Luke Surl

PDRA in modelling space-borne observations of atmospheric composition at University of Edinburgh. This is my academic account, personal tweets at @lukesurl

[Doug Finch @douglasfinch]

A massive turn out for #marchforscience in #Edinburgh #ayeforsci on #earthday2017

[Luke Surl @DrLukeSurl]

This is a fantastic piece of science. Congrats to @astro_timpeake and all his collaborators! https://t.co/UxI5E7k99I

[Prof. Simon Carn @simoncarn]

Smoke, SO2 gas and fires detected from space today south of #Mosul. Likely originating from the power station attacked by #ISIS @NASA

[Miguel Arias Cañete @MAC_europa]

Done deal! Historic agreement for a global #HFCphasedown just adopted. EU's statement: https://t.co/I3LgMmiY3n #MOP28 #MontrealProtocol

[Luke Surl @DrLukeSurl]

The most important task an academic can do: working out tenuous acronyms for their projects

[Luke Surl @DrLukeSurl]

It amuses me too much when Thunderbird decides emails from my advisor "might be a scam" 😜

[Luke Surl @DrLukeSurl]

Congratulations to @GeosciencesEd for achieving an @Athena_SWAN Silver Award for work to support #womeninscience https://t.co/tcYnvn4aBz

[Luke Surl @DrLukeSurl]

RESULT: Model replicates reality when complied with compiler A but not with compiler B.
CONCLUSION: Reality was compiled with compiler A.

[Luke Surl @DrLukeSurl]

…then again I did just spend 3 minutes looking up a cartoon and sending a tweet so I'm possibly not fully there yet.

[Luke Surl @DrLukeSurl]

Just sent a 2-character email ("OK") to an undergrad I'm supervising. I'm classing this as career advancement:

[Luke Surl @DrLukeSurl]

Tentatively confident enough in my programming now to sign up for a @StackOverflow account. May answer a question or two soon...

[Luke Surl @DrLukeSurl]

Some top-quality climate science from my old office mate Karin, seems to be having quite the impact! https://t.co/bDKJ8bVZPF

[Luke Surl @DrLukeSurl]

@simoncarn I'm very much anticipating it too! Do you know why the delay?

[Luke Surl @DrLukeSurl]

Haven't done a git commit in a very long time. Feel like a lapsed Catholic sheepishly returning to confession.

[Luke Surl @DrLukeSurl]

New BitBucket (git) repository for Phyton tools I've written that might be of use to others: https://t.co/HN0Nhm3VIy

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

US joins China in ratifying Paris global climate agreement - two nations responsible for 40% of CO2 emissions https://t.co/lareVPdcQh

[Luke Surl @DrLukeSurl]

THEORY: All flat-earthers are former GEOS-Chem modellers who finally snapped after the international date line messed up their code AGAIN 😡

[PHD Comics @PHDcomics]

What to call yourself. https://t.co/6wSLZtzk75

[Luke Surl @DrLukeSurl]

@cedanews I am unable to ssh to JASMIN. Is this a system-wide outage or is it something specific to me?

[Luke Surl @DrLukeSurl]

Several Edinburgh Geosciences PhDs handing in theses today. Congratulations! 🎉