Silversprite
@silversprite.bsky.social
📖Research: planetary boundaries, biodiversity, apple orchards
🌍Interests: climate change, European heatwaves, deep ecology, GCR and ER, impacts of novel chemicals, OA publishing
🚶♂️Outside: Scandinavia, hiking, archipelagos, glaciers
🍰Food: lussekatter, tack
🌍Interests: climate change, European heatwaves, deep ecology, GCR and ER, impacts of novel chemicals, OA publishing
🚶♂️Outside: Scandinavia, hiking, archipelagos, glaciers
🍰Food: lussekatter, tack
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the thing is, it's not so much an abomination as it is a case of who would want to buy it premixed when having the three separately gives you versatility?
November 24, 2025 at 8:29 AM
the thing is, it's not so much an abomination as it is a case of who would want to buy it premixed when having the three separately gives you versatility?
November 24, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Home, while also a long way from home.
November 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Home, while also a long way from home.
Early morning walk into the city.
November 21, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Early morning walk into the city.
{short thread} This quote-post meme thread thing struck a chord with a few folk.
For a change I wasn't riffing and this *is* a core part of some kind of intrinsic philosophy, wrapped round a complicated mish-mash of values, proof, authenticity, evidence, and the persistence and accuracy of memory.
For a change I wasn't riffing and this *is* a core part of some kind of intrinsic philosophy, wrapped round a complicated mish-mash of values, proof, authenticity, evidence, and the persistence and accuracy of memory.
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
November 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
{short thread} This quote-post meme thread thing struck a chord with a few folk.
For a change I wasn't riffing and this *is* a core part of some kind of intrinsic philosophy, wrapped round a complicated mish-mash of values, proof, authenticity, evidence, and the persistence and accuracy of memory.
For a change I wasn't riffing and this *is* a core part of some kind of intrinsic philosophy, wrapped round a complicated mish-mash of values, proof, authenticity, evidence, and the persistence and accuracy of memory.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
November 20, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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@uksnowmap.com
Snowed overnight in NE66, this is quite a bit for us, but probably only a 3-4!!
#UKSnow
Snowed overnight in NE66, this is quite a bit for us, but probably only a 3-4!!
#UKSnow
November 20, 2025 at 6:11 AM
@uksnowmap.com
Snowed overnight in NE66, this is quite a bit for us, but probably only a 3-4!!
#UKSnow
Snowed overnight in NE66, this is quite a bit for us, but probably only a 3-4!!
#UKSnow
Every evening, an additional house or two in this end of the village have put their lights and/or a Christmas tree up.
Five weeks tomorrow.
Five weeks tomorrow.
November 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Every evening, an additional house or two in this end of the village have put their lights and/or a Christmas tree up.
Five weeks tomorrow.
Five weeks tomorrow.
Bit worried that Google have *sigh* slapped some kind of AI functionality onto Google Scholar, but the core service still seems to be there and the AI distraction is optional.
Would be nicer if Google directed their efforts and resources into more precise article and paper detection, but hey ho.
Would be nicer if Google directed their efforts and resources into more precise article and paper detection, but hey ho.
November 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Bit worried that Google have *sigh* slapped some kind of AI functionality onto Google Scholar, but the core service still seems to be there and the AI distraction is optional.
Would be nicer if Google directed their efforts and resources into more precise article and paper detection, but hey ho.
Would be nicer if Google directed their efforts and resources into more precise article and paper detection, but hey ho.
(1/2) Checking out a few webcams in Stockholm to see if snow is falling.
Riddarfjärden, Norra Mälarstranden, Riddarholmen and Västerbron in the foreground: a wintry sheen, but can't see snow flurries.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=agY6...
Riddarfjärden, Norra Mälarstranden, Riddarholmen and Västerbron in the foreground: a wintry sheen, but can't see snow flurries.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=agY6...
MEDview: DN-Skrapan, Stockholm
YouTube video by MED - Mediateknik
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:06 PM
(1/2) Checking out a few webcams in Stockholm to see if snow is falling.
Riddarfjärden, Norra Mälarstranden, Riddarholmen and Västerbron in the foreground: a wintry sheen, but can't see snow flurries.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=agY6...
Riddarfjärden, Norra Mälarstranden, Riddarholmen and Västerbron in the foreground: a wintry sheen, but can't see snow flurries.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=agY6...
Unfortunately, if you're of a certain age, it's impossible to hear "You're going to find me, out in the country..." without some kind of automatic reflex to sing "DFS, DFS".
EDIT: there's no mention of this online anywhere; wondering if the part of my brain filled with old TV adverts has glitched.
EDIT: there's no mention of this online anywhere; wondering if the part of my brain filled with old TV adverts has glitched.
November 18, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Unfortunately, if you're of a certain age, it's impossible to hear "You're going to find me, out in the country..." without some kind of automatic reflex to sing "DFS, DFS".
EDIT: there's no mention of this online anywhere; wondering if the part of my brain filled with old TV adverts has glitched.
EDIT: there's no mention of this online anywhere; wondering if the part of my brain filled with old TV adverts has glitched.
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Blogged: On the threat of mass redundancy
lornamcampbell.org/higher-educa...
My contribution to @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social's Lobby Your MSP campaign yesterday, and my own personal experience of redundancy in the past. #ucu #ucustrikes
lornamcampbell.org/higher-educa...
My contribution to @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social's Lobby Your MSP campaign yesterday, and my own personal experience of redundancy in the past. #ucu #ucustrikes
On the threat of mass redundancy
For three days this week, colleagues at the University of Edinburgh are striking as part of UCU Edinburgh’s ongoing industrial dispute with university management. Colleagues are protesting ag…
lornamcampbell.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Blogged: On the threat of mass redundancy
lornamcampbell.org/higher-educa...
My contribution to @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social's Lobby Your MSP campaign yesterday, and my own personal experience of redundancy in the past. #ucu #ucustrikes
lornamcampbell.org/higher-educa...
My contribution to @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social's Lobby Your MSP campaign yesterday, and my own personal experience of redundancy in the past. #ucu #ucustrikes
Between Tomasz Schafernaker accenuating forecasts of snow and cold at the end of the BBC lunchtime news, and my phone prophesising we are no longer in an English summer heatwave, I've been forced into a decision.
Later this afternoon I will purchase the first baking potatoes of this winter.
Later this afternoon I will purchase the first baking potatoes of this winter.
November 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Between Tomasz Schafernaker accenuating forecasts of snow and cold at the end of the BBC lunchtime news, and my phone prophesising we are no longer in an English summer heatwave, I've been forced into a decision.
Later this afternoon I will purchase the first baking potatoes of this winter.
Later this afternoon I will purchase the first baking potatoes of this winter.
Godammit - they lured me in from my now-abandoned walk. Yet again. Even the roadrunner wouldn't fall for this signage.
{disconsolately plunges fork into deep slice of coffee and walnut sponge cake}
{disconsolately plunges fork into deep slice of coffee and walnut sponge cake}
November 18, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Godammit - they lured me in from my now-abandoned walk. Yet again. Even the roadrunner wouldn't fall for this signage.
{disconsolately plunges fork into deep slice of coffee and walnut sponge cake}
{disconsolately plunges fork into deep slice of coffee and walnut sponge cake}
(1/4) Updating my list of certificates and transcripts, and at which levels (standard degree, masters degree) I've accumulated CATS points and ECTS.
Only a few weeks ago realised, after clarification from a Norwegian professor who ran a 2003 course in Denmark which awarded a bunch of ECTS, that...
Only a few weeks ago realised, after clarification from a Norwegian professor who ran a 2003 course in Denmark which awarded a bunch of ECTS, that...
November 18, 2025 at 8:16 AM
(1/4) Updating my list of certificates and transcripts, and at which levels (standard degree, masters degree) I've accumulated CATS points and ECTS.
Only a few weeks ago realised, after clarification from a Norwegian professor who ran a 2003 course in Denmark which awarded a bunch of ECTS, that...
Only a few weeks ago realised, after clarification from a Norwegian professor who ran a 2003 course in Denmark which awarded a bunch of ECTS, that...
It is that time of the year when I turn on the TV, see who is being interviewed, and say "Ah, good; Jona Lewie is still alive".
#StopTheCavalry #InTheKitchenAtParties
#StopTheCavalry #InTheKitchenAtParties
November 18, 2025 at 7:26 AM
It is that time of the year when I turn on the TV, see who is being interviewed, and say "Ah, good; Jona Lewie is still alive".
#StopTheCavalry #InTheKitchenAtParties
#StopTheCavalry #InTheKitchenAtParties
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Most of my wild apple trees this year struggled in the drought and made little to no fruit but Matilda Dodge’s trees on the Oakland U campus—downhill from a vast irrigated lawn—had their best year since I’ve lived here. I picked these in the wind and rain, they’re heirlooms and they are delicious
November 6, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Most of my wild apple trees this year struggled in the drought and made little to no fruit but Matilda Dodge’s trees on the Oakland U campus—downhill from a vast irrigated lawn—had their best year since I’ve lived here. I picked these in the wind and rain, they’re heirlooms and they are delicious
Startled at the weather forecast for tomorrow, which contains the first use of * for this season.
Now wondering if I should get the saddle out of the attic, for putting on the tauntaun before venturing to Aldi in the morning.
#Worcestershire #Hoth #SlightExaggeration
Now wondering if I should get the saddle out of the attic, for putting on the tauntaun before venturing to Aldi in the morning.
#Worcestershire #Hoth #SlightExaggeration
November 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Startled at the weather forecast for tomorrow, which contains the first use of * for this season.
Now wondering if I should get the saddle out of the attic, for putting on the tauntaun before venturing to Aldi in the morning.
#Worcestershire #Hoth #SlightExaggeration
Now wondering if I should get the saddle out of the attic, for putting on the tauntaun before venturing to Aldi in the morning.
#Worcestershire #Hoth #SlightExaggeration
Professional video by a commercial operation in Sweden - latitude 64° north - who use the -30°C/-22°F winter climate in their process of making strong cider/apple wine.
(this is somewhat different from home or farm made scrumpy in 1970s/80s rural Worcestershire)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eVS...
(this is somewhat different from home or farm made scrumpy in 1970s/80s rural Worcestershire)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eVS...
The Ice Cider Year - Wine making in the far North
YouTube video by Brännland Iscider
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Professional video by a commercial operation in Sweden - latitude 64° north - who use the -30°C/-22°F winter climate in their process of making strong cider/apple wine.
(this is somewhat different from home or farm made scrumpy in 1970s/80s rural Worcestershire)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eVS...
(this is somewhat different from home or farm made scrumpy in 1970s/80s rural Worcestershire)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eVS...
Current reading: Why we thrive beneath a northern sky - genomic signals of selection in apple for adaptation to northern Sweden (2024) by Skytte et al.
Much information on genetic testing of apples, and viability of cultivar growth in climate-affected high latitudes.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Much information on genetic testing of apples, and viability of cultivar growth in climate-affected high latitudes.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Current reading: Why we thrive beneath a northern sky - genomic signals of selection in apple for adaptation to northern Sweden (2024) by Skytte et al.
Much information on genetic testing of apples, and viability of cultivar growth in climate-affected high latitudes.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Much information on genetic testing of apples, and viability of cultivar growth in climate-affected high latitudes.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
November 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
Collecting some of the eclectic stationary and pens from various drawers, with a quiet determination not to purchase any more for a while. At least.
I accept this resolution will inevitably fail.
I accept this resolution will inevitably fail.
November 16, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Collecting some of the eclectic stationary and pens from various drawers, with a quiet determination not to purchase any more for a while. At least.
I accept this resolution will inevitably fail.
I accept this resolution will inevitably fail.
Wondering what the cat is destroying downstairs at {checks} 5:33am, but too sleepy comfy to get out of bed to find out.
So long as the cat hasn't yet levelled up to starting house fires (give it time) I'll deal with it during daylight.
So long as the cat hasn't yet levelled up to starting house fires (give it time) I'll deal with it during daylight.
November 16, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Wondering what the cat is destroying downstairs at {checks} 5:33am, but too sleepy comfy to get out of bed to find out.
So long as the cat hasn't yet levelled up to starting house fires (give it time) I'll deal with it during daylight.
So long as the cat hasn't yet levelled up to starting house fires (give it time) I'll deal with it during daylight.
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The training orchard I volunteer at loaded me up, a lot more than what’s in the picture , I only got 1 this year from my baby tree but otherwise locally seems to be a good year.
November 16, 2025 at 3:06 AM
The training orchard I volunteer at loaded me up, a lot more than what’s in the picture , I only got 1 this year from my baby tree but otherwise locally seems to be a good year.