I shan’t be coy. You should see RoosevElvis at the Royal Court. Not just for the spectacle of Roosevelt beating up a load of buffalo, although that was hilarious. It is funny and poignant and odd and has more layers than an onion. I was enthralled throughout the 90-odd minutes (it plays straight through) and […]
While the BBC has come under fire for being a bit crap about diversity in some areas, there’s no doubt that, within the organisation, there are concrete initiatives on going to try to improve diversity and the number of different voices that are heard. Part of this is their excellent BAME Expert Voices scheme, which […]
Bit of a gap in posting, eh? I’ve been doing bits of writing elsewhere but blogging is something I got out of the habit of doing regularly. Lately, though, I’ve had the urge to start up again, and having just moved the blog over onto a new hosting and updated the look and feel, now […]
This time next week, the first performance of Forbes Bramble’s Dark Earth will have been presented in a temporary space erected on an archaeological heritage site just outside Peterborough. And I’ll probably be heading back along the A47 to get a good night’s sleep, ready to do it all again the next day (and a few […]
It’s been a pretty busy month or so for me, with lots going on across the spectrum of Stuff I Do. On the marine science front, I’ve been doing some more work on fisheries assessments – both from an assessment point of view, and as part of an advisory group for a fishery preparing to […]
The title is only significant in that I couldn’t think of one. The only significance of that date is that it’s today’s! The last post was instigated by a bout of procrastination from a fisheries assessment – that got done, and I’m currently indulging in a bit of a break from going through comments on […]
I have a habit of wanting to learn how to do everything, so I’m no stranger to feeling a bit out of my depth. It’s a pretty familiar feeling – to the extent that I’m resigned to a background level of “huh?” Perhaps because of that, it takes a lot to really stress me out […]
It’s been a while since I’ve been to sea on a survey, but it looks as though tomorrow and Friday I’ll be on a fishing boat doing some video surveys. It’s essentially a training/supervisory gig, working with another scientist and a local fishing crew to see how feasible it might be for them to do […]
In a concerted effort to talk more about one of my main areas of work, I’ve decided to do a weekly blog dedicated to FISH! It might be fisheries biology, management of stocks, how to survey cockles, sustainability, a person or book, or issues in the news: anything, really, that is either topical or currently […]
I’ve been trying to decide whether or not to import old posts on one or more of the past blogs I’ve kept (still undecided), and in the process have been re-reading some of the things that preoccupied me a few years ago. It’s fascinating and weird. I suppose writing blog posts has always been a […]