Mark Higgins

@[email protected]
178 Followers
646 Following
271 Posts

Mostly listening and learning

Weather & Environment
Facilitation & Change

Enjoing working at EUMETSAT (views own etc.)
he/him

LanguagesEn & De
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Born at326.01ppm CO2
Mark HigginsMar 3
Ruth MottramMar 3
Proud PhD supervisor moment: @eumetsat have nice write up to Elke Schlager's brilliant work, (now a preprint in @EGUsphere) on how we can use #MachineLearning methods to emulate #Greenland ice sheet melt via European Weather Cloud computing
https://europeanweather.cloud/use-cases/machine-learning-emulation-accelerate-climate-science
Mark HigginsFeb 10
Show threadMax LeibmanFeb 8, 2025
In before the “Hey, I’m no conservative, but I deliberately chose not to have kids…” comments.

If you think the burdens, financial and otherwise, of raising the next generation belongs solely to parents, you are in fact a conservative.
Mark HigginsFeb 3
NanoraptorFeb 3

Some terrifically titled papers from a discovered collection of NASA research documents found in a skip

(with thanks to @JuliaRez for the original pic)

Mark HigginsJan 31
Show threadWillow (she/her)Jan 30
@Karstan https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-homemade-granola-bars-cooking-lessons-from-the-kitchn-176676#post-recipe-11451 This is my go to one!
Mark HigginsJan 30
Megan Lynch (she/her)Jan 30

Any folks familiar with the German PhD system able to explain what "A gross salary up to 65% E13 TV-L." means in practical terms for an immigrant PhD student in Gatersleben?

What would that be net, and is it enough to live there without struggling? (They seem open to recruiting disabled scientists, so I also wonder whether an immigrant's access needs will be covered or whether that will be an additional cost to figure into how far the pay might go...)

#AcademicChatter #Germany

Mark HigginsNov 27
Show threadIan M. Mackay, PhD (he/him)Nov 27

And in case you may ask something like"

"Ian, love positive news, but what is the relevance that no one under 25 gets screened anyway? No doubt the vaccines work, and this is an incredible stat to see but in this age group it's exceedingly rare, no?... Basically, are we at risk of missing a broader picture here?"
..read on...

Show threadMark HigginsNov 13
@grimalkina thank you, it was fun, practical and gave me a ton to think about
Mark HigginsNov 4

@jeremiah
Not quite like 404 but two I create for content and ability to listen

https://feuerundbrot.de/ - reflections on politics and popculture

Long news deep dives: https://www.tagesschau.de/multimedia/podcast/11km/11km-feed-100.html

Feuer & Brot

Feuer & Brot
Mark HigginsOct 28
dagOct 28

NEW

Why 'A House of Dynamite' is a good film about how those with power make decisions

This unconventional nuclear thriller does something rare in movies

By me

Substack:

https://emptycity.substack.com/p/why-a-house-of-dynamite-is-a-good

Personal blog
https://davidallengreen.com/2025/10/why-a-house-of-dynamite-is-a-good-film-about-how-those-with-power-make-decisions/

Mark HigginsOct 10
Prof. Sam LawlerOct 10

I have a bazillion new German followers (hello!), and I'm getting interviewed for German public radio in an hour about "sunlight as a service", and I don't speak any German and I've never been to Germany.

The Fediverse is a truly magical place!