Chris Foster

Ah, happy memory of a formative and necessary experience as a politician at any level - being slightly misquoted out of context by the press 😆

I'm delighted to announce that I am....not the new Archbishop of Canterbury, despite 'rich hat priest follows mitre' being an anagram of my full name.

Sedges have edges / rushes are round / grasses have nodes right down to the ground

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A busy October for #livemusic at ACE Space, Newbury

Fri 3 Oct - Unplugged Open Mic
Sat 4 Oct - Annie Keating Band
Sat 18 Oct - Mark Harrison Band

acespace.org.uk/events/

Beautiful map and much-loved old birding haunts. And speaking of ancestors the only one I know of with any money owned a shipyard in Lymington at the time this map was drawn. Now Berthon www.berthon.co.uk/about-bertho.... His sons were variously alcoholic or insane and certainly no money remains 😆

Great Green Bush Cricket from a park in Potsdam earlier this month. Strikingly yellow legs on this individual

I'm sure we're not the first or last to do so, but some friends and I set this poem to music - must finish the recording sometime!

Welcome! ☔

So glad it finally made it out of the planning maze! We went on one of the tours back in August, exciting to see the potential.

Exciting news that the Kennet Valley Wetland Reserve has finally been given the go-ahead. The ancient, but innovative, rural town of #Hungerford & its unique Town & Manor (that upholds commoners rights, keeps commons & open spaces for all) will be creating a new wildlife & community reserve 1/2

Yes, I always enjoyed this as a book title!

Absolutely!

I enjoy what family history I know precisely because of the lack of fame and interesting selection of 'real' jobs that crop up! Bargemen, iron puddlers, cobblers, brickies, etc. I suppose I admit to feeling a sense of inherited nobility from those true nobles which I'm probably squandering ;-)

Saw a couple this summer but that was in the Cairngorms, so I was cheating!

Redpoll numbers are pretty shocking, was not on my radar. But anecdotally it occurs to me I very seldom see them now.

And rather than fight back Labour keep reverting to 'his ideas don't add up', essentially ceding the argument as though if a plausible way to do this were open to the Labour government they'd go right ahead. Not to much appeasing Farage as inviting him to take over.

But we did get there in the end and Lubeck is very lovely (with an unexpectedly diverting local natural history museum)

Turns out, German trains are indeed actually worse than ours which is pretty impressive. At least we usually get announcements on the train.

Nice! Here's one of a similar vintage in Berlin this evening. Nice Dunkel in an unfortunately very smoky bar with superb live jazz. Will be in Brussels one night on the way home on Sunday so interested in any tips for a watering hole near midi station!

What's the earliest we should be worried about a general election happening, and what slightly more sensible (if any are left by then) other countries might take in political refugees?

Kevin and the rest of us are looking forward to welcoming you!

The drivers are ordered by geographical coverage for which they are the key cause of increased predicted probability of presence (A) and decreased predicted probability of presence (B). The percentage values in the legend indicate the proportion of the map covered by each of the colours. For example, B shows that increases (↑) in the proportion of urban cover and decreases (↓) in the proportion of broadleaf forest are the first causes of degradation in 17% and 5% of the map respectively.

I really like this paper, which models patterns and drivers of occupancy change across GB for 1252 insect species. Especially like Fig 5 which shows the most important negative and positive drivers for each grid square #conservationscience 🌍
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Glad you like it! Was pleased to have played a small role in the paper on the @carabidaeuk.bsky.social side.

Looking forward to seeing everyone at Ento25 this coming week @royentsoc.bsky.social. This memory popped up today, entomophagy at Ento15 in Dublin! As I recall the ants were quite piquant.

Given the vote share achieved by their modern heirs in many countries Europe shows every sign of having forgotten Naziism, alas.

Wow! Compare to a mere 8mm in Reading, which prior to last night was on just 4.9mm for August, 9% of the average.

Assuming you are happy with non picnic data and that this counts as 'ham', despite being jam coloured... 😄

Imagine how miserable you'd have to be to spend your day getting angry about improving road safety, or finding it funny (and it goes without saying, never read comments on Facebook!)

Ento25 - Royal Entomological Society Join entomologists from around the world to present your work, meet new contacts, and build on your career. We are delighted to be holding Ento25 at the University of Strathclyde in the city centre…

📢 Deadline extended!

We're offering an extra week to join the entomological community at #Ento25 in #Glasgow.

Make the most of your trip and explore this vibrant city around the conference & discover the #ScottishHighlands.

Deadline: 25 Aug 🔽

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