James Lea
@jamesmlea.bsky.social
Glaciology jack of all trades. Ice mud and satellite botherer at Liverpool Uni. He/him ❄️🛰️🏳️🌈
Not the bio from #wikipedia I was expecting of new #pope...
May 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Not the bio from #wikipedia I was expecting of new #pope...
Finished Danish Duolingo!
Slightly disappointed the owl seems indifferent, though to be fair I did systematically skip all the spoken exercises after resigning myself to never getting the pronunciation right 😅
Slightly disappointed the owl seems indifferent, though to be fair I did systematically skip all the spoken exercises after resigning myself to never getting the pronunciation right 😅
May 4, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Finished Danish Duolingo!
Slightly disappointed the owl seems indifferent, though to be fair I did systematically skip all the spoken exercises after resigning myself to never getting the pronunciation right 😅
Slightly disappointed the owl seems indifferent, though to be fair I did systematically skip all the spoken exercises after resigning myself to never getting the pronunciation right 😅
Unfortunately not at EGU as planned this year, but Steve Brough is stepping in for me this afternoon to tell you how many glaciers globally have disappeared or fragmented since 2000. CW: it's a *lot*
April 30, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Unfortunately not at EGU as planned this year, but Steve Brough is stepping in for me this afternoon to tell you how many glaciers globally have disappeared or fragmented since 2000. CW: it's a *lot*
No aurora flying south from Tromsø, though did manage to get a slightly shaky photo of Venus and Mars just above the Manchester clouds
January 31, 2025 at 7:52 PM
No aurora flying south from Tromsø, though did manage to get a slightly shaky photo of Venus and Mars just above the Manchester clouds
Looks like my flight to Oslo picked up the jet stream on way across the North Sea. According to @flightradar24.com we hit about 930kph!
January 26, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Looks like my flight to Oslo picked up the jet stream on way across the North Sea. According to @flightradar24.com we hit about 930kph!
[aware you might hate me for this 😅]
December 19, 2024 at 1:22 PM
[aware you might hate me for this 😅]
ScotRail have much better views
December 9, 2024 at 2:21 PM
ScotRail have much better views
Looks like I've drawn the Avanti "window seat" sort straw again
December 9, 2024 at 10:09 AM
Looks like I've drawn the Avanti "window seat" sort straw again
Cathartic update to my #GoogleEarthEngine tools replacing socials link to the *other place* with Bluesky. As a quick reminder of the tools:
GEEDiT - digitising from satellite imagery
GEEClimT - easy access to loads of climate reanalysis products
GEECE - easy and customisable CMIP6 data access tool
GEEDiT - digitising from satellite imagery
GEEClimT - easy access to loads of climate reanalysis products
GEECE - easy and customisable CMIP6 data access tool
December 6, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Cathartic update to my #GoogleEarthEngine tools replacing socials link to the *other place* with Bluesky. As a quick reminder of the tools:
GEEDiT - digitising from satellite imagery
GEEClimT - easy access to loads of climate reanalysis products
GEECE - easy and customisable CMIP6 data access tool
GEEDiT - digitising from satellite imagery
GEEClimT - easy access to loads of climate reanalysis products
GEECE - easy and customisable CMIP6 data access tool
Today has involved:
- sitting on the train in the middle of AFC Wimbledon's squad on the way to London
- chatting with lovely people at an event hosted by the Norwegian Embassy
- being gifted the Finnish Ambassador's Finland/UK badge
- late train back watching L'pool/RM match on crappy internet
- sitting on the train in the middle of AFC Wimbledon's squad on the way to London
- chatting with lovely people at an event hosted by the Norwegian Embassy
- being gifted the Finnish Ambassador's Finland/UK badge
- late train back watching L'pool/RM match on crappy internet
November 27, 2024 at 10:45 PM
Today has involved:
- sitting on the train in the middle of AFC Wimbledon's squad on the way to London
- chatting with lovely people at an event hosted by the Norwegian Embassy
- being gifted the Finnish Ambassador's Finland/UK badge
- late train back watching L'pool/RM match on crappy internet
- sitting on the train in the middle of AFC Wimbledon's squad on the way to London
- chatting with lovely people at an event hosted by the Norwegian Embassy
- being gifted the Finnish Ambassador's Finland/UK badge
- late train back watching L'pool/RM match on crappy internet
Rocking my #PolarPride
badge ahead of an exciting day of science in Copenhagen!
If you want to find out more about why Pride matters for polar research, last year I wrote a blog post about being LGBTQ+ in polar science and the progress that is yet to be made
www.polarregions.co.uk/post/why-pri...
badge ahead of an exciting day of science in Copenhagen!
If you want to find out more about why Pride matters for polar research, last year I wrote a blog post about being LGBTQ+ in polar science and the progress that is yet to be made
www.polarregions.co.uk/post/why-pri...
November 18, 2024 at 8:25 AM
Rocking my #PolarPride
badge ahead of an exciting day of science in Copenhagen!
If you want to find out more about why Pride matters for polar research, last year I wrote a blog post about being LGBTQ+ in polar science and the progress that is yet to be made
www.polarregions.co.uk/post/why-pri...
badge ahead of an exciting day of science in Copenhagen!
If you want to find out more about why Pride matters for polar research, last year I wrote a blog post about being LGBTQ+ in polar science and the progress that is yet to be made
www.polarregions.co.uk/post/why-pri...
Always nice to see this view on the flight in 😁
November 17, 2024 at 1:08 PM
Always nice to see this view on the flight in 😁
want to shout out another thing that is dear to my heart, that #PolarPride is on Monday so look out for awesome LGBTQ+ researcher contributions to polar research across science, social sciences and humanities!
November 14, 2024 at 8:54 PM
want to shout out another thing that is dear to my heart, that #PolarPride is on Monday so look out for awesome LGBTQ+ researcher contributions to polar research across science, social sciences and humanities!
Hello new, wonderful Blueskyers! In case you're wondering who I am, I spend most of my time thinking about glaciers and ice sheets past, present and future, currently mainly through satellite and field based remote sensing. Also very interested in how to get the science that we do communicated to...
November 14, 2024 at 8:54 PM
Hello new, wonderful Blueskyers! In case you're wondering who I am, I spend most of my time thinking about glaciers and ice sheets past, present and future, currently mainly through satellite and field based remote sensing. Also very interested in how to get the science that we do communicated to...
Finished in record time 😁
December 4, 2023 at 8:01 AM
Finished in record time 😁
Funny what you can get done when you're trying to concentrate on not being full of cold
December 3, 2023 at 12:39 AM
Funny what you can get done when you're trying to concentrate on not being full of cold
Shoelaces done! Brighter threads for next lot I think...
November 24, 2023 at 10:24 PM
Shoelaces done! Brighter threads for next lot I think...
First shoelace done! Now just need to do the other 😭
November 16, 2023 at 9:08 PM
First shoelace done! Now just need to do the other 😭
And bonus iceberg ghost
November 11, 2023 at 6:37 PM
And bonus iceberg ghost
Sundog over Old Nuuk this morning!
November 11, 2023 at 6:03 PM
Sundog over Old Nuuk this morning!
Not a bad late night stroll around Nuuk...
November 10, 2023 at 3:57 AM
Not a bad late night stroll around Nuuk...
Google tablet weaving! In theory all you need is some yarn and a few square cut cards with holes punched through them, though I ended up getting into a massive tangle with that, so shelled out on an inkle loom and it's so much easier. Set up is a bit of a faff (one in the pic is 80 threads), but...
November 2, 2023 at 10:10 PM
Google tablet weaving! In theory all you need is some yarn and a few square cut cards with holes punched through them, though I ended up getting into a massive tangle with that, so shelled out on an inkle loom and it's so much easier. Set up is a bit of a faff (one in the pic is 80 threads), but...
Lots of mistakes made and lots of stuff to improve, but feel like vaguely getting the hang of it...
November 2, 2023 at 9:46 PM
Lots of mistakes made and lots of stuff to improve, but feel like vaguely getting the hang of it...
Spotted in @LovelocksC, Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors says gay rights ✊🏻🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
October 28, 2023 at 2:08 PM
Spotted in @LovelocksC, Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors says gay rights ✊🏻🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️