Should probably add #dogsOfPixelFed#DogsOfMastodon#DogsOfFedi to this one too.. https://pixelfed.social/p/IceClimate/682757737958876504 @IceClimate - The problem with Polar Day is that I never want to go to sleep. I went for a walk at 10.30pm instead. Much colder than earlier, about -16 C but also clearer and a view (finally) of the mountains on the other side of the fjord. But now I think these two have the right idea. God nat alle...
Not so #SilentSunday
It's snowing quite hard and about -10C. Hope it clears up by tomorrow as we are test flying the UAV tomorrow and plan to leave for the long trip Tuesday.
I'm having some issues with my normal pixel fed account so I've set up a new one just for fieldwork pictures @IceClimate - also re-upping the blog post on it. So of you are interested in gratuitous ice, snow and dog photos, head on over there and I'll try to avoid clogging up your mastodon feed...
England is a country, and so are Wales and Scotland. Together with Northern Ireland these three countries are in a voluntary (right?) union - The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, or UK for short - a political entity with a shared currency and a common foreign policy. And just like the EU, not a country. A country cannot consist of other countries.
@grb090423@Loukas Probabaly closest to Nunavut (especially in the north - where the language is very close and quite a bit different to southern Greenlandic). NOt sure about sami, but when google translate is given Kalaallisut, it generally tries to translate it as finnish (which doesn't work)
Have to say I only know a couple of Nunavut words thanks to following @NunavutBirder who posts beautiful images of their homeland and very kindly translates the odd term.
I updated my page of useful #OpenScience research tools and resources with some new academic search engines including @OpenAlex + @base - I'm sure there are others out there too..
I'm lifting my head from the semi-organised chaos that is my office, my home office and the office workshop to write a quick post. The reason for the chaos is that NCKF fieldwork season has come round again and on Friday I and my DMI colleague Steffen will be off to Northern Greenland once again. I'll try to post a few photos to pixelfed, but here's a quick view..
If you're an early career scientist working in the polar regions, let me recommend that you join #APECS (Association of Polar Early Career Scientists) - I had an illuminating chat with the #APECSdenmark team this morning - we'll be co-organising some activities with @OceanIceEU + perhaps also @PolarRES later this year at the #EuropeanPolarScienceWeek24 in Copenhagen AND at the Nordic Meteorological Meeting in August #NMM24
Discussing some work on sea ice and coastal polynyas in #Antarctica with colleague and stumbled on this frankly glorious image from @esaclimate#Sentinel2 on 22nd March this year. So much going on in this picture from #ShackletonIceShelf in East Antarctica.
Can't remember who it was on here who recommended #Radiolab podcast to me, but once again, thankyou 🙏!
This piece on the old-new or perhaps new-old fight against antibiotic resistance is awesome.
"For too long, too few have worried about Earth’s remotest continent and its largest refrigerator, while attention focused on the fires that burned, literally and figuratively, on more populated shores. Antarctica was variously portrayed as an explorer’s playground, a utopian land of scientific co-operation or a poster child for environmental protectionism. The exceptionalism is misguided"
I've been planning a blog post on Antarctica for literally ten years. And now @TheEconomist has gone and done it. Typical. Ah well. Maybe later on today ..