Mike Prior-Jones
@drmikepj.bsky.social
Glaciologist and electronic engineer at Cardiff University. Current designer of #cryoegg and #cryowurst. UKRI Future Leaders Fellow.
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I have made a tear-off Darkness Calendar for the winter. Every week I can tear off a page and get the sunset times. It starts next week and runs for 14 weeks, by which time we’ll be back to sunset at 1700 here in Cardiff.
October 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I have made a tear-off Darkness Calendar for the winter. Every week I can tear off a page and get the sunset times. It starts next week and runs for 14 weeks, by which time we’ll be back to sunset at 1700 here in Cardiff.
Thanks a heap, Microsoft. You were supposed to make collaboration easier.
(Yes, I know Microsoft are bad, but it's what the institution provides so we're stuck with it)
(Yes, I know Microsoft are bad, but it's what the institution provides so we're stuck with it)
October 10, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Thanks a heap, Microsoft. You were supposed to make collaboration easier.
(Yes, I know Microsoft are bad, but it's what the institution provides so we're stuck with it)
(Yes, I know Microsoft are bad, but it's what the institution provides so we're stuck with it)
I see I’ve acquired a team of web developers!
October 8, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I see I’ve acquired a team of web developers!
Late Western Railway are living up to their reputation.
September 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Late Western Railway are living up to their reputation.
Don’t buy a Mous phone case. I’m on my second one (a warranty replacement) and it’s already failed the same way as the first one - the rubber has come away from the hard plastic.
July 27, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Don’t buy a Mous phone case. I’m on my second one (a warranty replacement) and it’s already failed the same way as the first one - the rubber has come away from the hard plastic.
On my ride into work this morning I saw that HMCS Montréal, a Canadian frigate, was visiting Cardiff. I stopped by to speak to the sentries:
Me: "Good morning, welcome to Cardiff! Did you find the Tim Hortons yet?"
Sentries: "There's a Tim Hortons?!"
@timhortonsofficial.bsky.social
Me: "Good morning, welcome to Cardiff! Did you find the Tim Hortons yet?"
Sentries: "There's a Tim Hortons?!"
@timhortonsofficial.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 7:48 AM
On my ride into work this morning I saw that HMCS Montréal, a Canadian frigate, was visiting Cardiff. I stopped by to speak to the sentries:
Me: "Good morning, welcome to Cardiff! Did you find the Tim Hortons yet?"
Sentries: "There's a Tim Hortons?!"
@timhortonsofficial.bsky.social
Me: "Good morning, welcome to Cardiff! Did you find the Tim Hortons yet?"
Sentries: "There's a Tim Hortons?!"
@timhortonsofficial.bsky.social
Want to come and see Cryoegg, Cryowurst and some of our other work on instruments for glaciology and hydrology? I’m in the MacGyver session in Hall A after lunch. #egu25 @egu-cr.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Want to come and see Cryoegg, Cryowurst and some of our other work on instruments for glaciology and hydrology? I’m in the MacGyver session in Hall A after lunch. #egu25 @egu-cr.bsky.social
We are being held up by a technical problem in the Channel Tunnel - probably an hour’s delay. Fortunately I spotted that there is EMERGENCY CHOCOLATE in the cafe car! #train2egu #emergencychocolate
April 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
We are being held up by a technical problem in the Channel Tunnel - probably an hour’s delay. Fortunately I spotted that there is EMERGENCY CHOCOLATE in the cafe car! #train2egu #emergencychocolate
My local hardware store only had 2mm nylon cord - I think for a proper version I'd go up to 3mm or 4mm climbers' accessory cord (aka cordelette) - but I'd need to check that it'll go through the loop on the bath plug!
April 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
My local hardware store only had 2mm nylon cord - I think for a proper version I'd go up to 3mm or 4mm climbers' accessory cord (aka cordelette) - but I'd need to check that it'll go through the loop on the bath plug!
In my job I do a lot of logistics - packing and unpacking, shipping and labelling. Last year, whilst doing fieldwork in Canada, I thought "wouldn't it be great to have a gaffer tape dispenser on my belt?".
Behold, the prototype!
#fieldwork #logistics #glaciology
Behold, the prototype!
#fieldwork #logistics #glaciology
April 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
In my job I do a lot of logistics - packing and unpacking, shipping and labelling. Last year, whilst doing fieldwork in Canada, I thought "wouldn't it be great to have a gaffer tape dispenser on my belt?".
Behold, the prototype!
#fieldwork #logistics #glaciology
Behold, the prototype!
#fieldwork #logistics #glaciology
I have a PhD studentship available for a UK-resident mechanical engineer, physicist or engineering-minded geoscientist - developing a free-floating probe that'll travel through water channels inside glaciers in Greenland!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#glacier #glaciology #phd
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#glacier #glaciology #phd
February 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I have a PhD studentship available for a UK-resident mechanical engineer, physicist or engineering-minded geoscientist - developing a free-floating probe that'll travel through water channels inside glaciers in Greenland!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#glacier #glaciology #phd
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#glacier #glaciology #phd