Martha Henson
@marthasadie.bsky.social
Digital producer/consultant/product manager/mentor/user researcher/game mechanic. Eclectic. Nature nerd. Proto yoga studies scholar. Isle of Wight. Old Internet Person (the title of my newsletter) www.marthahenson.com
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Tech Works For Us - Training
Workshops offered on user research, implementing user insight, creating a digital brief, demystifying digital, iterative or game design.
www.techworksforus.com
Periodic reminder that I run all sorts of digital training workshops including game design sessions that can help you make your own training and products more fun www.techworksforus.com/training/ the latter great for team building and away days too.
Made @alomshaha.bsky.social's simple kitchari (a sort of rice and lentil porridge) for dinner tonight and that is some cracking winter comfort food. So delicious esp with extra butter and salt. Can download his recipe booklet with it here alomshaha.com/wp-content/u...
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November 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Made @alomshaha.bsky.social's simple kitchari (a sort of rice and lentil porridge) for dinner tonight and that is some cracking winter comfort food. So delicious esp with extra butter and salt. Can download his recipe booklet with it here alomshaha.com/wp-content/u...
Hard not to see the first #ashes test madness as a symptom of the global inability to chill the f*** out right now www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/n...
Travis Head powers Australia to humbling Ashes Test win over England inside two days
Travis Head’s crushing 123 drove Australia to their target of 205 and snared victory over England in the first Ashes Test by eight wickets
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Hard not to see the first #ashes test madness as a symptom of the global inability to chill the f*** out right now www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/n...
Today, on the other hand...
So far quite a good day to be living with an Australian, it turns out.
November 22, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Today, on the other hand...
I am now watching the Ashes highlights on iPlayer and it is only THIRTY MINUTES and the theme tune is ALL WRONG. Where the hell is Today At The Test. I am so upset #theashes
A joy to be waking up to TMS and an already exciting Ashes game. But what has happened to the usual 7pm TV highlights package?! Looks like something is appearing on iPlayer only? Is it the same thing? #ashes2025 #ashes #theashes #engvsaus
November 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I am now watching the Ashes highlights on iPlayer and it is only THIRTY MINUTES and the theme tune is ALL WRONG. Where the hell is Today At The Test. I am so upset #theashes
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🌿 Wildlife Gardening Virtual Symposium 2026 🌿
Join leading researchers sharing evidence-based insights on ponds, pollinators, fungi and urban mammals. Coming up on 14th Jan.
More details: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1419239717...
@jeffollerton.bsky.social @jassydrak.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social
Join leading researchers sharing evidence-based insights on ponds, pollinators, fungi and urban mammals. Coming up on 14th Jan.
More details: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1419239717...
@jeffollerton.bsky.social @jassydrak.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 11:38 AM
🌿 Wildlife Gardening Virtual Symposium 2026 🌿
Join leading researchers sharing evidence-based insights on ponds, pollinators, fungi and urban mammals. Coming up on 14th Jan.
More details: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1419239717...
@jeffollerton.bsky.social @jassydrak.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social
Join leading researchers sharing evidence-based insights on ponds, pollinators, fungi and urban mammals. Coming up on 14th Jan.
More details: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1419239717...
@jeffollerton.bsky.social @jassydrak.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social
Ah Teams. Anyone had Teams desktop consistently freezing video displays (so everyone is stuck) some time into a meeting? Is there a fix that isn't shutting the whole thing down and restarting again?
November 21, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Ah Teams. Anyone had Teams desktop consistently freezing video displays (so everyone is stuck) some time into a meeting? Is there a fix that isn't shutting the whole thing down and restarting again?
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There is one more post to be written here, about how AI is now often an austerity technology, inserted into a human process to compensate for the fact that there is just not enough time and money, and many workers are expected to do more and more with less and less.
November 21, 2025 at 7:59 AM
There is one more post to be written here, about how AI is now often an austerity technology, inserted into a human process to compensate for the fact that there is just not enough time and money, and many workers are expected to do more and more with less and less.
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If people in your team or organisation are using AI notetakers as a way of coping with too many meetings and a culture of presenteeism, there's not a technological fix for this. The answer is to have fewer, better organised meetings www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...
November 21, 2025 at 7:13 AM
If people in your team or organisation are using AI notetakers as a way of coping with too many meetings and a culture of presenteeism, there's not a technological fix for this. The answer is to have fewer, better organised meetings www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...
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I've written up the findings from our work with people and organisations who have used AI notetakers in meetings, identified 9 risks and a bunch of mitigation strategies. www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...
Nine risks caused by AI notetakers — Careful Industries
AI transcription tools are not currently mature or reliable enough to be regarded as an always on, single-source of truth for meeting notes. Nine common risks, and six possible mitigations.
www.careful.industries
November 21, 2025 at 7:09 AM
I've written up the findings from our work with people and organisations who have used AI notetakers in meetings, identified 9 risks and a bunch of mitigation strategies. www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...
A joy to be waking up to TMS and an already exciting Ashes game. But what has happened to the usual 7pm TV highlights package?! Looks like something is appearing on iPlayer only? Is it the same thing? #ashes2025 #ashes #theashes #engvsaus
November 21, 2025 at 7:52 AM
A joy to be waking up to TMS and an already exciting Ashes game. But what has happened to the usual 7pm TV highlights package?! Looks like something is appearing on iPlayer only? Is it the same thing? #ashes2025 #ashes #theashes #engvsaus
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If, in some imaginary world, I had any direct influence on tech policy making I'd mandate some kind of "back to the floor" training for those making tech policy. Specifically, I'd make them do a stint as delivery managers for massive complex projects, with sight of all the moving parts
November 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
If, in some imaginary world, I had any direct influence on tech policy making I'd mandate some kind of "back to the floor" training for those making tech policy. Specifically, I'd make them do a stint as delivery managers for massive complex projects, with sight of all the moving parts
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Also absolutely huge LOLs to be on a panel where someone was saying "let's digitise all the things, why are we waiting?! do it more!" on the day of the cloudflare outage
November 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Also absolutely huge LOLs to be on a panel where someone was saying "let's digitise all the things, why are we waiting?! do it more!" on the day of the cloudflare outage
I've been playing with Qualtrics reporting today and it's not super intuitive I'll be honest but WOAAAH, automatic analysis on open field text from an large data set in all European languages to produce a neat English word cloud for this presentation is PRETTY handy let me tell you.
November 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I've been playing with Qualtrics reporting today and it's not super intuitive I'll be honest but WOAAAH, automatic analysis on open field text from an large data set in all European languages to produce a neat English word cloud for this presentation is PRETTY handy let me tell you.
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New thing! The @carefultrouble.bsky.social Careful Consequence Check is now live and free to use. Based on research with the Bristol Digital Futures Institute, this practical tool will help you answer the question "is my AI product creepy and weird" www.careful.industries/consequences
November 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
New thing! The @carefultrouble.bsky.social Careful Consequence Check is now live and free to use. Based on research with the Bristol Digital Futures Institute, this practical tool will help you answer the question "is my AI product creepy and weird" www.careful.industries/consequences
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Also, in case you need it, here is a slide reminding you not to make things that are creepy and weird www.careful.industries/consequences
November 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Also, in case you need it, here is a slide reminding you not to make things that are creepy and weird www.careful.industries/consequences
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ahhhh my book is published today, ahhhhhhhhhhhhh
this one is a real labour of passion - I think it is genuinely important to understand the information crisis that we're living through and how and why it makes us all feel anxious and angry
www.penguin.co.uk/books/469677...
this one is a real labour of passion - I think it is genuinely important to understand the information crisis that we're living through and how and why it makes us all feel anxious and angry
www.penguin.co.uk/books/469677...
Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today
What’s the most useful thing you could know about your own life?
In this era-defining book, developed from her groundbreaking Radio 4 essay series, Naomi Alderman turns her boundless curiosity and in...
www.penguin.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
ahhhh my book is published today, ahhhhhhhhhhhhh
this one is a real labour of passion - I think it is genuinely important to understand the information crisis that we're living through and how and why it makes us all feel anxious and angry
www.penguin.co.uk/books/469677...
this one is a real labour of passion - I think it is genuinely important to understand the information crisis that we're living through and how and why it makes us all feel anxious and angry
www.penguin.co.uk/books/469677...
The two sprays compared were Vicks First Defence (which I use, not very pleasant but does seem to help) and Sterinase (but probs other saline sprays the same). Useful to know they have solid evidence! Thanks for sharing @alomshaha.bsky.social
Congratulations to Professor Paul Little, winning Royal College of General Practitioners Research Paper of the Year 🌟
He and his team’s research found that simple nasal sprays, can shorten illness, ease symptoms and even reduce the need for antibiotics.
Read more 👉 https://tr.ee/P2bffM
He and his team’s research found that simple nasal sprays, can shorten illness, ease symptoms and even reduce the need for antibiotics.
Read more 👉 https://tr.ee/P2bffM
November 14, 2025 at 8:35 AM
The two sprays compared were Vicks First Defence (which I use, not very pleasant but does seem to help) and Sterinase (but probs other saline sprays the same). Useful to know they have solid evidence! Thanks for sharing @alomshaha.bsky.social
Brilliant, use this please
New thing! The @carefultrouble.bsky.social Careful Consequence Check is now live and free to use. Based on research with the Bristol Digital Futures Institute, this practical tool will help you answer the question "is my AI product creepy and weird" www.careful.industries/consequences
November 13, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Brilliant, use this please
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Amendment 40 to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill has been voted down.
Had it passed, it would have meant more precious wildlife would have retained existing protections.
Instead, MPs have bought into the false 'nature vs growth' narrative.
Had it passed, it would have meant more precious wildlife would have retained existing protections.
Instead, MPs have bought into the false 'nature vs growth' narrative.
November 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Amendment 40 to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill has been voted down.
Had it passed, it would have meant more precious wildlife would have retained existing protections.
Instead, MPs have bought into the false 'nature vs growth' narrative.
Had it passed, it would have meant more precious wildlife would have retained existing protections.
Instead, MPs have bought into the false 'nature vs growth' narrative.
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The majority of Britons think important places for nature should have stronger protections.
Only 2% think protections should be weakened... yet that’s where ministers keep pushing.
Only 2% think protections should be weakened... yet that’s where ministers keep pushing.
November 12, 2025 at 9:33 AM
The majority of Britons think important places for nature should have stronger protections.
Only 2% think protections should be weakened... yet that’s where ministers keep pushing.
Only 2% think protections should be weakened... yet that’s where ministers keep pushing.
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This is both a top-quality bit of nostalgia and, potentially, a gateway drug for a particular type of young person
🚀 NEW MAGAZINE ⌨️
Back in the ’80s there were printed mags of BASIC programs to type in, we’ve brought that back but for web pages!
10 amazing games, toys, puzzles and utilities, no coding knowledge needed
vole.wtf/doctype/
Back in the ’80s there were printed mags of BASIC programs to type in, we’ve brought that back but for web pages!
10 amazing games, toys, puzzles and utilities, no coding knowledge needed
vole.wtf/doctype/
DOCTYPE magazine 🚀⌨️
’80s BASIC type-in mags are back, but this time for HTML!
vole.wtf
November 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
This is both a top-quality bit of nostalgia and, potentially, a gateway drug for a particular type of young person
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Any Firebase experts here? I'm trying to work out if it's possible to create a dashboard that shows all usage and costs that includes calls to third party APIs, at the moment it seems very scattered and can't even see the latter.
November 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Any Firebase experts here? I'm trying to work out if it's possible to create a dashboard that shows all usage and costs that includes calls to third party APIs, at the moment it seems very scattered and can't even see the latter.
Any Firebase experts here? I'm trying to work out if it's possible to create a dashboard that shows all usage and costs that includes calls to third party APIs, at the moment it seems very scattered and can't even see the latter.
November 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Any Firebase experts here? I'm trying to work out if it's possible to create a dashboard that shows all usage and costs that includes calls to third party APIs, at the moment it seems very scattered and can't even see the latter.
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If you live in Hampshire & the Isle of Wight and would like to find out more about how you can get involved in the BTO’s work, join us for a FREE Zoom session on Wednesday 19 November.
www.bto.org/our-work/eve...
@hosbirding.bsky.social
#UKbirding
📷 Flock of Wigeon, by Tom Cadwallendar / BTO
www.bto.org/our-work/eve...
@hosbirding.bsky.social
#UKbirding
📷 Flock of Wigeon, by Tom Cadwallendar / BTO
November 6, 2025 at 11:27 AM
If you live in Hampshire & the Isle of Wight and would like to find out more about how you can get involved in the BTO’s work, join us for a FREE Zoom session on Wednesday 19 November.
www.bto.org/our-work/eve...
@hosbirding.bsky.social
#UKbirding
📷 Flock of Wigeon, by Tom Cadwallendar / BTO
www.bto.org/our-work/eve...
@hosbirding.bsky.social
#UKbirding
📷 Flock of Wigeon, by Tom Cadwallendar / BTO
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Just threw this cheese mix in the pan with some leftovers to put on a baked potato and yep this is a total winner, mind blown
Big Cheese doesn't want you to know this! But wowww I just made this www.instagram.com/p/DQmcNYpjOs... pretty much instant vegan cheese and it is really very good and really very easy, tell all your non dairy friends.
PS tapioca flour/starch interchangeable here in the UK
PS tapioca flour/starch interchangeable here in the UK
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November 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Just threw this cheese mix in the pan with some leftovers to put on a baked potato and yep this is a total winner, mind blown