Ian Walsh
@oceanian.bsky.social
Carbon flux oceanographer, BGC Argo cheerleader, mCDR consulting, ocean optical instrument design and calibration. Know your instruments!
The same argument holds well for scientific papers, it may be useful to some to read 40/80/100 year old paper, but apart from realizing how little data went into those papers, I can’t imagine it’s terribly enlightening in general
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Bah. Demanding people read half-century-old work as a purity test for genre membership is a fine way to kill the genre dead.
I wrote about such nonsense here;
whatever.scalzi.com/2020/08/07/o...
I wrote about such nonsense here;
whatever.scalzi.com/2020/08/07/o...
August 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The same argument holds well for scientific papers, it may be useful to some to read 40/80/100 year old paper, but apart from realizing how little data went into those papers, I can’t imagine it’s terribly enlightening in general
How about “dashing mainstream scientists” ?
Please stop calling us “mainstream” scientists, we’re not boring we’re just right
August 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
How about “dashing mainstream scientists” ?
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#CTDAppreciationDay
my first Bluesky post: We were tracking the oil plumes at depth using the CTD and UV fluorometer from the F.G. Walton Smith during the Deepwater Horizon response. This was the morning after the flaring started from one of the relief drilling ships.
#CTDAppreciationDay
my first Bluesky post: We were tracking the oil plumes at depth using the CTD and UV fluorometer from the F.G. Walton Smith during the Deepwater Horizon response. This was the morning after the flaring started from one of the relief drilling ships.
January 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
For
#CTDAppreciationDay
my first Bluesky post: We were tracking the oil plumes at depth using the CTD and UV fluorometer from the F.G. Walton Smith during the Deepwater Horizon response. This was the morning after the flaring started from one of the relief drilling ships.
#CTDAppreciationDay
my first Bluesky post: We were tracking the oil plumes at depth using the CTD and UV fluorometer from the F.G. Walton Smith during the Deepwater Horizon response. This was the morning after the flaring started from one of the relief drilling ships.