Alun Salt
@alunsalt.bsky.social
Web thing for @botany.one. Reluctant tech adopter. Dysgwr Cymraeg.
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"The Perception of trees matters more than the reality"
(in UK) 🌳🤔🌍
>PR: findingnature.org.uk/2025/10/24/g...
>Paper: Green pathways to mental health: Relationships between treescapes and well-being and distress
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
(in UK) 🌳🤔🌍
>PR: findingnature.org.uk/2025/10/24/g...
>Paper: Green pathways to mental health: Relationships between treescapes and well-being and distress
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
October 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
"The Perception of trees matters more than the reality"
(in UK) 🌳🤔🌍
>PR: findingnature.org.uk/2025/10/24/g...
>Paper: Green pathways to mental health: Relationships between treescapes and well-being and distress
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
(in UK) 🌳🤔🌍
>PR: findingnature.org.uk/2025/10/24/g...
>Paper: Green pathways to mental health: Relationships between treescapes and well-being and distress
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Join iNaturalist for a webinar to learn more about how you can help others, even if you're not an expert. Rather than doomscroll on social media, you can positively contribute to improving our knowledge about biodiversity!
Nov 6, 2025 @ 1700 in London / Midday EST
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Nov 6, 2025 @ 1700 in London / Midday EST
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Identifying on iNaturalist: How you can help!. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
At its core, iNaturalist is about people helping each other identify and learn about the organisms they observe, but did you know only about 10% of the iNaturalist community identifies observations…
botany.fyi
November 3, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Join iNaturalist for a webinar to learn more about how you can help others, even if you're not an expert. Rather than doomscroll on social media, you can positively contribute to improving our knowledge about biodiversity!
Nov 6, 2025 @ 1700 in London / Midday EST
botany.fyi/diq8zn
Nov 6, 2025 @ 1700 in London / Midday EST
botany.fyi/diq8zn
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Best time to join the growing ranks of #BSBImembers?
In October to get 15 months of benefits for price of 12: that's when 100s of people inc @markavery.bsky.social & @alunsalt.bsky.social joined!
2nd best time? In November, to enjoy 14 months of benefits: bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/10/bsbi...
In October to get 15 months of benefits for price of 12: that's when 100s of people inc @markavery.bsky.social & @alunsalt.bsky.social joined!
2nd best time? In November, to enjoy 14 months of benefits: bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/10/bsbi...
November 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Best time to join the growing ranks of #BSBImembers?
In October to get 15 months of benefits for price of 12: that's when 100s of people inc @markavery.bsky.social & @alunsalt.bsky.social joined!
2nd best time? In November, to enjoy 14 months of benefits: bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/10/bsbi...
In October to get 15 months of benefits for price of 12: that's when 100s of people inc @markavery.bsky.social & @alunsalt.bsky.social joined!
2nd best time? In November, to enjoy 14 months of benefits: bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/10/bsbi...
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"At a writing conference, you attend an 'Empowering Women Writers' discussion panel, but when you arrive, it is composed entirely of men. Describe, in detail, how you would burn this motherfucker down."
Horrifying Writing Prompts
You inadvertently send your My Little Pony/The West Wing fan fiction to the New Yorker. If your reaction was a New Yorker cartoon, what would it lo...
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November 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
"At a writing conference, you attend an 'Empowering Women Writers' discussion panel, but when you arrive, it is composed entirely of men. Describe, in detail, how you would burn this motherfucker down."
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My first rainbow diffraction shot of the season can’t wait to see what happens next. Taken with the fab OM System 50-200 - f2.8 gives great background! @omsystem.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @bto-gbw.bsky.social @shropshirewildlife.bsky.social @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 8:14 AM
My first rainbow diffraction shot of the season can’t wait to see what happens next. Taken with the fab OM System 50-200 - f2.8 gives great background! @omsystem.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @bto-gbw.bsky.social @shropshirewildlife.bsky.social @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social
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Great Tit arriving in style! 😍
Taken at the weekend at RSPB Greylake in Somerset. 😊🐦
#birds 🪶
You can buy my 2026 Birds calendars here;
www.carlbovis.com/2026-birds-c...
Taken at the weekend at RSPB Greylake in Somerset. 😊🐦
#birds 🪶
You can buy my 2026 Birds calendars here;
www.carlbovis.com/2026-birds-c...
October 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Great Tit arriving in style! 😍
Taken at the weekend at RSPB Greylake in Somerset. 😊🐦
#birds 🪶
You can buy my 2026 Birds calendars here;
www.carlbovis.com/2026-birds-c...
Taken at the weekend at RSPB Greylake in Somerset. 😊🐦
#birds 🪶
You can buy my 2026 Birds calendars here;
www.carlbovis.com/2026-birds-c...
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I'm trying to use Bluesky to sell tickets to my comedy special taping. Don't make me promote on Twitter. I'd rather have an empty house. But it'd be so much nicer if it were full.
October 28, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I'm trying to use Bluesky to sell tickets to my comedy special taping. Don't make me promote on Twitter. I'd rather have an empty house. But it'd be so much nicer if it were full.
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Have you ever seen a wren have a bath? No? Nor had I till just now. Filmed through a rain-spotted window & on my phone, so not perfect, but hope it brings you a spot of delight nonetheless 🪶
October 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Have you ever seen a wren have a bath? No? Nor had I till just now. Filmed through a rain-spotted window & on my phone, so not perfect, but hope it brings you a spot of delight nonetheless 🪶
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Some excellent analysis from my colleague David Deans. If you want a hot take from me and other delirious colleagues this am, listen to #Walescast. And hopefully, for a slightly more considered take after the dust has settled, join me on Sunday for BBC #PoliticsWales 10am BBC One Wales + iPlayer
Plaid's Caerphilly by-election campaign always felt a question of whether it could pull off the victory you could see available in the numbers. PC had a block of about 8,000 voters, and local knowledge from its council base - could they get Labour voters to switch over?
October 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Some excellent analysis from my colleague David Deans. If you want a hot take from me and other delirious colleagues this am, listen to #Walescast. And hopefully, for a slightly more considered take after the dust has settled, join me on Sunday for BBC #PoliticsWales 10am BBC One Wales + iPlayer
Not convinced the Caerffili result is as big a blow to Reform as people claiming. Next year the Senedd will vote for sixteen 6-seat constituencies using the D’Hondt method. If they can hold onto a good chunk of their current vote, they’re the leading opposition party.
October 24, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Not convinced the Caerffili result is as big a blow to Reform as people claiming. Next year the Senedd will vote for sixteen 6-seat constituencies using the D’Hondt method. If they can hold onto a good chunk of their current vote, they’re the leading opposition party.
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The great thing about Muppet Christmas Carol is Caine plays it dead straight. There’s no wink, no tongue in cheek, he is the best Scrooge and that’s what makes the film so very, very good.
Unpleasant casting aside, I don't see what the point of any of this is when the definitive adaptation of this novel already exists amongst the thousands of other forgettable tawdry versions out there.
October 24, 2025 at 7:00 AM
The great thing about Muppet Christmas Carol is Caine plays it dead straight. There’s no wink, no tongue in cheek, he is the best Scrooge and that’s what makes the film so very, very good.
Visited the National Botanic Garden of Wales for a meeting tomorrow. Today had a behind the scenes tour, and a walk to see some fungi.
October 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Visited the National Botanic Garden of Wales for a meeting tomorrow. Today had a behind the scenes tour, and a walk to see some fungi.
Necessary work though. It’s well known Trump doesn’t have balls.
pretty crazy contrast between MPs' dithering over fixing Westminster (to save their lives) and Trump just bulldozing past of the White House (to add a ballroom)
October 21, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Necessary work though. It’s well known Trump doesn’t have balls.
The full phrase being “One bad apple spoils the whole barrel.” so a comment on the rotten state of Reform as a whole?
Nigel Farage has described a former senior figure in his party who has been convicted of taking pro-Russian bribes as a “bad apple”
Ex-Reform leader in Wales who took pro-Russian bribes was ‘bad apple’ – Farage
Nigel Farage has described a former senior figure in his party who has been convicted of taking pro-Russian bribes as a “bad apple”. Nathan Gill, who led Reform UK in Wales in 2021, admitted taking br...
nation.cymru
October 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
The full phrase being “One bad apple spoils the whole barrel.” so a comment on the rotten state of Reform as a whole?
Note to self, get my BSBI membership sorted out.
The amazing Dr Rachel Murphy from @plantlifeuk.bsky.social is speaking at #NPMS10 online celebrations on 18 Oct.
There would be no @npms.bsky.social without the volunteer surveyors who collect data about our wild plants. Rachel supports those #NPMSVolunteers & will be amplifying all #VolunteerVoices
There would be no @npms.bsky.social without the volunteer surveyors who collect data about our wild plants. Rachel supports those #NPMSVolunteers & will be amplifying all #VolunteerVoices
Book now for our online #NPMS10 celebration event on 18 October: https://ow.ly/jlRJ50X4fe4 Rachel Murphy from @plantlifeuk.bsky.social (1 of 4 @npms.bsky.social partners) will be talking about #NPMSVolunteer roles, opportunities & accessibility & hosting an array of #VolunteerVoices.
October 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Note to self, get my BSBI membership sorted out.
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What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too.
October 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too.
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Eight years ago, I published my grand unified theory as to why time itself is dilated and distorted under Trump's rule.
October 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Eight years ago, I published my grand unified theory as to why time itself is dilated and distorted under Trump's rule.
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It's the best time to join! We have so much in the pipeline, and the plants are as incredible as always. Join annually and get 15 months for the price of 12!
Our annual membership special offer opens today!
Join us this month & you'll enjoy 15 months of membership benefits for the price of 12.
Those benefits are so numerous & fabulous you'll have to head over here to see them all:
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Then join us! bsbi.org/join-us
Join us this month & you'll enjoy 15 months of membership benefits for the price of 12.
Those benefits are so numerous & fabulous you'll have to head over here to see them all:
bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/10/bsbi...
Then join us! bsbi.org/join-us
October 2, 2025 at 8:01 AM
It's the best time to join! We have so much in the pipeline, and the plants are as incredible as always. Join annually and get 15 months for the price of 12!
I don't see what the problem is here. The police found a car out of control on the road without a driver. Why can't they impound it, and charge the company for relevant crimes?
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
California police stumped after trying to ticket driverless car for illegal U-turn
San Bruno officers pull over Waymo but say a ticket wasn’t issued, as ‘citation books don’t have a box for “robot”’
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:35 AM
I don't see what the problem is here. The police found a car out of control on the road without a driver. Why can't they impound it, and charge the company for relevant crimes?
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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I may have found my defining quote.
Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!
Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!
September 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I may have found my defining quote.
Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!
Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!
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This really needs to be vastly bigger news across they media, but it'll be ignored because "just Wales" of course.
Nathan Gill, Reform's leader in Wales at the last Welsh parliament election, has pled guilty to 8 bribery charges, taking Russian cash while he was one of Nigel Farage’s MEPs to speak in favour of Putin's Russia in that parliament
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Reform UK’s ex-leader in Wales Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges
Gill admits to eight counts of bribery relating to pro-Russia statements made in the European parliament and articles
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
This really needs to be vastly bigger news across they media, but it'll be ignored because "just Wales" of course.
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A recent cartoon for @newscientist.com
p.s. my new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out now. Visit www.tomgauld.com for details
p.s. my new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out now. Visit www.tomgauld.com for details
September 26, 2025 at 12:49 PM
A recent cartoon for @newscientist.com
p.s. my new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out now. Visit www.tomgauld.com for details
p.s. my new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out now. Visit www.tomgauld.com for details
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The former leader of Reform UK in Wales has pleaded guilty to bribery charges relating to statements in favour of Russia in the European Parliament
Former Reform leader in Wales admits bribery charges over pro-Russian statements
The former leader of Reform UK in Wales has pleaded guilty to bribery charges relating to statements in favour of Russia in the European Parliament. On Friday, Nathan Gill, 52, of Anglesey, North Wale...
nation.cymru
September 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The former leader of Reform UK in Wales has pleaded guilty to bribery charges relating to statements in favour of Russia in the European Parliament
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It’s important to realize how many men grow up thinking that having ‘the pleading eyes of a girl looking up for protection’ makes them more of a man, without questioning why the bolstering of their self-esteem demands someone else’s distress.
Vance: "If you're a man and you see the pleading eyes of a girl looking up for protection, then we have to protect our girls and our women in this country."
September 25, 2025 at 8:08 AM
It’s important to realize how many men grow up thinking that having ‘the pleading eyes of a girl looking up for protection’ makes them more of a man, without questioning why the bolstering of their self-esteem demands someone else’s distress.
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Over 25 years ago I started lobbying, with colleagues, to get unis to take sexual violence seriously. Repeatedly institutions and research councils ignored, downplayed, or argued it 'wasn't a priority'. It always has been. The latest data shows action is STILL needed www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Thousands of students report sexual violence at university
Women and LGBT students were more likely to report incidents than their male and heterosexual counterparts.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Over 25 years ago I started lobbying, with colleagues, to get unis to take sexual violence seriously. Repeatedly institutions and research councils ignored, downplayed, or argued it 'wasn't a priority'. It always has been. The latest data shows action is STILL needed www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...