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Deri Jones
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Engineer/surveyor and hillbilly. Designer of giant Airfix kits for boatbuilding and 3D laser scanner of everything from aircraft to theatres.
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Beech tree on today's walk - exploring a woodland for my lifelong learning course - Plants in their habitats.
October 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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With apologies to those looking for maritime shenanigans, but for the next week it's all about the bears of Katmai NP. The Fat Bear Week bracket is out, and it's brutal. 3 big names didn't even make the cut!

Voting opens 1700 UTC Tuesday 23rd

explore.org/fat-bear-wee...
Fat Bear Week 2025
Fat Bear Week 2025
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September 23, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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A powerful piece by @mountainogre.bsky.social on #microbes and #Arctic change, featuring our work on glacier ecology @aberdlsagb.bsky.social and work on methane cyclers by colleagues at UNIS

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Arctic glaciers face ‘terminal’ decline as microbes accelerate ice melt
Scientists in Svalbard in race to study polar microbes as global heating threatens fragile glacial ecosystems
www.theguardian.com
August 15, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Walk out the back went a bit further than I planned! A particularly nice part of the world on days like today.
July 24, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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July 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Gwna wahaniaeth!
Byddi wrth dy fodd yn nhîm deinamig a llwyddiannus y Rhaglen Fawndiroedd, yn anelu am #NaturUwchCarbonIs.
Felly brysia! Danfon dy gais cyn 20/7!
Mae 3 o’r 6 swydd yn gofyn am Gymraeg rhugl. bit.ly/40DGI8D
£41K-£44K+
@natreswales.bsky.social #swyddi
#Cymraeg @swyddi.360.cymru
July 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Glad I've got this guy as my MP. A daft amendment that just kicks the problem down the road and causes way more problems than it fixes. Thanks Steve!
On BBC Radio Wales this morning, I welcomed the government listening to MP's deep concerns about welfare cuts, but said I couldn't support a bill that will now instead treat those who become disabled in the future differently to those already claiming PIP. I will be voting against on Tuesday
June 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Less than £100 from doubling the target!
June 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Really looking forward to getting this - there's been a few of Jon's photos that have transported me back 40 years, as a kid moving to Ponty, then realising how much has changed down there as well.
Here we go folks! The Crowdfunder for the Valleys book is live! Super excited to get this going finally 😁😁😁😁😁 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/valleys-ph...
May 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Two launches for the price of one, the new NE fisheries protection vessel being craned in today and the Ted of Ladram fishing boat for Brixham on Saturday at Parkol Eng in Whitby.
May 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
April 28, 2025 at 10:09 AM
XKCD on the case as usual - anyone got any pizza they want scanned?
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April 9, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.
April 3, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Teams meeting cancelled, so went for a wander round the Banau Brycheiniog. Love the wire fence balls dotted around the place, keep expecting some giant cat paw to appear and push them off the hillside!
January 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users?

Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT

More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...
January 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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If you know of any civil or structural engineering students who are passionate about good design of buildings and the built environment, summer placements with my team are open for applications right now: careershub.burohappold.com/members/modu...
Buro Happold - Summer Placement - Structural Engineering
careershub.burohappold.com
December 21, 2024 at 3:29 PM
Another day in Poole, another passenger boat scan.
November 27, 2024 at 10:49 AM
Laser scanning on the Thames. Amazing how these little backwaters have almost their own ecosystem,800 ft below the jets coming in to Heathrow.
November 15, 2024 at 8:40 AM