One lap and then it starts again. On March 13, at 10:35 a.m., amidst the waves, Arthur (not his real name), a young officer in the French Navy, was out for a run, circling the deck of the ship where he worked. To record his performance — a little over 7 kilometers covered in thirty-five minutes-he used the smartwatch on his wrist. The data collected was then uploaded to the internet. Because Arthur has a profile on the sports app Strava, and it's "public": anyone can view it. The young man has therefore just reported, almost live, the exact position in the Mediterranean Sea of the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and its escort, northwest of Cyprus and about a hundred kilometers from the Turkish coast, as Le Monde has observed .

truly incredible that strava leaks are still happening after all this time

They say:

- the government must not weaken copyright law, and should instead strengthen licensing, transparency & enforcement
- the government should stop prioritising large multinational tech firms

3/5

Renewables cut energy costs by €1.5bn last year - report Renewable energy from wind and solar reduced the gas and carbon costs of generating electricity on the island of Ireland last year by more than €1.5 billion, according to a new report.

Renewable energy from wind and solar reduced the gas and carbon costs of generating electricity on the island of Ireland last year by more than €1.5 billion, according to a new report.

A rocky outcrop in the centre of the scene, with boulders and pebbles scattered around. In the distance, some gently rolling hills, and endless sand. All under a butterscotch sky.

You live in a time when you can see on your phone high-res photos taken over the weekend by a nuclear-powered rover on Mars.

We are seeking a 3+ year postdoc in ocean modelling, to work on an exciting project investigating underwater tsunamis in Antarctica.

More about the project here: www.polomints.ac.uk
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A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain.

A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones.

The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...

The rewilding movement needs to distance itself from bigots like Goldsmith.

There is no climate (and environmental) justice without social justice.

When these people show us who they are, we need to pay attention.

A picture is worth 1000 words...

This appeared on the BBC News today, showing the increase in solar electric generation in the UK.

Not sure who produced it, but genuinely think this is a genius piece of scientific communication - the construct and choice of colour scale is near-perfect.

Chapeau!

Lisa Simpson on stage in front of a presentation reading: The people who made Jurassic Park didn't think it was possible to transition from female to male and that's why they got eaten by dinosaurs. Moral of the story is, support trans rights or get eaten by dinosaurs

The HE Ballot failed, now what? If you’re reading this it is because today the UCU’s 2025 national ballot over pay and conditions in universities has failed. The last time…

Unfortunately the HE 2025 ballot failed at 39% turnout. I have written about why and about what desperately needs to change in UCU's national structures off the back of this result. Some HEC members need to chi up and understand their role in all this, and how disconnected they are from members.

Remember:

Juries are important not so much for the powers they have, but for the powers they prevent others from having.

Heading into the Channel Tunnel today on train 9044 and celebrating a historic moment: on 1 December 1990, 35 years ago, French and British teams broke through and met under the sea for the first time. Thanks to their achievement, our Eurostar trains now cross the Channel in 20 minutes.

Why is it getting harder to buy Advent calendars?

Their days are numbered!

The experimental apparatus and the axial magnetic field profile. a Cross section of the central part of the ALPHA-2 experimental apparatus. In yellow and orange are shown the electrodes used to generate the electric fields for the Penning-Malmberg trap. The superconducting magnets that generate the magnetic-minimum trap (octupole and mirror coils) and boost the axial magnetic field to 3 T in the two side regions (left and right solenoids) are shown in blue and pink. The external, 1 T solenoid is not shown. Lasers for Be+ Doppler cooling can be injected along an off-axis path at 2.3 degrees through vacuum windows at either end of the apparatus (purple path), or along an on-axis path through a vacuum window onto movable 45-degree mirrors that can be positioned at either end of the central apparatus (cyan path). The orange electrodes in the left and right regions are azimuthally segmented to allow for the rotating wall (RW) technique (see text). The Be+ source (not shown) is placed on the same linear translator as the left side mirror20. Microchannel plate/phosphor assemblies used for imaging extracted particles (not shown) are placed on the same translators as the mirrors on both sides. The central portion of the drawing is to scale except for the annihilation detector, whose axial length is marked by purple bars. Position-sensitive detectors are used for stabilizing the cooling laser beams. b The corresponding longitudinal magnetic field (on-axis) that is maintained during Be+ assisted H̅ accumulation.

In chemistry, we usually think in mols (~6E23), so 15,000 atoms sounds like nothing. But this is a breakthrough for antihydrogen generation; it's a huge jump in production scale and opens a lot of future research on antimatter.

🧪 #SciFiScience
Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sympathetic cooling gives antihydrogen experiment a boost – Physics World Having more antimatter could help solve profound mysteries of physics

Physicists working on the ALPHA experiment at CERN have trapped and accumulated 15,000 antihydrogen atoms in less than 7 h. This accumulation rate is more than 20 times the previous record. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/iKgP50XvMEC

Optimistic defibrillator locations, an occasional series...

1/ For the benefit of Lisa Nandy - I have transcribed this interview with Chief Superintendent Tom Joyce from West Midland's police, and SkyNews. Contrary to Lisa Nandy' spin, he is clear, the threat TO THE MACCABI TV FANS was not the primary driver for the ban

Tom (@tswsl@pixelfed.social) Good morning Edinburgh. Last day here with work, and I've never made the effort to get up to Arthur's seat before. Made an early start and got to see the sun come up. #edinburgh #scotland #sunrise

Made the effort to get out early on my last day in Edinburgh
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Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Liverpool Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Postdoctoral Research Associate on jobs.ac.uk!

Seeking a three year postdoc in the field of ocean biogeochemistry and productivity using mechanistic models and synthesis of observations. Note the short fuse for applications. Please help distribute. All nationalities welcome to apply! 🌊

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Tom (@tswsl@pixelfed.social) Bore da Abertawe Good morning Swansea #wales #cymru #swansea #abertawe

Bore da Abertawe
Good morning Swansea

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A picture of a foggy street

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

Eurasian Blue Tit (Cyanistes caeruleus): These 12cm (4.7in) little European & Asian birds usually nest in holes in trees. Adults develop a blue crown, white cheeks and yellow breast. Excellent head-on portrait of a Blue Tit by Tim Flach. #blue #tit #bluetit #bird #birds #wildlife #nature

Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia): This Endangered species of large cat has a population of between 4000-8000 & is native to Alpine & sub-Alpine terrain in regions of Afghanistan, Mongolia & WestChina. Poaching is the main threat & habitat loss thru development. Photo by Sascha Fonseca in Ladakh, India.

Try Settings -> Notifications -> App Notifications -> Messages and then you should be able to set a sound for Incoming Messages.

If Samsung have their own messaging app then you would need to pick that instead, but there should still be a default notification category under that app you can edit.

Screenshot of text from the article.

Interesting article on public misconceptions about HE, including the value to the economy.

And yet our govt seem happy to sit back and let it all go to shit. 🤷🏻‍♂️ www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Title slide from a presentation, with a river at sunset as the background. Title is "Tidal flow variation at a test site: instrumentation, physics, or both?" Author: Thomas Lake, Ian Masters, Ali Esmaeili, Iestyn Evans, Deepak George, David Glasby, Jose M Horrillo-Carabello, Dawn Morgan, Michael Togneri, Alison J Williams The Prifysgol Abertawe / Swansea University logo is in the corner

Presentation day for me at #EWTEC, showing some of the measurements taken at Warrior Way with different instruments over the last couple of years.

Almost certainly not as interesting as the title implies, but lets see what the audience thinks of it!

Every company, unwanted AI, Me (with a tuba)

every damn day

General reminder that being angry online isn't the same as journalism.

Beattie found if you've got an Ology there is no point feeling down... BT 1988