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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Found some glorious autumn colours just round the corner

The image shows a four-panel grid featuring different fruits and berries: a cluster of blue sloe berries (top-left), yellow-orange firthorn berries on a branch (top-right), golden crab apples (bottom-left), and clusters of rounded, pure white snowberries

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

As a timeline cleanser some Cambridge houseboat cats

Two tuxedo cats sitting on the front of a Cambridge houseboat

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Have people seen this? ChatGPT for us oldies!

Magazine for the elderly explaining ChatGPT and advertising "perfect prompts", attractive elderly couple sitting in front of lap top

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just saw this in the cafe of Cambridge Zoology Museum

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

When a 'convenience' turns into an 'inconvenience'

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I can so sympathise. I once proudly grew and ate a tomato!

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

For (analytic) philosophers everywhere: The cats are under the mat!!

a desk with a mat on it for cats to sit on and look out of the window but the cats are sitting on the seat of the chair that's under the desk

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

For some reason I ended up in a building in Beeston, Nottingham yesterday and found it contained memories of Humber Cycles which were taken over by Raleigh. I took some pics

Bicycle and wheels on the wall of a former bicycle factory

wheels and a metal sign for Humber cycles and some old photos of the factory

Blue plaque for Thomas Humber, 1841-1910, Engineer, made bicycles, motorcycles and cars here and later in Coventry

Advertising for Raleigh The All-Steel Bicycle on a brown road with green around it and brown hill and yellow sky - in the style of old railway travel adverts

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

In Germany lots of big windows have blinds on the outside - see photo. I thought about installing these here during the last heatwave. I should have actually done it! Climate action....

A windowsill full of flowers, trinkets, geodes etc and also show a partially down blind on outside of window

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Oh deer, oh deer (at Wollaton Park, Nottingham)

Some fallow deer with white spots and some red deer bucks with velvety antlers lazing around in the shadow of a tree in the long grass

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Just saw this at a craft fair and couldn't resist buying it. Sort of self-portrait of me standing my ground.... 😅

A red knitted cat with a white muzzzle and white paws, sitting upright with front legs/arms crossed over in front of its 'chest', giving the impression of saying: No, I am right and I stand my ground.

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

One fell very loudly onto our bed and we put it outside.

May bug on a brochure after having been transported outside under a cup.

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I slightly less colourful view from Le Patissier last winter!

View from a café through a misted up window with middle part wiped clean onto St John's and St John's honey-coloured chapel

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Tapestry dog at Boughton House. Love him.

Hunting dog on tapestry looking straight at you

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

The OED's frequency graph is quite different (also: it started as a translation from the German Aufklärung)

graph in the OED showing the frequency in use of the word enlightenment between 1750 and 2010 showing an increase in use in from about 1820 onwards

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Every year the triffids are getting bigger!

The image displays the flowering stage of a Chinese Windmill Palm (Trachycarpus fortunei). Big palm 'tree' with yellow strange fruit sprouting between the hairy stem and the green fronds

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Scented viburnum brought in from the back of the garden, so I can smell it when doing the washing up!

Little ceramic jug decorated with a stylised blue outline of a bird perched on a branch, with a head of white Viburnum fragrans flowers.

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Happy Easter! Old memories of Germany...

Two photos of wooden colourful cut-out easter bunnies in Germany with proud little faces and proud ears

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Colourful fair on a sunny day at Wollaton Park

Four photos of vintage fairground attractions, a carousel with horses 'Gallopers', a chair-o-planes and a helter-skelter decorated with British bunting, a close-up a painted giraffe face and a little a vintage airplane kiddie ride with a round RAF marking

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I had a patch of purple tulips once which I called 'tulips from Amsterdam', as I had bought the bulbs at the airport, but they were first decapitated by the squirrels and then dug up by the squirrels - total devastation!! This photo is from before that happened.

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I love dodos but I am quite happy just to have them on my tea towels (a new one in my collection).

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

That's what I call a sitting duck

A mallard duck with green head, brown belly and orange feet, sitting on a little rock reflected in the water

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I was sure I had a photo of that house somewhere, so I searched my google photos and the AI came up with that! (Unfortunately, my more manual search came up with nothing)

A silver/rusty 1920s-1930s Wilmot Breeden Calormeter temperature gauge, originally mounted on a vintage car's radiator cap to monitor engine temperature, saying 'cool', 'normal', 'BOIL'.

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Timeline synchronicity. I hope they bring you coffee Tamsin!

Two posts one talking about late night work and coffee provided by colleagues in the morning the other about late night baby and hopefully coffee in the morning

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

First outing after (successful) eye op. Trying to enjoy the small things ..... puddle shots cheer me up ☔

Two rainy photos. On the left bare birch tree reflected in two puddles with roots of another crossing between them. On the right refection of a willow with drops creating ripples in the puddle

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

This directly inspired me to take this photo, not quite so good, in 2023

A moment in Senate House Passage, a historic cobblestone alleyway in the heart of Cambridge, England - rain glistening in morning sun, shining through Senate House and projecting windows onto wall opposite with a cyclist in the distance

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

My part-time cat Cleo has the most amazing eye-whiskers!

Black and white cat with white whiskers and white eye-brow whiskers

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I haven't seen the #Wollaton Park lake so icy in a long time

four photos: icy lake with some blue patches left and two holes in the ice, swan and duck standing in some ice free water, a long crack in the ice over the lake with trees in foreground and background, robin on a branch sticking out of ice half in shadow half in morning sun with red breast showing

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Adding to all the frosty pics this morning, a few from #Wollaton Park, including what I call 'Mole Everest'!

Four photos taken in Wollaton Park, Nottingham, on a frosty morning, including a swan illuminated by the sun, two young stags, sun coming up through tall trres and a giant mole hill, one of many dotted around the park

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

That inspired the first sentence in an article I wrote on the visualisation of epigenetics but the referees didn't like it (and the rest of the article).

The ways we see the world and the ways we act in the world are shaped by the stories we tell about the world. These stories, in turn, are organised around verbal and visual images. This has been happening since time immemorial, from spiral-shaped petroglyphs to spiral-shaped double helixes. Such stories and images help us understand and deal with abstract, intangible or, indeed, scientific, issues, especially when phenomena are too minute to be observed with the naked eye. They make the unfamiliar familiar, for good or for ill – a dilemma that we explore in this article.

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Nice Xmas walk in Wollaton Park...the light was right.

The photo. One big one on the left, two smaller ones on the right. Big one of a tree silhouetted against the lake and the sky. Smaller one of lake with rotting tree trunk in the foreground; another of bare trees illuminated by icy sunshine with little island in the lake in the background.

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Ok, I can do napping!!! Very Merry Purry Christmas!

Black and white cat curled up on an office chair.

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Can't resist: Dinosaur spotted on Mathematical Bridge, Cambridge

Student in dinosaur costume crossing Mathematical Bridge over river Cam, Queens College, photo taken from Silverstreet Bridge, last day of lectures

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