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Ed Baker

@edwbaker

Acoustic Biology Researcher @NHM_London. Urban Nature Project. Krawattenmuffel. #orthoptera #bioacoustics #ecoacoustics https://xitter.gq/t.co/84zEk48c2R

 York, England
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New look: bio.acousti.ca - migration still in progress.
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Switching Pi NoIR Camera Profiles at Runtime medium.ebaker.me.uk/switchin…
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Catalysts for change: #Museum #gardens in a planetary emergency Opinion by @edwbaker, Paul Kenrick, Sandra Knapp, Tom McCarter and John Tweddle nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/… @NHM_London @NHM_Science #PlantScience #LatestIssue
A pond network set amongst an extended wildlife garden includes a sunken pathway that enables visitors to view pondlife at eye-level.

ALT A pond network set amongst an extended wildlife garden includes a sunken pathway that enables visitors to view pondlife at eye-level.

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Sheep cam @NHM_London
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Made a very brief appearance in this. But being around for the filming was lovely.
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*It's Arrived!* After the longest gestation period of all my books - an advance copy of 'Grasshoppers', and it looks pretty fantastic. So, very pleased.
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Just asked ChatGPT to summarise what it can find about me online and it came up with “the archdruid is grumpy again” Win some, lose some.
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AI has a problem generating ASCII art of grasshoppers (and poetry), and has an obsession with cats. medium.com/p/ai-has-an-ascii…

AI has an ASCII grasshopper problem

Just how well do the latest large language models generate ASCII art of a singing grasshopper? Thankfully, I had an early-morning train…

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A new class for @tdwg Audiovisual Core is in public comment (supporting the Darwin Core Data Package proposal) tdwg.org/news/2025/audiovisu… #audiovisualcore

Audiovisual Core public review of new class, ac:Media

Public review opened for a new class in the Audiovisual Core, ac:Media.

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I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a design choice_.
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#livingdata conference in Bogotá
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Cascada La Chorrera - tallest waterfall in Colombia (590m)
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Natural History Museum deploys sensor network to decode urban biodiversity with AWS bit.ly/48ksuOP

Natural History Museum deploys sensor network to decode urban biodi...

The Natural History Museum has deployed a network of sensors across its newly revamped gardens, which are on course to make it one of the most intensely monitored urban spaces in the world

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Introductory bioacoustics session @NHM_London eventbrite.co.uk/e/listening…
Listening to Nature: An Introduction to Bioacoustics

Listening to Nature: An Introduction to Bioacoustics

Explore how and why animals produce sound, learn the basics of recording and analysing natural soundscapes.

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Catalysts for change: Museum gardens in a planetary emergency Baker et al. @NHM_London @NHM_Science @edwbaker 📖nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/… Image credit: Natural History Museum London. @Wileyplantsci
The six-spot burnet moth, here shown feeding on field scabious, frequents the flower-rich grassland habitats of the Nature Discovery Garden.

ALT The six-spot burnet moth, here shown feeding on field scabious, frequents the flower-rich grassland habitats of the Nature Discovery Garden.

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New opinion piece: Catalysts for change: Museum gardens in a planetary emergency. Design philosophy and decisions for creating a multi-use urban green space in central London. doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.70100

Catalysts for change: Museum gardens in a planetary emergency

Natural history museums are often seen as places with indoor galleries full of dry-dusty specimens, usually of animals. But if they have gardens associated with them, museums can use living plants...

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It's back to the Pacific today: to Tahiti for this year's Partula tree snail reintroductions. We hope to build on least year's success. This year we have participation in the field from @zsllondonzoo, @DisneyAnimalK , @woodlandparkzoo
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Bowlees molluscarium
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