Sandflyman
@sandflyman.bsky.social
Bioscientist/artist: PhD ~40 years research insects & microbes; Decolonizing UK science; Transdisciplinary; sciencelab=art studio. Soil sniffin, ditch diggin, tree planter.
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🌱🌾🌍🌺🧪🐝 Plants in Art. Plants in Nature. Plants as Wildlife. Liverpool Biennial is the UK’s largest free festival of contemporary visual art. Also has 'fringe', the Independents independentsbiennial.com This artwork inspired by Our Lady Liverwort and Plant Blindness @sandflyman.bsky.social #BUC2025
July 6, 2025 at 10:48 AM
🌱🌾🌍🌺🧪🐝 Plants in Art. Plants in Nature. Plants as Wildlife. Liverpool Biennial is the UK’s largest free festival of contemporary visual art. Also has 'fringe', the Independents independentsbiennial.com This artwork inspired by Our Lady Liverwort and Plant Blindness @sandflyman.bsky.social #BUC2025
Plants don't have faces. Humans have a tendency to under appreciate plants in everyday life; this is known as plant blindness.
Plant pots with faces sell plants. #liverwort #indybiennial #indybiennial2025
#artinliverpool #artsandscience #artscience #plantblindness @indybiennial.bsky.social
Plant pots with faces sell plants. #liverwort #indybiennial #indybiennial2025
#artinliverpool #artsandscience #artscience #plantblindness @indybiennial.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Plants don't have faces. Humans have a tendency to under appreciate plants in everyday life; this is known as plant blindness.
Plant pots with faces sell plants. #liverwort #indybiennial #indybiennial2025
#artinliverpool #artsandscience #artscience #plantblindness @indybiennial.bsky.social
Plant pots with faces sell plants. #liverwort #indybiennial #indybiennial2025
#artinliverpool #artsandscience #artscience #plantblindness @indybiennial.bsky.social
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When maximum sentence for chaining yourself to railings is over twice maximum sentence for racially aggravated assault, anyone who cares about justice should be appalled. This is a dangerous, undemocratic & disproportionate attack on longstanding right to peaceful protest in UK #DefendOurJuries
January 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
When maximum sentence for chaining yourself to railings is over twice maximum sentence for racially aggravated assault, anyone who cares about justice should be appalled. This is a dangerous, undemocratic & disproportionate attack on longstanding right to peaceful protest in UK #DefendOurJuries
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In the current issue of Antennae 'Dataism' bio artist pioneer Ken Rinaldo explores the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) through a comparison of the artworks Autopoiesis (2000) and Opera for Dying Insects (2020).
December 31, 2024 at 8:46 PM
In the current issue of Antennae 'Dataism' bio artist pioneer Ken Rinaldo explores the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) through a comparison of the artworks Autopoiesis (2000) and Opera for Dying Insects (2020).
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President Carter took on the awful Guinea worm when no one else would — and triumphed
Read more at: www.macon.com/news/state/g...
Read more at: www.macon.com/news/state/g...
Jimmy Carter took on the awful Guinea worm when no one else would — and triumphed
“I would like to see Guinea worm completely eradicated before I die,” Carter said at a news conference in 2015. “I’d like for the last Guinea worm to die before I do. I think right now we have 11 case...
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December 30, 2024 at 11:40 PM
President Carter took on the awful Guinea worm when no one else would — and triumphed
Read more at: www.macon.com/news/state/g...
Read more at: www.macon.com/news/state/g...
Wassailing today in our local walled garden orchard. It’s actually a form of biological insect control ☺️ Pieces of toast hung on apple trees attract robins that eat insects on the trees #wassail #biocontrol
January 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Wassailing today in our local walled garden orchard. It’s actually a form of biological insect control ☺️ Pieces of toast hung on apple trees attract robins that eat insects on the trees #wassail #biocontrol
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Gaie Delap is spending her birthday in prison because Serco couldn’t find a tag to fit her wrist.
It’s time for justice ministers to actually stand up for justice.
goodlaw.social/beb3
It’s time for justice ministers to actually stand up for justice.
goodlaw.social/beb3
Failing justice system keeps Gaie Delap in jail on her 78th birthday | Good Law Project
A retired teacher is spending her birthday in prison because Serco couldn’t find a tag to fit her wrist. It’s time for justice ministers to actually stand up for justice.
goodlaw.social
January 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Gaie Delap is spending her birthday in prison because Serco couldn’t find a tag to fit her wrist.
It’s time for justice ministers to actually stand up for justice.
goodlaw.social/beb3
It’s time for justice ministers to actually stand up for justice.
goodlaw.social/beb3
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It’s official: The Microbiology Society is on Bluesky!
January 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
It’s official: The Microbiology Society is on Bluesky!
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Fantastic illustration of the topic of social construction of pathology -- and of medical progress, since we no longer pathologies this. #socy126 #nosology #lefties #southpaws
January 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Fantastic illustration of the topic of social construction of pathology -- and of medical progress, since we no longer pathologies this. #socy126 #nosology #lefties #southpaws