Sarah Dalrymple

@sarahdalgulls.bsky.social

Seabirder and gull fan in north-east England, my posts here are entirely my own also active at @sarahdalgulls@ecoevo.social on mastodon https://sarahdal.github.io/

People who are kind don't need to be told to be kind. People who are not kind will not be kind, no matter what you tell them to do. Don't waste your life.

The Unthanks and friends with Royal Northern Sinfonia tonight on Radio 3 (5th Aug). "Songs shaped by the North and reimagined by the orchestra in bold new ways. an evening of storytelling, atmosphere and musical alchemy." #Northumbria #NorthEastEngland #music #proms www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2026, Proms Across the UK: The Unthanks and friends with Royal Northern Sinfonia

The Unthanks and friends with Royal Northern Sinfonia at the BBC Proms.

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'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn landscape from above. It shows a forest on the right, a line of fire and charred ground with smoke on the left. The smoke is felted wool.

Over the last week there has been positive progress as firefighting efforts continue in the Cairngorms National Park. However, there are still hotspots. It may be some time before the fire is fully extinguished and, as we have already seen with this fire, the situation can change quickly.

Direct, full-time jobs opening Rosebank oilfield would create: 450 D, f-t jobs opening Jackdaw gasfield would create: 27 D, f-t jobs in UK's net-zero economy: 300,000 + 400,000 more on the way D, f-t jobs in the rest of the green economy: 600,000 Is that really the hill Burnham wants to die on?

The finding: no plastic (>1 mm) in any specimen. In marine plastic research, that's a rare and genuinely good result. It suggests pelagic elasmobranchs here may have lower plastic exposure than we'd assume, and gives us a solid baseline to track change over time.

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