A photo collage of some of my artwork: Butterfly fish, a landscape with blue hydrangea, avocet birds, a winter landscape with trees, a heron in flight and bluebells.

My little art shop has a collection of landscape and nature drawings. All one of a kind originals at affordable prices for gifts.
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#OriginalArt #Drawing #ColourPencil #Painting #Artwork #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #ShopIndy #bsnm

Text of a drop down menu on my site Resources First Gen Academics Independent Scholar Resources Job Listing Sites Pitchables

So many resources! But we can always have more!

On blackwhiteandread.com, we now have resources for first gens like me (finding cfps & orgs), independent scholars (open access libraries/archives for unaffiliated researchers), job seekers, and public scholars looking to pitch work. Check it out!

"Integrity and Carroll, loud and clear."

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

An echidna-graced Easter is a blessed Easter 💚

Dandenong Ranges, land of the Wurundjeri woiwurrung

May the call of this beautiful laughing kookaburra uplift your day.

#bird #kookaburra #australia

I feel so awful for the families of the pilots, for the flight crew, for the people on that flight, and yes, for the air traffic controller who was at the epicenter of what is very clearly a systemic failure that is not their fault.

May they all find peace.

🤎 Happy lazy #Caturday 🤣🤭

A barred spiral galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo 2 project, classified by 43 volunteers.

A barred spiral galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey.

It is at redshift 0.028 (lookback time 397.0 million years) with coordinates (196.52448, 53.61352).

43 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Okay, let's get the AI discussion entirely out of the hype-and-theory realm. For the "I'll just vibe code and trust the LLM folks," here's an interesting page showing results from asking several LLMs to perform a simple coding task (creating an HTML/CSS clock): [clocks.brianmoore.com/].
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I wonder if people are paying attention to how much their doom scrolling is cutting into time they used to use to read books

Same in Los Angeles, though the media doesn’t care to report on that at all

Photo of 7 year old Diana Crespo sitting with her parents at a table in a restaurant. Her dad is giving a thumbs up.

The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley.

Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo.

Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles.

Get them out!

The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “ille...

Remember that midnight raid in Chicago supposedly to arrest Tren del Aragua members? Newly revealed court docs show that the raid was facilitated by the building owners who are now accused of using the raid to evict tenants. DHS never mentions TDA in their filings: www.propublica.org/article/chic...

Grey cockatoo with a red head in the shape of a Santa hat

The best thing about gang gang cockatoos is their permanent Santa hats 🎅

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them

A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.

I was experimenting with new techniques in colour pencil for this drawing, but as it has been popular on social media I am putting it up for sale at a special low price. An A5 landscape drawing of a very pale soft toned winter rural scene with clumps of grasses in the foreground and trees in the background. The drawing is on white paper. An original art work, please note that the frame is not included. Colour pencil on white paper Size A5 (148 x 210mm / 5.8 x 8.3")

A soft winter landscape, a lovely gift idea for the holiday season. It is the low price of just £35. Visit my shop today to find out more...
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#Landscape #Winter #Frost #OriginalArt #Drawing #Artwork #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #ShopIndy #Christmas #ChristmasGifts #bsnm

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

Cute day of superb parrot babies 😍

A small colour drawing of everyone's favourite mushrooms. The classic red and white fairy toadstool, Fly agaric. They are in a composition with branches of berries and leaves. The drawing is on warm, peachy toned, beige pastel paper. An original art work, please note that the frame is not included. Colour pencil and mixed media on acid free toned artist paper 5 by 7 inches (12.7 by 17.8 cm).

Everyone's favourite mushrooms. The classic red and white fairy toadstool, Fly agaric. This original drawing is available to buy on Folksy...
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#Mushrooms #FlyAgaric #MUshroomArt #OriginalArt #Drawing #Painting #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #bsnm

An A4 size painting of a forest in winter with tall trees and pale sky and snow on the ground. The artwork is on dark green pastel paper. An original art work, please note that the frame is not included. Fine art oil pastel on toned pastel paper Size A4 (210 x 297mm / 8.3 x 11.7")

This is one of my larger pieces, A4 size, an oil pastel painting. Would make a splendid gift for someone special...
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#Landscape #Winter #Forest #OriginalArt #Drawing #PastelPainting #OilPastels #PastelArt #Painting #Artwork #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #bsnm

MSF has resumed activities in #Gaza City after being forced to suspend our operations on Sept. 24 amid the intensified Israeli offensive.

We’ve reopened our wound care clinic and treated over 640 patients so far, most with trauma-related injuries.

www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-ms...

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.

In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

A piece on how widespread AI use is driving unthinking wasteful consumption.

Crucially tho, the latter half focuses on how we still have the power to resist, to embrace the human passions of creation.

And how we can make submitting to the machine, deeply uncool.

Palestine: MSF forced to suspend activities amid intensified Israeli offensive in Gaza City | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ... The relentless Israeli offensive in Gaza City has forced Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to suspend essential medical activities in the area due to the rapidly deteriorating sec...

🚨 MSF FORCED TO SUSPEND ACTIVITIES IN GAZA CITY 🚨

Our clinics are now encircled by Israeli forces.

There are continued airstrikes & tanks advancing closer & closer to our healthcare facilities.

This is an intolerable level of risk for our @msf.ca staff.

I am outraged, and you should be, too.

Go to grad school, where work-life balance is so bad that people need to make the case for having super normal relaxing hobbies

Spent another therapeutic hour with the bees this morning. Getting a glimpse of the inner workings of the hive, spotting the Queen and watching new bees hatch is salve for the soul. Spent a good 5 minutes watching a gal groom her little face. The drought in the UK has hit our bees hard though.😭🥰🐝