Meteorologist and PaleoClimate Modeller @BristolUni (@GeogBristol). PhD @UniRdg_Met. Visiting Professorship ITP, CAS. Working on AppleTV+ #PrehistoricPlanet
Bristol, England
Joined February 2014
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🌋Mega El Niño instigated the end-Permian mass extinction📷. New research in @ScienceMagazine on how mega-El Niño solve a decades old problem in unifying both land and marine extinctions. The deadliest extinction in Earth's History. #sciencetwt #sciencetwt science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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History will never forget the name Captain Picard.
Thank you for inspiring the Next Generation of explorers. ✨
ALT Two interacting galaxies against the black of space. Together, they fill most of the right side of the image. They have a rounded center shape, with two extended arms. The arms both extend back, shaped roughly like the starship Enterprise. A third smaller galaxy spirals to its left.
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What a heartbreaking week it has been. Sir Patrick Stewart was a friend, a colleague, and a magnificent actor. From the stage to the bridge of the Enterprise, he brought intelligence, grace, and a deep sense of humanity to everything he did. Captain Picard stood for the best of us, and so did the man who played him. I was filled with affection and admiration for him and his work.
My heart goes out to Sunny and his family. He will be deeply missed.
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Happy to share our new @ScienceAdvances paper on 250 Myr of crocodile-line archosaur macroevolution and climate! 🐊☄️ #croctober 1/6
🔗 science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
Artwork: @d_bonadonna 🧵
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New @ScienceAdvances research finds that Tyrannosaurus rex was warm-blooded, according to enamel isotopic data from three T. rex teeth. scim.ag/3UZGGIr
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Scientists have suspected for nearly 60 years that Tyrannosaurus rex was warm-blooded.
Now, researchers have put a number on just how warm tyrannosaurs likely ran: about 97 degrees Fahrenheit, or 36 degrees Celsius, similar to humans. cnn.it/4xYM2Cb
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So… your friend has Parkinson’s.
Harrison Ford and Michael J. Fox share advice on how best to be there for someone with Parkinson’s, from navigating changes in handwriting to staying connected and helping counter social isolation.
Learn more about how you can help find a cure for Parkinson’s on our website. bit.ly/4xuz8M4
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Madame Celeste Amarilla,
Vous êtes une femme méprisable et indigne de sa fonction.
Vous ne représentez pas le Paraguay, ce pays qui a transpiré la passion et l’honneur tout au long de la compétition. Par votre inconscience et votre racisme décomplexé, le monde entier a déjà oublié le parcours et l’effort historique que vos joueurs ont réalisés durant cette coupe du monde pour laisser place à une dame incompétente donnant la pire image possible de son pays.
Je ne laisserai jamais aux gens comme elle, la liberté de laisser propager leur haine et leur racisme à travers le monde.
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This article says climate change is “believed to have played a role” in the UK's extreme heat this week.
As a climate scientist, let me fact-check that.
First, climate change is not a religion. No belief is required. It is about evidence.
And the evidence has been crystal clear for more than two decades: climate change is making heat waves hotter, longer, more frequent and more dangerous.
In fact, science has advanced far beyond saying climate change merely “played a role.” Today, we can quantify how much more likely and how much hotter climate change made a specific event.
Here's the bottom line:
Climate is changing. Humans are responsible. And we are experiencing the impacts now. That’s the bad news.
The good news is that solutions already exist, and the majority of people care - 89%, around the world!
But meaningful action depends on helping people understand not just what is happening: we need to know how it affects our lives (this heat wave being example A today) and what we can do about it.
That’s the opportunity this reporting missed.
bbc.com/news/articles/c8xwwp…
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It's a seemingly whimsical exercise, but it serves serious purposes. @skepticscience @Climate_AlexF @unimelb theconversation.com/do-middl…
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Ridiculous & dumb ⬇️
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado usatoday.com/story/news/poli…
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If your preference is your own race, it’s fine.
If you love someone from another race, suddenly it’s a fetish?
We invent rules that don’t matter.
Find someone who loves you the way you love them.
You’re the one building a life with them, not the people criticizing you.
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Science has become obsessed with publishing numbers. With this new satirical proposal, have we reached peak metric?
go.nature.com/49J2Ioj
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Stochastic and deterministic sampling strategies for diffusion models produce strikingly different trajectories, but both ultimately achieve the same aim.
I had a great time presenting our work, Diffusion Explorer, this week at IEEE VIS in Vienna.
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When I went into science 35 years ago, I was extremely idealistic. I believed that being a scientist required the highest moral standards, that scientists cared only about advancing human knowledge & benefiting humanity, & made sacrifices for it. I couldn’t have been more wrong.
Yes. I learned early in graduate school that scientists aren’t operating at any higher moral standard than anyone else. Some were outright nasty - and over the years I met some of the worst people imaginable, all parading as valiant defenders of science. Once I learned that, it became much easier to stomach the bullshit.
The role of the North American continent in strengthening the Asian summer monsoon.
By Linlin Chen, et al.
science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
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tipping point for unstoppable ice loss from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could be exceeded even under best-case CO2emission reduction pathways, potentially initiating global tipping cascades.
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
