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Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social · 18h

Term has started and a quiet has settled on the library and the river. Don't forget to take a break and look out of the window. It's too beautiful to miss.

#worldmentalhealthday

The Bridge of Sighs with blue sky and autumnal trees reflected in the river.

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 18h

NEW: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize.

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Martin Kusch @martinkusch.bsky.social · 18h

Classical Vienna. -- Window at 22 Schoenbrunner Schlossallee. #Vienna #photography #photographyOnBlueSky #Austria

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 20h

Vital research that could help avoid the loss of SO much red wine. Wildfires create a lot of smoke that can taint wine grapes- during the process of fermentation this taunt intensifies giving wine a smoky ashy bitter taint making it unusable 🧪🧵

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 20h

It's always #WorldAnimalDay with our collection! Do you have a favourite in the Ashmolean?

Scroll ➡️ to see just a few of them.

🐸 Frog purse, 1601–1700. Silk, 8 x 6 2 cm. WA1947.191.324
🕷️ Ojime in the form of a spider on a chestnut, 1871–1900. Sentoku, 1.7 x 1.6 x 1 cm. EA1956.3754

A small object in the shape of a metal spider on top of a wooden chestnut

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Hennie Valkenier @hennievalkenier.bsky.social · 1d

The 27th Solvay Conference on Chemistry has just been opened by Prof. Ben Feringa (2016 Nobel prize laureate), and this mornings session will be chaired by Prof. Omar Yaghi, who was awarded the Nobel prize yesterday! 🎉 What a privilege to have the Solvay Institutes in Brussels 😃 #chemsky

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 22h

La Belle Strasbourgeoise, 1703, chef-d’oeuvre by French artist Nicolas Largillière, born #OTD 1656; trained in Antwerp, worked at English & French courts, completed family portraits for James II & Louis XIV.
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 22h

”Au clair de la lune,
Mon ami Pierrot…”
Pierrot (Gilles), 1718, poignant, influential portrayal of Commedia dell’Arte clown by Antoine Watteau, French artist, pupil of Gillot, heralded Rococo style, drew on outdoor theatre & music to define genre of fête galante; baptised #OTD 1684.
Musée du Louvre

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Dr Sue Oosthuizen @drsueoosthuizen.bsky.social · 1d

'Thor's stone' rising above Thurstaton [=Thorstein+tūn] Heath (Wirral), the latter used for common grazing since time began. The stone’s encircled by a broken ring of peaty ponds, the result of quarrying - but I can't help thinking of other monuments where the juxtaposition was deliberate

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Catriona Seth @catrionaseth.bsky.social · 1d

This was really fun (see also @thetimes.com)... looking for the real Marie-Antoinette! humanities.web.ox.ac.uk/article/rese...

Research finds 'defining' childhood portrait of Marie Antoinette is really her sister

humanities.web.ox.ac.uk

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 1d

Today I arrived on the red eye to London Heathrow, took the Tube to my hotel, dropped my bags, hopped on a Lime Bike to cross town, recorded a podcast with New Scientist, then walked an hour (through Hyde Park) back to my hotel. This city is wonderful and I am so tired.

See you tomorrow, London! 😴

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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 1d

The most Socialist Realist-looking building in Oxford.

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Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social · 1d

"After all, what would be the value of the passion for knowledge if it resulted only in a certain amount of knowledgeableness and not [...] in the knower's straying afield of himself?"

Part of the oration by Gilles Deleuze at the funeral of his friend Michel Foucault, 1984

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Malcolm Quinn @malrog.bsky.social · 1d

At Chelsea Space for the pv of Morgan Quaintance ‘Available Light’

A glass fronted gallery at dusk, people and artworks are visible from the road.

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Christian Eymery @christianeymery.bsky.social · 2d

Aujourd’hui, Robert #Badinter entre au #Panthéon, 44 ans après l’entrée en vigueur de loi sur l’abolition de la peine de mort dont il fut l’auteur. Contre une opinion publique largement pour son maintien.
Le progrès souvent dépend d’une seule personne courageuse et déterminée.

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 2d

On the way from my office to the station today

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Christian Cooijmans @ccooijmans.bsky.social · 1d

Very happy to finally see this in the flesh today: the remains of an early tenth-century calendar from Landévennec, Brittany, whose entry for the year 913 contains an annotation that the local coastal monastery of Winwaloe was attacked by vikings during that year.

Copenhagen, KB Thott 239 2°, f.10r

A medieval manuscript page from the tenth century, on vellum. Text in black ink and red rubrication using Carolingian miniscule.

A marginal annotation on a manuscript, containing the (abbreviated) Latin sentence: 'Eodem anno destructum est monasterium sancti winualoei a normannis' (translation: 'In the same year, the monastery of saint Winwaloe was destroyed by Northmen').

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 1d

The anatomy lesson: painted by Rembrandt in 1632, depicting annual dissection at Amsterdam Guild of Surgeons, conducted by celebrated City Anatomist & later Mayor of Amsterdam, Dr Nicolaes Tulp, born #OTD 1593.
Mauritshuis, den Haag

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Christopher Hilton @chilton-bb.bsky.social · 4d

Cracking visit to Abbotsford today (memo to self, read more Walter Scott). Of course, elements of a busman's holiday in visiting another member of the Lit Houses group: you spend a lot of time reading about cataloguing projects and spotting the environmental monitoring kit. Recommended, anyway!

A turretted, Scottish-baronial style country house seen slightly from below. A Scottish flag flies from the left turret.

A 19th century stately home library, with a cast iron balcony running round the room a little over head height. A large tiled entrance hall is visible through a door, where two people stand talking.

A display board, headed (in italic handwriting-style type): "The Cataloghuing Conundrum". Below, three paragraphs begin "For archives to be usable and accessible, they must first be accessible. Our new cataloguing project will lead to the creation of a searchable database of the Scott family papers for the very first time."

19th century leather-bound books behind mesh in a bookcase. A white light meter, looking like an old-fashioned mobile phone, sits in front of the mesh.

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Tim Riley @timriley.bsky.social · 3d

Southbank.

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TMBtrain @hmcclaff.bsky.social · 3d

#thicktrunktuesday this tree guards the entrance to a bridge over the railway at Culloden Wood.

A large tree with a forked trunk stands at the entrance to a footbridge which is only visible to the viewer as 2 curved walls. To cross the bridge the tree must be stepped around. There is a large boulder at it's base. The tree is mostly in shade while the background is in full sunshine.

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Peter Clayton @petermclayton.bsky.social · 3d

Grey Heron #birds

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 3d

Jacob Sheep - River #GreatOuse.

#DownhamMarket #Norfolk
#FenEdge #TheFens

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 2d

The Uffizi Madonna, c 1465, tempera on wood, Renaissance masterpiece by Fra Filippo Lippi, Florentine artist, teacher of Botticelli, patronised by Cosimo de’ Medici, died #OTD 1469; the tender intimacy & purity of Madonna & child, with rugged landscape of rocks & sea beyond.
Gallerie degli Uffizi

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Gillian Darley @gmdarksky.bsky.social · 3d

Glorious Titian panel at the Scoletto (little Scuola) at San Antonio Padua. Look carefully. It is sublime.

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