Alan Bradbury
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Amature entomologist and professional software developer; the order is important.
Oh great. Combining two of my favourite things... April fools and Ring-necked Parakeets.
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Ian Dunt
1 day ago
Suspect Starmer will regret not urging people to limit their car use. Feels a bit 2020: Other countries taking action, Britain complacently assuming it'll muddle along
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Hazel Weakly
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I like this! It seems very similar to what Iโve written about before:
hazelweakly.me/blog/stop-bu...
(Although I really need to edit this blog post to include links to
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โs excellent learning skills that sheโs implemented which show this pattern beautifully)
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Oh god, I just remembered, tomorrow is the c**ntiest day of the year.
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James Emerson
2 days ago
I have updated the
@norfolknats.bsky.social
species guide to Norfolk Psyllids, which is available to download from the NNNS website here:
norfolknaturalists.org.uk/wp/wp-conten...
It now covers 60 species (about 3/5 of the British list) so is hopefully of use even for those outside of Norfolk.
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Sums up my thoughts on using it for much of software development too.
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Conservatives at 18%! I hate people.
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Didn't realise task forces could change MPs. BBC News - Great Yarmouth task force aims to make town centre more welcoming - BBC News
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Great Yarmouth task force aims to make town centre more welcoming
The 10-year programme for the Norfolk resort includes dedicated police officers for the town centre.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c248774j4j3o
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Rob Yaxley
6 days ago
An insect body part, recovered from an 80cm deep peat core in a mid-Norfolk fen. It seems quite a distinctive shape, so somebody may even know what species it is from. Let me know if you do! 1.3mm.
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I've read a couple of articles, but what's everyones methods and tricks for pressing plants as biological specimens?
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I've read a couple of articles, but what's everyones methods and tricks for pressing plants as biological specimens?
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Peter Brash
9 days ago
Baffling. So much effort to spread a non-native species with wind blown seeds. It was only 'iconic' because of its location and the fact that it made for a good photograph. A hysterical response to an act of vandalism.
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This was always the real danager of tuition fees. Once it's a comodity people expect a return on their investment.
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I have had a conversation with a teacher where they have used a similar system for early truanting intervention. Turns out the teacher would have pretty much identified the same kids. The 'system' just gives plausible deniability when something goes wrong. Has no-one watched the Minority Report.
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Claire #FBPE โ๏ธ ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ช๐บ๐ ๐ฆฎ๐ฎ๐ช๐ง๐ช ๐๐
11 days ago
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ Labour will never be forgiven for this. Labour that started with a Keir, will end with a Keir.
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Palantir extends reach into British state as it gets access to sensitive FCA data
Exclusive: Allowing US tech firm to analyse intelligence in name of tackling fraud raises fresh concerns over privacy
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/22/palantir-extends-reach-into-british-state-as-it-gets-access-to-sensitive-fca-data?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Museum or data people: Is there a publically available API for taxonomic information?
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james
12 days ago
Before I was born we knew the answer to "should computer make decisions with real impacts."
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Great, so in 10 years' time, I'm still going to have a job. It's just going to be rewritting AI code, like I spent years rewritting VB code because people could 'experiment'.
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Woke already won. For young people it is normal. This is why the right and, somewhat the center, are desperate for young people to support Reform.
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Norfolk & Norwich Naturalists' Society
13 days ago
A reminder that this event is next week, Tuesday 24th March 2026. It would be great to see many of you there!
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Dorian Lynskey
15 days ago
Academic freedom doesn't mean you HAVE to hire race scientists, especially not one who says "In a meritocracyโฆ Black people would disappear from virtually all high-ranking positions, with the exception of sports and entertainment"
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I am welcome to test this theory if anyone wants to give me enough money to buy anything.
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15 days ago
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John Bull
over 1 year ago
On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter recon for a US attack on My Lai, an alleged Viet Cong-controlled village in Vietnam. But as the attack developed below, Thompson realised he was witnessing something something else: A massacre. He decided to act. 1/28
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Daniel Abraham
about 1 month ago
Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture. Understood instantly what it meant.
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Two questions: Who is going to pay for those vocationally trained services? Why wouldn't I retrain to be an electrician (assuming I'm not part of a rebel army to take down Palantir, sorry Cyberdyne Systems)?
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Isn't it interesting that the government is using a platform (Twitter and possibly Facebook too) that falls foul of their own definition of extremism.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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New definition of extremism (2024)
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-definition-of-extremism-2024/new-definition-of-extremism-2024
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I've tried to resist using sat nav in areas I know for exactly this reason.
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The Labour party watching another chance to reset their government sail by.
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How dare they use Christopher Reeve.
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Software development was never engineering, it was always artisanal.
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Matthew Cobb
about 1 month ago
At the insistence of the publishing companies, the UK govt prevents residents from accessing Sci-Hub, a free site containing academic literature, otherwise paywalled. Now they plan to let AI companies use any music, writing, artโฆ to train their crappy programmes WITHOUT PAYING US A PENNY. Thieves!
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I'm off out to see if I can find a Bee Fly.
about 1 month ago
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Blair's first cabinet: Brown, Prescott, Beckett, Straw, Cook, Blunkett, Short, Mowlam, Harman, Darling, Dobson. Whatever their political pluses or minuses, where is that quality now?
about 1 month ago
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I think what the by-election shows is that political parties don't spend anywhere near enough energy on finding the right candidate.
about 1 month ago
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I would have thought this is one time a back of the envelope calculation would give us a pretty good indication.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Ed Miliband says climate impact of data centres is uncertain
The admission comes after MPs said they were concerned about emissions from a boom in data centres.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2drxgz7x8o
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This was always the problem with tuition fees. Universities are not training centres, they are knowledge centres that provide far more than degrees for students.
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Taylor Lorenz
about 1 month ago
We need to stop using industry-friendly PR terms like โage verificationโ and call it what it is: Digital ID
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Fancy that, academic attainment having a dominant role in school performance.
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Glen O'Hara
about 1 month ago
This is causing despair in academe. (1) We were forced to close during Covid. We had no choice! (2) We're not service providers like a restaurant, we are institutions of state. (3) We did everything we could. (4) This will cripple current students' education.
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The students claiming uni Covid compensation 'for the principle'
Dozens of universities have received legal letters over what students say they missed out on during Covid.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp81j7n2271o
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How about we start asking what Queen Elizabeth II knew?
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A fight for the most anti-system candidate to be in charge of the system... at least sounds oxymorinic.
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It is an irony that tech companies are built on desentralising their systems while they horde power and wealth.
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Jeremy Bassis
about 2 months ago
Techno-optimism around AI reveals the contempt these CEOs and tech bros have for the work most of us do. They think writing, thinking and art can all be automated by AI because *they* canโt do any of those things.
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It will be interesting to see if British people will put up with bullies like the US.
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Richard K Broughton
about 2 months ago
It's first interglacial when Britain is an island, which changes everything biogeographically. There's no 'problem' with different assemblages on islands, it's diversity. Britain wasn't any worse off for not having Brown Hares, nor Uists for not having Hedgehogs, Ireland for not having snakes etc.
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Richard K Broughton
about 2 months ago
iRecord is really important as a repository for UK wildlife/nature records, including casual records, surveys and trapping, and non-native species. This is well worth doing ๐
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The reflex to identify the nature will not make this relaxing.
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about 2 months ago
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Kasey Gifford
about 2 months ago
The kids actually made animals that don't exist. The AI just put a bunch of stuff that already exists together into a polished slop blender. You can't get a better illustration of why AI can't create anything new while human creativity is bottomless.
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Norfolk Moths (Jim Wheeler CMR)
about 2 months ago
Just published... Phyllocnistis triandricola (Almond Willow Maze-miner) New UK at Surlingham, Norfolk 14/08/2025 by Seb Buckton (Gen. Det. P. Hall, R. Voith)
#teammoth
#norfolkmoths
norfolkmoths.co.uk/micros.php?b...
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