Mike Prior-Jones
@drmikepj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Glaciologist and electronic engineer at Cardiff University.
Current designer of #cryoegg. UKRI Future Leaders Fellow.
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Current designer of #cryoegg. UKRI Future Leaders Fellow.
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"Qualcomm-owned #arduino quietly pushed a sweeping rewrite of its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, and the changes mark a clear break from the open-hardware ethos that built the platform."
(source: Adafruit […]
[Original post on waag.social]
(source: Adafruit […]
[Original post on waag.social]
November 20, 2025 at 7:37 AM
"Qualcomm-owned #arduino quietly pushed a sweeping rewrite of its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, and the changes mark a clear break from the open-hardware ethos that built the platform."
(source: Adafruit […]
[Original post on waag.social]
(source: Adafruit […]
[Original post on waag.social]
Just written to my MP via the ever-helpful writetothem.com to point out my opposition to the Government's abhorrent new ideas on refugee policy.
November 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Just written to my MP via the ever-helpful writetothem.com to point out my opposition to the Government's abhorrent new ideas on refugee policy.
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My colleague Julius
My colleague Julius par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
ploum.net
November 13, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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If you young people have never come across Dudley Moore playing Colonel Bogey in the style of a Beethoven piano sonata then I’m here to put that right. https://youtu.be/SIFzbLE6bHU?si=vKKMZgf2yy3Ka0eg
November 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
If you young people have never come across Dudley Moore playing Colonel Bogey in the style of a Beethoven piano sonata then I’m here to put that right. https://youtu.be/SIFzbLE6bHU?si=vKKMZgf2yy3Ka0eg
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Our university published an AI chat bot that gives guidance on how to apply for funding from the Academy of Finland.
When it gives wrong information, it's the responsibility of the applicants who were mislead and whose applications were rejected.
I don't understand how a university would want […]
When it gives wrong information, it's the responsibility of the applicants who were mislead and whose applications were rejected.
I don't understand how a university would want […]
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scholar.social
October 29, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Our university published an AI chat bot that gives guidance on how to apply for funding from the Academy of Finland.
When it gives wrong information, it's the responsibility of the applicants who were mislead and whose applications were rejected.
I don't understand how a university would want […]
When it gives wrong information, it's the responsibility of the applicants who were mislead and whose applications were rejected.
I don't understand how a university would want […]
As it’s nearly Halloween, I thought I’d share one of my favourite John Finnemore sketches: https://youtu.be/LDoBVbmWxxM?si=SulJVRRa15TIhgpE
October 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
As it’s nearly Halloween, I thought I’d share one of my favourite John Finnemore sketches: https://youtu.be/LDoBVbmWxxM?si=SulJVRRa15TIhgpE
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The incredible tragedy for #ArcticScience of NOAA shutting down their #methane monitoring data. 5th May 2025 is the last data we'll ever get.
#nckf25
#nckf25
October 24, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The incredible tragedy for #ArcticScience of NOAA shutting down their #methane monitoring data. 5th May 2025 is the last data we'll ever get.
#nckf25
#nckf25
I have made a tear-off Darkness Calendar for the winter. Every week I can tear off a page and get the sunset times. It starts next week and runs for 14 weeks, by which time we’ll be back to sunset at 1700 here in Cardiff.
October 22, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I have made a tear-off Darkness Calendar for the winter. Every week I can tear off a page and get the sunset times. It starts next week and runs for 14 weeks, by which time we’ll be back to sunset at 1700 here in Cardiff.
The Conservative proposals to withdraw ILR status from anyone who claims benefits or earns under £38k are absolutely abhorrent. This would lead to a huge deportation of tens of thousands of people who have made the UK their home over a long period - just awful.
October 22, 2025 at 7:07 AM
The Conservative proposals to withdraw ILR status from anyone who claims benefits or earns under £38k are absolutely abhorrent. This would lead to a huge deportation of tens of thousands of people who have made the UK their home over a long period - just awful.
This is a great analysis!
https://crispsandwi.ch/@mattround/115399721330666920
https://crispsandwi.ch/@mattround/115399721330666920
Matt Round (@mattround@crispsandwi.ch)
In the late ‘90s I spoke to some senior advertising people who were dismissive about the internet and said they were “waiting for it to turn into television”. It’s taken over 25 years, but maybe they’re finally happy https://www.derekthompson.org/p/why-everything-became-television
crispsandwi.ch
October 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
This is a great analysis!
https://crispsandwi.ch/@mattround/115399721330666920
https://crispsandwi.ch/@mattround/115399721330666920
On the subject of paying for parking: some years ago I met some people from NCP (a big UK car park operator) and their research showed that most motorists hate the process of paying for parking more than they hate the actual parking fee. People want to get out of their car and walk away, they […]
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mastodon.social
October 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
On the subject of paying for parking: some years ago I met some people from NCP (a big UK car park operator) and their research showed that most motorists hate the process of paying for parking more than they hate the actual parking fee. People want to get out of their car and walk away, they […]
The local council has introduced parking charges in the seafront carparks in our wealthy seaside town (I've never seen so many £100k Range Rovers) and the response of some motorists has been to vandalise the parking ticket machines. (Of course, it would help if local authorities weren't so […]
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mastodon.social
October 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The local council has introduced parking charges in the seafront carparks in our wealthy seaside town (I've never seen so many £100k Range Rovers) and the response of some motorists has been to vandalise the parking ticket machines. (Of course, it would help if local authorities weren't so […]
Gosh, the end of TiVo. I first saw it at BBC R&D open day in (I think) 1999 when I was just a student trainee. TiVo was American, so we had it hooked up via a standards converter to work with UK analogue TV. But I definitely recall a colleague explaining the “thumbs up, thumbs down” […]
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mastodon.social
October 16, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Gosh, the end of TiVo. I first saw it at BBC R&D open day in (I think) 1999 when I was just a student trainee. TiVo was American, so we had it hooked up via a standards converter to work with UK analogue TV. But I definitely recall a colleague explaining the “thumbs up, thumbs down” […]
Thanks a heap, Microsoft. You were supposed to make collaboration easier.
(Yes, I know Microsoft are bad, but it's what the institution provides so we're stuck with it)
(Yes, I know Microsoft are bad, but it's what the institution provides so we're stuck with it)
October 10, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Thanks a heap, Microsoft. You were supposed to make collaboration easier.
(Yes, I know Microsoft are bad, but it's what the institution provides so we're stuck with it)
(Yes, I know Microsoft are bad, but it's what the institution provides so we're stuck with it)
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The Life Aquatic looks at the moment in Cousteau's life when his son dies and he conceives another with a women 40 years his junior while his first wife quietly dies of cancer and tells us that things could had gone differently
October 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The Life Aquatic looks at the moment in Cousteau's life when his son dies and he conceives another with a women 40 years his junior while his first wife quietly dies of cancer and tells us that things could had gone differently
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we just watched a documentary on jacques cousteau and, holy shit, I had assumed the life aquatic was an homage, but it is a roast
October 8, 2025 at 3:29 AM
we just watched a documentary on jacques cousteau and, holy shit, I had assumed the life aquatic was an homage, but it is a roast
I see I’ve acquired a team of web developers!
October 8, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I see I’ve acquired a team of web developers!
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🚨 New preprint out🚨 now, why has Antarctica stopped (net) losing mass?
We explore how declining sea ice but mostly increasingly heavy and frequent atmospheric rivers have actually led to a small increase in the mass of #antarctica, in spite of increased […]
[Original post on fediscience.org]
We explore how declining sea ice but mostly increasingly heavy and frequent atmospheric rivers have actually led to a small increase in the mass of #antarctica, in spite of increased […]
[Original post on fediscience.org]
October 7, 2025 at 6:36 AM
🚨 New preprint out🚨 now, why has Antarctica stopped (net) losing mass?
We explore how declining sea ice but mostly increasingly heavy and frequent atmospheric rivers have actually led to a small increase in the mass of #antarctica, in spite of increased […]
[Original post on fediscience.org]
We explore how declining sea ice but mostly increasingly heavy and frequent atmospheric rivers have actually led to a small increase in the mass of #antarctica, in spite of increased […]
[Original post on fediscience.org]
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we were talking about an article about the increasing illiteracy in our society and a zoomer said, yeah, they'd recently seen a video about that
October 6, 2025 at 6:24 AM
we were talking about an article about the increasing illiteracy in our society and a zoomer said, yeah, they'd recently seen a video about that
Hey Admiral insurance - my name is not that special! @yournameisinvalid
October 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Hey Admiral insurance - my name is not that special! @yournameisinvalid
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The #trump admin Wednesday sent letters to 9 of the #US’ top public & private #universities, urging campus leaders to pledge support for Trump’s political agenda to access federal #research #funding.
The letters came attached to a 10-pg “compact”—a priority statement for the admin’s educational […]
The letters came attached to a 10-pg “compact”—a priority statement for the admin’s educational […]
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masto.ai
October 2, 2025 at 6:26 AM
The #trump admin Wednesday sent letters to 9 of the #US’ top public & private #universities, urging campus leaders to pledge support for Trump’s political agenda to access federal #research #funding.
The letters came attached to a 10-pg “compact”—a priority statement for the admin’s educational […]
The letters came attached to a 10-pg “compact”—a priority statement for the admin’s educational […]
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Meeting LISA
LISA: the Lightweight In Situ Analysis box is one of a kind, built by our friends at PICE in the Niels Bohr Institute. Later this year we're taking LISA to #antarctica for the first time ever, to analyse shallow #snow and #firn cores directly in the field. We hope LISA will help us […]
LISA: the Lightweight In Situ Analysis box is one of a kind, built by our friends at PICE in the Niels Bohr Institute. Later this year we're taking LISA to #antarctica for the first time ever, to analyse shallow #snow and #firn cores directly in the field. We hope LISA will help us […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
September 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Meeting LISA
LISA: the Lightweight In Situ Analysis box is one of a kind, built by our friends at PICE in the Niels Bohr Institute. Later this year we're taking LISA to #antarctica for the first time ever, to analyse shallow #snow and #firn cores directly in the field. We hope LISA will help us […]
LISA: the Lightweight In Situ Analysis box is one of a kind, built by our friends at PICE in the Niels Bohr Institute. Later this year we're taking LISA to #antarctica for the first time ever, to analyse shallow #snow and #firn cores directly in the field. We hope LISA will help us […]
TodayI learned that George Stephenson forgot to bring a means of lighting the fire for Locomotion Number 1 at its first trial run on the Stockton & Darlington railway, and was rescued by one of the navvies, who had a burning glass that he used to light his pipe!
Makes me feel less bad about the […]
Makes me feel less bad about the […]
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mastodon.social
September 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
TodayI learned that George Stephenson forgot to bring a means of lighting the fire for Locomotion Number 1 at its first trial run on the Stockton & Darlington railway, and was rescued by one of the navvies, who had a burning glass that he used to light his pipe!
Makes me feel less bad about the […]
Makes me feel less bad about the […]