David Higgins

& as you arrive a greylag sentry calls intruder - & the pair take wing, leaving a small armada of canadas to close formation (little grebe dives into another dimension) - the big hill surfaces, blowing cloud, light seeps as the sun falls

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"The Arithmetic Of Climate Failure". my response to a series of questions posed by Alma Asfalto & published last week.

A link to the publication (with abridged answers) and including my full answers is at: climateuncensored.com/the-arithmet...

"The trade was not that you were getting exposed to geopolitics when moving to Dubai."

"The power loom, as we know, is inevitable, preordained by God, who works His miracles through the hands of rich and wise inventors. It’s foolish to resist it." 💀 #DHMakes

Ironing funeral clothes. If you're able to support my @mariecurieuk.bsky.social fundraiser, today would be a good day for it. Thanks again to everyone who's given so far. www.justgiving.com/page/richard...

when i say 'any career-stage', i do mean ANY! the blog is a friendly and casual way to share your knowledge and ideas (and add a line to your CV!)... i wrote my first BARS blog post like halfway through my undergrad :)

same goes for the tiktok!! we are alwayyyys looking for tiktok contributors!

"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.

shadowy creeks of saltmarsh from where a little egret startles takes wing until starsmall curlew paces & stares * down to estuary forgotten post swings shadow to turn of tide & fading human footprints overlaid by avian waxing moon firms faint imprint on afternoon

Good point!

Ageing is a strange and disturbing process e.g. why am I craving Bendicks mint chocolates?

My hot academic take today is that it’s deeply wrong (but deeply typical) to expect a colleague to staff an open day when they are near the end of a fixed term contract and unlikely to be in post the following year. (The example I’m thinking of is not from my own institution.)

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Hi folks. I am going freelance again.
I don’t share my work on here, apart from books (which are not my proper job) so here’s more info about what I do:
www.alexmorss.co.uk/about.html

Looking across a grey road to a rockery and long green hedge. Various trees behind — a fir most prominent. Cloudy sky.

Goldcrest singing from neighbour’s garden today. Always happy to hear them (and relieved that I still can). 😃

I have a ‘no Gen AI used’ statement for talks and lectures but hadn’t thought of it for email. Nice idea — I may follow suit.

‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies

when people talk about AI used in moderation of social media posts, you must remember there is always the human-in-the-loop, often a woman, often in the Global South, always dehumanised and forgotten

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www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Just when you think you've seen the most brain-dead hysterical media reporting on nonsensical anti-renewables "fears" whipped up on deranged Facebook groups, along comes the epic nonsense below:

YouTube video by Domino Recording Co. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See A Darkness (Official Video)

Amazing song that has indeed haunted me for years. I like this strangely jaunty re-recording too:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=4iV4...

Einstein - AI Homework Agent Einstein logs into Canvas and does your homework automatically. He has his own computer — he can watch lectures, read essays, write papers, and participate in discussions.

Is this bad

out of necessity, not desire, i assure you -- if it was up to me, I would have spent the morning asleep, or birdwatching, or playing videogames

Shockingly, the strategy doesn’t include funding my project ‘why Gen AI sucks’.

Nuclear Regulatory Review: don’t turn nature crisis into catastrophe | The Wildlife Trusts Recommendations from a new report called the Nuclear Regulatory Review would take away the protections that make legally protected landscapes safe havens for wildlife, nature and people. We want to st...

UK Government is thinking about making it even easier and cheaper for developers to destroy our last few natural spaces. This isn't policy yet - there's still time to stop this from happening.
www.wildlifetrusts.org/get-involved...

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Bearing coffee I hope.
Or vodka.

7.15 Monday morning and I’ve already marked two essays and engaged in protracted negotiations with a child who Does Not Want To Go To School. Please send coffee.

Hope you can pre-order this wherever you buy your books. Pre-ordering really helps publishers of poetry in particular.

Thank you @publisherswkly.bsky.social !

It was — and particularly after the last few weeks of gloom.

Straw-coloured common reeds with a bit of water. Distant dark tree line on horizon. Blue sky with a few little fluffy clouds.

First trip of the year to my local wetland RSPB St Aidan’s. Decent weather and signs of spring with raucous BH gulls, singing skylarks and reed buntings, and bittern throat-clearing. 56 species: 10 new for me this year, including little owl and redpoll.