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A quark zooms through quark-gluon plasma, creating a wake in the plasma. #ArtinScience #Art #Science 📸Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares, MIT

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Lloyd Shepherd @lloydshepherd.com · 04/10/2026

If you’re watching The Traitors this is a proper nerd-out on how to spot a Traitor from Hannah Fry youtu.be/twDvxNooI_4?...

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How would Alan Turing have played the Traitors?

YouTube video by Hannah Fry

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Andy Gell @andygell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I suspected from this oak sapling that Jays visit my urban garden. Finally saw one. City Council tree planting in a nearby field a few years ago has bridged the gap to the nearest woodland.

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Andy Gell @andygell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There's a puppet theatre you can play with too!

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Andy Gell @andygell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Soft Light is the new exhibition @sunnybankmills.bsky.social which I spent this week helping to install opens today.

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Andy Gell @andygell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Highland Laddie if I'm not mistaken. Next time you're Leeds bound for a pint hit me up. 🍻

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Andy Gell @andygell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I like the interplay between the grass, trees and cirrus.

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Andy Gell @andygell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm reading Findings at present and enjoying the everyday observational style that many nature writers could learn from.

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Andy Gell @andygell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Obsidentify App reckons Marsh Harrier.

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Jonathan Pomroy @jonathanpomroy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

House martins depart as pink- footed geese arrive! A blog at jonathanpomroy.wordpress.com Plus a look at my forthcoming exhibitions this autumn.

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Andy Gell @andygell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ironic that he wrote about aesthetic criticism.

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Andy Gell @andygell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Battle of Stamford Bridge #OTD 1066. The Norwegian berserker is about to suffer a fate worse than a fate worse than death. #Yorkshire

Tapestry in style of the Bayeux one depicting the Battle of Stamford Bridge.

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Andy Gell @andygell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One of Gaudi's first projects featuring many nature motifs. Comillas Cantabria. 🇪🇸

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Andy Gell @andygell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It certainly is. Picturesque, great food and 2hrs board and wetsuit hire was only €20!

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Andy Gell @andygell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And the Picos de Europa make a stunning backdrop.

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Andy Gell @andygell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A few days ago I watched a Spanish Pro surf competition near Santander. Today I caught a few waves myself here at San Vicente🏄‍♂️. Just getting up riding a few metres on a wave feels like a huge achievement.

Surf beach at San Vicente de la Barquera.

Spanish pro surfers at Somo beach Santander.

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Andy Gell @andygell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Quote this with a picture of the aircraft you'll accept as a bribe.

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Andy Gell @andygell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

An urban #Peregrine flew across Santander Bay on a hunting trip. 3rd sighting in as many days. Our apartment is a perfect vantage point.

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Andy Gell @andygell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My top three if I'd been a judge at the Mini Print Exhibition Cantabria. #art #print

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Andy Gell @andygell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I've seen a lot of reflections in water photos recently so thought I'd give it a try.

Reflections in the sea.
Bay of Santander 🇪🇸

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Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Record year for Hen Harriers at RSPB's Geltsdale Reserve in Cumbria. More evidence that Hen Harriers do really well on moorland managed by RSPB, whereas on privately-owned grouse moors... RSPB press release & commentary from me ⬇️ #RaptorResearch raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/09/18/r...

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Record year for hen Harriers at RSPB’s Geltsdale Reserve in Cumbria

Press release from RSPB, 18 September 2026: CAUTIOUS OPTIMISM AS RECORD YEAR FOR HEN HARRIER CHICKS AT RSPB GELTSDALE Thirteen Hen Harrier chicks have successfully fledged at RSPB Geltsdale in Cumb…

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Andy Gell @andygell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Was this 1970s sculpture by Marisol Escobar I saw today at an exhibition, the inspiration for the fish in The Meaning of Life? #MontyPython

Trigger fish sculpture by Marisol Escobar.

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Eight Days in September 1066 - 1. The Norwegian Landing: 🧵Around the 18 September 1066, Harald Hardrada, king of Norway, arrived in Yorkshire with an estimated invasion fleet of some 300 ships and 9,000 troops. Sailing up the Humber and into the Ouse, he was accompanied by Tostig Godwineson,

This image appears to show a stained glass window depicting King Harald Hardrada inside Kirkwall Cathedral in Orkney, Scotland. He ruled as the King of Norway from 1046 to 1066. Image: Colin Smith / Harald Hardrada / CC BY-SA 2.0

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Andy Gell @andygell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If Antoine de Saint- Exupéry had written about Le Petit Neptune.

Sculpture of Neptune as a child by Ramón Muriedas.
Santander 🇪🇸

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Andy Gell @andygell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

That's a late one. Might have been nesting at IKEA and couldn't find the exit.

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Andy Gell @andygell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me." — Batman Begins

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John Altringham @johnaltringham.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I've updated my website, adding new engravings, together with watercolours and ink sketches that span most of the 10 years I've been looking for fun and fulfilment in art. www.johnaltringham.co.uk #art #WoodEngraving #printmaking #watercolour #landscape #mountains #sketching #nature

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Andy Gell @andygell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"One decision changed history" I'm a biased meteorology nerd but this was brilliant. The American Col Krick was mocked for forecasting with historical synoptic charts.Ironically,AI forecasts in the near future are going to use a similar method according to a @ncas-uk.bsky.social lecture I went to.

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Andy Gell @andygell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I love this painting entitled Lindisfarne I saw yesterday. www.sunnybankmills.co.uk/the-rolling-...

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Andy Gell @andygell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"Lindisfarne" my favourite painting from Mel and Kim's collaborative exhibition on until 27 Sep @sunnybankmills.bsky.social www.sunnybankmills.co.uk/the-rolling-...

A colourful painting of Puffins and a Cormorant around well known Lindisfarne features.

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Andy Gell @andygell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Good luck, the weather looks ideal, you've done the training, got previous experience and carbed up. You'll walk it. But we all expect you to bloody run like hell.

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Andy Gell @andygell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

In air combat, common scenarios are 1v1, 2v1, 2v2 but not 5v1. 5 crows mobbing 1 fem Sprawk is an unnecessarily excessive use of force. Otherwise quiet at Rodley NR, Com Sand, Snipe, Lt Egret , Grey Wag, lots of Lt Grebes and Lapwings but missed the Otters seen by others.

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Andy Gell @andygell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Reflecting on yesterday's encounter I think "swimming with European Shags is where it's at" would be more accurate.

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Andy Gell @andygell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Swimming with Dolphins is so passé, swimming with Cormorants is where it's at. #Guernsey 🇬🇬

Me swimming in Guernsey's Vallett pool with a Cormorant.

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Andy Gell @andygell.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Donated. I lost an old friend and former colleague to cancer this week. You're a trooper for doing this again.

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Andy Gell @andygell.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A #portal at Portelet Bunker 06 (part of the WWII German Felshohlboten Unterwestberg / Hollow Rocks tunnel and defense system) is located at Portelet on Guernsey. @simonguy.bsky.social

Exit stairs from Bunker 6 leading up to woods in bright light.

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Andy Gell @andygell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Interesting attack angle. Optimising optics or avoiding a shadow over the target? Successful anyway. Superb overflight and fishing dive by an Osprey as well at Astley St Aidan's😍. I credit the lucky Osprey socks I was wearing. #Yorkshirebirding

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Andy Gell @andygell.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The painting birds in watercolour workshop with Tim Gommersall @sunnybankmills.bsky.social was great fun and I learnt a lot. Birds from blobs and the stylised gull exercises had us all laughing. #BirdsinArt

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Peter Christian @manxmannin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

European Honey Buzzard, SW Germany

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Andy Gell @andygell.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

My name is on its way to Lagrange point 2 (L2) aboard the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope along with 1.3 million others. Watched the Falcon Heavy launch with double booster return to Earth😍🚀🚀 #NASA #NancyGraceRoman

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Andy Gell @andygell.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

If Ladybird wrote a Brief History of Time. I bought this little book from the wonderful Hold Fast floating bookshop at Leeds Dock. But why anyone would need a traveller's pocket guide to Spacetime and Relatively is beyond me. It's a few hundred/ thousand years ahead of its time.🚀 #books #Space

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Andy Gell @andygell.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Some elegant Whinchats at RSPB St Aidan's today. Spotted Redshank,Snipe and Kingfisher too but dipped on the Curlew Sandpiper. #Yorkshirebirding

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