I passed my viva yesterday morning in #Geography and Planning at the @liverpooluni.bsky.social @geodatascience.bsky.social It still feels so surreal. I am so happy, but it has been such a long and complex process. I am grateful to everyone who has been a part of my #PhD journey.

Exciting news! We've launched a new MSc in Wildlife Health and Conservation, offering students the opportunity to develop the specialist skills needed to protect wildlife populations and support global biodiversity in collaboration with Chester Zoo! 🦁 Read more: news.liverpool.ac.uk/2026/02/13/n...

Owning a cat can get you past anything challenging in life. #cats #blueskycats

Liverpool folks! (Especially, but also everyone else) We've had snow. Please could you help me out and fill in my survey on attitudes to snow clearing. Pictured: my path, which I haven't done yet...

Alex Nurse@alexnurse.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Did you have snow overnight/today? #UKSnow I’m researching public attitudes towards clearing Snow and Ice in the UK. Are you over the age of 18 and live in the UK? If so, you can take part in my research by clicking this link (details inside) app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/liverpool/...

I am attempting to understand how my case left the UK at 20.3kg and since, nothing additional has been added to it and weighed 20.4kg at the hotel, 22.7kg on one of the scales in the airport, and now 24.9kg at the bag drop. Do they calibrate?

Successful @giscience-conf.bsky.social conference in Christchurch this week, next stop - one week A/L in Auckland visiting family. Ka kite anō, Ōtautahi. See you again, Christchurch. #newzealand #aotearoa

Thank you to everyone who took their time to discuss my research with me and for any compliments too! A great memory for @giscience-conf.bsky.social. p.s. apologies for any mumbling, jet lag is real. #poster #presentation #conference #geospatial #greenspace #quality

Fantastic keynote session from Dr Michelle LaRue, University of Canterbury discussing #remotesensing imagery for monitoring the Antarctic emperor #penguin population. #giscience2025

A slightly creased scientific poster at the #giscience2025 conference, but proud to be in attendance. #phdlife #conferences #geospatial #giscience

In my typical fashion I overestimated the walk and arrived early to an event. First day of the #giscience2025 conference in this beautiful city. A few highlights from the walk below 👇🏻 #Christchurch #Ōtautahi #NewZealand #Aotearoa

It is currently 17:20 NZST and my body still thinks it is 06:20 GMT. I travelled for 45 hours from my home in the UK to the hotel in NZ, sleeping for only 3 hours. Caught up on sleep last night, but tiredness is starting to creep up again. Hopefully I am refreshed for the poster session. #phdlife

My first full-day in Christchurch for the #giscience2025 conference (starting tomorrow for me) and I highly recommend Dosa Kitchen at the #Riverside #Market for anyone into #streetfood. The mixed vegetable Dahl with naan is mouthwatering! And wow! The #Christchurch Botanical Gardens are awesome!

Excitement is building as the #NewZealand trip draws closer for #giscience2025. Academic #poster arriving tomorrow! #greenspaces #phdstudent #phdlife

Airline, hotel and conference booked for #GIScience2025 in Christchurch, NZ. I cannot wait to travel to NZ for an interesting event and to present my research in a poster format. #academia #phdlife #greenspaces

🎓 Are you a marine MSc or PhD student passionate about climate change and biodiversity? Join our Summer School in Ischia, Italy! 📅 Sept 14–20, 2025 📝 Apply by May 26 → bit.ly/42VRjfL 🔬 Explore seawater chemistry, R & GitHub, blue carbon, drone surveys, and photogrammetry — right in the field 🌊🌐🧪🦤

I have taken part in these sessions in previous years with Nick Moran leading a brilliant approach to learn #bird ID from their #songs and calls. I would highly recommend it to anyone with an interest in bird #surveying, whether just starting out or developing birder upskilling. #ornithology 🐦🐦‍⬛

BTO | British Trust for Ornithology@btobirds.bsky.social · last yr.

Learn to recognise widespread UK songbirds in summer by their songs and calls in our Bird Sound ID in Summer sessions. Book now ➡️ www.bto.org/training #Ornithology

My new #motto in #life: "Wing it like a #lapwing". Also, here is a badger I captured on the camera trap during field work.

Staffing on an ecology field trip and taking the opportunity to be in a remote location by deploying #camera #traps. Otter would be a bonus to capture. #ecology #academic #wildlife #surveying

I am now providing private #tutoring for #naturalsciences, #ecology, #wildlifeconservation and #healthgeography. Including study skills support, guidance and #R tutoring / support.

20 days left of my 20's... I'm not ready to be 30. Where is the rewind button?

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www.nature.com/articles/d41...

UK PhD students welcome 8% pay boost, but demand more to meet rising living costs

Minimum stipends will rise from October in line with living-wage levels, says the country's main funding agency.

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Day 3: I am becoming progressively sicker 🤧🤒 while attempting to work on my #PhD from home. It feels as if a boxer has delivered a perfect left hook to my head - pre match.

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Thanks #Microsoft, for forcing a #windows update overnight, when my PC should have been running a computationally intensive analysis.

Lazy #sundays with Elsie the #cat

I have clearly been doing sit ups wrong according to #Dalle via #ChatGPT. Next time, I must grow extra limbs.

My #cat looking posh and annoyed.

Sock #cat

Tested #DeepSeek #AGI by asking it to comment out a specific line of code in the correct position. It took 408 seconds to break the #R script instead. #ChatGPT has repeatedly commented the line below and sends the same response each time. AI / AGI be crazy. I guess I will just press Ctrl Shift C.

Entering the #Mersey T Flow lane, the barrier does not open immediately. It lifts and drops again, staying red. I keep creeping forward, not stationary. The tunnel staff signal they are coming, but the van behind ignores this, blaring their horn. Impatience will not make me move faster, Mr Van.

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