Helena Pilih

Trail runner and product manager.

[Helena Pilih @oohelen]

@KitFitton @glastonbury Aw, congrats Kit (and Charlotte)!!

[Helena Pilih @oohelen]

Woah!

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Apple’s “no-prick” blood-glucose monitoring moonshot was started by Steve Jobs. The secretive project was run under a fake startup called “Avolonte”.

The device is currently size of an iPhone (worn in bicep). Plan is to shrink the tech into the Watch and here’s how it works:

[Helena Pilih @oohelen]

@Naturalcalendar Definitely starlings 😂😂

[Helena Pilih @oohelen]

🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[Tortoise @tortoise]

To prove this, we registered Archie, our pet tortoise, as a member; a couple of foreign nationals; then Margaret Roberts, the maiden name of the late Lady Thatcher.

The Conservative Party took the £25 membership fee. We got membership numbers and were invited to hustings.

[Helena Pilih @oohelen]

All of the news has been awful but seeing @Natures_Voice lose it this weekend has really struck me. Proud supporter.

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It is UNFATHOMABLE that this Tory mess will go on for another 2 years

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@MorgainePen1 @Emma_Marris I still get goosebumps thinking about that Overstory storyline! 👌 Kingsolver is brilliant so I now must look into Abbey as well.

[Helena Pilih @oohelen]

@Emma_Marris Cliche but The Hidden Life of Trees awakened my empathy for nature and started me thinking about my habits. The Ecology of Eden changed my thoughts on conservation and made me volunteer with a local forest conservation group. Wagner’s Climate Shock killed my fire.

[Helena Pilih @oohelen]

Earlier this summer I read a book that has changed so profoundly how well I know myself, for the better. And I keep returning to it still. My holy grail book recommendation:

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Nudging can help in the moment for sure but you need to address other factors like the person’s motivation, environment, etc. for lasting change.

[Helena Pilih @oohelen]

This is false. Longer term research has shown that nudging only affects desire to change behaviour / actual change to behaviour for as long as you keep nudging. If you remove the nudge, in many cases the behaviour change doesn’t stick.

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

❓But does nudge work?

Analysis of more than 200 studies found that nudge was “an effective and widely applicable behaviour change tool”.

They concluded that nudging was “key to tackling some of today’s most pressing societal problems, such as the pandemic & climate change”

[Noticing Nature: the British microseason project @Naturalcalendar]

MORNING FOLKS! It's Kiera here, for the start of the next microseason! And it's going to be a hot one, not just for all of us, but for our wildlife.

So what can we all do this weekend to get our homes and gardens ready to give wildlife a helping hand in the heat? A 🧵

[Helena Pilih @oohelen]

@Liggi I can’t keep up with the carnage 😂 😂 (and not sure I want to after the Private Eye report)

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@anicolson @JMLockhart2 Such a fascinating book! 💕 I schlepped the hardback to the beach & back last year 😅

[Helena Pilih @oohelen]

@inaturalist Seek has been my fave app through lockdowns - thank you! Is there any way I can sync my observations to inaturalist after the fact? Just got a new phone and created an inaturalist acc but seems I'll still lose all my observations created before :(

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@animalhavenva @andrewbutters @CherylStrayed @andyweirauthor I can't imagine NOT reading this via the audiobook version. The narrator did such an incredible job!

[Helena Pilih @oohelen]

@alg_alison @CherylStrayed Yes!!! Barbara Kingsolver is my favourite recent discovery. Loved Flight Behaviour and Prodigal Summer.

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@frberkley4 @CherylStrayed Amor Towles is so consistently good 😭 Really need to push Hamnet up my TBR

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@AdamRutherford The line "turn you inside out to lick you like a crisp packet" on alt-j's every other freckle - all of the lyrics are great but this one line and the serious emphasis on it amuses me every time

[Helena Pilih @oohelen]

@justjuliawhelan @MacMillan It was such a good experience. You're consistently one of my top narrators ❤