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Jorge Luis

@jorge.saturno.red

Air quality scientist | Usually playing with #rstats | Self-hosting stuff for fun | Open source and fediverse enthusiast ⁂

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Jorge Luis@jorge.saturno.red · last wk.

"When fires create their own weather, their behavior can become more unpredictable and erratic, which only amplifies their threat to residents and firefighters battling the blaze". theconversation.com/wildfires-ca... #wildfires #ClimateCrisis

Wildfires can create their own weather, including thunderstorms and tornado-like fire whirls − an atmospheric scientist explains how

Fire-produced thunderstorms and tornado-like fire whirls are more common than anyone realized, as high-resolution satellite images and data now show.

theconversation.com

Aarne Granlund@aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · last wk.

"The rising air cools and becomes a cloud, or fire cloud: a turbulent mass that can generate its own winds that worsen fires. If it becomes very large, it can even generate lightning." These clouds are also seen during nuclear explosions and volcanic eruptions. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time

The gigantic wildfire ravaging southwest France has created an extremely dangerous "pyrocumulonimbus" -- a phenomenon never before seen in the country -- the spokesman for the country's National Firef...

france24.com

Ele Willoughby@minouette.bsky.social · 2w ago

Happy birthday to pharmaceutical #chemist Alice Ball (1892-1916) who developed 1st effective treatment for #leprosy. 🧪🐡👩🏿‍🔬#histsci Though her life was cut tragically short, her research saved 1000s from exile & painful, ineffective lifelong treatment for leprosy, & she was a trailblazer for

My linocut portrait of pharmaceutical chemist Alice Ball, a young Black woman in a lab coat, printed in indigo. Below her is the chemical reaction for Ball’s Process in violet. Above and around her is a branch of chalmoogra with green leaves and yellow fruit.
Jorge Luis@jorge.saturno.red · 2w ago

One of the most challenging atmospheric pollutants to measure is #formaldehyde. A team in Graz has developed a very promising UV spectrometer that can measure this pollutant with high accuracy. airqualitynews.com/headlines/ne... #AirQuality

New laser technique offers sharper view of a crucial air pollutant

Scientists have unveiled a powerful new way to detect and measure formaldehyde in the atmosphere, a breakthrough that could improve air pollution monitoring and help researchers better understand the ...

airqualitynews.com

Jorge Luis@jorge.saturno.red · 2w ago

I am really impressed by @sifa.id and how importing data from linkedin works so well 🙌 It is actually quite cool to have aggregated ATmosphere activity in one place. I was wondering if you could check if there is a way to get rid of cross-posting between grain and bluesky. CC @gui.do

Frank Hecker@frankhecker.com · 2w ago

This is a good example of the permissionless innovation happening in the #Atmosphere: create an initial LinkedIn-style site you can access via your existing Bluesky/Blacksky/Eurosky/etc. account, then add more and more features leveraging your existing personal data in the Atmosphere and beyond.

Sifa ID 🪿@sifa.id · 2w ago

If you go to your personal Sifa Page at page.sifa.id/<@handle>/now, it now shows your personal heatmap and activitystream. (Check nownownow.com/about for the history of the /now page :))

Sifa Page with your own activity stream
Mel Andrews@bayesianboy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.