Trying to help birds could be spreading disease. Advice in the article

Close-up frontal portrait of a Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus) staring directly into the camera with an intense, almost confrontational expression. White rounded head with a buff-yellow crown, pale grey bill, and piercing ice-blue eyes framed by dark facial skin. Soft blue-grey background, warm-brown blurred colony birds in the foreground. Photo by Geert Klein Breteler.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LookingAtMe.
Angry bird is looking at me!

#NorthernGannet #JanVanGent #birds #birdphotography #vogelfotografie #natuurfotografie #SonyAlpha #EastCoastKin

School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women

This is utterly jaw-dropping.

A school that bans Atwood, Zadie Smith, Terry effing Pratchett and *literal George Orwell* is actively harming its pupils.

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More British teenagers stranded abroad as result of new rules on dual nationals Cases emerge after other people tell of change in Home Office policy on passports that has left people scrambling

I need someone to explain to me---very slowly---how if you *know* they're dual nationals...so you don't let them in...why...you won't let them in? When a foreign national *would* be let in on the same passport? This is insanity.

Four images of clothes on a line which are positioned to resemble animals, an elephant, a zebra, a cow and a fox

More of artist Helga Stentzel's fun clothesline creatures #WomensArt #Monday

#ResearchHighlight from Yewei Xie & Mo Yin @moru-mip.bsky.social

One health perspective of antibiotic resistance in enterobacterales from Southeast Asia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Read more 👉 www.ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi
Full publication 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

‘Magical’ galaxy frogs disappear after reports of photographers destroying their habitats Researcher in Kerala rainforest sounds alarm after being told frogs had died after being handled by humans

No excuse for killing animals while trying to photograph them. Any photographs obtained like that should be boycotted www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Illustrated screen print of a nuthatch perched in a tree trunk

A red breasted nuthatch, four color screen print. Edition of 22. #ArtAdventCalendar 🐡🎨🪶

Powerful description of the importance of palliative care in settings where people too often assume palliative care can’t be delivered, and MSF’s role in delivering that care www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Original oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Low Autumn Evening" 8"x6" oil on Ampersand Gessobord (2025). Loosely painted abstract-leaning atmospheric seascape with earth tones on a dark shore. The sky has orange and gray tones with hints of blue.

Day 12: #ArtAdventCalendar

It's also #scape day!

Tisha Mark ©2025, Low Autumn Evening, oil on gessobord, 8"x6"

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#art #painting #bsnm #TraditionalArt #SciArt

A framed painting of the sea front of Lyme Regis, UK with older buildings along a paved pathway by the beach, and a street light decorated with metal-work ammonites in honor of Mary Anning.

I wish I had a better pic of this painting my Mum did of Lyme Regis. It's hanging in our living room. #ArtAdventCalendar

Fractal printed balloon hovers over a mountainous lake with its reflection in the water below

Fractal balloon “Fibonacci” hovers over a mountain lake as its perfect symmetry is mirrored in the water below. #ArtAdventCalendar

Watercolour of three wading birds, each one facing the viewer, standing on one leg only, with black heads and backs. Their heads are all turned round and tucked into their wings, so that only the left hand bird is still showing an eye.

#ArtDD2025
'Not looking'

3 lovely stilts keeping their heads tucked under their wings.

For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 10

From a great 📷 by @theonetruekat.bsky.social with thanks.
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Landscape format mat board painted in loose very heavily textured acrylics creating broken effects all over. A blue bay comes in from the left. In the foreground is clumpy green grass with specks of blue, yellow, white and red, and black rocks. On far side of bay is a ridge of low hills, in pale olive and lilac with, low down, a cluster of turquoise trees holding a scattering of white cottages - little more than dots or tiny triangles of their gable ends. Nearer than them, on the right side an orange hill slopes down to lines of black and orange rocks in the water. Behind the hills are two pyramidal rounded peaked mountains in pale blue. Sky is paler blue with white blurry clouds. Signed top left in red, Liam Daly

A #painting from a series I did of a bay in the west of Ireland. "Bertraghboy Bay 5" came out of a day cycling in Connemara where I was on a high from the incessant beauty of it all as every bay and mountain came into view. #art #SpeirGhorm #ArtAdventCalendar

Acrylic painting. Two chinstrap penguins looking away from each other. A bay and icy hills behind them

#ArtAdventCalendar day 10. Chinstrap penguins at Deception Island. #Antarctica #art #painting #penguin

Pastel drawing of Bergen harbour at night. The picture is filled with reflections from boats and buildings

#ArtAdventCalendar day 9. Bergen harbour at night. #art

This is a graphite drawing of a field with a telegraph line going through it, the pov is from the small bank of the river land yeo.

#LandYeo #landscape #art #Scape #Graphite #drawing

This is a graphite drawing of access to a river.

#LandYeo #landscape #art #Scape #Graphite #drawing

A Hoopoe made of felt

A #Hoopoe today. #needlefelted over wire with a wax beak. I keep watching out for one #artAdventCalendar #orange #birdwatching

Pickering 1992, acrylic on canvas of my former home following a massive blizzard.

Day 8, #artadventcalendar This is Pickering 1992, from a photo I took following a massive blizzard in December 1992. Sadly this view no longer exists due to everything being developed with subdivisions.

A painting showing a hug wave crashing against the rocks at the base of the lighthouse at Portland Bill.

This is one of my favorite paintings by my Mum. It shows the Portland Bill lighthouse during stormy weather. #ArtAdventCalendar

Acrylic painting. A redwing bird on a branch. It has a holly berry in its beak and there are holly leaves and berries in the background

Day 8 of #ArtAdventCalendar already! A redwing. I’m quite happy with the bird but less so with the background. #art #painting

A painting of Weymouth harbour showing some boats on the water and buildings behind them.

Another painting of Weymouth harbour by my Mum for Day 7 of #ArtAdventCalendar

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Acrylic painting. A castle in the top left of the image above a cliff, with a beach in the foreground

Day 7 #ArtAdventCalendar: Gylen Castle on the island Kerrera. I’ve tried to paint this castle four times and never really been happy with it, but this is the best so far. #art #painting

Colored pencil drawing of an elephant head in profile.

Day 7 of #artadventcalendar
“Elephant”
Prismacolor pencils

An original abstract artwork of a badger, created using watercolour paints on paper.

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

Aedes aegypti mosquito drawn in blue biro against a pale pink and orange watercolour background - human flesh.

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 🐡

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Pencil drawing of me

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

Watercolour of the back view of 3 small boys looking over and through a 5 bar gate at a tractor in a field.

#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.