Brigitte Nerlich

@bnerlich.bsky.social

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Metaphor hunter, linguist, social scientist, blogger blog: https://makingsciencepublic.com/ also sorted into categories at https://wakelet.com/@bnerlich https://bnerlich-lang.github.io/ ORCID: 0000-0001-6617-7827

A windowsill full of flowers, trinkets, geodes etc and also show a partially down blind on outside of window
Curved stairwell at Museum of Liverpool
modernist curved glass and steel roof at Liege train station
Some fallow deer with white spots and some red deer bucks with velvety antlers lazing around in the shadow of a tree in the long grass
A red knitted cat with a white muzzzle and white paws, sitting upright with front legs/arms crossed over in front of its 'chest', giving the impression of saying: No, I am right and I stand my ground.
Black and white cat on office chair with head tucked in and tail draped over body
Moody sky filled with dark, illuminated clouds during sunset after a thunderstorm
May bug on a brochure after having been transported outside under a cup.
View from a café through a misted up window with middle part wiped clean onto St John's and St John's honey-coloured chapel
Hunting dog on tapestry looking straight at you
BBC news about cruiseship with hantavirus "British passengers flying home from virushit ship"
graph in the OED showing the frequency in use of the word enlightenment between 1750 and 2010 showing an increase in use in from about 1820 onwards
Shadow of an old fashioned 'gas' street lamp and wrought iron railing (in front of Senate House) projected onto the wall of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge
The image displays the flowering stage of a Chinese Windmill Palm (Trachycarpus fortunei). Big palm 'tree' with yellow strange fruit sprouting between the hairy stem and the green fronds
Little ceramic jug decorated with a stylised blue outline of a bird perched on a branch, with a head of white Viburnum fragrans flowers.
two water-colour painted brown rabbits, rather abstract, with white tails on some grass with some easter eggs - from behind showing their bums
Two photos of wooden colourful cut-out easter bunnies in Germany with proud little faces and proud ears
Four photos of vintage fairground attractions, a carousel with horses 'Gallopers', a chair-o-planes and a helter-skelter decorated with British bunting, a close-up a painted giraffe face and a little a vintage airplane kiddie ride with a round RAF marking
Purple tulips
tea towel with dodos
A mallard duck with green head, brown belly and orange feet, sitting on a little rock reflected in the water
A silver/rusty 1920s-1930s Wilmot Breeden Calormeter temperature gauge, originally mounted on a vintage car's radiator cap to monitor engine temperature, saying 'cool', 'normal', 'BOIL'.
Two posts one talking about late night work and coffee provided by colleagues in the morning the other about late night baby and hopefully coffee in the morning
Pink camellia flowers on green bush against blue sky
Two photos on the left a soaked few daffodils, on the right raindrops on snowdrops.....
Two rainy photos. On the left bare birch tree reflected in two puddles with roots of another crossing between them. On the right refection of a willow with drops creating ripples in the puddle
A moment in Senate House Passage, a historic cobblestone alleyway in the heart of Cambridge, England - rain glistening in morning sun, shining through Senate House and projecting windows onto wall opposite with a cyclist in the distance
Black and white cat with white whiskers and white eye-brow whiskers
four photos: icy lake with some blue patches left and two holes in the ice, swan and duck standing in some ice free water, a long crack in the ice over the lake with trees in foreground and background, robin on a branch sticking out of ice half in shadow half in morning sun with red breast showing
moon at sun rise through tree branches; sky pastel blues and pinks
Four photos taken in Wollaton Park, Nottingham, on a frosty morning, including a swan illuminated by the sun, two young stags, sun coming up through tall trres and a giant mole hill, one of many dotted around the park
The ways we see the world and the ways we act in the world are shaped by the stories we tell about the world. These stories, in turn, are organised around verbal and visual images. This has been happening since time immemorial, from spiral-shaped petroglyphs to spiral-shaped double helixes. Such stories and images help us understand and deal with abstract, intangible or, indeed, scientific, issues, especially when phenomena are too minute to be observed with the naked eye. They make the unfamiliar familiar, for good or for ill – a dilemma that we explore in this article.
The photo. One big one on the left, two smaller ones on the right. Big one of a tree silhouetted against the lake and the sky. Smaller one of lake with rotting tree trunk in the foreground; another of bare trees illuminated by icy sunshine with little island in the lake in the background.
Black and white cat curled up on an office chair.
Four photos taken on Jubilee Campus, Nottingham, one early morning sunshine on lake surrounding conical building with other square buildings reflected in the water; one of rushes and reeds in the sunshine, one of a little dam with water glinting golden and white birds sitting on top and conical building in background, one of a golden rounded building outline against blue sky with slashes of black vertical windows
Orange sunrise over rooftops and trees in black shadow with some silhouettes of birds
Student in dinosaur costume crossing Mathematical Bridge over river Cam, Queens College, photo taken from Silverstreet Bridge, last day of lectures
Black silhouette of roofs of King's College against setting sun and clear evening sky
A black bollard reflected in a puddle which also reflects part the the Sussex Street Welcome to Sussex Street xmas illuminations
View of St John's chapel through steamed-up window of coffee shop
Japanese maple bright red glowing in the sun in Wollaton Park on top of a red brick wall (HaHa, I think)
Christmas market in Nottingham against bright blue sky. One photo shows a part of the big wheel and the dome of the Council House; photo bottom left shows a little colourful carousel against red brick gothic house with copper turret; photo on the right shows a bit of wheel and a windmill shaped grill stand.
Blue-brown leaf with rain drops on green lawn with a little rust-coloured fir twig beside it
Sign in Lady Lever Art Gallery saying: Art has always been to me a stimulating influence; it has always taught me without upbraiding me; elevated me without humbling me; and appealed to me because of the fact that only the best and truest in art survives... Art can be to everyone an inspiration. It is within the reach of all of us...' Lever at the opening of the Lady Lever Art Gallery 16 December 1922
The image shows an open book displaying a detailed illustration of a flea. This is a famous engraving from Robert Hooke's groundbreaking 1665 book, Micrographia.
A biggish skull and two smallish ones hanging from a tree on twine blinking in the morning sun - in a residential street
Four photos of sunset illuminating from top left clockwise: chemistry building (rounded roof, red stripe windows), geospatial building (grey box with red and white striped windows), business hub (like a metallic wheel hub) and chemistry again (sun glinting on glass and wood)
Different coloured leaves in yellow/brown, yellow/green, red/yellow and green/red/yellow very spiky as well as some golden leaves in pond
Four photos of the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, one exterior honey coloured wall with bricked-in arches and lilac asters, two, the copula of the centre in sort of lattice wood, three, view of the Tower of the Winds in the distance with two rows of modern buildings and empty bicycle racks guiding the view to it a bit like a De Chirico abstract painting, four, modern cloister walk with ball shaped lights leading into theh distance
Four pictures of Oxford. One, garden and Christ Church tower, two, red leaf in bare tree against yellow stone of a college, three, Christ Church front in a puddle, four, woman shaking out her yellow umbrella
Multi-coloured trees in Wollaton Park
misty tree trunks with leaves in the foreground and one tree a bit like a helix
Black and white cat on a windowsill in a nonchalant sort of Marilyn Monroe pose
Black and white cat lying on grey-blue carpet on the shadow of a back of a chair with five slats
Medlar fruit in Oxford Botanical Garden - round split open at the bottom with sort of spikes surrounding the hole - orange brown against green leaves
Explanatory text above the Magna Carta copy in Lincoln Cathedral: "This was the first document to put into writing the principle that the king and how he governs was not above the law. It sought to prevent the king from exploiting his power, and placed limits of royal authority by establishing law as a power in itself."
3D printed snail gold sprayed