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Rich Grenyer @grenyer.bsky.social · 17/10/2022

The brain - mine at least - is just not meant to experience so many different and intense emotions in such quick succession. A few weeks or months away show you this dopamine buffet and its consequences - it becomes an affective version of Douglas Adams’ Total Perspective Vortex.

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Rich Grenyer @grenyer.bsky.social · 13/10/2022

Amazing-looking paper in Nature on the new @IUCN ecosystem typology. It’s a hugely ambitious idea, with profound and quite hard-to-predict consequences for monitoring: www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-… It’s also got an eye-opening (presumed) response to a reviewer…

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Rich Grenyer @grenyer.bsky.social · 12/10/2022

Yes, a screenshot of a retweet. But the UN just retweeted to the world a warning from major conservation bodies about the Conservatives’ plan to destroy three fundamental legislative pillars of nature protection in the U.K. without clear replacement. It’s bad on a global scale.

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Rich Grenyer @grenyer.bsky.social · 08/10/2022

For anyone wondering how all their water got onto the ring road last week - I don’t think they’re meant to look like this normally.

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Rich Grenyer @grenyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2022

I’m not particularly skilled at presentational politics, but I can’t help thinking that “Shall I publicly associate myself with pumping actual human shit onto beaches and rivers in August?” only has one answer, and it isn’t yes. inews.co.uk/news/politics/sewage-vo…...

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Rich Grenyer @grenyer.bsky.social · 03/07/2022

When people calculate the carbon footprint of motor sports, they include all this stuff, don’t they?

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Rich Grenyer @grenyer.bsky.social · 02/06/2022

What’s do you need? You need my favourites from the 1065 dog names from ~1450AD given in www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.14… #marking #beste-of-all #terry

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Rich Grenyer @grenyer.bsky.social · 11/05/2022

Nightmare fuel. Highly mobile and pretty pissed off, too.

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Rich Grenyer @grenyer.bsky.social · 06/04/2022

There is little sexual dimorphism among walruses, so males and females are difficult to distinguish from one another. Pregnancy typically lasts 15 months before a single calf is born weighing 800-1000 kg.

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Rich Grenyer @grenyer.bsky.social · 03/04/2022

Oh cool, there’s a #carnivorous #liana. Not - sadly - carnivorous at the vine life stage, when it can get to 50m in length! But as a teenager, it has a sundew-like phase (who didn’t?): #Triphyophyllum #peltatum en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triphyophyllum

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Rich Grenyer @grenyer.bsky.social · 30/03/2022

There is nothing funny about British place names.

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Rich Grenyer @grenyer.bsky.social · 28/03/2022

I try, I really do. But every now and again I have to give up for a while.

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Rich Grenyer @grenyer.bsky.social · 26/03/2022

#Worldle #64 1/6 (100%) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉 worldle.teuteuf.fr so far I am enjoying worldle and am quite good at it :)

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Rich Grenyer @grenyer.bsky.social · 24/03/2022

So I clicked it. Thanks, Twitter, for protecting me.

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Rich Grenyer @grenyer.bsky.social · 16/03/2022

Since 2011 @OxfordUni_BCM students, and since 2014 @oxfordgeography undergrads have been visiting this #restoration site in #Tenerife to observe and measure the return of the laurel forest. We’ve not been able to visit for three years thanks to COVID, so when I got there today…

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Rich Grenyer @grenyer.bsky.social · 12/03/2022

A little late for #IWD2022 but just lovely to catch up with three amazing ex-DPhil students of mine from pre-COVID days and to hear how they’ve been changing things and what will happen next. It’s really humbling.

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Rich Grenyer @grenyer.bsky.social · 15/02/2022

“It is … unfortunate that you are unable to review the manuscript at this time.” I can never read it any other way.

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Rich Grenyer @grenyer.bsky.social · 18/01/2022

Given everything else going on *gestures*, the discovery that one form of MRSA resulted from a 200yo+ fight between Staph a and ringworm in a hedgehog’s nose may not be getting the attention it deserves. www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/article/antibiotic…...