Anthony Dornan

@dornan.bsky.social

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🔬Deputy Lead - Cellular Analysis Facility - Shared Research Facilities MVLS, University of Glasgow. Fly Geneticist that liked Microscopy - now a Microscopist that likes Genetics. All views - generally - my own. (He/Him) 🇨🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ORCID: 0000-0002-5228-2893

US Dept of Education propaganda picture of a child in mask studying at home overlaid with headlines from 2020 outlining the steps taken to protect families from Covid through home schooling & vaccination measures.
A juvenile seagull admiring its own reflection in a building window.
Photo of the ridiculous positioning of the hand dryer in the men’s toilet in the Crown & Treaty pub, Uxbridge, which, if elected as an MP in Clacton (nowhere near Uxbridge) Count Binface promises to have moved.
Count Binface’s Clacton-upon-sea By-election manifesto “Make your vote count!”.
2D& 3D images of the Honeycomb synapse in the mouse spinal cord.
The Duke of Wellington statue in Royal Exchange Square Glasgow has swapped his iconic cone hat for a sombrero & Mexican flag with a matching sombrero for his horse Copenhagen - in honour of the England vs Mexico World Cup match.
Picture taped on student flat wall of ‘mind map’ for 4yr art school dissertation.
Stage set for the rotating space station interior in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: Space Odyssey.
Image of a roofline in the Algarve with a fake raptor that is meant to frighten birds & a real bird that just doesn’t care.
Short movie of Firefly bioluminescence on Wolfe Island Ontario.
Short movie of Fireflies bioluminescence on Wolfe Island Ontario.
Tattoo on my shoulder of a Scottish Lion Rampant with Canadian Maple Leaf in its heart.
Close up of a lab white board with some scientific hieroglyphics interspersed between doodles that will have relevance only to that lab. The overall effect is Basquiat-like art.
Russell Crowe in ‘ A Good year’
Teddy the Greyhound on a sofa covered in pillows that he had arranged to his own satisfaction.
Front of a suburban bungalow with porch arch covered by a flowering Clematis plant.
Close up of 6 stacked tubes of UHU Glue & acrylic paints.
US ICE Dept of Homeland Security Immigration Officer, in full tactical gear pointing a weapon at the camera - his face obscured by a death head mask.
A pool in a Riad in Marrakech in April after a massive unexpected hail/ice storm.
Donald Trump looks like a buffoon while he holds onto a ‘glowing orb’ with the King of Saudi Arabia & President of Egypt.
Daily Star tabloid cover featuring Trump’s AI post image of himself as Jesus with the Monty Python referential headline “ You’re not the Messiah you’re a very naughty boy “.
A Japanese Cherry tree planted on the main campus of the University of Glasgow in memory of Dr James & Prof Isabella Dornan.
Detail from the internal communication newsletter from the University of Glasgow announcing 1) it has suspended its X accounts and 2) it is relaunching its staff LGBTQ+ Network. Both initiatives that should be applauded.
Weird wearable sleeping bag for adults.
Stacked cut staves from whisky barrels for use as firewood.
Teddy_running in another park 2
Teddy_running in the snow 1
Teddy the rescue greyhound with his heart pillow.
The home page for the ‘TrumpKennedyCenter.org’.
Our living room with fire in the fireplace & Christmas tree with lights on as a my family watches the classic Christmas movie Die Hard. Yippee Kay yay motherf*cker!
Our home adorned with ‘icicle’ Christmas lights and with our silver birch with coloured and red cherry lights - Christmas 2026.
WSJ report that Billionaire tech bros Bezos & Musk are attempting to install AI data centres in space. I’m sure nothing to worry about there then - unless they call them ‘SkyNet’ or ‘Ultron’ or something…
Zeiss Blue cocktails at the hotel.
Scottish Flag flying at Zeiss Customer care centre Oberkochen.
A picture of Ed Kravitz in front of a blackboard teaching in the 60’s who, from his obituary in the Transmitter. Describing that, apart from being a Scientist of huge eminence, also was engaged in political debate & campaigned for social justice & other things he believed in.
Notification that Current Biology has followed me back on BlueSky.
The Women in Red scene from the movie The Matrix.
A robotic wine dispenser in the Magdalen College Oxford Senior Common Room for the College Fellows.