Kammer Castle on Lake Attersee Gustav Klimt

From the Fort Worth Zoo (@fortworthzoo.bsky.social) FB & just in time for Mother's Day, freshly-hatched masked lapwing chicks (Vanellus miles). Native to Australia, NZ, NG, they're fierce parents, willing to charge/swoop at animals that threaten their babies.

UNDER HOUSES Composite photo looking down on the tracks near Bayswater London Underground station. I love the colourful houses!

I would disagree: it is precisely the snall scale of diamond OA journals that allows their editors and reviewers to quickly recognize when something does not add up in a paper. Automated tools are no match for human expertise and attention.

Ahh, the poetry of power lines and corvids. . Transformers 8”x6” Oil on cradled wood panel . Available on my website

Banksy's latest statue is being referred to as "Blind Patriotism". I prefer "Sticking to our Red Lines".

© Anne Packard. 'Rowboat on Blue'. Oil on canvas, 1976.

Now if you could just put your head round behind your back and look at the camera. Perfect! Great Blue Heron #Photogenic #BirdoftheDay #Birds 🪶 #eck

The cat’s focus and curiosity 😂 TT: Nika_Zubra youtu.be/LNlkBMtstJE?...

Might have accidentally taken my new favorite photo today. 😉😊 #wildlife #nature #photography #deer #sunrise #morning

Art of the ancient Americas may not be your thing, but you have to love this earthenware crab vessel. I'm sorry, I don't make the rules. 🦀 This is going into our imaginary museum replica store, pronto. #LACMA Colombia, Calima style, Ilama period, ca. 1500 BCE-100 CE. 🏺 1/ 📸 me

This is the May cover of NN but it has already been debunked on biorxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Such a clear statement about the ridiculous pace of publishing (not just NN).

This owl has seen things it cannot unsee.

If convicted, I hope he goes to jail. He did a lot of damage. "A former influential scientist who did work at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is back in the grasp of U.S. law enforcement, facing financial fraud charges ...."" abcnews.com/US/cdc-resea...

This country will not succeed with the current Brexit deal - it’s time to rip up the red lines, renegotiate and put our national interests first. Join the @labour4europe.bsky.social to back this call and find out how you can help our campaign.

Message to Tenerife where the hantavirus ship is due to dock.

'I will put my name forward to stand for the leader of the Labour party' Labour MP Catherine West tells #BBCPM that she will begin a leadership election on Monday morning if the cabinet doesn't elect a leader amongst themselves.

In the interest of not thinking about the Virginia Supreme Court decision, I wrote a blog post. The Schizophrenogenic Mother: Behavior Genetics' Origin Story Misses the Point open.substack.com/pub/ericturk...

NAPLIC is 40 years old this year. Former Chair John Parrott is giving us a history lesson. We started life as NATLIC, an organisation for teachers, but soon became NAPLIC to welcome all professionals. David Crystal was instrumental in establishing the organisation #NAPLIC26

The lesson of these results is clear: it is time to bring Peter Mandelson back into government.

A red shadow Just sharing my photography, thanks for watching🤝 #photography #streetphotography #ICMphotography #photo #japan #hongkong #fineartphotography

the number of times this entire conversation plays in my head when I read the news

Good data is essential for policy. Today it’s been a year since we had a permanent National Statistician. No news on what is happening with the current recruitment which began Oct 2025. This is an under the bonnet issue that points to state failure 🧵 uksa.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/news/stateme...

Hey psychologists, when you're explaining some psychological phenomenon that's perfectly well captured in psychological terms, maybe you don't need to refer to some shitty neuroimaging study with ten people to make it seem more "sciencey"...

There are lots of questions I want to ask Reform people, mostly starting "about that five million quid", but it would be a shame to let this moment from Robert Jenrick slip past unnoticed. thecritic.co.uk/toda...

Oxford Preservation Trust (OPT) is inviting the public to join a drop-in to celebrate the 175th anniversary of the Rewley Road Swing Bridge on Wednesday 20 May 2026- a remarkable survival of Victorian railway engineering.

Doesn't matter if the performance itself is staged. The fact is, talented musicians coming together and giving a performance in a public space means the masses get to witness this for free and that's beautiful. TT: Raphaël Froissart IG: Michel Tirabosco ~ Pan flute

"The Rain Is Left Behind" - my oil painting

I had so much fun painting this, so I have to share it again... #cats #artsky #kleineKunstklasse

If you're interested in the history and philosophy of randomization in all its forms I'm co-organising a *FREE* conference in glorious Bristol 2-3rd July wth the legendary Samir Okasha, registration is here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/randomizat... If you think it looks interesting please advertise

Speaking of crazy d values, this reminds me of this feature I was thinking about adding to the forest() function in metafor. #Rstats #MetaAnalysis

A wall of crypto money is powering Nigel Farage, both politically and personally. And much of the British media just shrugs app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73421/...

One more thing that annoys me about Starmer: his Brexit strategy played precisely into Farage’s hands. Rather than calling out Brexit itself, saying either ‘make Brexit work’ or ‘it’s the Brexit deal that’s bad’, he made it impossible to properly deal with Brexit and call out Farage for his role.

New article on regulation of research misconduct in Australia www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Yet another postscript to my blogpost on Bhattacharya's fireside chat - added a couple of links to his posts on Twitter provided by @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/04/that...

Commiserations to Sir David Attenborough on his 100th birthday, as he is now too old to be allowed to play with LEGO.

Great headline from BBC News

No comment. Shell Reports Nearly $7 Billion Profit Amid ‘Unprecedented Disruption’ www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/b...

A great horned owl perches just before dusk in Longmont, Colorado. #BirdOfTheDay #InMotion #Yellow #bird #birdphotography #EastCoastKin #ECK #birds #photography #BirdsSeenln2026 #owl #owls #nature #wildlife

A reminder that this is why we make fun of The Odyssey. The book would not exist if Odysseus was not such a complete chaos goblin who was busy causing problems for himself by arguing with Gods and being a shit navigator. There is no way to make an extremely serious movie out of this material.

This Is Just To Say We have desk-rejected the manuscript that you submitted and which you were probably hoping would be sent for peer-review Forgive us it represents an insufficient advance so incremental and so much better suited for a specialist journal

A report from Speech & Language UK highlights the action needed to ensure the specific needs of children with DLD are not overlooked in the proposed reforms to the SEND system. You can read Speech and Language UK’s report here speechandlanguage.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Among adults 50 years of age or older, fewer cases of confirmed influenza-like illness were observed with an mRNA influenza vaccine than with standard vaccines. Reactogenicity was higher with the mRNA vaccine. Full phase 3 Fluent trial results: https://nej.md/4nfu2z8 #InfectiousDisease

The Improbable Journey to Unravel Guido's 37-Year Diagnostic Odyssey www.linkedin.com/pulse/improb...

🚨 NEWS: The first report from the Forensic Scientometrics (FoSci) movement maps one of the most critical issues facing global research: manipulation. The report has been launched at the World Conferences on Research Integrity in Vancouver, Canada. #WCRI2026 🔗 See more: https://ow.ly/hqbH50YVwYe

Reaction from @reeserichardson.bsky.social, me, and @abalkina.bsky.social to IEEE's handling of conferences. (Pic by @elisabethbik.bsky.social)

On this graduation day, I am reminded of when I was briefly an interim department chair and saved money on regalia by ordering a Slytherin costume robe and tie on Amazon.

Christ Church’s Picture Gallery has closed for transformation into “a larger, more accessible, museum-standard space”. The 1960s building is home to 7,000 works of art, said to be one of the most important private collections of Old Masters in the UK. www.chch.ox.ac.uk/news/christ-...

Just updated my blogpost on Jay Bhattacharya's appearance at NASEM workshop in light of further commentary/sources- scroll down for PS. deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/04/that...

Times headline "Muslim voters rank Gaza over the economy in local election poll" is reporting a poll where the top issue for [some] Muslim voters was the cost of living (50%) ahead of Gaza on 25% and economy on 21% Anti-Muslim hostility on 22% Times headline gives an entirely misleading impression