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Helen McAra @hedgerownibbler.bsky.social · 16h

Violet webcap (Cortinarius violaceus) growing under gorse today near the Devil’s Punchbowl in Surrey. An absolute stunner of a mushroom and nationally rare - it’s always good to see these beauties.
#ukfungi

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Giovanna Vitelli @giovannav.bsky.social · 1d

The juxtaposition of these two posts

Giovanna Vitelli @giovannav.bsky.social · 1d

I still find this hugely satisfying

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 5d

'The North Wing...built in 1732 to help run the hospital and raise money for it, but fell into decline as the hospital prioritised clinical areas.

Sharing Historic Barts project, external has prepared the building for a new life as a visitor attraction, cultural venue, and commercial events space.'

Hogarth masterpieces restored at Barts Hospital open to public

The restoration of the north wing has 'recaptured its beauty and dignity', the project teams says.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Giovanna Vitelli @giovannav.bsky.social · 4d

How could I not share this?
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 6d

'Five years after having their first child, mums' earnings drop by an average of £1,051 a month compared with their salary one year before having a child.

But let's put that one into the "too hard to deal with" box and instead propose ICE-style arrests of migrants to grab the headlines.

True cost of becoming a mum highlighted in new data on pay

New figures reveal mums in England see their earnings drop after having a first, second and third child.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 6d

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

Jeffrey J. Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social · 22d

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 14d

The Secretary of Defense tweeting this about <checks notes> the Wehrmacht seems like a very bad thing.

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Giovanna Vitelli @giovannav.bsky.social · 13d

Having a long term ‘vision’ of any substance may not appeal to people who have now been trained to focus on the immediate needs of their atomised selves.

Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 13d

This is great. Being a political scientist at the moment is a bit like being a climate scientist a few years back. You can see clearly catastrophe is coming, but most people seem blithely unaware of it

Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social · 13d

An outstanding interview. Patrick Iber of Dissent Magazine has interviewed the legendary Polish political scientist Adam Przeworski about de-democratisation in the USA, and what lessons he’s gleaned from Chile, Peru & beyond.

Iber’s questions are stellar. Przeworski’s answers, chillingly candid.

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 13d

This is great. Being a political scientist at the moment is a bit like being a climate scientist a few years back. You can see clearly catastrophe is coming, but most people seem blithely unaware of it

Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social · 13d

An outstanding interview. Patrick Iber of Dissent Magazine has interviewed the legendary Polish political scientist Adam Przeworski about de-democratisation in the USA, and what lessons he’s gleaned from Chile, Peru & beyond.

Iber’s questions are stellar. Przeworski’s answers, chillingly candid.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 13d

😂😂😂

Photo of an empty, muddy, old plastic bottle with a single handle. The bottle is lying on soil surrounded by stones of varying shapes and sizes. The side of the bottle with handle is uppermost. The mouth end of the container points towards bottom left of the picture.

There is text above the image of the plastic bottle which reads “Ancient skull found on archaeological dig is proof of our alien origins”. Having read the text, at first glance the plastic bottle looks similar to an alien skull. The body of the bottle looks like a long skull,the handle looks like a nose, and the indents with shadow either side of the handle look like eyes. An example of pareidolia!

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 13d

Another #Etruscan gem. This bust is a fragment of a statuette depicting the god Hermes (Turms) or the hero Perseus (Ferse), identified by the remains of wings emerging from either side of his head. Beautiful modeling, and quite a heavy jaw, with inlaid silver eyes. 🏺

150-50 BCE. #BritishMuseum
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Bronze bust of Hermes (Etruscan Turms) or Perseus (Etruscan Ferse), the eyes inlaid with silver. Identified by remains of wings emerging from either side of his head. He has a very pouty lower lip and a large softly rounded jaw. This head was seemingly once part of a large statuette, as you can see from the rough edges around the bottom of the neck, as if it were torn away from the larger sculpture.

Etruscan, Etruria, Italy, ca. 150-50 BCE. Bronze and silver.

Height: 10.16 cm (4 in.)

British Museum, London (1884,0604.60)

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 14d

"Jonah and the Whale", Folio Probably from a Jami al-Tavarikh (Compendium of Chronicles)

Persia, c. 1400

(Met Museum)

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 14d

This only happens to you once

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Pitt Rivers Museum @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social · 15d

Maori scholar, Makereti Papakura writing at her desk c.1910. The room is decorated with a mix of Maori & European mementoes whilst the rafters are painted with traditional kowhaiwhai patterns. Makereti will be awarded a posthumous degree in Oxford tomorrow, almost a century after she died in 1930.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 21d

this exists it is called thinking

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

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Giovanna Vitelli @giovannav.bsky.social · 21d

But this is what brings some joy to the day!

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 24d

'Offering prisoners university courses works for those who read and feel comfortable with writing. But philosophy can be done just by conversation, to include both those with high levels of education and those who have little. Anyone may participate; disagreement itself generates a toleration'.

Equalising effect of philosophy in prisons | Letters

Letter: Mary Margaret McCabe says philosophy can be done just by conversation, to include those with high levels of education and those who have little

www.theguardian.com

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Jack Garfinkel @curiousscutter.bsky.social · 25d

The quiet part of the question "how can we design for people not like 'us'?" is often "without testing with or hiring people not like 'us'"

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 25d

When I was in primary school our teacher introduced us to the concept of still life and told us we could draw anything that caught our attention, and I became fascinated by a latch and spent the whole afternoon meticulously depicting every aspect of it

Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social · 25d

I collect pictures of gate latches. The endless minute variations and human ingenuity appeal to me greatly, and the countless hands that have moved them. This one is between Near and Far Sawrey, Lake District and has a lovely combination of textures between the iron, wooden gate, and stone gatepost.

A photo of a gate with rusty brown metal gate latch.

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Giovanna Vitelli @giovannav.bsky.social · 25d

The Geniza archive!! You clearly need a break.

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Giovanna Vitelli @giovannav.bsky.social · 25d

I live in Scotland. Your sky is bliss.

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Matt Snee @mattsnee.bsky.social · 25d

"The Interaction Of Color," by Josef Albers. I can't recommend this book enough. It's mind-blowing. Albers was part of the Bauhaus school and dedicated his life to experimenting with color and sharing his findings. An amazing book. #art #artsky #painting #painter #blueskyart

Photo shows a paperback copy of Josef Albers' "Interaction of Color."

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Dept of Classics & Archaeology, Nottingham @uonclassarch.bsky.social · 29d

It’s great to see our #archaeology students learning #fieldwork and #excavation from the professionals @yorkarchaeology.bsky.social 🏺

York Archaeology @yorkarchaeology.bsky.social · 29d

At our Wollaton dig, we’ve uncovered barbed wire, shreds of clothing, and a possible boot heel plate that may link to the 1945 camp which housed German and Italian prisoners.

We’ve also recovered artefacts dating back to the Medieval period!

#Archaeology #Excavation #Wollaton

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