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Father, husband, scientist - opinions mine; Kiwi diaspora returnee "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe" rjme@mastodon.nz He/him.
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For reasons, I am working out unit conversions for the Friedmann equations. I think the original Kolb and Turner Appendix A may be using a slightly funky value of big G, but keep disagreeing about the last one or two sig figs.
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Fired this off last night. Would actually love an explanation from on this - the whole “transition fuel” trope is popular among people who want to slow-walk climate adaptation but part of it just seems innumerate.
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Don't normally post @actparty releases, but this one seems to be laughably wrong. Claim is that "According to figures from MBIE, coal use for electricity generation was up 29.5 per cent in 2022." But actual MBIE figures show coal use in 22 well down act.org.nz/press-releases
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Don't normally post releases, but this one seems to be laughably wrong. Claim is that "According to figures from MBIE, coal use for electricity generation was up 29.5 per cent in 2022." But actual MBIE figures show coal use in 22 well down
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Five years to the day since Dad died. Since we farewelled him with a death notice that began
"Soldier, sailor, doctor, writer, editor, poet, advocate, actor, singer, and cryptic cruciverbalist"
he would have loved this poem. (Also a great Dad and epically devoted husband)
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Today’s short poem is called ‘Epitaph for a Cryptic Crossword Compiler’.
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Kind of weird that Hubble's constant is measured in units of inverse seconds. Or Hertz, which is also the unit of frequency. But so far as we know we don't live in a bouncing universe.
(Cosmology shitposting)
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Ruh roh.
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Latest Euro ensemble tonight for tropical low #99P invest. Other global ensembles similar to this output. Likely to be a TC by Wed/Thurs. Still early days and a lot can change but a concerning trend for the upper North Island of NZ. Tracking at haurakigulfweather.com/cyclone1
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We're going to need more electricity generation to decarbonise transport and deal with process heat, but there is also a fair bit of geo and wind under construction or consented, and solar is just getting started. This release from ACT is remarkably wrong.
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There is actually an interesting story in our electricity generation -- coal+gas is on a long-term downtrend, and wind+geothermal is on the rise... (These numbers are all smoothed over the last four quarters; it's spiky on an inter-annual basis)
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Should have said that was for electricity generation -- here's a long time-series. Data is here mbie.govt.nz/building-and-e
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Here's the actual numbers -- it was up in 2021 (gas shortages, dry year, etc) -- can you explain this?
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Don't normally post releases, but this one seems to be laughably wrong. Claim is that "According to figures from MBIE, coal use for electricity generation was up 29.5 per cent in 2022." But actual MBIE figures show coal use in 22 well down
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Auckland’s mayor probably rubbing his hands with glee, doing his best Montgomery Burns impersonation
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HEAVY RAIN WARNING - TARARUA RANGES
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Rain's stopped. Sun's out. And the whole city smells a little like the changing rooms at a school swimming pool.
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From a crank email. Good self-knowledge.
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Good outcome for the staff involved, but shockingly bungled process by HR. (Meanwhile, many of the people there with options will have been quietly polishing their CVs)
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Anyone know what happened? Seems a lot for one day.
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This is what happens if you get kicked in the head too many times.
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What’s a scientific theory that sounds like bullshit to you?
One for me is the big bang theory
There was something smaller than a piece of sand then it blew up and became everything
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Watching a TV show where a dude gets murdered because he is holding a $25k scratchie ticket.
Followed immediately by an ad for Lotto. Yeah, nah.
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One of those weeks, in so many ways.
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Congrats to Brian for stepping up - and for stepping back. Role model for how authentic academic leadership can work.
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People who knowingly sell a carcinogenic, addictive product to kids -- how on earth do they look themselves in the mirror in the morning?
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"correlation isn't causation" but sometimes the correlation is hitting you over the head
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Pretty sure that "big story at 5:30" will be a YouTube link with a RickRoll video.
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Let us not forget the work of in telling this story and making it visible -- journalism at its absolute best.
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I’d be a pretty obnoxious six year old. Buy I would definitely be telling my parents to buy Apple and Microsoft. And to sell the Scully-dip in the former.
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To me, this is a no brainer. But I am curious to see what people choose.
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Huh? Again??
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Severe Thunderstorm Watch issued metservice.com/warnings/home?
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Holy crap.
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My contribution to Auckland floods data vis: cumulative rainfall in January over 57 years (based on hourly observations).
Technical note: 1966 to 2012 is for the Auckland airport weather station and 2013 to 2023 is for the Mangere weather station. Data for Jan 1994 is missing.
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Imagine if it was a different missing deadly radioactive source, that nobody knew about?
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New t-shirt just dropped. Please Don't. All profits to CARE Waitākere (providing flood relief) greentees.digitees.co.nz
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Also, as a scientist I am bound to say that self-selected polls are unreliable. So clearly for amusement purposes only.
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Happy ships don’t leak.
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Leaked emails obtained by Stuff reveal Auckland mayor Wayne Brown has tried to silence fellow councillors and leave him to be the “one voice” on the city’s flooding matters. dlvr.it/ShlhrR
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The simulations that appear in the paper were done using a modification of a code developed by Dr. Musoke, who is a postdoctoral scholar working in my research group at University of New Hampshire! He finished his PhD in 2020 under .
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New lake just dropped. (Auckland Domain; working as planned, but still more watery than normal)
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This rain can really get in the sea.
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You hear a lot that New Zealand has been importing lots of coal to make electricity -- but that was true for a blip in 2021, but the long term trend is down, and wind is growing quickly...
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"Now sureleh a man of Mistah Brown's nigh legendary charisma could not have formed too many enemies in the Grumpy Old Men groupchat ... "
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the next Knives Out film is going to be about which doubles partner snitched on Wayne Brown
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When I first saw this I thought it was a bit of a snipe, but it's past 10,000 names and backed by people ranging from Duncan Garner to Dave Letele...
There will be a lot of clean-up after the rains, and probably best to start at the top.
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Things going swimmingly for the Mayor. And for quite a bit of Auckland.
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International grad students in the US:
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE A CITIZEN/PR TO APPLY FOR FINESST!!
Read on for a guide courtesy of ✨
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From Astrobites: A step-by-step guide to applying for the NASA FINESST graduate fellowship, including advice for writing a strong application! astrobites.org/2023/01/29/nas
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