Amy Roberts

@ar387@mstdn.social
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PhD Biosciences Stats & Evidence Frameworks
#Data #Metadata #PIDs,
#EV driver. Live off-grid #WindTurbine & #Battery #Boardgames #Maker #3Dprinting #EcologicalGardener #HilbreIsland #MacroPhotography #Butterflies #Moths #Caterpillars #Dragonfly #Hiking
She/they 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 UK (born in the hills 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 live Angus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿)
Research Profilehttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Amy_Roberts43
ORCiDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7291-320X
Devil's-bit Scabious - formerly common but now quite rare in the Bath area. The food plant of Marsh Fritillary butterfly, Narrow-bordered Bee Hawkmoth and many other species. In #Bath #Somerset #UK
#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukwildlife #bathnature #flower #wildflower

What percentage of the world is farmland?

(via https://ourworldindata.org/global-land-for-agriculture)

The extent of the 1666 Great Fire of London superimposed over modern London.

(By @Julian_H0ffmann)
https://www.julian-hoffmann-anton.com/networks-and-maps/mbim2um1vvv5dtv39t9de35fx6z0ga

A Guide to Figuring out the Age of an Undated World Map by https://xkcd.com/1688/
Don't forget the awesome resource https://www.lightningmaps.org to track the #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.

LightningMaps.org
Lightning ⚡ is out at sea, so approx 40 miles from me, but still lighting up the sky dramatically. Please ignore the sound, is echo on glass of the pressing of start video.
It's been a while since I last posted. So I have been so so busy moving house. I am now a fully fledged off grider, with my own wind turbine & batteries 💨 ➡️ 🔋
Thought it best make the move before they ban trans people being allowed to do anything in this horrific country.
I rapidly need to learn how to grow more than tomatoes, potatoes and carrots to survive. Have cleared out the poly tunnel, next have a greenhouse to renovate.
Then my mission of becoming "The hermit on the hill" is complete.
I'm going to make sure all my open source software has one of the banned DEI words in it somewhere. Other nations will be able to use it, but not the US government. I don't even need to change from an open language--the USA will self-police.
Buying a cup of coffee to sit on an absolutely empty decking area outside a cafe and they require a table number. Even if till system requires it, use a random number, not make the potential customer walk out of your cafe to get the number, because you know what they won't walk back in and be your customer again
So finally it was clear enough to fire up a Black Friday present to myself the Seestar S50. Here is the Andromeda nebula M31 from Oxfordshire, UK stacked straight from the telescope (22 minutes of 10 sec interval stack). Will have a play with the image stack over the weekend as delving into #astrophotography for the first time.
#seestars50 #seestar