Ian Wallace
@cannockwanderer.bsky.social
Explorer of the U.K. and the world.
MSc student at University of Kent. Research interests include #walrus #wildlifetrade #ivory, connections between #anthropology and #conservation
Supporter of Crystal Palace Football Club 🔴🔵
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MSc student at University of Kent. Research interests include #walrus #wildlifetrade #ivory, connections between #anthropology and #conservation
Supporter of Crystal Palace Football Club 🔴🔵
🏳️🌈
All views are my own
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BBC News - Puffins: Isle of Muck comeback 'proves restoration works' - BBC News
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Puffins: Isle of Muck comeback 'proves restoration works'
Puffins have been seen on the Isle of Muck off Antrim for the first time in at least 25 years
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November 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
BBC News - Puffins: Isle of Muck comeback 'proves restoration works' - BBC News
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Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.
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Sea otters have underarm pockets that they keep food and their favourite stones in.
November 5, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Sea otters have underarm pockets that they keep food and their favourite stones in.
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The EHRC's position "leaves businesses and their staff caught in the crossfire of the increasingly bitter gender wars, while doing absolutely nothing to advance women’s rights or protect vulnerable women from abuse": Rachel Taylor MP. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Equality commission’s guidance after sex ruling is fundamentally unworkable | Letter
Letters: The EHRC has ignored warnings about the contradiction between possibly being sued for challenging someone’s gender versus being sued for failing to, says Rachel Taylor MP
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November 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The EHRC's position "leaves businesses and their staff caught in the crossfire of the increasingly bitter gender wars, while doing absolutely nothing to advance women’s rights or protect vulnerable women from abuse": Rachel Taylor MP. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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According to a medieval Irish legal text on cats called Catslechtae (Cat-Sections), if a cat is able to purr and to catch mice, it’s worth three cows and if it’s only able to purr, it’s worth one cow and a half.
November 3, 2025 at 11:22 AM
According to a medieval Irish legal text on cats called Catslechtae (Cat-Sections), if a cat is able to purr and to catch mice, it’s worth three cows and if it’s only able to purr, it’s worth one cow and a half.
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Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
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Well it's not every day that you get to stand on the site of a brand new Observatory! This is Clatteringshaws loch, in the Galloway Forest #DarkSky Park, home of the 🏴Scottish Dark Sky Observatory. Construction starts soon and like a phoenix SDSO will rise from the ashes! Re-opening mid-2027. 🥳🔭🧪
October 18, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Well it's not every day that you get to stand on the site of a brand new Observatory! This is Clatteringshaws loch, in the Galloway Forest #DarkSky Park, home of the 🏴Scottish Dark Sky Observatory. Construction starts soon and like a phoenix SDSO will rise from the ashes! Re-opening mid-2027. 🥳🔭🧪
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🚨New Paper!🚨 A hedonic analysis of the market for Southeast Asian slipper #orchids (Paphiopedilum) in #Biodiversity & #Conservation by Robinson, Fraser, Balcombe & @drdavidlroberts.bsky.social @dice-kent.bsky.social #orchid #wildlifetrade doi.org/10.1007/s105...
A hedonic analysis of the market for Southeast Asian slipper orchids (Paphiopedilum) - Biodiversity and Conservation
Since the Victorian era, orchids have been in continuous demand within the horticultural trade. As a result, the entire family of over 29,000 species are listed in the Convention on International Trad...
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October 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
🚨New Paper!🚨 A hedonic analysis of the market for Southeast Asian slipper #orchids (Paphiopedilum) in #Biodiversity & #Conservation by Robinson, Fraser, Balcombe & @drdavidlroberts.bsky.social @dice-kent.bsky.social #orchid #wildlifetrade doi.org/10.1007/s105...
#openaccess paper of the week. Researchers from #ChesterZoo #APHA and other teams develop a vaccine for EEHV which has a 80% mortality rate in juvenile elephants
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Client Challenge
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October 14, 2025 at 9:20 AM
#openaccess paper of the week. Researchers from #ChesterZoo #APHA and other teams develop a vaccine for EEHV which has a 80% mortality rate in juvenile elephants
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Basically, whale poop recycle nutrients that enables phytoplankton and in turn krill to grow. Hunting whales means less recycling and less krill...
The global whaling industry experienced a boom c. 1840-1950 as technology allowed whalers to hunt the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.
Under standard models, we would have expected krill populations to have *exploded*.
Instead, they DROPPED exponentially.
Let's talk about the KRILL PARADOX.
Under standard models, we would have expected krill populations to have *exploded*.
Instead, they DROPPED exponentially.
Let's talk about the KRILL PARADOX.
October 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Basically, whale poop recycle nutrients that enables phytoplankton and in turn krill to grow. Hunting whales means less recycling and less krill...
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New Orleans couple discovers ancient Roman grave marker in their yard
New Orleans couple discovers ancient Roman grave marker in their yard
Discovery of 1,900-year-old headstone dedicated to Roman sailor sets off effort to repatriate item to Italy
A New Orleans couple clearing away undergrowth in their home’s yard unearthed a grave marker, setting off a quest for answers about how the roughly 1,900-year-old relic ended up there – and an effort to repatriate it to Italy.
The remarkable discovery was the work of Tulane University anthropologist Daniella Santoro and her husband, Aaron Lorenz, according to a report published online Monday by the magazine of New Orleans’s Preservation Resource Center (PRC). Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
New Orleans couple discovers ancient Roman grave marker in their yard
#openaccess paper of the week. What does the materials from bearded vulture nests tell us about about "regional ecology as well as the local ethnographic, historical, and biocultural conditions"?
super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉
Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts
Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.
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October 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
#openaccess paper of the week. What does the materials from bearded vulture nests tell us about about "regional ecology as well as the local ethnographic, historical, and biocultural conditions"?
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I just have to post this #iceage masterpiece from time to time: A tiny (3.7 cm) but amazing figurine of a woolly mammoth carved in mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago.
Found in the Vogelherd cave on the Swabian Jura, south-west Germany.
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Found in the Vogelherd cave on the Swabian Jura, south-west Germany.
📷 me
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October 3, 2025 at 7:48 AM
I just have to post this #iceage masterpiece from time to time: A tiny (3.7 cm) but amazing figurine of a woolly mammoth carved in mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago.
Found in the Vogelherd cave on the Swabian Jura, south-west Germany.
📷 me
🏺
Found in the Vogelherd cave on the Swabian Jura, south-west Germany.
📷 me
🏺
Bought two new pairs of shoes from @keswickboot.bsky.social.
As always, excellent customer service and a great understanding of feet to suggest suitable brands for your needs #keswick #wainwrights
As always, excellent customer service and a great understanding of feet to suggest suitable brands for your needs #keswick #wainwrights
October 3, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Bought two new pairs of shoes from @keswickboot.bsky.social.
As always, excellent customer service and a great understanding of feet to suggest suitable brands for your needs #keswick #wainwrights
As always, excellent customer service and a great understanding of feet to suggest suitable brands for your needs #keswick #wainwrights
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BBC News - UK's first rice crop ripe for picking after hot summer - BBC News
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UK's first rice crop ripe for picking after hot summer
Paddy fields are thriving in a quiet part of east England and might help feed us in the future.
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September 29, 2025 at 10:15 AM
BBC News - UK's first rice crop ripe for picking after hot summer - BBC News
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BBC News - New evidence proves North Sea asteroid impact
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New evidence confirms Yorkshire North Sea asteroid impact
Geologists say an asteroid hit the North Sea near Yorkshire more than 43 million years ago.
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September 21, 2025 at 6:31 AM
BBC News - New evidence proves North Sea asteroid impact
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September 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
#openaccess paper of the week. Libby et al. discussing perspectives in environmental humanities. How can we look beyond traditional scientific approaches to conservation questions?
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
Transdisciplinary Histories and the Rise of the Environmental Humanities | Global Environment
This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0.
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
September 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
#openaccess paper of the week. Libby et al. discussing perspectives in environmental humanities. How can we look beyond traditional scientific approaches to conservation questions?
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
#Wainwrightbagging This trip involved walks over the fells of Latrigg and Lonscale Fell taking me to 75/214
September 13, 2025 at 11:27 AM
#Wainwrightbagging This trip involved walks over the fells of Latrigg and Lonscale Fell taking me to 75/214
Biancamaria Zanzi sharing life since graduation including reflections on dolphin-human interactions involving boats
blogs.kent.ac.uk/dice/2025/08... #DICE #UniversityofKent #Kent
blogs.kent.ac.uk/dice/2025/08... #DICE #UniversityofKent #Kent
Alumni Spotlight: Saving Sea Turtles with Biancamaria Zanzi – DICE Writes
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August 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Biancamaria Zanzi sharing life since graduation including reflections on dolphin-human interactions involving boats
blogs.kent.ac.uk/dice/2025/08... #DICE #UniversityofKent #Kent
blogs.kent.ac.uk/dice/2025/08... #DICE #UniversityofKent #Kent
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