Richard Ostler

What a difference a day makes. Yesterday 28 Dunlin and 3 little ring plovers, and a few lapwing from Dudney, #grafhamwater, this morning ~50 lapwing and 6 black tailed godwits. And no dunlin or LRPs @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social

We're recruiting for a Research Farms Data Manager to support digital data recording and reporting across @rothamsted.bsky.social field trials, helping ensure farm research data is captured securely and accurately for research and reporting. Apply here: jobs.rothamsted.ac.uk/vacancies/86...

We're running a survey on #data management and data pain points in #plantsciences, and would love to hear from people creating, managing and/or using data from field, glasshouse and controlled environment experiments @biofair.bsky.social @rothamsted.bsky.social forms.office.com/e/BJixZjBh9G #FAIR

Good day around Grafham, first time all the way round with the scope. Only saw one of the Great Northern Divers, other highlights 3 Bewicks still around, 6 Siskin, Raven, 1 common and 3 green sands, and a Nuthatch. 62 species in total, a record for me! @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social

Quick lunch time walk at Grafham rewarded me with a lot of ducks, a couple of Great White egrets and good views of two Black Tailed Godwits from Valley Creek...but they were the only waders seen @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social

Cancelled my OpenAI subscription, and taken out a subscription to the @theguardian.com instead. #feelgoodfriday

Not sure it's the best way, but I guess it's one way to top up #Grafham water @anglianwater.bsky.social (leak has been reported!)

We had a cracking weekend for the first @rothamsted.bsky.social #data hack. Great entries from the teams and somethings for us to think about on how we present our data! The winning team developed a data explorer for the long-term experiments, with potential to customise for different stakeholders.

The teams are knuckling down for the final 5 hours of the @rothamsted.bsky.social #data hack. Emerging themes around data visualisations to illustrate complex long-term data combing yields, weather and insect data.

In all the excitement I neglected to post anything yesterday about the @rothamsted.bsky.social #data #hackathon at the Royal Agricultural University! I ledt one team working past midnight, and now they're all tucking into breakfast ready for a few more hours coding. Lokking forward to the results!

Cracking wader morning at #Grafham, 2 curlew sandpiper, 2 little ringed plover, common sandpiper, ruff and dunlin from Mander/valley creek. 2 spotted sandpiper, 4 greenshank, 1 common sandpiper plus a couple of pintail from Littleless Creek. But Dudney was empty! Scope video of the Green and Spotted

Forget AI, one massive productivity gain would be people using #MSWord headings correctly. Reviewing an 84 page doc without simple navigation is a sod.

Any ideas what this is. I'm guessing sone sort of sensor? Screwed in to an oak, the top has a metal pin enclosed by a spring. @richardkbroughton.bsky.social

I'm now timing my runs to end when the heatpump comes on for some outside aircon 🥵

What's the true value of a hedgerow? Or a diverse landscape when it comes to mitigating field edge yield declines? Our new paper out today might have some of the answers doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...

I think a lot of science has a lot of #data management debt

Interested in #agdata? Then join us at the @rothamsted.bsky.social data hackathon using the rich long-term data from our Long-term experiments, North Wyke Farm Platform and Insect Survey @rothamsted-lte.bsky.social, @thefarmplatform.bsky.social www.tickettailor.com/events/rotha...

Brown tufted duck? With a red bill? Grafham Water @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social

Smew at #Grafham water lagoons, Northeast corner pool @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social (crap phone pic through scope)

Patience paid off and saw the spotted sandpiper at #grafham water this morning. A lovely bank holiday first

Walk around Grafham marred this morning by 6 "wild campers" or ignorant twats who decided to chuck two bin bags of rubbish into the reservoir. On the plus side, great views of a common sandpiper and Reed warbler by the fishing lodge harbour

Lovely evening around #Grafhamwater lagoons, topped by a couple of bursts of song from a Cetti's warbler near the hide. #cambsbirds

Recognition at last! Our Park Grass experiment a question on last night's BBC 2 University Challenge 📺👏👏 At 5' 53"...we have no words @bristoluni.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Great to see the new @ukri.org draft Data Policy published with commitments to making research #open and #FAIR. Hopefully they don't get watered down🤞!

I'll be running our first online training session for electronic research notebooks tomorrow using #MSTeams polls to keep up engagement and limit passive attendance. Testing the functionality and it looks ok... #researchculture

Terrible photo, but is this some sort of greylag/canada goose hybrid? #ukbirding. It was with a few Canada geese.

Surely it's not April 1st already?

Great Opportunity to join the fantastic team at Rothamsted Research, North Wyke. jobs.rothamsted.ac.uk/vacancies/80...

Two NEW @rothamsted.bsky.social #Broadbalk datasets now available - #potato yields 1968-1996 and #oats yields 1996-2022. doi.org/10.23637/rbk..., doi.org/10.23637/rbk... #opendata #agsky

The #UKgovernment has got to respond in kind to #trumps steel #tariffs, not go begging for an exemption. It won't happen, it'll just be seen as a sign of weakness then he'll be emboldened to go after our NHS and farmers.

Is #trump finally realising who the bad guys are? www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

This is wat a lack of integrity looks like.

NEW DATASET! Exhaustion Land Experiment #soil chemical properties 2012 doi.org/10.23637/rex... #agdata

WTF? 🇺🇸 is not ok. At least 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇯🇵 provide equivalent resources and aren't going through a Cultural Revolution.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

I hope the shameful state visit to #trump is taken back. Its humiliating and toadying to a pariah president. 🇺🇦🇬🇧

Slava Ukraini. 💙💛Zelensky. Go fuck yourself Trumpy.

After a day delivering research #data training with North Wyke colleagues, is there a better way to recharge than a short hike on the moors and pint of Jail Ale

Sometimes I don't know if sales emails are just dumb, lazy, or something else. The latest one started "I've been helping law firms like yours...". 10s of research time is all it needed. #salesspam

Crikey, three research #data steward job adverts dropped on the RESEARCH-DATAMAN mail list this morning 💥