Errol

Ngāpuhi/Pākeha, O+, ENFP, he/him, tātou tātou e.

[Errol @PlanetErrol]

One of the few useful things I ever did on Twitter was create an NZ Science List. Anyone know of a similar list on Bluesky? I started creating one--see link below--but would gladly just follow someone else's

https://t.co/0SScjdwd4l

old twitter list was https://t.co/zmQrNYNwJJ

[Errol @PlanetErrol]

Want to follow great Australian science writing on Bluesky? Here's a handy, curated starter-pack of Australian science writers.

https://t.co/QHCl5d0BTM

[Errol @PlanetErrol]

If, like many, you have finally given up on what used to be Twitter for sharing science stories...

This is a Bluesky starter pack of Australian Research Council Centres of Excellence and similar ARC funded schemes: https://t.co/MsDvZWA5IL

[Errol @PlanetErrol]

@K_KalantarZadeh @elonmusk Sadly, I don’t think listening is in the narcissist toolkit.

Thanks for a great feed Kourosh.

[Errol @PlanetErrol]

@Ha_Tanya Timely !

I haven’t signed up for 🔵 yet but unfollowing everyone here so I can still use it for work purposes without… yknow. Thanks for a great feed Tanya. ❤️ out

[Errol @PlanetErrol]

No offence Twitter peeps. I still need to be a member of this previously functional platform for work purposes, but I’m steadily unfollowing everyone. ❤️ out

[Errol @PlanetErrol]

Dragonstone!

[Errol @PlanetErrol]

At the exact antipode of Ōtautahi Christchurch: Fos, Gallicia

[Errol @PlanetErrol]

@MichaelSFuhrer Aotearoa’s answer to the Angels. Hard-working, fun, guitar-heavy rockers from Waikato/Bay of Plenty. First encountered them opening for ZZ Top in 87 then countless pub gigs—a fair proportion of those 1600/mnth are probably me.

https://t.co/4qlpGpN1Gx

[Errol @PlanetErrol]

@adambspencer 100110 ?

[Errol @PlanetErrol]

@jimalkhalili He pātai: Do CMEs mostly/only occur on the planetary plane? Or are they a 3D affair?

[Errol @PlanetErrol]

@Rainmaker1973 Incorrect.

[Errol @PlanetErrol]

Aue

[Errol @PlanetErrol]

@ChiefSciAdvisor Military map 1840s shows"volcanic forms" (or "volcanic forest"?) west of Pakaraka

Note north is downwards on this map. "Mr William's farm" is ~ Pakaraka town. "Pouerua" is the famous Ngāti Rāhiri pa site /basalt cone (~500,000 yrs old) visible across farmland to the SW of town

[Errol @PlanetErrol]

@ChiefSciAdvisor English artist Augustus Earle reported “heaps of cinders and hillocks of volcanic matter” around Taiamai/Pakaraka (Tai Tokelau) in 1827

The area now is quite green and lush, cleaned up' to aid farming

[Errol @PlanetErrol]

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[Errol @PlanetErrol]

This is definitely why my physics 101 experiments never matched the calcs

[Physics World @PhysicsWorld]

Unwanted energy in quantum systems is usually blamed on experimental imperfections, but “what if we actually have a perfectly cold system, and the reason we can’t cool it down effectively is because it’s constantly being bombarded by dark matter?” https://t.co/yLWdsWIqG8

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

The speed of light was once thought to be infinite: ⚡️

Up until the 17th century, it was widely believed that light traveled instantaneously. Danish astronomer Ole Rømer was the first to provide evidence that light had a finite speed.

He did this by observing the motion of Jupiter's moon Io and calculating the speed of light to be approximately 220,000 km/s, which is remarkably close to the modern value of 299,792 km/s.

[Errol @PlanetErrol]

@tauhenare

[Errol @PlanetErrol]

@Rainmaker1973 Where TikTok is banned in the world SO FAR.