Reuben O'Connell-Booth
rocb-ento.bsky.social
Reuben O'Connell-Booth
@rocb-ento.bsky.social
PhD-ing insect conservation & agri-environment schemes. Reo29@cam.ac.uk
Reposted by Reuben O'Connell-Booth
4/ Using evidence gathered from old postcards, maps and the accounts of shepherds and botanists, I want to rebuild a picture of the chalk downland that existed until the 1940s - and in doing so, help efforts to restore it.

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How old postcards reveal the destruction of chalk downland
This post is by Guy Shrubsole. Rifling through boxes of old postcards in junk shops is, admittedly, not my coolest pastime. But it’s something I’ve started doing of late, because some o…
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September 25, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Sorry - the Y axis should say "Predicted catch". We controlled for weather by including temperature, rainfall and moonlight values as smooth terms in the model. Cheers!
June 9, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Its true! I quite like this staircase. faster, too - 0.63 iters/sec versus 0.45 for the base pipe. but anything not in square brackets causes a blockage!
May 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
needless to say this is also extremely fast!!
May 19, 2025 at 12:25 PM