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Chris Hughes

@cwhocean.bsky.social
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Physical Oceanographer at the University of Liverpool, likes dynamics, geodesy, cycling, cool, weird science.

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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Following the discovery that the Bolivian tilcayo cat is a new species, I'd like to present the Graigfechan triangle-nosed cat as the next candidate. Discovered on today's bike ride.
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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Not visibly different from March, when I took the same photo!
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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Ah, good old ! "#, as his friends knew him. Born to Elon Musk in Stockholm in 1874 following a time travel incident, he took the name Vagn Walfrid Ekman to help him fit into his adopted community. He actually did a lot more for oceanography than most people realise - it wasn't all Ekman layers.
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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I'm a slow reader and have found a thesis to take between 2 days and a week to read, annotate, and write up the report. It depends how technical it is, and how much background reading you need to do to see whether the arguments make sense, and how novel it is.
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charkoz.bsky.social @charkoz.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Oooh, oooh, you have seen this article, right? moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...
moultano.wordpress.com
Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You
An atlas of the vibrance of the real world
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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I want one of these!
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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
This is what I picture every time I see Kenwood HiFi equipment!
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Shane Elipot @selipot.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Is the #AMOC currently weakening? A thread. Yes, if you fit a straight line through the time series of AMOC strength derived from the #RAPID array at 26°N, it does, at a rate approaching 1 Sv per decade over the last 20 years.
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I learned about a brilliant project yesterday to support British Sign Language (BSL) users, creating new signs for scientific terms in chemistry, oceanography, data science & more. And they're fabulously descriptive. Do have a look and share! www.ssc.education.ed.ac.uk/BSL/index.ht...
Screenshot of someone signing "evaporation"
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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Super...
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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
There is a valid bit of politics here though. The sad remnants of those tory "green" policies are utterly discredited due to lack of any kind of policing of standards. I don't disagree though, it feels as if Ed Milliband lost this argument.
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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
"Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up"
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
"Four in ten people were unaware that tides come in twice daily, that they vary in timing each day, and that they differ in height across the country. Over a quarter of struggled with basic tide-table reading, and only a quarter could extract more complex information--such as when to safely return."
theconversation.com
Misunderstanding the tide is putting millions at risk on UK coasts – here’s what you need to know
Four in ten people surveyed were unaware that tides come in twice daily, that they vary in timing each day, and that they differ in height across the country.
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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Worth sharing for insight into how astro publishing works (some useful ideas for others?!), but especially for the numbering of posts in the thread.
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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
I think it must have been a bit like the normal tide machines but in miniature - each constituent makes a small pulley wheel rise and fall, and a wire goes over and under alternating wheels to add up the movements. Which would mean every other cutout template must be upside down.
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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Nice! And please invite Alan Garner as a bonus too! He wouldn't have gone, but the thought is there.
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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Ben Elton has some family connection too, if I remember correctly.
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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
I think tide guages must be how you measure seal level.
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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
I never get that wrong because my Dad always pronounced it neckersessaary!
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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Bureaucracy is even worse.
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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Just got a book about Greenwich time, and got intrigued by the strange GMT+9.5 hours zone in the middle of Australia, so I had to find out more. Turns out they have 11 time zones, one used by ~200 people. Nah mate, it's too dark to play cricket at half past. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in...
en.m.wikipedia.org
Time in Australia - Wikipedia
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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
👀!
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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
My guess - the sample size is too small to develop a LLM. Physics papers before 1920? An actual human being could probably read them in a lifetime. Physics papers since 2020? Probably not.
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Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
A fantastic opportunity for an open-ended senior post in sea level science in Liverpool. These do not come up very often! Closing date 19th June. @noc.ac.uk 🌊 careers.noc.ac.uk/vacancy/seni...
careers.noc.ac.uk
Careers | National Oceanography Centre
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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Not what I guessed would be the biggest hazard in Texas - there's something to be said for tin hats. Big ones, with cushions on top!
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Dani Jones @danijones.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
US folks - please help protect trans healthcare access. Text SIGN PCCOMC to 50409 and letters will be sent to your representatives. 🏳️‍⚧️ ❤️ 🙏
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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Wow, what an image! Space is big...
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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
There are capybaras in Chester Zoo, in with the giant anteater. They seem very phlegmatic creatures.
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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · 10/05/2025
A victory for the federal scientific workforce! We could not stand by while this irreparable harm continues at NSF, NOAA and all our scientific agencies. TODAY the judge granted our request to temporarily HALT the mass firings at federal agencies under Trump’s Executive Order.
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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Who chose to have red negative and on the right of the colour scale, blue positive and on the left? My brain hurts looking at it!
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 07/05/2025
There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵
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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Yes, so much easier since I randomly discovered that it had learnt LaTeX rules! It's still awful, but a lot less painful now.
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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
That's everything from the mundanity of public toilets, through free library access, to funding fundamental science. GFDL has been so influential because it supports the foundations of science, as well as producing "impact". Killing institutions like GFDL is book burning on a grand scale.
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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The measure of civilization is collectively working to support things that aren't to our immediate personal gain, because they will make the world better in the long run.
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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I've got a slightly different take on this. Yes, climate science, important stuff, excellent people, etc. But this is symbolic of something deeper too.
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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
propublica.org
White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On
Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.
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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
The 30-cm-long Colossal squid should be the mascot of the Atacama Large Millimeter Array.
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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
A suggestion for graphics - no matter how you smooth that curve it will show a dip followed by a bulge. More smoothing just pushes the bulge later. But if you show the cumulative number of immigrants since year x it will show that the trajectory is just now getting back to normal.
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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Helping Liverpool out... it's nice to see community spirit!
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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
They're not ducks. Although some of their descendents might be.
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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 22/03/2025
So, speaking of Universities caving to government demands and people bringing up loyalty oaths, here's a story that involves a well known oceanographer. In 1935 Massachusetts enacted a law that required teachers in public and private schools to take a loyalty oath to teach in the state 1/n 🌊
en.wikipedia.org
Massachusetts Teachers' Oath - Wikipedia
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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
In the early years of RAPID, Carl wrote about how eddies dominate the flow to such an extent that we can't meaningfully monitor large scale ocean dynamics without very high resolution measurements throughout the ocean. He was mostly right, but if you go right to the boundaries it's not a problem.
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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I cycled past here today and did a double-take.
Photo of a signpost pointing to Wirswall
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Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Some light relief. Here's an animation of an old mechanical tide machine, summing sine waves to simulate a prediction of the tide: tide-and-time.uk/tide-predict...
tide-and-time.uk
Tide Predicting Machines – simulation of Kelvin Machine | Tide and Time
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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Hi Geoff - welcome!
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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Very atmospheric sun on a still West Kirby marina this afternoon
View of West Kirby marina
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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
And birds' tongues too - weird structures!
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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Humph indeed!
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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
1,000,000+ years of climate history! Truly mind-boggling. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Ancient air bubbles trapped in Antarctic ice dug up
What is probably the world's oldest ice, dating back 1.2m years ago, has been dug out from deep within Antarctica.
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Chris Hughes @cwhocean.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
First day back to Liverpool after Christmas - Merseyrail have given up due to wet (whenever it rains), so I get to take the prettier route via Runcorn. This is from near Frodsham.
Geese, snow and clouds from the train near Frodsham
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