Notices by Laura Ritchie (lauraritchie@mastodon.social), page 3

@fncll interesting. From a practical standpoint I can imagine what a very difficult type of research this would be to conduct on a larger scale or with say a general undergrad population. It would take such care to set up.

For me as a teacher I work to be straight up- students know certain topics will be discussed from the handbook/outline and I give them full permission to participate or not as they wish. -nothing I'd see as sensitive, but for some it is a challenge to discuss their learning.

@dadegroot we keep debating getting (rescuing) a cat, but we have SO many birds in the garden.

At the moment we just enjoy the fleeting visits we get from other people's cats when walking around the village.

@mhawksey WELCOME!!!

Here, find a place where people pull up a chair and have a chat.

You'll find it's definitely different than the firehose of Twitter.

There are some wonderful people here.

baby swans! I didn't expect to see them sitting in the low tide squidge. Positively fluffy. :)

@Downes Hope you had a spare tube and were able to get back on that bike - and I hope you blew past the wave of feeling low the other day.

I have that often with coming back to practice - long projects that seem to have no end and no one along the way. (well there are people, but sometimes it doesn't feel like it) I saw that tweet and posted a pic of our bees (here) as something cheerful that day. Hope you saw it. :)

I'm off to practise.

@tdorey I hope they show up!

and if they don't I hope it is a beautiful starry night and you can find some comfort in the summer evening.

@charlag looks great! :)

@tdorey It took some time, but yes.

Quite astonishing !!

Anyone who uses ZOOM - huge vulnerability. Read whole article.
https://medium.com/@jonathan.leitschuh/zoom-zero-day-4-million-webcams-maybe-an-rce-just-get-them-to-visit-your-website-ac75c83f4ef5

I was compromised - IT WAS RUNNING A WEB-SERVER ON MY MAC.

Read whole article - just uninstalling doesn't fix it.
#security

A picture to cheer us all up on a grey morning and i'm full of cold and ache. (such a difference to yesterday when I was practising cello with full gusto at 6am)

We have bees in our bee hotel in the garden. Here's a photo of a few full bee hotel rooms and two other bees in the process of fixing up their sleepy places.

I like how you can see the circles (doors) chewed out of our raspberry plants!

#bees #smallstories

@tdorey Oh no! I hope you do make it there. Funny indeed how things work, and how people think we'll be in certain places (or maybe they don't particularly think)

hope all those bike rides and lakes were wonderful.

@Downes are you on the trail bike? What's different this year? I remember last year there were lots of punctures. Maybe they cleaned up the roads? (I am kidding!) Seriously, this year seems far less repair-filled.

Great rides.

read this just now, by a photographer friend of mine and I really like it - it's short. about the value of being with people to discuss ideas: https://unitednationsofphotography.com/2019/04/17/its-good-to-meet-talk-and-drink-cold-coffee-or-stale-wine-from-a-plastic-cup/

@Downes haha! I don't think so - only because the font is usually empty! :) I'll take a picture 'bird's eye view' in the morning of where it was. SO odd!

A most extraordinary thing happened yesterday evening, in church, annual choral evensong for the area. Long bible reading & in through the open door hops a blackbird. ! Comes down 4 stone steps, onto the tiled floor, and looks. I stare, mouth open. It looks at people who don't see it. I see it. My mouth open. It hops in. Hops down a side aisle by the 800 yr old font. All this time SILENTLY. Hops. Looks. Hops back down the aisle, looks, head tilting, & hops up the stairs & out. OMG
#smallstories

@Downes !!! yikes?!

@dadegroot gorgeous!! Is this a new pizza oven or did the one you built not get used until now??

@compostablespork have you made your house move? or still getting ready?

@Downes is it a turkey?