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Ellen
@ellen42.bsky.social
Leading a double life of cold adventures and engineering. A bit like Bananaman, but with cake.
Born at 333.8 ppm CO2
She/her
I dropped my keyboard and the Escape button fell off. Now I’m wondering if it’s trying to tell me something.
March 20, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Let the nervous feed-refreshing commence! #BM100
After multiple failed attempts, the conch was blown at 10:37. The 2025 Barkley Marathons begins in one hour. #BM100.
March 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
“No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away, until the clock wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life is only the core of their actual existence.” Terry Pratchett
March 12, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Back on it! I took Edgar the tyre for a drag to kick start training for my return to Svalbard. My legs were not best impressed and I suspect will make me suffer tomorrow.
February 2, 2025 at 8:39 PM
In 100 days, I’m going back to Svalbard! Things haven’t gone to plan since returning in April 2022, but a week training in Kvitåvatn and I’m feeling ready to train hard. Onward!

#Svalbard #PolarExpedition #SayYesMore #ToughGirlChallenges
February 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Time for a cold adventure
🩵❄️🇳🇴❄️🩵
January 23, 2025 at 11:49 AM
It’s Squirrel Appreciation Day! I have always loved squirrels, if I had a daemon it would be a squirrel. They might be rats with good PR, but I like rats too and had pet rats at university. This is Dave The Squirrel.
January 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM
It’s #PenguinAwarenessDay
🩵❄️🐧 ❄️🩵
I know y'all have other things on your minds, but don't forget it's Penguin Awareness Day!
January 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This morning’s podcast, @robottalkpod.bsky.social ! An interview from the University of Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC)

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
January 20, 2025 at 9:52 AM
My favourite type of packing! Gathering my kit to head off to the frozen north 🩵❄️🩵
January 20, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Reposted by Ellen
2024 @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social #climate data out today:

📈 2024 - first year more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial; for ERA5 it was 1.6ºC
🌡️ the past 10 years were the 10 warmest years on record
📈 2024 was warmest year for all continental regions, except Antarctica and Australasia

🌍🌡️🧪⚒️🌊
January 10, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Just Lego Perseverance watching their launch on Goodnight Oppy.

#Lego #Perseverance #Opportunity #MarsRover
January 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Reposted by Ellen
Antarctic researchers warn of possible 'catastrophic' sea level rise within our lifetime in group statement
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
Unprecedented changes in Antarctica ice prompt researchers to issue emergency statement
Hundreds of polar researchers issue an emergency statement calling for urgent action to deal with the impacts of climate change in Antarctica.
www.abc.net.au
November 23, 2024 at 2:22 PM
My inbox will links to this news this morning, a really horrible incident. There’s little information so comments are speculation: speculation when injury has happened is wrong. News likes this strengthens my passion for safety, robust system design and Human Factors.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-a...
November 9, 2023 at 6:52 AM
Seems appropriate for my first post on BlueSky! (Though it’s more of a grey sky, admittedly) I’ve just had this huge flock of pink-footed geese fly over. They migrate from the Arctic to a nearby lake which connects me to the places I love the most while sat here in muddy Cheshire ❄️💙❄️
November 5, 2023 at 2:53 PM