Rich Grenyer
@grenyer.bsky.social
Biodiversity scientist at the University of Oxford; Fellow @JesusOxford. Conservation planning, computing and consequences. Reluctant user of algorithmic social media.
The brain - mine at least - is just not meant to experience so many different and intense emotions in such quick succession. A few weeks or months away show you this dopamine buffet and its consequences - it becomes an affective version of Douglas Adams’ Total Perspective Vortex.
January 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The brain - mine at least - is just not meant to experience so many different and intense emotions in such quick succession. A few weeks or months away show you this dopamine buffet and its consequences - it becomes an affective version of Douglas Adams’ Total Perspective Vortex.
Amazing-looking paper in Nature on the new @IUCN ecosystem typology. It’s a hugely ambitious idea, with profound and quite hard-to-predict consequences for monitoring: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05318-4 Itâs also got an eye-opening (presumed) response to a reviewer…
January 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Amazing-looking paper in Nature on the new @IUCN ecosystem typology. It’s a hugely ambitious idea, with profound and quite hard-to-predict consequences for monitoring: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05318-4 Itâs also got an eye-opening (presumed) response to a reviewer…
Yes, a screenshot of a retweet. But the UN just retweeted to the world a warning from major conservation bodies about the Conservatives’ plan to destroy three fundamental legislative pillars of nature protection in the U.K. without clear replacement. It’s bad on a global scale.
January 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Yes, a screenshot of a retweet. But the UN just retweeted to the world a warning from major conservation bodies about the Conservatives’ plan to destroy three fundamental legislative pillars of nature protection in the U.K. without clear replacement. It’s bad on a global scale.
For anyone wondering how all their water got onto the ring road last week - I don’t think they’re meant to look like this normally.
January 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
For anyone wondering how all their water got onto the ring road last week - I don’t think they’re meant to look like this normally.
I’m not particularly skilled at presentational politics, but I can’t help thinking that “Shall I publicly associate myself with pumping actual human shit onto beaches and rivers in August?” only has one answer, and it isn’t yes. https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/sewage-vote-how-my-mp-dumping-raw-...
January 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I’m not particularly skilled at presentational politics, but I can’t help thinking that “Shall I publicly associate myself with pumping actual human shit onto beaches and rivers in August?” only has one answer, and it isn’t yes. https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/sewage-vote-how-my-mp-dumping-raw-...
When people calculate the carbon footprint of motor sports, they include all this stuff, don’t they?
January 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
When people calculate the carbon footprint of motor sports, they include all this stuff, don’t they?
I love dog ownership
January 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I love dog ownership
What’s do you need? You need my favourites from the 1065 dog names from ~1450AD given in https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/J.VIATOR.1.103488 #marking #beste-of-all #terry
January 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
What’s do you need? You need my favourites from the 1065 dog names from ~1450AD given in https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/J.VIATOR.1.103488 #marking #beste-of-all #terry
Nightmare fuel. Highly mobile and pretty pissed off, too.
January 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Nightmare fuel. Highly mobile and pretty pissed off, too.
Safari knows what’s up.
January 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Safari knows what’s up.
There is little sexual dimorphism among walruses, so males and females are difficult to distinguish from one another. Pregnancy typically lasts 15 months before a single calf is born weighing 800-1000 kg.
January 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
There is little sexual dimorphism among walruses, so males and females are difficult to distinguish from one another. Pregnancy typically lasts 15 months before a single calf is born weighing 800-1000 kg.
Oh cool, there’s a #carnivorous #liana. Not - sadly - carnivorous at the vine life stage, when it can get to 50m in length! But as a teenager, it has a sundew-like phase (who didn’t?): #Triphyophyllum #peltatum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triphyophyllum
January 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Oh cool, there’s a #carnivorous #liana. Not - sadly - carnivorous at the vine life stage, when it can get to 50m in length! But as a teenager, it has a sundew-like phase (who didn’t?): #Triphyophyllum #peltatum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triphyophyllum
There is nothing funny about British place names.
January 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
There is nothing funny about British place names.
I try, I really do. But every now and again I have to give up for a while.
January 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I try, I really do. But every now and again I have to give up for a while.
#Worldle #64 1/6 (100%)
🟩©🟩🟩🟩🎉
https://worldle.teuteuf.fr so far I am enjoying worldle and am quite good at it :)
January 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
#Worldle #64 1/6 (100%)
🟩©🟩🟩🟩🎉
https://worldle.teuteuf.fr so far I am enjoying worldle and am quite good at it :)
So I clicked it. Thanks, Twitter, for protecting me.
January 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
So I clicked it. Thanks, Twitter, for protecting me.
Since 2011 @OxfordUni_BCM students, and since 2014 @oxfordgeography undergrads have been visiting this #restoration site in #Tenerife to observe and measure the return of the laurel forest. We’ve not been able to visit for three years thanks to COVID, so when I got there today…
January 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Since 2011 @OxfordUni_BCM students, and since 2014 @oxfordgeography undergrads have been visiting this #restoration site in #Tenerife to observe and measure the return of the laurel forest. We’ve not been able to visit for three years thanks to COVID, so when I got there today…
A little late for #IWD2022 but just lovely to catch up with three amazing ex-DPhil students of mine from pre-COVID days and to hear how they’ve been changing things and what will happen next. It’s really humbling.
January 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
A little late for #IWD2022 but just lovely to catch up with three amazing ex-DPhil students of mine from pre-COVID days and to hear how they’ve been changing things and what will happen next. It’s really humbling.
“It is … unfortunate that you are unable to review the manuscript at this time.” I can never read it any other way.
January 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
“It is … unfortunate that you are unable to review the manuscript at this time.” I can never read it any other way.
Some good news in amidst everything else. https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/arctic-seed-vault-receive-rare-deposits-2022-02-13/
January 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Some good news in amidst everything else. https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/arctic-seed-vault-receive-rare-deposits-2022-02-13/
Given everything else going on *gestures*, the discovery that one form of MRSA resulted from a 200yo+ fight between Staph a and ringworm in a hedgehog’s nose may not be getting the attention it deserves. https://www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/article/antibiotic-resistance-developed-in-hedgehogs-long-before-the...
January 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Given everything else going on *gestures*, the discovery that one form of MRSA resulted from a 200yo+ fight between Staph a and ringworm in a hedgehog’s nose may not be getting the attention it deserves. https://www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/article/antibiotic-resistance-developed-in-hedgehogs-long-before-the...
Right, I’m done with machine learning. This is overfitting, underfitting *and* a stationarity assumption all in the same model.
#LesMisFFS.
#LesMisFFS.
January 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Right, I’m done with machine learning. This is overfitting, underfitting *and* a stationarity assumption all in the same model.
#LesMisFFS.
#LesMisFFS.
Inside everyone are two wolves. One is eating cheese, on the sofa. The other has no idea what day it is.
January 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Inside everyone are two wolves. One is eating cheese, on the sofa. The other has no idea what day it is.