Thank you so much Silke 🥰

Cosmetic gatekeepers: Negotiations of beauty and (re)shaping bodies by medical aesthetic practitioners Aesthetic practitioners who administer (non-)surgical medical cosmetic procedures play a central, and growing, role in the (re)shaping of predominantl…

So pleased to see this article out in the world! Anne-Mette Hermans and I explore how aesthetic practitioners function as cosmetic gatekeepers when administering non-surgical treatments like Botox and dermal fillers, and the frequent tensions between medicine, aesthetics and commercialism. It’s 🔓!

Grey goose lurking behind woman, hoping for food (maybe)

Sometimes a little too close…

Gosling looking for food in the grass, with 3 goslings in the background

Oh they’re just the best 🥰 LOOK AT THEIR LITTLE WINGS AND BEAKS. Fortunately the geese nearby are pretty friendly and get quite close…

A very new gosling walking around on grass

Sometimes all you need is a little gosling butt to alleviate the morbs

YES! So good!!

Ooooo! With the red pages? I was getting very impatient with the delayed UK publication. I absolutely love everything I've read by him. I cried at points during the Indian Lake trilogy - HOW DOES HE DO THAT WHEN I'M MADE OF STONE AND ICE?!

It’s a brilliant read!

Cover of Stephen Graham Jones’s latest book The Buffalo Hunter Hunter.

I swear, there are no authors who make me FEEL such a complex range of emotions as @sgj.bsky.social does. His latest, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter is just stunning. So, so good.

100% lean into it, for the little bebe corvids.

Oh my goodness, befriend!

Genuinely, that statement was waiting in drafts to be published as soon as they could, didn’t fucking blink.

I think that number is likely higher now given we ran this survey over a year ago… I have a lot of conversations with PGRs about how they use GenAI in their writing (MOSTLY as an ‘advanced’ proofreader, but it can easily slip into reliance, which is where… shit gets iffy)

Peacock butterfly with slightly frayed wings being held

Fragile little peacock saved from the pavement. First one of these I’ve seen in years 🥺

Loved seeing this a couple of weeks ago!

Ugh, Kay, so sorry. :(

A majestic goober.

That’s also a fair enough reason to be averse to taxidermy. And thank you, the Berlin example is from a couple of years back (I wish I was in Berlin instead of Southampton right now…), but that creature does live in my head rent-free!

I have a soft spot for (ethical) taxidermy, but yes, if you don’t mind terrible taxidermy, please marvel at this treasure in Berlin…

Taxidermy otter with a ‘less than impressed’ facial expression

My face at the slightest inconvenience

A poorly taxidermied otter in a glass case

At the weekend I encountered a taxidermied otter that looked like it had received a face transplant from Gordon the Gopher.

If there’s one thing I can reliably find on any trip, it’s questionable taxidermy.

That is FILTH

Henceforth, I will only answer to ‘Barbie nine jobs’.

Thank you Silke :)

Thank youuuuuu :)

Every track a banger.

Heston could never