Steve locked in a shed

@ProfBrianCox That does look like the sort of book I would buy!

When we were preparing the marketing stuff for my new tour, someone decided to send my text to a proofreader. They changed a sentence to ‘Our species has carried our spacecraft to the edge of the solar system’. I typed that into an AI to demonstrate what the sentence they wrote actually means - it came up with this:

Went to see @BillBailey yesterday in #Thoughtifier. One of the few people to have reduced me to actual tears of laughter on TV (Black Books - spoons+piano) delivered such a joyful medley of comedy and music on stage. 👍to the other musicians as well! Sohhhhhhhhhh good

Green fingers

Hyperspectral Imager paper out! High sensitivity UV to nearIR, radiance & reflectance, runs from a smartphone. Build the system for about $450 from 3D printed parts & off-the-shelf components. Paper: doi.org/10.1186/s12915… Intro video: youtube.com/watch?v=9q8lyU…

@AJamesMcCarthy This works at museums too!

Here’s a photography trick you can do on a flight: Take two quick photos of an interesting feature of the landscape. Then, arrange them side by side, with the second one on the right. Relax your eyes until 2 pics become 3 and focus on a specific feature. Now it’s 3D! The best part, if you have Live Photos turned on, you can apply this to any past photo you’ve taken from a plane, just by using two moments from the Live Photo (or video)

Dream chair. Ginkgo chair, Claude Lalanne (1997).

@professor_dave Is that Malham Cove? Looks fantastic. What a day for it.

Possibly the best walk in England - and perfect winter weather.

A collection of plants in the broomrape family I have painted in oils. These plants are parasitic and lack green leaves, so their colours really pop out on canvas.

@aurorawatchuk I mean… technically it may be up there but is 15:00 and persisting down from 8/8 clouds. So no aurora for us today!

Red alert: aurora likely. Issued 2025-01-01 14:51 UTC by @aurorawatchuk. #aurora

@thorogoodchris1 @kewgardens @NHM_London @OBGHA 🤣

@SteveTypesStuff @kewgardens @NHM_London @OBGHA Dodders and broomrapes have been the cause of many a near miss along a road...

A day after returning from the Canary Islands and look what arrived! The advance copy of my field guide to the wild flowers of the Canary Islands, published by Kew. Six years in the making, I'm especially excited about this field guide because I had the pleasure of coauthoring with the Islands' no. 1 botanist Alfredo Reyes-Betancort, and London Natural History Museum's Curator in Charge of botanical collections, Mark Carine. A lot of love went into this one. I hope you like it x

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@thorogoodchris1 @kewgardens @NHM_London @OBGHA I came back from Tenerife with thousands of photos of plants, rocks, insects & insects on plants. Fortunately my wife is used to me driving along mountain roads & then suddenly hitting the brakes. I drove past this beautiful yellow Dodder and saw it out of the corner of my eye.

@SteveTypesStuff @kewgardens @NHM_London @OBGHA 😃🙏🏻

Saw in New Year in a Chinese restaurant… with Elvis! #NewYear2025

@professor_dave Ah yes, of course. Why didn’t I think of that?🤣

@SteveTypesStuff You could - but actually, it makes more sense to just make a huge lasagne, then freeze the leftover portions, for easy future lasagne days.

We had been away for a few days, so I asked the 11yo what he wanted for dinner when we got home. He chose lasagne, so that was half my afternoon gone! Turned out nicely, though, and now he is happy & settled.

Checking the teeth and mouths of #TasmanianDevils allows us to work out their age and look for signs of disease. #fieldwork #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz #TasmanianDevil

@MattDoogue He’s a superb creature!

The king.

Today, ecologist Matías Hernandez Gonzalez and I surveyed populations of this extraordinary plant, Cistanche phelypaea, which is just announcing itself after the first winter rain.