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Oliver Wilson
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Lecturer in Geography at the University of Lincoln. Plants, people and climate change, past, present and future. Also husband, dad, and 3D Pollen Project guy.
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Ok, well thank you for making my brain itch... To sooth it, I found some data on common names for babies born in 2023 and 1996 (the oldest common date - basically young adults now). You have statistically sound vibes! The names you mentioned are all in UK - but not US - top 100 lists.
Top 10s here 👇
A table showing the most American and British boys' and girls' names for births in 2023 and 1996. In each case these are the highest ranked names which don't appear in the other country's top 100 list. 2023 Most American boys: Mateo, Levi, Owen, Asher, John, Jackson, Luke, Matthew, Julian, Maverick. Most British boys: Muhammad, George, Arthur, Oscar, Freddie, Archie, Arlo, Jude, Alfie, Charlie. Most American girls: Camila, Gianna, Nora, Avery, Abigail, Eliana, Madison, Zoe, Lucy, Riley. Most British girls: Freya, Florence, Poppy, Elsie, Sienna, Daisy, Phoebe, Rosie, Evie, Millie. 1996 Most American boys: Austin, Justin, Kevin, Cody, Jose, Eric, Brian, Logan, Hunter, Caleb. Most British boys: Liam, Harry, Jake, George, Callum, Oliver, Lewis, Kieran, Jamie, Ben. Most American girls: Ashley, Taylor, Alexis, Kayla, Amanda, Brittany, Madison, Brianna, Alyssa, Morgan. Most British girls: Sophie, Chloe, Charlotte, Bethany, Lucy, Georgia, Jade, Eleanor, Holly, Alice. Data from: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/ (USA) https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/datasets/babynamesenglandandwalesbabynamesstatisticsboys (England and Wales boys) https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/datasets/babynamesenglandandwalesbabynamesstatisticsgirls (England and Wales girls)
May 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
olijwilson.bsky.social
O livro está disponível aqui: www.libretos.com.br/editora-libr... É ótimo! Eu contei a história a minhas crianças, e também a discutimos numa aula de português na Universidade de Sheffield (Reino Unido) há uns meses atrás. Foi um prazer apresentar um pouquinho da cultura Kaingang aos outros alunos 😄
Uma imagem do livro 'A araucária e a gralha azul, uma história dos antigos Kaingang' por Cacique Maurício Vēn Tánh Salvador e Ana Fonseca é mostrada em uma tela numa sala de aula.
April 30, 2025 at 8:19 AM
olijwilson.bsky.social
It was great to hear Alex Ball of @nhm-london.bsky.social talking about his work on making microscopic things accessible to wider audiences today. I was quite excited to see some familiar #3Dpollen pop up! Thank you Biology @york.ac.uk for organising the seminar.
A photo of a lecture theatre. The speaker, Dr Alex Ball (a middle-aged white man with dark hair, glasses and a beard), speaks from a lectern at right. On the wall behind him is a projected slide reading 'How accessible can we make microscopy and 3D data?' A photo of a lecture theatre. The speaker, Dr Alex Ball (a middle-aged white man with dark hair, glasses and a beard), speaks from a lectern at right. On the wall behind him is a projected slide reading 'Moving from the virtual to the physical' and showing photos of a butterfly scale and insect heads, both as microscopic images and as 3D-printed objects. A photo of a lecture theatre. The speaker, Dr Alex Ball (a middle-aged white man with dark hair, glasses and a beard), speaks from a lectern at right. On the wall behind him is a projected slide about a project called Museum in a Box, which connects audio recordings to related physical objects. The text reads 'Designs are still evolving. "Goldilocks" sizing. Better contrast for object cards. New audio files.' There are images of two yellow plastic cards reading 'Daisy pollen', and a photo of two yellow and spiky 3D-printed models of daisy pollen. A photo of a table with various objects on it. There is a pink plastic card with the text 'Museum in a Box - ?', and several objects that have been 3D-printed at larger-than-life size: an ant's head (black), and sugar crystal (colourless and see-through), grains of sand (white), a fly's head (orange) a 5p coin at different sizes (grey), and spiky daisy pollen (blue and orange).
February 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
olijwilson.bsky.social
Hi Bluesky! 👋 I'm a researcher interested in plants, people and climate changes in the past, present and future - with a particular focus on Araucaria forests in Brazil and elsewhere. I also run the 3D Pollen Project (3dpollenproject.wixsite.com/main) because pollen is cooler than you think!
Oliver Wilson (white man with black and grey stubble, in a blue shirt and beige cap) smiling in front of a large Brazilian Araucaria tree on a sunny day. A line of candelabra-shaped Araucaria trees in a field of erva mate in southern Brazil, under a cloudless blue sky. Four men (two white, two Indigenous) stand and talk in a school building in Brazil. One of the white men (Oliver Wilson) is holding a blue model pollen grain and talking about it to the others. In the foreground, a blue plastic model of a pollen grain is being held in a hand. In the background, trees and an information board showing a multicoloured collage of microscope images of the pollen grain. The pollen grain has deep and intricate network patterning, and a couple of large holes in its outer wall.
February 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM