Dr Jacqui Mair

@Catholic_Gent1 @engineers_feed Exactly the way I do it

My brain is dumb. I know how to do it on paper, but in my head it functions nothing like it does on paper. Here's what happens in my head. 37+48 4+3 is 70, so we are north of 70 8+7 is, damn, what is 8+7. I know 8+8 is 16, so it's 15. So the answer is 85. On paper it's column math, carry the one and all that. In my head, it's a bit garbled.

What happens in your head when you add 37+48?

Vulture populations in India collapsed. 500,000 people died as a result. In the 1990s, Indian farmers started using a cheap painkiller called diclofenac on their cattle. When vultures ate the carcasses, the drug destroyed their kidneys. Without vultures, cattle carcasses rotted in fields instead of being stripped clean in 45 minutes. Feral dog populations exploded by five million. Rabies cases surged. Pathogens spread through water supplies. University of Chicago economists compared death rates in districts that used to have vultures to districts that never did. Human mortality rose more than 4% after the collapse. Over 100,000 extra deaths a year. Half a million in five years. India banned the drug in 2006. The vultures still haven't recovered. This is what a keystone species is to us. This is why we protect the animals nobody finds cute.

Did an an early morning today and had some good views of barn owl before sunrise and then focused on a wren as the sun was rising! Was surprisingly foggy!

Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back. Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: nasa.gov/artemis-ii-mul…

Retweet ❗️ This is a Swift. sometimes they can end up on the ground. This is where they need YOUR help! Swifts arrive back to the UK from April/May to nest. 🪺 (A THREAD)

My youngest magnolia flowered today for the first time. Spring is here. #magnolia

Tears of joy! SCOTLAND HAS JUST PASSED SWIFT BRICKS INTO LAW unanimously! 4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE ⁦@markruskell⁩ ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿by emailing PlanningPolicyConsultation@communities.gov.uk now!WOOP!

@dgriffinchess Now that's proper snow!

@theiaincameron I mentioned the local store earlier. Here it is, Insch CoOp, this evening. It’s still snowing.

The A90 south of Aberdeen looks like something from a video you see of Arctic Norway or Finland. One of the biggest snow events of the last 20 years in north-east Scotland for sure.

Happy #WinterSolstice Here's to the return of the sun.

@SteelySeabirder A gorgeous bridled guillemot from The Farnes #superseabirdsunday

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I'm giving a talk on "Insect Declines, Pesticides and Pet Parasiticides", online, FREE to join, 7pm-8pm Wed 26th November Organised by Western Sussex Rivers Trust. Book your free ticket lnkd.in/e4y8v5Fn

Icing on the cake 🎂 #SCODEN

In #Celtic belief, today is the celebration of #Samhain. The time of year when veil between living & dead is at its thinnest. The dead can move more easily into the realm of the living. The time to welcome our departed loved ones into our home & honour their presence amongst us.

Come and learn A level chemistry with me. My YouTube channel has been selected to become a YouTube course - which now tracks your progress and gives you a certificate on completion. Over 2100 people have completed the course so far. It’s free! youtube.com/playlist?list=…

“We are the most intellectual species to walk the planet, but we’re not intelligent. If you’re intelligent you don’t destroy your only home.” Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, founder of @JaneGoodallInst, spoke at the 2025 #ForbesSustainabilityLeaders Summit. forbes.com/sites/elisabet…

If you have wasps visit your picnic, then please tell us what they want - protein or sugar - by taking part in the #HamOrJam #WaspPicnicSurvey. Submit your records here: ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/aug/…

@DougSRobertson More common in Scotland but also increasingly so in SE England. I had a nest in my garden in NE England last year.

@JacquiMair @DaveGoulson Are the common? Never noticed such small wasps.

Wasp heaven - amazing creatures! This is a good way to distract them from your picnic :)

@DougSRobertson @DaveGoulson Potentially Norwegian wasps

@DaveGoulson Dave not up on wasps but have a colony living in a hole in the ground and feasting on the ripe gooseberry’s nearby. They are much smaller than other common wasps. Would you hazard a guess what they are?

A supreme effort at Edinburgh Waverley Station.