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Mark Pritchard
@markgpritchard.bsky.social
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Curious about the world, and more specifically about communicable disease dynamics.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1726-8989
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
More of artist Helga Stentzel's fun clothesline creatures #WomensArt #Monday
Four images of clothes on a line which are positioned to resemble animals, an elephant, a zebra, a cow and a fox
February 16, 2026 at 6:03 AM
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tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk
#ResearchHighlight from Yewei Xie & Mo Yin @moru-mip.bsky.social

One health perspective of antibiotic resistance in enterobacterales from Southeast Asia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Read more 👉 www.ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi
Full publication 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 21, 2026 at 11:13 AM
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No excuse for killing animals while trying to photograph them. Any photographs obtained like that should be boycotted www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Magical’ galaxy frogs disappear after reports of photographers destroying their habitats
Researcher in Kerala rainforest sounds alarm after being told frogs had died after being handled by humans
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December 18, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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blueasterstudio.bsky.social
A red breasted nuthatch, four color screen print. Edition of 22. #ArtAdventCalendar 🐡🎨🪶
Illustrated screen print of a nuthatch perched in a tree trunk
December 16, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Powerful description of the importance of palliative care in settings where people too often assume palliative care can’t be delivered, and MSF’s role in delivering that care www.bmj.com/content/391/...
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December 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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tishamark.com
Day 12: #ArtAdventCalendar

It's also #scape day!

Tisha Mark ©2025, Low Autumn Evening, oil on gessobord, 8"x6"

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#art #painting #bsnm #TraditionalArt #SciArt
Original oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Low Autumn Evening" 8"x6" oil on Ampersand Gessobord (2025). Loosely painted abstract-leaning atmospheric seascape with earth tones on a dark shore. The sky has orange and gray tones with hints of blue.
December 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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physgal.bsky.social
I wish I had a better pic of this painting my Mum did of Lyme Regis. It's hanging in our living room. #ArtAdventCalendar
A framed painting of the sea front of Lyme Regis, UK with older buildings along a paved pathway by the beach, and a street light decorated with metal-work ammonites in honor of Mary Anning.
December 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Fractal balloon “Fibonacci” hovers over a mountain lake as its perfect symmetry is mirrored in the water below. #ArtAdventCalendar
Fractal printed balloon hovers over a mountainous lake with its reflection in the water below
December 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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drrjwarren.bsky.social
#ArtDD2025
'Not looking'

3 lovely stilts keeping their heads tucked under their wings.

For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 10

From a great 📷 by @theonetruekat.bsky.social with thanks.
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Watercolour of three wading birds, each one facing the viewer, standing on one leg only, with black heads and backs. Their heads are all turned round and tucked into their wings, so that only the left hand bird is still showing an eye.
December 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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eolai.bsky.social
A #painting from a series I did of a bay in the west of Ireland. "Bertraghboy Bay 5" came out of a day cycling in Connemara where I was on a high from the incessant beauty of it all as every bay and mountain came into view. #art #SpeirGhorm #ArtAdventCalendar
Landscape format mat board painted in loose very heavily textured acrylics creating broken effects all over. A blue bay comes in from the left. In the foreground is clumpy green grass with specks of blue, yellow, white and red, and black rocks. On far side of bay is a ridge of low hills, in pale olive and lilac with, low down, a cluster of turquoise trees holding a scattering of white cottages - little more than dots or tiny triangles of their gable ends. Nearer than them, on the right side an orange hill slopes down to lines of black and orange rocks in the water. Behind the hills are two pyramidal rounded peaked mountains in pale blue. Sky is paler blue with white blurry clouds. Signed top left in red, Liam Daly
December 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
markgpritchard.bsky.social
#ArtAdventCalendar day 10. Chinstrap penguins at Deception Island. #Antarctica #art #painting #penguin
Acrylic painting. Two chinstrap penguins looking away from each other. A bay and icy hills behind them
December 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar day 9. Bergen harbour at night. #art
Pastel drawing of Bergen harbour at night. The picture is filled with reflections from boats and buildings
December 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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markmakingmarks.bsky.social
#LandYeo #landscape #art #Scape #Graphite #drawing
This is a graphite drawing of a field with a telegraph line going through it, the pov is from the small bank of the river land yeo.
December 9, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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#LandYeo #landscape #art #Scape #Graphite #drawing
This is a graphite drawing of access to a river.
December 9, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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woolbotherer.bsky.social
A #Hoopoe today. #needlefelted over wire with a wax beak. I keep watching out for one #artAdventCalendar #orange #birdwatching
A Hoopoe made of felt
December 9, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Day 8, #artadventcalendar This is Pickering 1992, from a photo I took following a massive blizzard in December 1992. Sadly this view no longer exists due to everything being developed with subdivisions.
Pickering 1992, acrylic on canvas of my former home following a massive blizzard.
December 8, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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physgal.bsky.social
This is one of my favorite paintings by my Mum. It shows the Portland Bill lighthouse during stormy weather. #ArtAdventCalendar
A painting showing a hug wave crashing against the rocks at the base of the lighthouse at Portland Bill.
December 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Day 8 of #ArtAdventCalendar already! A redwing. I’m quite happy with the bird but less so with the background. #art #painting
Acrylic painting. A redwing bird on a branch. It has a holly berry in its beak and there are holly leaves and berries in the background
December 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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physgal.bsky.social
Another painting of Weymouth harbour by my Mum for Day 7 of #ArtAdventCalendar
A painting of Weymouth harbour showing some boats on the water and buildings behind them.
December 7, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Day 7 #ArtAdventCalendar: Gylen Castle on the island Kerrera. I’ve tried to paint this castle four times and never really been happy with it, but this is the best so far. #art #painting
Acrylic painting. A castle in the top left of the image above a cliff, with a beach in the foreground
December 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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brandeewine.bsky.social
Day 7 of #artadventcalendar
“Elephant”
Prismacolor pencils
Colored pencil drawing of an elephant head in profile.
December 7, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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raggamog.bsky.social
In Celtic folklore, the goddess Brigantia has the badger as her sacred animal totem. This connection highlights new life, wisdom, and the emergence of spring. The badger is an earth-dwelling creature that symbolises new life emerging from beneath the earth.
Art my own

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An original abstract artwork of a badger, created using watercolour paints on paper.
December 6, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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kathryngarner.co.uk
It's day 6 of #artadventcalendar and here's a yellow fever mosquito (Aedes aegypti).

From my blogpost about engineering mosquitoes to help limit the spread of dengue and other mosquito-borne illnesses 🐡

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Aedes aegypti mosquito drawn in blue biro against a pale pink and orange watercolour background - human flesh.
December 6, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Day 6 of #ArtAdventCalendar: a self-portrait. #art #drawing
Pencil drawing of me
December 6, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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gingerjill.bsky.social
#ArtAdventCalendar The only watercolour I've done this year was another surprise gift, this time for my sister in law. Her grandsons. It's a different challenge when you're painting for someone else.
Watercolour of the back view of 3 small boys looking over and through a 5 bar gate at a tractor in a field.
December 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM