And I was able to cut my lawn in January. Which is either an impressive gardening achievement, or a suggestion that there may be a bit of climate change going on? ⁦Prof. Christian Dunn⁩

The pannas/parsnip obsessed Owen, on Welsh Duolingo, appears to have been in a indie band…

Bizarrely, last month, I cut my lawn in January. Today, I cut my lawn in February. Fortunately, this has nothing to do with climate change… ⁦Prof. Christian Dunn⁩

I have sometimes complained that Welsh ⁦Duolingo⁩ makes me practice sentences that I’m very unlikely to use. Notably about pannas/parsnips. Today I offer another example of an unlikely sentence.

A few hours teaching neuroanatomy on our Year 1 ‘Brain and Mind’ module. The ⁦Bangor Psychology⁩ offer is that every student gets to hold a real human brain. The Human Tissue Act (quite rightly) means I can’t show that brain. But here’s what I sketched while teaching…

TONIGHT: Bestselling author, poet, and Emmy-winning producer @KwameAlexander is here!

Dear ⁦Duolingo⁩, you clearly have inside information not available to those of us who watch the news, or are aware of UK legislation on the duration of Parliament… Which cryptic insights are in the next module?

Cyhydnos hapus! Happy equinox! A nice Latin-Welsh moment, I think? Nos=nox=night. Hyd=length (as in ‘Yma o hyd’=here of long). And Cyf=equal=cyfartal. So, In Latin, Welsh and English… Happy ‘equal length night’!

🧠🧠🧠There is no substitute for the life-changing experience of holding a human brain in your own hands! For more information and to apply, please visit: visceralmind.bangor.ac.uk Oliver Turnbull Nils Muhlert

Finally made it back to the bottom of Africa. Idyllic whale-spotting territory… and the Southern Right Pub is definitely the right pub!

My ‘charismatic megafauna’ journey at the bottom of Africa continues. Today in Gansbaai (Goose bay), home of cage diving. Lunch at the impressively-entitled ‘Great White House’. A good stand-up comedian could get 10 minutes of laughter and pointed satire out of that title…

I’ve been working with ⁦Prof. Christian Dunn⁩ to collect wetlands material to analyse on my trip to the bottom of Africa. And the local golf course has impressive wetlands! But I discovered today that they also have these snake-themed signs at the edge of the rough…

For those worried about ⁦Prof. Christian Dunn⁩ saying that wetland snakes aren’t dangerous… this is not my swollen hand after a bite! It’s a prickly pear fruit. The fruit that the cheerful bear sings about in The Jungle Book. And (sorry Christian) I’m a long way from a wetland!

Yesterday I was able to collect the African leg of wetlands mud data for ⁦Prof. Christian Dunn⁩. He wanted me to locate it with the ‘what3words’ app. Instead, my phone logged it by taking a picture from outer space… Are these the geolocation data you needed, Christian?

33 years since we first discovered that Luria’s best known book, The Working Brain, was ‘missing’ a chapter on emotion. We found all the parts, and this week publish them, reunited in English after 50 years! Thank you #Cortex #neuropsychology

Amazing to see my friend Steven Spielberg at our annual conference. We haven’t met up for two years. And terrific to discover that he is a big fan of our little book! #NPSA #neuropsychology

As a new and enthusiastic speaker of Cymraeg, the Welsh language… can I please nominate Thomas Bach as the wittiest ever name of an Olympic official.

The first day of our ⁦@VisceralMind brain dissection summer school⁩. Afterwards, I took our students on a tour of ⁦Bangor University⁩ architecture and art collection. Another wonderful connection between art and (neuro)anatomy.