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JOB POST: Asynchronous Online Sociology Instructor. Link: www.gurnick.edu/job/sociolog...

#sociology #teaching #edusky

The grasses in the wind along the path to the lake, end of #February. #windy #abstract

#九段教会
#tokyo #photography #Nikon #Z5

I'm going to try this!

alysa liu!!!

Anyone else find they can actually focus on a task better when they have something else in the background (news, podcast, etc)? It's like "let's keep all the voices in my head entertained" so I can actually get this task done without interruption... 😜

#neurodiversity
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Steve's 'Under Pressure' mug: inotternews.etsy.com/listing/1717...

A pigeon regards you quizzically painted in acrylic over a salmon colored background. Text says: I beg your finest pardon?

This essay is very good and I enjoyed it!

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Generative AI is not the magic solution to teacher workload we are being told it is. What we as teachers really need to reduce our workload - is time, not AI. -And possibly less nonsense paperwork!

I think we need a channel that is just cute animals and good news. Marathons of "Too Cute" and Ghibli movies as well as nightly "Here's What's Good in the World" news segments. Give the fluff pieces a home.

Laura Burr is an Early Years Service Officer and part of the Curriculum Improvement Cycle's core group for Ethos and Life of the school and community.

Listen to our latest reel to hear Laura's thoughts on Ethos and Life in Scotland’s curriculum!

I enjoy making prints from wrinkled up plastic bags, and then looking for faces and figures in the patterns.

Monotype. Acrylic on paper.

#art #monotype #monoprint #print #gelliprint #figurativeart #figuredrawing #abstractfigurative

It’s going to sound quaint, but the best way to resist an AI takeover of the humanities is to assign physical books, sit around, read them, and argue about ideas. Academic has become such a competitive arena, that we ourselves are trained to look for the winning angle, instead of the best education.

A pastel showing a figure walking along a path with trees against a misty light. This was done on a vintage sheet of maroon-coloured Ingres paper.

One of my pastels from nearly 30 years ago showing a path across Jesus Green in Cambridge. I think this was late in the year with a few leaves hanging on to the trees with some autumn colour remaining. It was bought by a late friend and is now with his family.
#Cambridge #pastel #painting

A pigeon perches atop a window feeder, staring intently into the window. On the inside of the window a small shelf filled with plants makes it look like the pogeon is perched amidst them.

So anyways, this pigeon has noticed that the sparrows and finches get food from the window feeder, and has been trying to figure it out. Also, I think it spotted me. 👀 #birds

"Beatrice’s idea to broadcast a nightingale singing with her cello in 1924 broadened the experience of millions of people around the world. The broadcast was the first time listeners heard birdsong over the airwaves."- @patricianewman.bsky.social

Blue sky with clouds in the horizon and a couple of pink fluffy clouds centre right. A calm ice blue sea a beach with exposed rock and sand. A concrete slope leads down to the beach. Marram grass either side

Good morning. Happy weekend. Blue again here today, though it’s currently -3 and we did have a snow flutter yesterday! Still, it was light beyond 5:30 which brings me great joy. Evidence of the light at 5:15 at our scoured out beach.

Have a great weekend.

#scotland
#photooftheday
#beach
#sunset

I keep finding pan pastel sponges everywhere. One of my #ferrets knocked a container full of them off of the art table onto the floor. I was in a meeting, so I decided I would deal with it later. I glanced back five minutes later, and half the sponges were gone.

The hunt continues…

Following those last reposts with a life history plate for Duke of Burgundy (also featuring Short-tailed Blue) from the Complete British Butterflies in Colour by Ernest Mansell & L Hugh Newman (1967)

I can only read the synopsis but it’s good to have my feeling that Bluesky is now the home of academics backed up by some evidence!

A dirt road runs straight toward a line of low winter hills. Dry grasses and bare trees frame the path.

“The journey itself is my home.”
— Bashō

Pink Hellebores in the morning sunshine.

Some winter sunshine. 🌸🌅

#ThrowbackThursday
#sunrise #photography #Hellebores #ThePhotoHour

When photographing wildlife, I love to capture the more artistic and subtle aspects: Soft afternoon light graces an elephant's beautifully textured face in Namibia's Etosha National Park.

#photography #wildlife #nature #bluesky #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #sunset #art

Tawny Emperor
Carolina Butterfly Society walk
Chapel Hill, NC 9/12/2025
#Butterflies #naturephotography

Summer Azure
Carolina Butterfly Society walk
Chapel Hill, NC 9/12/2025
#Butterflies #naturephotography

The Forest-Like Interior of Coral Takes the Grand Prize in the CUPOTY 7 Photo Contest

The Forest-Like Interior of Coral Takes the Grand Prize in the CUPOTY 7 Photo Contest

Western Australia-based Ross Gudgeon’s image of the elaborate internal structure of a cauliflower soft coral taking the top spot […]

[Original post on faithcollapsing.com]

Just saw somebody describe this as trope-on-a-rope 😎

Week in wildlife: cuddling sloths, dazed iguanas and a very fat seal This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world

Week in wildlife: cuddling sloths, dazed iguanas and a very fat seal | Wildlife | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/environment/...

You guys exist, right?

I think I have watched enough #KDrama shows now that I could create a BINGO card for common things. Piggy back ride. Main love interests fall into large body of water (why tho?). Go to hospital and actually get admitted for something minor. 😅 Many others.

Still enjoyable though (especially if HEA)