Andrew Yool

@dryool.bsky.social

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Novel reader, 🐈 lover, amateur 📸, gamer 🎮, slow 🚲, coattail-rider, rare blogger & ocean 🌊 biogeochemistry modeller (in that order). Views=own, RTs≠endorsement.

A flow chart from Martin et al. (2024; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2024.110870) outlining whether one should include a process in a marine biogeochemical model. Or not. It's mostly *not*.
Results of the poll, filtered through UK politics
An image from a "CO2 is Life" disinformation campaign misusing basic scientific information about plant growth and CO2 concentrations to justify their core business activity as beneficial to the Earth
A screengrab of MS Word's "Another comment is in progress" message
Link to article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn0v9l9x0g8t
Still from today's Astronomy Picture of the Day: "SDO Observes a Coronal Mass Ejection"
A plot showing a colour-coded ranking of coastal sites for OAE mCDR potential. Red coloured regions are the best 50% of locations, while blue coloured regions the worse 50% of locations. (There are some subtleties in this plot that the paper explains better.)
A Reform campaign image altered using Gemini AI to impose an appropriate new background. In this case, to a Hieronymus Bosch hellscape.
A picture of the Moon taken from my back garden using my mobile phone
ChatGPT prompt and response. Prompt: "Beyond administrative tasks, what sort of sector-specific roles could AI play for religious organisations such as the Catholic Church?"
Sign reads: "Fragile roof covering: use duck or roof ladders ..."
AI generated abstract artwork based on a self-taken photograph. Shows a stylised version of the Star Wars character Princess Leia Organa.
A screengrab of the following text taken from an email soliciting a review: To publish the latest research without delay, we ask that reviews are completed within 1 week; however, you may accept and suggest an alternative completion date at the following link:
A snippet from an email soliciting submissions to a "renowned international journal" ... that seems to be run out of a gmail account
Headline: Business - Oil price rises as markets question durability of Middle East ceasefire
Reporting of the Israeli military "warning" Iranian citizens via a medium that they can't actually use.
Guardian headline and subtitle : "Chance of alien life ‘goes to heart’ of space missions, Nasa chief says Jared Isaacman says odds of evidence we are not alone are ‘pretty high’ four days after Artemis II rocket lifted off"
The top glass panel after it was originally created but before it was fired in the kiln.
Three mounted glass panels in a frame and displayed in a garden.
An AI image of a batshit-o-meter running from 0 to Trump
Screen grab of Reform rally in Sunderland
Screengrab from the Guardian showing the headline "Trump calls Nato allies 'cowards' ..."
Satellite map of the immediate vicinity around the Dungeness nuclear power station. Note the proximity of guesthouses and nature sites. The scale in the bottom right corner indicates the closest guesthouse is ~100m from Dungeness.
A cat who seems pleased to see me after almost two weeks away for OSM26 and BIO-Carbon
A photograph of random oceanographers attending the BIO-Carbon workshop
Night-time view of the Scottish Event Campus from the south side of the Clyde. The shot is long exposure to "smooth" reflections from the river.
Figure 5 from Martin et al. (1987)
A science poster on the topic "Global quantification of the lipid pump with Diapause-MEDUSA".
OSM26 is using headphones for its sessions ; five sessions have their screens in the view shown here
OSM26 is using headphones for its sessions ; here's a view of what a session looks like
A screengrab showing the official tartan for OSM26
AI image created for OSM26 using ChatGPT. Prompt: "Create a cartoon image from the following description. The view is from above looking down onto the city of Glasgow, with depictions of a few local landmarks. Surrounding the stylised depiction of the city, tidal waves are converging from all directions. Riding these waves are a diverse array of oceanographic scientists on surf boards all heading towards Glasgow. The scientists have poster tubes on their backs. The hashtag "#OSM26" is displayed in the bottom right corner of the image." For visitors with vision issues, the final image makes a pretty good fist of the prompt. Admittedly, probably having been trained on a whole load of art whose artists weren't consulted for permission and who were entirely uncompensated.