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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Regardless of any mixed feelings and trepidation evoked by much of what we've seen of Greta Gerwig's The Magician Nephew, this promo image in particular is just exquisite

A promotional image for Greta Gerwig's adaptation of The Magician's Nephew, showing Diggory and a horse. A wing design on the van behind the horse is positioned as though the horse has wings

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Steph' Thorpe @stephbirdart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A commission piece I did of the White-throated Needletail that was on the east coast last year. A3 watercolour and graphite #UKbirding #birds #birdart #sciart

Set of illustrations in watercolour and graphite of a White-throated Needletail Swift. They show various poses.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

FALL FASHION TIPPE - Disappear ynto the woodes of an eveninge, when the skye ys lavender and blue. Call unto the powers that dwell ther, and lo! thei appear yn their glamour and their panoplye, radiant. Aske of them what thei have seen and thei will tell thee: 'woe & hope' Accessorize wyth a scarf.

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Every now and then I have a look at ClearSky to see what Bluesky lists people have added me to, and most of the time it's incredibly, incredibly sweet

A list of Bluesky lists I feature on, including: Happy-Making, Interesting people, Cool People

More of the list, including: Less Politics More Fun, Friends & stuff, Little joys

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zeobun @zeobun.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Healing my burnout one squirrel at a time (wip)

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

For my fellow Britons: the National Trust has created a petition calling on the government to better protect our natural environment against the impacts of climate change. No pressure, but I've signed it and thought I'd share!

campaigns.nationaltrust.org.uk

I've signed. Will you? Add your name to help make wildfire prevention and climate resilience a national priority, and stand with the communities affected by wildfires.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

🖼️ Dick Twinney

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The moon is watching me again

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Mike Prince @mplandscapes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Northumberland serendipity. On a wave washed platform there are many scattered pebbles. For me there would be no joy at all in finding one and placing it. However there is huge pleasure in finding a pebble that already sits well where it has stopped. #capturewithconfidence #kingjoy #nikon

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Another sunny Sunday, and I am now a good chunk into my reread of A Game of Thrones

A copy of George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones next to a cup of tea on a metal garden chair, with glimpses of sunlit grass

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This extraordinary helmet is a lavish example of a Celtic style worn primarily during the 4th and 3rd centuries BC. Its dome and neck guard were forged from a single thin sheet of iron, then embellished with ornamental bronze bands worked into flowing vegetal motifs. Inlays of reddish ...🧵1/3 📷 me

A dome-shaped helmet displayed in a glass museum case, richly decorated with ornamental bronze bands worked into flowing vegetal motifs. Inlays of reddish coral or sea-snail shell once added striking flashes of colour. Two curved side tubes and a vertical finial on top.

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The British English sense of 'prat' allows for a humorous reading of the caption underneath

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Blackberries - Kittatinny, Deborah Griscom Passmore, 1904.

Illustration of blackberries and thorny foliage.

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Look whom I met in the garden

The black-spotted back of a yellow-green frog amid the grass

The same frog from a front angle, its eye black and beady like a gemstone

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Grant @syncingsinking.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is just to say I have solved the open questions that were in your paper and which you were probably saving for your phd students Forgive me they were delicious so incentive-laden and followed so readily once your postdoc's drafts mysteriously found their way into my training data

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Any of my Bluesky pals looking for accommodation for Bangor University? Or does anyone know anyone who is?

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Armand Sarlangue @armandsarlangue.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The mesmerizing white horses of Camargue dancing in a golden light beautifully shaped by the dust in the air… #photography #wildlife #art #horse

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sunny Sunday, and I'm enjoying the third and (as yet) last of the Dunk & Egg novellas

George R R Martin's A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms with a mug of tea on a garden chair

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Morning. 🖼️ Edith Holden

September, house sparrows in oats, illustration.

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In all fairness, it is a very cool helmet

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Took a poem of mine that I've long found a bit clunky and lifeless, and – after various past attempts to reshuffle it into something more interesting – finally understood what needed doing. (1/2)

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Goodnight from Frank Smith, worried he’s snagged something much bigger than an eel while night fishing the River Restal. Goodnight from Northmoor Camp, where the Special Escort Group is readying to protect a convoy carrying things that don’t officially exist. Goodnight from Hookland.

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Once at uni some course friends were discussing their Myers-Briggs personality types (that four-letter crap like INTJ, ESFP, etc.) and when asked mine I mumbled something about it being nonsense. One of them said "omg, so salty" and without missing a beat I said "sorry, my personality is NaCl"

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

And somehow it’s time for the first page of ‘What to Look for in Autumn’. Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

“In front of the farmhouse the oats have been bound in stooks waiting to be threshed. The Wood pigeons are here together what seeds they can. A stoat is on the hunt for fieldmice”

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Poems I wrote in August! • Leylandii, or Meditations on Fear • Sonnet for the Butterflies on the Overripe Fig • Cryptic • Pity the Prey • Calydon • Different Windows • The First Kings of Aragón • The Shoes of Vindolanda • Ode on La Belle Dame sans Merci • Billions (1/2)

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Old English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

wull-flēos, n.n: a fleece of wool. (WULL-FLAY-oss / ˈwʌl-ˌfleːɔs) Image: Liber de natura rerum; France (Abbaye de Saint-Amand), 13th century; Bibliothèque Municipale de Valenciennes, MS 320, f. 74v. #OldEnglish #WOTD

Medieval manuscript image of a wooly sheep.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Mallow Blossoms and Damselfly, Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, 1575.

As described, damselfly is perched on a pink mallow flower. Painting.

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Light

$Variously patterned reflections and refractions of sunlight on the side of a bath$

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Anfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Ancient little guys of the day! These prehistoric baby bottles in the shape of little creatures were found were found in Bronze and Iron Age graves in Vösendorf (Austria). Actually, a study was conducted on these bottles around 2019 and they found traces of ruminant milk!

Ceramic baby bottles in the shape of animals or mythological creatures. Bronze and Iron Age (1200–800 BCE). Found in Vösendorf (Austria).
Wien Museum. Vienna.

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Otherworldly levels of dark and grey here, especially after so much sun in the past few months. Thunder earlier, and a succession of utter downpours. Still raining, albeit more lightly, and from somewhere I can hear the calling of crows

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Old English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

mūs-fealu, adj: mouse-coloured. (MOOS-FEH-ah-luh / ˈmuːs-ˌfɛa-lʌ) Image: Ormesby Psalter; England (East Anglia), 1250-1330; @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS. Douce 366, f. 131r. #OldEnglish #WOTD

Medieval manuscript marginalia of a fat cat staring at a large brown mouse that is peeking out of a hole.

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Xanadu-du-du push pineapple, shake the tree Xanadu-du-du stately pleasure dome decree

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Other work of the Ladybird artists "Life in the Sky". Shell Guide to Wildlife, 1959 Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton

An illustration intended as an identification guide but creating a scene where a wide variety of birds including Hawks and migratory birds as well as bats are all circulating together in a cloudy twilight sky

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The Lidl app sending me a notification that read "Fire up the BBQ, Robert! 🔥🔥🔥" just as the heavens opened was pretty funny

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

'The Fairy Queen Appears To Prince Arthur' by Fuseli, 1780s. #fairy #faerie #Arthurian #legend #Fuseli #art

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

THUNDER! We just got thunder!!

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University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It's been wonderful to welcome the rain again this week, even if it has occasionally caught us out! ☔ Judging by this illustration, sea monsters enjoy a downpour too! This one can be found in Christopher Saxton's 16th-century atlas of the counties of England and Wales. 📷 Rare books B 1590/SAX/XX

Illustration of a green sea monster with orange fins and an orange tail and two blowholes with water spurting out.

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It would be cool to display the poetry of Keats somewhere in one's house. You'd have an ode-bearing wall

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

An enchanting Minoan jug made by a master potter some 3,500 years ago! Marine style decoration brings an underwater world to life with Nautili swimming among rocks, coral, and seaweed 🐚 🌊 🪸 The relief seashells add another dimension to the design! Heraklion Archaeological Museum📷 me #Archaeology

My photo shows a Minoan clay jug known as the Poros Ewer. The jug has a round body which tapers down to a slender circular foot. It has a single curved handle ornamented with applied relief seashells along the handle length. The neck has a trefoil (three-lobed) mouth. The jug has a yellow slip background with black hand-painted decoration which is an exquisite example of the mature Minoan ‘Marine Style’. The body is covered with dense painted and relief decoration depicting an underwater seascape. The main decorative theme is the floating nautilus (cephalopod with a smooth coiled spiral shell from which many curled tentacles protrude). Fifteen nautiluses are depicted around the body of the jug. They swim singly or in pairs in a seascape indicated by seaweed, coral, sea urchins, and three-lobed rocks in relief (meaning the rocks are raised from the surface of the vessel). In the background a scale-like pattern suggests ripples on the sun-dappled sea floor.
Mended and restored. Maximum height: 26.2 cm. Rim diameter 11.6 cm. The jug was excavated in 1986 in the Neopalatial cemetery of rock-cut cave tombs excavated south of the port settlement at Poros, a suburb of modern-day Heraklion. Dated 1500-1450 BC. On display at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Album Sheet with Two Armadillos, unknown artist, c. 1550 - c. 1570 During the 16th century the armadillo became the symbol of the Americas. It was often depicted on prints and maps, and dried specimens were collected in cabinets of curiosities. (Rijksmuseum)

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Many, many hours of watering and harvesting this fortnight, but there are perks

Bright red tomatoes in a red colander on dry grass

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nico @nicodelort.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

allow me to surf on odyssey hype to repost an old piece from 2013 Penelope, Queen of Ithaca - 30x40cm ink on claybord

a black and white scratchboard illustration depicting Penelope, queen of Ithaca waiting for Odysseus. She is standing at the edge of a small stone platform, the sea right underneath, like by a ray of light, wrapped in black robes. Behind her, stairs climb back up the hill behind tall pine trees. In the distance, a square palace sits on the top of the hill, with light coming from the windows.

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

They appreciate my watering :)

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