Friday Squid Blogging: Illex Squid and Climate Change

There are correlations between the populations of the Illex Argentines squid and water temperatures.

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.

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Posted on February 23, 2024 at 5:04 PM • 111 Comments

emily’s post • February 24, 2024 11:11 AM

@ Clive Robinson

Squid are more likely to hunger for the soft squidgy stuff

You mean … not only do they like M&Ms but they also are cannibals ? Shudder, gasp … nature, red of tooth and claw …

emily’s post • February 26, 2024 1:09 PM

@ Clive Robinson @ ResearcherZero ALL
DAY

Re: selfies with M&Ms

It was infinitely remiss of me not to mention the original source which the Ars article linked, viz., the February issue of mathNEWS of U Waterloo Canada. The newspaper is quite worth a look on its own merit.

https://mathnews.uwaterloo.ca/

emily’s post • March 1, 2024 9:33 AM

@ Clive Robinson

Put overly simply you assume an orbit is perfectly circular about a fixed point … and you adjust both the phase and amplitude.

I’m loving me some Ptolemaic epicycles 😉

Handy survey and reference in the Talks and Books links at [1].

1. https://farside.ph.utexas.edu/