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PhD, science. Officially retired! Biology, mostly ants 🐜 🐜 🐜, some botany, drone/UAV & GIS, coding, beer. He/Him/His... will also respond to “Oi you”
United Kingdom
Joined September 2011
Went to see @BillBailey yesterday in #Thoughtifier. One of the few people to have reduced me to actual tears of laughter on TV (Black Books - spoons+piano) delivered such a joyful medley of comedy and music on stage. 👍to the other musicians as well! Sohhhhhhhhhh good
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Hyperspectral Imager paper out! High sensitivity UV to nearIR, radiance & reflectance, runs from a smartphone. Build the system for about $450 from 3D printed parts & off-the-shelf components. Paper: https://t.co/d3bg0sgZwS Intro video:
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A collection of plants in the broomrape family I have painted in oils. These plants are parasitic and lack green leaves, so their colours really pop out on canvas.
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A day after returning from the Canary Islands and look what arrived! The advance copy of my field guide to the wild flowers of the Canary Islands, published by Kew. Six years in the making, I'm especially excited about this field guide because I had the pleasure of coauthoring
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Checking the teeth and mouths of #TasmanianDevils allows us to work out their age and look for signs of disease. #fieldwork #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz #TasmanianDevil
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Today, ecologist Matías Hernandez Gonzalez and I surveyed populations of this extraordinary plant, Cistanche phelypaea, which is just announcing itself after the first winter rain.
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All I want for Christmas is a #wombat sat on a grass tussock having a scratch. #WombatWednesday #fieldwork #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz #wombats
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Not many animals are echidna-shaped. #fieldwork #Tasmania #echidna #MammalWatching #WildOz #echidnas #mammals
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A watercolour illustration I've just completed featuring the Canary Island endemic succulent, Euphorbia handiensis:
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One of the most magnificent plants I ever saw was Nepenthes rajah, the world's largest pitcher plant, in Borneo. Its pitchers, which are the size of buckets, attract tree shrews; the animals lick nectar from the lid, and leave behind their droppings, nourishing the plant.
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Cover of the US edition of my forthcoming book 'Fossils' to be published by Chicago University Press in March next year.
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WOW! 🤯 There are beetles… then there are BEETLES!!!! 🪲 Here at Manu Biostation this is one of the KINGS of the rainforest! 👑🌳 With its super long legs it uses to battle on trees, the male Harlequin Beetle may look intimidating… but is fairly friendly!! 😊 I LOVE BUGS!!!!!😍
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Can I remind the NHS staff among you that there’s a workforce consultation in process with imminent deadline of Dec 2 I think. It’s your chance to have a say, especially if you have thoughts about workforce wellbeing etc.
gov.uk
Sets out the government’s 10 Year Health Plan for England.
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They look like kit beetles painted by a kid with a metallic paint fetish! Superb tiger beetles!🪲
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Venom—predatory, defensive or both? Adaptive trade-offs drive Amazonian ant venom evolution: https://t.co/Mh0cRgv7QO
@AnocheTox @StingScience @VizuetaJoel @CorrieMoreau @NTysklind97310
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Platypus poop! Platypuses can eat more than 400 worms a day (as well as a bunch of crayfish and insect larvae), so it's no surprise their poop is really greasy. #platypus #Tasmania #MammalWatching #platypuses #WildOz
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