Blimey. #TinyJoy

Chiffchaff in the garden going full-throttle now. #spring #TinyJoys

The original stabber-in-the-back.

#18thC #19thC

A day filled with poignant reflection as the permanent exhibition dedicated to the plaster casts of ancient Pompeians opened in #Pompeii. At last they are given context: where, when and how they were found, what they were found with, and details such as their sex and approximate age.

Spoilt for choice.

Toad denied his toadying.

Greetings from Kyiv Today, on International Women’s Day, I chose to honor them: mothers, wives and girlfriends of missing soldiers. I visited the exhibition “Status: Missing. My State: Waiting (Love You).” The exhibits were created by those who wait and love 💔 Stop the video on a story to read it

“Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.” ― Sappho #InternationalWomensDay ♀️

No, no, I won't play ball!

"In 1755, for example, Longman joined a consortium with five other publishers to produce and publish Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language." theconversation.com/netflix-and-...

The #18thC equivalent of those Instagram posts "today I saw my book being printed".

🔎 Rare 18th-century punches used to create the original Baskerville typeface have been digitised and released online. Designers, historians and the wider public now have the opportunity to study the physical tools that shaped modern typography. 🔗https://loom.ly/1ulLaFI

John Aubrey, born 400 years ago this month.

Hi all, today marks the end of my time as a postdoc for the Punch's Pocket Book Archive project. I'm not 100% sure what's next, big picture, but in the meantime here's a post I wrote last month about #19thC Crystal Palace dinosaurs, ht @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social for info 🦖🦕 ppbka.hypotheses.org/2803

This is the most AI thing that could possibly have happened. AI+. No notes.

What lies beneath...

Regardless of the White Paper’s merits, today may be a difficult day for SEN parents in your life. Please be nice to them. It is hard to see these conversations carried out mostly by politicians/media with zero idea of the agony, humiliation & expense involved in fighting for your child’s rights.

In case you thought making pancakes was a frivolous activity, here they inspired true art:

I tried to toss a pancake once, But found it quite impossible. Now, maybe I am just a dunce, But IS a pancake tossable?

“For this was on seynt Valentynes day...” Geoffrey Chaucer, Parlement of Fowles 1381-2 Codex Manesse, c.1304, Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg Cpg 848 #StValentinesDay

What did the Romans ever do for us? #546: the drain strainer.

Talent borrows, genius steals...

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. 20. Gustave Caillebotte - The Floor Scrapers, 1875, Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. 19. Franz Marc, The Foxes, 1913, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf.

Happy international women and girls in science day! 🧪🔭☄️👩🏻‍🔬 In today's edition, I'll be meeting students, writing grants and doing associate dean-y stuff. All while consuming caffeine from my @starxiv.bsky.social podcast mug 😍

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. 18. William Nicholson, London Types - Bluecoat Boy, 1898

Let’s clarify this. Steven Bannon takes Epstein‘s money to fund far right activities in Europe which Nigel Farage attends & benefits from but the UK media have decided that this isn’t worth mentioning or investigating.

*Checks weather forecast*

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. 17. Rex Whistler, Design for stage version of Pride & Prejudice, 1936

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. 16. Hans Holbein the Younger, Jane Seymour, 1536-7, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. 15. Manet, Asparagus, 1880, Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. 14. Renoir, La Première Sortie, 1876-1877, National Gallery, London.

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. 13. Thomas Rowlandson, Vauxhall Gardens, 1785

BBC Two Wales screened a new documentary about Gwen John last night, now on iPlayer. It features contributions from curator of our new exhibition Lucy Wood, as well as from my amazing paintings conservation colleague Rachel Beard and also a tiny bit from me! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. 12. George Stubbs, Whistlejacket, c.1762, National Gallery, London.

A new word enters the lexicon.

Artless crook-pated bum-bailey WLTM frothy motley-minded fustilarian. 😄

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. 11. George Clausen, Morning in November, 1922.

What an extraordinarily beautiful thing. And strange.

Maigret Jnr. on the case.

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. 10. Carl Larsson, The Kitchen, c. 1898, National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden.

Plus ça change.

Reposted without prejudice.

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. 9. Nicholas Hilliard, Self-portrait aged 30, 1577, Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. 8. Vermeer, The Guitar Player, Kenwood House, London.