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Data: it is everywhere (Part 3: the #UCUStrike edition)
Well, we are on strike again (see previous posts passim ad nauseam: here, here, and here, among others). The current wave of strikes are in two parts: the ongoing dispute over our pension scheme...
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Data: it is every where (Part 3(b): the #UCUStrike bonus extra)
After two weeks back at work, we are back on strike for a week, as university staff get angrier and angrier, and senior management retire into their bunkers and pretend to each other that the problem...
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In the desert
Having saved up holiday money through the pandemic, we splurged it on a fortnight divided between Egypt and Jordan. Mostly this was a cultural and historic sort of trip, but two days in Jordan’s Wadi...
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Ascent of Cwm Hill
The days around the solstice are an all-too-brief time of year when the days go on for ever, the bees buzz, and the hedges are full of the fragrance of roses and elderflower. A time of year when you...
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Gravity: an unfinished historical detective story
I have described in the past how I received gravity meter D-154 back from a service and convinced myself that it was working. It has been used on a number of field trips since that time, and has not,...
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In the footsteps of Eratosthenes
I knew while I was on my holiday to Egypt and Jordan earlier in the year that I had visited one location associated with the Greek astronomer and mathematician Eratosthenes of Cyrene, but I found out...
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Data: it is every where (Part 3(c): the #ucuRISING inflation update)
We have had another round of strike days over the last few weeks. The dispute between university staff across the UK and their employers rumbles on, in a period of high inflation. I therefore felt that...
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2022: the rain report
As per last year I am starting the year with a report on the rain I recorded in Dunbar. It will not surprise anyone who has been listening to the news that 2022 was a dry year: slightly drier than the...
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Landmarks of levelling
Levelling is the process of accurate measurement of the height above sea level of points in the landscape. When I am not on strike (and I have three strike days this week) we teach students to do this...
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Data: it is everywhere. Part 4: utilities time series.
Guess what: we are on strike. Again. This time, our employers have at last decided to negotiate, and there are rumours emerging of actual progress in those negotiations. While on strike I have done a...
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2023: the rain report
I’m a bit late with the rain report for 2023, sorry. We have already had most of January 2024 and, here in Dunbar, it is already the second-wettest of the five Januaries that I have recorded. As a...
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Rain: how reliable is my data?
I have written several posts here about my rain measurements (see here, here, here) but have always wondered whether the non-ideal location of my rain gauge made the results useless. I realised...
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A busy sky
This month has been a bit of a treat for sky watchers: a large display of aurora and a comet. The aurora occurred on 10 October; I was expecting it as it had been forecast some time in advance, and it...
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