Roland Pease
@peaseroland.bsky.social
Charles Pub in Benidorm from Google maps.
November 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Charles Pub in Benidorm from Google maps.
And next it will be the 11 hottest years were the past 11.
Then 12 hottest ...
... 13 hottest ...
Because I doubt we'll see anything like 2014 or before
(even a Pinatubo eruption won't make that much of a difference)
Then 12 hottest ...
... 13 hottest ...
Because I doubt we'll see anything like 2014 or before
(even a Pinatubo eruption won't make that much of a difference)
November 15, 2025 at 10:25 AM
And next it will be the 11 hottest years were the past 11.
Then 12 hottest ...
... 13 hottest ...
Because I doubt we'll see anything like 2014 or before
(even a Pinatubo eruption won't make that much of a difference)
Then 12 hottest ...
... 13 hottest ...
Because I doubt we'll see anything like 2014 or before
(even a Pinatubo eruption won't make that much of a difference)
At a Roy Soc meeting on the origin of neural systems, one speaker proposed that, had the room been full of sponges rather than mammals (and if they could think), they'd find us chordates woefully dull at the cellular level.
November 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
At a Roy Soc meeting on the origin of neural systems, one speaker proposed that, had the room been full of sponges rather than mammals (and if they could think), they'd find us chordates woefully dull at the cellular level.
Philadelphus, flowers in June. (And November when confused.)
November 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Philadelphus, flowers in June. (And November when confused.)
On the other hand ...
November 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
On the other hand ...
I always like to think the first tentative blooms on chaenomeles are a sign of good things around the corner.
November 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I always like to think the first tentative blooms on chaenomeles are a sign of good things around the corner.
3I Atlas antiscience derangement reaches Capitol Hill ... with a hint of nominative determinism.
November 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
3I Atlas antiscience derangement reaches Capitol Hill ... with a hint of nominative determinism.
Front page of the Science in Action webpage today, with even more feel of finality.
On the left hand side: The BBC brings you all the week's science news.
On the right hand side: No upcoming broadcasts.
On the left hand side: The BBC brings you all the week's science news.
On the right hand side: No upcoming broadcasts.
November 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Front page of the Science in Action webpage today, with even more feel of finality.
On the left hand side: The BBC brings you all the week's science news.
On the right hand side: No upcoming broadcasts.
On the left hand side: The BBC brings you all the week's science news.
On the right hand side: No upcoming broadcasts.
Thread (on the other side) on the earthquake yesterday in northern Afghanistan
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November 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Thread (on the other side) on the earthquake yesterday in northern Afghanistan
x.com/shnizaii/sta...
x.com/shnizaii/sta...
"What's NASA potentially hiding" is NewsNation's big question about 3I Atlas to Avi Loon.
The derangement is so infuriating - as I shared last week on a rare outing on BBC Inside Science
The derangement is so infuriating - as I shared last week on a rare outing on BBC Inside Science
November 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"What's NASA potentially hiding" is NewsNation's big question about 3I Atlas to Avi Loon.
The derangement is so infuriating - as I shared last week on a rare outing on BBC Inside Science
The derangement is so infuriating - as I shared last week on a rare outing on BBC Inside Science
We had great fun on our whistle stop tour of London all those years ago, and I love the idea of the cultural infrastructure pf a place being imprinted by the history of the rocks below (or sometimes borrowed!).
October 31, 2025 at 1:14 PM
We had great fun on our whistle stop tour of London all those years ago, and I love the idea of the cultural infrastructure pf a place being imprinted by the history of the rocks below (or sometimes borrowed!).
For 61 years the #BBCWorldService has been broadcasting the latest in science via its weekly Science in Action programme. That dies in the next half hour, with this final edition, reflecting on the fall in trust in expertise driven by malign interests over recent years.
October 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
For 61 years the #BBCWorldService has been broadcasting the latest in science via its weekly Science in Action programme. That dies in the next half hour, with this final edition, reflecting on the fall in trust in expertise driven by malign interests over recent years.
Anthropocene as a biological event - the massive increase in human and domesticated mammal biomass vs the startling decrease in land and marine wild mammal
biomass in the past 160yrs, as documented the great team of Ron Milo in Nat Comms.
Sobering graph.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
biomass in the past 160yrs, as documented the great team of Ron Milo in Nat Comms.
Sobering graph.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Anthropocene as a biological event - the massive increase in human and domesticated mammal biomass vs the startling decrease in land and marine wild mammal
biomass in the past 160yrs, as documented the great team of Ron Milo in Nat Comms.
Sobering graph.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
biomass in the past 160yrs, as documented the great team of Ron Milo in Nat Comms.
Sobering graph.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
If you grew concrete, it would sink and bury it much quicker.
October 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
If you grew concrete, it would sink and bury it much quicker.
Last minute revision for the recording shortly of the final edition of BBC Science in Action - @naomioreskes.bsky.social's why trust science?
October 27, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Last minute revision for the recording shortly of the final edition of BBC Science in Action - @naomioreskes.bsky.social's why trust science?
Here's some lines from Mike's book that seem incredibly relevant to this week's farewell edition of Science in Action:
“There’s not many places left to do science journalism.”
And "Science journalism has arguably never been more important ..."
Part of what I hope to explore - the role of the media.
“There’s not many places left to do science journalism.”
And "Science journalism has arguably never been more important ..."
Part of what I hope to explore - the role of the media.
October 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Here's some lines from Mike's book that seem incredibly relevant to this week's farewell edition of Science in Action:
“There’s not many places left to do science journalism.”
And "Science journalism has arguably never been more important ..."
Part of what I hope to explore - the role of the media.
“There’s not many places left to do science journalism.”
And "Science journalism has arguably never been more important ..."
Part of what I hope to explore - the role of the media.
Speed reading "Science under Siege" - ahead of next week's recording of BBC Science in Action, where co-author @michaelemann.bsky.social joins a panel on the front line of the current assault on science, to answer what can be done.
An appropriate topic for the last edition of the 60yr old series.
An appropriate topic for the last edition of the 60yr old series.
October 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Speed reading "Science under Siege" - ahead of next week's recording of BBC Science in Action, where co-author @michaelemann.bsky.social joins a panel on the front line of the current assault on science, to answer what can be done.
An appropriate topic for the last edition of the 60yr old series.
An appropriate topic for the last edition of the 60yr old series.
Finally, lovely to catch up again with agronomist Catherine Nakalembe, who normally uses satellite data to monitor crop health, but has turned to motorbike-borne GoPros to ground truth her data. Turns out to be remarkably effective.
Great note to finish this edition on.
Great note to finish this edition on.
October 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Finally, lovely to catch up again with agronomist Catherine Nakalembe, who normally uses satellite data to monitor crop health, but has turned to motorbike-borne GoPros to ground truth her data. Turns out to be remarkably effective.
Great note to finish this edition on.
Great note to finish this edition on.
Coccolithophores, just μms across, with elaborate carbonate shells, capture billions of tons of CO2 every year, along with calcifying forams & pteropods. But how much is permanently removed from the biosphere is unclear, @icta-uab.bsky.social's Patrizia Ziveri tells me. Esp with global warming.
October 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Coccolithophores, just μms across, with elaborate carbonate shells, capture billions of tons of CO2 every year, along with calcifying forams & pteropods. But how much is permanently removed from the biosphere is unclear, @icta-uab.bsky.social's Patrizia Ziveri tells me. Esp with global warming.
Grrrr clouds again. And I had so much hope earlier today.
October 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Grrrr clouds again. And I had so much hope earlier today.
No, Lilac! You're nine months early.
October 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
No, Lilac! You're nine months early.
In the scientific study that revealed that 1540 European drought crisis, interviewee Chantal Camenisch and her colleagues underlined that the threat of the return of such an extreme needed to be examined.
October 17, 2025 at 11:08 AM
In the scientific study that revealed that 1540 European drought crisis, interviewee Chantal Camenisch and her colleagues underlined that the threat of the return of such an extreme needed to be examined.
And Social Distancing, ant style - @nstroeymeyt.bsky.social peers inside ant nests to see how they're redesigned under the threat of infection to reduce the risk of disease spread. A curious example of collective intelligence. Lessons for us humans?
October 17, 2025 at 10:23 AM
And Social Distancing, ant style - @nstroeymeyt.bsky.social peers inside ant nests to see how they're redesigned under the threat of infection to reduce the risk of disease spread. A curious example of collective intelligence. Lessons for us humans?
Also, the unusual properties and nanotech potential of water when squeezed down to a molecular layer or two, with Laura Fumagalli of the Manchester Graphene Centre.
October 17, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Also, the unusual properties and nanotech potential of water when squeezed down to a molecular layer or two, with Laura Fumagalli of the Manchester Graphene Centre.
Tho' the hallucinations are still more entertaining in anatomy.
h/t @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social
h/t @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Tho' the hallucinations are still more entertaining in anatomy.
h/t @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social
h/t @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social