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Kate Moores
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Research communications at University of York, UK. Ex-London galleries and museums arts PR-type, formerly Tate and Wellcome Collection and Wellcome Trust. She / her.
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‘Plants have got all the solutions to all the world problems...’

Today we went from vertical farming to anti-malarial plants, from finding new ways to extract more valuable oil from plants to the potential of hemp farming.

A world tour in a fancy greenhouse.

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#YorkResearch #PlantBiology
A line of green crops in plastic containers in a lab, against a whitewashed wall with a tin can of what looks like plant food hanging above with a tube connecting it to the plants below. Rows and rows of potted seedlings with rainbow coloured labels, in trays along the length of a large industrial looking greenhouse. Someone in a blue lab coat reaches out to inject the leaf one of the plants on a trolley of specimens. A large industrial fridge unit, open. On each of the two shelves sit seedlings in test tubes, steadied by bright red trays.
July 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Salts Mill, Saltaire, Bradford, UK.
A dinner plate with a line drawing of a dog on it, saying ‘Salts diner’ A view out of the window towards a tower with hills in the background. In the foreground is the Victorian factory roof of the mill. Some sort of red, weighing device of similar used in a Victorian industrial setting. It has a big white face like a clock but it isn’t. Another view of the factory roof and side of the building with hills in the background
May 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Totally amazing Ann Hamilton exhibition at Salts Mill, Saltaire, up in the eaves of the building.Part of Bradford City of Culture 2025.
Yards and yards of cornflower blue material is draped at one end of a large industrial room with glass windows in the roof and a factory chimney in the distance. A megaphone on a stand. It’s just a picture but the megaphone spins round and plays beautiful music, there are two more in he background of this industrial space. Containers of sheep’s fleeces all piled up in a dark room. Woolly. Another part of the factory eaves, this time with some contemporary art installations of hanging furniture, lights, newspapers and cloaks hanging.
May 31, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Have you visited @peacemuseumuk.bsky.social yet @dannybirchall.bsky.social it’s right up your street.
May 31, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Excellent visit to @peacemuseumuk.bsky.social in Saltaire, Bradford. Thoughtful, interesting, bursting with ideas, and lots of activities for kids. ⭐️
The interior of an industrial looking building, with an entrance door to an exhibition space. Hanging above is a sign saying ‘Peace Museum.’ A great many origami birds of all colours and patterns in the foreground, with exhibition displays about peace in the background. A small child gets hands on badge-making with paper, pens and rubber stamps. Colourful banners installed with messages of peace activism on them, they hang above a small but beautiful exhibition space.
May 31, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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York Minster gets heavy with plague of angels and organ.
The Minster screen, plus big Easter cross and a heavy metal scene in the foreground The lovely organ - star of the show A heavy metal band plays in the Minster, two guitarists stand above the organ, playing A woman guitarist with her back to the camera, gets ready to begin with the stone church panels and drum equipment in the background.
April 26, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Getting ready for Plague of Angels at York Minster
The interior of york Minster looking towards the organ. There are two heavy metal style banners either side of a very grand looking organ connected to the big cathedral pipes behind…. This is going to be heavy.
April 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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The mustard. It went in the custard. And it was terrible.
@michaelrosenyes.bsky.social was not wrong.
It’s a small bowl of light yellow custard with a teaspoon of mustard in it, the offending mustard jar sits to the left. A middle aged man with more mustard than sense holds the small bowl of custard and mustard and grins The teaspoon goes in the mouth The man grimaces, clearly the mustard is not good in the custard.
March 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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@aldersonday.bsky.social oh HIIIII we’re coming to see you in Newcastle btw. Plan.
March 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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On World Book Day I am mostly celebrating Winnie the Pooh and JR Moores’ boom on Paul McCartney in the 1990s @spinal-bap.bsky.social
The front cover of JR Moores, Off The Ground: Paul McCartney in the 1990s. Illustrated by a black and white photo of Macca with a guitar singing his little heart out circa 1990-something. A medium sized soft bear with a hand knitted red jumper on that looks not unlike Winnie the Pooh. Sitting on a fur rug.
March 6, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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@aldersonday.bsky.social check out me in sticklebrick form
March 1, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Noodling about in the hills above Settle, UK.
February 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Monday finished with a major sticklebricks spill all over floor, followed by a a second spill all over Wentworth Way. Thank you to the passing students and van driver who helped me pick them all up. I made a rainbow out of them when I got back in an attempt to cheer them up.
Brightly coloured sticklebricks of all shapes and sizes litter the floor in a doorway. An abstract ‘rainbow’ made in sticklebricks on a bright yellow sticklebrick board.
January 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Nonna knitting with cocktail sticks at demand of the small human.
January 19, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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As the sun rises against the Ron Cooke Hub, #YorkTalks 2025 is getting started, a day of celebrating the research happening across our community here at the University of York. 🌟
The Ron Cooke Hub, a wood and glass building with birch trees in the foreground and the sun shining on it. The sun rises above some trees in ge distance, with a lake, ducks and reeds in foreground.
January 15, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Bye Sheffield you’ve been great 👍
The exterior of a redbrick building with a signs identifying it as Site Gallery, Sheffield. In the rooftop is an artwork made out of lightbulbs arranged into letters reading ‘Everything is different today’ A wide alleyway with a silver railing running downhill in the centre of the image. At the far end of the alley there is a road cutting across the end of it, with a redbrick building on the other side. People walking downhill towards Sheffield station. Behind it, Park Hill Flats is visible on the hills. The weather looks cold and crisp.
January 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood at Sheffield Millennium Galleries, a Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition. Closes 19 Jan so this a last chance recommend. Curated by Hettie Judah ✊
Installation view of Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood at Sheffield Millennium Galleries. A work by Hannah Starkey, of a woman walking along in the snow next to her young child with a city in the background. Paintings by Marlene Dumas of various mothers A silk tapestry of a black woman artist artist standing triumphantly in a living space by Billie Zangewa
January 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Standard random traffic cone on decorators table in middle of the path. No one reacts to it while passing. Someone had good night out in York last night. I don’t mean the cone.
A street in York. In the middle of the path is a decorator’s table with a traffic cone o ok avec on top. No explanation.
January 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Winter walks to the office at Uni of York. Pretty lucky to get this on the way in, beats the tube at least.
January 9, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Belkis Ayón: Sikán Illuminations at Modern Art Oxford. Plus excellent activities back pack for kids. And lots of animals to count in Ayóns incredible works 💜
Exhibitions runs until 8 Feb.
January 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Uni of York being all crisp and cold and brutalist concretey.
Two silhouettes walk down a covered path towards the camera away from the light. There is a fountain in the background.
November 28, 2024 at 11:05 PM
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Also look at the view from the Aviva building in York 🤩
In the foreground is (quite a swollen) river Ouse, with tourist boats bobbing, the Guildhall, a historic building in pale yellow York stone is on the other side of the bank from where the picture is taken, and in the distance the Minster towers over the city of York’s rooftops and spires.
November 26, 2024 at 8:23 PM
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At the launch of Good Business Charter Report, celebrating responsible business practice with Aviva and Uni of York. Great to hear Jenny Herrera talk about the importance of paying suppliers on time as ‘strategic not operational.’ ⭐️
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November 26, 2024 at 9:28 AM
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Santa in the mill (an actual windmill). Fun and activities for everyone 🎄😃
November 24, 2024 at 10:33 PM
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York looking all festive.
A very, very big tree (ok not as big as the Rockefeller one in NY but big for York. Its lights twinkle. In the bs ground the mansion house is lit up showing off its red and cream brick. A tree wrapped crisp blue sparkling lights, with golden elongated stars hanging from some of the branches.it is night and Christmas decorations twinkle in the background. People enjoying themselves on a Victorian carousel
November 24, 2024 at 9:07 PM