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suusjc.bsky.social
S J Cowtan
@suusjc.bsky.social
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PhD researcher in clinical trials methodology. Statistician. Bayesian. R coder. AuDHD. Queer. Parent. Formerly in ecological statistics. 🌈 They/ them. 🌈
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Close up of one of the flowers, because the shape is distinctive 🌱
White flower blushed pink, showing 4 slightly overlapping petals plus one at the bottom, longer and separate
April 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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I can see where you're coming from, but the leaves are wider and mercifully it doesn't spread 🌱
April 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Can anyone help me identify this shrub? It was in my Vale of York, UK, garden when we moved in. It will happily grow to 10ft. 🌱
Close up of 5 petalled flowers, white blushed with pink on the tips Flowers, white blushed pink, and plain, wide, rounded leaves in a light to mid green, but in the shade so they look darker 10 ft tall, fairly upright shrub with some lower branches arching. Leaves are bright where they're in the sun.
April 20, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Back somewhere I haven't visited since I was a teenager, for a @mrcnihrtmrp.bsky.social DTP training session. Where am I? #PhDSky
A bare-leafed, elderly fruit tree with a light brown stone building behind it, with a stepped gable and the edge of a red brick gateway with a narrow octagonal white stone and red brick mini turret.
March 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Boogers out of Calcifer's nose, Radish's eyes... But they're worth it #academicsWithCats
Two Siamese cats curled up together on a bed. The chocolate point is using the red point's hip as a pillow; the red point is hugging him back.
March 12, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Calcifer is helping. #AcademicsWithCats #PhDSky
A middle-aged person with brown hair and a fair isle jumper, with a bookshelf behind them. Climbing across their shoulders, behind their neck, is a red point siamese cat.
February 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Passed by the historic (and still subscription) The Leeds Library today (www.theleedslibrary.org.uk). Their choice of word for today's sign was most apposite.
Sign saying "The Leeds Library, founded 1768. Word of the day: myrmidons - unthinking followers of a leader; members of a gang or army. From: the Oxford English Dictionary
February 3, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Calcifer is doing his best, but his new toy just won't fit in my boot.
A half grown red point siamese on a staircase, trying to put an octopus dog toy, about half his size, into a black DM-style boot with rainbow laces.
January 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Is this two cats with one head, or one cat with two bodies? Or did I just misread the IKEA manual again?
Two Siamese cats, one chocolate point, one flame point, curled up together on a bed. Only one head is visible, in the middle.
January 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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I'm going to assume you're really here for the kitten. And perhaps his brother.
Red point siamese kitten looking innocent, shot from above Red point siamese kitten, fast asleep, sprawled literally on top of a chocolate point adult Siamese, napping in a radiator bed
December 4, 2024 at 9:28 PM
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This year I really enjoyed giving my first conference presentation at ICTMC, despite the nerves; meeting the @rainbowr.org crowd at UseR!; and getting a very silly kitten. #PhDSky #ResearchAdvent
Half grown red point siamese kitten, dangling (and swinging) by his front paws from a high wall-mounted bed where an adult chocolate point siamese was trying to sleep
December 3, 2024 at 11:26 PM
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That is some magnificent flood. Mine aren't floofy hardly at all
November 7, 2024 at 5:29 PM
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Spotted (and purchased): @cemurphy.bsky.social books at @portalbookshop.bsky.social
Bookshelf with CE Murphy's Redeemer and Roses in Amber, with a handwritten sign saying "This book is signed by the author!" Copy of CE Murphy's Roses in Amber, with a Portal Bookshop business card (a rainbow above the name, with an oversized sword forming the T and going through the K)
October 6, 2024 at 5:45 PM
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Does anyone know whether this is a red kite wing feather 🪶? Paper is A4. Confirmed sightings in the area. #birds 🌍🦅
Wing feather, barred and mostly mid brown. Lower 2/3 of leading edge has reddish tint and sandy outline to the black bars Close up of lower part of feather, showing russet leading edge, black bars with sandy edges and brown/black specking in between, and barely visible brown barring on trailing edge Upper part of feather with both edges similarly brown/black with evident black barring on both, although less strong than leading edge of lower part of feather
July 4, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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Glow at RHS Harlow Carr 🌱
Night view of a lake with white lights along the shore and bare trees illuminated in pinks, greens and clues Night view of small group of ferns and dead leaves, illuminated in purple Night view of bare tree, illuminated blue, and reflected in a the flood water it stands in. Backdrop of trees illuminated in many colours, also reflected
December 27, 2023 at 7:36 PM
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I bought this book at the weekend. Not much time to read it yet though! #ResearchAdvent
Book cover with a monochrome picture of a woman looking into a microscope. Rosalind's siblings: fiction and poetry celebrating scientists of marginalised genders, edited by Bogi Takács
December 18, 2023 at 1:42 PM
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Judgy Cat is waiting outside the office door, judging me for taking a burnout recovery day #PhDSky
Red point Siamese with a disapproving expression, sitting on a landing with two closed doors.
November 16, 2023 at 11:12 AM
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Splendid outcrop under the cherry tree in the garden. Would've been happier were it not honey fungus, but it's an old tree, and only to be expected. 🌱🍄
November 3, 2023 at 6:27 PM
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Excited to see a hedgehog 🦔 in the garden this evening, but it's rather small, so we've left it some cat food to augment the slugs in the compost bag 🌍
October 18, 2023 at 8:26 PM
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These were today's find, at my kid's school
Really tight cluster of a preposterous number of fairly generic mushrooms, with whitish tops and dark gills
October 4, 2023 at 7:52 PM
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Brilliant and emotional gig tonight - Grace Petrie's Butch Ado about Nothing tour is well worth catching gracepetrie.com/gigs/
Grace Petrie on stage doing stand up at York Crescent Club.
September 17, 2023 at 9:38 PM
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It's a cat plait
Red point Siamese cat using his back leg as a pillow, his front leg to cover his nose and hold the back leg, his tail to cover the front paw, and the other back leg sticking out of the bottom of the pile
September 17, 2023 at 10:31 AM
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This cat 😺 is a complete flop
Chocolate point Siamese sprawled on a bed, sleeping
September 2, 2023 at 11:10 PM
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Common field grasshopper and some kind of wolf spider. The other spider is too fast for me! #invertFest
Brown grasshopper with barred wing casings Wolf spider of some kind. Too dark to see much barring, but it's there
August 28, 2023 at 11:35 AM
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Also I am hopeless at flies. Who's this guy? Spotted in a garden in York #invertFest
Underside view of a fly with reddish eyes and a brown body, heavily mottled with beige
August 28, 2023 at 11:24 AM