Arch. Spring in a beech forest. I love the way trees just grow with what life throws at them. #ForestFriday #trees #photography #beech

Llandudno pier. #TidesOutTuesday #photography #ocean #Wales #Llandudno

Glacier Blanc at Barre des Ecrins, France. Mont Pelvoux is one of the background peaks. September 2025, and so sadly a somewhat depleted glacier - but still majestic #MountainMonday #BlueSkyMonday #photography #mountains #France

The unsung pollinator. I haven't identified this #insect (French Alps for context) but in quietly going about its business, it's also providing pollination services the whole ecosystem (including us!) depends on. #photography #insects #flowers #macro #pollination #nature #biodiversity

Le Garabut catches the setting sun. Orcières, France, late August. #MountainMonday #photography #mountains #France #Alps

Silver thistle and mountain fritillary butterfly (I think). French Alps. #flowers #butterflies #insects #mountains #photography

Torrent de la Combe de Narreyroux, France. #WaterfallWednesday #photography #mountains #Alps

Càrn Mòr Dearg and Ben Nevis, late September 2024. #MountainMonday #mountains #mountaineering #Scotland #photography #BlueSkyMonday

Late evening light on the #RiverForth. Late summer. #Scotland #sunset #photography #Stunday

Sunshine and shadows. On descent from Lac de Cedera, Parc National des Ecrins, France. #France #mountains #BlueSkyMonday #MountainMonday #photography #Alps

Sunset in Orcières-Merlette, France. Today, for #MountainMonday... #mountains #photography #France

Hole in the sky. #TidesOutTuesday #ocean #Scotland #Barra #photography #Atlantic

Cloud lurks on the north side of Gleouraich, near Loch Cuaich. Autumn 2024. #MountainMonday #BlueSkyMonday #Scotland #Mountains #photography

Skye sunset. Late May. An 'if-you-don't-like-the-weather-wait-five-minutes' kind of evening. #Scotland #Skye #photography #mountains #sunset #sea

Life finds a way. Just give it time. Rusting wreckage on this beach is steadily being colonised. #ocean #photography #oysters #sealife #TidesOutTuesday

Colour bands. Barra, June 2025. #BlueSkyMonday #Barra #WesternIsles #Scotland #ocean #blue #green

Sea shells and sand. This beach also doubles as Barra's airport. #Scotland #Barra #beach #seashells #photography #TidesOutTuesday

Hebridean Squall. (The ferry is now in it, I am in the ferry, and visibility is poor). #InnerHebrides #photography #Gigha #Islay #Jura #Scotland #weather

Summer evening. Wallace Monument across the River Forth, Stirling. 2213, mid-July. #photography #Scotland #Stirling #RiverForth

Orchid. Midsummer on the machair is impressively biodiverse. June 2025. #Barra #Scotland #flowers #photography

Atlantic Edge. Barra, Scotland. #Barra #Scotland #photography #sea

The seldom visited western end of Loch na Sealga, Fisherfield. #scotland #mountaineering #mountains #photography

Oxeye daisy, Skye. #scotland #photography #flowers

Blue. Broadford bay on Skye last week. (Full disclosure: also a lot of midges!) #scotland #skye #sea #photography

An upside of rain. (Camera lens not able to catch the full arch as it was too big!) #scotland #photography #rain #rainbow

Bluebell, Loch Maree #photography #mountaineering #forest #scotland

Rooted. Scots Pine, Torridon. #scotland #photography #mountaineering #trees

Four-day week with no loss of pay? Great discussion hosted by #LSE. We are far wealthier as a society than when we normalised a five-day work week decades ago. For me the question isn't 'Should we?', but 'How can we make this work for all?' www.lse.ac.uk/lse-player?i...

2255 in Gairloch - and still over a month to midsummer. The Western Isles just visible on the horizon.

Photos of Slioch across Loch Maree are clichés for a reason 😄. #scotland #photography #mountaineering

Red and gold. Autumn colours in spring - new copper beech and (silver?) maple leaves. #spring #photography #sunset #scotland

After the storm

This is just as true in social sciences as natural sciences 😕. And people are our field of study...

Winter woods.

Loch Lomond, late December

Galloway Coast, late December

Anonymous woodcarving in the woods near my house.

Sunset in Gairloch, May.

The footbridge near my local station looking like a transdimensional portal, as is often the case when it is foggy.

Sometimes it's all a matter of perspective.

The latest edition of research matters is out now. Jammed full of great articles - read it here: the-sra.org.uk/SRA/SRA/Publ... #SocialResearch #Research

On my recent North Sea ferry crossing, the deepest point was just 60 metres. At a time our world is changing very fast, we need to get much better at imagining very different pasts and futures to the status quo, which is one reason studies like this are fascinating. hakaimagazine.com/features/con...

Last night I tried out the IJmuiden - Newcastle ferry in line with my employer Eunomia's sustainable travel policy. It gives a very different geographical perspective to the more usual no-fly route via London/Eurostar, which I used outbound.

One of the books I have read in recent years that really changed how closely I look at the world is Merlin Sheldrake's Entangled Life. Fungi are a whole kingdom of life we overlook almost everyday. It's worth slowing down for a close up.

Summit of Ben Lawers, 9th November.