Ruth_Mottram

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to Denmark

There is currently much hand-wringing in #Denmark about how unequal health outcomes are between regions of the country - almost entirely explained by income differences.
#HealthInequalities can always be made better...

https://sciences.social/@alfiekohn/112124097147642722
@alfiekohn - This is...quite a chart.
(It's from a new Nature article by social epidemiologists called "Why the World Cannot Afford the Rich": https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00723-3)

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to random

"Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory
Taking into account all known factors, the planet warmed 0.2 °C more last year than climate scientists expected. More and better data are urgently needed."

Good piece in Nature this week by Gavin Schmidt covers the extremely anomalous temperatures in 2023, well before El Nino got started as well as the loss of #Antarctic #SeaIce and aerosols...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00816-z

ScienceDesk, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to science

A state of emergency has been declared in southern Iceland after the eruption of another volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula, the fourth since December. The head of department at the Icelandic Meteorological agency said there could be "dangerous" consequences if lava reaches the sea as it flows southwards. BBC News has more, including video and photos.

https://flip.it/1dNiPZ

CORRECTION (added March 19): The BBC story incorrectly identified the meteorological agency as being Norwegian.

#Science #Iceland #Volcano #Geology #Eruption

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to random

This is surprisingly gripping.
https://social.coop/@eb/112032151819197592
eb@social.coop - Imagine you have a dam. Fish want to get through the floodgates, but the gates are locked. You want to open the gates when a fish wants to pass through.

If you are a tech bro, you might say “we can use AI to solve this problem”

If you are the municipality of Utrecht, you instead say “what if we put a livestream of the canal on the internet and instructed viewers to push a button when they see one”

https://visdeurbel.nl/

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to Black_cats

Spring is here: lying on a carpet in the sun late #BlackCat #Void #Caturday entry...

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to random

Looking for a warm, awkward, funny, life-affirming but never sentimental novel? Highly recommended the #LandOfShortSentences by Stine Pilgaard - book number 11 in 2024

http://sternaparadisaea.net/about-me/the-first-book-of-2024-is-done-the-fish-can-sing-by-halldor-laxness/

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to climate

Operation #culture continues, I was especially struck by the #Climate #Craftivism exhibit (+ #Greenland minerals)

https://pixelfed.eu/p/ruth_mottram/674615865265369975
@ruth_mottram - highlights from the Danish Design Museum: thought provoking exhibition on the future + sustainable materials, textiles, craftivism + exploring how gold + rubies, mined in Greenland become exquisitely beautiful jewellery - displayed alongside the industrial machinery to mine them.

#DanishDesign #DesignMuseumDenmark

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to random

I caught youngest, who is also off sick from school, on a 2nd hour of mobile phone viewing YouTube shorts.

I suggested that a game with my husband while I sleep would be a good alternative to screen time.and now the joyous whooping of kid and husband playing jenga is stopping me sleeping...

🥹

#OffSick

mxtthxw, 2 months ago to random

London, a city famous for its food. Here we have the classic Greggs where the english enjoy fine dining.

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to climate

Presentation from Torben Christensen on new work just published in @Nature #ClimateChange on the effects of the Russian invasion of #Ukraine on what we know about the #Arctic. The missing data from Russian #INTERACT stations are skewing our view
"Excluding Russian stations lowers representativeness markedly, with some biases being of the same magnitude as the expected shifts caused by climate change by the end of the century"
#ChangingArctic #ArktisIforandring #Hindsgavl

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01903-1

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to random

A reminder the joint #EC #ESA coordinated European Polar Science Week will be held in Copenhagen 3rd-6th September 2024.

You can just make it to submit a session proposal and/or poster abstract... deadline 15th March
#EuropeanPolarScienceWeek2024

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to worldwithoutus

More @osi_saf data spotted out in the wild, Henriette Skourup from @dtuspace showing a combined @esaclimate + OSI - SAF #arctic #SeaIce dataset at the #ChangingArctic conference in Copenhagen today...

#HindsgavlMeeting #ArktisIforandring

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to worldwithoutus

The director of #Greenland Natural Resources Institute Josephine Nymand is kicking off the Environment session in front of a beautiful photo of the Natural Resources Institute building...
#ChangingArctic #ArktisIforandring #Arctic #HindsgavlMeeting

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to random

Our previous science director Katrine Krogh Andersen (now science lead at Copenhagen University), launching the joint Danish, Greenlandic and Faeroese Changing Arctic meeting in the Black Diamond in Copenhagen..

Katrine was previously an ice core scientist at the Niels Bohr Institute before she took the leadership route.

This year the themes are defence, society and environment #SignOfTheTimes
#HindsgavlMeeting #ArktisIForandring

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to random

2024's book number 10 is a short but informative read on #Nefertiti and her famous portrait bust. (Another librarian win).

What I mostly took away, apart from a nice introduction to Amarna and Akhenaten is that the alleged "science" of Egyptology appears to be mostly based on supposition, guess work and prejudice with rather thin, occasional + often contradictory evidence.
More interesting is discussion on judging it's artistic merits and what it says about the viewer

http://sternaparadisaea.net/about-me/the-first-book-of-2024-is-done-the-fish-can-sing-by-halldor-laxness/

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to science

Currently sailing around the Southern Ocean on a fishing boat for @OceanIceEU - it wouldn't necessarily be my choice but Povl Abrahamson is doing it for #Science (deploying some instruments to measure changes in #antarctica and posting some spectacular photos on his #Flickr channel

https://www.flickr.com/photos/povl/53569337677/in/feed-1464238-1709681886-1-72157721709993202

atomicpoet, 2 months ago to random

Tonight’s movie is Living with the Enemy starring Sarah Lancaster, Mark Humphrey, and David McIlwraith.

Here’s the description:

Allison is quickly swept off her feet by the dashing, loving software billionaire, Phillip. They marry quickly, and her life seems unbelievably perfect. Then, although she doesn’t want to, she begins to suspect that Phillip may have been involved in the death of his previous wife. As Allison follows the trail left by her, things become complicated… and dangerous.

Thematically, the Fediverse should love this movie since it’s about an evil tech billionaire who, I suspect, will get his comeuppance. Practically, though, this is probably a badly produced TV movie.

Sarah Lancaster was a series regular on Saved by the Bell: The New Class, and was also on Everwood for 20 episodes. The other two actors have basically made their bread an butter off of TV movies for a long, long time.

I suspect this movie was made in Canada. I’m from Canada, and usually my suspicion is correct.

iMDB gives this a 5.3 rating while Rotten Tomatoes doesn’t know it exists.

Well, I’m going in. Wish me luck!

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to random

TFW you see a very old friend randomly in an online meeting and think how tired and careworn they look, but then wonder if they think the same thing about you...

Perhaps it's age, or maybe it's just working in #ClimateScience?

🧐

JimsPhotos, 2 months ago to nature

On a grey day like today, I often find myself drawn to over exposing images. It definitely helps for the types of photos I take.

Today was Lapwing day (so sorry in advance if I post too many Lapwing today).

Lapwing at the shoreline, Summer Leys UK

#nature #birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #UK

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to random

A simultaneously evil and enlightening series. An absolute must listen from @TimHarford
#cautionaryTales
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford: Buried Evil: V2 Rocket (Part 3)

Episode webpage: https://omny.fm/shows/cautionary-tales-with-tim-harford/buried-evil-v2-rocket-part-3

Media file: https://chtbl.com/track/39E17/podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdrl.fm/18db03/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/c0ae8c6e-22f0-4e9b-ac1c-ae390037ac53/9c4f76dc-bf87-47b5-a360-b1260089fb97/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=7f5a4714-6b10-4ccf-a424-ae390037ac70

atomicpoet, 2 months ago to random

Tonight’s movie is The Surrogate (2013) starring Annie Wersching, Cameron Mathison, and Amy Scott.

Here’s the description:

A married couple, struggling to have a child, hires a young woman to be their surrogate, but soon discovers she has a bizarre and deadly agenda.

Brought to you by the same production family that made A Mother’s Instinct, this is almost certainly going to be a terrible movie. I hate to already judge a film before I see it, but I don’t know if Johnson Production Group has a good movie in them.

Based on the trailer, this is about a deranged stalker who’s obsessed with a novelist, finagles her way into being a surrogate for the novelist’s wife, and then does incredibly evil things – while pregnant. The couple are going to tolerate this crazed lunatic while she carries the baby to term. But in the meantime, the surrogate is going to do lots of damage.

iMDB rates this a 4.6 while Rotten Tomatoes doesn’t even bother with a rating.

I expect lots of scenery chewing and ACTING! Join me as we explore the problems with getting an obsessed stalker pregnant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBW1JYEg660

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to science

This probably explains that little thrill I get every time I (increasingly rarely sadly) open my Linux terminal up to write some code...

https://toot.community/@Galehawk/112065055494555667
Galehawk@toot.community - https://www.sciencealert.com/brain-imaging-experiment-reveals-the-secret-behind-creative-flow #Science #brain (Brain-Imaging Experiment Reveals The Secret Behind Creative Flow.)

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to FF

If you're not already following @longreads you should. This is a beautiful and enlightening piece of writing on the glory of #Butterflies in @hakaimagazine (also #FF) which I wouldn't have otherwise seen. A delight, even if it is also about the loss of #biodiversity + the impact of #ClimateChange

https://hakaimagazine.com/features/the-butterfly-redemption/?src=longreads