Dr Keith Walker @SteelFolk@social.cleverlibre.org
Steel industry metallurgical specialist.
Joined Nov 2022
@sciencebase My Mum was an SEO in the Civil Service. I cant remember what it was but I don't think it was a Wol.
Dr Keith Walker
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Fancy using some high-resolution optical satellite imagery for your research?
@SIOS_KC
are inviting proposals to access Planet data over Svalbard. ❄️🐻❄️
⏰ Deadline: 28 February
Information Webinar: 20 Jan!
@sciencebase Budgie's finest hour!
Dr Keith Walker
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Another great editorial opportunity!
Nature Materials are looking for an editor with a scientific background (and research experience) in biomedical engineering and soft matter.
In addition to a deep understanding of their own subject, they should be able to demonstrate a general interest in other areas of biomaterials, nanomedicine, cell therapy and/or soft materials.
Closing date: 12th February 2023
@sciencebase I did try MS Word but no. I recall doing a conference report which came out as "it was great to see so many familiar faeces in the hall".
@sciencebase Amazing stuff. I had simple voice in a Jag and it struggled to understand me unless I put on my telephone voice.
Dr Keith Walker
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This is deeply wrong, but it's an interesting *kind* of wrong.
Our perception of the past telescopes: there's the recent past, what we remember; the middle past, what our parents and grandparents remember; the long past, out of living memory but still preserved in familiar stories; and everything else. As I've said before, a lot of Americans' idea of *human* #history seems to go roughly as follows:
1. #Cavemen.
2. #Pyramids.
3. #Jesus.
4. Robin Hood and King Arthur.
5. #Columbus and #pirates.
6. #Pilgrims and George Washington.
7. #Cowboys.
8. World War Two. (One must have happened somewhere?)
9. #Hippies and #Vietnam.
10. The real world begins with the momentous event of my birth.
Nor is this uniquely an American problem—some places have better educational systems than others, but I think people everywhere hold similar mythologized versions of world events leading uniquely and inevitably to their own central place in the world.
So here's an extreme version of the same phenomenon applied to natural history. Most reasonably educated people have some idea that not all prehistoric animals lived at the same time (although poor #Dimetrodon is forever going to be mixed in with #dinosaurs) but they do tend to lump enormous spans of time together: #mammoths and #sabertooths, before that all dinosaurs all at once, and before that ... I dunno ... jellyfish or something.
#Creationists, of course, turn it up to 11.
Dr Keith Walker
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The two lead authors on this review of #LongCovid for Nature (paywalled, alas) both have debilitating chronic versions of long covid or related illnesses & managed to pull this together.
It's hard for healthy people to understand the toll this kind of brain work takes on people with cognitive dysfunction. They deserve huge thanks.
Dr Keith Walker
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There's an interesting new paper in the journal Ecological Economics. The title is:
"Assessing U.S. consumers' carbon footprints reveals outsized impact of the top 1%"
This is from the abstract --
Unsustainable environmental degradation and extreme economic inequality are two of humanity's most pressing challenges. They are intimately linked. Climate-altering greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are disproportionately driven by consumption among wealthy and socially privileged groups, yet poorer and socially marginalized peoples face disproportionate climate harms.
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What really grabbed me, however, was the chart below, created by Andrew Fanning using data contained in the paper. It clearly illustrates the massive scale of carbon inequality in our modern society.
#Inequality #GreenhouseGases #Emissions #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice
@sciencebase Have you seen Honey Buzzard? tbh I don't think I could tell one apart from a Common.
@RedEx1 I always think the someday folk will unearth big, carved stone versions of those men on Brexit Island and wonder what cult ceremony they were used for.
@sciencebase I would like to hear it, it sound great.
Dr Keith Walker
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I guess I'll end with my usual plea: don't buy Starlink internet. Or if you do, please tell them that you, a paying customer, care about the night sky. They need to make it a priority to make their satellites fainter and use fewer of them - this is a very doable engineering problem that they don't care about right now. There are many other ways to provide internet around the world that don't ruin the night sky and destroy low-Earth orbit.
@sciencebase Does it say 'hadaway and shite'? Google never says that.
@sciencebase And you did maths up 18 too.
Fascinating stuff. As far as I know, it doesn't happen with pure metals but it does affect the structure of them. The reasons are understood though.
Do the birds walk like an Egyptian though?
Dr Keith Walker
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"...the industry’s approach on #climate really hasn’t changed since scientists first started warning that the burning of fossil fuels was becoming a problem: push “solutions” that keep #fossilfuels profitable, downplay climate impacts, overstate the industry’s commitments, and bully the media if they don’t stay on message. It’s the same five-step plan, deployed to the same end: preserving power, subsidies, and social license."
@amywestervelt
https://theintercept.com/2022/12/24/oil-gas-climate-disinformation/ #ClimateChange
Dr Keith Walker
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Just got word.
Berkshire Hathaway Energy is renewing a legislative push AB813, defeated in 2018, that would *effectively* allow export of coal-fired power from WY to CA & the shutdown of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant. https://bit.ly/3Cwhehu
Truly ... the fossil fuel industry will do ANYTHING to avoid the cessation of operations.
The fight is not over!
#NuclearPower
@jensclasen Very nice. English is almost as funny. It has the same work for different meanings. They even sound different. When I see "We had a row about whether to row past the row of trees" I wonder how anybody ever learns it.
Steel industry metallurgical specialist.
Joined Nov 2022
