Bea Dawkins

The front cover of a scientific journal titled Ornithologist, dated 1 April 2025. The main headline reads: “BIRDS: DECODED - Groundbreaking New Science.” Below that, a subheading says: “What are the UK’s birds really saying? Pioneering new research provides the answers.”

WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language.

The results tell us a lot!

Extracts below... 🧵

“Goblins are an integral part of who you are” - my colleague to me. No, I will not be providing further context.

If moss is nature’s carpet, grass is nature’s lawn

Very yolky sunrise this morning

Sunrise walk this morning. True luxury and indulgence

I ate my lunch outside and had to come inside because my forehead was burning. Apparently it’s only 9 degrees???

Knoppers! My one true weakness!

Photo - Left to right: Professor Sir Michael Marmot, Director of University College London's Institute of Health Equity (IHE), Professor Shantini Paranjothy, consultant in Public Health, NHS Grampian, Paul Johnston, Chief Executive of Public Health Scotland; Councillor Christian Allard, Co-Leader of Aberdeen City Council.

Today saw the launch event of a bold new initiative that aims to tackle health inequalities and improve wellbeing in #Aberdeen.

Read more: www.nhsgrampian.org/news/2025/february/bold-new-collaboration-to-tackle-health-inequalities-launches-in-three-local-areas-in-scotland

@aberdeencc.bsky.social

Who is John Innes and why is he in my compost????

If the Devil is so bad how come Devilled Eggs are so good?

Turmoil inside USAID: DOGE reps take over offices, senior officials placed on leave Amid ongoing turmoil inside the U.S. Agency for International Development, sources say that Department of Government Efficiency staffers have moved to take over offices.

BREAKING NEWS: Elon Musk’s DOGE seized control of a software system called Phoenix, a program for USAID's financial management system used to track and manage the agency’s budgeting, accounting and financial transactions

Bruncle?

I don't mean to brag, but...

Massive rally in Berlin against against far-right fascism. 🙌🙏💪👏👊👇

How has is become such a normal thing for people to watch/listen to stuff without headphones on public transport 😣

Preach!

I knew it was too good to be true! Bus home from work was on time for the first time in literally months! But it looks like there's been some kind of incident and traffic is barely even crawling 😣

Ah yes! The law of two cats 🙏

I've been mildly ill for so long now and my inner capricorn is crying at the lack of productivity and wasted time. JUST LET ME HUSTLE MYSELF TO AN EARLY GRAVE

Are you paying ATTENTION, yet? 👇

Well, are you?!

Possibly the only thing I love more than chickens is having rights

#BigGardenBirdwatch 17 chaffinches and a crow 😎

Spiderman is my worst fear. A spider AND a man??? Terrifying.

That’s a great idea! 😂

Tempted to crochet a temperature blanket. But instead of the temperature, it’ll be based on how long I spent trying to get home that day 😩

*sweats in carbon dioxide* 👀💦

My bus commute to work is usually an hour and a half each way. The previous record for amount of time taken to get home was 3hrs. Today, that record is getting broken in a major way 😴

But for Eowyn it doesn’t much matter because we’re fucked anyway

Screenshot of the Impact Matrix on the Met Office website. It shows the rating for Grampian being quite likely and quite high impact which therefore gives it an amber rating.

Fun fact before #stormeowyn at the bottom of the weather warning page on the Met Office website, there’s an impact matrix for that specific warning. A storm with low likelihood and high impact will feel very different to one with high likelihood and low impact yet both may get the same grading.