drjosephgraly.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Geography and Environmental Science at Northumbria University. Main gig is subglacial geochemistry, side interests in languages and music. Jew-ish.
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Perhaps. But it's always seemed to me that the smorgasbord of left-wing causes served up at these protest events dilutes the unusually very popular initial message and in general causes us to lose friends and alienate people.
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"Not recommended practice" makes it sound like it's something on the order of drinking coffee right before bed. I'd be curious what practice is recommended when it comes to Jack Russell Terrier meat.
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That's amazing. I think I can truthly use this emoji: 😂. I laughed so hard I had tears in my eyes.
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The lakes and Galloway are reputed to be nice...
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The Scots won't mind if we take Lothian, will they? I mean they're getting Cumbria, so you win some you lose some...
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Why do people lie and cheat? To get tenure at Harvard, obviously!
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Though it was still pretty twilighty up in Shetland from what I gather...
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Funnily enough I'm in Norway right now. It certainly seems like something is going on today, beginning with the cannon fire at 7 AM...
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The graal, obviously
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I think a lot of people are drawn to it because of personal experiences that don't fit within the surrounding normative framework. Probably such experiences correlate with neurodiversity, such as it is.
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No doubt exceeding the water content of total fruit and vegetable production, not just cucumbers.
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I am also a US public school graduate of a similar age. I remember from 4th grade on writing 15 page reports on a variety of topics. These were completed over several weeks at home, with the help of at least 6 or 7 books from the public library. My children have been assigned nothing comparable.
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Serfdom didn't completely end in England until 1574, more than 2 centuries later, but the death arguably created the conditions for serfdom's decline.
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They probably just think war is bad. 100 years of it is therefore no bueno.
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I know the baltic states went very strongly with a (neo?)liberal economic model, much more so than others. Can't really comment on Bulgaria, but Wikipedia describes an economic crisis in 1997 that was resolved through IMF-dictated liberal reforms.
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With the glaring exception of Russia, I think it's more that formerly Communist societies remain quite egalitarian in terms of wealth.
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But we want to stop that, don't we? At least until we get global warming under control...
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What's your take on the calcifier-alkalinity hypothesis for glacial-interglacial cycles?
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Apparently originally student slang for Townie.
www.etymonline.com/word/Philist...
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It's always a big round number too. $1M per year... I'm sure someone's carefully done the math on that one...
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I'm not sure about the "cancel REF" line. One of the great things about the UK research environment is the constant research support independent of competitive grant bidding. You do need some meritocratic way of distributing those funds. So reform REF perhaps, but cancelling seems unwise.
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Look Right: Polar bears are left handed
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Not a date as such, but I remember being at the house of one of my son's playgroup parents (when he was a baby) and seeing all the books by right wing television personalities on their shelf and being like "Oh 💩..."
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Certainly not if you got seats in parliament, that would be the US taking over the UK. If you want to be a "crown dependency", fine...
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I like this one:
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What's the source? When I google, I only get the writer...
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I think you're misreading this. I suspect there is always discharge during winter because of continued basal melting from strain/geothermal heating and because of stored water.
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It is also a more or less ironclad guarantee of mediocrity in the final product.
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Application link?
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What about I've read your work and thought it was shite?
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Nice to see a circa 100 equation paper on glacial hydrology!