Hannah O’Regan

Intriguing. Has one ever been seen in the wild? From 1968.

So my memoir about my year-long bonding with an injured ferret curing me of all my worries about higher education & confirming that ferrets do little dances to Bach cantatas didn’t make it?
My Agent’s worry that my last chapter difficult decision to donate Frank the Ferret to Aalberg Zoo vindicated?

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This is giving me strong 'introduction of A* at A-level' vibes.

this is widely thought to be because on the current trajectory no one believes there will be any people, culture, or environments to measure in 2029

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Women aged 40ish-60ish! I’m co-writing a funny, helpful midlife crisis book and I want to talk to you

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Inane "we need to train OUR young, not rely on migrants" Newsnight chat.

Median age was 37 in 2000, 41 today, will be 45 by 2050. Birthrate is 1.4 (minimum, just to tread water is 2.1). Immigration is a function of demography. Haldane knows this. We're not running out of skills, but out of people.

RFI: does anyone out there use one of those large angle-poised magnifying glasses for sorting through pitfall trap samples? Was thinking of getting one, and as ever there's a vast range available, so wondered if anyone had recommendations. What magnification do you use? Thanks.

Still from the 1941 film "Love on the Dole", with the unfortunate subtitle "She's a strange lassie's arsehole".

Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole".

(It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)

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Golden girl! Serotine bats usually have dark fur, but just occasionally, I find one like this beauty from last night's survey. 😍 🦇 #bats #wildlife #nature

popular anti-fascism as taxpayer revolt...might have some legs

That’s a lot of expensive hours wasted on stuff that has a 5% success rate, and stuff that doesn’t need millions to begin with.

Just put universities on stable funding, and stop the madness of pretending we’re only valuable in capturing thousands of students, I beg of you.

If government wants to hear about “efficiency”: as all of us have to buy out time to do any research, since unis overload other work & often don’t even notionally cover research, we’re ALL made to apply to those things. So we’re all spending weeks writing apps rather than doing actual research.

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11pm in the archipelago. All still apart from the waterbirds’ wail. To the east, the glow of Flotta Oil Terminal and the blinking buoys guiding tankers in. In front, the steady beam of Hoy High lighthouse, the little flicker of Skerry of Ness beacon, a lonely farm on Graemsay, the flash of Hoy Low.

Date Middle Kingdom, Ancient Egyptian Collection World Culture Hollow blue faience spherical bead in the form of a curled-up hedgehog with moulded features and black quills: Ancient Egyptian, probably Middle Kingdom, c.1985 - 1650 BC

Academics in August (blue faience spherical bead in the form of a curled-up hedgehog 🦔) Egyptian, c.1985 - 1650 BCE. www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-c...

Flame Shield, Pluteus aurantiorugosus

Flame Shield, Pluteus aurantiorugosus

Flame Shield, Pluteus aurantiorugosus

Flame Shield, Pluteus aurantiorugosus.

Seen for the third year running at NWT Sweetbriar Marshes on yesterday's Norfolk & Norwich Naturalists' Society field meeting.

#Fungi #FungiFriends

A photo of one of the Carrowkeel passage tombs. Grey stones piled over bright green grass and a doorway like a portal into the mound.

A photo of one of the Carrowkeel passage tombs. Grey stones forming a mound surrounded by green grass and purple heather.

A photo of one of the Carrowkeel passage tombs. A grey stony doorway forms the portal into the mound.

A photo of one of the Carrowkeel passage tombs in the distance and surrounded by green grass and purple heather. Two people walk around the mound and a dog lies in the heather in the foreground.

Carrowkeel in Co Sligo, Ireland, is one of the most extraordinary Neolithic sites I’ve visited. The passage tombs are set in the Bricklieve Mountains (Speckled Mountain) and overlook Lough Arrow. The views, the sky, the purpling heather - magical! 🏺
#StandingStoneSunday

Not a headline I expected to read!

Cleveland Museum photo showing an ancient Egyptian paint box carved from boxwood with five oval wells containing original paint pigments. From top to bottom the preserved cake pigments are red (red ochre), blue (Egyptian blue), green (a mixture of Egyptian blue, yellow ochre, and orpiment) and two of black (carbon black, from charcoal). Dimensions 2.2 cm x 21 cm x 3.6 cm. On the front of the box there’s an inscription inlaid in Egyptian blue with the name Amenemope who was Vizier during the reign of Amenhotep II, Dynasty 18. It translates as ‘The overseer of the city and vizier Amenemope. Master of secrets of the west bank [of Thebes]’. A red inscription on the back reads ‘Amen-Ra, Lord of the Thrones of the Two Lands’. Dated c. 1427-1401 BC.

Wow, this 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian paint box still contains original pigments!

Looks similar to a modern-day set!

An inscription tells us it belonged to Amenemope, Vizier during the reign of Amenhotep II.

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#Archaeology

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I mean, of course it has. There's no more money.

1 in 3 doctors were born overseas.

1 in 2 builders were born overseas.

1 in 6 nurses were born overseas.

1 in 4 transport workers were born overseas.

1 in 7 UK business founders were born overseas.

1 in 5 university academics were born overseas.

The UK would be screwed without them.

You’ll all have seen the many announcements and PR pieces from #ColossalBiosciences. There are reasons to be concerned about the general message promoted by CB, one being that it is seen >by some< (US politicians in particular) as meaning that we can devalue conservation. A 🧵 1/n

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It inevitably includes a big pitch about how Kids Today(TM) want zappy videos, bright colours and bold fortnite/influencer-adjacent style from a university.

None of it is true if you actually do ANY kind of first hand research into what prospects make subconscious snap judgements on in design terms

I remember, once, reading through the bulky 'design concept' document the external agency the new head of marketing had hired for a rebrand.

At multiple points they'd forgotten to Find/Replace 'Middlesex' for 'Greenwich'.

None of the senior marketing bods spotted this. They only looked at the pics

Their chemistry was unreal