tom challands

Good call by @ScotGovernment in trying to keep #Erasmus exchange funding going. Scholarship in HE is an #international venture and during my career I have worked or studied in England, Ireland, Germany and the US and retain my @AvHStiftung links.

@DrAliceClement Which one is it?!?!?

First #TomographyTuesday for 2021 and I've got this creepy face staring back at me 💀👹 Yeesh.

Given the changes to schools and exams across most of UK, I'm available for much of the next 4 weeks on @Tutorful at sensible rates for tuition in a range of subjects but with a particular focus on #Earth and #Environmental Sciences. Virtual field trips too!

One of my favourite courses starts on Thu 21 Jan, 4-6pm: Scotland's Volcanoes, a six week online course. course-bookings.lifelong.ed.ac.uk/courses/SN/sci… Image is some lovely magma chamber rocks on Isle of Rum. We explore volcanic rocks from Shetland to Arran and lots of places in between!

@volcan01010 @2ndQuad Now I get it. That is brilliant! Good work!

@TomChallands @2ndQuad It means we can have an "internal" and a "public" version of our data. With `pglogical`, any changes to data in the tables of the "internal" PostgreSQL are automatically (and instantly) applied to the tables in the "public" one. 1/2

We've set up `pglogical` to replicate subsets of data between PostgreSQL servers recently. I'm really impressed with it. It's simple to configure (including row filtering) and then records appear on the subscribing server like magic. Thanks @2ndQuad! 2ndquadrant.com/en/resources/p…

New post: New Shale Trail in West Lothian edinburghgeolsoc.org/new-shale-trai…

@GraemeTLloyd Another lungfish fact for @GraemeTLloyd and every dipnoan fan out there. The first recorded breeding of lungfish in captivity was in 1935 in Glasgow. The heated a large metal tank with gas burners for Mr and Mrs Lepidosiren to get cosy nature.com/articles/13695…

#LungfishAdventCalendar Day 14 / #Dipnukkah Day 5. Other fish will happily share a lake, ocean, or river with just anyone, but not lungfish. Like Dr Grant, they are diggers. The African species (safely) construct burrows that incorporate their own private swimming pools

Let’s do a #LungfishAdventCalendar. Here is the best present anyone ever got me: my own plushie African lungfish, made for me by my sister from an old pair of trousers.

@DrShaena @Cronkite_ASU Congratulations @DrShaena. Missing you here in Edinburgh.

@GraemeTLloyd From a bloke near Nottingham if I remember correctly

@TomChallands Did you get it from a bloke in a pub?

@GraemeTLloyd It's been iodine stained as well

#LungfishAdventCalendar Day 13 / #Dipnukkah Day 4. Lungfish superpowers are not limited to breathing; African lungfish can also regenerate lost limbs and tails (Conant 1970). Of course, if they could just agree on a safe word...

The lateral line mechanosensory organs in fish and amphibians detect water movement and the environment. Learn how lateral line anatomy and position varies with a species’ ecology and behavior through Wnt signaling and local tissue interactions @_JSDB_ doi.org/10.1002/dvdy.2…

@Euphanerops @Sansom_Rob This is a great poster @Euphanerops!

@gsciencelady Very sad. I wonder if such comments can be attributed to his deteriorating mental health in his later life?

Miller's writing and discoveries remain an important part of Scotland's palaeontological and geological history. But we now know a new and difficult truth about the man himself. [7/n]

Hugh Miller, the Highland writer, stonemason & palaeontologist, held racist views in later life. This @BBCHighlands article has a few things wrong though, so let me give you the real story [1/n] bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla…

@palaeokatie from @limecentre taking time out from fossils and talking about the petrography of lime mortar for the @EdinGeolSoc Fellow's Night.

Fascinating @EdinGeolSoc Fellow's Night talks tonight! Daryl Sawyer presenting work she has done on the Cambro-Ordovician glaciation in Algeria

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@GraemeTLloyd Just to clarify, i don't actually believe there is said pale blind northern hemisphere lungfish out there #lungfishconspiracy

@GraemeTLloyd I have a dream that there is still an extant northern hemisphere lungfish to be discovered. Perhaps they retreated to caves and there is a pale blind cave lungfish out there????