Helen Saxton
theobromantic.bsky.social
Helen Saxton
@theobromantic.bsky.social
Organic chemist, been working in journals publishing for years. Interests include peer review, also genealogy, language, occasionally politics, Yorkshire. She/her
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Love the painting like quality of this Tim Green photograph of Sandbeds, Queensbury in Bradford. At over 1,100 feet above sea level It is often the first area in the region to experience snow, which tends to stay longer than in lower-lying areas. CC BY 2.0
December 13, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Brighton Street Art Advent Calendar, Day 5

North Laine
December 5, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Heather Jansch, British sculptor who was known for creating life-sized sculptures of horses from driftwood #womensart
November 25, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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The work of contemporary Northjmbrian printmaker Rebecca Vincent ##ReframingWomenPrintmakers
November 23, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Daina Taimina, a Cornell University mathematician uses crochet to demonstrate Hyperbolic Geometry #womensart
November 13, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Last night I watched over 100 pelicans feed just off the coast after sunset. Here's one of them. 17 frames taken from a sequence of 44 over 2.5 seconds. Incredible dinosaurs!!! 🪶
October 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Shamsia Hassani, fine arts lecturer and first known female street art artist from Afghanistan #WomensArt
October 25, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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'Moonlight Murmuration' by artist Kerrie Ann Gardner, painting on stone #WomensArt #FullMoon #October
October 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Stained glass roof of The Peace Portal, National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia by glass artist Ulla Darni #womensart
October 3, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions
September 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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One day to the next, 2020 by UK painter Emma Haworth #WomensArt
August 19, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Apparently it’s World Embroidery Day so maybe you’ll enjoy this aerial landscape I made of my beloved childhood haunt - the White Horse of Uffington. An @nationaltrust.org.uk site from the later Bronze Age or Early Iron Age. Find out more here www.oxfordarchaeology.com/uffington-wh...
July 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Fennec fox (dog star) by Anne Lemanski #womensart
July 22, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Hand embroidered artwork by Vicki Foster, contemporary textile artist #WomensArt
July 21, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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One of many fascinating artists interviewed for the NEW WomensArt book 'Reframing Women Printmakers' is Northumbrian artist Rebecca Vincent #womensart
July 20, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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The Faroe Islands have a unique summer tradition where a large rock in Sandur is yarn-bombed by local women, inspired by a local legend about a "Troll Woman's cave"...... #WomensArt
July 19, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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Embroidered artwork created by women of the Otomi people of the central Altiplano (Mexican Plateau) region of Mexico #WomensArt
July 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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UK sculptor known as Anna & the Willow creates nature-inspired sculptures made from rods of willow #WomensArt
July 12, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Fiona Watson, visual artist based in Scotland with a diverse body of work including printmaking and digital art...
#ReframingWomenPrintmakers
June 1, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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The Blenheim Estate lost an oak, and as they like their fallen trees to remain in place to encourage wildlife, they asked artist Matthew Crabb to do his magic

Photo: Pete Seaward
July 3, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Rowena Cade (1893–1983) artist, builder, creator of the open air cliff-side Minack Theatre, Porthcurno, Cornwall, UK, with the help of her gardener Billy and only hand tools. She continued to build into her last years #WomensArt
June 26, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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Louise Durham creates driftwood and glass sculptures #WomensArt

#Solstice Northern & Southern hemispheres
June 21, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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CERP editors and board chair are out and about this July:
➡️at @iupac.org 2025 in Malaysia, Mageswary Karpudewan is chairing the green chemistry in education symposium
➡️at GRC Chemistry education research and practice, in the US, Scott Lewis, Gwen Lawrie and @graulichcer.bsky.social are presenting
June 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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This is incredible
June 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Parkrun isn’t competitive! Parkrun involves no changing rooms! Anyone can do parkrun! What the actual fuck are these people on about
They're going after Parkrun again, you know, that event where lots of people of all ages, abilities and genders run around a local park and it not, in any form, a race?
April 20, 2025 at 11:13 AM