Ah the Ministry of Truth!

It's a sunny+windy day in the UK and so the grid is running with only 1.5 % gas!

grid.iamkate.com

The Department of Earth Sciences are seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Carbonate Mineralisation to join our thriving academic community 🌏

More details and apply now: www.earth.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

I'm a climate scientist, an environmentalist and plausibly a Green voter and I fucking love pylons (transmission towers).

The Trig Pillar at Thorny Gale, Cumbria, site of the last observations in the Retriangulation of Great Britain, on 4 June 1962 Image credit: C20 Society

The Trig Pillar plaque at Cold Ashby, Northamptonshire, site of the first observations in the Retriangulation of Great Britain, on 18 April 1936 Image credit: McCoy Wynne Photography (from the Triangulation project)

📍Heritage in High Places: Happy 90th to the beloved British Trig Point!

C20 has submitted listing applications for the two most historically important examples: the first, at Cold Ashby in Nottinghamshire (1936) and the last, at Thorny Gale in Cumbria (1962).

➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/heritag...

Ha. Came to say exactly the same.

We have solar and EV but never charge the EV from the panels because there is loads of incredibly cheap electricity from wind and nuclear base load overnight.

That isn't true though:
2015 Coal+Gas+Oil = 185 TWh
2025 Coal+Gas+Oil= 104 TWh

PLUS some of the electricity generated has been displacing petrol vehicles.

ourworldindata.org/grapher/elec...

World's longest coastal path opens in England to the public The King Charles coastal path will allow walkers right of access to the entire coast for the first time.

'The length of the path isn't really the point. What makes it so special, says [Neil Constable, who led the project for Natural England], is that you can walk to the coast anywhere in England, turn left or right, and walk beside the sea for as long as you like.'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UKRI opportunities update from Professor Sir Ian Chapman YouTube video by UK Research and Innovation

New video just dropped from Ian Chapman @ukri.org youtu.be/Z1OcZl224qo

Today we're sharing an update from our Chief Executive, Professor Sir Ian Chapman, about our 2026-30 budget. The new approach sets out a clear direction for how we will deliver our mission… | UK ... Today we're sharing an update from our Chief Executive, Professor Sir Ian Chapman, about our 2026-30 budget. The new approach sets out a clear direction for how we will deliver our mission to: 🔹Adva...

Three buckets. 🪣🪣🪣

www.linkedin.com/posts/uk-res...

It's always a priviledge to process at Open University graduations at the Barbican.

Delighted to see the future of this brutalist masterpiece is secure.

Good to have hard data confirming that this winter has been bleak as fuck in the midlands.

HSE will have a field day.

I have a very pleasing one for gaming, but also a more regular one for emails and such.

I would hope so.

That is a very whimsical keyboard.

(I also remember a rather wonderful visit with Mark)

Well I feel seen.

Very cool map of historic floodplain meadows by @floodplainmead.bsky.social - giving insights into lost habitats and places that will need restoring if we're to become more climate resilient:

floodplainmeadows.org.uk/discover/lea...

Evaluating the Reliability of Grain‐Size Sorting for Organic Biomarker Analysis We investigate the potential of using grain-size sorted marine sediments for biomarker analysis GDGT distributions are consistent regardless of grain-size sorting, and fine-grained sediment fract...

New paper out in Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology: We used Cenozoic-spanning marine sediments to determine whether archived grain-size sorted sediments can be resurrected for biomarker analysis.
Great to see my first piece of PhD work published, available #openaccess: doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Barkley Results

The #BM100 sheet has a 2026 tab now!
- Not a primary source, and neither are most of its sources, WILL contain misinformation
- Don't share screenshots, share the link, so people see corrections
- Refresh the page manually even if it says it can do it automatically
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

The conch was blown at 5:00am. The 2026 Barkley Marathons begins in one hour. #BM100

It’s possible to reduce emissions while growing the economy. Many countries have decoupled economic growth from CO₂ emissions, even if we take offshored production into account.

You can see this in the chart for a selection of large economies.

As a geologist, as it comes up as a debate on our student forums quite often, I have searched "what is a rock?" more than you might think.

Brutal but beautiful: Southbank Centre’s Grade II listing is the cherry on a concrete cake As one of the longest running battles in British heritage comes to an end, the listing of the London arts complex vindicates the audacity of this sensational droogs’ paradise

Brutal but beautiful: Southbank Centre’s Grade II listing is the cherry on a concrete cake

You know it's Sunday right?

It's an alternative pirate flag: "Rrrrr"

There are many ways to expand this list just so long as you don't include Reading for some reason.

Me too (and I still do). It also features the Hermit of the Southern March, who is the character I would most like to be in the series.