Simon Mudd

@simonmariusmudd.bsky.social

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geomorphologist

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An image of asinine AI slop questions being relentlessly flogged beneath my search bar.
Design drawings for a new bridge at Roseburn Terrace with two tram tracks and an active travel path that is 4000 mm wide
A red and blue bit of abstract art. You can vaguely make out something that looks like a channel network in the blues.
A screengrab of Kier Starmer with the closed caption "there's a famous slogan in the United Kingdom"
Plot from the Financial Times (https://www.ft.com/content/87c321ab-e5ac-4a1d-a637-c1f7befcc1cb) showing performance of Local Government Pension schemes for the 12 months to March 2023. The worst performing scheme was a closed Environment Agency scheme that lost 18.3% The next worst lost 10%.
Image from the book Grove Karl Gilbert, A Great Engine of Research By Stephen J. Pyne. Image shows an engraving of Gilbert working at Lake Bonneville in Utah. One can see the old lake bed as well as hills in the distance.
Split rock (a granite rock formation that has a large, uh, split rock) at Joshua Tree national Park.
A stunning bronze sculpture of a man holding a microphone and bagpipes. I cannot reveal the name of this person or it would make the quiz too easy
Image of a river network surrounding the Dadu River, China. Image includes two basemaps. Image generated using a template written by Simon Mudd using lsdtopotools and lsdviztools.
A channel network map of mountains to the east of Taskhent. Includes a regional map and a globe to see where the site is.
Table showing student figures for the University of Edinburgh based on domicile. There are 12905 Scottish students, 11245 English students, 9080 Chinese students, 3035 students from the USA, 990 from India, 755 from Canada, and between 545 and 200 for many other countries.
Coastline in Nunavut, Canada. Multiple instances of sand spits and beach traces.
Text from university court minutes: Lee Hamill, Director of Finance summarised key points from his report. In broad terms, the financial position at Quarter 3 reflected that at Quarter 2. The University’s reported surplus was expected to be substantial, due in large part to the consequences for the University of the recent shift in the USS pension from deficit to surplus, as a result of wider economic conditions. It was recognised that this created a communications challenge, with publicly-reported headline figures expected to be misaligned with the underlying financial position. The size of the forecast shortfall against targeted EBITDA was discussed. It was noted that, given the nature of University activity, the scope for in-year adjustments to either income or expenditure was limited and that the planning and budgeting process (as covered in Paper D2), along with longer-term structural changes, offered much greater potential for re-balancing.
A stunning photorealistic image, drawn in microsoft paint, of a man on a fast electric scooter, wearing a kilt over a cookie monster onesie. Based on a real-life person seen in Edinburgh this morning.
Sunset in Edinburgh. Photo looking West to Edinburgh Castle. Clouds are a mixture of orange, pink and yellow. The scene would be stunning I the hands of a competent photographer, which I am not.
A metal shed with grafitti in thick fog at the top of a Scottish hill.
A hillshade image of Northwest Slovenia, derived from lidar data made available by the Slovenian government
A heart-wrenching image of a salmon, who has trouble spelling, looking at sediment transport on a river bed. World famous geomorphologist Rebecca Hodge also looks at sediment transport, but unlike the salmon, is not a fish. The detailing on the salmon is stunning, and the artist has rendered the pebbles in astonishing detail. Superbly designed swirls give the image a feeling of vivid motion. Amongst the top 10 Microsoft Paint drawings ever made.
A heart-wrenching depiction of a cat looking at a "sediment bomb", accumulations of sediments in high mountains that can be released in extreme events, a term coined by Kirsten Cook, the famous geomorphologist. The drawing is so beautiful it is difficult not to have an extreme emotional response when looking at it. Possibly in the top 10 best Microsoft Paint drawings of all time.
Photo of a sublime Scottish corrie
Linkedin thinks people who are currently professors should switch careers to be a meeting and events porter
Glacial valley and meandering river viewed from Beinn Each
Pepper dulse (a purple seaweed). Very tasty if you like truffle
Looking across a river at Goatfell
Pictures of loads of shells on a beach from the paper SERGIO MARTÍNEZ, ALEJANDRA ROJAS; MILLENIAL-SCALE TIME AVERAGING INFERRED BY DISCOLORED SHELLS IN BEACH DEATH ASSEMBLAGES. PALAIOS 2023;; 38 (7): 315–330. doi: https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2022.043
Shells on a Scottish beach.
View from Ben Lomond, looking east
Scottish hills
My wet face and clouds from the top of Schiehallion
Granite and quartzite rounding as a function of distance in two rivers in Nepal. Granite rounds much faster!
Map of two catchments in Nepal where a certain rock unit (one Quartzite, one Granite) only appear in the headwaters.
A honda jazz
A dog on a rock from a figure in a scientific paper.
A river network image of Gran Canaria. Made with lsdtopotools in a web browser.
Some red berries that I want to identify
A frog