Kau))) @kau@qoto.org
- https://www.instagram.com/holy_kau
- Paleo² Lab
- https://thirumalai.geo.arizona.edu
Earth/climate scientist at the #UniversityOfArizona (#Tucson).
📝 #GTD
🦜 #birds
🎹 #synths
🎸 #bassguitar
☀️ #mindfulness
📸 #photography
🌡️ #climate & #paleoclimate
🌊 #oceans & #paleoceanography
⚗️ #geochemistry & #biogeochemistry
Joined Nov 2022
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This is a lovely article about Australian Ghost Bats - except it repeatedly implies that insect-eating bats aren't carnivorous? Ummm
#bats #GhostBat #CosmosMagazine
https://cosmosmagazine.com/australia/ghost-bat-phantom-australian-night-sky/
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The widely told hero story that Britain innovated the technique to make wrought iron from scrap, propelling it in the Industrial Revolution as a powerhouse, turns out to be false.
Named after the British entrepreneur that capitalised upon it, the 'Cort Process' to make wrought iron was in fact stolen from 76 black metallurgists near Iron Bay, Jamaica. Cort patented it in the 1780's, claimed to be inventor, & forcibly shut down the Jamaican foundry.
New research:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07341512.2023.2220991
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Just a printed image of thousands of flies, ants, spiders and butterflies fighting in a battle with tiny weapons. You see part of an allegory of the struggles of a Protestant spider and a Catholic fly in sixteenth-century England.
The author, John Heywood, published the book in 1556: 456 pages, 98 chapters.
The story: A fly named Buz gets caught in a spider web, and starts arguing with a spider about Catholics and Protestants. In the end this leads to a battle.
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An ancient amber bear. Carved about 10,000 years ago, this magical find washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. National Museum of Denmark. 📷 my own
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The extent of global sea ice is more than 1 million square kilometers below the previous record for the current date. This year is particularly a result of the anomalous Antarctic.
Larger seasonal cycle graphics updated at https://zacklabe.com/global-sea-ice-extent-conc/ (satellite era from 1979-2023). Data from https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index.
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"This indicates unvarying latitudes, an observation distinct from plate tectonics" - evidence for stagnant lid in Early Earth before the onset of plate tectonics: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06024-5
Woah - look at those westerlies being churned out, crossing the subcontinent! #CycloneBiparjoy
#IndianMonsoon2023 #Monsoon2023 #Monsoon #Rainfall #IndiaWx #India #Atmosphere #Circulation #Climate #Seasonality #Biparjoy
Cool new #preprint out by Chris Lowery and colleagues where they use #seismic #stratigraphy to understand #contourite deposits associated with the #LoopCurrent in the #GulfOfMexico: https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/5495/
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Not surprising that today's New York Times article about the singularity launders bullshit for big tech with just enough skepticism for plausible deniability
More impressive: the article quotes 15 different people.
Sundar Pichai
Reid Hoffman
Bill Gates
Elon Musk
Sam Altman
Baldur Bjarnason
John von Neumann
Irving John Good
Hans Moravec
Ray Kurzweil
Rodney Brooks
Jerry Kaplan
Ryan Schaeffer
Eric Schmidt
Charlies Stross
Yes, every single one of them is a man.
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I'm missing my old network on the birdsite for this kind of query. Any #archaeology and/or #digitalarchives folks out there with recommendations on curating Ground Penetrating Radar datasets (DZT, DZX)? Challenges: they are v big & proprietary, we don't even have the software to read them in native format. I'm not even sure whether we should accept or recommend curation elsewhere.
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Lost world of complex life and the late rise of the eukaryotic crown
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I keep thinking we've reached the largest anomaly (in terms of absolute magnitude), but that's not the case yet. The #Antarctic departure continues to widen. Apologies if you are tired of seeing me post this same graphic.
Other graphical perspectives at https://zacklabe.com/antarctic-sea-ice-extentconcentration/
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It's a fine evening for a dust bath.
(Bewick's wren, Seattle)
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I used the CO₂ removal (CDR) as time machine analogy to argue that while we need to research and develop CDR because it’s needed in the future, CDR is useless as a climate solution until we decarbonize drastically.
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I showed my students this movie of how atmospheric #CarbonDioxide (CO₂) travels around the globe and you should see it too.
- https://www.instagram.com/holy_kau
- Paleo² Lab
- https://thirumalai.geo.arizona.edu
Earth/climate scientist at the #UniversityOfArizona (#Tucson).
📝 #GTD
🦜 #birds
🎹 #synths
🎸 #bassguitar
☀️ #mindfulness
📸 #photography
🌡️ #climate & #paleoclimate
🌊 #oceans & #paleoceanography
⚗️ #geochemistry & #biogeochemistry
Joined Nov 2022
