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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 21h

My hotel has a jacuzzi clearly made for three people. BAN THIS SICK FILTH

Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Lest we forget, the police took quite some time to decide that it was terrorism when a bomb went off in public with an obvious political motive - presumably because cars

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A tree that's had long experience of the wind. From this morning's dog walk #wales

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Meanwhile, behind the camera SOMEONE was having a wild zoomie

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This morning's dog walk and this evening's dog walk #swansea

A rock on a beach, bathed in golden morning light

A distant field of black sheep, disproving the claim there is always just one black sheep

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Pretty nice out there for tonight's dog walk too

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Swansea University was founded over a century ago to solve society's problems. So on Day 1 of the Psychology degree programme we've got our students devising policy interventions within a Theory of Change framework I wonder how many other UK undergrads discover the Magenta Book in Week 1?

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Moody skies on the dog walk tonight

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Seven years ago today we finished our utterly bonkers coast to coast to coast to coast to coast ride, all because we couldn't decide which coast-to-coast route to ride. So many tales from this one trip, perhaps especially pre-dawn breakfast with the Whitby trawlermen still in their oilskins

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Why do people think they're clever saying things like this, as though a ready supply of 2001 cars will exist forever?

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Oh, and if you're in New Zealand...

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

@brenttoderian.bsky.social To get the ball rolling, I spotted this in Japan...

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Okay, so unfortunately I've just discovered this on threads about fascistic gimps, but Bluesky has rolled out a cool automatic thread-counting feature

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So today I learned our university has a zoological museum hidden away down a corridor

Horrifying skeletons of miscellous creatures

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Particularly ironic given that she's (quite genuinely, I'm sure) trying to prevent heart disease and strokes when her colleagues have already found the best possible answer to this

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I wonder if everyone up in arms about floating bus stops makes a similar effort on blocked tactile paving

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

We've unexpectedly received a kilogramme of "hardcore cheese" from some Italian cyclists from Warmshowers whom we hosted last month. So I'm about to find out whether cheese coma is a real thing

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"Which view is not least unrepresentative of the disagreement NOT failed to be unenjoyed by the most least disunengaged voters who did NOT fail to turn out in the general election?"

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Can't wait to see everyone yelling at Mamdani next time he walks down the street without a helmet www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Are head injuries to cyclists an important cause of death in road travel fatalities?

Conclusion
Answering the question ‘How important are head injuries in cyclists as a cause of road travel death?’ depends on the metric used for assessing importance. Pedestrians and drivers account for five and four times the number of fatal head injuries as cyclists. The fatal head injury rate is highest for cyclists by time travelled and for pedestrians using distance travelled.

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

In case you missed last night's eclipse fun

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Bonus plane crossing the Sun just as the moon was clearing

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Brilliant conditions for the eclipse here in South Wales

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Thirteen years ago today I got to Cape Wrath on a Moulton. Once back in civilisation we had such a great tailwind to John o'Groats that it was like the hand of God pushing us eastwards

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Once again I've cycled further than most of the car trips that will be made in the UK today

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Okay, 2.5 more hours last night, taking this to a total of nearly 25 hours. I'm calling this done. Enjoy the Crescent Nebula - the shockwaves created by a star ejecting two layers of gas, with the faster layer colliding with the slower layer

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Several more hours last night. Loving the clear nights

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Did a reprocessing of this Iris Nebula photo too, having added another hour or two last week. This cloud of dust, lit by the star in the middle, is about 7 light years across

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Anyway it was surprisingly clear last night so I got over 3 more hours of photography on the Crescent Nebula. The finer detail is really coming out

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Just found this photo from the late stages of riding the Transcontinental Race. I was just a mobile picnic by this point. Can't believe I wasn't mobbed by seagulls and wasps

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

In other amateur astronomy news, last night I caught my first meteor on my new sky camera (excuse all the glare - if somebody could find a way to switch off the moon that would be a big help)

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Have now photographed the Sun on three days, so playing with animation. It is SO going to cloud over for the eclipse, isn't it?

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Anyway, just in case there are clear skies for the eclipse on 12 August*, I was checking the Sun was still there yesterday evening. It's good news *no chance

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Managed to grab a little bit more Iris Nebula last night despite the moonlight and cloud...

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Another hour and a bit last night, which really improved the faint detail. That's probably it for a week or two now, thanks to the moon and the weather turning

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Think of these numbers whenever you see someone driving their huge off road vehicle to the supermarket

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

In other news, the clear nights have continued and I've got nearly 12 hours on the Crescent Nebula. This is a star shedding its outer layers, with a fast-moving layer colliding with a slower-moving layer that was ejected earlier

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

On this day, 2012, I found a horse that could read

A horse parked nose first at a sign saying park nose first

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A very blurry image, as my telescope isn't designed for such tiny objects, but here's supernova 2026sqf in galaxy NGC3310, photographed last night

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

You remember that Terry Pratchett line about knowing how to spell banana, but not knowing how to stop? This is me typing on a Friday...

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I'm finally done with the Elephant's Trunk Nebula after capturing 14 hours of light over 5 nights This cloud sits 2600 light years away, and is about 100 light years across. Full image, plus two crops

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The clear but short nights mean my Elephant's Trunk Nebula is now up to 9.5 hours...

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

And very early version of the North American Nebula, with a bit of the Pelican looking in on the right

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