🎙️This morning @isabelh.bsky.social and I spoke to Monocle Radio about #Putin's visiting to #China, what #Russia is hoping to get out of it and how that relationship might develop. The segment starts about 3 minutes into the recording monocle.com/player/?uuid...

Barn owl cam is here! See how they are getting on 24 hours day over on YouTube. If you're lucky, you might even see some eggs hatching, live 👀 Tune in: buff.ly/AWxh8TW [📹️ A night-vision camera shows a single barn owl sitting, tending to eight eggs and eating inside a wooden nest box.]

more and more my job seems to be just explaining to 100% disbelieving ppl that the job of research is actually literally doing all the reading, even when it takes forever, even when it is boring, even when it requires a new skillset and the response I get is like telling people we breathe underwater

Dodged the showers to get in a walk down the lane this afternoon after a morning of marking

Job opportunity - please repost and help us spread the word!

Cats sharing a trench with Ukrainian soldiers dive for cover at the sound of an incoming munition.

"What happened?" followed by "Where's the blow dryer?" 😹

One of our two Capitol statues I think

💻 Yesterday I spoke to DW about the recent Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia, setting it in the wider context of the progress of the war and the competition between the two countries in the development and deployment of drones. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hf4...

This is how Ukrainian kids are having lessons in Kharkiv subway station.

Timeline cleanse

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

Sunny and breezy for a Sunday afternoon walk down the lane.

May 17 honors victims of Soviet political repression — Ukrainian writers, artists, clergy, soldiers, peasants, and thousands more killed, jailed, deported, or silenced by Moscow’s terror. #Ukraine

Looks like Bruce is going to snooze through #Eurovision

Catherine is the person to follow tonight for everything #Eurovision

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

It was a drizzly afternoon for a walk. The cats chose naps on comfy beds over getting their paws wet.

Good mdorning all! Have a lovely saturday #caturday, but first #breakfast. 🎨Kitti Narod - Coffee and Cat

The work of Vivian Maier (1920-2009), prolific US street photographer whose work was unknown in her lifetime #WomensArt

Mural on the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue, Detroit, 2018 by international muralist Bunnie Reiss who is influenced by her Polish heritage, especially Poland's brightly coloured folk art #womensart

Tampere University offers a 3-year fully funded PhD position on the use of open source investigation in relation to the Ukraine and Palestine conflicts. tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...

Warcoffee in Kyiv. I have it in memory of the lives lost to russia’s attacks. Yesterday, 24 people were killed in Kyiv. I really don’t know where to hide from reality today.

Shadow on a #CatsNoirFriday country walk

Sandra Apperloo, contemporary potter (aka The Pottery Parade) #WomensArt

Kyiv has declared May 15 a day of mourning after an especially horrifying Russian missile and drone attack killed 24 people, including three children, and injured 47 others. Rescuers are still working through rubble in the Darnytsky district, where a building collapsed. t.me/tvrain/104750

Station Master Mikan. 🚃

Morning. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodley 764, folio 79r.

Old cast iron fingerpost at Abergynolwyn, Gwynedd, which preserves some of the outdated spellings of local villages - notably the tourist-freindly 'Dolgelly' for Dolgellau Not many of these left in Wales - & the majority are listed 👌 📷 My own, last week

Kyiv was hammered by Russian drones (and missiles) overnight, at least 1 person killed, dozens wounded, per emergency officials. Authorities say nearly 670 drones (plus ~60 missiles) were fired overnight; a day after a similarly huge barrage.

Switzerland's most-read newspaper, 20-Minuten, published an interview with @guttmannaviva.bsky.social about Russian President Vladimir Putin's fears of assassination and the security precautions that the Russian state took for the Victory Day parade on 9 May. www.20min.ch/story/milita...

Indeed - I have a new piece out about this: theconversation.com/fearful-dimi...

A spectacular London skyline sunset from the top of Westwood Park in Forest Hill tonight!

My latest for @uk.theconversation.com is out - considering what Saturday's Victory Day parade tells us about #Russia's mood and the course of its war against #Ukraine theconversation.com/fearful-dimi...

It cleared up nicely for an afternoon walk down the lane after a morning of meetings

“Turn off that light, lady. Can’t you see I’m trying to sleep?” 😹

Shadow naps in the evening sunshine

Beautiful old arched bridge at Bethesda, Gwynedd, yesterday on the edge of Penrhyn slate quarry Have a fabulous week everyone 🌞 📷 My own

The natural hanging gardens on the coastal margins of #YnysMôn #Anglesey #Wales #botany @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @walescoastpath1.bsky.social #wildflowerhour #seaside #Thrift #Seapink

Just donated to support the work that St Martin's in the Field are doing to support the homeless and destitute - follow the thread to find the link to learn more and donate if you can ⬇️

Russia violates the ceasefire for a second day with 60 attacks on Ukrainian positions by 4 PM, Ukraine's General Staff reports. Pokrovsk remains the hottest direction with 24 enemy assaults.

Sunday afternoon walk down the lane. 1/2

A glorious hillside full of bluebells on our mountain bike ride today in the woods above Betws y Coed 🥰

The Pike’s Peak Humane Society has a social media manager who is very good at their job

We are looking for a doctoral researcher to conduct a study on the GDR (or Yugoslavia) for my ERC project "Racial Socialism". Please share widely! stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de/jgu/job/55297

'Hare and Bluebells' linocut by printmaker Mariann Johansen-Ellis #womensart #Spring

This is what normalisation looks like.

Made in Ukraine. Pokuttia ceramics I saw today. Traditional pottery from Western Ukraine, known for its warm colors, carved ornaments, and hand-painted designs.

🥴 Putin used to always walk to lay flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Today, for the first time in history, he rode an armored bus…