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Jenny Harris
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Retired paediatric dentist | Consultant emeritus/HonSL | #PhDbypublication | #RightsFromTheStart | #CPDT | #WNBCYP | #DentistsWithHerons | #AnOrchidAWeek | Own views
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BSPD’s #RightsFromTheStart raised awareness of #childrensrights. Pleased to have a letter published in @bmj.com online today:

Children’s right to oral health—day to day, right from the start www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Find @bspdofficial.bsky.social A4 factsheet here www.bspd.co.uk/Rights-from-...
Me: Ooooh, I feel seen 🤗 (‘though I doubt Jon can guess the half of it)

Also me: Harumph, I’ve lost the sweepstake on the subject of his new book 😤
Part of the joy of working with European #orchids is seeing the reaction they elicit, whether in person from my @mariposanature.bsky.social guests or here online. It's so satisfying to see how they touch something in people. I'm currently writing about that emotional response for a new book.
November 11, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Since we started doing #NoMowMay in 2020, I’ve been hoping for an orchid to pop up in my lawn. But I’ll take two Pink Waxcap (Porpolomopsis calyptriformis)!
AKA Ballerina Waxcap… of course they are 🩰
#MushroomMonday #fungi #mushroom
November 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I was photographing Reed Buntings on a path through the reed beds, when I was distracted by these bright golden flower heads. Could it be Buttonweed? #wildflowerhour #wildflowerID @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 10:31 PM
A confused Cowslip on an otherwise very autumnal day at YWT Potteric Carr, Doncaster
@yorkswildlife.bsky.social #wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Utterly bonkers about conkers!

Horse Chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum)
#autumn #conkers
September 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
A floral display fringing the pond at Gloucester Services Southbound. Great Willowherb, Purple Loosestrife, Flowering-rush and the twirly-fruits of Meadowsweet. Overhead swallows and dragonflies locked in aerial combat.
#wildflowerhour #M5botany
@BSBIbotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
August 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I love it when the #wildflowerhour challenge prompts me to find a plant I’ve never noticed before. Could this be Trifid Bur Marigold (Bidens tripartita)?
On the banks of Damflask Reservoir, Loxley Valley, Sheffield
#DaisyFamily @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
August 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Common Hemp-nettle (Galeopsis tetrahit) growing alongside Common Nettle (Urticaria dioica) at Thornhill NR, Bamford, Derbyshire
#wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @derbyswildlife.bsky.social
August 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I was photographing bees on Common Knapweed (Centaurea nigra) when I spied something HUGE and GOLD out of the corner of my eye 😳.
Hornet-mimic #Hoverfly (Volucella zonaria).
Hope Valley, Derbyshire
#wildflowerhour #PollinatorPals @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
August 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Green-veined White #butterfly on Great Willowherb (Epilobium hirsutum) for #wildflowerhour #PollinatorPals challenge. The flower’s landing pad is helpfully marked out with a cross, that of a 4-lobed stigma.
Hope Valley, Derbyshire
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
August 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Tiny as they are, eyebrights (Euphrasia spp.) always catch my attention. Here growing on the floor of a disused limestone quarry, at the butterfly heaven that is Hoe Grange Quarry, Derbyshire

#wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @derbyswildlife.bsky.social @derbyswildlife.bsky.social
August 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Large leafy divided bracts, dark red central flower, umbels form a ball after flowering, spiny fruits.

It must be Wild Carrot (Daucus carota), here buffeted by the wind on the approach road to Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire

#wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
August 3, 2025 at 7:29 PM
My camera was trained on this rather scruffy skipper when I realised it had led me to a plant new to me that I recognised from #wildflowerhour!

Wild Basil (Clinopodium vulgare) at Hoe Grange Quarry, Derbyshire
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
August 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
So much here to share with parents who are struggling to support their child with #toothbrushing. All the obvious things but also, I’m embarrassed to say, a whole load of extras in the bathroom I’d not thought of.
👃🏻🚽 🧼 🥶 🥵
Well done toothPASTE study!
#oralhealth #autism @amritchauhan.bsky.social
One of the most loved resources on the toothPASTE website is Sensory Detective- a bathroom checklist co-created with OT @saskiagrassie.bsky.social. It helps spot sensory factors that may impact autistic children during toothbrushing. Free to download: www.autismtoothcare.com/toothbrushin...
July 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Effective toothbrushing in childhood is the gateway to a lifetime of #oralhealth. And I’m pretty sure that no one has taken more care to understand the needs of #autistic #children than Dr Amrit Chauhan. Resources developed by the toothPASTE study are now online 👀 👏
@amritchauhan.bsky.social
We’re live!
toothPASTE is a free online resource to support the oral health of autistic children, co-designed with families & professionals.

Visit: www.autismtoothcare.com

Read more: linktr.ee/toothpastest...
Press: www.leeds.ac.uk/main-index/n...
July 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Three of the #DeadnettleFamily growing in the wall of Hind Wheel Dam, #RivelinValley, Sheffield.
Hedge Woundwort, Water Mint and Skullcap (x2).
Pleased to report neither phone nor glasses were lost overboard while taking these pictures, just a little dignity
#WildflowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
July 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Harebells were outnumbered by drifts of Small Scabious in the Yorkshire Dales nature reserves we explored this week, but there’s always something special about those perfect papery bells nodding in the breeze.
#wildflowerhour #HarebellChallenge @bsbibotany.bsky.social @yorkswildlife.bsky.social
July 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Lesser Meadow-rue (Thalictrum minus)

One of many gorgeous plants seen on limestone pavements in the Yorkshire Dales this week. But this one was so dainty and hard to spot, it could be wearing an invisibility cloak
#wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @yorkswildlife.bsky.social
July 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Field Scabious. Not the hairiest of #hairyplants, but it was the favourite of bees and butterflies on the #MonsalTrail this week. And it’s the one I’ve chosen for this evening’s #wildflowerhour challenge
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
@derbyswildlife.bsky.social
July 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Growing side-by-side at the mouth of a spring. Watercress (Nasturtium officinale) and Fool’s Watercress (Helosciadium nodiflorum). Today at a butterfly-filled Gloucestershire SSSI
#wildflowerhour #aquaticplants @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
June 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Every summer @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social reposts this. And every summer I am grateful for the reminder, because I had almost forgotten that drowning doesn’t look like drowning
Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

slate.com/technology/2...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
slate.com
June 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
For the #wildflowerhour #urbanplants challenge, I was determined to put a name to one I usually walk past with barely a glance. I think this is Nipplewort (Lapsana communis) at Bingham Park, Sheffield.
#urbanparks @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
June 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
A riot of colour as good as any well-kept garden border. This is the bank beside a stream in my local park. Water Forget-me-not, watercress and Monkeyflower.
#wildflowerhour #urbanplants #urbanparks @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
June 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This beautiful group of #orchids stood out in the sunlight as we entered a clearing from a shaded wooded valley. I’m thinking Dactylorhiza hybrids, but just enjoying them before I reach for the ID guide! Derbyshire
#wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
June 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM