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Adrian Pinchbeck

@adrianpinchbeck.bsky.social

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Builder and landscaper with interests in boating, angling, tagging sharks, benthic mapping and aerial surveying, BRUVs, searching for shipwrecks, technical builds, conservation, climate change...

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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · Aug 7

AI is now capable of designing a record-breaking deep sea submersible on its own. This marks a new age of exploration and I encourage all my fellow AI champions to build one and get in it so they can celebrate this achievement from the bottom of the sea.

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Adrian Pinchbeck @adrianpinchbeck.bsky.social · Jul 13

Wondering whether this small UK spider I observed subduing a wasp can be identified? No obvious web could be seen on the rose, but it seemed quite adept at avoiding the sharp end!

Adrian Pinchbeck @adrianpinchbeck.bsky.social · May 9

BREAKING NEWS: Garage blue tit cam reveals hatchlings this week! 🐣🐣🐣 😁

Adrian Pinchbeck @adrianpinchbeck.bsky.social · Apr 17

Just thought I'd catch up with the Blue Tit box this morning, as there's been quite a bit of nest building activity recently. I was surprised to see what might be a couple of eggs below feathers in the centre, and if so it would be about a week and a half earlier than last year. 🐣🐣

Camera view inside a box for Blue Tits, showing a bed of white feathers, and what could be two eggs in the very centre.

Adrian Pinchbeck @adrianpinchbeck.bsky.social · Mar 29

Ooo, think I got it there! 😁

A simple pinhole camera picked out the partial eclipse today, while sat in the greenhouse with a cuppa.

Adrian Pinchbeck @adrianpinchbeck.bsky.social · Mar 8

Lovely to return the boat in some spring sunshine, ready for the new season. Hardly any breeze too, so sent a drone up for a few shots before heading home.

There's Yorkshire stripes from above the surf, the dark ones containing Jet on this tide.
#dronephotography

Parallel surf shot highlighting a lightly breaking surf and dark stripes against the wet sand.

Some items of jet found among the dark stripes on the beach.

Adrian Pinchbeck @adrianpinchbeck.bsky.social · Mar 8

Ah well done, that's a nice shot too and one of my favourites. I was bitten by one of these in WA, but that wasn't a pretty sight! 😬

Adrian Pinchbeck @adrianpinchbeck.bsky.social · Mar 8

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James Thorburn @jathorburn.bsky.social · Feb 14

We're hiring a Research Fellow at Edinburgh Napier University to join the SharkScape project, a three–year, multi-institute project involving field-based research and data analysis.

Apply now: 🔗 jobs.ac.uk/job/DLV215/r...

#MarineScience #SharkConservation #ResearchJobs

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Magnus Johnson @nephropseu.bsky.social · Jan 30

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Adrian Pinchbeck @adrianpinchbeck.bsky.social · Jan 29

A three-faced four-eyed gargoyle perched on a 12th century church buttress, it was something the local clergy hadn't noticed from the ground!
#dronephotography

An unusual stone buttress gargoyle with three noses and four eyes, looking out from the church tower.

Adrian Pinchbeck @adrianpinchbeck.bsky.social · Jan 25

Church bellcot requiring prior to paint timber repairs, modelled with drone data captured just before the wind arrived.
#dronephotography #droneroofinspection #buildingsurvey

Adrian Pinchbeck @adrianpinchbeck.bsky.social · Jan 16

Home town sunset.
#dronephotography
#northyorkshire

Selby Abbey at sunset, viewed from over the river Ouse on Barlby bank.

Adrian Pinchbeck @adrianpinchbeck.bsky.social · Jan 14

Lovely shot to repay the risk.
Following a very dicey experience with a Red Kite a couple of years ago I'm now a little bit twitchy, and despite careful checking they somehow they persist in arriving from nowhere to regularly exercise my nerves! 😬

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Adrian Pinchbeck @adrianpinchbeck.bsky.social · Jan 11

At minus six celsius it was a tad nippy for mapping some woodland, so I sent the little one up for some overheads and grabbed an opportune silhouette on the way. 🥶
#dronephotography
#brassknobs

A frosty field boundary oak in silhouette five minutes after sunrise.

Adrian Pinchbeck @adrianpinchbeck.bsky.social · Dec 31

Secluded woodland grotto flown just below the canopy. 😬
#dronephotography

Small woodland grotto with dappled wintery sunlight picking out the contrasting textures of dormant bark of surrounding trees, and long-fallen timbers. Flown from an altitude of around two and a half metres.

Adrian Pinchbeck @adrianpinchbeck.bsky.social · Dec 30

Festively illuminated yachts inside Scarborough harbour.

Adrian Pinchbeck @adrianpinchbeck.bsky.social · Dec 29

Early morning tracks.
#dronephotography

Finally out to record some habitat restoration projects as the fog has lifted, but couldn't resist pressing the shutter button on my way up. 🌞

Sunrise through a cops, looking over agricultural tracks leading towards a wood on the horizon.

Adrian Pinchbeck @adrianpinchbeck.bsky.social · Dec 23

Yes, that looks to be correct.

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Magnus Johnson @nephropseu.bsky.social · Dec 21

AI, windfarms and fishing’s future podcast with Jim Cowie interviewing me. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

Ep 47. Magnus Johnson - AI, Wind Farms, and Fishing's Future

Podcast Episode · Seafood Matters Podcast · 19/12/2024 · 57m

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Adrian Pinchbeck @adrianpinchbeck.bsky.social · Dec 20

Me too! 😁

Adrian Pinchbeck @adrianpinchbeck.bsky.social · Dec 20

Conger eels are something of a rarity off East Yorkshire, with only a handful of official recordings between the Wash and Middlesbrough (about 200km of coastline). Luck would have it then, when one photo-bombed a BRUV recording over an inshore wreck earlier this year. 🦑🌍 #ukunderwater

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Adrian Pinchbeck @adrianpinchbeck.bsky.social · Dec 19

I live surrounded by tidal freshwater, if water conditions are favourable I'm occasionally tempted to drop a camera and attempt to record anything lurking. This day a fearsome looking pike scattered small fry to inspect my equipment.

That ominous face shows little mercy! 👀 😬

Adrian Pinchbeck @adrianpinchbeck.bsky.social · Dec 16

Indeed, and yes it did! 🤧😁

Adrian Pinchbeck @adrianpinchbeck.bsky.social · Dec 16

It has to be B!

Sat here nursing a cold, but you've inspired me to have a go. Having no stickers, I've decorated someone that came along a couple of years ago!

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