Geert Aarts

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Marine mammal biologist, interested in Sustainability and Statistics | working @ WageningenUR & NIOZ, living on Texel with family, love the outdoors.

#ecology #marinemammals #seals #statistics #sealife #sustainability #degrowth #conservation #rstats #Arctic #running #drones #uav

Seals: Harbour and grey seal research in Netherlands and recently also Arctic pinnipeds (harp seals, ringed seals and Walrus), and also some work on harbour porpoises
Sustainability: Degrowth: If we seriously want to create a sustainable future, I believe we need to change our economic system fueling over-consumption. The [#degrowth](https://mastodon.green/tags/degrowth ) and [#postgrowth](https://mastodon.green/tags/postgrowth ) vision seems most promising. Keen to pursue more research in this area

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2025-02-02 15:49:45 UTC

Beach sunset on #texel (in Netherlands)
#SilentSunday
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2025-01-10 08:27:53 UTC

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For the Netherlands, the consumption-based estimates are substantially higher (up to 42%), based on Netherlands Statistics (CBS) and EXIOBASE. And that is what really matters. Second, national compositional analysis show that GDP growth leads to *increase* in emissions. It is just that increased renewable energy production outpaces the negative effects of economic growth, so you see 'decoupling', but in fact they are still positively coupled #co2 #ClimateChange #degrowth
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2024-12-01 18:16:39 UTC

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Yes, I can understand the discomfort many have with most existing algorithms on the for-profit social networks that try to pull you into the drama. But indeed, I think that an algorithm that just does some simple ordering based on your own social network will be a very different experience. Phanpy has that option, but it is a Beta feature, and quite hidden.

2024-12-01 17:52:43 UTC

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Thanks for all your contributions. What would be really useful is to have a very basic algorithm that places the posts with the most boost by the ones *you* follow at the top, and to make it one of the default options, particularly for the new users. Not having any algorithm whatsoever is probably the reason many of my colleagues became completely inactive.

2024-10-29 07:33:08 UTC

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Thanks for sharing. If you visit #fastcastle this time of year, it is also an excellent opportunity to watch the grey seal pupping just down below. For guidance how to watch them with care, see
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/discover/nature/wildlife/seal-spotting-guidance
@npub1ga2…s6l5 https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/coldingham/fastcastle/index.html
#seals #wildlife #sealife #nationaltrust