oceanography, I think it’s underappreciated that the ocean is wet.

helenczerski, 10 months ago to science

Tidying my office the other day and I found my favourite ever certificate, from ten years ago. We had helped with the release of a stratospheric balloon in Texas and then tracked it to recover the data once it was back on the ground. Steely-eyed ballooner! #science #stratosphere

IanMBrooks, 11 months ago to random

Back in UK...and sort of wish I wasn't. Reading news of sewage closing swimming spots in UK. 3 days ago in Oslo - this is how an inner city watercourse is managed... properly!

IanMBrooks, 1 year ago to random

Highly recommended...