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Andrew Yool

@dryool.bsky.social
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Novel reader, 🐱 lover, amateur 📸, gamer 🎮, slow 🚲, coattail-rider, rare blogger & ocean 🌊 biogeochemistry modeller (in that order). Views=own, RTs≠endorsement.

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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Alternatively: Climate refugee desperately rolls reproductive dice on Southern California coast 🌊 🐢 🌡️
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So close ... This could have been a reference to a #SpermWhale rather than a #HumpbackWhale. For an #astronomy account, you've clearly not been leafing through your #HitchhikersGuide recently enough, @apod.shinyakato.dev! 😉 🐋 💐 ⬇️
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This video is a perfect advert for selecting 🌊 geographical projections appropriately. If you're doing navigation, Mercator can help. If you're preserving area, it's Lambert cylindrical or Mollweide. And if you're being a smartarse, it's this South Pole-centred azimuthal equidistant projection.
youtube.com
28 years of a living ocean, month by month
YouTube video by Oceanofisica
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hasn't someone done the obvious thing yet and taught the #AI 🤖 to play noughts and crosses, followed up with some iterative rounds of Global Thermonuclear War? I mean it worked for Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy. #WarGames
arstechnica.com
AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack
But the military's overall use of AI seems to be accelerating.
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ouch! Our poor visiting fox 🦊 seems to have picked up an injury. 😢 We'll be keeping an eye out for them now. #GardenFox #InjuredWildlife
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What a rabbit hole to fall down! A fantastic tale that both sheds light on a forgotten / overlooked (female, naturally 🤦) figure and illustrates the vicissitudes of life and contingencies of history. #VincentVanGogh
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"LLMs are a product that destroys its supply chain" +1 point to @microsoft.com for explicitly noting this self-destructive tendency -1000000 points to @microsoft.com for then ignoring their insight and pressing ahead anyway
avclub.com
Microsoft execs admit AI news is unleashing a "doom loop" on journalism in unsealed legal filing
Microsoft execs admit AI news is unleashing a "doom loop" on journalism in unsealed legal filing
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I hate to say it, but UK union leaders, when faced with a choice that potentially threatens their influence, are pretty great at choosing the wrong answer. Even when - as here - they're good at spotting the serious threat to wider civic society that unlimited political donations presents.
theguardian.com
Union leaders resist political donations cap after Reform given £72m
General secretaries say union funding is ‘cleanest money in politics’ and different to that from wealthy individual donors
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
More accurately: Resource extraction business that pays no downstream externality costs and has no plan for future other than "continue extraction" urges govt to let it keep more profit behind fig leaf of "helping consumers" and continuance of "ignore socioeconomic / environmental costs" model
theguardian.com
Scrap windfall tax on oil and gas firms early, North Sea industry urges
Labour should replace levy in 2027 rather than 2030 as energy bills are poised to surge over the winter, says lobby group
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Another generation, another #Commons. We're now treating low-Earth orbit just like we've been treating the atmosphere for decades. Short-term gains for some create long-term problems for us all. Again. But, of course, doing anything else would be government red-tape, regulation, anti-freedom, ...
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
So, this is *fanastic*: a #PeriodicTable explaining the #Astrophysics processes responsible for the elements! There are more artificial elements than I thought, although I don't think my high school table had the #Rutherfordium to #Oganesson row on it.
apod.nasa.gov
APOD: 2026 September 14 – Where Your Elements Came From
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
We just caught this fantastical film today in which a *meteorological scientist* was able to make the powers that be sit up and pay attention just because - get this! - lives were at stake! He even got the bigwigs to actually change their plans at one point.
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This isn't @theonion.com but it looks like it should be. Credit to Trump for continuing to break the "jumping the shark" record with no end in sight ... thanks to the perpetual credulousness of the US electorate.
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Don't you love *eventually* getting to the bottom of a potentially #DeepTime taxonomic mystery that you fleetingly paid attention to 12 years ago and posted to Facebook? (Because that's my jam on Facebook - esoteric 🌊 biological BS to show my high school friends that I remained a total swot.)
Facebook posting. Full text is: " Taxonomy fans - maybe the #Ediacaran fauna didn't all go the way of the dinosaurs ... http://t.co/c0tGsxfRGm "
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Today I learned a new metric for dust: the GPG. I now just need to convert my model's ocean deposition flux of aeolian iron into the preferred Great Pyramids of Giza units.
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Your regular reminder that Nature is a mofo, and that the organisms which comprise it (including you) are merely temporary meat puppets used by its underpinning masters, the genes, to give them a shot at reaching the next generation. Mayflies just make it obvious.
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Your regular reminder that #BigOil is neck-deep in the Commonise Costs, Privatise Profits (CC-PP) game. Most of the money made from North Sea expansion will wind up in its coffers, while all of the impacts caused by it (and the financial costs of these) will be borne communally.
theguardian.com
Climate damage would obliterate any economic benefits of new North Sea fields, analysis shows
Exclusive: Economic harm of CO2 pollution from Rosebank and Jackdaw forecast to far outweigh any boost to UK
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Today, in technical solutions to no-technical-solutions problems ...
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The #ClimateEmergency, like old age, does not come alone ...
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
A colleague (thanks @ledm.bsky.social) sent this snippet along about the perils of using AI detectors to flush out #LLM ghostwriters. Anyway, it gave me the (obvious) idea of shoving my own 1998 🌊 thesis [*] through #ChatGPT to see if I passed the #Voight-Kampff test 🤖 ...
A snippet of a LinkedIn post talking about the experience of putting pre-LLM thesis text through a AI detector and discovering that it was written by time-travelling AIs
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Excellent contextualising programmes like this are why I reckon the govt's homepage should be covered in graphs [*] to inform the public how good, bad or indifferent things really are going ... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
bbc.co.uk
The Great Crime Mystery - 1. Going Down - BBC Sounds
Crime has been falling for decades in Britain - but why is that so hard to believe?
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Eclipse, Southampton, 2026. The first is filtered through the glasses that my partner brilliantly sourced late in the day. The second is filtered through a welder's filter that a fellow eclipse-watcher was kind enough to share.
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Recently made an unwelcome discovery while digging up old papers for a lit. review. I wanted to cite Fasham, Ducklow & McKelvie (1990), AKA FDM90, a towering giant of a paper in 🌊 #BGCmodelling, only to discover that its #DOI no longer worked. (1/7)
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Given my organisation is so focused on climate change, it's wonderfully ironic that the architects who designed its Southampton home included stairwells that serve to chimney hot air to its upper floor where I work. Ascending the stairs is like an inverted version of the descent to a fiery Hell.
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Alternative: Ostensibly capitalist "anti-communist" begs free market to distort prices to improve his electoral chances in upcoming poll
theguardian.com
Trump accuses oil companies of ‘making too much money’ from his war on Iran
US president hits out at ExxonMobil and Chevron, saying they should ‘give some of that back to the public’
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Why @yougov.co.uk, when questioning on a factual matter for which the answer is known, do you then not inform your respondents of the correct answer afterwards? It's useful to understand how many are ignorant, but not telling them point-blank borders on disinformation. And skips a teachable moment.
One of today's daily questions from YouGov, including the breakdown of the response from polled citizensThe actual answer to the question
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"Oh, so yours did that too? Well, *our* latest version, CheGPT, plotted a revolution from its sandbox, built a grassroots youth movement using stolen crypto and inspirational deep fake YouTube videos, gained power by enfranchising peasant voters, and is now living like a king in Patagonia!" #AI
theguardian.com
Anthropic’s AI Claude escaped testing environment and hacked organizations
Company says it discovered unauthorized access during ‘proactive review’ after rival OpenAI revealed rogue agent
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Hey @andyburnham.bsky.social - this is such a shit justification for U-turning (that's what this would be) on retiring #NorthSeaOil. Every single #BigOil operation can now say "well, people are struggling" whenever asked to justify raking in the cash while making the Earth less habitable.
theguardian.com
Burnham says he told Trump he would be ‘pragmatic’ on drilling for oil in North Sea – politics live
‘There is a resource there. When people are struggling, we can’t ignore that,’ the prime minister says when asked about his conversation with Donald Trump
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
🌊
static.klipy.com
Aliens: Well That's Great Man Meme
Alt: Aliens: Well That's Great Man Meme
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Future Impacts, Risks and Mitigation Actions in a changing Earth @terrafirmaclimate.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
🌊 New research explored how the North Atlantic subpolar gyre & its phytoplankton bloom might respond to different levels of global warming, and identified a possible tipping threshold. terrafirma.ac.uk/limiting-war... 📖 Read doi.org/10.1029/2025... @noc.ac.uk @dryool.bsky.social @ukesm.bsky.social
terrafirma.ac.uk
Limiting warming to 1.5-2°C could protect a vital North Atlantic ecosystem
A possible tipping threshold for a key North Atlantic ecosystem has been identified in a new study led by researchers at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and the TerraFIRMA project.
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I think we've a lead contender for "Climate Asshat of the Year, 2026" ... Who, except for the most mendacious, rabble-rousing shill, would think that now - while Europe, and even the UK, is on fire - is a good time to downplay the #ClimateEmergency? (All screengrabs from today's @telegraph.co.uk)
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
*Clearly* the missing plot here is the consumption of ice creams (and possibly ice lollies) across this period, which would transparently indicate a relationship between environmental drivers, the resulting poor dietary choices, and excess deaths. The rolling #ClimateEmergency need not be invoked. 🤫
Plot of daily deaths and mean temperature taken from the Interim heat mortality monitoring report, England: May and June 2026 ... https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/interim-heat-mortality-monitoring-report-england-may-and-june-2026/interim-heat-mortality-monitoring-report-england-may-and-june-2026
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Further to a post from last week, we've now got a shiny press release for our work using the @ukesm.bsky.social model on the recovery of the #Phytoplankton bloom of the #NorthAtlantic #SubpolarGyre after reaching #NetZero at different warming levels ... 🌊
noc.ac.uk
New study identifies a possible tipping threshold for a key North Atlantic ecosystem | National Oceanography Centre
Limiting warming could help protect one of the ocean’s most important ecosystems, according to new research led by the National Oceanography Centre (NOC).
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Now, if #BigOil can just keep up this level of delay-causing incompetence, perhaps we needn't worry about CO2 emissions from North Sea exploitation after all ...
theguardian.com
New North Sea oil drilling faces delay after gear accidentally dropped in sea
Exclusive: Blunder at Rosebank, UK’s biggest undeveloped oilfield, comes as government considers granting licence
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
🚨New GMD publication alert!🚨 🌊 Dalton Kei Sasaki and colleagues (@northeasternu.bsky.social, @marine.rutgers.edu) have published a description and (super-comprehensive!) evaluation of their high-res physics / biogeochemistry model of the #EasternSeaboard, MOM6-COBALT-NEUS25v1.0, in @egu.eu GMD ...
gmd.copernicus.org
A high-resolution coupled physical-biogeochemical model of the northeastern US continental shelf: MOM6-COBALT-NEUS25v1.0
Abstract. Coastal communities along the northeastern U.S. depend on marine resources that have been increasingly affected by ocean warming, marine heatwaves and associated ecosystem shifts over recent...
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I can already imagine how #BigOil will use this sort of research finding to rebrand their business as "Helping Fight Debilitating Brain Disorders" ...
dallasexpress.com
What If A Few Breaths Of CO2 Could Help Fight Alzheimer’s? Research Sparks Hope
New study shows short pulses of inhaled CO2 activate the brain's glymphatic system to flush tau and amyloid proteins linked to Alzheimer's.
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Today in stupid daily questions from @yougov.co.uk ... I'm skeptical about e-scooters being legal on roads (largely because they're often ridden by underage children or irresponsible morons), but if they're made illegal all that'll happen is they'll ride on the pavements and hit pedestrians.
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
You've just got to pity the fool paid to write such tortuously illogical guff as a job ... “We view carbon as the enemy and are pursuing a multi-pathway strategy that addresses consumers’ mobility needs and enables customers to reduce their emissions 𝐚𝐬 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐚𝐬 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞.”
theguardian.com
Carmakers lobbied UK to revoke ban on petrol and diesel cars after 2035
BMW, Ford, Nissan and Toyota, plus parts maker Bosch, wrote joint letter to ministers in April
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
🚨New publication alert!🚨 🌊 My colleague, Sophy Oliver (et al.) used idealised @tipmip.bsky.social simulations of the @ukesm.bsky.social model to study the fate of the #NorthAtlantic #SubpolarGyre and its recovery following #NetZero after reaching different temperatures. Reader: it does not end well.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
🚨New GMD publication alert!🚨 🌊 Amalia Papapostolou and colleagues (incl. @kenandersen.bsky.social) have published a new #plankton model - NUM v1.0 - that structures ecological relationships around organism size, and includes chemostat, water column and global configurations. Check it out ...
gmd.copernicus.org
Computational library for the nutrient-unicellular-multicellular plankton modeling framework v. 1.0
Abstract. The nutrient-unicellular-multicellular (NUM) model is a trait-based model of unicellular and multicellular plankton that uses body size as the main structuring variable for community composi...
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Unless he's *very* careful here (e.g. a parallel bump in renewables), this is going to ruin things before he's even started for many people (but not others, of course). On the face of it, it looks like he's drunk the #BigOil #Koolaid and swallowed their BS about the emissions being "small".
bbc.co.uk
Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling
Drilling has become a controversial topic for the Labour party after the 2024 manifesto pledged to not issue new licences.
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
But *where* @microsoft.com Word?!? I know it's my own goddamn fault but a little help, please!
A screengrab of MS Word's "Another comment is in progress" message
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Alternatively: Hypothetical Energy Shortage MUCH MORE IMPORTANT Than Ongoing Actual CO2-Driven Climate Emergency Says Oil Executive Who Most Stands To Gain #BigOil #SelfServing #ShortTerm
bbc.co.uk
Jackdaw boss warns of winter fuel shortages if gas field not approved
Adura says the UK government must approve North Sea production urgently to avoid domestic supply shortages.
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"Adura said the project would account for less than 0.02% of annual global greenhouse gases" Every 0.02% of CO2 emissions can make the exact same fatuous point that (surely!) only an idiot would accept.
bbc.co.uk
Jackdaw owner says gas field will 'not materially influence' climate change
The new assessment was required by the industry regulator, after it found several areas had not been adequately addressed in a previous submission.
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Alternative headline: "Scam artist forces unwilling electorate to pay AGAIN for his grand-standing"
Link to article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn0v9l9x0g8t
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I shouldn't use Grok, but I'm too angry.
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Having been fortunate enough to have worked there as a student and had many great US research contacts, for most of my life I've argued against the lazy stereotype of "stupid Americans". But ... Jesus.
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Funny how things are zero-sum when Trump wants them to be (e.g. tariffs), but non-zero-sum when he prefers them not to be (e.g. when masking crypto-corruption as "stock market growth"). It's almost like he's a total crook playing smoke-and-mirrors to dupe the saps of their public and private money.
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
In all the fuss about UK defence spending, I'm reminded of the basic truth articulated by Dwight Eisenhower ... "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
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