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  I’d love to connect with other mature PhD students to share experiences. I’m 41 and just getting started researching citizen science in river health monitoring and restoration. #PhD #AcademicChatter

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  It’s easy to feel despair at the state of the environment but I spent yesterday in a room full of people all trying to make one river catchment better, tackling it from different angles and coming together to share what they’re doing and learn from others and it’s made me feel really invigorated and inspired. There’s people out there taking on these essential challenges so if you’re feeling the despair too, find them and join in.

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  Apparently 3 wildfires locally in the last fortnight and the government alert is not enough to deter one of my neighbours from having a garden fire to burn waste

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  Aftermath of the local nature reserve fire. We got lucky considering how much dry grass there is here. The fire was reported quickly and was near to an easy access point for fire engines, otherwise it could have been much worse. #SouthYorkshire #UKWildfire

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  Week 2 of my road being closed and the street has filled with kids on bikes. I don’t know how we came to prefer constant streams of noisy traffic over this.

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  TFW where you *really* want to make a specific dress, have the sewing pattern all traced out, and the fabric washed, but somehow cannot bring yourself to actually get on and start making the garment. #sewing

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  My road is closed for the next 6 weeks as we're getting a new sewerage system installed to help deal with the flooding our village and the next village over experiences. This gives us 6 weeks of freedom from the rat runners, the boy racers, and motorbikers using the villages as their personal race track, and a fascinating engineering project to watch! And we get a free regular bus to town until it's all over!

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  Current and former PhD students - is there a question you wish you'd asked your PhD supervisory team before starting? #PhD #Academia

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  Who wants to see some peregrine chicks? 🙋‍♀️ The Sheffield peregrines have hatched 4 chicks and you can see their live nest feed here: https://digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Peregrine+Nest+Camera/1_7i0g32tu #birds

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  Pond is looking more pond-like and less like a big plastic sheet now. And I used an off-cut of the liner to make a mini pebble pond in an old trough in the back yard by the house. #pond https://ecoevo.social/@Kimberley/116385511516564089

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  Sheffield Independent Book festival takes place this weekend with talks and events at different venues across the city https://www.sheffieldindiebookfest.com/ #sheffield #books #Yorkshire

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  I miss good charity shops. My nearest are just filled with fast fashion that weren't great when first purchased never mind second hand. Is there anywhere (UK, middle or northern England ideally) that still has good charity shops? I'm willing to do a day trip for a proper rummage. Edited to add I don't use Vinted, had a terrible experience with that app.

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  In other news: we have a pond (cat approved) The natural pond unfortunately didn’t work out. We managed to slow the water loss but not by much, it was still draining after a week. In the end we went with a liner. Now to make it look more like a nice wildlife area and less like a big plastic sheet. #pond #wildlifeGarden

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  Had a lovely chat with my neighbour out in the garden. He struggles to grow fruit and lost all his raspberries, I lack the patience for annual veg seed starting but my perennial fruit plants are very abundant so he offered to share his veg in exchange for some fruit. Between us we've got a good harvest covered. I like that rather than all of us trying to grow bits of everything. Also traded some raspberry cuttings for well rotted horse manure from another neighbour. #gardening #GrowY...

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  There’s an ant party going on in some old dead leaves on my alchemilla mollis plant #ants #myrmecology

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  I have been meaning to repot my monstera for a while. Dusty clearly decided I’d put it off too long.

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  Finding a lot of these little hibernating buddies in my garden at the moment. I just put whatever they’re hiding under back and work elsewhere. They’re ruby tiger moth (Phragmatobia fuliginosa) caterpillars I believe #gardening #wildlifeGarden

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  After a flurry of rejections I've received an interview for another PhD project. Hopefully this will be less of a disaster than the last one!

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  Alys Fowler will be giving a talk on peat bogs and the need for going peat-free in our gardens on 25th March in Sheffield. Hoping they'll also have copies of their book for sale too. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-plants-tickets-1985103535111 #Sheffield #PeatFree #GardeningUK

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  Database of Insects and their Food Plants https://dbif.brc.ac.uk/homepage.aspx This resource lets you search for specific insects (maybe those local to your area) and what plants they need as food sources, or you can search for specific plants and see what insects they attract

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  I'm thinking of digging out a pond in my garden. I have a high clay content soil and a high water table, and really want to avoid a plastic liner if possible. A little worried that I'll put all the efforts in and then it won't hold water, although even if the really hot dry summer my garden soil still held moisture. Any tips on creating natural ponds? I don't have the budget for bentonite clay lining.