Catherine Williams

A digital drawing made from an oil painting by the poster, showing pigeons taking off. The eyes of two birds one on the ground, one in flight, are highlighted. The paper discusses the function of the bird eye - with its inner retina able to sustain high metabolism in anoxia, thanks partially to the action of the pecten - a structure suspended in the back chamber of the eye

Bird's eye view: How do birds' inner retinae work engergetically if they don't have pre-retinal blood vessels? What does the pecten do? If some of these words/concepts sound interesting to you - read www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Led by Christian Damsgaard & others @au.dk & beyond #BlueSci #SciArt

A sketch of a white laying hen from the side

A sketch of a hen pecking the ground. She wears a research backpack made from a baby gro.

A sketch of a watchfull white laying hen.

#ArtAdventCalenday days 13,14,15 #SciArt cross over, sketches of chickens who I study to look at the the condition of keel bone fracture, which occurs very commonly in laying hens in husbandry (~80%). We are looking at the acute consequences to breathing, activity and the potential for pain @au.dk

A black ink linocut of a dog running, specifically an irish wolfhound.

#ArtAdventCalendar day 12 a running irish wolfhound in linoprint

Lino print of a labrador puppy in black on a white card

#ArtAdventCalendar day 11, a puppy

Lino print on watercolpur paper

A lino cut of a wild boar in black ink

Sketch of two small iron sculptures at the Celts exhibition at Moesgaard Museum, one of a boar and one of a stag rising.

#ArtAdventCalendar day 10, a wild boar, inspired by the Celts exhibition at #MoesgaardMuseum where there was also a beautiful stag rising sculpture in iron.

The surface of a lino print with an incised hare in white, the lines in black and the background a grey from the last print

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 9, the leaping hare, with a nod to #TerryPrachett s 'the hare runs into the fire'

A live watercolour sketch of a cellist performing Schumanns cello concerto with the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra

#ArtAdventCalendar day 8. Boris Andrianov plays the Schumann cello concert with the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra. Painted from the second row on a tiny sketckbook.

A lino cut of an elephant in black

#ArtAdventCalendar day 7 the elephant

This is gorgeous!

A lino cet print of a bull's head in black

#ArtAdventCalendar day 6. The bull's head

A linocut print of a cow's head reaching down to sniff a newborn calf

#ArtAdventCalendar day 5: Cow and calf

Of course! No fish sharing required for the puffin party!

#ArtAdventCalendar :)

A linocut print of a puffin

#ArtAdventCalendar day 4, a Puffin.

A lino print in black of a cat curled up.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 3, the December cat

Thank you!

Thank you!

A small watercolour sketch of two wet chickens with rain splatting the paint.

#ArtAdventCalendar. Day 2 Chickens in the rain.

Thank you!

Two lino prints of a runner duck witha a curl in its tail and a stocky chicken.

#ArtAdventCalendar

A better image of microCT and xray diffrqction data from osteoderms! From https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202526169

doi.org/10.1002/adfm... the image crop above didnt do justice to Adrian's graphical abstract showing MicroCT and xray diffraction derived data highlighting the different nanocrystalline structures accross different osteoderms. #BluSci #SciArt

Made possible by strong collaboration within @au.dk & internationally @vickaryouslab.bsky.social @anthony-herrel.bsky.social @mmoazen.bsky.social, and funding from @hfspo.bsky.social and @novonordisk.bsky.social via AXIA and enabled by DanMAX @maxivlaboratory.bsky.social. #BluSci #lizard #osteoderm

6 species of lizard and their osteoderms, shown in microCT and xray diffraction data. Two different patterns emerge - the capping tissue is highly mineralised and superficial, but can be highly ordered, or highly disordered and with small or large crystallite volume respectively!

Then we show that the capping tissue of (very) distantly taxa can be also mechanically impressive but with an entirely opposite nano structure (small crystals highly ordered e.g. in Tiliqua in comparison with the large and disordered crystals of Heloderma).

A microCT of a Heloderma osteroderm paired with xray diffraction and xray fluorescence data showing the superficial capping tissue and underlying transition zone and bone.

Stiff and different - Lizard osteoderm papers from a collaboration with @henrikbirkedal.bsky.social's group led by Adrian. We show a capping tissue from Heloderma that is enamel-like in mechanical properties but highly disordered in crystal pattern
doi.org/10.1016/j.ac...
doi.org/10.1002/adfm...

With talks on topics from blood cell cancers, light and the 👁 , how to teach physiology, gas exchange, metabolism, lungs 🫁 and their differences between sexes and the effect of gender via different risk exposures.

And 🦈 🐦 🐁 🐀 🐖 🐟 🦎

Peter Radcliffe discussing hypoxia sensing, oxygen from history, publishing and future perspectives

Stefan Hell discussing limits and non limits to light microscopy

What is #IUPS2025 ? - the conference bringing physiologists from across the world,with @physoc.bsky.social , SPS and DPG, -
The 2 Nobel prize lectures, on low oxygen and high resolution respectively from Peter Radcliffe and Stefan Hell. 🔬

A sketch of a presenting scientist talking to a conference presenting work on the links between age, infection status and blood metabolism.

Congratulations on a great talk, blue tits and avian malaria and it's effects on blood metabolism.

Congratulations @aiasdk.bsky.social and all the new fellows, was a pleasure to see 3 minutes of each of their research presented in week one.

@jackashby.bsky.social

Tenure track assistant professor/Associate professors positions in veterinary medicine - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Aarhus University

6 (!!!!) tenure track or Associate Prof jobs across fields in #veterinary medicine at my current workplace @au.dk
Denmark. Come join! Deadline August details in link....
anivet.au.dk/en/about-the...
#Blusci #VetSci