The kids are OK! I've just talked for 40min on marine engineering to 70 odd 12-13 year olds. Heaps of great questions, from climate change, through renewable energy, RRS David Attenborough and Alvin the sub to how fishing boats are paid for and where the Pitcairn islands are.

From pub poets to pine martens, via Jan Morris and Owain Glyndŵr: a joyous piece by Jon Gower on Machynlleth. What a town it is! So proud to be part of it. nation.cymru/feature/maki...

#Glasgow or nearby followers only: I am clearing out my old maths, physics and engineering text books. FREE to anyone who can use them - a student perhaps. Collect in person from Cathcart or the city centre. Ideally all to go to the one recipient.

A winter wonderland of snow. Mostly looking north across the Dyfi valley to the Tarren ridge and Cader Idris hiding under a hat full of snow.

Looking south towards Pumlumon as the snow cleared away. Nice to get out for a wander!

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Beech tree on today's walk - exploring a woodland for my lifelong learning course - Plants in their habitats.

With apologies to those looking for maritime shenanigans, but for the next week it's all about the bears of Katmai NP. The Fat Bear Week bracket is out, and it's brutal. 3 big names didn't even make the cut! Voting opens 1700 UTC Tuesday 23rd explore.org/fat-bear-wee...

A powerful piece by @mountainogre.bsky.social on #microbes and #Arctic change, featuring our work on glacier ecology @aberdlsagb.bsky.social and work on methane cyclers by colleagues at UNIS www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Walk out the back went a bit further than I planned! A particularly nice part of the world on days like today.

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Glad I've got this guy as my MP. A daft amendment that just kicks the problem down the road and causes way more problems than it fixes. Thanks Steve!

Less than £100 from doubling the target!

Really looking forward to getting this - there's been a few of Jon's photos that have transported me back 40 years, as a kid moving to Ponty, then realising how much has changed down there as well.

Two launches for the price of one, the new NE fisheries protection vessel being craned in today and the Ted of Ladram fishing boat for Brixham on Saturday at Parkol Eng in Whitby.

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

XKCD on the case as usual - anyone got any pizza they want scanned?

It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.

Teams meeting cancelled, so went for a wander round the Banau Brycheiniog. Love the wire fence balls dotted around the place, keep expecting some giant cat paw to appear and push them off the hillside!

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Another day in Poole, another passenger boat scan.

Laser scanning on the Thames. Amazing how these little backwaters have almost their own ecosystem,800 ft below the jets coming in to Heathrow.