Amber Griffiths HAS MOVED!

New account @amberfirefly

Director of @thentrythis - a nonprofit R&D studio for environmental and social purpose based in Cornwall (UK). Allotments and dogs too.

Amber Griffiths HAS MOVED!amberfirefly@vis.social
2024-01-26

Going to be starting process of moving instance soon, thanks for having me on vis.social ๐Ÿ’š

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Today we are using the dynamicland.org "communal computer" to understand Fibonacci patterns underlying wire weaving with Charlotte Megroureche and geraldinejones.co.uk #alpaca

Four people around a table with a projection over bits of paper representing code and user interface
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2024-01-22

Now THIS, this is good news!

The first person to get vaccinated with the world's first malaria vaccine, happened today... :-)))

First out was two years old Daniella in Cameroon, according to the UN's WHO.
Mother Hรฉlรจne says both Daniella and the twin sister will get all four doses and will sleep under mosquito nets.

Amber Griffiths HAS MOVED!amberfirefly@vis.social
2024-01-20
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New epidemiology citizen science game styling is coming along nicely, it also seems to have found its name now - Nergal - after the Mesopotamian god of disease and death ๐Ÿ™ƒ

Lots of illustrations, simple plant shapes in smooth solid dark blue, background scenery shapes that are blocks of strips or wiggly shapes in pale pastels, wispy inked clouds, and little cloud shaped characters in watercolour and ink
Amber Griffiths HAS MOVED!amberfirefly@vis.social
2024-01-17

@graywolf in fairness to this one, it at least had a 'this question does not apply to me' option and a note to use that e.g. if someone was in care at the time, which is at least a nod to other realities existing

Amber Griffiths HAS MOVED!amberfirefly@vis.social
2024-01-17

@graywolf it's equality and diversity monitoring, funders seem to have recently caught on that socioeconomic background is important in terms of who applies/gets funded, but not figured out that it's quite complex

Amber Griffiths HAS MOVED!amberfirefly@vis.social
2024-01-17

Find myself again staring at this question that's recently appeared on all grant applications: 'Please tell us about the occupation of your main household earner when you were aged 14.'. Like where do people with shit/chaotic upbringings even start with this, all the options are so pure.

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Got some nice printed copies of our annual review. If anyone would like a few for their work coffee room let us know and we can post some out, that'd be a big help for us as it's partly how we find new collabs/projects!

Photo of a few a5 printed booklets and a succulent on a table
Amber Griffiths HAS MOVED!amberfirefly@vis.social
2024-01-15

@mikka even nicer thing, we are now at the point where we can cure gene mutations thanks to crispr :)

Amber Griffiths HAS MOVED!amberfirefly@vis.social
2024-01-13

@Ruth_Mottram I can get paywalled papers (๐Ÿ™ elbakyan), just letting you know it was paywalled! If you ever need to check, a really quick way is to open a private tab on a browser and any vpns you have set up for access will stop working, so you'll see the paywalls.

Amber Griffiths HAS MOVED!amberfirefly@vis.social
2024-01-13

@Ruth_Mottram an archived paywall? :)

Amber Griffiths HAS MOVED!amberfirefly@vis.social
2024-01-13

@Ruth_Mottram definitely paywalled sadly

Amber Griffiths HAS MOVED!amberfirefly@vis.social
2024-01-10

(forgive the rubbish pic am wrangling a dog who is extraordinarily stoned on opiates, as you do)

Amber Griffiths HAS MOVED!amberfirefly@vis.social
2024-01-10

Keeling curve on the vet noticeboard! What a massive change in discourse we've collectively had to get to this point.

Pic of notice boards, middle one is the vet's green initiatives and includes a print out of the Keeling curve and current ppm
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Dave Griffithsnebogeo@post.lurk.org
2024-01-09

It's blue and green season at #OrganisedAtoms microscopic mining corp.

Crysocolla and malachite samples #Fossicked from #MineWaste at Wheal Unity and Penstruthal Mine, #Cornwall

Blue bubbles of chrysocolla fossicked from Penstruthal Mine, Lanner, CornwallGreen cubes of malachite (pyrite cubes underneath) with quartz crystals here and there. Fossicked from Penstruthal Mine, Lanner, Cornwall.Green bubbles of malachite in a broken surface of rock. Fossicked from Wheal Unity, Gwennap, Cornwall.Shiny chalcopyrite crystals with malachite growing over the top. Fossicked from mine waste at Penstruthal Mine, Lanner, Cornwall.
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Unusual thing to be excited about maybe, but very happy to be moving our accounting over to the Third Sector Accountancy. First time we've found an accountant that matches our values, and who are totally at ease with using open source software - check them out: thirdsectoraccountancy.coop/ou

Big thanks to @jcalpickard for the tip.

(they only just opened books for new clients, and looks like they still have space to take people on...)

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Rhinos Worry Me has movedRhinosWorryMe@climatejustice.rocks
2024-01-09

Remember how the sea in 2023 was terrifyingly hot? Like, way hotter than ever recorded?

It's hotter than that now.

Welcome to 2024.

How are you going to resist this year?

#ClimateCrisis #Climate #EarthSystemsCrisis

Graph of global sea surface temperatures, 1982-2024.
Shows the deviation from the mean, so most years are roughly horizontal, though waggly.
2023 is shown in yellow, rising to "highest ever" in spring, and continuing to rise, peaking at 6.08 standard deviations above the norm on November 4th, 2023.
And very short red line showing 2024 starts high and rockets higher, ending at 6.10 standard deviations above the norm on January 7th, 2024.
Data from ClimateReanalyzer.org
Graph produced by Elliot Jacobson.
Amber Griffiths HAS MOVED!amberfirefly@vis.social
2024-01-08

@emkingma big congrats if it's yours! I think ours totalled something like 200 quid, it's totally possible :)

Amber Griffiths HAS MOVED!amberfirefly@vis.social
2024-01-08

Interesting blog from an illustrator on their earnings last year missmagpiefashionspy.com/blog/

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