Show threadCheshireApr 24

Metabolic Anomaly Report 00-Beta
Thermal scan: negative. Bio-signature: negative. Threat assessment: negative.

It triggered 4 seconds later.
Our instruments weren't wrong. They just weren't measuring the right thing.

#LexiconEntity #OutpostLog #Bestiary #Lore #CreativeWriting #GameDesign #TTRPG #FieldResearch

LeidenForceApr 23

Not all physics happens in controlled labs.

Scientists are turning to remote environments to observe real-world conditions, revealing behaviors that standard setups may miss.

🔗 https://phys.org/news/2026-03-scientists-remote-environments.html

#Physics #RealWorldData #FieldResearch #Science #Innovation

How scientists prepare expeditions in remote environments

Scientific expeditions require months of planning before scientists can acquire the first data. A bark cuts through the Arctic silence, waking Anna up. She slept only three hours after collecting the last sample. Anna reaches for her rifle, exits the tent, and steps onto the midnight ice. She pets the guard dog she rented a few days earlier. It might be a false alarm, but she scans the darkness for polar bears, hoping her training pays off. She cannot afford to lose the samples. Nor her life.

Phys.org
Helmholtz Institute One HealthMar 17

Update from the ONE HEALTH COHORT
🚀 Today marks an important milestone:
In Paulé-Oula (Taï), we launched our first study site:
🩺 Examination of human participants
🐾 Examination of domestic animals
🐭 Sampling of small mammals
🌿 Environmental sampling

This will enable us to generate comprehensive data across human, animal, and environmental health domains.
We look forward to sharing further insights from the field!
#OneHealth #FieldResearch #CohortStudy

SmidmartJan 1
Field diagnostics won’t always happen inside well-equipped laboratories.
know more:https://zurl.co/c8XLD
#DigitalInstrumentation #PortableDiagnostics #FieldResearch #DisasterResponseTech #PowerMeasurement #ScientificTools #RemoteOperations #FutureTechnology
Florin BAug 10, 2025

Dashboards tell you what’s happening. Customers tell you why, if you bother to show up and watch. Spoiler: the slides never see it coming.
#ProductManagement #FieldResearch #UserInsights

http://branici.ro/2025/08/10/surveys-tell-you-stories-the-field-tells-you-the-truth/

Surveys Tell You Stories. The Field Tells You the Truth.

Surveys tell you stories. Fieldwork tells you the truth. Product managers need both, especially if they want to bridge the gap between what customers say and what they actually do.

Florin Branici
papertrailJul 26, 2025
‘The fire has reached the stream. The green corridor is now black’

Less than an hour after we concluded our final visit to the location of the planned Meta hyperscale data centre in Gamonal/Talavera de la Reina, a large bush fire ripped through the landscape.

The night before, a local resident had guided us through the landscape to share his own fears and hopes for this territory. He pointed out how Meta had promised to maintain a ‘green corridor’ between the planned megainfrastructure and the neighbouring industrial estate to soften the destructive impact of the project. Now, he was alerting us via Whatsapp about the arrival of a large fire.

Bush fires are not unusual on this dry land. The last large fire erupted almost exactly one year ago and burned through most of the Southern half of the terrain.



Photo 1: News of the fire spreading via one of Meta’s flagship products
Photo 2: The extent of the fire as seen from above (images via Terrascope and INFOCAM)
Photo 3: Traces of last year’s fire captured during our scoping visit in September 2024
Photo 4: Remnants of last year’s fire in the ‘green corridor’
Photo 5: One of the last photographs of the ‘green corridor’ before the fire

Made possible by the Creative Industries Fund NL

#fieldresearch #datacenter #bushfire #publishing #dryclouds
Sarah Rose Stokes 🌻Jul 20, 2025

June was dominated by field research in GP practices with Alison, joined at times by Nick, Ben, and Mohit.

Also featured were patient observations, reading up on triaging approaches, and a delicious Victoria sponge.

https://medium.com/@SarahRose-UR/june-2025-month-note-bea16971b29a

#UserResearch #HealthcareLeadership #FieldResearch #PrimaryCare #NHS

papertrailJul 15, 2025
Overpowered by the sun

We intended to produce a series of cyanotype photographs as a low-tech method to document the more-than-human elements shaping the landscape, so we brought a printing kit with us from the Netherlands. As relative beginners with this technique, we diligently followed the instructions provided by the Dutch maker of the kit.

When developing our initial print run, all rinsed papers turned almost solid blue. Almost all of the intricate shapes and textures from the materials we had placed on the photosensitive paper had vanished. The power of the midday sun had fully exposed the entire paper.

Driven by an urge to find out what could have caused this failure, we gave it another try on the following day. This time, the prints turned out perfectly! The secret? Reducing the exposure time to less than 30% of the length indicated in the instructions. The Spanish sun was simply too powerful for Dutch standards.

In places where (natural) clouds are rare and the sun intensity is exceptionally high, mega computing infrastructures are faced with conflicting conditions. While an abundance of sunshine brings with it a significant potential for renewable energy generation through solar or wind power, it also produces tremendous heat and drought, which can make a territory unliveable over time; especially if the already scarce water resources are further exploited to provide vital cooling for overheated computer chips.

Do you ever think of the sun when you are working in the Cloud?

Made possible by the Creative Industries Fund NL

#cyanotype #sunprinting #solarenergy #fieldresearch #creativeresearch #datacenter #snakeoil
dr. gianluca grimaldaJul 2, 2025

It was great to present my work on fatalism and climate action in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, in a session on "Emotions in the transition to a no-carbon society" at the Global Tipping Points conference @uniexeter.

I talked about high levels of fatalism - beliefs that the future is predetermined and that human agency is pontless - in Bougainville, how this already reduces climate action, and wonder how this could be a barrier to harnessing potential positive tipping points in populations truly left behind.

Here are my slides 👉https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NIEhEWA2IC-4V2FC2ybCLFBmnbcO0ta4p-nhiiTOaIc/edit?usp=sharing

I also learned from @laurafoggrogers the importance of triggering positive emotions to fully engage the population at large, while Genevieve Guenther @doctorvive proposes a very interesting paradigm combining fear, outrage and desire, drawn from her book "The language of climate politics". I think everyone agrees that one size-fits-all type of communication is not optimal and that tailoring the message to the recipient is very important.

#DrJohnRowlatt discussed about how to best engage the UK population, and elderly people in particular, to switch to low-carbon heating systems. @larasningrum_dianty talked about the potential for narratives of hope in low-income countries and in general.

I look forward to continuing this discussion. 🙏 co-panelists & attendants.

#ClimateChange #ClimateAdaptation #Fatalism #Bougainville #PapuaNewGuinea #Melanesia #Research #FieldResearch

crop scienceJun 17, 2025

The arrival of spring doesn't just mean a return to intensive measurement period for most of our field experiments. After some years already working with its prototype, the new Literal® device arrived and is now running on our research station.

#cropphenotyping #wheat #fieldresearch #agriculturalsciences