Andy Collins
collinsarc.bsky.social
Andy Collins
@collinsarc.bsky.social
Reposted by Andy Collins
The Met Office now agreeing with this scenario for Friday. Bring.it.on!
November 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant but neglected, a heroine t...
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November 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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There's at least one documented record of Boat-tailed from Nova Scotia.
November 5, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Still hold if you believe this (ebird.org/news/grackles)? - "The important thing to take home here is that where its range overlaps with Great-tailed, Boat-taileds have brown eyes, and Great-taileds have yellow."
Grackles - Are you getting them right? - eBird
Blackbirds in general are often overlooked by birders; or perhaps better said, blackbirds are not often looked at by birders--at least not carefully. Too often we are content to identify these birds a...
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November 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Calshot in hants - no rings and fully winged
November 2, 2025 at 2:09 PM