Can I just give a shout out to the @ethz.ch researchers who initialised an AI weather model with a cat picture. 👏🐱
For the first time ever, heat pumps outsold gas boilers in Germany in 2025.
48% of all new heating systems installed last year were heat pumps. Gas fell to just 39%. A decade ago, heat pumps had a 7% market share. The transformation has been remarkable.
💖 cats just wanna have fun
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Fantastic memories of them filming A Very Peculiar Practice in my halls of residence at Birmingham uni, being allowed to stay in our room while Peter Davison (in pjs) filmed in the corridor - and being told to be quiet as we made too much noise - and chatting to the nuns in a stairwell!
The site of Banksy's new statue could be underwater under a scenario in which, blinded by wilful ignorance, humanity fails to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and we step off the edge into irreversible polar ice melting and multi-metre sea level rise. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I've really enjoyed reading Ruskin Park by @rorycj.bsky.social - a wonderfully touching biography and memoir based on a treasure trove of letters left by his mother and research in BBC archives.
R.I.P. Andy Kershaw who I listened to a lot back in the day. Currently playing one of my treasured LPs - and my introduction to the fabulous Orchestra Baobab (Homage à Tonton Ferrer from their 2002 album Specialist in All Styles to feature in my Desert Island tracks if I get asked).
