Art and Ecology
@artandecology.bsky.social
Art, Ecology, and the occasional zebra. Managed by Samuel Shaw, art historian, OU
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PhD opportunity 👇 Come and work with our awesome team to explore whether our understanding of niche segregation can be harnessed to predict the response of vegetation to alterations in hydrological regimes that are likely to result from global change. 🌱
centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
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2026-OU07 The role of the hydrological niche in predicting vegetation response to climate change – CENTA
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October 20, 2025 at 9:48 AM
PhD opportunity 👇 Come and work with our awesome team to explore whether our understanding of niche segregation can be harnessed to predict the response of vegetation to alterations in hydrological regimes that are likely to result from global change. 🌱
centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
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Lovely article from @artandecology.bsky.social on our recent joint project with @nationaltrust.org.uk, looking at how how art and visual culture can help us better understand and engage audiences with meadow restoration 🥰🌱
Read it here: tinyurl.com/39r2kkk2
Lovely article from @artandecology.bsky.social on our recent joint project with @nationaltrust.org.uk, looking at how how art and visual culture can help us better understand and engage audiences with meadow restoration 🥰🌱
Read it here: tinyurl.com/39r2kkk2
How the National Trust’s art collections can shape meadow restoration
Treasures inside the National Trust’s cultural collections can also draw attention to what is going on outside these estates.
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October 14, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Lovely article from @artandecology.bsky.social on our recent joint project with @nationaltrust.org.uk, looking at how how art and visual culture can help us better understand and engage audiences with meadow restoration 🥰🌱
Read it here: tinyurl.com/39r2kkk2
Lovely article from @artandecology.bsky.social on our recent joint project with @nationaltrust.org.uk, looking at how how art and visual culture can help us better understand and engage audiences with meadow restoration 🥰🌱
Read it here: tinyurl.com/39r2kkk2
How the National Trust’s art collections can shape meadow restoration
theconversation.com/how-the-nati...
theconversation.com/how-the-nati...
How the National Trust’s art collections can shape meadow restoration
Treasures inside the National Trust’s cultural collections can also draw attention to what is going on outside these estates.
theconversation.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:40 AM
How the National Trust’s art collections can shape meadow restoration
theconversation.com/how-the-nati...
theconversation.com/how-the-nati...
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Did you know, floodplain meadows deliver multiple benefits to our ecosystem and are a crucial tool in efforts to address critical environmental challenges.
They reduce and delay flood peaks, help to combat drought, provide a home for diverse animal and plant species and help improve water quality.
They reduce and delay flood peaks, help to combat drought, provide a home for diverse animal and plant species and help improve water quality.
September 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Did you know, floodplain meadows deliver multiple benefits to our ecosystem and are a crucial tool in efforts to address critical environmental challenges.
They reduce and delay flood peaks, help to combat drought, provide a home for diverse animal and plant species and help improve water quality.
They reduce and delay flood peaks, help to combat drought, provide a home for diverse animal and plant species and help improve water quality.
youtu.be/Y72tRZyEM1Y?... It's been a while since I made and shared this video, but looking back at it today and thinking anew about landscape painting, rivers, and pollution I feel pretty proud of it... #artclimatechange #pollution #rivers #anthropocene
Landscapes of Change | Samuel Shaw, The Open University
YouTube video by Glasgow Science Festival
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July 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
youtu.be/Y72tRZyEM1Y?... It's been a while since I made and shared this video, but looking back at it today and thinking anew about landscape painting, rivers, and pollution I feel pretty proud of it... #artclimatechange #pollution #rivers #anthropocene
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Wonderful to visit Achurch Meadow with colleagues from Floodplain Meadow Partnership, Natural England & Environment Agency. Vivid reminder of the HUGE importance of such places, for biodiversity, clean rivers, flood storage, carbon & more. 99% is gone, but massive opportunities for restoration.
June 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Wonderful to visit Achurch Meadow with colleagues from Floodplain Meadow Partnership, Natural England & Environment Agency. Vivid reminder of the HUGE importance of such places, for biodiversity, clean rivers, flood storage, carbon & more. 99% is gone, but massive opportunities for restoration.
I've been really lucky to be working on a project with @nationaltrust.org.uk and @floodplainmead.bsky.social on the role that art can play in promoting floodplain meadows restoration. Short film on its way...
June 11, 2025 at 10:36 AM
I've been really lucky to be working on a project with @nationaltrust.org.uk and @floodplainmead.bsky.social on the role that art can play in promoting floodplain meadows restoration. Short film on its way...
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Whilst some are busy in the field, others in the team presented the TREASURE project at the Open Societal Challenges Showcase event. Great to meet folk & encourage them to have a go at making pipe cleaner species found on the meadows! @openuniversity.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk
June 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Whilst some are busy in the field, others in the team presented the TREASURE project at the Open Societal Challenges Showcase event. Great to meet folk & encourage them to have a go at making pipe cleaner species found on the meadows! @openuniversity.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk
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For those in the Glasgow area this coming weekend @tannahillcentre.bsky.social @paisleymuseum.bsky.social
May 12, 2025 at 12:29 PM
For those in the Glasgow area this coming weekend @tannahillcentre.bsky.social @paisleymuseum.bsky.social
For those in the Glasgow area this coming weekend @tannahillcentre.bsky.social @paisleymuseum.bsky.social
May 12, 2025 at 12:29 PM
For those in the Glasgow area this coming weekend @tannahillcentre.bsky.social @paisleymuseum.bsky.social
I asked google whether GenAI is sustainable and it told me it was, so everything is a-ok
..... oh wait....
#ai #genai #robotsaretakingovertheworld
..... oh wait....
#ai #genai #robotsaretakingovertheworld
March 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I asked google whether GenAI is sustainable and it told me it was, so everything is a-ok
..... oh wait....
#ai #genai #robotsaretakingovertheworld
..... oh wait....
#ai #genai #robotsaretakingovertheworld
I never tire of talking about this painting with students. Something new every time.... (Eduoard-Louis Dubufe and Rosa Bonheur, Rosa Bonheur, c.1857, Palace of Versailles collection) #bull #animalsinart #rosabonheur #shorthorn
March 26, 2025 at 10:18 AM
I never tire of talking about this painting with students. Something new every time.... (Eduoard-Louis Dubufe and Rosa Bonheur, Rosa Bonheur, c.1857, Palace of Versailles collection) #bull #animalsinart #rosabonheur #shorthorn
AI doesn't make you a better writer. Writing makes you a better writer.
March 11, 2025 at 11:39 AM
AI doesn't make you a better writer. Writing makes you a better writer.
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While zebras have never been a common subject for artists, Samuel Shaw @artandecology.bsky.social has chosen his top ten zebra-related paintings.
Take a look for #InternationalZebraDay 👉 artuk.org/discover/sto... 🦓
'Zebra' by George Stubbs (1724–1806) 📸 Yale Center for British Art
Take a look for #InternationalZebraDay 👉 artuk.org/discover/sto... 🦓
'Zebra' by George Stubbs (1724–1806) 📸 Yale Center for British Art
January 31, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Always happy to see this re-posted!
I have discovered a new way of working. It's called 'do everything you normally do, but listen to Jeff Parker while doing it'. All tasks suddenly seem easier and cooler... #newwayofworking #resolution #newyear www.youtube.com/watch?v=arwp...
Jeff Parker ETA IVtet - Freakadelic
YouTube video by International Anthem
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January 8, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I have discovered a new way of working. It's called 'do everything you normally do, but listen to Jeff Parker while doing it'. All tasks suddenly seem easier and cooler... #newwayofworking #resolution #newyear www.youtube.com/watch?v=arwp...
I very much enjoyed taking part in this at the weekend.... #botany #NewYearPlantHunt
It's Day 2 of #NewYearPlantHunt: best wishes to all our intrepid botanists who will be hunting today for wild & naturalised plants in bloom across Britain & Ireland.
Check out our round-up of Day 1 results to find out who went where & what they discovered: bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2024/12/new-...
Check out our round-up of Day 1 results to find out who went where & what they discovered: bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2024/12/new-...
January 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I very much enjoyed taking part in this at the weekend.... #botany #NewYearPlantHunt
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Read about our fishy bears from the Assynt bone caves that roamed north-west Scotland 40,000 years ago - we aren’t sure if they are polar bears yet, but luckily the press are 😅 www.scotsman.com/heritage-and...
The remarkable Highlands cave discovery that shows polar bears once roamed Scotland
Bones and teeth were discovered in a cave in the Scottish Highlands
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November 28, 2024 at 11:11 AM
Read about our fishy bears from the Assynt bone caves that roamed north-west Scotland 40,000 years ago - we aren’t sure if they are polar bears yet, but luckily the press are 😅 www.scotsman.com/heritage-and...
In 1819 the skin of a polar bear was put on public display at the British Museum. Here's George Cruikshank's imagining of the bearskin being carried to the BM....
November 29, 2024 at 3:16 PM
In 1819 the skin of a polar bear was put on public display at the British Museum. Here's George Cruikshank's imagining of the bearskin being carried to the BM....
Still not used to checking this website, but hoping to be more present soon. In the meantime, to celebrate icy winds here in the UK, here's another short video about polar bears 🐻❄️... youtu.be/M7iAFsAzzk8?...
Why are polar bears the face of climate change? (Art & Ecology series)
YouTube video by Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences at The OU
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November 27, 2024 at 11:40 AM
Still not used to checking this website, but hoping to be more present soon. In the meantime, to celebrate icy winds here in the UK, here's another short video about polar bears 🐻❄️... youtu.be/M7iAFsAzzk8?...
Just migrated here from a previous inhabitable habitat... I'm an art historian with a keen interest in animal history, ecocriticism, the long 19th century, etc. I keep finding myself researching monochrome animals: it started with zebras, and now involves polar bears:
youtu.be/kGDrDWX9U84?...
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The Polar Bears of Perth
YouTube video by Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences at The OU
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November 14, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Just migrated here from a previous inhabitable habitat... I'm an art historian with a keen interest in animal history, ecocriticism, the long 19th century, etc. I keep finding myself researching monochrome animals: it started with zebras, and now involves polar bears:
youtu.be/kGDrDWX9U84?...
youtu.be/kGDrDWX9U84?...