Ben Fitkov-Norris

@J_Growcott99 @LionLandscapes @UniExeCEC @UoEBiosciences @WildCRU_Ox @FZS_Frankfurt @tawiritz @ei_cdt 🐅🐅

Great opportunity to show off some preliminary results on the impact of offshore wind farms on the distribution of fishing effort ⛴🎣 #JCEEI @ei_cdt

Super proud to be presenting my first ever poster at #SIME2023 - a provocative look at whether offshore wind farms could contribute to our area-based conservation commitments.

Great talk to kick off #AIUK 2023! Great turn out from the @ei_cdt and lots for us to think about and discuss 🖥🧠

📢Audrey Wagner, programme coordinator for the Nature-based Solutions Initiative, discussed the potential of nature-based solutions for #climatechange and #biodiversity #conservation @UniofExeter! Watch the recording here: youtu.be/3Um2SNnLz8Q

📣 Join us on the 15th at 14:00 for a GSI Seminar Series on Nature-based Solutions for climate change and biodiversity! Audrey Wagner will discuss the potential of NbS for climate mitigation, adaptation and biodiversity conservation. Email InfoGSI@exeter.ac.uk for the Zoom link!

@TetZoo If you haven’t already been overwhelmed by offers - I do miniature/model painting and would be happy to give it a go!

I've had an idea. As a kid, I ruined a bunch of Invicta prehistoric animals by painting them _really badly_. Would anyone be interested in 'repairing'/repainting them: in making them look REALLY GOOD? If yes, I'll mail them and later buy them back from you.

The link to the recording of today’s GSI Seminar ‘What is land for? Scenarios of future land use in the UK' with @tomfinch89 @RSPBScience is now available to watch back on our YouTube playlist youtube.com/watch?v=Piy6W4…

Delighted to be at the @turinginst CDT Conference on behalf of @ei_cdt - can’t wait to meet people from and learn about all the interesting research going on across the CDT network!

Great to be at the #NRWevidence22 conference to learn about the manifold ways in which evidence is used to inform research 🔬, policy and societal change in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 and the UK 🇬🇧

@_JessicaBlythe Hi Jessica, please could I have a copy? bf327@exeter.ac.uk

So excited to be a part of this working on modelling afforestation for biodiversity AND carbon sequestration in a warming world 🌳🌲🌳 #naturebasedsolutions #EIGC22

@Ricowellss @EdinburghNats @RSPBScotland @ScottishBirding That's a marsh harrier :)

@Joshua_AJones Congratulations and well deserved :)

@magdalenoxford Hooray, a morning well spent, I really enjoyed that! I’ve graduated now so sadly I don’t have a pidge but will DM you my address instead. Thanks. Will be posting more wildlife photos on magdalen.wildelife soon!

@BenFitkov Yes. Well done! Should I pidge you a mug? BTW Love your photography!

Locked in the Tower!! #escaperoom After a rather blustery time at the top of the Great Tower, you descend to discover you've forgotten the four-emoji code for the newly-installed security system which unlocks the door! Luckily, some clues have been left for just this eventuality.

@magdalenoxford Oh! So 🐞🖊🦌🥒 maybe??

@BenFitkov Two right. Hint: You'll need the patterns to find two emojis that aren't one of the nine. For the other two you'll need the emojis and recipe; and the emojis, map, and diary.

@MarkWitton @JoschuaKnuppe It seems to me that this may be viable, especially if rotation of the vertebrae is involved. I don’t know how sensible that would be biomechanically, but if the centra rotate to keep the spines more parallel, then the tail curvature is more vertical and your diagram seems to work

@JoschuaKnuppe I thought I'd run this as well, matching the vert proportions to your gentler curve. The spines still stick out some way - they have 3-4 degrees flex before they pop away from the width of the centra.

I was interested in how much displacement would occur with the long, reclined neural spines in the new Spinosuaurs tail if, as the new paper suggests, it was very flexible. This is really rough work, but it shows how the tail 'unspools' with even limited flexion.

@magdalenoxford A sunny day out in the fellow's garden!

🎁WIN A COLLEGE CALENDAR🎁 We're all in need of a bit of sunshine. So, we've decided to give the first ten followers who tweet us a sunny Magdalen snap one of our lovely College calendars! It can be of College, Addison's Walk, or even the boathouse. It just has to be sunny! 😃

@MarkWitton @UniPortCCI Loved it, had such a good time and learned so much!

Big shout out to everyone who attended the first Reconstructing Prehistoric Animals in Art course at @UniPortCCI this week. I felt it went really well and had a great time talking #paleoart with you all for 3 days, I hope you found it enjoyable and interesting from your end.