A century before Nkrumah and Nyerere, were the writings of Samuel Johnson and Tiyo Soga. These pioneering African intellectuals transformed the numerous ethnicities of pre-colonial Africa into larger nations with a shared history, language, and culture. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-intell...

Quickest way for the UK to get US style medical and veterinary debt crisis. Not to mention the adverse health effects that come with it. news.gallup.com/poll/657041/... pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

BTW the EASIEST way to convince a pet-owner the NHS shouldn't be privatised is to ask them how much their last vet bill cost.

Time to post this rather incredible photo again. The largest volcano in the Solar System, Olympus Mons, with one of the Solar System's smallest moons, Phobos, crossing it. Photographed from Mars orbit. Credit: Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/Andrea Luck @andrealuck.bsky.social CC BY

a Quechua artist from 2026 wearing a pre Inca head piece this makes me so happy www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

🪶 If you need a breather, take a minute to listen to Common Loons (and a Barred Owl) call on a northern lake in late summer. (Bonus appearance by an alarmed sparrow of some sort?)

Hey Philly! Tomorrow morning at 10am at city hall, city councilmembers Rue Landau and Kendra Brooks are going to be kicking off their Ice Out legislation and need our support. This legislation will make it harder for ice to operate here. Meet at the Northeast Corner of City Hall to back them up.

Timeline cleans with snowflake-sized baby lagoon jellyfish. . 🎥 jelliesfarm www.instagram.com/jelliesfarm?...

Reminder Hoosier friends: Indiana libraries need yiur action NOW!

Last week no living person had seen a #kakapo lay an egg. Now you can watch it on our webcam: Rakiura laid her second today (15:01 on 25/1/2025). She'll probably lay another in 3 days' time. #conservation #kakapo2026 #birds www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/kak...

Excited to have collaborated with this team on this 🇬🇭 #dragonfly project led by Dr. Kofi Adu! #Pantala #wings #Raman analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Who gets to report the environmental crisis matters. In 2026, Mongabay is expanding the Y. Eva Tan Conservation Reporting Fellowship — our largest cohort yet. Paid, remote, for early-career journalists from tropical countries. Apply by Feb 1: buff.ly/sH4S0O2 Learn more: buff.ly/1Bp60qD

Newly-Released State Department Documents Pour Water on Kidnappings of Mahmoud Khalil, Rümeysa Öztürk The revelations come as DHS insists it will deport Khalil, and as one Columbia student still remains in detention, writes @premthakker.bsky.social. Read now: zeteo.com/p/newly-rele...

I think more of you should be getting your news from photographers. Here’s a thread. Most aren’t here. Sorry, you’ll have to branch out. Scott Olson, Getty.

Remember when these guys lied that they were preserving Confederate monuments because you had to leave up the whole messy contested historical record rather than erasing history?

I’m sorry but as someone who has a book and a PhD on this exact thing, this is just straight up not true. The majority of Nazis discovered living abroad (particularly in the US, Australia, and UK) faced almost no legal consequences beyond the occasional loss of citizenship.

one of the severe cases of barnacles on turtles . So satisfying watching good people remove these pest from on them

#OtD 24 Jan 1919 staff and patients barricaded themselves inside the Monaghan Lunatic Asylum in Ireland and declared a soviet (workers' council). They also made demands on pay and working hours, including equal pay for women. They won in February stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9650...

I was not previously aware of the existence of the Blue Eyed Black Lemur and I'm glad that is no longer the case.

"We need the historian and philosopher to give us with trenchant pen, the story of our forefathers, and let our soul & body, with phosphorescent light, brighten the chasm that separates us." ― Arturo Schomburg, born #tdih 1874 in Santurce, Puerto Rico Read⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ar...

1. H5N1 antibodies have been found in a dairy cow in the Netherlands. This is the first detection of the virus in dairy cattle outside of the US. This is a concerning signal. Link to article in next post.

Swietelsky RU 800 S track renewal train.

Colombian artist Doris Salcedo, installation, Istanbul Biennial, 2003, over 1600 chairs, urban art project #WomensArt

we're gonna make it after all

It’s the matching fleece and bucket hat for me personally youtu.be/PRYwbGgd3XQ?...

Black-crested Coquette at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica #birds #hummingbirds #nature

Meanwhile in Minneapolis... ...some very cold, very determined NYC rabbis experiencing Minnesota winter for the first time. Cold can't stop us from answering the call to support Minneapolitans demand ICE OUT OF MINNEAPOLIS!

I have now seen multiple groups who have taken it upon themselves/their social groups to re-create the historical signs that the federal gov't took down in Philly yesterday. The best way to get people to spread a message (especially in this anti-authority, fuck-you town), is to try to censor it.

Recent addition:

"Slavery was real" Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington. Presidents House, Philadelphia.

Philadelphia sues the Trump administration over the removal of museum exhibits referencing slavery.

T. rex is more closely related to this little dinosaur (a hummingbird) than T. rex is to Allosaurus. Also, a hummingbird's humerus is way smaller than it's eyeball. Go home, evolution, you're drunk! 🦖

Janitor's union started the call for Minneapolis after many of their members suffered under the ICE raids. This is how we build solidarity.

mobilize.us/s/mM0Pl1

Homes are in high demand, especially with Philly being a close-to-NYC city with Pennsylvania pricing! Office Towers are not in high demand anymore. Mixed use would probably be best and future proof the site. Commercial only zoning would be bad!

For every donation receipt posted as a reply here, I'll share a fun fact about marine biology!

It’s not so much that Trump & co don’t think slavery was important, they want to remove this history precisely *because* of how important it was. They don’t want people to learn about slavery because then people would understand how it continues to shape the landscape of inequality in America today.

In a meeting earlier this month, the North Carolina Board of Elections approved a plan that did not include an early voting site on several university campuses, reports NC Newsline.

The other week I went into a crowded cafe with my toddler (Takoma Bev Co for those who know the crowdedness), who is in a screaming-and-sprinting phase. As I struggled to corral him and order, a nice lady came up and said "hey -- I saved a table for you over there, with my hat and scarf on it."

This isn't just near Independence Hall. It's where Washington stayed while president, kept slaves, posted bounty ads for runaways, and rotated them back and forth to VA to evade PA's manumission law. This is what it's known for, this specific location's primary historical significance is slavery.

I sent this to my parents to be annoying

Jasmine Tobacco (Nicotiana alata) shot in June of 2020. #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #SidewalkFlowers

Answering earnestly: Make time for Joy! Joy is a powerful weapon. Some people will break down. Most won't. I keep pointing out that what cops do to Black folk is measurably 10x to 100x worse than what ICE does to immigrants. And yet, we are still here. "Strong Black woman!" is survivorship bias.

"Fuck it they all look alike to us" - @screenrant.bsky.social

For connoisseurs of utterly mental extensions on mundane houses (via reddit) www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

President Donald Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum ordered content at national parks that “inappropriately disparage” the U.S. to be reviewed and potentially removed.

Even the med student exam prep account is dunking on ICE