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Oliver Turnbull

@oliverturnbull.bsky.social
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Prof of Neuropsychology (especially emotions). Herder of cats (mainly academic). Sometime painter, garden labourer, stargazer, and new speaker of Welsh/Cymraeg.

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Oliver Turnbull @oliverturnbull.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Always a pleasure to draw brains for our Visceral Mind summer school!
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Oliver Turnbull @oliverturnbull.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Our annual @visceralmind.bsky.social brain anatomy summer school. My favourite week of the year! This is the lovely Powis hall in @bangoruniversity.bsky.social
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Oliver Turnbull @oliverturnbull.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Dioch/thank you for this exercise, Duolingo! I can’t be the only person who wants to hear this song sung in Cymraeg/Welsh…
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Oliver Turnbull @oliverturnbull.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Today, I took my favourite seagull photograph of the year so far…
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Oliver Turnbull @oliverturnbull.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Owen’s parsnip saga takes a dark turn…
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Oliver Turnbull @oliverturnbull.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I’m a Hamlet fan, but a bit disappointed with this. Shoddy work. The poster didn’t even spell the name correctly! And we didn’t see the play until the last 20 minutes! Mostly just some woman called Agnes, and her absent husband? Not relevant! The last bit was good though, so two stars… 🤣
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Oliver Turnbull @oliverturnbull.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Orion. Looking quite angular and striking!
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Oliver Turnbull @oliverturnbull.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
My garden continues to audition for Stranger Things…
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Oliver Turnbull @oliverturnbull.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Orion. In the context of my armillary sphere.
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Oliver Turnbull @oliverturnbull.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Ursa Major (other names are available…) in a crisp winter sky, from my front door. I waited a few hours to get the best view of the dipper. It seemed important for the correct angle, relative to the garden furniture.
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Oliver Turnbull @oliverturnbull.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Today, Welsh weather (and the Atlantic Ocean) is making ‘half a palm tree’ day in my garden…
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Oliver Turnbull @oliverturnbull.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Tonight my house has decided to audition for an episode of Stranger Things…
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Oliver Turnbull @oliverturnbull.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Dear Duolingo, I thought that North Wales was doing just fine with one parsnip gallery. But I’m impressed to see that you’ve opened a new one!
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Oliver Turnbull @oliverturnbull.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
To our international friends struggling in the heat. This is what summer is meant to be… According to British weather, and British historical costume drama. Which is: 15 to 20c, partly cloudy, a light breeze, and drizzle every now and then. Jane Austen would (I am sure) approve of this message.
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Oliver Turnbull @oliverturnbull.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Crux (the Southern Cross, almost horizontal in this photo) is part of some of the best parts of the Milky Way. And gosh, the southern tip of Africa (away from Cape Town) really does get some amazingly clear dark skies.
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Oliver Turnbull @oliverturnbull.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
The skies look different from the bottom of Africa. Here’s Canis Major (if you can find the big dog), with the ever-impressive Sirius. All at an angle that I’m not used to seeing in the northern hemisphere!
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Richard J. Binney @rjbinney.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The world's best functional neuroanatomy and dissection course is now accepting applications for Autumn 2025. Visit: www.bangor.ac.uk/courses/othe...
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Oliver Turnbull @oliverturnbull.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Apparently, this is my Valentine’s Day photograph! 🤣
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Oliver Turnbull @oliverturnbull.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Very excited to see that Amazon has recommended my own book to me. I look forward to reading it!
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Oliver Turnbull @oliverturnbull.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
@bangoruniversity.bsky.social had a wonderful evening hosting a lecture on sustainability by @mikebernerslee.bsky.social Thank you, Mike! Also: Prof Gareth Roberts as the best manifestation of a portrait that I have ever seen…
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Oliver Turnbull @oliverturnbull.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
I can imagine worse views from your front door in the morning when you leave for work…
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Oliver Turnbull @oliverturnbull.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
How do you play chess when all the squares are white?
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Oliver Turnbull @oliverturnbull.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Does Bluesky have any users of Welsh/Cymraeg @duolingo? If so, one of Duo’s many parsnip-themed phrases of wisdom!
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Oliver Turnbull @oliverturnbull.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
My portrait skills are a work in progress. But sometimes I manage a half-decent eye…
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Oliver Turnbull @oliverturnbull.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
This Christmas break, I have mostly been building a chess board with my son…
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Oliver Turnbull @oliverturnbull.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
We are about to have a solstice… when sol (as in the Latin for sun and solar) will sistere (or stand still). Or in Welsh, a heuldro. When haul (the sun, from the Greek helios, as in heliocentric) is going to tro (or turn, as in rotate). Important astronomy, and four language word origins…
An orange sunset…
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Oliver Turnbull @oliverturnbull.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
These days, I am mostly trying to save what is left of my trees from blowing away in a gale.
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Oliver Turnbull @oliverturnbull.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Three red baubles, some festive stuff, and a reindeer in a green tree…
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Oliver Turnbull @oliverturnbull.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
This evening, I have mostly been painting mist and stuff…
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Oliver Turnbull @oliverturnbull.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
There is something about the fractured landscape of the middle cranial fossa that would look appealing even if you didn’t know the anatomy of the base of skull…
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Oliver Turnbull @oliverturnbull.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Sometimes the basal ganglia are better presented as pebbles…
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