Phil Gilmartin

They should make more square fruit to stop that problem.

That’s biology for you 😊. It’s just building on the discoveries documented in the Eighth Day of Creation. A great book 🧬

Two weeks ago at the Batsford Arboretum. Sky, trees, grass. Bliss.

Still life

Lovely walk with Hannah at Sledmere house today. The red deer were much closer to the ha ha wall than we have ever seen.

Stir fry with rice for dinner 🥢

Genomic evidence for the Holocene codispersal of dogs and humans across Eastern Eurasia As the first domestic species, dogs likely dispersed with different cultural groups during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. To test this hypothesis, we analyzed 73 ancient dog genomes, including 17 ...

Dogs have been part of human culture for far longer than previously thought based on genomic evidence from @lachiescarsbrook.bsky.social and team. Great read. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Fingers crossed 🤞We had a rat in Norfolk between the ceiling & floor boards. The bait got it, but it stank the place out, until I discovered Ona Block. Amazing stuff.

Might be time for some bait blocks, Ona block odour remover is great for dealing with the aftermath. 👃⛔️

Same here.

A book, a painting, a photo. An image from our Cotswolds trip.

Two Epiphyllum flowers blooming today 😍

No Arurora Borealis tonight on Hannah’s walk, but a lot of light on the horizon.

Dodo (Raphus cucullatus). Shadow image of an extinct species.

#alphabetchallenge #WeekSForShadows

Happy Hannah 💤

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I’m looking for two postdocs and a technician to join my group @sheffielduni.bsky.social @sheffieldpps.bsky.social to work with me on my exciting @royalsociety.org Faraday Discovery Fellowship project, details for each post as follows:

Jigsaw progress. Time for bed.

Yes, someone else must have had a surprise.

No thank you 😊 Making great progress & loving the surprise👍

Amazingly I’ve had this puzzle for over 40 years, discovered the bag of pieces had not been opened! Then discovered it was not what the box showed. I thought I had already done the puzzle on the box, but obviously not.

It could be, but too early to tell.

Assembled edge pieces of a Loup Jigsaw puzzle with the puzzle box showing the assembled picture placed inside the completed edge. The picture & the puzzle don’t match.

That moment when you realise that the puzzle in the box does not match the picture on the box. 🧩 🤔

A map of part of Britiain and northern europe showing loads and loads of roman roads, picked out in red.

Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓

itiner-e.org

We might have to have a lie-down.

The rarest porpoises on Earth are hanging on The latest report shows that the estimated number of endangered vaquita porpoises has modestly increased

The latest report shows that the estimated number of endangered vaquita porpoises has modestly increased

I’m ahead of previous years with all bulbs planted, but a few more still in the post after tempting discounts. 75% of the dahlias also lifted & now drying, a dry weekend ahead should see the rest lifted.

Always wanted to take the train there.

Shocking!

I agree

That brings back great memories!