Sofia Hauck
@shauck.bsky.social
Data scientist working with patient data (previously railways & farming); genomics PhD from Oxford Zoology; science enthusiast, cycling advocate, illustration fan and keen traveller. 🇧🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺
A beautiful morning for some gullible buoys.
September 21, 2025 at 12:35 PM
A beautiful morning for some gullible buoys.
September 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I once had the bizarre experience of being stuffed into a little airport bus so that we could do one full loop of the plane before boarding. The Innsbruck staff insisted this was “Easyjet policy”: there should always be a bridge or a bus. Innsbruck was gorgeous enough to almost make up for it.
May 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I once had the bizarre experience of being stuffed into a little airport bus so that we could do one full loop of the plane before boarding. The Innsbruck staff insisted this was “Easyjet policy”: there should always be a bridge or a bus. Innsbruck was gorgeous enough to almost make up for it.
I love how they’re common enough that you can bump into one anywhere, and rare enough that’s it’s a real treat every time. This guy was trying to get some breakfast in Birmingham Canal.
May 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I love how they’re common enough that you can bump into one anywhere, and rare enough that’s it’s a real treat every time. This guy was trying to get some breakfast in Birmingham Canal.
There’s also actually a handful of different ways to measure sunrise and sunset which might also account for the length of the day not being quite what you expect! I believe Apple’s Weather app uses civil sunrise and sunset.
www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/di...
www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/di...
March 20, 2025 at 7:35 AM
There’s also actually a handful of different ways to measure sunrise and sunset which might also account for the length of the day not being quite what you expect! I believe Apple’s Weather app uses civil sunrise and sunset.
www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/di...
www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/di...
To quote from Wikipedia, it varies by year and it is at noon on average rather than every year.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwi...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwi...
![Because of Earth's uneven angular velocity in its elliptical orbit and its axial tilt, noon (12:00:00) GMT is rarely the exact moment the Sun crosses the Greenwich Meridian[b] and reaches its highest point in the sky there. This event may occur up to 16 minutes before or after noon GMT, a discrepancy described by the equation of time. Noon GMT is the annual average (the arithmetic mean) moment of this event, which accounts for the word "mean" in "Greenwich Mean Time".[c]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:autbe762vxcimr5z7cs4wmvx/bafkreigavphcjyergytfjjm4zhzlogwa34oc3q27tw2jdmuu4rrag27vxm@jpeg)
March 20, 2025 at 7:19 AM
To quote from Wikipedia, it varies by year and it is at noon on average rather than every year.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwi...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwi...
It’s been a lovely day for walking! We did a loop from Lewes through Southease, lunch at the Abergavenny Arms in Rodmell (delicious, by the way).
March 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
It’s been a lovely day for walking! We did a loop from Lewes through Southease, lunch at the Abergavenny Arms in Rodmell (delicious, by the way).
Only about a third of people in the UK are less than a 30 minute walk (~2.5km) from a station.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5c94bd...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5c94bd...
February 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Only about a third of people in the UK are less than a 30 minute walk (~2.5km) from a station.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5c94bd...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5c94bd...
I was there when they were installing it, it was somehow even weirder when it was half built!
January 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I was there when they were installing it, it was somehow even weirder when it was half built!
YouGov poll from last year suggests it’s a bit of a class difference to have a real tree, but there’s surprisingly little effect by voting party.
yougov.co.uk/topics/enter...
yougov.co.uk/topics/enter...
December 11, 2024 at 7:43 AM
YouGov poll from last year suggests it’s a bit of a class difference to have a real tree, but there’s surprisingly little effect by voting party.
yougov.co.uk/topics/enter...
yougov.co.uk/topics/enter...