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Simon Geikie

@noviceaccompanist.bsky.social
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UK protected area adaptive management planner. Climate smart conservationist. Temporary keeper of Fylde guitars. Strategy manager at the Peak District National Park. My views only.

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Simon Geikie @noviceaccompanist.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Saturday was Show your Stripes day. The stripes show annual average temperatures relative to a longer term average. 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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Simon Geikie @noviceaccompanist.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
‘The took all the trees, and put them in a tree museum’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘A tree zoo’: endangered conifers a living legacy of Kent pinetum’s centenary
Bedgebury national pinetum has become a vital ark for rare evergreen trees, which are often unfairly maligned
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Simon Geikie @noviceaccompanist.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
We have to change how we think about nature in our country. By 2080 around 90% of our current ‘priority habitats’ are likely to have been significantly altered by climate change and its interaction with other factors in the landscape. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Britain’s favourite fish at risk of wipeout within decades, predicts report
Brown trout unlikely to survive in most rivers at height of summer by 2080, says Environment Agency
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Simon Geikie @noviceaccompanist.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Finally it’s starting to happen . When all those years ago we were told that technology would mean better lifestyles and shorter working weeks! www.theguardian.com/money/2025/j...
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Two hundred UK companies sign up for permanent four-day working week
More than 5,000 workers to benefit from reduced hours with no loss of pay
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Simon Geikie @noviceaccompanist.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Oh well. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Gritters stopped by 200 cars double parked on Peak District road, says council
Derbyshire council says crews blocked from gritting roads on Saturday due to double parking at walking spots near Edale
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Morgan Tingley @mwtingley.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Good advice, always remember to avoid the bites ends!
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Simon Geikie @noviceaccompanist.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
I’ve had the goi fortune to spend a bit of time in John Goldie’s company at Ullapool Guitar Festival. One if the nicest people I have ever met and the person who introduced me to three finger chords! An endlessly versatile guitarist. youtu.be/Zk0NkehP3uA?...
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The Best Guitarist I know.... John Goldie
YouTube video by Guitar Made Easy By Tony
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Simon Geikie @noviceaccompanist.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Patch based approaches to landscape scale nature recovery. Simple and inexpensive but effective. Funny how ‘Priority Habitats’ is appearing in more comms now! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Back from the dead: the ‘zombie’ ponds repumping nature into Essex farmland
A conservation project is helping identify and restore wildlife-rich sites previously degraded and dried up
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Tony Juniper @tonyjuniper.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Big debate for a long while about the causes of megafauna extinctions. This paper confirms the central role of humans. Of 57 mammal species over 1000kg that roamed the Earth during the late Pleistocene, 11 remain now (Elephants/Rhino etc). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions: Patterns, causes, ecological consequences and implications for ecosystem management in the Anthropocene | Cambridge Prisms: Extinction | Cambridge Core
The late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions: Patterns, causes, ecological consequences and implications for ecosystem management in the Anthropocene - Volume 2
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Simon Geikie @noviceaccompanist.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Canaries in the mine! I have thought for some time that we need to start thinking very differently about our source stock for conservation planting. Part of moving away from historically fixed conservation objectives which are questionable in a warming world. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Fig and almond trees thriving in UK thanks to fewer frosts, RHS says
Society to retire plants no longer suited to UK’s changing climate after 14% fewer days of ground frost recorded
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Simon Geikie @noviceaccompanist.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Scroll to 13:28 to hear our very own Peak District National Park CEO Phil Mulligan on World at 1. Nine more features from other Park CEO’s to come over the next week apparently! @peakdistrict.bsky.social @jayneyb.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Radio 4 - Listen Live - BBC Sounds
Listen live to BBC Radio 4 on BBC Sounds
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Simon Geikie @noviceaccompanist.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
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Peak District trail to close on weekdays for tree works
Fencing will also be installed along a stretch of
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Simon Geikie @noviceaccompanist.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Understanding the condition of features, factors affecting them and the scope to control them are critical steps in management planning. If we are to adapt of our long protected sites to a warmer world we must know current condition. Monitoring isn’t optional. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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English wildlife ‘could be disappearing in the dark’ due to lack of scrutiny
Conservationists issue warning as figures show three-quarters of SSSI sites have had no recent assessments
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Simon Geikie @noviceaccompanist.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
This is what we tried with the Green Grid project in the Thames Gateway back in the early 2000’s. Creating and executing policy for urban/urban fringe/green belt and wider countryside around urban areas that regards them as as connected landscapes with multiple functions. apple.news/AuPFmcTtqQHC...
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‘When I show people this, they think it’s Mordor’: the architect viewing the West Midlands as a national park — The Guardian
Birmingham City University thinktank imagines new approach to urban areas and land use across the region
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Simon Geikie @noviceaccompanist.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Lovely, if rather too warm, walk today. Clouds and clouds of what I assume to be chironomid midges at Linacre reservoir dams on our Boxing Day walk. Hard to get a good shot!
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Simon Geikie @noviceaccompanist.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
This looks rather useful to those of us interested in protected area management. Combined with Climate Smart Adaptive Management and Climate Change Vulnerability the basis of a modern approach to where limited resources are best placed and where new ££ are critical -nice! jncc.gov.uk/our-work/spa...
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Spatial prioritisation | JNCC - Adviser to Government on Nature Conservation
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Simon Geikie @noviceaccompanist.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Extending the deadline is good news. Within protected landscapes our path networks are in a poor state due to over a decade of cuts. Access is a major factor when managing sites and landscapes and needs a significant boost in resource’s so we can get it right. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Defra scraps England deadline to register thousands of miles of rights of way
Campaigners jubilant after government heeded warning 2031 cutoff would mean loss of precious footpaths
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Simon Geikie @noviceaccompanist.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
With new national park purposes around the corner. A bit of light reading in my stocking!
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North Pennines National Landscape @northpennines.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
For #WorldSoilDay 2024 we are sharing news of how funding from Defra’s Farming in Protected Landscapes Programme is helping a farmer in the #NorthPenninesNationalLandscape to improve soil structure by enhancing rotational grazing practices on his land. bit.ly/3Worldsoilday24 #soil #farming #waders
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andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
75 years ago legislation to create Britain’s National Parks was passed - and now government needs to show the same vision & commitment so our protected areas can realise their true potential. @campaign4parks.bsky.social @ramblersgb.bsky.social @jayneyb.bsky.social @campaignerkate.bsky.social
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National treasures
Explore the past, present and future of Britain’s national parks
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Simon Geikie @noviceaccompanist.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Natural history GCSE on hold. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Natural history GCSE on hold as qualification seen as ‘Tory initiative’, claims campaigner
New GCSE was announced under previous government in 2022 but now ‘sitting in limbo’, says Mary Colwell, one of its architects
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Today’s poem is dedicated to all those who have taken it upon themselves to correct the grammar or spelling in my poems over the last few weeks. It’s called ‘Pedents’.
Pedents
 
Foot soldiers in the War on Error,
They’re here to save us from ourselves,
With Fowler’s Modern English Usage
(first edition, nineteen twelve).
 
They scrutinise each word we write
For typos, gaffes, et cetera,
Correcting all our dumb mistakes
To make our grammar betterer.
 
They sigh and tut and tell us off
For the rules we have forsaken
And chart this nation’s steep decline
By the care we should of taken.
 
Custodians of the King’s English,
They merely serve to keep it pure
And restrict, they hope, the ignorant
To three mistakes or less.
 
In doing so, they hold no fear
they will deprive a thing of life:
for it’s not important what is said,
what matters is that its right.


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Simon Geikie @noviceaccompanist.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I spend a fair bit of time trying to find good ways of communicating the effects of climate change. Last year I worked out where the Peak District was moving to based on 1950’s climates. Now some clever people have come up with a twins website. Doesn’t project AMOC! fitzlab.shinyapps.io/cityapp/
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Simon Geikie @noviceaccompanist.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
So do we aim for ecosystems resilient to Green Spain/Southern France type weather or Northern Scandinavian habitats? Doing the same thing we have been doing for the last 75 years won’t work either way of course. Scientists sound alarm about event that could bring global devastation - The Independent
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David Alexander @david-alexander.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Happy GIS Day! Here's another 3D render of LC predictions in the Peak District from www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/15... We need accurate, detailed scalable data to measure habitat complexity and #30x30
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Simon Geikie @noviceaccompanist.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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Defra cuts pose ‘existential threat’ to England’s most beautiful areas
Exclusive: National landscapes’ chiefs say environment secretary has given no budget assurances and they are to expect cuts
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Simon Geikie @noviceaccompanist.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Picked up on World of Books. One of the texts that started me off on exploring natural solutions to solve human problems. 1988 - still working on the Great Leap Forward!
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Simon Geikie @noviceaccompanist.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
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David Alexander @david-alexander.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Using computer vision and #MapReader software, we analysed the loss of field boundaries across the #PeakDistrict Since the 1950s, the White Peak has seen a 12% reduction-551 km lost from an original 4,814 km. A stark reminder of landscape change 📊🌿 storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5c89... #maps #GIS
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Mapping the Past Against the Present
Past Landscapes, Present Discoveries: A Data Science Approach to Rediscovering Field Systems from Historic Ordnance Survey Maps
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Siôn McGeever @sionmcgeever.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
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Simon Geikie @noviceaccompanist.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
So far so good. Let’s see what’s at the end.
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