This pansy was feeling left out of the #BlueSkyArtShow #Spring #Flowers #EastCoastKin

my mood improves every time I go walk around outside and engage with my community. which is probably a coincidence

"All your fingers are belong to us." Cuttlefish are such interesting creatures, renowned for their ability to rapidly change color, pattern, and skin texture to blend in with their surroundings or communicate. They have a unique "cuttlebone," which helps them control their buoyancy. #cephalopods

Turning up to colleagues presentations and standing up the back like this to make them slightly unsettled.

So many women who’ve been subjected to one or more sexual harms will find part of their life story in this piece. Real pain & chronic medical issues not ‘psychosomatic’. Imagine if the medical profession understood & gave integrated care. #MVAWG #medsky theconversation.com/rape-sexual-...?

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

Every year more people are killed at work than in wars. Most don't die of mystery ailments, or in tragic "accidents". They die because an employer decided their safety just wasn't that important a priority. On International Workers Memorial Day, we commemorate those workers

This May Day, let's talk about the workers who aren't allowed to work. The builders, teachers, hairdressers, plumbers - all banned from working in the UK because they're waiting for an asylum decision. Everyone should have the right to work. It's time to Lift The Ban.

Sharing the mountains with a ghost who leaves no tracks

publishers sitting on your manuscript for 10+ months

we need to be honest that some people are going to have to lose out in order for young people to gain, and the group that absolutely has to lose out is homeowners/particularly multi home owners. Their house values are being protected at the expense of the rest of the country

Reiji Hiramatsu (Japanese Artist, born 1941) "Sakura and Water Lily", 2011. Ink and Color on Paper, 72.7 × 90.9 cm. Museum of Impressionism, Giverny, France. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

New event! 📆5th May 🕛12:15pm UK Time @bordercrim.bsky.social host Surabhi Chopra for talk "Immigration detention in Hong Kong: Advocacy in the dark" about her research on administrative detention in Hong Kong & how activist groups push for reform. In Oxford UK www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

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It’s so crazy how everyone has to do little short videos on social media now to get the message out. Even academic departments. Anyone who wants to sell a book. Poets! Movie stars!!! Butch manosphere fascists!!!!!Soon it’ll be your dog making a video to beg for a walk.

Most Reform-leaning councillor names: - Barry - Thomas - Adrian Most Labour: - Angela - Laura - Dave Most Conservative: - Roger - Phil - Nick Most Lib Dem: - Tim - Sam - Richard Most Green: - Jonathan - Ben - Kate

Sometimes I forget how crude Australian slang is. I said to a professor: I want to work on that research project! I'll do whatever; shitkicker jobs. Or whatever the polite form of that is? Like type stuff up. Him and the other academic looked bemused and were like 'oh, like a dogsbody?'

TRIMESTER OVER. BRING ON SUMMER!

Jefferson Lewis arrested over death of Kumanjayi Little Baby in Northern Territory

Just piss off, whydontcha

it's cool when Word won't let you post another comment because another comment is in progress. but where is that comment? we just don't know

Just a series of replies on the world university leaders made. If I had a penny for how many times I have heard VCs on 300+k with a knighthood say they are dealing with an impossible environment, I'd be a millionaire. Or at least have a few grand.

Linum berlandieri, our Berlandier’s Flax, blooming at Picture Canyon Sunday #nativeplants 🌿

My neighbour down my tenfoot saw the Ocado truck and guessed that it was me and now I have no credibility in my working class neigbourhood.

“Use AI to brainstorm but not to write.” “Use AI to help you outline but not to write.” These are commonly proposed as “ethical” ways for undergrad students to use AI, but I’m sorry, brainstorming & outlining are just as integral to writing as the actual construction of sentences.

From the article: "Sea lions are thigmotactic, a scientific term for very social creatures who like to cuddle." Word of the day! I'm going to add it to my bio.

It feels increasingly disingenuous to advise students to pursue careers in academia, given that "good" faculty jobs--jobs with decent pay and benefits, academic freedom, and labor rights/protections--are becoming so few and far between.

Day 22 #artAdventCalendar my bee (and other pollinator) propaganda I made for Manufactured Ecosystems. 🧪🐡🐝 Thinking about the future of pollination and seeking solutions from technological and nature-based knowledge. This is essentially my conclusion: we can aid our beleaguered pollinators with 🧵

thinking thoughts

I'd like all politicians to know you'd mostly be defending antidepressant-taking middle class folks wearing the same button-downs they bought 10-20 years ago in grad school and whose fluorescent-lit offices have 2-3 plastic chairs and institutional off-white paint.

Being British or settled doesn’t mean your spouse can live with you 🇬🇧 Earn under £29k? No visa. Can’t save £88,500? No visa. Have kids together? Doesn’t matter. 🚨 We're launching this campaign today—help us tell the gov to stop profiting from tearing families apart reunitefamiliesuk.co.uk/sign

Detox Doodles! These animals are from my 100-day journey to swap scrolling for sketching: www.joyousjoyness.com/pages/detox-... This page is full of Potoos and Tawny Frogmouths, who are simply Muppets. #art #sketch #birds #DetoxDoodles #sciart #inkart#bird#bird

Also you will never "fix immigration" (horrible expression) enough for the racists to stop thinking about it. It's a project doomed to fail, apart from also being morally bankrupt.

The image is an oil-on-canvas painting titled The White Cottage Among the Olive Trees (also known as Farmhouse among Olive Trees), created by the Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh in December 1889.

I used to be good at Computer. Now Computer thinks it is good at me. But it actually isn’t??????

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incredible photos of a walrus falling off a pontoon in scotland. source www.facebook.com/groups/scotl...

I still remain astonished that Blockbuster, known for price gouging, ridiculous late fees, ambitions of a monopoly and censorship of films, has become a nostalgia beacon. For the kids, it would be like everyone suddenly sighing about the warm summer days at Walmart.

UK University Redundancy Survey from @timeshighered.bsky.social out today - part one, focusing on experience of leavers. Plenty of data - with respondents torn on whether they want to stay in HE - but personal stories hit hardest www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/i-dont... via @pauljump.bsky.social

“those in the wealthiest 10% of areas could expect to have around 20 more years of good health than those in the poorest” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My fantastic former PhD student, Dr Cathy Jaquiss, is presenting her doctoral research on litigating LGBTQ+ asylum claims on 13th May (online and in person). Dr Jaquiss uses space and emotion to show how we can better support for people in need of refuge. See here: www.outsavvy.com/event/35506/...

The river Dart at Huccaby last May, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography

A little-viewed Flickr album showcases Indigenous partnership in service of US border security, but a counter-narrative of colonisation and resistance lies beneath. Read the latest blog post, on the rise and fall of ICE's Shadow Wolves unit ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

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Marine scientist Lara Denis-Roy snapped this big-belly seahorse while diving in Bicheno, Tasmania as part of her PhD research at IMAS @imas-utas.bsky.social. "I appreciate that I am able to directly observe the reefs that I study," she said. Read about Lara’s eDNA work here: utas.au/LD