Travelling Stockholm - Hamburg - Cologne - Brussels for a two-day conference about public metal detecting. It'll take 24 hours, one third of which I'll spend asleep. It's the 2024 way to #travel.
Wrote this paper where I first present some enigmatic evidence, then reveal a cool well-supported interpretation with an elegant flourish. Peer reviewer and editor tell me they know nothing about Sweden and are just confused by this. So now I have to start with the interpretation to get all the foreigners on board, then present the evidence after they have been primed how to think about it. It irks me but I'll do it. They are after all indicative of the readership. /-:
Yesterday would have been the 80th Anniversary of D-Day, but oceanographers and our ability to make predictions called for a one-day delay. This ensured that the landings were a success. #WorldWarTwo
"You learn a lot from failure, but I’ve been unable to persuade our graduate students and our faculty. Our faculty should be willing to give the Ph.D. for an experiment that failed, provided it’s been done responsibly." – Walter Munk