This International Women's Day, we should prioritise groundbreaking research into women's health, such as strengthening the reproductive system's natural defences, says Anita Zaidi
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This International Women's Day, we should prioritise groundbreaking research into women's health, such as strengthening the reproductive system's natural defences, says Anita Zaidi
Painting of a young white girl, upper half, with her back to the viewer, standing by a window in an interior, there are bottles on the windowsill with flowering twigs in them
'Spring at the Window' by Tetyana Yablonska (1917-2006), Ukrainian painter #WomensArt
Here's what I believe is a tiny wax cap mushroom poking up between some fern leaves.
#photography #nature #macrophotography #mushroom #pnw #resist
A delicate white ume flower with long stamens blooms on a slender branch, set against a dark background.
#photography #unedited
A red sandstone tenement in the Boomhill area of Glasgow in the early morning sun.
#glasgow #tenement #broomhill #architecture #architecturephotography
Poster with the text 'Be an artist' and two stylised figures, one happily playing the guitar
Favianna Rodriguez, contemporary US poster designer and activist of Afro-Peruvian heritage, #womensart
Awake to birdsongβ¦itβs idiotically early, light only just beginning to seep into the margins of the sky, but I donβt mind a bit! After the darkness of winter, Iβll take every suggestion of light possible!
Wishing you a lovely day, dear early birds (human and winged!)
Sandy oregon coast line with marsha plants lining the sides of image. Coast on horizon under cloudy skies
Going to the coast is always so grounding for me π
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#NatureWithin
The Classic View of Edinburgh
Paris #photography #blackandwhite
Crossmyloof Mansions at Shawlands Cross in Glasgow. This is another of Glasgow's magnificent 19th century gushet tenement buildings with, of course, space for a pub on the ground floor.
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#glasgow #architecture #tenement #shawlands #shawlandscross #architecturephotography
Open position:
Phd-student in pharmaceutical economics and policy.
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Shoes π π. #oilpainting #art
Woke up early, so what better way to start the day than a walk along the #Victorian promenade. Such a spectacular sky this morning! #photooftheday #NatureIsMagic #photography #Wales
Textile artwork featuring an outline of a person falling out of a flying house in a starry sky
Sarah Haskell, award-winning US textile artist andΒ educator #WomensArt #FridayFeeling
Photo of an off-white lichen. One section of the lichen looks like brain. The rest looks like frilly leaves. Five large, orange apothecia are visible on the lichen. The lichen is growing on grey rock and on other (crustose) lichens.
Orange Rock Posy Lichen. NWT, Canada.
lichen is about 3cm in longest dimension.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends
Terraced three storey house covered in vividly coloured mosaics with patterns quotes and images and a bright pink front door
Carrie Reichardt, UK artist, a figurehead for the Craftivism movement, has spent almost 20 years transforming her house on a quiet London street into a mosaic-covered wonder #WomensArt
The launch of Englandβs first men's health strategy is a significant and long overdue step, Paul Galdas argues. But a commitment to address poorer health outcomes is only as a good as its implementation.
What will it take to make the strategy a success?
Read our guest blog: https://bit.ly/3ZKiMQk
Painting of a white girl in a light coloured dress in the shade of a tree with a large dog on a sunny day
Amy Katherine Browning,
Lime Tree Shade, 1913,
Impressionist influenced English painter who was friends with suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst #womensart
Diamond shaped colourful wovan artwork suspended among trees in a forest
French textile and environmental artist Edith Meusnier, who creates woven sculptures sited in installations amongst nature #WomfnsAr
Two fern fronds #BlueSkyArtShow #Two #Photography #Flora #Macro #Oregon π·
Today, weβve launched our first AI strategy that sets out a bold plan to help position the UK as a global leader in AI.
The strategy will unite universities, industry, and government to take AI research from the lab to the real-world and improve everyday lives.
More π www.ukri.org/news/ukri-ai...
Announcement!
International PhD Programs in the Life Sciences.
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Night Lights #oilpainting #art
OSSD Connected Virtual Speaker Series, March 5: a live presentation and following Q&A Dr. Steven Austad from the University of Alabama at Birmingham as he presents, βUnderstanding Sex Differences in Aging and Longevity.β Register for free, member or not: www.ossdweb.org/ossd-connected
Could a tampon help improve the #EarlyDiagnosis of #OvarianCancer?
The VIOLET study is looking for the earliest clues that #cancer may be present, particularly in women at a higher risk of developing the disease.
Read more - bit.ly/4qL6amS
@uhsftresearch.bsky.social @cancerresearchuk.org
Applications are now open for the International Placement Scheme 2026
Funded global research placements at leading cultural institutions for early career researchers and doctoral students - build expertise, networks and policy impact.
Apply by 19 March 2026
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Photo of several Cladonia lichens. Some look like golf tees with the tops ringed in red. Others look like narrow pipes with their tops ringed in red.
Cladonia lichens. NWT, Canada.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends
Nine images in black on cream of a cartoonish girl in different poses
Little My, character in the Moomin books by Tove Jansson first appeared in 1950. She is small, determined, mischievous & fiercely independent, & based on the author herself in a kind of characteristic self-portrait #WomensArt