Steve locked in a shed

PhD, science. Officially retired! Biology, mostly ants 🐜 🐜 🐜, some botany, drone/UAV & GIS, coding, beer. He/Him/His... will also respond to “Oi you”

[Steve locked in a shed @SteveTypesStuff]

@ProfBrianCox That does look like the sort of book I would buy!

[Steve locked in a shed @SteveTypesStuff]

Went to see @BillBailey yesterday in #Thoughtifier.

One of the few people to have reduced me to actual tears of laughter on TV (Black Books - spoons+piano) delivered such a joyful medley of comedy and music on stage.

👍to the other musicians as well!

Sohhhhhhhhhh good

[Mattias Adolfsson @MattiasInk]

Green fingers

[Jolyon Troscianko @jTroscianko]

Hyperspectral Imager paper out! High sensitivity UV to nearIR, radiance & reflectance, runs from a smartphone. Build the system for about $450 from 3D printed parts & off-the-shelf components.

Paper: https://t.co/d3bg0sgZwS

Intro video: https://t.co/xDJPN0CPqC

[Steve locked in a shed @SteveTypesStuff]

@AJamesMcCarthy This works at museums too!

[Minnie @saintdutchess]

Dream chair. Ginkgo chair, Claude Lalanne (1997).

[Steve locked in a shed @SteveTypesStuff]

@professor_dave Is that Malham Cove? Looks fantastic. What a day for it.

[Chris Thorogood @thorogoodchris1]

A collection of plants in the broomrape family I have painted in oils. These plants are parasitic and lack green leaves, so their colours really pop out on canvas.

[Steve locked in a shed @SteveTypesStuff]

@aurorawatchuk I mean… technically it may be up there but is 15:00 and persisting down from 8/8 clouds. So no aurora for us today!

[Steve locked in a shed @SteveTypesStuff]

@thorogoodchris1 @kewgardens @NHM_London @OBGHA 🤣

[Jürgen E. Fischer🇪🇺🇺🇦 @JuergenEFischer]

https://t.co/tNQFc5jKtY

[Steve locked in a shed @SteveTypesStuff]

@thorogoodchris1 @kewgardens @NHM_London @OBGHA I came back from Tenerife with thousands of photos of plants, rocks, insects & insects on plants. Fortunately my wife is used to me driving along mountain roads & then suddenly hitting the brakes.

I drove past this beautiful yellow Dodder and saw it out of the corner of my eye.

[Chris Thorogood @thorogoodchris1]

A day after returning from the Canary Islands and look what arrived! The advance copy of my field guide to the wild flowers of the Canary Islands, published by Kew. Six years in the making, I'm especially excited about this field guide because I had the pleasure of coauthoring with the Islands' no. 1 botanist Alfredo Reyes-Betancort, and London Natural History Museum's Curator in Charge of botanical collections, Mark Carine. A lot of love went into this one. I hope you like it x

[Steve locked in a shed @SteveTypesStuff]

Saw in New Year in a Chinese restaurant… with Elvis! #NewYear2025

[Steve locked in a shed @SteveTypesStuff]

@professor_dave Ah yes, of course. Why didn’t I think of that?🤣

[Jack Ashby @JackDAshby]

Checking the teeth and mouths of #TasmanianDevils allows us to work out their age and look for signs of disease.
#fieldwork #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz #TasmanianDevil

[Steve locked in a shed @SteveTypesStuff]

@MattDoogue He’s a superb creature!

[Chris Thorogood @thorogoodchris1]

Today, ecologist Matías Hernandez Gonzalez and I surveyed populations of this extraordinary plant, Cistanche phelypaea, which is just announcing itself after the first winter rain.