New blog entry: Feeling useful dlvr.it/T2jVt6

I look forward to the Chancellor explaining how they plan to make the state more productive and more pertinently why they haven't tried that in 14 years of Government.

Hey The Guardian, don't you think your post-budget calculator should have an option for people in Scotland? Or even just mention that it doesn't apply to Scotland? (I assume it doesn't, given tax thresholds are different) theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/m…

🤖 So #ChatGPT wrote the first sentence of this Elsevier article. Any other parts of the article too? How come none of the coauthors, Editor-in-Chief, reviewers, typesetters noticed? How can this happen with regular peer-review? pubpeer.com/publications/C…

Tidal twitter: Is any country currently progressing tidal stream (with metal in the water, not just academic studies) except for the UK and (currently in a small way) Japan?

Apparently NorthLink Ferries lie at the end of the (double) rainbow. #Orkney

On the Teaching Philosophy fb group, someone offered their students an amnesty if they admitted to using ChatGPT in their assignments, and 23/25 students replied...

Would you like this to be the view from your office window? Do you care about #oceanography and/or #offshore #wind power, in weather that is much worse than this? If so, we have a #PhD project for you! hw.ac.uk/uk/schools/ene… Based in Orkney. Deadline 26th April. #energy

Duty of care aside, this seems like the false economy to end all false economies....

One week out from #AllEnergy. I'll be there with a colleague and a small Heriot-Watt University stand in the Orkney area. Come and say hi, or get in touch if you'd like to arrange to meet!

New blog entry: Examining dlvr.it/T6r0xl

New blog entry: “Profits” cartoon dlvr.it/T7k8Zc

New blog entry: SmartSTEMs, and excellent questions dlvr.it/T8zYNW

ScotRail Scot Rail, not knowing until 10pm tonight what exact time trains will be tomorrow morning is not acceptable. Your current announcement only has first and last train and frequency in between. That's of no use for people commuting tomorrow morning.

ScotRail's temporary timetable fiasco continues to develop. Today they are running trains to a timetable that is almost completely unadvertised and unavailable. I'm not sure there is any way to know what time their trains are except showing up at a station!

ScotRail can you please at the very least take down the social distancing posters on the platforms at central station. All it’s doing is mocking us as you cram us in to another delayed service with no carriages.

A challenger to the Danish model? Some colleagues, eg David McMillan, have been predicting this for a while... rechargenews.com/wind/futuristi…

New blog entry: Wildcat geoengineering dlvr.it/TDP6HF