Dr Ben 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Dr Ben 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@burfordben.bsky.social

Air pollution, airborne microplastics, airborne DNA, environmental forensics, running and mountains. Cymro o Gwmtawe

113 Followers 56 Following 196 Posts Joined Nov 2024
6 hours ago

Apart from the ones we’ve won, and despite us ending up at the bottom of the pile (again), this is one of my favourite Six Nations for a very long time #FRAvENG

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9 hours ago

Unbelievable turnaround in performances over the last month and a half. Suddenly a joy to watch 😍 #WALvITA

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5 days ago
Key Findings Data Centres Metered Electricity Consumption 2023 - Central Statistics Office

In an ideal world, yes, but we’ve just started throwing up a load of data centres which are incredibly energy intensive. In less than ten years, it went from 5 to 21% of metered energy use in Ireland: www.cso.ie/en/releasesa...

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1 week ago

Rhys Carre 😂 Arbennig 👏👏 #IREvWAL

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3 weeks ago

Was in a black hole after last week’s performance and didn’t see a way out, but this is better. #WALvSCO

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3 weeks ago

Being outplayed and battered by France was always on the cards, but what’s more telling about the state of Welsh rugby is that we’re being out-sung by the French in Cardiff 😭 Clear the suits out, sack off the regions and let’s enjoy some club rugby again. #WALvFRA

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3 weeks ago

🥳 At least it’s not going to be South Africa bad! #silverlinings #WALvFRA

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1 month ago
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Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

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1 month ago

Expected a pasting here but the performance is an absolute shambles. Going to take years and years to recover from this level. Feel like regional rugby combined with Gatland’s law has locked out much of the quality that might have emerged naturally over the years. More pastings ahead #ENGvWAL

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1 month ago

The worst thing about this performance so far is that England haven’t had to do anything, other than field a team. We’re so poor on the basics and with discipline that I can’t see a team inside the top 20 losing to us today.

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1 month ago

If 👏 we 👏 give 👏 stupid 👏 penalties 👏 away 👏 constantly 👏this 👏 will 👏 be 👏 70+ 👏 #ENGvWAL

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1 month ago
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Chaos #LastFourWatched

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1 month ago
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Very sorry Blazing Saddles enjoyers, it is not for me 🤧 #LastFourWatched

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1 month ago
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Bit of a mix this week. Didn’t massively enjoy The Hobbit. though it was good and time flew watching it. Seem to remember Police Academy being better too. #LastFourWatched

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1 month ago

Think the issue is the first minute or two after opening the link when all these different ads are trying to load at the same time. I’ve had the link open for a bit and gone back to it and I haven’t been thrown around at all and it’s much more stable. I enjoy the articles. Thanks for writing them!

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1 month ago

The Ads constantly popping up, crashing, slow loading, cutting across text, throwing the pages around make reading that impossible 😭

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2 months ago

Macclesfield are in the division below where Wrexham were when they were bought.

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2 months ago
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2 months ago
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Falling down is a really solid film. Very enjoyable. Companion, my last watch of 2025 is good but some huuuge plot holes broke it for me, sadly #wheredidTeddygo. First watch of 2026 was silly, but helped me do a bit of work whilst watching 😅 #LastFourWatched

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2 months ago

Nadolig Llawen ❤️

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2 months ago

As the year comes to a close, my only wish for 2026 is that flat pack furniture instruction makers face some sort of inquisition, with the punishment being that they have to assemble their own product following their own instructions.

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2 months ago

10th section of the #WalesCoastPath done today, between Port Talbot and Swansea. A proper tarmac slog apart from an interesting flooded canal-side stroll between Jersey Marine and Port Tenant. Just over 1/8th of the entire coastal path completed in 2025 (Chepstow to Swansea). Here’s to more in 2026!

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2 months ago

Bring back the yellow and blue Packard Bell top 😍

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2 months ago
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Lots of good stuff this week, but marching powder wasn’t great at all. I think I was being generous with two stars… #LastFourWatched

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3 months ago
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It’s not THAT bad… 😕👸 #LastFourWatched

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3 months ago

Nothing, I’d imagine, unfortunately. The threat of a nuclear war will scare everyone away from acting again. I can see the judgement now “what’s worse, one country disappearing off the map, or many”. Nothing will stop it happening again unless this experience has been too costly for them.

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4 months ago
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New paper out! 🎉
Our team published “A Quality-Assured Global Database and Multidimensional Analysis of #Microplastic #Toxicity Studies” in STOTEN.
We evaluated 286 microplastic ecotoxicity studies using quality criteria developed to support #California’s regulatory needs under SB 1263.

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4 months ago
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The second half of Love from a Stranger is fantastic, found High Noon a bit overrated, Mechanic Resurrection isn’t great and the ‘new’ Robocop film is great. #LastFourWatched

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4 months ago

Yeah, same. Last few games made me think that.

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4 months ago

Hindsight wasn’t scoring the goals though, it was the striker everyone thought couldn’t perform. Unfortunately we have strikers living up to everyone’s expectations and not scoring freely (as expected)

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