🥳 It’s out!
📢 New PAGES Magazine: “The essence of time”
Explore gaps, challenges & future directions in geological dating - from biostratigraphy to radioisotopic methods.
⭐ Read here: pastglobalchanges.org/publications...
#PAGES #Paleoscience #EarthScience
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Also, I now live in a place with so many swans it's become sadly impractical to quote this film everytime I see one. IYKYK 🦢
Hot Fuzz remains one of the very few films I went back to the cinema to watch twice.
'Wanna be a big cop in a small town? Fuck off up the model village'.
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Probably not - there were plenty of other vertebrates that survived the K-Pg that could probably support some of the critters that inhabit whalefalls! royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
Earth rise during lunar flyby
Earth rise taken during lunar flyby. A real image, straight from NASA’s website. Stop sharing uncredited photos from random people & slop. Please take the time to verify the source & the image for yourself to stop the spread of misinformation!
📸: NASA
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🚨 Abstract deadline fast approaching (8th April 2026) for this years 'Life and Planet' meeting @geolsoc.bsky.social July 8th - 10th 2026. A friendly and inclusve meeting for all those interested in the co-evolution of life and Earth. 🌍 Info and abstract submissions here: lifeandplanet.com
Naomi wolf tweeting “Call me ill-informed, I was an English major, but -- what is the light source here?” About the Artemis images of the far side of the moon
Breaking news: conspiracy theorist about to discover the Sun!!
art002e009276 (April 6, 2026) - In this view of the Moon, the near side (the hemisphere we see from Earth), is visible at the top half of the Moon disk. It is identifiable by the dark splotches. These are ancient lava flows from a time early in the Moon’s history when it was volcanically active. The large crater that appears below the lava flows, dark in the center, is Orientale basin, a nearly 600-mile-wide crater that straddles the Moon’s near and far sides as is partly visible from Earth on the edge of the Moon. In this image, we have a full view of the crater. Everything below the crater is the far side, the hemisphere we don’t get to see from Earth because the Moon rotates on its axis at the same rate that it orbits round us. Credit: NASA
At this stage of the game, it is crystal clear that the internet, as a whole, was a huge mistake. But every now and then, we find incredible uses for it, like this photo gallery of Artemis II pictures.
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Follow us here on BlueSky! We'll be having more great conversations on our page in the coming weeks and months.
Then vs now. Such a shame.
OK. My career just peaked.
Factsheet from https://purpleday.org/ with information about epilepsy.
Today is Purple Day! 💜 Founded in 2008 to raise awareness about #epilepsy. Something that is much misunderstood and far more common than people think. If you do one thing today have a click and a read..
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- UK energy prices are set by international markets
- Bringing in new production takes years, which means any new oil + gas would arrive long after the energy crisis has passed
Issuing more North Sea drilling licenses is not going to bring our electric bills down:
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Happily when it's not away filming, you can travel behind 6989/5977/whatever HBO decide to number or call it, at the Bluebell Railway in Sussex www.bluebell-railway.com/heritage-loc...
6989 Wightwick Hall wearing its red 'Hogwarts' livery in 2025.
34027 'Taw Valley' painted in 'Hogwarts Express' red in 2000.
The ACTUAL locomotive used in the new HBO show is Ex-British Railways Modified Hall Class 6989 'Wightwick Hall', built in 1948. This is funny because Warner Bros took issue with West Country Class 34027 'Taw Valley' (built 1946) playing the part in the films because it looked too modern..
5029 'Nunney Castle' in the sunshine at Ingrow West Station.
Also funny that these are 'Hall' class locos (named by the Great Western and BR after stately homes). Yet the loco is supposed to be called 'Hogwarts Castle'. Why didn't they just use one of the ex-GWR 'Castle' class instead? Here's 5029 'Nunney Castle' @worthvalley.bsky.social last weekend.
5972 'Olton Hall' dressed up as 'Hogwarts Castle' and trapped in the Warner Bros Harry Potter theme park UK.
4920 'Dumbleton Hall' dressed up as 5972 'Olton Hall' dressed up as 'Hogwarts Castle' in Warner Bros Japan Harry Potter theme park..
5972 itself is out of traffic and trapped in the Warner Bros Harry Potter theme park. 😪 As is sister Hall class 4920 'Dumbleton Hall' which was bought by Warner Bros Japan, dressed up like 5972 and stuck in their version of HP World.. HBO seemingly decided they needed THE SAME LOCO for the TV show.
The OG Harry Potter film loco was ex-GWR Hall Class 5972 'Olton Hall' (built 1937, I hope you're keeping up..). You can read more about the trains in the HP films here: Harry Potter - How the rail scenes were filmed | The Railway Hub share.google/BpSMqNsy0TXS...
A screenshot from the new HBO Harry Potter TV show trailer, apparently featuring a steam locomotive numbered 5977 pulling into a station.
Lots of Harry Potter discourse about today, and while I couldn't give a McGonagall about the new TV show, I am an enormous 🚂 nerd. So imagine my surprise to see Ex-Great Western Railway Hall class 4-6-0 5977 'Beckford Hall' (formerly of Worcester shed, scrapped in 1963) in the new trailer..
Heteromorph ammonites are cool 🧪
This is ... not good ⚒️🧪
We brake for nautilus!
“We usually stopped what we were doing whenever we saw nautilus, b/c they are such amazing animals to watch,” said #VisioningCoralSea Chief Scientist Dr. Robin Beaman of James Cook University. This enigmatic cephalopod navigated the depths before dinosaurs roamed the Earth!
As a proposed oil & gas project looks set to drill directly through a chalk aquifer beneath the Yorkshire Wolds supplying drinking water to 900,000 people, @sonofedd.bsky.social asks:
Who is protecting our water sources?
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/region/who-i...
‘Best case scenario’ here is that a man with realistic ambitions to be Prime Minister will record himself endorsing your support of base anti-semitism in return for £76.
Carbonate δ13C and δ18O values and RWR coefficients versus depth for ODP Sites 819, 820 and 823 and the 10-point running average (dark blue) and ranges (light blue) of δ13C values of a benthic foraminifera compilation from the Pacific published by Cramer et al. (2009). Yellow bars highlight known periods of record with sediment accumulation rates <20 m/My based on available age constraints (Alexander, 1996; Barton, 1993; Peerdeman et al., 1993; Wei & Gartner, 1993), while green bars show intervals in which the patterns in stable carbon and oxygen isotope ratios and RWR coefficients are consistent with a period of low sediment accumulation rate that was unresolved by available age constraints.
In paleocenography, there is a tacit recognition that the slower sediment accumulates, the less reliable their geochemical signal will be because diagenesis has more time to work. It's nice to see that properly being demonstrated. 🧪⚒️
Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Mahmoud's policy itself is abhorrent, but it's also profoundly stupid in terms of the UKs long term interests
Yes - I also wondered this, and not being a coleoid expert I am curious what others in the community make of them!
Very interesting - seems that like ammonites, some belemnites may also have survived the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. ☄️☠️ Unlike ammonites which only persisted a few 100 thousand years they lasted a long time - into the Eocene at least! 🤯
“Right now and during the past 50 years, we are burning, as you know, quite a bit of coal and oil and natural gas. The rate at which we are burning this is increasing very rapidly. This burning of these fuels which were accumulated in the earth over hundreds of millions of years, and which we are burning up in a few generations, is producing tremendous quantities of carbon dioxide in the air. Based on figures given out by the United Nations, I would estimate that by the year 2010, we will have added something like 70 percent of the present atmospheric carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. This is an enormous quantity. It is like 1,700 billion tons. Now, nobody knows what this will do. Lots of people have supposed that it might actually cause a warming up of the atmospheric temperature and it may, in fact, cause a remarkable change in climate. We may actually, for example, find that the Arctic Ocean will become navigable and the coasts become a place where people can live, then the Russian Arctic coastline will be really quite free for shipping, as will our Alaskan coastline, if this possible increase in temperature really happens. . . . Here we are making perhaps the greatest geophysical experiment in history, an experiment which could not be made in the past because we didn’t have an industrial civilization and which will be impossible to make in the future because all the fossil fuels will be gone. All the coal and gas and oil will be used up. In this 100-year period, we are conducting, in effect, this vast experiment, and we ought to adequately document it.”
70 YEARS AGO.
March 8, 1956: Roger Revelle testifies to Congress about "the greatest geophysical experiment in history”: “burning, as you know, quite a bit of coal and oil and natural gas” and “producing tremendous quantities of carbon dioxide” which could “cause a remarkable change in climate.”
Introduce Proportional Representation now, for the love of god
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