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JD Roberts @jdroberts.bsky.social · 45m

But anyways, I talk about some of this sort of thing in the context of colonial health programmes in chapters 5 and 8 of my PhD thesis - please give it a read! etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/36...

People, Parasites and Places: Biological and Social aspects of human hookworm infection and eradication in British territories, c.1900-1936 - White Rose eTheses Online

etheses.whiterose.ac.uk

JD Roberts @jdroberts.bsky.social · 45m

'Trust me, I'm a scientist' does not cut with people who do not trust your science or your authority. I think you have to show WHY people should trust the science - where your scientific knowledge comes from and why it can be trusted, and fundementally, why anyone should care what scientists think

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JD Roberts @jdroberts.bsky.social · 45m

Authoritarians want to discredit expertise because expertise is a source of (epistemic) authority and they hate anyone else having any kind of authority whatsoever. But saying 'these people are idiots, I know best' usually ends up with you discrediting yourself

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JD Roberts @jdroberts.bsky.social · 45m

I am very much in favour of biomedicine and science! But if you're an expert it's your job to share your knowledge and explain why you think something is the best course of action, not to demand everyone do as you say because you know better than everyone else

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JD Roberts @jdroberts.bsky.social · 45m

'Trust the experts!' and 'trust the science!' are phrases which make me veeery nervous because I've worked on colonial medicine long enough to know what scientific experts are capable of when we think we know what's good for people better than they do

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JD Roberts @jdroberts.bsky.social · 1d

Fungi growing in a cracked rowan tree

A cluster of white mushrooms with light brown tips to their caps growing in a roughly oval-shaped depression in a tree which dark grey-brown bark

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JD Roberts @jdroberts.bsky.social · 2d

My main irritation with the humanities literature is the tendency to talk like they're launching an intellectual revolution while writing stuff which is so obtuse and jargon-heavy that only people who basically already agree with them can understand what they're saying

JD Roberts @jdroberts.bsky.social · 2d

My main irritation with the biological literature is the tendency to talk about 'human impacts' and 'human effects' as though humans are one single unitary and homogeneous thing

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JD Roberts @jdroberts.bsky.social · 5d

One of my favourite photos from the summer - large marsh grasshopper (Stethophyma grossum) on cross-leaved heath (Erica tetralix)

A large bright green grasshopper with red undersides to the hindlegs photographed from the side while it is perched facing upwards on a blade of grass and a purple-and-green stalk of heather. The heather is topped with a small pink flower

JD Roberts @jdroberts.bsky.social · 10d

Entering the postdoc world has vastly increased my sympathy for those curates in old novels who are desperately seeking a vacant parish where they can become a vicar and earn a living

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JD Roberts @jdroberts.bsky.social · 19d

Perhaps AI needs some kind of scholarly haha, so its view isn't ruined by unpicturesque subjective humans?

JD Roberts @jdroberts.bsky.social · 19d

Flooded bridge after heavy rain

A landscape centring on a flooded bridge over a shallow lake. The edges of the bridge are visible, but the middle is completely submerged. An old birch tree leans left towards the left-hand edge of the frame, while the background is the brown-green of bog, and the top of the picture shows a mass of grey clouds over a clearer horizon

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JD Roberts @jdroberts.bsky.social · 21d

Bog bush-cricket (Metrioptera brachyptera) - sat in some bog myrtle (Myrica gale), appropriately enough

A mid-sized cricket with dark sides and a green back to the head, thorax and wings, facing left away from the camera and perched in a bush with long but rounded green leaves

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JD Roberts @jdroberts.bsky.social · 25d

Dark bush-cricket, Pholidoptera griseoaptera. Always nice to get a photo of this one, the adults have such a lovely chesnut colour but also tend to hide in brambles where you can't see them and chirp at you

A chesnut brown cricket with darker middle of the pronotum 'saddle' and short wings perched on a grass stem facing right

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JD Roberts @jdroberts.bsky.social · 26d

Take a break from doomscrolling, relax and immerse yourself in exploring the Wildwoods...
(I have a new single out)
youtu.be/PeN4k-THfPs

Wildwoods (MV)

YouTube video by JD Roberts

youtu.be

JD Roberts @jdroberts.bsky.social · 27d

Wood cricket, Nemobius sylvestris. Tiny little animals, but they make the most amazing sound!

A small dark brown cricket perched on a brown leaf above bright green moss facing left away from the camera

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JD Roberts @jdroberts.bsky.social · Sep 16

Lesser stag beetle, Dorcus parallelipipedus. I think this species gets a bit overshadowed by its larger relative, but it's still a very impressive beastie!

A large black beetle with antler-like mandibles and a broad head facing left towards the camera

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JD Roberts @jdroberts.bsky.social · Sep 15

Very proud to have been part of this awesome project - 11 experimental electronic musicians came together to make an acoustic album, now out for you to listen to!
aemc2.bandcamp.com/album/undres...

Undressed, by AEMC2

11 track album

aemc2.bandcamp.com

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JD Roberts @jdroberts.bsky.social · Sep 14

Johnny was a patriot
He bedecked the town
With Union Jacks on ev'ry street
All flying upside down

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JD Roberts @jdroberts.bsky.social · Sep 13

Heath grasshopper, Corthippus vagans. Brown and nondescript, but charming nonetheless, with a sandy colour to match the sandy heaths it lives on, as well as stripy legs and an orange abdomen which contrast rather nicely with the green gorse and purple heather

A brown grasshopper with short wings and and orange abdomen facing left away from the camera perched on spike green gorse

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JD Roberts @jdroberts.bsky.social · Sep 12

Woodland grasshopper, Omocestes rufipes - in black and red!

A dark brown, almost blakc, grasshopper with red hindlegs and a red abdomen perched on a light brown grass stem facing left

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Trevlad @trevlad.bsky.social · Sep 12

Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 112

///landed.embraced.deaf. Welcome, traveler. You’ve just tuned into Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library, Episode 112. This one’s titled Landed Embraced Deaf—your metaphysical coordinates: ///landed.embraced.deaf.This is a 90-minute sonic transmission. Built for…

Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 112

///landed.embraced.deaf. Welcome, traveler. You’ve just tuned into Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library, Episode 112. This one’s titled Landed Embraced Deaf—your metaphysical coordinates: ///landed.embraced.deaf.This is a 90-minute sonic transmission. Built for walking meditations, mental wanderings, and quiet communion with the universe. No commentary. No interruptions. Just pure signal.At the halfway mark, expect a metaphysical flip. A shift in the current. Let it carry you.

trevor.se

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JD Roberts @jdroberts.bsky.social · Sep 11

Sat in the woods with a little synth and an amp. Nice to keep things simple! youtu.be/GudaORtvmCk

Monotron jam in the New Forest

YouTube video by JD Roberts

youtu.be

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JD Roberts @jdroberts.bsky.social · Sep 11

Large marsh grasshopper, Stethophyma grossum. They live in sphagnum bogs, so I got very wet feet photographing them

A bright green grasshopper sat on a blade of grass

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Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · Aug 31

Heya. I got a bit bored by people asking me how to navigate away from the cycles of exhaustion and exploitation that the academia seems exceptionally well inclined to produce. So I decided to run a workshop on it. An antiwork-antishop, in effect. Sign up below.

janabacevic.net/against-acad...

Against academic monocultures: a(n anti-)workshop series

On refinding/rewilding the academic ‘self’ Have you lost your way in the academia? Academic culture can make us feel tired, depleted and exhausted. It is a culture that privileges production (indee…

janabacevic.net

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