Darren Green
@pinkmongoose.bsky.social
Academic in blue food/ecology. Amateur musician, grow veg, do web nerdery, hills, and lift heavy things. I crochet a mean doiley. University of Stirling but from Lincolnshire.
Thoughts dependent on environment and social structures around me.
Thoughts dependent on environment and social structures around me.
Erm... Who allowed "Storm Claudia"?
What next? Hurricane Gail or Typhoon Misty?
What next? Hurricane Gail or Typhoon Misty?
November 15, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Erm... Who allowed "Storm Claudia"?
What next? Hurricane Gail or Typhoon Misty?
What next? Hurricane Gail or Typhoon Misty?
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Designed to create anger... Except when you look at the numbers. They're talking about... school buses.
So 6% of pupils get funded transport, and of those 40% of those have special needs, but of THOSE, 9% travel alone.
That's 2 in every 1000 pupils.
Not a drama.
Designed to create anger... Except when you look at the numbers. They're talking about... school buses.
So 6% of pupils get funded transport, and of those 40% of those have special needs, but of THOSE, 9% travel alone.
That's 2 in every 1000 pupils.
Not a drama.
Councils paying school transport costs for 470,000 pupils in England
Local authorities say the cost of providing school transport is becoming
www.bbc.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Designed to create anger... Except when you look at the numbers. They're talking about... school buses.
So 6% of pupils get funded transport, and of those 40% of those have special needs, but of THOSE, 9% travel alone.
That's 2 in every 1000 pupils.
Not a drama.
Designed to create anger... Except when you look at the numbers. They're talking about... school buses.
So 6% of pupils get funded transport, and of those 40% of those have special needs, but of THOSE, 9% travel alone.
That's 2 in every 1000 pupils.
Not a drama.
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New paper just landed! All about National Action Plans against antimicrobial resistance, and why you might need to know about them.
New paper just landed! All about National Action Plans against antimicrobial resistance, and why you might need to know about them.
National Action Plans for Antimicrobial Resistance: What are they and how do they affect aquaculture? | Published in Bulletin of the European Association of Fish Pathologists
By Andrew P. Desbois, Athina Papadopoulou & 2 more. National Action Plans for Antimicrobial Resistance: What are they and how do they affect aquaculture?
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October 27, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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New paper just landed! All about National Action Plans against antimicrobial resistance, and why you might need to know about them.
New paper just landed! All about National Action Plans against antimicrobial resistance, and why you might need to know about them.
Remember Picture Box? With the spooky revolving box in soft focus? Sitting in front of the massive telly with the big flaps?
Here's the guy who played the theme tune playing the actual instrument...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=awaF...
Here's the guy who played the theme tune playing the actual instrument...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=awaF...
Les Structures sonores Lasry-Baschet
YouTube video by Nicolas de Laprade
www.youtube.com
October 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Remember Picture Box? With the spooky revolving box in soft focus? Sitting in front of the massive telly with the big flaps?
Here's the guy who played the theme tune playing the actual instrument...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=awaF...
Here's the guy who played the theme tune playing the actual instrument...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=awaF...
It does make my eyelid twitch that @woahglobal.bsky.social is the world organiSation for animal health, but @who.int is the world health organiZation.
:D
:D
October 16, 2025 at 11:26 AM
It does make my eyelid twitch that @woahglobal.bsky.social is the world organiSation for animal health, but @who.int is the world health organiZation.
:D
:D
Trying to get Copilot to help me with some settings issues on O365, and it can't.
It admits openly that it's less use than Clippy was 25 years ago.
It admits openly that it's less use than Clippy was 25 years ago.
October 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Trying to get Copilot to help me with some settings issues on O365, and it can't.
It admits openly that it's less use than Clippy was 25 years ago.
It admits openly that it's less use than Clippy was 25 years ago.
We had this same mumsy nonsense from Labour twenty years ago.
ID cards are a threat to the law abiding and mean nothing to the underworld.
ID cards are a threat to the law abiding and mean nothing to the underworld.
September 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
We had this same mumsy nonsense from Labour twenty years ago.
ID cards are a threat to the law abiding and mean nothing to the underworld.
ID cards are a threat to the law abiding and mean nothing to the underworld.
I see there's a convicted sex offender in the news whose opinion on whether another convicted sex offender sex offended or not with her other sex offender friend is being reported.
August 23, 2025 at 7:04 AM
I see there's a convicted sex offender in the news whose opinion on whether another convicted sex offender sex offended or not with her other sex offender friend is being reported.
I love the idea that the bosses of Temu are all about twenty, and randomly hang about in car parks.
June 16, 2025 at 8:29 AM
I love the idea that the bosses of Temu are all about twenty, and randomly hang about in car parks.
So I grew up with "Is the Pope Polish?" as a stock reply to an obvious question. I still use this despite obviously they haven't been for years. We need an update. Can I suggest
"Does the Pope know Paddington?"
This keeps the alliteration belovèd of British and Irish constituencies.
"Does the Pope know Paddington?"
This keeps the alliteration belovèd of British and Irish constituencies.
May 10, 2025 at 7:09 AM
So I grew up with "Is the Pope Polish?" as a stock reply to an obvious question. I still use this despite obviously they haven't been for years. We need an update. Can I suggest
"Does the Pope know Paddington?"
This keeps the alliteration belovèd of British and Irish constituencies.
"Does the Pope know Paddington?"
This keeps the alliteration belovèd of British and Irish constituencies.
A tariff on foreign movies is sneaky, because what it is is a tax on overseas English-language media. Once you've done it for films, why not news channels?
I.e. it contributes to #trump 's fascist agenda by controlling flow of information.
I.e. it contributes to #trump 's fascist agenda by controlling flow of information.
May 5, 2025 at 9:53 AM
A tariff on foreign movies is sneaky, because what it is is a tax on overseas English-language media. Once you've done it for films, why not news channels?
I.e. it contributes to #trump 's fascist agenda by controlling flow of information.
I.e. it contributes to #trump 's fascist agenda by controlling flow of information.
From the perspective of someone in Lincolnshire, I was wondering what might be a complete list of cities that could reasonably be considered "the capital" in some way. Have I missed any?
Leicester
Rome
Milan
Trier
Lincoln
Tamworth
York
Winchester
London
Northampton
Angers
Poitiers
Oxford
Leicester
Rome
Milan
Trier
Lincoln
Tamworth
York
Winchester
London
Northampton
Angers
Poitiers
Oxford
April 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
From the perspective of someone in Lincolnshire, I was wondering what might be a complete list of cities that could reasonably be considered "the capital" in some way. Have I missed any?
Leicester
Rome
Milan
Trier
Lincoln
Tamworth
York
Winchester
London
Northampton
Angers
Poitiers
Oxford
Leicester
Rome
Milan
Trier
Lincoln
Tamworth
York
Winchester
London
Northampton
Angers
Poitiers
Oxford
I love a nice wander in Holyrood Park or up Arthur's Seat, but the erosion up there is getting really bad. No wonder there's no bloody skylarks, as the signage says.
It's really apparent when you look at the aerial view.
It's really apparent when you look at the aerial view.
April 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I love a nice wander in Holyrood Park or up Arthur's Seat, but the erosion up there is getting really bad. No wonder there's no bloody skylarks, as the signage says.
It's really apparent when you look at the aerial view.
It's really apparent when you look at the aerial view.
PhD Timeline
www.xkcd.com
April 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
My first foray into the world of micro controllers. Finally using some of the electrical spares I've stripped off junk years ago lol. ESP32 off screen.
April 18, 2025 at 11:02 PM
My first foray into the world of micro controllers. Finally using some of the electrical spares I've stripped off junk years ago lol. ESP32 off screen.
Harvard has been around 400 years. It can cope with one nazi in a nappy.
April 16, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Harvard has been around 400 years. It can cope with one nazi in a nappy.
Successful arrival at Doncaster
April 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Successful arrival at Doncaster
A sunny day in the office in Britain means turning on the British aircon:
A bin stuck in the doorway.
A bin stuck in the doorway.
April 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
A sunny day in the office in Britain means turning on the British aircon:
A bin stuck in the doorway.
A bin stuck in the doorway.
Took this photo only two years ago while on holiday in NYC. Also visited Ellis Island and found it very moving: that sense of the USA having offered safe harbour and new opportunities to millions. But that's all in the past, isn't it?
April 1, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Took this photo only two years ago while on holiday in NYC. Also visited Ellis Island and found it very moving: that sense of the USA having offered safe harbour and new opportunities to millions. But that's all in the past, isn't it?
Did the old libgen search for how much of my oeuvre Zuckerberg stole via LibGen to power his word-salad generators.
20 papers apparently.
20 papers apparently.
March 22, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Did the old libgen search for how much of my oeuvre Zuckerberg stole via LibGen to power his word-salad generators.
20 papers apparently.
20 papers apparently.
I've just asked our administrator if the fourth-year exam can be moved, because the suggested date clashes with Ed Balls Day. I hope he knows I'm joking.
March 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I've just asked our administrator if the fourth-year exam can be moved, because the suggested date clashes with Ed Balls Day. I hope he knows I'm joking.
It's true, apparently.
March 11, 2025 at 10:36 AM
It's true, apparently.
Darren's R Top Tips!
A simple way to avoid the failing of "table" in the previous tip would be to sum over a testable condition and use sapply over a range, effectively like a column of SUMIFs in Excel.
sapply(1:10, \(i) {sum(c(1,1,2,3,4,5,6,6,6,8,1,2)==i)})
A simple way to avoid the failing of "table" in the previous tip would be to sum over a testable condition and use sapply over a range, effectively like a column of SUMIFs in Excel.
sapply(1:10, \(i) {sum(c(1,1,2,3,4,5,6,6,6,8,1,2)==i)})
March 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Darren's R Top Tips!
A simple way to avoid the failing of "table" in the previous tip would be to sum over a testable condition and use sapply over a range, effectively like a column of SUMIFs in Excel.
sapply(1:10, \(i) {sum(c(1,1,2,3,4,5,6,6,6,8,1,2)==i)})
A simple way to avoid the failing of "table" in the previous tip would be to sum over a testable condition and use sapply over a range, effectively like a column of SUMIFs in Excel.
sapply(1:10, \(i) {sum(c(1,1,2,3,4,5,6,6,6,8,1,2)==i)})