In Celtic folklore, the goddess Brigantia has the badger as her sacred animal totem. This connection highlights new life, wisdom, and the emergence of spring. The badger is an earth-dwelling creature that symbolises new life emerging from beneath the earth. Art my own #ArtAdventCalendar

It's day 6 of #artadventcalendar and here's a yellow fever mosquito (Aedes aegypti). From my blogpost about engineering mosquitoes to help limit the spread of dengue and other mosquito-borne illnesses 🐡 www.kathryngarner.co.uk/blog/must-ha...

Day 6 of #ArtAdventCalendar: a self-portrait. #art #drawing

#ArtAdventCalendar The only watercolour I've done this year was another surprise gift, this time for my sister in law. Her grandsons. It's a different challenge when you're painting for someone else.

Day 4 #ArtAdventCalendar A Flock of Discontent #art #painting

#ArtAdventCalendar #Art #OilPaint #Portrait Detail of a portrait of my 89 year old mom. I’m not quite finished yet. Still working on the background but her face and shirt shall remain as is.

For day 5 of #artadventcalendar… One of the rarest birds in the world but their numbers are growing.. so hopefully one day I can say they are as common as any other ibis. Until then, the #NorthernBaldIbis continues the fight to thrive… with the help of many heroes. Mixed media #waldrapp #birdart

Day 5 of #ArtAdventCalendar: a drawing of Tower Bridge #art

Today's #ArtAdventCalendar is my favorite photo that I took this year. ❤️ #birds

#ArtAdventCalendar day 3 🎨 Harbor Seals at Hopkins Beach My watercolor painting is inspired by walks along the Monterey Bay Coastal Trail. Always nice to see the harbor seals of Pacific Grove. #art #watercolor #nature #Monterey #California #coast 1-elizabeth-kennen.pixels.com

Day 3 of #artadventcalendar! Featuring the ever so complex Griffon Vulture - these birds are super social, I suppose it’s because you can’t dine on decaying carcass without your buddies. Mixed media on paper. #birding #birdart

A trio for day 4 of #artadventcalendar Atlantic Puffins hanging out #watercolor #seabird

Broken Arch, in Arches National Park, Utah. #ArtAdventCalendar day 4, #art #painting

#artadventcalendar Day 3 From my latest exhibition: "Apricity" Watercolour, 36 x 20" (sold, private collection) #art #watercolor #canadianart #alberta #landscape🇨🇦

#ArtDD2025 Oystercatcher One of my favourite bird calls is the plaintive cry of the oystercatcher. Day 3 of #artadventcalendar @saocousins.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @indikon.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social

Goldfinches (the European species) in the winter’s morning sunshine. Ink and watercolour. #artAdventCalendar 🪶🐡

I know I’ve been active on @bsky.app for a year now because it’s already #ArtAdventCalendar time again! Better late than never, here’s #day3 for me. An oldie of mine hanging in a friend’s house. #oilpainting #makeartnotwar

A sketch I did of the view toward Skiddaw in the Lake District. This was meant to be the start of a habit of making frequent sketches. Hopefully I will revisit this habit soon. #ArtAdventCalendar day 3 #art #drawing

day 1 #ArtAdventCalendar all aboard the posting beautiful things train! Let's make everyone's timelines joyful and inspiring!

Asilomar Beach Pathway, watercolor 💙 #ArtAdventCalendar day 2. One of my favorite places in Pacific Grove, California. Inspired by peaceful walks at Asilomar Beach. #art #artist #watercolor #landscape #Monterey #California #coast 🎨 1-elizabeth-kennen.pixels.com

For day 2 of #ArtAdventCalendar, a view of the Matterhorn seen from Zermatt. The mountain was very bright and golden in the early morning light but I am afraid I somewhat ruined the painting with the trees. I plan to revisit this view more carefully in the future. #art #painting

Super exciting opportunity to work on an ambitious project both developing novel statistical methodology for infectious diseases and applying it to real world AMR problems in the UK: jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

A #painting. Now hanging in Liverpool, "Stone Wall, Cottage" came out of my brief life on the north coast of Donegal, where me and my little dog would walk 5-mile loops enjoying the views of the Seven Sisters. I can't look at it without remembering her. #art #SpeirGhorm #ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear

#artadventcalendar Day 1 A study of a photo I took from the fall - my Vancouver nephew looking at the northern light near our home. 8x10 oil on board

Just finished this painting of a branch, incidentally featuring a great spotted woodpecker! 😂 Watercolor on 30x40cm paper, 425g/m2 - but learned my lesson about trying to use anything but Arches. 🙃 #BirdArt #SciArt #ArtAdventCalendar

happy december! here's a cool bird :) #art #ArtAdventCalendar #SciArt #birds

This year has raced by and I don’t think I have much new to show for it so here’s one of my favourites that I shared last year: Greylag geese flying over Coral Beach (Isle of Skye) (acrylic) #ArtAdventCalendar

Day 1 of #artadventcalendar Watercolor 😈🎨🦇 I'll try to remember to use this post as a thread and keep them all together 🤞

A watercolor painting for the first day of #ArtAdventCalendar. 🧡 This is Flaco, the Eurasian eagle owl of NYC. I enjoyed following the story of this amazing #owl and loved painting #Flaco in watercolor. #art #watercolor #owls #birds #nature #wildlife 🎨 1-elizabeth-kennen.pixels.com

Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.

If you have an emergency phone you don't want someone to find out about, please be aware that this is happening soon.

Protests as newborn removed from Greenlandic mother after ‘parenting competence’ tests

NEW PREPRINT Explainable AI refers to an extremely popular group of approaches that aim to open "black box" AI models. But what can we see when we open the black AI box? We use Galit Shmueli's framework (to describe, predict or explain) to evaluate arxiv.org/abs/2508.05753

AI replicates, magnifies and perpetuates the biases already active in our health system and society www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Chris Hinchliffe (MP for NE Herts) was suspended from Labour for tabling an amendment to protect the ecologically unique chalk streams in his constituency - with other Labour MPs branding him the 'Hedgehog Hezbollah'. The last days of Stalin had a healthier political culture than the Labour Party.

Gannets are such beautiful birds, with their soft creamy feathers and bright blue eye patches. They form lifelong pairs, raising and protecting the young together Acrylics on board 9.8″ x 9.8″ (25 x 25 cm) #SciArt #animalart #birdart #animalpainting #birdpainting #wildlifeart

These stripes show a clear trend. This is 174 years’ of climate in Birmingham. (The website also has versions as bar charts that allow finer comparison between years.) #ShowYourStripes @uniofreading.bsky.social showyourstripes.info/s

Thinking of a hero I knew and admired.

The fairly consistent lesson I’m learning from the Birdle game is that birds are bigger than I think they are. Birdle 🇬🇧 29/05/2025 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 birdle.co.uk

Losing a pregnancy is horribly traumatic. The idea of compunding that by seizing women’s phones and searching their private messages and health apps is grotesque observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

I wrote an op-ed for @lbc.co.uk about Labour's immigration white paper today & how chasing Nigel Farage will take them nowhere www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...

Emma and I had a brilliant time exploring different artists' work at for Oxfordshire Artweeks. It is such a fantastic festival, I really recommend going along. Here's a very helpful map where you can browse by day of week and art type: www.artweeks.org/festival/map /1

Absolute bonkers. Labour have taken leave of its senses. The social care sector is on its arse already due to a lack of capacity. No flow to social care sector = No NHS activity.

Watching a murder mystery where birdwatchers have murdered each other, possibly over who can see the Rare Bird Du Jour. What these shows get wrong is that 99.9% of birders, if you express even the slightest interest, will drag you over hill and dale to SHOW you the bird.

Exactly. An obsessed minority are gleefully going after a tiny minority group and viciously going after anyone else who tries to speak up. We all have a duty to stand up to these bigots.

The Children’s Commissioner has today published a report sharing children's views on assisted dying. Children will be affected by law change. It is important to listen to their views. t.co/9YtA0TBfmN

Come and work with us! Postdoctoral research job to look at methods for working with early pandemic "First Few X" datasets in resource-limited contexts. Please consider applying if of interest and circulate around your networks. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...