Reposted by Dr Bob McNabbCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/10/2026I have absolutely wondered about this. Amazing. 311800322
Reposted by Dr Bob McNabbDave Petley @davepetley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Examination of @planet.com satellite imagery before the 26 August 2026 Langtang Lirung landslide in Nepal, which initiated the massive debris flow and flood, suggests that there were surprisingly few signs of incipient failure:- eos.org/thelandslide... 14219
Dr Bob McNabb @iamdonovan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I had always thought that Fairbanks ("duct tape is good enough to help attach the external wiring to the house; it's fine to just run those wires across the ground") was an outlier, but it's comforting(?) to know that these sorts of surprises exist everywhere 031
Reposted by Dr Bob McNabbJessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Because Tilly is a pretty object made to be used by men, so of course it’s a “she” to them. Whereas trans woman clearly have interiority & agency who use it to refuse their bullshit hierarchy, so of course we are villainous subhuman monsters undeserving/incapable of having true personhood. 151509331
Dr Bob McNabb @iamdonovan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026My absolute favorite of the genre has been opening a two page PDF of bullet points and seeing the "this looks like a long document, would you like us to summarize it?" popup in acrobat 2110
Dr Bob McNabb @iamdonovan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Several years ago, while hiking in Wales on the same day as several races, I decided on an appropriate curse for this: "may your blisters get blisters" 021
Reposted by Dr Bob McNabbBritish Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · 17/09/2026Hundreds of whales strand on a remote beach – and no one notices for months. Strandings can be an early warning system for ocean health, flagging pollution, disease, and environmental change. But in remote areas, they often go unseen. 🐳 🧵1/2 14018
Reposted by Dr Bob McNabbPeter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Why is the answer to employers wanting more work ready graduates always that universities should provide more workplace training, rather than employers providing more training in the workplace? 27375112
Reposted by Dr Bob McNabbPlashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 09/09/2026British universities are both thinner and greedier now. They’re thinner in that they’re doing less and offering less (fewer courses, fewer modules, fewer assessments, fewer staff, far less student and staff support). They’re greedier in that they demand more of both students and staff: more money… 413953
Dr Bob McNabb @iamdonovan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026yep. one shoe just dropped on us this week (voluntary redundancies, but no one has ruled out the non-voluntary kind) 010
Dr Bob McNabb @iamdonovan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026genuinely awful to hear - sorry that you're having to go through this as well 110
Reposted by Dr Bob McNabbRhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 08/09/2026It won’t stop these reprehensible, cowardly pieces of shit attacking the RNLI, but here is a handy link to donate rnli.org/support-us/g...rnli.orgDonate to the RNLI and help save lives at seaYour donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here. 47786440
Reposted by Dr Bob McNabbEvan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.techdirt.comHackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a... 81148307740
Reposted by Dr Bob McNabbAllen Pope @allenpope.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I was just up in Tombstone for the first time (stunning!!), saw one of these milky rivers right by the campsite, and even had a chat with a hydrologist who was going to do some sampling. Scary stuff for these lands & peoples - and changing so quickly!! 094
Reposted by Dr Bob McNabbBellingcat @bellingcat.com · 01/09/2026A mysterious, never before seen island in Canada made waves after it was photographed adrift on Williston Lake, British Columbia before supposedly vanishing. Video footage of the island shows a thickly forested landmass undulating surreally on the water. But did it really disappear?x.comphilip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) on X'According to estimates, it's bigger than the size of a Canadian football field and nearly the size of two NFL fields' 925457
Dr Bob McNabb @iamdonovan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026static.klipy.comLuke Skywalker: That's Impossible! Star WarsAlt: Luke Skywalker: That's Impossible! Star Wars 040
Dr Bob McNabb @iamdonovan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026if not, clearly someone has to write this story and win a Hugo award for it 010
Reposted by Dr Bob McNabbRobert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 27/08/2026If we rename Lake Ontario Lake America, the new mnemonic could be: Superior Huron America Michigan Erie 16315
Reposted by Dr Bob McNabbGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Everyone should read this thread, because it's an excellent description of what cyclists face daily and also because Peter has a knack for nailing the motivations behind the murderous behavior of drivers 117838
Reposted by Dr Bob McNabbDr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 28/08/2026By now we know that it was not JUST glacier ice, but a tremendous bedrock landslide that collapsed in Nepal. @planet.com satellite imagery shows a fairly large (0.17km2) lake has formed, which could release a sizeable flood if it were hit by further rockfalls. This is concerning for rescue workers. 1219895
Dr Bob McNabb @iamdonovan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026at least the double yellow lines surely mean no cars will ever be parked across the bike lane and onto the sidewalk 😭 010
Reposted by Dr Bob McNabbBethan Davies @iceybethan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026My initial thoughts on the Langtang-Lirung glacier collapse and devastating floods in Tibet and Nepal. www.antarcticglaciers.org/2026/08/augu...antarcticglaciers.orgAugust 2026 Nepal-Tibet floods - AntarcticGlaciers.orgOn 26th August 2026, devastating floods hit Nepal and Tibet. At time of writing, 1400 people were missing, and 270 bodies had been recovered, but this toll is sadly expected to rise. The flooding hit ... 39260
Reposted by Dr Bob McNabbNahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026An incredibly well-timed Landsat 9 pass captured the effects of yesterday’s catastrophic glacier collapse near the Nepal–Tibet border. The event was so massive that it was detected by seismometers around the world. 211121561
Dr Bob McNabb @iamdonovan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026It looks like there is/was a large (detached?) bit of glacier in the valley just below the toe of the larger glacier (left is Sentinel-2 from 12 August, right is google earth from ca. 2017): 140
Reposted by Dr Bob McNabbBethan Davies @iceybethan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Folks, if you have a spare couple of minutes while you drink a coffee, I'd really appreciate it if you could complete this feedback survey for AntarcticGlaciers.org. www.antarcticglaciers.org/2026/08/anta... 178
Reposted by Dr Bob McNabb~Tilda is short for It's Decoratilda Gourd Season, Motherf***ers @hulcricket.bsky.social · 26/08/2026to all the teachers and instructors out there as we begin another school year, let us not forget that we have an actual study that gives us intellectual cover for subjecting our students to cute pet pics 2223
Reposted by Dr Bob McNabbDr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The source of the flood in Nepal is a collapsed glacier 🧪⚒️ 601507747
Reposted by Dr Bob McNabbKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 15/08/2026There's actually research on this and it involves scrutiny. If you're Black people are going to look at your work looking for mistakes in a way they would never for white people.theatlantic.comBlack Workers Really Do Need to Be Twice as GoodAfrican American employees tend to receive more scrutiny from their bosses than their white colleagues, meaning that small mistakes are more likely to be caught, which over time leads to worse perform... 162200677
Reposted by Dr Bob McNabbKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet. 17455922065
Reposted by Dr Bob McNabbDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Don’t have anything insightful to say about the Arday case beyond this: we assign some cases to have profound symbolic meaning. But which cases we assign meaning is a choice. Firing of faculty in the US for wrongthink now is routine but does not shape the discourse. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/u...nytimes.comFlorida Professor Fired for Assigning a Profane Story, Lawsuit SaysSouth Florida State College fired an English professor after she assigned a story about a teacher who talks about sex with her students. Now the professor is suing. 20576137
Reposted by Dr Bob McNabb👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 14/08/2026I don’t care what he did or didn’t do; he was a human and deserved dignity and humane treatment and not to be sacrificed on the altar of culture wars and I’m so angry and sad for him. 360083
Dr Bob McNabb @iamdonovan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026congrats to UM for their new Bawer sponsorship deal 000
Reposted by Dr Bob McNabbDr Susan Greaney @handle.invalid · 13/08/2026My uni have just withdrawn Geography, History & Geography and Politics & Geography undergrad courses run from our Penryn campus. Terrible for Cornwall. How did the staff find out? When UCAS clearing opened at 8am 😡 97758343
Reposted by Dr Bob McNabbLiesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 13/08/2026ARGH. There are many causes of the UKHE crisis, and the governmental underfunding is undoubtedly the most harmful one. But let’s not let that big one draw sole attention, so we forget the harm done by the pure disrespect of managers for staff & their disdain for meaningful conversation with them. 35620
Dr Bob McNabb @iamdonovan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026ah yes, the classic "it's not technically taking it if we tell you that you have to give it to us" trick 030
Dr Bob McNabb @iamdonovan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026(Northern) Ireland remains unsure what all the fuss is about. 000
Dr Bob McNabb @iamdonovan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026having just read Small Gods, I think it's pretty clear that it depends entirely on the number of believers that they have 010
Reposted by Dr Bob McNabb👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 07/08/2026Exactly this. The ban might say a trans guy can't use a male bathroom. But the intention of the ban, and the people behind it, is very much that he can't use the female bathroom either. When was the last time you were outside your own house for the length of a working day or more without peeing? 141037299
Dr Bob McNabb @iamdonovan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026looks like Purdue won the NCGAA hurling (again), and Navy/Penn State won the NCGAA Gaelic Football title: www.ncgaa.org/national-2026ncgaa.org2026 National Tournament | NCGAANCGAA National tournament for college hurling and gaelic football for USA, Canada, and Mexico. 010
Reposted by Dr Bob McNabbClaire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 01/08/2026So people get that bringing private investors in to something that belongs to everyone, for a small cash injection - but to milk it dry long term for shareholders is stupid right? Right.. now kick them out of rail, water, energy, telecoms, healthcare etc.theguardian.comFifa scraps proposal to sell off stakes in World Cup after widespread backlashGianni Infantino has said Fifa has scrapped plans to sell a stake in the World Cup to private investors after widespread backlash 16422
Reposted by Dr Bob McNabbFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 31/07/2026I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:digitaldigging.orgHow to plant a nuclear plant in IranThe question is: what on earth is Google doing? 742393894
