Caspar Chater

Hayami Gyoshu (Japanese, 1894-1935)
Village in Shugakuin, 1918
Ink and color on silk
132 x 97 cm
The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Monochrome photograph featuring two women climbing on a rock face with ropes both wearing long dresses and hats

Rock climbers Lucy Smith and Pauline Rankin of the Ladies’ Scottish Climbing Club, 1908, Salisbury Crags, Scotland #WomensArt
Welcome to #WomensHistoryMonth

Painting featuring a basket of plumbs on a table surface in a dark interior

Louise Moillon (c. 1610–1696) French painter in the Baroque era. One of the best still life painters of her time, she was trained by her father as she was unable to attend academies as a woman- who were thought to lack the ability required for artists #WomensArt

Blue and white patterned ceramic teapot in the shape of an octopus with head to the right and legs to the left

Octopus Teapot by Japanese ceramic artist Keiko Masumoto #womensart

Screenshot of a CNN segment shared by Acyn. A split-screen shows commentator Lydia Moynihan on the left and Kevin O’Leary on the right during a heated exchange. The chyron reads, “Obama: Dems need to avoid scolding and ‘virtue-signaling.’” The post quotes O’Leary referencing China and concentration camps, and McGowan responding about West Virginia.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

Pink and red flowers on a long stem

Apios americana, our Groundnut, blooming in Boulder county #nativeplants

#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to August 15 🌿

Four paintings in vivid colours featuring a pumpkin created with dots against a brightly coloured background

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has said that her pumpkins act as self-portraits. The idea began as her parents owned a plant nursery and she has described the pumpkin as “a spiritual home,” a form in which she sees herself reflected #Womensart

Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together.

I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.

On #WorldPulsesDay, we celebrate beans, lentils, chickpeas & peas, crops that nourish people & soils.🫘

Through the International Plant Treaty, their genetic diversity is shared globally to support resilient crops and food security.

#ItAllStartsWithTheSeed #FoodSecurity

@fao.org @cgiar.org

Happy World Pulses Day!
Celebrate in style by banging in some beans, lentils, or chickpeas to your lunch and dinner.

Top it off by registering for this May's UK Legume Research Community Conference 2026 in Scotland.

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

Close-up photo of an embroidered garment with complex patterns and flower motifs in multicolours on a white background

Huipil, traditional garment created by Ingenous Maya women from the small towns of the Guatemalan highlands, who formed their own union to stop large fashion corporations stealing their designs. #WomensArt

Excited to share our latest review on hydrosignaling: moisture-dependent molecular pathways that help plants grow towards water. Insightful review of the literature and discussion of moisture sensing mechanisms by Will Dwyer and @hhtormar.bsky.social. Enjoy!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Photo of knitted round leaves on stems and red blossoms against a cream background

Knitted botanic art by artist Tatyana Yanishevsky #WomensArt

A miniature posy I made from flowers in my garden in a tiny Victorian burst lip bottle

Yesterday was the midway point between the winter solstice & the vernal equinox & today is Imbolc, the pagan celebration of the return of the light. We’re climbing out of winter & the whole botanical calendar (save snowdrops & aconites) is ahead. A very good thought in case you need it today 🌿:

Comment: A new dawn for innovation – why the EU’s gene editing ruling matters Steve Nelson, CEO of Plant Sciences Genetics, says the EU's agreement on gene-edited plants marks a turning point for plant breeding innovation

A small breeder's perspective on what the silver lining for #NGT approval in the EU means for them.
www.fruitnet.com/eurofruit/co...

Landscape painting with trees hills and flying birds

'Looking for signs of Spring' by contemporary UK painter Dee Nickerson #WomensArt #February

A novel phylogenomics pipeline reveals complex pattern of reticulate evolution in Cucurbitales
doi.org/10.1101/2023...

Out of the blue: Family-wide loss of anthocyanin biosynthesis in Cucurbitaceae
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

#Genomics #BigData #Evolution #Phylogenomics

Exceptional heat continues in Western Mexico,after a record heat wave in The East.
Temperatures in Mexico has almost always reached 38C/100F every day of winter and they have never failed to reach 37C/99F any day.

35C at 1200m asl in the Guerrero highlands.

www.rootresearch.org/working-groups the #ISRR organized a minisymposium to introduce all 7 working groups that address different aspects of #rootsscience #roots #plantscience International Society of Root Research @rootscientists.bsky.social

My linocut with portrait of Kathleen Lonsdale in gradient of lavender at the bottom to indigo at the top. She looks like a serious woman with a big mop of curly hair, round glasses, in a floral shirt and blazer. To her left is her own first drawing of electron density projection calculated for hexachlorobenzene. In front of her in black is her own one crystal model of hexamethylbenzene (with spheres for atoms and bars to indicate bonds or for structure and a small tag).

Happy birthday to Kathleen Lonsdale DBE FRS (née Yardley, 1903-1971) 🐡🎢🧪👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci who solved a longstanding #chemistry conundrum of the shape of benzene, here with her drawing of electron density for hexachlorobenzene (green) & model of hexamethylbenzene. Her husband said, “Before prison it might

NEW: Expensive gas still biggest driver of high UK electricity bills, says UKERC

"Volatile, gas-linked market prices – not green policies, as some misleading claims have suggested – dominate the real-terms increase in bills since 2021."

www.carbonbrief.org/expensive-ga...

The grain amaranth pangenome reveals domestication-associated changes in diversity and function of structural variation Background: Grain amaranth is a nutritious pseudocereal from the Americas that was independently domesticated three times from a common wild ancestor. The three domesticated grain amaranths, their wil...

The grain amaranth pangenome reveals domestication-associated changes in diversity and function of structural variation
doi.org/10.64898/202...

Pangenome of cultivated beet and crop wild relatives reveals parental relationships of a tetraploid wild beet
doi.org/10.1101/2023...

Ceramic teapot covered in what resembles marine plsnt life and coral

'Avatar Reef' teapot by UK based ceramicist Delfina Emmanuel, who creates work often inspired by marine life #WomensArt

Photo of a beach with close-up of a mandala created with small pebbles on sand as it meets a wave from the sea

"Everything changes, nothing is lost", stone mandala by land artist Katie Griesar #WomensArt
#NewYear2026

Record heat continues in Central Africa with 40C in Cameroon,Chad and Nigeria
particularly crazy the heat in CAMEROON

Today 36.1C in the port of Douala broke its December record

Cameroon this months has broken record all month in all regions: North,Plateau,Coast,South.

DECEMBER SUMMER IN MEXICO

This is also the first time 40C is recorded in December outside the tropics in Northern Hemisphere
Summer will continue in January with up to 39C in NW Mexico AND tropical nights in the desert (never happened in January):
Records will fall allover from tomorrow

The ruins of Corfe Castle in Dorset.

The model of Corfe Castle in Corfe Castle Model Village.

The model of Corfe Castle Model Village in Corfe Castle Model Village.

Corfe Castle, the model of Corfe Castle in Corfe Castle Model Village, and the model of Corfe Castle in the model of Corfe Castle Model Village in Corfe Castle Model Village.

You've seen Elf on a Shelf, now try…

Fig. 1. Confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) images of Aegilops cylindrica leaves infected with IPO323 (incompatible) and Zt469 (compatible) Zymoseptoria tritici isolates. Microscopic images from CLSM analysis using maximum projections of image z-stacks. Cell nuclei and plant tissue are visible in purple, and fungal hyphae are in green. Except for the 4 days postinfection (dpi) sample of the incompatible interaction, only fungal hyphae growing within the plant tissue are shown. Letters indicate which infection stage is represented by the images. Time points listed in purple were chosen for RNA sequencing analysis

Rune Hansen et al. reported that the substomatal cavity is a crucial check point where the devastating Septoria blotch (Zymoseptoria tritici) infection is stopped. Understanding this mechanism is key to future wheat immunity. Learn more: https://doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-11-24-0147-R