Ruth_Mottram

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to Scotland

What fantastic memories this map must encapsulate....

https://pubeurope.com/@europesays/112007373492456878
europesays@pubeurope.com - https://www.europesays.com/1077573/ Geologically correct map of Scotland. 30 years of collecting! #Scotland #UnitedKingdom

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to languagelearning

Nice piece, it's a difficult balance for scientists we are supposed to write impersonally, but does language we employ blunt message?
https://spore.social/@rewildingmag/112007046787772384
@rewildingmag - "Our words have a power that many of us are not yet using. They can paint the natural world as sensing, singing, worthy of life; and they can remind us that we are animals within it, grateful recipients of its gifts, who can offer something in return."
#rewilding #language #nature #ecology
https://atmos.earth/why-we-need-new-words-to-describe-the-natural-world/

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to climate

Sigh.
https://mastodon.social/@Datagraver/112005295416647427
Datagraver@mastodon.social - New record set for the global sea surface temperature yesterday.
#climate

jknodlseder, 2 months ago to random

#Ikea cuts down 1% of all trees in the world. Think about it next time when you believe that you need new furniture.
https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/112297-000-A/ikea-le-seigneur-des-forets/

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to random

"Not even Wrong" on the horseshoe theory of politics, the (again a beautiful neologism) enshitternet and the horrifying realisation that quite a few on the hard right don't even consider women people.

Read the whole glorious thread by @pluralistic

"Politics aren't just a matter of who you agree with on a given issue - the real issue is what you're trying to accomplish."

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111998804490389966

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to random

Increasing concern at amount of money + data we are shovelling into US big tech in Denmark. I hope they keep investigating

https://expressional.social/@politiken/111991606487989489
Techgiganter har fingrene dybt nede i velfærdsstatens kagedåse: Nu testes ægtheden af regeringens ’kulturkamp’
Hvis vi ikke danser efter Googles pibe, får vi undervisning og velfærd via stentavler, mener kommunerne. Episk sludder, siger eksperter. Regeringen holder vejret i sag om techgiganternes jerngreb om velfærdsstaten.

https://politiken.dk/danmark/art9773513/Techgiganter-har-fingrene-dybt-nede-i-velf%C3%A6rdsstatens-kaged%C3%A5se-Nu-testes-%C3%A6gtheden-af-regeringens-%E2%80%99k

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to random

I wrote a brief review of @anderspuck 's book the logic of war. Absolutely essential reading to understand the world we live in today.
A pity it's only in Danish: please translate it!

Book number 8 of 2024 http://sternaparadisaea.net/about-me/the-first-book-of-2024-is-done-the-fish-can-sing-by-halldor-laxness/

ProfLouiseL, 2 months ago to random

Little test here. Who will be right about the weather only a few hours from now? BBC (rain) or Met Office (cloud)? I can't understand how two forecasters, with so much technology to hand, can be so radically different so close to the event. And given how high the river levels are already in Oxford this could be an important difference.

BBC forecast showing 49% to 76% chance of rain this afternoon

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to random

Posted books 6+7 on the blog.
Mariane Satrapi's beautifully observed embroideries and an investigation into the benefits of walking by a danish public health professor. Both worth a look...

Dunno what it means, but this year so far I've only read 2 books written by men? Coincidence? Probably.

But interesting nonetheless.

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

wavygk, 2 months ago to worldwithoutus

Well it’s time to head north - and as we do it has decided to snow so our little icebreaker looks like (northern hemisphere) Christmas .. likely no more sea ice or bergs … we likely have some proper waves ahead for the 6 day transit… although there is a path through the waves #Antarctica #Climate #Oceanography

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to random

Sharing this because its also a bit how my Thursday went. Hyggekoding (cosy coding? Fun coding?, doesn't translate well!) is when you get your teeth into a fun little programming problem.

Torsdags Trivsel translates literally as Thursday thriving or more like Thursday wellness.

https://norrebro.space/@pmakholm/111976257679336641
RT @pmakholm - Gav mig selv tid til at hyggekode lidt. #TorsdagsTrivsel

Næste skridt er at lave HTML templates, og så er det pludselig ikke så sjovt længere...

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to climate

Can we just be clear: ONE of the co-authors who suggested this was Dutch, the other was swedish and the proposal was made to highlight the stupidity of trying to solve the problem of sea level rise via geoengineering rather than reducing #FossilFuel use to prevent #ClimateChange - and I know this because I asked them.

#SeaLevelRise

https://mastodon.social/@onlmaps/111976183071244184
onlmaps@mastodon.social - Dutch proposal to dam the North Sea, protecting Europe from rising sea levels.
https://mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com/post/190822250849/dutch-proposal-to-dam-the-north-sea-protecting

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to random

My 15 year old Dell running Ubuntu is definitely getting past it and this great video by @thelinuxexperiment on sub EUR550 laptops (ht @kim_harding ) makes me think seriously of getting a new one.

Any other recommendations for a new reasonably priced #LinuxLaptop?

https://mastodon.scot/

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to random

Confess to being a bit stressed out today by ridiculous backlog of tasks from multiple overlapping projects. Not to mention a general overwhelm in my inbox. So I'm opening my linux machine and going to spend a happy hour of escape with python.. May even extend to a second hour with some new deep learnign tools I'm investigating.

Apologies if you're waiting for something from me.

#Laters #NormalServiceWillBeResumeShortly

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to Copenhagen

Must admit, I'm.notna big fan of the new buildings on Papirøen - in fact quite a lot of #Copenhagen is being turned into some god-awful apocalyptic mess.

https://pubeurope.com/@europesays/111974976390593578
europesays@pubeurope.com - https://www.europesays.com/1067901/ Copenhagen #denmark

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to random

Warning: this thread from the absolutely brilliant @vagina_museum is not for the faint-hearted, or those expecting a baby, but it's a useful reminder, for those of us in the privileged world, just how dangerous childbirth is. And how far we've come with modern medicine. And how much we should support #MaternalCare in the rest of the world

Read on. But be prepared.

https://masto.ai/

baldur, 2 months ago to random

One of my new year’s resolutions was to stop debating the incoherent AI claims MBA and tech bro types on private Slacks or mailing lists, but they just keep saying so much dumb stuff that it’s hard to just sit on your fingers and ignore them.

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to ML

I have been diving into the #ClimateAI literature recently and one thing I notice, that I think is interesting is how many of the publications are authored by scientists who are not at traditionally high powered climate institutes, or often indeed from countries we see a lot of climate modelling literature from. And their names are often not classically WEIRD either. Which suggests #ML /#AI methods in science are widening access. There is no need for a large hpc + a well developed model 1/2

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to random

For, reasons, I installed and opened Instagram for the first time in years..

Uninstalls Instagram

A scene from film apocalypse now. Man lying down. He whispers, "the horror, the horror"

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to Weather

What is the role of #Weather in affecting the big #IceSheets ?

I didn't quite get around to blogging our latest paper, but hopefully this piece
@TheConversationClimate is a good summary.

#Greenland #Antarctica

https://theconversation.com/a-single-antarctic-heatwave-or-storm-can-noticeably-raise-the-sea-level-223768

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to random

TIL I learned that the first women to set foot in Antarctica was likely Danish- Norwegian Caroline Mikkelsen on a sub-Antarctic island and Norwegian Inger Christensenon the continent proper. There is so surprisingly little information on Caroline Mikkelsen available on the web, other than she was born in DK + married a Norwegian whaler with whom she sailed south. I cannot find much more than this also in Danish / Norwegian sources... https://da.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Mikkelsen

Ruth_Mottram, 3 months ago to Ukraine

"he dwells among Russia’s ancient princes + tsars, measures his efforts in centuries + sees it as a historic mission not only to restore their lost empire but to overthrow the social order that emerged after WW2 in the West + spread eastwards after the fall of the Berlin wall. He wants to defeat the very sense of individual will that #Navalny embodied. And he will not stop"

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Vladimir Putin has been fighting not just #Ukraine, but his own people
https://econ.st/3OR1FY2

Ruth_Mottram, 3 months ago to Ukraine

Excellent briefing in @TheEconomist on Europe's defence conundrums.

For those who speak Danish, may I also recommend #KrigensLogik - an excellent in-depth exploration of some of the same issues by @anderspuck
Alongside what can only be described as the hideous logic of war. (I've just got to the nuclear chapter)

#Ukraine #EU #Defence #NATO #PaxAmericana

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Can Europe defend itself without America?
https://econ.st/3wtwtYh