Paul Nathanail

May 1, 1980, Mount St. Helens is steaming. A new #USGS observation post is established on a ridge east of Coldwater I, called Coldwater II, just 6 miles (10 km) north of the inflating side of the mountain usgs.gov/volcanoes/moun…

May 1, 1820, George Bellas Greenough publishes the "Geological Map of England and Wales" 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚒️ atlasofplaces.com/cartography/a-…

@PNathanail @youngbuspros @CalSleeper Definitely the best way to get there!

Looking forward to another exciting @youngbuspros conference tomorrow - but first, time to enjoy the journey north with @CalSleeper!

@palaeokatie S**t - I missed it. Was it recorded?

If you’d like to know why I love fossil jobbies so much.. then you can join me at 1pm tomorrow for an online Friday Focus talk where I’ll be chatting about my current research on Scottish coprolites held in the @hunterian collections 💩🖤 (link to register below)

@markorkoma @PhysInHistory Fellow humans who are as infallible as he was

@PhysInHistory Who are we to question Nikola Tesla?!

To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without. - Nikola Tesla

@StevenBalbus @PhysInHistory He wasn’t much of a philosopher either it seems

@PhysInHistory Nikola Tesla did not believe in relativity. As a physicist, he was a mixed bag. He certainly had his limitations.

@PhysInHistory He needed to get out a bit more and… meet some creative types - composers, sculptors, painters, children… and “never” say never

@PhysInHistory Even he wasn’t infallible.

People like us who believe in physics know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Time, in other words, he said, is an illusion. — A. Einstein (1879-1955)

@sachajonmooney Enjoy - and make a difference!

New year, new role..

@N_T_S @StKildaNTS Iona - for the community, the history and the fact I haven't been there

If you could add any of our places to your visit list for 2024, which place would it be and why? 1. Glencoe, 📸 Hannah Ketts 2. St Kilda, 📸 @StKildaNTS 3. Staffa, 📸 Kerry 4. Iona, 📸 Hazel Merley #ForTheLoveOfScotland

To my surprise, I got 7/10 in this @bbcarts quiz where you have to sort out the genuine Picassos from the AI fakes. Can you beat that? riddle.com/embed/share/tw…

Nature rejected her paper for not being original, University of Pennsylvania (her employer) demoted her, and yesterday Katalin Karikó won the Noble Prize in physiology. In mid-2000s, Karikó and her Drew Weismann submitted their paper on mRNA (messenger Ribonucleic Acid) to Nature. Nature desk rejected their paper for being "an incremental contribution" only. The paper was later published in another journal, Immunity. Earlier in her career at the University of Pennsylvania, Karikó was demoted because her applications for grants kept getting rejected. But Karikó persevered and kept on going. In 2013, she joined BioNTech, a German company founded by two scientists, Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci. In 2018, BioNTech partnered with Pfizer to develop mRNA vaccines against the influenza virus. When the COVID-19 hit the world, Karikó's research helped Pfizer to produce the first vaccine against the disease. I don't know how the Nature editors who desk rejected Karikó's paper and the Penn administration who demoted her feel about Karikó Nobel Prize. Takeaway: Many academics and scientists worry about getting published in "prestigious" journals. Instead of worrying about prestige, we should try to put our work out as quickly as possible like Karikó did. Once you put your work out without caring about prestige, two good things happen: 1. Your work will lead to newer opportunities. 2. You will start getting feedback from the scholarly community, which you can use to iterate and improve. Here's another interesting Nobel Prize story. Peter Higgs, a British physicist, joined the University of Edinburgh in 1956. By 1964, Higgs has published his groundbreaking work about subatomic particles. After 1964, Higgs published less than 10 papers. When his department would ask him how many papers, he published in a given year, he would reply "None." It happened so often that he stared feeling like an "embarrassment to the department." The University of Edinburgh, however, never fired Higgs because in 1980 he had been nominated for the Nobel Prize. Higgs retired in 1996 and stayed on as an emeritus professor at Edinburg. In 2012, experiments conducted at the CERN laboratory confirmed Higgs work and the existence of Higgs Particle. And in 2013, Higgs was awarded the Noble Prize in physics and the University of Edinburgh got rewarded for being patient.

💧Turning a vision for #GroundwaterMonitoring into reality through Natural Capital Ecosystem Assessment programme #NCEA We are in the process of recruiting 14 #groundwater technical specialists across England & the first 5 positions are now live. Deadline 23 October. Links⬇️ 1/2

And huge kudos to the dynamic duo who made sure it all went so smoothly

@NottArchaeology It’s still my favourite outcrop when I take hydrogeology students on field trips …

@greenbelt What a legacy he leaves behind! Thank you and RIP

Pip Wilson: You Are Beautiful. We learned of the death of our dear friend and festival-maker Pip overnight (Fri 22 Sep). We'll pay our tributes to him in the coming days, but for today we're sharing his reflection from our 50th anniversary book. greenbelt.org.uk/remembering-pi…

MAJOR UPDATE: All planetary boundaries are assessed, and six are crossed. For the first time ever, scientists have quantified all nine planetary boundaries. Six of them are already transgressed and we are increasing pressure on the others. Read more: buff.ly/45Ps1QG

What an amazing experience - would have loved to have been there live (but quiet) #Staffa #FingalsCave

#WCEF2023 Just signed up!

The World Circular Economy Forum 2023 starts tomorrow and is online (and free) wcef2023.com