Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Jenny Harris

@jnnyharris.bsky.social

280 followers 170 following 120 posts

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · Jan 15

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-...

A colourful factsheet or A4 poster entitled ‘Children’s Rights From The Start’ with cartoon children and text summarising children’s rights, with the logos of BSPD, which led the project, and those of the BDA, NSPCC and UNICEF UK, working in partnership

Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 26d

Utterly bonkers about conkers!

Horse Chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum)
#autumn #conkers

A pocketful of shiny conkers and their cases, tipped on to a kitchen worktop

The yellow-green spiky case of a ripe conker has split open to reveal the shiny chestnut-brown fruit inside

2 11

Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · Sep 3

@everyheron.bsky.social

1 3

Reposted by Jenny Harris

Anja Heilmann @anjaheilmann.bsky.social · Aug 22

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Corporal punishment carries ‘multiple risks’ to children’s health, says WHO

An estimated 1.2bn children are subject to this ‘harmful practice’ each year, affecting physical and mental wellbeing, report finds

www.theguardian.com

2 2

Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · Aug 17

It was a indeed… and a welcome break on a long hot journey!

Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · Aug 17

Thank you for confirming

Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · Aug 17

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

2 3 50

Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · Aug 17

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

1 7

Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · Aug 10

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

1 17

Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · Aug 10

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

Gold and black striped hoverfly, looking far smaller in the photo than it did in real life!

5 59

Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · Aug 10

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

Green-veined White butterfly feasting at the purplish-pink flowers of a head-high forest of Great Willowherb

2 31

Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · Aug 6

😅

1 1

Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · Aug 3

Thank you - I saw one of these last week and wondered what it was!

1 1

Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · Aug 3

Awww, very kind words but now it’s my time to pass on the baton! ☺️

Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · Aug 3

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

4 47

Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · Aug 3

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

1 22

Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · Aug 3

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

1 26

Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · Jul 29

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

Amrit Chauhan @amritchauhan.bsky.social · Jul 29

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...

1 1 2

Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · Jul 29

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

Amrit Chauhan @amritchauhan.bsky.social · Jul 29

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...

Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · Jul 27

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

Skullcap (Scutellaria galericulata), showing the pairs of violet flowers

Skullcap (Scutellaria galericulata), showing the developing fruit

1 15

Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · Jul 20

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

3 40

Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · Jul 20

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

3 25

Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · Jul 15

Thank you Helen. I gave up my chance of an ice cream for an extra 5 minutes taking photos, so I’m glad it proved worth it!

Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · Jul 13

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

Three flower heads of Field Scabious (Knautia arvensis) seen at different angles, also showing the hairy stem

1 2 33

Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · Jun 27

That’s more like it! 😉

Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · Jun 22

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

1 11