Birding friends, I need your help. A few months ago, someone told me that German birders have their own equivalent of the term LBJ (little brown job). It was something like "small, fast, gone". Does anyone know what that term is?
Thumbnails for two modules in primary and secondary English
English teachers (both primary & secondary), this is for you: UCL's Centre for Climate Change Education has just added new resources for teachers on helping pupils connect with nature via English teaching. They've got loads for other subjects too. Do share!
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A mosaic on a floor in a house in Herculaneum. There is warping due to the weight of the volcanic debris that covered it. It is made up of a number of different types of geometric figures.
A floor mosaic in situ in the entrance of a house at Herculaneum, Italy. The warping was caused by the weight of the volcanic debris that covered it.
📷 my own — taken today (20APR2026)
#MosaicMonday
Main street of Pompeii
Visited Pompeii today — a dream come true. There was a tear in my eye when we stepped out into the ‘main street’. Our guide, Rosina, was great. Saw the main bits but some off the beaten path. And the current excavations are uncovering some stunning buildings — roof tiles in place, frescos so fresh.
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I’ve been looking at those ones. I will probably get the first one when I am back.
They’re cliff-hangers but I don’t mind that. I’m enjoying rereading them, picking out new bits each time. It’s good to read the novella Livesuit between the two novels as well.
Extrapolate this just a wee bit and it's good advice for life.
Put away your shopping cart.
Pick up your trash.
Use headphones in a public space.
In other words, think about your impact on others.
Painting of a nebula with swirling yellow orange clouds around a central area of blue white on an. Orange wall lit by some natural indirect light
This really pops on my living room wall in the morning.
It could on your wall.
Original is available
Crab Nebula
oil on canvas
2024
Based on the JWST image
#art #painting #sciArt #astronomy
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Yup. I travel very light but you can never have enough underwear! 😀
If you are planning to vote for Scottish Greens don’t be duped by Independent Green Voice nothing environmental or organic about them. Set up by neo-fascist BNP/UKIP. A scandal that they are allowed to use the words green, organic and have a leaf in logo.
PSA: Life is hard, remember to take power naps to recharge.
Cred:myeongosheo
Despite our best efforts, multiple crises in the arts and charitable sector, and the ongoing patriarchal stance on inclusiveness mean that the Vagina Museum continues to struggle. We are having to have serious conversations about our long-term future. And now, more than ever, we need your help...
And finally in Naples, where every taxi in Italy seems to be outside the station. 😳 The whole trip by train has been great, watching the landscape and architecture change — I love my travels by train. 🥰 I’m so lucky I can travel this way.
We’ve just gone under Bologna! Same when we went thru Turin yesterday. Into a tunnel, stop at the underground platforms, then out the tunnel on the other side. So I didn’t get to see anything of either city, tho it’s nicer for the inhabitants to not have all these high speed trains whizzing thru.
Just finished The Faith of Beasts while waiting to leave Milan station. So good. 🤩Can’t wait for the next book. @abraham.bsky.social is there an eta for Book 3? So love the Captive’s War universe.
Day 3 and Milan to Naples. Left via the magnificent Central Station. The train was a bit late but that gave me time to admire the decorations on the walls and floors of the stunning central hall. Onwards to Napoli…
For the exoplanet experts:
Has anyone done a good review of how long M-dwarf planets can stay habitable?
I was asked this and realized all of the references I have focus on habitability out to about 10 Gyr star age, with a bit on stellar lifetimes.
… and ciao Porta Garibaldi Station , Milan? If I hadn’t just walked out I wouldn’t know this was the train station — come for the restaurants, stay for the trains. 😀 I think the central train station I’m leaving from tomorrow morning will be more impressive.
I thought it was the train’s Wi-Fi; I’ll take back that sigh I let out. 😀
Day 2 and it’s Paris to Milan. There are 2 direct trains — one leaves Paris at the crack of dawn; the other leaves in the afternoon but arrives in Milan at dusk. So gone for dawn and a beautiful sunrise it is, too. 7 hours but it should be lovely scenery. Goodbye Gare de Lyon ….
Just watched a video of Andy Weir describing neutrinos and he says they quantum tunnel through pretty much everything and I don’t feel this is an appropriate use of ”quantum tunneling”
Anyway why ask a woman physicist when you can ask a dude novelist
Part of sadness runs deeper than we realize because it is woven into attachment. We feel sad when something we value is threatened, changed, or lost. Even small moments of sadness can reveal how much meaning we place on a person, a place, a plan, or a version of ourselves.
… et bonjour Le Gare du Nord. They’ve finished the roadworks in front so the station’s glorious façade can be seen. Overnight in Paris, then the long leg tomorrow.
Eurostar train ready to depart St Pancras, London
Taking my dream holiday to Naples and Rome. Travelling by train and the first leg is London to Paris. Taking the gorgeous Eurostar — love it so much. Goodbye St Pancras …
Close up of Kobo e-reader with book cover James S. A. Corey The Faith of Beasts. In the background, a train waiting room
First day of three days of train travel. A bit of a delay this morning but as Faith of Beasts dropped yesterday I don’t mind. A third of the way in — such a great story. On tenterhooks! 🤩
The All Good Bookshop's Pay-It-Forward board, pinned with numerous paper tags bearing different amounts in pound sterling.
Our humble little bookshop in north London has, like some others, a Pay-It-Forward board with tags paid for by other customers. Anyone with low income can come in, take a tag, and buy a book with it.
#booksky
It makes me nostalgic to see politicians retire in the face of sexual assault claims instead of running for President.
Cartoon of two wrapped, mummy-like figures standing at sarcophagus in an Egyptian desert scene, while a wrapped arm reaches out to sign a book at a “Meet the Author: Egyptian Book of the Dead” display.
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