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rogerhyam.bsky.social @rogerhyam.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

What is Britain? Our nation is the UK. This report deliberately excludes NI (2 million UK citizens) then ignores the three remaining home nations of "Britain". Patriotism starts by respecting your country's actual constitution. This is English nationalism.

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worldfloraonline.bsky.social @worldfloraonline.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

The June solstice has passed, which means we have a fresh update for our WFO Plant List! The big news since December is we now have more than 200 named co-authors on the WFO Plant List. Watch to see what else is new and visit worldfloraonline.org to browse the Plant List.

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rogerhyam.bsky.social @rogerhyam.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

youtu.be/_qlZF_J2fAY?... My month away gave me the chance to make some photographs - and a video.

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Strathglass - May 2025

YouTube video by Roger Hyam

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rogerhyam.bsky.social @rogerhyam.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Rail nationalisation. It is a textbook case of parochial world view of British media (including OGWN I'm afraid). No coverage in the last few days has mentioned ScotRail. Nationalised in 2023. SNP have just abolished peak fares. Same county? UK. Worth comparing? What else does your coverage miss?

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rogerhyam.bsky.social @rogerhyam.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Support for Labour is what has driven me away from OGWN. Our *Labour* government requires women to claim they were raped before giving them the support they need. That morally repugnant Tory stuff should have been changed on day one. But let's go for growth first! Enrich the rich first!

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rogerhyam.bsky.social @rogerhyam.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

BBC Scotland have just killed off the slightly quirky Podlitical which covered Scottish politics in Holyrood and Westminster and replaced it with Scotcast that is just another bland BBC new magazine. Illustrating the BBC just don't get podcasts. (World Service excluded)

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rogerhyam.bsky.social @rogerhyam.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

This is what if feels like to live in a society that is committing atrocities. How you feel in this very moment is how it felt. Kinda normal and not really your fault.

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rogerhyam.bsky.social @rogerhyam.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Hey come to think of it we don't even have the guts to talk about the fact that it is "normal" to do things that will appear appalling to people in fifty years. When our friend's Greek holiday is ruined by wildfires we don't dare mention they are contributing to the problem by flying to Greece!

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rogerhyam.bsky.social @rogerhyam.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Better analogy that human sacrifice: Ask what our climate descendants will think of us taking that cheeky city break on Ryanair or work jolly to the US or participating in a car based culture. We don't think we are participating in the atrocities our societies are committing.

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rogerhyam.bsky.social @rogerhyam.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Why not mandate that pension schemes must spend a % of their wealth on building social housing instead of speculating? Might that miff off the city. Mustn't do that 😂

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rogerhyam.bsky.social @rogerhyam.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Great idea! Increase people's debt and increase house prices! Typical Labour to do it all on tick. Just take all those wonderful PFI schemes that made it look like we were investing in schools and hospitals when we were enriching the same old chum network.

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rogerhyam.bsky.social @rogerhyam.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I'll share another post on the number of working taxonomists.

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rogerhyam.bsky.social @rogerhyam.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Taxonomists work alone or in small groups. The graph shows that culture. If we had a moon-shot approach and organised everyone then we could ask your question. But we don't and "culture eats strategy for breakfast". We need Oppenheimer!

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rogerhyam.bsky.social @rogerhyam.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Surely 16 years of decline? It started with the 2007/8 crash which occurred under Gordon Brown's Labour who were complicit. You can say the Tories dropped the ball but the mess didn't start under them. www.theguardian.com/business/201...

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rogerhyam.bsky.social @rogerhyam.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Hi Eryn, Could I be added to the science feed? I'm the tech lead on the World Flora Online Plant List. orcid.org/0000-0003-45... Thanx.

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ORCID

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rogerhyam.bsky.social @rogerhyam.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

No fibre in steak. Perhaps something else is delaying her 😨

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rogerhyam.bsky.social @rogerhyam.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

It would be interesting to analyse how these new genera are formed. Are there lots of newly discovered small/monotypic genera or are they largely the result monographing known species. I'm not sure what the metric would be. New species vs new genera ratio perhaps?

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rogerhyam.bsky.social @rogerhyam.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Rising inequality/precarity and an associated sense that people in authority don't have your best interests at heart might be something to do with it. It's a symptom of societal change not a medical issue.

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rogerhyam.bsky.social @rogerhyam.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Then scientists, engineers, architects, carers are all creative and need to use all aspects of their brains in different complex ways to come up with "creative" solutions. The lefties being creative thing is just what they told kids when they were bullied - IMO!

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rogerhyam.bsky.social @rogerhyam.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Visual info is mapped to both sides of the brain. How does that work with painters? Audio information goes to both sides, one from each ear. How does that work for composers? Verbal reasoning is L brain (right hand) but emotions from R so poets & novelists need both to play together!

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rogerhyam.bsky.social @rogerhyam.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

My comment was a creative contribution to the debate but maybe you couldn't see that. 😉. Seriously your comment said you had a genetic advantage over others. Maybe you do? But being left handed does not make you more creative any more than being black give someone a sense of rhythm.

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rogerhyam.bsky.social @rogerhyam.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

If you are more creative because you are left handed then does that make make me less creative (a.k.a. worse than you) because I'm right handed? Are you promoting the exact same thinking the book was but in reverse?

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rogerhyam.bsky.social @rogerhyam.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Just what I needed at this point in the morning - along with a second cup of coffee.

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rogerhyam.bsky.social @rogerhyam.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I'm bemused by the minimum wage being milked so much after 25+ years. They've had it in the USA since 1930s! Yet Labour are still dining out on it and on every minor increase - even though it remains too low. Journalists should really say "so what" when a politician mentions it as an achievement.

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rogerhyam.bsky.social @rogerhyam.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Exciting times. Slowly but surely the North and South of Edinburgh will be connected by traffic free routes. If only we could get one through the centre of town!

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rogerhyam.bsky.social @rogerhyam.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

What is this country he is talking about? 4 out of 6 pledges only apply to England. Most of his uses of "we" mean English people not British people. This should be.made by the Minister of State for England. Oh there isn't one!

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rogerhyam.bsky.social @rogerhyam.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Sign of the way our system works. Ownership of the site falls to the Crown who will sell it. But they don't appear to have liability to secure the site as the owners should. Free money for the crown - again!

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Dealing with a giant relic of Dumfries's industrial past

What can be done with a derelict site which once produced cars, aircraft and even wellington boots?

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rogerhyam.bsky.social @rogerhyam.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Especially as one of the categories is regular people on the street! What are we trusting them to do? Aren't the people in the other categories (scientists, journalists, doctors, judges) just regular people on the street too? The test fails face, content and construct validity tests.

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rogerhyam.bsky.social @rogerhyam.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Trust these people in general or trust them to do their profession? But as all the professions are so different it is comparing apples and oranges. You trust a doctor with your life. You don't trust a journalist with your life. In what way are they comparable? It seems a odd metric.

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rogerhyam.bsky.social @rogerhyam.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I can't believe you don't mention that the 16.5% of unanswered NHS calls was NOT a number obtained by a journalist. They were given that number by the Scottish LibDems. The LibDems are renown for trash stats. I'd like to see the raw data but we'll never see it. I don't suppose the journo saw it.

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rogerhyam.bsky.social @rogerhyam.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The result of UK gov prevaricating over the last two decades is that investment has shifted from Scotland to England. That is politically significant. It scuppers transition in NE Scotland (Tory/SNP politically). Extracts skilled people to England - along with all that green electricity!

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rogerhyam.bsky.social @rogerhyam.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Presuming he has a wife and they both own it then they both have to die in some freak accident. He could just give it to his children now and live 7 years and there would be no tax to pay. It's all about rich, right wing patriarchs not trusting their kids! Like Murdoch?

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rogerhyam.bsky.social @rogerhyam.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

OK - I need to improve my card metadata though.

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rogerhyam.bsky.social @rogerhyam.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

How about links? Can I link to my blog? www.hyam.net/blog/

hyam.net

Roger Hyam

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rogerhyam.bsky.social @rogerhyam.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Not bad! You can zoom to a large one!

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