Interests - Ecological Economics & Natural History. Web programming.
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Joined August 2011
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Version 2 of the g21u web app is available. Run on a mobile to make records in the field. Run on a desktop to process the records and turn into CSVs.
You can get the new version here: g21u.netlify.app/
Or read about it first here: github.com/burkmarr/g21u/blo…
It's the stupid economy. Here's a post-growth solution : theguardian.com/environment/…
Petition: Legislate to ensure swift bricks are installed in all new buildings in Wales. petitions.senedd.wales/petit…
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All data behind the #PlantAtlas2020 plantatlas2020.org maps and plots are now all available on Zenodo zenodo.org/communities/plant…
Thanks @burkmarr for making it so easy! @BSBIbotany @BSBIscience @___BRC___ @UK_CEH
Why is Labour still using the self-defeating, discredited ‘maxed out credit card’ analogy? | Yanis Varoufakis theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Here’s a quick roundup of highlights from research we published in 2023, on climate change, capitalism, colonialism, degrowth and post-capitalist futures. As always, free PDFs are available via the link at the end of the thread. 🧵
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Wonderful to see #PlantAtlas2020 continuing to have real #impact in high places. An amazing example for #CitSci the world over 👏 @UK_CEH
#PlantAtlas2020 is coming to @ScotParl tomorrow!
@markruskell has invited #BSBI to the Scottish Parliament to share the findings of #PlantAtlas2020 with MSPs - looking forward to discussing Scotland's threatened flora & how Plant Atlas 2020 can support @scotgov's nature targets!
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1. I’m very grateful for the response to my appearance on Question Time, but also puzzled. I felt that in all cases I was simply stating the bleeding obvious.
Is this now so rare in public life that it becomes an event when someone does it?
The grim truth seems to be: yes. 🧵
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An honour to be involved in #PlantAtlas2020 and a great opportunity to put ideas re #uncertainty communication into practice sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
See plantatlas2020.org/atlas for examples!
This year's joint @BSBIbotany @WildFlowerSoc Presidents' Award goes to the Plant Atlas 2020. The award was presented at the #BritishAndIrishBotanicalConference by the BSBI president Micheline Sheehy Skeffington, and meetings secretary Janet Johns representing the WFS.
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Words fail me - so just putting this here as a reminder of what we’re up against 👇
Confirmed this morning by the BBC.
Leaked documents reveal that UAE planned to use climate talks to make oil deals with nations (including the UK) at COP28.
bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
One of the most hard-working people I've ever had the privilege to work with. Congratulations @kitenet!
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On Monday, we [the MSEE cohort at @TheSmithSchool, @UniofOxford] met visionary systems thinker @KateRaworth and spoke with her about reimagining what and who the economy is for. Yet you won't hear her thesis in a mainstream economics lecture. 🧵 1/16
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Think of all the real emergencies we face: climate, ecosystems, food systems, the NHS, housing, school buildings, social care, child poverty .... None of them is being addressed by this government. Yet it's proposing emergency legislation to permit a cruel and pointless policy.
"The economy is too important to be left to the economists". So says @yanisvaroufakis in his highly accessible critique of market-driven society. I highly recommended this book to all environmentalists: richburkmar.org/talking-to-m…
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We are pleased that iRecord is now back online following our server move. However, there are still a lot of updates in progress, so it will be a few days before all existing records are visible again. New records can be added. See message here: irecord.org.uk/
ALT iRecord home page message: We have recently successfully completed work to move iRecord and related Indicia systems to a new server. It is now possible to add records to iRecord again, but there are still some issues that will take a little longer to be addressed: - You will not yet be able to see all your records via the Explore and Activity pages - the records all need to be re-indexed and this is likely to take a few days to complete - There may be some delays in notifications being sent - Some summary report pages (e.g. recorders' league tables) are not yet functioning correctly - It is not yet possible to upload records from our apps, we have some final testing to do to re-enable that Please rest assured that all your records will be available again soon! Contact irecord AT ceh.ac.uk if you experience any problems not mentioned above.