What did you do during the Facebook downtime, Daddy?
In a recent incident that caught the attention of billions of users, a major social media platform (Facebook) experienced a widespread outage, leaving users unable to access their accounts for several...
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What a beauty! An Oak Beauty
First Oak Beauty of the year seen in the garden last night (6th March 2024). It’s a quite stunning creature, isn’t it? Sharp-eyed readers will note this is a geometer moth. So-called because their...
View ArticlePickBait
So much of what shows up on social media, Threads in particular, it seems, is what might be referred to as “engagement bait”. It’s often inane or perhaps an inflammatory comment, it could be a boring...
View ArticleDenoising with DxO PureRaw4
The kind folks at DxO let me have a copy of the latest version of PureRaw ahead of launch last month and so I’ve been using that to process my RAW photos from my camera for a few weeks now. It does an...
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Orange Tip – Anthocharis cardamines
UPDATE: My report of Orange Tip on 2024-03-17 may well have been the first reported nationally this year, according to our County Butterfly Recorder. I saw my first Orange Tip (Anthocharis cardamines)...
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Upgrading your photographic workflow
Back in February, DxO sent me a beta version of their PureRaw4 software to test drive ahead of the official launch in March. So, having used version 3 for years, I was keen to incorporate the upgrade...
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More Fenland birding
Having spent a couple of evenings watching Starling murmurations with hundreds of thousands of birds, it was time to seek out some Aves in smaller numbers. I had a quick look in at RSPB Ouse Fen...
View ArticleFamous Connections – a new parlour game
I’m sure someone will tell me this has been done, but having come up with a silly meme idea on Twitter, I was thinking of a game that’s a hybrid between Six Degrees of Separation and Mornington...
View ArticleSciencebase social links
Social Media Mastodon | Threads | Facebook | BlueSky Photography Instagram | ImagingStorm Music BandCamp | Spotify | AppleMusic Incidentally, you can easily get to my other social media pages. All you...
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Culling in the name of…
If you have even a passing interest in the natural world, you will have most likely heard the phrase “invasive species”. By definition, a deliberate or accidental release of a species to an area beyond...
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