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Dr Amy Roberts

@ar387.bsky.social

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PhD Biosciences (ecological systematic reviews & statistics), macro & astro photo, maker, renewables (living off grid), natural history (esp. Lepidoptera & Odonata), collect real paper books & journals. From 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Live 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. She/her 🏳️‍⚧️

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Claire's Trans Talks @clairestranstalks.bsky.social · 2d

Its time the NHS stopped lying to trans people seeking help.

Wait times listed on GIC websites are how long people have already waited.

They do not estimated wait times, and you can see why..

What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 2d

Gender Identity Clinic's Waiting Lists from Shortest To Longest

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Open Data Camp @odcamp.uk · 11d

Open Data Camp 10: Edinburgh is done! Until next time (maybe 😉 ).

In the meantime. do check out @drawnalism.com's output from the afternoon sessions - www.odcamp.uk/open-data-ca...

“That’s all folks!”

#opendata #odcamp

Open Data Camp 10: Sunday afternoon Sessions

Here is the Drawnalism output from the Saturday afternoon sessions. The Session grid can be found here. And with that, Open Data Camp 10: Edinburgh is done! Until next time (maybe ;) ). “That…

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Open Data Camp @odcamp.uk · 11d

Output from @drawnalism.com from this morning's sessions are now up on our blog.

www.odcamp.uk/open-data-ca...

#opendata #odcamp

Open Data Camp 10: Sunday Morning Sessions

Here is the Drawnalism output from the Sunday morning sessions. The Session grid can be found here.

www.odcamp.uk

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Open Data Camp @odcamp.uk · 12d

That's a warp for day one of Open Data Camp 10: Edinburgh. We're off down the pub, see everyone 09:30 tomorrow for another day of open data fun.

In the meantime. do check out @drawnalism.com's output from the afternoon sessions - www.odcamp.uk/open-data-ca...

#opendata #odcamp

Open Data Camp 10: Saturday Afternoon Sessions

Here is the Drawnalism output from the Saturday afternoon sessions. The Session grid can be found here. That’s a warp for day one. We’re off down the pub, see everyone 09:30 tomorrow fo…

www.odcamp.uk

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James Arthur Cattell @jacattell.bsky.social · 12d

The #odcamp session grid.

Digital version via bit.ly/ODC_SessionG...

A large landscape shaped board on an easel, divided into a grid of times and spaces. Each cell contains a large sticky notes, on which is written the name of a session topic, and the pitcher's name.

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Dr Amy Roberts @ar387.bsky.social · 12d

Another #TipsFromLocals for #ODCamp attendees is Black Lion Games, a board game shop on the walk down to the pub this evening. Just make sure you get there before they shut at 6pm www.facebook.com/blacklionedi...

Dr Amy Roberts @ar387.bsky.social · 12d

Attendees of #odcamp if you arrive early get a coffee at Press Cafe on the corner of Buccleuch Place. If you have time over the lunch period do visit Lighthouse Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social on West Nicolson Street literally a 5 minute walk away from the venue. Tips from local

Dr Amy Roberts @ar387.bsky.social · 12d

It is #odcamp in Edinburgh tomorrow. The 10th Open Data Camp. Think this will be my 3rd. I wonder if I will ever have to travel north for one, definitely less of a chance now I'm based in Scotland.

Dr Amy Roberts @ar387.bsky.social · Aug 30

Later they went for ice-creams

Dr Amy Roberts @ar387.bsky.social · Aug 30

The new Viking invasion of Scotland started very differently to the last. Firstly they came to Aberdeen on the ferry and next posed for photos.

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Dr Amy Roberts @ar387.bsky.social · Aug 26

Just trying out Gemini image generation model have put the query in the Alt text. Some nice creations of Martian lepidoptera, asked for butterflies and it's labelled up moths.

I would like the image of martian butterflies pinned in display cases ready to go on display in the martian natural history museum. This occurs in the future after humankind has tarraformed Mars and lived in the new biome for a couple of thousand years to allow species to evolve

Dr Amy Roberts @ar387.bsky.social · Aug 23

Digging the turf off my driveway and spotted this caterpillar which was in the root layer near white clover, vetch and yellow rattle.
Help needed to identify species, think it's a moth species, thanks. #caterpillar #lepidoptera #teammoth #IDneeded

Cream coloured caterpillar with dark reddish brown head. Small black dots on the body. Photographed on a light green plastic picnic plate

Overhead shot of cream coloured caterpillar with dark reddish brown head. Small black dots on the body. Photographed on a light green plastic picnic plate

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Dr Amy Roberts @ar387.bsky.social · Aug 3

Here is the larvae of a Common Hawker (Aeshna juncea) again double life size. This was actually a tiny 6mm in body length. Clearly see the "striped pyjamas" diagnostic feature even when this small. #dragonflies #odonata #macro

Dr Amy Roberts @ar387.bsky.social · Aug 3

Been a week since "Dragons on the Bog" training @britishdragonflies.bsky.social photos using Canon R6 and TTARTISAN 100mm F2.8 Macro 2X life size manual lens for 1st time
Got some great close ups of diagnostic features of the Azure Hawker (Aeshna caerulea) larvae unedited
#dragonfly #odonata #macro

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Dr Amy Roberts @ar387.bsky.social · Jul 26

Taking a lunch break from the @britishdragonflies.bsky.social training at Corrour and the station house café has done a special menu for us with a damselfly printed on it. #corrour #bds #dragonfly

Dr Amy Roberts @ar387.bsky.social · Jul 25

Corrour train station is the highest railway station in the UK, on the stunning West Highland Line. The Station House is accessible only by train or a twenty-mile walk. #TrainSpotting #Corrour

Dr Amy Roberts @ar387.bsky.social · Jul 25

Up at Corrour on the blanket bog with @britishdragonflies.bsky.social training course larvae surveying for White Faced Darter, Azure Hawker (and other species)

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Scott Shanks @scottshanks.bsky.social · Jun 29

Final post for #insectweek! We have 23 species of resident #dragonflies & #damselflies (Odonata) in Scotland. Azure Hawker, Northern Damselfly & Northern Emerald only breed in Scotland within the UK. Find out more at british-dragonflies.org.uk
@britishdragonflies.bsky.social @royentsoc.bsky.social

Male Common Hawker (Aeshna juncea). Fairly common and widespread in Scotland, but this species has undergone significant declines in England and across Europe. https://iucn.org/sites/default/files/2024-08/european-red-list-of-dragonflies-and-damselflies-_de-knijf-and-al-2024.pdf

Four-spot Chasers (Libellula quadrimaculata), a fairly common and widespread species across the U.K.

Northern Damselfy (Coenagrion hastulatum) larva. This blue damselfly species is restricted to the Cairngorms and North-east Scotland. It’s a priority species of the British Dragonfly Society & the Cairngorms National Park. The spotting behind the head and hinge-like nodes in the caudal lamellae are key larval ID features.

Northern Emerald (Somatochlora arctica) larva. This peatland specialist generally breeds in shallow bog pools and tunnels with lots of aquatic sphagnum mosses. Adults are often seen at the edge of woodlands or around scattered trees at the edge of moorland, but larvae may be found in pools quite a distance from trees.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · Jun 24

Make sure you turn up to the Mass Lobby tomorrow - 1-4pm.

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · Jun 25

So many people have taken part in our lobby today, including Abigail Thorn who came by to green card her MP.

A picture of Abigail Thorn green carding her MP

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · Jun 24

We served our claim form on the EHRC yesterday and it has just changed its interim statement.

Snip one is what its statement was. Snip two is what its statement now is.

*They now accept there is no need for employers to provide single sex toilets.*

This judgment has implications for many organisations, including:

workplaces
services that are open to the public, such as hospitals, shops, restaurants, leisure facilities, refuges and counselling services

sporting bodies

schools

associations (groups or clubs of more than 25 people which have rules of membership)

In workplaces, it is compulsory to provide sufficient single-sex toilets, as well as sufficient single-sex changing and washing facilities where these facilities are needed.

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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · Jun 23

I just got an email saying the embargo is lifted, so here's the full @vrubinobs.bsky.social press release: noirlab.edu/public/news/...

Ever-changing Universe Revealed in First Imagery From NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory - From distant stars and galaxies to asteroids whizzing through the Solar System, this next-generation facility ...

Ever-changing Universe Revealed in First Imagery From NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory

noirlab.edu

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Dr Amy Roberts @ar387.bsky.social · Jun 22

Made a moth trap over the weekend out of an old bucket, funnel, tall bedside lamp. Did about an hours mothing 21-06-25 results 15 micro moths plus macros were Map-winged swift (x2), The clay, Bee moth and Silver-grounded carpet (x2). Still haven't ID'ed number 2 on the pic
#moth #teammoth

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Dr Amy Roberts @ar387.bsky.social · Jun 22

Don't forget on lightning filled days and nights the awesome resource of
www.lightningmaps.org
#lightning #mapping

Real Time Lightning Map

See lightning strikes in real time across the planet. Free access to maps of former thunderstorms. By Blitzortung.org and contributors.

www.lightningmaps.org

Dr Amy Roberts @ar387.bsky.social · Jun 22

Lightning on the horizon striking out at sea, about 40 miles from me.