Scott Robeson
Climate, statistics, and environmental change @IUBloomington and @IUGeography. Alum of @UDCEOE and @UBCgeog. Subsistence farmer. All views my own.
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Craft beautiful equations in Word with LaTeX
Manufacturers are ditching equation editors in word-processing software in favour of the LaTeX typesetting language. Here’s how to get started.
Gray Catbird Sounds, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
If you’re convinced you’ll never be able to learn bird calls, start with the Gray Catbird. Once you’ve heard its catty mew you won’t forget it. Follow the sound into thickets and vine tangles and you’ll be rewarded by a somber gray bird with a black...
Scott Robeson
You know it's an active weather pattern when a Gray Catbird starts to imitate the weather radio sound
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Curly brace annotation - File Exchange - MATLAB Central
Draws curly brace on current figure
Scott Robeson
Something I've never wanted to do until now, but I'm glad there's a Matlab function for adding a curly brace to a figure! Works great. mathworks.com/matlabcentral/… pic.twitter.com/5GGolWNlgd
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POLITICS: White House might make federal scientists debate skeptics
A White House plan to debate the accuracy of climate science has hit a snag: Mainstream scientists are unlikely to participate. In response, officials have discussed requiring federal researchers to participate.
How to Sustainably Feed 10 Billion People by 2050, in 21 Charts | World Resources Institute
Can we feed the world without destroying it? New research reveals 22 steps to a sustainable food future.
It’s time to recognize how men’s careers benefit from sexually harassing women in academia
Becky Mansfield, Rebecca Lave, Kendra McSweeney, Anne Bonds, Jaclyn Cockburn, Mona Domosh, Trina Hamilton, Roberta Hawkins, Amy Hessl, Darla Munroe, Diana Ojeda, Claudia Radel
Stanford Board of Trustees elects two new members
Aneel Bhusri, co-founder and CEO of Workday, and Sarah Ketterer, co-founder and CEO of Causeway Capital Management, will join the Stanford Board of Trustees on June 1.
Ruddy Turnstone Identification, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
A shorebird that looks almost like a calico cat, the Ruddy Turnstone's orange legs and uniquely patterned black-and-white head and chest make them easy to pick out of a crowd. These long-distance migrants breed in the arctic tundra, but spend the...
Scott Robeson
@wildweatherdan A mix of responses here, but definitely Ruddy Turnstone, a very nice bird
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Procrastination Isn't a Time Management Problem, It's an Emotional Problem
I told myself I'd start writing at 10 a.m. and crank out a few sections of this article before lunch. It's now 1:40 p.m.—and I'm finally getting started.What happened?In the commonly held view of procrastination, I failed to appropriately manage...
USDA farms out economists whose work challenges Trump policies
Those who examine the impact of tariffs, climate change and taxes on rural America are among employees being relocated.
Nearly 200 MW coming to Indiana at under $1/watt
This unprecedented development in the Hoosier State is just the beginning of a much, much bigger tidal wave of development, all of which is planned before Halloween of 2023.
Coming soon: Rare flowers from IU greenhouse's Agave americana
The century plant blooms only once and its flowering stalk is now taller than the greenhouse roof. But the flowers’ exact arrival is a mystery.
Scott Robeson
Bloom stalk of Agave Americana emerging from the IU Bloomington greenhouse news.iu.edu/stories/2019/0… pic.twitter.com/OfnHk1hpM0
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Tech billionaires who donate millions are just "bribing society at large," Anand Giridharadas says
Zuckerberg, Bezos, and Gates shouldn’t have an outsize say in how we run our country, Giridharadas says on the latest episode of Recode Decode.
Congratulations, Morehouse Class of ’19: Your Loans Will Be Paid Off
The billionaire Robert F. Smith said in a commencement address at Morehouse College on Sunday that his family would eliminate the new graduates’ student loans.
City energysheds and renewable energy in the United States
Modelling the network of power plants that supply a given city, and the amount of energy drawn from each plant, shows a city’s energy mix and demonstrates which other cities it shares most energy suppliers with.
Teresa Robeson on Instagram: “There’s nothing like waking up to a phone call from your #neighbor that they have a dead #deer in their pool and will need help with it.…”
22 Likes, 9 Comments - Teresa Robeson (@tmrobeson) on Instagram: “There’s nothing like waking up to a phone call from your #neighbor that they have a dead #deer in…”
The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States
Free-ranging domestic cats cause wildlife extinctions on islands, but their impact on wildlife in mainland areas is unclear. This study presents an estimate of mortality caused by cats in the United States, suggesting that 1.4–3.7 billion birds and...
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