Sarah Dal

Seabirder in north east England, working to improve the lot of our coastal birds. Manages a small but extremely important seabird island.

Also:
#birds #birding #nature
#drones #uav
#GIS
#lgbtqi
#Northumberland
#Hiking
#teamgull
#seabirds
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Website: https://sarahdal.github.io
Favourite Duck: Teal
Pronouns: She/her

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2026-04-10 06:28:16 UTC

Birds are being wiped out by disease spread primarily through bird feeders, new RSPB guidance recommends: feed seasonally, feed safely
https://www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happening/news/how-to-help-garden-birds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTAbpEvdaTI

2026-03-11 07:32:45 UTC

"One-third of England's woodlands now estimated to be damaged by deer" UK govt announce new measures to help land managers control deer
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-measures-to-help-woodlands-through-improved-deer-management
Unfortunately does not seem to include reintroducing lynx and wolves, booo

2026-03-03 07:47:59 UTC

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that's a really good question! I had a colleague who had to call an ambulance to a nature reserve and said he had a right nightmare because the handler didn't understand OS. I think he had to look up the postcode himself, or the handler figured it out from placenames.
The 1st aid trainer, who is mountain rescue, said it's doubly annoying because they all use the same mapping system... Licenced from OS!

2026-03-03 07:11:09 UTC

At my Outdoor First Aid training, the trainer spent time showing everyone how to get What3Words app to display 8-figure OS Grid Refs. I really wish the OS app was just slightly better at showing your location.
Everyone on the course loves W3W. The trainer did go through in detail why OS was better than W3W for mountain rescue, which was great, and he expressed frustration that the ambulance service will only accept postcodes and W3W.
Can't wait for #What3Words to go bust 😬

2026-02-26 21:28:16 UTC

HPAI (bird flu) on Gough Island, but how did it get to one of the most isolated and remote islands on earth?
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/22221751.2026.2627076
#ornithology #HPAI

2026-02-24 11:06:14 UTC

My friend needs to re-home her cat sadly, a lovely black and white kitty, she's in Newcastle (England) if anyone in the north east here is looking for a sweet little cat?
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2026-02-23 18:49:17 UTC

Open Access in British Birds: A birder’s guide to High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza
https://britishbirds.co.uk/journal/article/bb-eye-birders-guide-high-pathogenicity-avian-influenza
#HPAI #BirdFlu

2026-01-23 11:47:03 UTC

Ads in ChatGPT, CEOs begging people to use AI, taking a cut of "Customers’ AI-Aided Discoveries"... I feel like it's about to burst sooner rather than later
https://www.theinformation.com/newsletters/applied-ai/openai-plans-take-cut-customers-ai-aided-discoveries

2025-12-23 15:49:01 UTC

Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on beach
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy84ezd4421o

2025-12-12 17:09:53 UTC

The historic alignment of true, magnetic, and grid north is set to leave England, three years after they combined in the country for the first time since records began.
https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/news/three-norths-departing-england

2025-12-06 08:28:31 UTC

CNN partners with gambling app Kalshi to provide on-screen news betting odds so viewers can have a flutter on genocide and disaster
https://truthout.org/articles/cnn-partners-with-a-gambling-app-that-lets-you-wager-on-starvation-in-gaza/
Every day is a new dystopian hell

2025-12-01 14:02:24 UTC

Bovine tuberculosis; badgers finally in the clear
https://www.britishwildlife.com/cattle-tuberculosis-badgers-finally-in-the-clear/
Absolutely damning
"Collectively all the evidence suggests that intensive and supplementary culling of badgers has been a distraction, contributing to a waste of over £1 billion of public funds since 2013."

2025-11-27 08:37:25 UTC

HPAI in sheep after an outbreak in a nearby seabird colony in Norway
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/irv.70182
#hpai

2025-11-25 08:39:11 UTC

Bird flu confirmed in elephant seal population on sub-Antarctic island
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-25/avian-influenza-h5-bird-flu-found-on-heard-island/106050412
#HPAI #BirdFlu

2025-11-15 10:10:37 UTC

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I'm a big fan of the missing lynx project, as someone who regularly enjoys hiking in the region. They do fantastic outreach on this, including taking sceptical farmers out to Europe to talk to farmers who are already living with lynx, which is a brilliant idea. The project page is
https://www.missinglynxproject.org.uk/

2025-09-01 06:12:28 UTC

Wikipedia's list of signs of AI writing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing

2025-08-11 13:20:07 UTC

The UK may be about to lose access to Wikipedia as they've lost their High Court Challenge to OSA.
You can download Wikipedia by installing the @npub1le8…4nlt app https://kiwix.org/en/applications/
Then use https://library.kiwix.org/ to find Wikipedia, or any other interesting book. It will download a file (Wikipedia is 110gb) that you can then open in the Kiwix browser
#OSA #Kiwix #Wikipedia
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25380290.wikipedia-loses-online-safety-act-legal-challenge/#Echobox=1754914303-2

2025-08-04 11:37:29 UTC

Tiso's marketing department sh*tting themselves
https://ecoevo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/970/288/210/819/836/original/c2ad0dd4c08ff93c.png

2025-08-02 08:43:23 UTC

Fab light pollution map
https://lightpollutionmap.app/?lat=55.266598&lng=-2.570801&zoom=6

2025-07-29 16:42:06 UTC

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We need a closed forum and have tried email newsletters, which inevitably get flagged as spam by all the big providers; we really don't want to go back to f*cking facebook either. What other option is there?

2025-07-29 16:17:44 UTC

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This is enraging - we worked really hard to find a platform people would actually use to communicate, and it's been invaluable for sharing info and advice. I'm so so angry about this.

2025-07-29 16:15:41 UTC

oh BRILLIANT - we use mightynetworks.com at work as a forum to connect with beach nesting bird managers across the UK & Ireland. It works great, connecting folk in a very niche job working in many different organisations.
Now guess what! They've blocked UK access thanks to the OSA. Unbelievable. Not even sure we can let our Irish colleagues know what's happened?

2025-07-28 19:18:39 UTC

Saving an image to a bird
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/yes-you-can-store-data-on-a-bird-enthusiast-converts-png-to-bird-shaped-waveform-teaches-young-starling-to-recall-file-at-up-to-2mb-s
They converted an image to a waveform, played it to a young starling who imitated it well enough that it could be recorded and the waveform converted back to an image.
The linked video is full of info about bioacoustic monitoring too

2025-07-15 20:34:45 UTC

If you're looking for a VPN, I really recommend http://mullvad.net
Based in Europe
Cheap - €5/month, no other pricing. I buy a month's worth when I need to
You can pay however you want, bank transfer, credit card, crypto, even post them a crisp €5 note
The simplicity of it makes it my fave. There's no sales or free trials, it's not cheaper if you buy 20 years with upfront. It has been reliable for what I use it for too.

2025-07-11 13:04:12 UTC

Northern half of the Ettrick Horseshoe, 20km along the tops to the Over Phawhope Bothy and then an easy 13km back to the car along the road. One day perhaps I'll be fit enough to do the whole horseshoe
#ScottishBorders #Ettrick #Hiking
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2025-07-06 08:01:57 UTC

I love a good debunking, but this one - bloody hell
The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were spun from lies, deceit and deception
https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/the-real-salt-path-how-the-couple-behind-a-bestseller-left-a-trail-of-debt-and-deceit

2025-07-05 15:32:10 UTC

"WARNING: Showing support for Palestine Action now constitutes a terrorism offence under UK law. Please bear this in mind if commenting on this article on social media."
https://novaramedia.com/2025/07/05/protesters-arrested-for-holding-i-support-palestine-action-signs/

2025-06-24 20:40:58 UTC

Gulls Eating Stuff - citizen science project to record all the different things gulls eat
https://www.aba.org/a-new-citizen-science-project-tracks-gull-diets/
#Gulls #Seabirds

2025-06-09 07:51:34 UTC

the Freedom Flotilla Madleen is a British-flagged ship, which means the UK Government is obliged to protect it.
From Sisters Uncut instagram, the comments suggest that so many folk are phoning they have a separate option specifically to register your concern about this ship
https://www.instagram.com/p/DKqW6kkocKa/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MTQzYXh1NmV4eXM5cQ==
#Israel #Palestine #FreedomFlotilla
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2025-05-26 20:23:37 UTC

There's a boat at the marina called "Bob" that I love, but now I have a new favourite boat name
https://ecoevo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/575/999/332/204/410/original/367a0be538d1f360.jpg

2025-05-11 11:21:05 UTC

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I just picked this up for £25 on ebay, disappointingly the thing on top doesn't rotate slowly while its in use (it's not meant to, tbf) but otherwise works great
https://ecoevo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/488/928/180/363/022/original/02bf9f6025858512.png

2025-05-10 07:34:22 UTC

How one dismal suburban dinner party focussed my mind as to the danger of cis complacency in the fight for trans rights
https://www.carolinelitman.com/post/how-one-dismal-suburban-dinner-party-focussed-my-mind-as-to-the-danger-of-cis-complacency-in-the-fig

2025-05-03 11:11:00 UTC

Ticked off the Lairig Ghru, one of the great Cairngorm mountain passes #Hiking #Scotland #cairngormsnp
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2025-04-29 14:33:32 UTC

Speckled Wood (Pararge aegeria) in the garden
https://butterfly-conservation.org/butterflies/speckled-wood
#butterfly
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2025-04-22 04:48:24 UTC

Man sets off on 53-mile walk dressed as a curlew
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp91knr7ygpo?at_format=image&at_bbc_team=editorial

2025-04-16 06:10:21 UTC

Rock-dropping seagull closes university building
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8kz05n25po
Love this, I'm guessing a younger gull that's seen an adult use this technique to open a shellfish and is, for important gull reasons, now trying it with a stone and the Blavatnik School of Government.

2025-04-01 15:09:20 UTC

Job ad: Assistant Conservation Project Officer (Saving Wildcats, release site) in Kincraig (near Aviemore) with the RZSS
https://www.rzss.org.uk/hr-vacancy-single?Category=Conservation%2520%26%2520Research&Advert=i38LqS_lOPxDpRd4ztOoBg%3D%3D
#ConservationJobs

2025-03-26 16:43:00 UTC

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it's a genuine hidden gem - a small, isolated industrial town completely almost surrounded by nature reserves. The whole Cumbrian Coast is like that, untouched and old-industrial yet stunning coasts, and all with the lakeland fells in the background. Really pleased you visited!

2025-03-19 19:09:13 UTC

"Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated"
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/03/19/etats-unis-un-chercheur-francais-refoule-pour-avoir-exprime-une-opinion-personnelle-sur-la-politique-menee-par-l-administration-trump_6583618_3210.html
from https://bsky.app/profile/paulecohen.bsky.social/post/3lkqrugxuqs2g

2025-03-12 21:57:06 UTC

Analysis: UK emissions fall 3.6% in 2024 as coal use drops to lowest since 1666
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-emissions-fall-3-6-in-2024-as-coal-use-drops-to-lowest-since-1666/

2025-03-04 16:44:53 UTC

What's the easiest way to get started with learning about making and working with 3D imagery from drone data?
For example - I have a 3D mesh and a poitn cloud from OpenDroneMap, how do I get that into something someone could play with in a web browser?
#OpenDroneMap #UAV #Drones

2025-02-28 06:46:30 UTC

Pride Toronto loses corporate funding as Trump’s DEI purge has chilling effect
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/27/pride-toronto-loses-funding-trump-dei-purge
The pinkwashing is being hosed off (we all expected this - of course corporations would never actually have our back).
Expect more of this, yes in the UK, including losing workplace protections - join a union if you can!
#lgbtq+

2025-02-25 20:29:58 UTC

Pagans banned from city celebration after Christian leaders object
https://archive.ph/7dhzV#selection-1445.0-1445.66
Pagans and humanists were prevented from participating in an event celebrating the 850th anniversary of Glasgow after Catholic and Protestant leaders joined forces to silence them, it has emerged.
#Glasgow #Religion

2025-02-02 17:06:15 UTC

Is there a name for these little sheep gates in walls?
#Northumberland #DryStoneWall #DryStaneDyke
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2025-02-01 18:40:19 UTC

Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government
https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-junta-establishes-him-as-head-of-government

2025-01-28 09:13:45 UTC

Going through some old project info and came across this and I 😭
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2025-01-15 08:45:13 UTC

Why some DVLA digital services don't work at night
https://dafyddvaughan.uk/blog/2025/why-some-dvla-digital-services-dont-work-at-night/
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2025-01-07 14:23:39 UTC

Just published: The effect of the 2023 bird flu outbreak on the population biology of Common Guillemots on Skomer Island by Birkead and Hatchwell - Tim Birkhead has been monitoring Skomer Island for decades now, and this is a really interesting read.
https://britishbirds.co.uk/journal/article/effect-2023-bird-flu-outbreak-population-biology-common-guillemots-skomer-island
pdf here - https://community.rspb.org.uk/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/2542/The-effect-of-the-2023-bird-flu-outbreak-on-the-population-biology-of-Common-Guillemots-on-Skomer-Island.pdf
#HPAI #Guillemots #Seabirds #Ornithology

2024-12-20 19:38:08 UTC

If you like slow telly, here's a very beautiful 100 minutes of Lakeland shepherds bringing their flocks down from Scafell
https://youtu.be/cysHwQSWVXk?si=KIfwVncPdScmWdim
#Cumbria #Sheep

2024-12-20 19:23:57 UTC

Keep reporting dead birds in these islands -
In England, Wales & Scotland: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/report-dead-wild-birds
In Northern Ireland: https://www.daera-ni.gov.uk/services/daera-dead-wild-bird-online-reporting-tool
In the Republic of Ireland: https://aviancheck.apps.services.agriculture.gov.ie/report
https://bsky.app/profile/btobirds.bsky.social/post/3ldqpecoyuc2g
#HPAI #BirdFlu #ornithology #birding

2024-12-20 10:45:24 UTC

A really lovely little post about wrens on the Golden Grenades blog
https://goldengrenades.com/the-christmas-wren-by-electra-rhodes/
#wrens #birds

2024-12-18 10:54:53 UTC

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"On each trip they switch between autonomous and manual driving, being controlled by computer across the Forth Road Bridge, and from the M90 and M8 to the A720 in Edinburgh."

2024-12-18 10:53:07 UTC

'World first' driverless bus service to be dropped
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0q0lg3j1exo
It went between Ferrytoll P&R (just over the Forth Bridge) to Edinburgh Park interchange, a tram/train/bus station at an industrial park near the airport, on the Western Edge of the city
If you're going into Edinburgh, or to the airport, or to Glasgow.. you'd just take a bus direct from Ferrytoll, not change at Edinburgh Park.
also it needed two members of staff aboard? defeats the point surely?

2024-12-04 19:49:05 UTC

"Counting breeding shorebirds using listening devices"
Wadertales excellent summary of a paper looking at using passive recording devices (audiomoths) and automatic detection to survey upland waders
https://wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/12/04/counting-breeding-shorebirds-using-listening-devices/
The paper - Acoustic detection rate can outperform traditional survey approaches in estimating relative densities of breeding waders
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ibi.13375
#AudioMoth #Ecology #AcousticMonitoring

2024-12-03 16:27:24 UTC

Now everyone is over on bsky, lots of folk here are concentrating on that site, which is fair enough - but if you are leaving us, could you at least set up a bridge so we can still read what you write?
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/05/bluesky-and-mastodon-users-can-now-talk-to-each-other-with-bridgy-fed/
https://fed.brid.gy/

2024-11-27 16:37:21 UTC

Wearing A Salmon On Your Head Is Back In Fashion For Orcas, After A 37-Year Break
https://www.iflscience.com/wearing-a-salmon-on-your-head-is-back-in-fashion-for-orcas-after-a-37-year-break-76971

2024-11-23 21:39:22 UTC

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The paper I wrote is here, it contains the mind-blowing discovery that if you build a fence, it acts like a fence
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/374828870_Predator_exclusion_fencing_improves_productivity_at_a_mixed_colony_of_Herring_Gulls_Larus_argentatus_Lesser_Black-backed_Gulls_L_fuscus_and_Great_Black-backed_Gulls_L_marinus
It is useful to have a paper that states the obvious, and also one that talks about the positive management of gulls (rather than just "how can we get rid of them")

2024-11-23 18:50:04 UTC

my first citation 🥳
https://www.bto.org/our-science/publications/research-reports/seabird-population-trends-and-causes-change-1986-2023
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2024-11-23 17:21:13 UTC

The Lost Medieval Library Found in a Romanian Church
https://www.medievalists.net/2024/11/lost-medieval-library-found-romanian-church/

2024-11-23 12:26:21 UTC

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also - are there other windows apps that let you switch between accounts easier? I use an android client that makes it super easy, but not bothered yet to look for a desktop one. eg https://whalebird.social/ and https://fedistar.net/

2024-11-23 12:22:56 UTC

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but I very much agree that MS is being throttled by the whims of a single individual - that's a great way of putting how I've been feeling.

2024-11-23 12:21:39 UTC

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can you only have one social media account? This constant BS vs MS is frustrating; my employer has twitter, facebook, instagram, tiktok, pinterest and a twitch account but cannot fathom having both MS and BS. it makes no sense. MS is clearly different to BS and so you are probably going to get a different audience. It needs not be one or the other. I run accounts on both because I get very different things from them

2024-11-15 10:05:30 UTC

Awesome artwork from Māori artist Huriana Kopeke-Te Aho
https://www.instagram.com/p/DCX_ZTSSMhu/?igsh=MTFkZzJxaDR3ZGF2dA==
https://www.moanafresh.com/artists/huriana-kopeke-te-aho
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2024-11-14 16:45:27 UTC

Strawberry Hill saved - a farm where the farmer simply stopped farming 37 years ago, letting it go fallow with the ultimate rewilding. Lovely stuff
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjdlrr2zm55o

2024-11-14 08:20:56 UTC

Bird flu reaches Marion Island, where half of the world's wandering albatross breed
https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2024-11-12-highly-contagious-avian-influenza-reaches-remote-marion-island/
#hpai #seabirds

2024-11-07 12:41:10 UTC

Austrian Airlines Abandon’s Elon Musk’s X Platform Due to “Increasing Spread of Hate, Agitation and Disinformation”
https://www.paddleyourownkanoo.com/2024/10/31/austrian-airlines-abandons-elon-musks-x-platform-due-to-increasing-spread-of-hate-agitation-and-disinformation/
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2024-10-25 10:27:36 UTC

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Spent an hour tagging a few hundred more images of seals to the dataset and got a much better result! Thanks all who commented with ideas!
#QGIS #Deepness #YOLO
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2024-10-24 08:57:23 UTC

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Frustratingly, it didn't do a great job with my imagery; I may have to sit for a few more hours tagging images and adding to the dataset, or the issue might be with the model?
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2024-10-24 08:56:00 UTC

In a very boring afternoon, I counted by hand about 1,900 seals in some drone imagery. With a possibility of flying a colony that might have 30,000 seals, I thought I should probably look into automatic counting with #QGIS and #Deepness plugin..
WAID is a dataset containing images of Sheep, Cattle, Seal, Camelus, Zebra, or Kiang. It's huge (14,375 images) and I just needed Seals, so I wrote a quick python script to remove images that had no seals from the dataset.
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/18/10397

2024-10-24 06:26:21 UTC

Legislation to ban the sale of single-use vapes from 1 June next year
Devolved issue, but the ban will be aligned across the nations. Great to see!
https://news.sky.com/story/sale-and-supply-of-single-use-vapes-to-be-banned-13240059

2024-10-23 12:34:00 UTC

Exclusive: Secret filming reveals the killing of rare Hen Harriers on grouse moors
Channel 4 report on RSPB Birdcrime report, shocking and completely unexpected tbh to anyone who know anything about how our countryside works
https://www.channel4.com/news/exclusive-secret-filming-reveals-the-killing-of-rare-hen-harriers-on-grouse-moors

2024-10-11 07:32:16 UTC

Local burding WhatsApp group showing off their aurora pics
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2024-10-07 11:33:07 UTC

BP, recipient of a recent £22bn from the UK government, "abandons goal to cut oil output, resets strategy ... vowing instead to focus on returns and investing in the most profitable businesses, first and foremost in oil and gas."
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/bp-drops-oil-output-target-strategy-reset-sources-say-2024-10-07/

2024-10-06 17:33:21 UTC

Microsoft Releases Subscription-Free Office 2024 for Mac, Windows
$149.99 one-off fee and it _doesn't come with AI Copilot!_
https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-releases-subscription-free-office-2024-for-mac-windows

2024-10-02 08:51:26 UTC

Werner's Nomenclature of Colours
A guidebook with swatches to help when describing the colours of things before colour photography - as used by Darwin on his expeditions
https://www.c82.net/werner/

2024-09-30 20:25:51 UTC

Cumbria Wildlife Trust are now looking for a manager for Skiddaw Forest
https://www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/jobs/skiddaw-forest-project-manager
#EcoJobs #ConservationJobs

2024-09-24 08:42:50 UTC

Isle of Scilly Wildlife Trust campaign to raise funds for conservation grazing - the Scilly Billy appeal
https://www.ios-wildlifetrust.org.uk/scilly-billy-appeal

2024-09-24 08:37:28 UTC

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more excitingly is that my commercial boat licence came through, so I got to drive the boat back to harbour! Only a 7m RIB but still exciting!

2024-09-24 08:29:21 UTC

Popped over to the island to help lift a new generator on shore, in the 20 minutes waiting for the boat to bring it, spied 4 Yellow-browed warblers, red-breasted pipit, lesser white-throat, and a siskin as well as the wintering flock of linnet...
later I accidentally put the linnet on ebird as "twite", submitted, realised what I'd done, and corrected it, but as usual it had already been picked up on the bird alert services, oops

2024-09-24 08:27:14 UTC

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unbelievably how badly the ferry stuff has been allowed to get, really shocking

2024-09-17 06:57:04 UTC

First losing the tree no-one cared about until 1991, now this... have the people of Northumberland not suffered enough
Kathryn Tickell composes musical lament for the felled Sycamore
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8xelrz1yxpo?at_format=link&at_bbc_team=editorial
Only joking of course, I'm sure it will be a beautiful piece of music and her last album with The Darkening, Cloud Horizons, was really good - one of my favourites from the past year https://kathryntickell.bandcamp.com/album/cloud-horizons

2024-09-10 10:44:48 UTC

Every time I think of a simple time saving use for ChatGPT, it just gets it wrong. CA is Comorant, and TE is Sandwich Tern. Wonder how many litres of water this took
https://www.bto.org/sites/default/files/u16/downloads/forms_instructions/bto_bird_species_codes.pdf
https://cdn.masto.host/ecoevosocial/media_attachments/files/113/112/842/498/175/374/original/098f15c421bf0d18.png

2024-09-02 19:47:31 UTC

Birds of Conservation Concern 5 - the UK "Red List" - seabird update has been published today. Predictably: depressing news
https://www.channel4.com/news/exclusive-threat-of-losing-certain-bird-species-altogether-new-data-shows
#seabirds #BoCC5 #RedList

2024-08-12 19:39:49 UTC

How To Get Your Organisation Off Twitter/X
https://www.ned-potter.com/blog/how-to-get-your-organisation-off-twitter-x