Interests - Ecological Economics & Natural History. Web programming.
Joined August 2011
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15 May 2025
Version 2 of the g21u web app is available. Run on a mobile to make records in the field. Run on a desktop to process the records and turn into CSVs.
You can get the new version here: g21u.netlify.app/
Or read about it first here: github.com/burkmarr/g21u/blo…
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Richard Burkmar retweeted
30 Aug 2024
Right , that’s it , I’m taking mine down too . . .
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28 Aug 2024
It's the stupid economy. Here's a post-growth solution : theguardian.com/environment/…
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5 Jun 2024
Petition: Legislate to ensure swift bricks are installed in all new buildings in Wales. petitions.senedd.wales/petit…
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Richard Burkmar retweeted
3 May 2024
All data behind the #PlantAtlas2020 plantatlas2020.org maps and plots are now all available on Zenodo zenodo.org/communities/plant…
Thanks @burkmarr for making it so easy! @BSBIbotany @BSBIscience @___BRC___ @UK_CEH
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16 Feb 2024
Why is Labour still using the self-defeating, discredited ‘maxed out credit card’ analogy? | Yanis Varoufakis theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Richard Burkmar retweeted
3 Jan 2024
Here’s a quick roundup of highlights from research we published in 2023, on climate change, capitalism, colonialism, degrowth and post-capitalist futures. As always, free PDFs are available via the link at the end of the thread. 🧵
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Richard Burkmar retweeted
14 Dec 2023
Wonderful to see #PlantAtlas2020 continuing to have real #impact in high places. An amazing example for #CitSci the world over 👏 @UK_CEH
13 Dec 2023
#PlantAtlas2020 is coming to @ScotParl tomorrow!
@markruskell has invited #BSBI to the Scottish Parliament to share the findings of #PlantAtlas2020 with MSPs - looking forward to discussing Scotland's threatened flora & how Plant Atlas 2020 can support @scotgov's nature targets!
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Richard Burkmar retweeted
10 Dec 2023
1. I’m very grateful for the response to my appearance on Question Time, but also puzzled. I felt that in all cases I was simply stating the bleeding obvious.
Is this now so rare in public life that it becomes an event when someone does it?
The grim truth seems to be: yes. 🧵
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Richard Burkmar retweeted
4 Dec 2023
An honour to be involved in #PlantAtlas2020 and a great opportunity to put ideas re #uncertainty communication into practice sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
See plantatlas2020.org/atlas for examples!
2 Dec 2023
This year's joint @BSBIbotany @WildFlowerSoc Presidents' Award goes to the Plant Atlas 2020. The award was presented at the #BritishAndIrishBotanicalConference by the BSBI president Micheline Sheehy Skeffington, and meetings secretary Janet Johns representing the WFS.
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Richard Burkmar retweeted
27 Nov 2023
Words fail me - so just putting this here as a reminder of what we’re up against 👇
Confirmed this morning by the BBC.
Leaked documents reveal that UAE planned to use climate talks to make oil deals with nations (including the UK) at COP28.
bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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27 Nov 2023
One of the most hard-working people I've ever had the privilege to work with. Congratulations @kitenet!
25 Nov 2023
Congratulations to Martin Harvey, our first Marsh Award recipient today, for his work promoting entomological recording, providing training and expertise in insect identification and contributing field records locally and nationally.
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Richard Burkmar retweeted
2 Nov 2022
On Monday, we [the MSEE cohort at @TheSmithSchool, @UniofOxford] met visionary systems thinker @KateRaworth and spoke with her about reimagining what and who the economy is for. Yet you won't hear her thesis in a mainstream economics lecture. 🧵 1/16
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Richard Burkmar retweeted
16 Nov 2023
Think of all the real emergencies we face: climate, ecosystems, food systems, the NHS, housing, school buildings, social care, child poverty .... None of them is being addressed by this government. Yet it's proposing emergency legislation to permit a cruel and pointless policy.
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16 Nov 2023
"The economy is too important to be left to the economists". So says @yanisvaroufakis in his highly accessible critique of market-driven society. I highly recommended this book to all environmentalists: richburkmar.org/talking-to-m…
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Richard Burkmar retweeted
16 Nov 2023
We are pleased that iRecord is now back online following our server move. However, there are still a lot of updates in progress, so it will be a few days before all existing records are visible again. New records can be added. See message here: irecord.org.uk/
ALT iRecord home page message: We have recently successfully completed work to move iRecord and related Indicia systems to a new server. It is now possible to add records to iRecord again, but there are still some issues that will take a little longer to be addressed: - You will not yet be able to see all your records via the Explore and Activity pages - the records all need to be re-indexed and this is likely to take a few days to complete - There may be some delays in notifications being sent - Some summary report pages (e.g. recorders' league tables) are not yet functioning correctly - It is not yet possible to upload records from our apps, we have some final testing to do to re-enable that Please rest assured that all your records will be available again soon! Contact irecord AT ceh.ac.uk if you experience any problems not mentioned above.
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