🗣️ FOLKS! Our long national nightmare is over. No, not that one... but Spring is springing and #AwesomeBirds is back! See if you recognize this early migrant and spread the #AwesomeBirds gospel! 🙏

Some signs of spring ❤️💜🩷

Distant and not always in focus!, but still really pleased to see a nuthatch earlier this month at Adderbury Lakes, Oxfordshire. #UKBirding

Somerville College looking wonderful in the early spring sunshine. So privileged to work in a lovely environment sustained by our terrific gardening team. @somervillecollege.bsky.social

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You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

They know what they say is untrue, they do not care it is untrue. The media know that what they repeat is untrue, they do not care it is untrue. Their supporters know what they are told is untrue, they do not care it is untrue. Telling the truth is not enough, unless people care about the truth.

The task for political leadership now is not just to tell the truth, but to make people care about what is true and what is not.

Be clear on the fact that this regime will keep murdering us in broad daylight until the people behind all this are removed from power. Not quarreled with—removed from power. If any part of you thinks this will get better or stay the same rather than get exponentially worse, stop thinking that way.

echoing the calls for people outside the US to pressure their country to boycott the Olympics and the World Cup

Alex Pretti, whom DHS labeled a domestic terrorist, honoring a veteran that passed away in the ICU. The Magats have really lost the plot with this one. This is a man that not only didn't hate his country or its service members but honored them and their service.

“Heartbroken but also very angry… sickening lies by the administration… reprehensible and disgusting… Alex is clearly not holding a gun… please get the truth out about our son, he was a good man…”

A 20 minute lunchtime walk helped considerably when my work was doing my head in! (nothing dramatic just the usual academic mince).

Dear ERC President: Considering your Council decided not to give me an ERC Consolidator Grant for having devised 8 great work packages PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Research, although it will always be predominant, but can now think of what is good and proper for me.

Red kite seen on lunchtime walk, Oxfordshire. #UKBirding

Blue tit seen on a lunchtime walk today. #UKBirding

Blue tit seen on a lunchtime walk today.

Yesterday on a really dull and misty day at Blenheim Palace Park, Richard suddenly spotted something and when I looked through the lens ... it was a kingfisher!! Very lucky to see it! @richard013.bsky.social @blenheimpalace.bsky.social #UKBirding

Yesterday on a really dull and misty day at Blenheim Palace Park, Richard suddenly spotted something and when I looked through the lens ... it was a kingfisher!! Very lucky to see it! @richard013.bsky.social @blenheimpalace.bsky.social

Winter walks #2 with @richard013.bsky.social

Winter walks #1

The local "cormorant tree" in full bloom 🤣🤣 #UKBirding

Great crested grebe in extreme contrast, Tar Lakes, Witney, Oxfordshire #UKBirding

Blue tit, New Years Day #UKBirding

Winter walk, New Years Day #UKBirding

Red kites and robin, 2nd January. #UKBirding

Red kite, Oxfordshire, 2nd January #UKBirding

Robin and Rook #UKBirding

A winter walk with @richard013.bsky.social

Fulmars off of various coasts of Orkney. Seen on lovely holiday this summer with @richard013.bsky.social #SuperSeabirdSunday @steelyseabirder.bsky.social #UKBirding

Some photos from over the weekend, Farmoor Reservoir & surrounds, Oxfordshire 2/2 #UKBirding

Some photos from over the weekend, Farmoor Reservoir & surrounds, Oxfordshire 1/2 #UKBirding

Small canal-side walk

Blurry photos of goldfinches in flight by the Oxford Canal #UKBirding

Pied wagtails, Oxfordshire #UKBirding

Mallard, Oxford Canal, 13 November 2025

Oxford Canal Reflections

Birds of the Oxford Canal, 13 November 2025 #UKBirding

A dog in a bobble hat recruits local yoot to help him solve a missing persons case

Upton House and Gardens @nationaltrust.org.uk near Banbury today - often looked like summer and felt like winter!! 2/2. With @richard013.bsky.social

Upton House and Gardens @nationaltrust.org.uk near Banbury today - often looked like summer and felt like winter!! 1/2. With @richard013.bsky.social

View from my office (and one view of my office!) .... not such a bad place to work, really, Somerville College! @somervillecollege.bsky.social

There haven't been too many sunny days to appreciate them this October, but today the trees in Somerville College @somervillecollege.bsky.social are looking lovely.

Have you ever wished that YOU could be the person who got to drive #BookyMcBookface around #Orkney, delivering books? Well, YOU could be. 👇 myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/ork...