Waikato Scientific

Tools for scientists, by scientists

[Waikato Scientific @WaiScience]

This is SYP, underground in the Yucatán jungle.

It's been sitting there for months — alone, in the dark, in a cave called Grutas Tzabnah— collecting drip water samples from stalactites one by one.

No extra field trips. No manual collection. No lost data.

The samples it collected ended up contributing to a reconstruction of Classic Maya drought history, published in Science Advances late last year (https://t.co/SyAWpawemV).

We built SYP because field sampling in remote environments is hard, expensive, and logistically brutal. Researchers were losing entire seasons of data because they couldn't get back to site often enough.

SYP fixes that. Deploy once, collect up to 58 samples unattended over weeks or months. Gravity-fed, pump, or external trigger. Wi-Fi configuration. 12+ month battery life.

We've just launched https://t.co/pli1FEQEHM — take a look if you work in cave hydrology, palaeoclimatology, groundwater, or anywhere else that's hard to get to.

Thanks to Daniel James and David Hodell (University of Cambridge), Ola Kwiecen and Seb Breitenbach (Northumbria University), for the photo and for trusting SYP with their research.

#fieldwork #hydrology #palaeoclimate #speleothem #scientificinstruments #hydrology #NewZealand

[Waikato Scientific @WaiScience]

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[Waikato Scientific @WaiScience]

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[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

“If someone tells you it’s raining outside and someone else tells you it’s not… the job of a journalist is to look outside the f***ing window and check if it's raining.”

My speech on journalism at Zeteo’s 2-year anniversary.

Subscribe to Zeteo:
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[Waikato Scientific @WaiScience]

@TechOperator Better than VIN Diesel?

[Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf]

Breaking: New study using observational constraints projects that the Atlantic Ocean circulation #AMOC will weaken ~50% by 2100, even for medium emissions and without Greenland melting. Seriously bad news.
https://t.co/PZTZJlqsFN

[The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand @ConversationEDU]

Two million people drink water from the Waikato. But the river is degrading as pollution and invasive clams spread faster than monitoring protocols can detect. @waiscience @LincolnUniNZ https://t.co/sMOWXbPfLC

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

Because of science:

Water doesn’t kill you.
Scratches aren’t fatal.
Dentists stop pain fast.
Food lasts through winter.

200 years ago?
None of this was normal.

Life expectancy doubled.
Not luck. Science works.

[Waikato Scientific @WaiScience]

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[Soon @soontechnology]

Introducing: Soon. A new media company covering the machines, minds, and subcultures of tech's new frontier.

Here's a preview of what's to come. Our first documentary, featuring never-before-seen access to @RainmakerCorp's weather modification tech, drops Friday.

[Waikato Scientific @WaiScience]

@nikoliasgoninus Aptly named, given the context.

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@alc2022 This would be funny but for the platform you have built here. "Global warming" is just physics. As is weather and climate. The former is the stochastic product of general circulation, the latter a measure if mean state.

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[NASA Mars @NASAMars]

The names of nearly 11 million Earthlings are riding along with the Perseverance rover as it explores the deserts of Mars.

Now, you have a chance to send your name to travel with @NASAArtemis astronauts on their journey to the Moon! https://t.co/VJpSDI9mn3

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

It took 9 years and 3 billion miles to get this shot.

Pluto’s icy Mountains.

[Waikato Scientific @WaiScience]

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