Graham Spiers I haven't stayed at the Balmoral since the time I found a bottle of wine in my room with a note attached saying "Please enjoy this bottle of wine", with a microdot in the corner informing me that if I *did* enjoy it it would cost me forty quid.

Delta Naturalists Outing to Blackie Spit, August 28, 2024 deltanaturalists.org/2024/08/28/del…

The study shows 85 per cent of previous habitats in the Lower Fraser River estuary are now either lost or disconnected by structures like dikes and floodgates... David Scott says efforts are being made to restore the [salmon] #habitat in the estuary. vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/09/03/juv…

Salish Sea too noisy for endangered resident orcas to hunt successfully, according to new research vancouversun.com/news/salish-se… via The Vancouver Sun

I don’t believe active discrimination against conservatives is the main reason academia is mostly liberal, because if you break it down by academic discipline, even math (5.6 to 1) and engineering (1.6 to 1) have more liberals.

Londoners at the food market in 1931. #1930s #oldengland

BREAKING: In an incredibly powerful moment, Vice President Kamala Harris has joined relief efforts in North Carolina. Could you imagine Trump doing this? Retweet so all Americans see this.

HEALTH UPDATE: It has officially been one year since I contracted Covid-19 while on set for my movie that I’ve been working on. I was once a very healthy 31-year old man, but now every day is a struggle for me. A THREAD... 🧵

Look what arrived in my mail today!! (since idk how to alt text a video: this is a real actual physical copy of our book, Epidemiology: An Introduction 🥳🥳)

Today marks the 52nd anniversary of the Clean Water Act. With the loss of over 3 billion birds in the past 50 years, and 138 bird species and subspecies designated “wetland dependent,” ongoing protections for our waterways is more important than ever. audubon.org/news/celebrati…

Beyoncé Harris rally speeches as Epidemiology text books my sister @epiellie wrote

Oh I bleeping don't believe it. Visiting someone who has just come out of hospital after a stroke. They come to the door. "Sorry, I'm not feeling very well, I've got such a nasty cold now." I get a covid test for them from the car. Immediate thick red line. 🟥🟥

Vaccines work. Vaccine denial kills. It’s that simple.

2/7 Grey Plover is one of seven species with a double promotion, going straight from LEAST CONCERN to VULNERABLE. It's a species that was not really on the conservation radar ten years ago. More here: wadertales.wordpress.com/2020/06/11/plo… #ornithology

3/7 Hudsonian Godwit is another species with a double promotion from LEAST CONCERN to VULNERABLE. The species faces challenges at every stage of its life: wadertales.wordpress.com/2020/08/28/tee… ... and as it crosses warming oceans: wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/03/15/nav… #ornithology

4/7 Broad-billed Sandpiper also goes from LEAST CONCERN to VULNERABLE. Fennoscandian surveys reveal big declines, as discussed here: wadertales.wordpress.com/2019/11/26/fen… Look out for upcoming #WaderTales blog! #ornithology #waders #shorebirds

5/7 7⃣ waders were promoted from LEAST CONCERN to NEAR THREATENED, including (Ruddy) Turnstone. Big issues in the Americas but disturbance may well be a global issue. More here: wadertales.wordpress.com/2020/02/03/dis… #ornithology

6/7 Dunlin moves to NEAR THREATENED too. The Baltic has been a focus for research into declines, as discussed here: wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/06/20/dun… Dunlin is one of 11 wader species on UK RED LIST: wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/10/04/uk-… #ornithology

7/7 Many #waders #shorebirds on the East Asian-Australasian Flyway are in trouble. It is not surprising that Curlew Sandpiper is now classed as globally VULNERABLE. More here: wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/02/10/how… Reminder of link to all 1⃣6⃣ 'promoted' species: birdlife.org/news/2024/10/2…

Letters: It seems things in Delta are done deals delta-optimist.com/opinion/letter… via Delta Optimist