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geostatlark.bsky.social
Statistician, studying soils & crops, mostly in Africa. Collaborating on history of soil surveys in colonial Africa. Professor of Environmetrics, University of Nottingham. Lay Dominican. Zimbabwe-UK dual national. 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇪🇺 🇵🇸
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This, on capitalism’s devaluing human life, is important.

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Ornithological distractions in Harare this morning. Red eyed doves, laughing doves, red waxbill, bulbul, weaver bird and a purple-crested turaco (lourie).

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theconversation.com/us-isnt-firs.... The Tories trashed Dfid's international reputation for efficiency and expertise. Labour came in and decided that the Development portfolio was a part-time Government job. And then they brought in swinging cuts. Not sure why I wasted my time voting for them.

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Inconsistent approaches to how sex is recorded in publicly-funded research has led to “widespread loss” of data over past decade, warns government-commissioned review by @profalices.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/widespr...

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Kopjes at Chiremba bear Harare. See Ollier's Two cycle theory of tropical pedagogy for one hypothesis about their origin

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Locust on a Euphorbia milii, Alex Park, Harare

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Much respect to Anneliese Dodds for her principled stand. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Currently back home in Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 doing a teaching block at UZ. My walk back each evening through northern Harare passes jacaranda and other exotic trees, but pleased to see this Erythrina abysinnica, an honest indigenous African tree, holding its own.

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Loving and Merciful God, We come before You in prayer, lifting up Your servant, Pope Francis, in his time of need. cafod.org.uk/pray/prayer-...

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Harare limbering up for more rain, while I think about dambos.

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The people of Europe stand with Ukraine against the threat of a false peace as much as brutal war. Because of our shared history. Because of our shared future. Because it is just. Because it is necessary. And because they deserve nothing less. Don't abandon them. #SlavaUkraini youtu.be/u8GftJEa4_8

submitted 49 days ago • 27 comments

Visiting IITA at Ibadan, Nigeria, with @Rothamsted colleagues for project planning. A beautiful site with forest and wetland as well as field plots and labs.

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This new paper, with colleagues at World Bank, uses pilot survey data to assess options for augmenting standard "household surveys" with soil sampling to provide information on soil quality to go with dietary and socio-economic data. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S00…

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Maize #diversity in #Zimbabwe Investigating nutrient content of landraces and biofortified #maize hybrids across different agronomic practices with Dr Grace Kangara from @rothamsted.bsky.social and National Gene Bank of Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 (with statistical guidance from @geostatlark.bsky.social)

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When historians and soil scientists get together to examine the history of colonial soil surveys. A paper just out with colleagues at University of Zambia, Zambia Agriculture Research Institute and University of Nottingham soil.copernicus.org/articles/10/...

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Tremellomycete fungus doing its stuff on a dead branch yesterday.

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Feast of St Albert the Great 'My suspicion is that for Albert beatitude would have to include, even if only as the minutest part of it, the opportunity to say "So that's why flies lay their eggs on white walls!" ' Simon Tugwell OP in Albert and Thomas, Paulist Press 1988.

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The CEPHaS project in Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi addressed research capacity in physical sciences for evaluating conservation agriculture options. Here is the first paper from the hydrogeology team on groundwater recharge, with some tentative conclusions on land use impacts. t.co/23lR7BsmHI

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