Kevin Olsen
Martian science at Oxford
Birds and food too.
- My good friend and visitor, Patrick Sheese #datagod from @uoft.bsky.social gave a wonderful seminar today in @oxfordphysics.bsky.social We laughed, we cried, we learned the value of careful data curation! 🧪 #climatesky
- #Oxfordpubreview Sunday roast at the Fishes! Everyone knows the Trout and the Perch, but the Fishes is a lesser known escape nestled along a canal and with a huge outdoor space. The roast was excellent. Gravy, stuffing, pudd, all terrific!
- Outrageous. And the conservatives will be the ones saying keep politics out of science! 🙂↔️
- LPSC abstracts - two-page conference proceedings - have been retrospectively disappearing from the meeting archives. The organisers say it's because the abstracts are "DEI content". In an email yesterday, the ADS database reported "around 1,000 broken links to ... LPSC abstracts". #planetsci 🧪
- Bronze mannikin, Cape Town. Cute,unassuming little guys hanging out by the pool. Really nice feather patterns and colours up close. (But I was never close enough!) 🪶🦉(Spermestes cucullata)
- Love watching them fly over our AOPP building in @oxfordphysics.bsky.social
- The swifts are back! Every spring the swifts return to the Museum tower after their long migration from Africa. These swifts have been the subject of a research study since May 1947 when the nest boxes were installed. Watch the swifts live on our swiftcam! oumnh.ox.ac.uk/learn-swifts...
- My grandmother banded birds, my mother banded birds. Took me along a few times when I was young...
- 🪶 The winter urban wildfires devastated communities in L.A., darkening the sky with plumes of toxic smoke. To understand the impact those fires had on birds, #Ornithology Curator Dr. Allison Shultz and fellow researchers banded birds and collected feathers right here at #NHMLA. bit.ly/BrdBndng
- This little finchy thing is the common waxbill. Look at the way its break glows in the low afternoon light! See the red highlight around its eye? 🪶🦉
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- Cute lil cape white-eyes! 🦉🪶
- Wild canary! This little yellow beauty was such a surprise and the only one we saw! I was trying to shoot something else and spotted this guy in the bush! A cape canary! And the only one! (Serinus canicollis) 🪶🦉
- With the Jets forcing overtime at the last second and winning game 7, they advance to the second round with the Edmonton Oilers and Toronto Maple Leafs. First time three Canadian teams have reached 2nd round together since 2004!!!!! (and none of them are playing each other!!) Go Oilers Go!! 🏒
- "advances in empirical climate economics" This will be with the read!
- 🧵 Boom 💥 Science 🧪 “Until two weeks ago, it was unclear whether it was scientifically supported to say an individual emitter can be linked to the impact that you’re suing over or trying to recoup costs for. That scientific connection can absolutely be made.” www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Kevin OlsenProof this guy is full of SITH.
- Reposted by Kevin OlsenPoilievre to run for by-election in safe rural Alberta riding, after rural Texas riding not available #cdnpoli
- Found this up in Bury, greater Manchester. The Trackside, Easy Lancashire Railways. #beersky #bskybeer
- Hey #planetsci, one thing I enjoy, and some of you are probably seeing at #EGU, are illustrations showing planetary processes drawn by hand, rather than computer illustrated....I am coming up completely blank finding examples that actually made it to publication... Any suggestions?
- Way to go Mahesh!!
- Just a duck. Mallard Mallard, Oxford, with the phone 🦉🪶
- Thank you @djemurdock.bsky.social for your lovely introduction to these ancient conodonts! I found the new model at Oxford's NHM @morethanadodo.bsky.social
- Bsky 🔭🧪, has anyone experienced a peer-review they were certain was fully or partly written by AI? How did you know? Did you do anything? What happened? Journals generally have policy against this (and it’s offensive). Tossing the review would delay the publication process…🧵
- I dropped in the London #Tattoo Society's 70th anniversary in London to meet @mattlodder.com, who had been researching the tattoo career of my grandmother's grandfather, Sutherland Macdonald. Met a wonderful cadre of enthusiastic historians and tattooist (Lorenzo Evangelista in the photo)
- Back with another #Oxfordpubreview, to the Rickety Press, my long-loved favourite place to get a bite. In a sudden turn, burgers are coming with signature Rosemary fries, This is the newish moo-and-blue burger with blue cheese and pickled red onions. Delicious!!😋
- A reversal and a squeeze for the history books! Poll graph from: www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
- And a huge congratulations to my MP, @heathermcpherson.bsky.social for Edmonton Strathcona!!! A lone beacon of light in the vast sea of conservative blue that is Alberta. She carries on the work of family friend and environmental hero Linda Duncan in what has become an @ndp.ca stronghold near UofA
- Looks like Pierre Polliviere has been defeated. Thank you Mark Carney (and congrats), thank you #Canada
- Ok let's get back to yellow, South African birds. This is the cape weaver! They are plentiful, and around a lot, but tucked deep into trees and surprisingly hard to photograph, despite being easy to see! 🪶🦉 (Ploceus capensis, female)
- Long time coming since the last #Oxfordpubreview, and today we dined at the famous Bear, a place I take all my visitors. I used to really rate their food, but all things have changed since the pandemic. No big, crystal salt flakes on top, and tartar sauce is no longer served as standard.... shame
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- The mystery of Mars methane 🤔 Before phosphine on Venus and DMS on K2-18b, methane on Mars was the hottest biosignature around, and a major result for Curiosity. Problem is, I've been searching for it with ExoMars for seven years and haven't seen a trace.....🧵 #planetsci 🧪🔭 doi.org/10.1029/2024...
- @astrojake.bsky.social's comment about the data on K2-18b is getting traction! Ivcame across this article on NPR! 🔭🧪 'consistent with a flat line' www.npr.org/2025/04/25/g...
- CDR! Congrats, team!
