A strong contender for the IgNobel Prize here. [Linked image Alt text: a diagram of a flying gull with a video logger attached to its belly filming backwards, a photo from said logger with shit falling from a gull in flight over the sea, a #datavis of gull excretion events.]
* Iguanobel, shurely?
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I really hope they obtained informed consent for this gross invasion of privacy
There is a danger, of course, that the UK's water companies will see this and just rebrand their scandalously poor record on sewage (i.e. 💩 ➡️ 🌊) as "enhancing nature's carbon storage potential". I hadn't considered this "brown-washing" before I posted. Such a schoolboy error ...
Crows roost in the wetlands by my campus and their shitting has ecological effects. doaj.org/article/f7df...