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Ben Sherlock

@bensherlock.bsky.social
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Job: Engineer in Software & Electronics. Life: Gardening, wildlife, outdoors, travel, technology (old+new), photography, watercolour painting. Views my own.

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Ben Sherlock @bensherlock.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The Mistle Thrush chicks the day before they fledged. There were 5 of them in there. #30DaysWild
Mistle Thrush fledglings/chicks sat on nest just before fledging.
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Ben Sherlock @bensherlock.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Fledgling Mistle Thrush in the tree. They left the nest only yesterday. Lots of rattling calls between parents and youngsters today. #30DaysWild
Fledgling Mistle Thrush in the tree
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NETTAG+ @nettagplus.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
#Ghostgear harms marine life and creates real challenges for fishers 🌊 With #NETTAG+, partners are co‑developing and testing new tech with #fishers to prevent gear loss. 🎣 In Komiža 🇭🇷 local knowhow + smart tech = cleaner seas. 🎬 Watch the story: youtu.be/897uyAYF5jI
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Preventing Ghost Gear: Croatian Fishers Put NETTAG+ Tech to the Test
YouTube video by WWF Mediterranean
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Ben Sherlock @bensherlock.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth...
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Donate to Secure the Rothbury Estate | The Wildlife Trusts
Stretching over 3,800 hectares, the Rothbury Estate in Northumberland is abundant with opportunity. It’s the largest continuous area of land to appear on the market in 50 years. Its sale creates a uni...
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Ben Sherlock @bensherlock.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
The temperature change over the years specific to Newcastle. A few interesting very cold spikes back in the 1800s. And some particularly worrying hot spikes in the last three years. showyourstripes.info/c/europe/uni...
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Show Your Stripes
Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe
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Ben Sherlock @bensherlock.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Some good news, the old Cherry Tree on campus (that sadly had to be cut down the other year when the wind damaged it) is showing signs of new growth around the old stump!! @nclengineering.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social #30DaysWild #Nature
Old cherry tree in full blossom with pale pink or almost white flowers.Cherry tree with two clumps of new shoots full of leaves, all surrounded by green and flowers of other plants. Close up of the new shoots and leaves on the cherry tree.
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
I'm genuinely SO excited about the new ocean map that will be at the heart of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich when this hall reopens on June 7th. It's an unusual ocean-focussed map with so much detail, and it's just brilliant. 🌊🌊 Here's a sneak peak. www.rmg.co.uk/stories/ocea...
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
New blog posting Institutes with the smallest management are often most vital & productive At the other extreme, management can grow to the point where it considers itself better able to direct the work than those doing it -- as in many UK universities 21percent.org?p=1441
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Newcastle University is set to axe around 300 jobs as it becomes the latest UK university to announce significant job cuts as the sector financial crisis grows, reports @julietterowsell.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/newcast...
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Newcastle set to axe around 300 jobs in £20 million staffing cuts
Russell Group institution warns that it cannot rule out compulsory redundancies after worse-than-expected student recruitment
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Severance pay for 2024 in £ millions normalised to university size for the RussellGroup Big staff exits at Nottingham, Exeter & Newcastle Universities Staff who remain must work more Worst is yet to come with further staff cuts & likely bankruptcies in 2025
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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
I just donated and set up a monthly payment. If you can, maybe consider kicking them a couple of guineas. One of the truly great achievements of the internet, that site.
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Ben Sherlock @bensherlock.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
This gives some interesting insight into how and why the HE sector as a whole may be making the sort of choices it is in the current situation. wonkhe.com/blogs/its-ok...
wonkhe.com
It's okay not to be okay sometimes
What happens when collective acts of reassurance and optimism mask a growing crisis beneath? Jim Dickinson attempts to analyse the incentives What happens when collective acts of reassurance and optim...
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