Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) her Spider never gets old. #LouiseBourgeois #contemporaryart

"Girl in a Red Kimono" by George Hendrik Breitner (1857–1923), featuring the original portraits of Geesje Kwak, one of Breitner’s most prominent models. In 1895, Geesje emigrated to South Africa, where she tragically died of tuberculosis just a few years later, at only 22 years of age. #breitner

Anne Frank and her sister Margot, Zandvoort beach, before the war, summer of 1937. #annefrank

The human brain, running on about 20 watts, is terrible at spotting what is and isn't real, it conserves energy using shortcuts, making us easy prey for lies, conspiracies, and tribalism. When those in power exploit this, they threaten democracy - and should be held accountable.

Society is judged by how it treats its most vulnerable.

An appeal to help preserve a unique archive of recorded scientific talks.

Is it me, or is it truly regrettable that we have to underline such basic self evident stuff? 1. The earth turns out not to be flat! 2. Climate change surprise: no hoax after all! 3. Evolution is non-fiction! 4. Vaccines work! Is it a failure of education or do we just need a little patience?

Can SOMEBODY please explain why my kids (even the 2yo) are going on and on and on about "67"? Pronounced "six sev-unnn". They cannot seem to explain what it is about - could it be about nothing, I wonder?

Got excited about something old. I missed a marble of a conversation between @robinince.bsky.social and @mrrickygervais.bsky.social from 2017 - even Richard Dawkins joins the table. Just stumbled upon this now. Thank you Robin, Ricky and Richard! www.youtube.com/watch?v=qixA...

George Hendrik Breitner 1897

Wreckers - Coast of Northumberland by William J M Turner A painting by William Turner, Wreckers, Coast of Northumberland, buff.ly/XrujWlm If you are interested in commissioning an oil painting on canvas of this art print, please send me an email at [email protected].

This spiffy bronze helmet was recovered off the coast of Sicily and dates to the First Punic War between Rome and Carthage. 🧪🏺

It is great to see Mackenzie Gerringer's taxonomic work, describing a fish we collected from 3800 meters, featured in the @nytimes.com. We tried to spin this story to combat the blobfish's "ugliest creature" reputation, to get people excited by deep-sea exploration, not turned away. 🧪🦑

Australia too! (And Sweden?). Again, #vaccines save lives. Many, many lives. 🧪

Utrecht city wall around 1770. Possibly by Isaac Lodewijk La Fargue (1726-1805).

John Baptist Malchair, Untitled, #artbots #tate https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1133131

Good morning! A reminder: all life on earth is one huge family. Looking at this tree never stops to amaze... 👇

Astronomers may have found a giant blob of dark matter, 10 million times the mass of the Sun, hidden right in front of us within the Milky Way. This is a very tentative detection, but if confirmed it could provide big clues about where & what dark matter is. 🧪🔭 www.science.org/content/arti...

Frederick Childe Hassam. Autumn Boulevard, Paris. 1897. Oils.

William Mulready, A Sea-Shore, #artbots #tate https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1111821

Familial confounding in the associations between maternal health and autism www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Had a super fun chat with Blindboy about brains, selves, creativity, autism, neuroplasticity and lots of other stuff… open.spotify.com/episode/7BfU...

Gustave Klimt - Birch Forest, 1903.

Another 75 minutes on the Horsehead and Flame Nebulae in Orion this morning. Captured by the Dwarf3 in EQ mode to get a wide landscape view. Cropped here to portrait view for phone users! #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social 1/2

Tree fossil evidence of Torbay's volcanic islands. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Anne Frank and her sister Margot, Zandvoort beach, before the war, summer of 1937. #annefrank

'Het zonnige hoekje': jonge vrouw in een kamer te Hindelopen #artbots #rijksmuseum https://botfrens.com/collections/216/contents/1004656

Along the Coast #artbots #rijksmuseum https://botfrens.com/collections/216/contents/1006168

How a Swedish folk song became one of Schubert's greatest hits 👇 #Schubert #Sweden #Sverige

Early car design gives a hint about the way our brains work! 👇 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsey_...

"Girl in a Red Kimono" by George Hendrik Breitner (1857–1923), featuring the original portraits of Geesje Kwak, one of Breitner’s most prominent models. In 1895, Geesje emigrated to South Africa, where she tragically died of tuberculosis just a few years later, at only 22 years of age. #breitner

Berndnaut Smilde's actual cloud (not Photoshopped). Here shown in 2012, in Hoorn, the Netherlands.

Little did I know. All living organisms radiate light. Nothing we can see, that light is about a thousand times weaker than our eyes can detect. But when the cells die... those biophotons disappear. ❤️ science Image: Salari et al., J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2025.

Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) her Spider never gets old. #LouiseBourgeois #contemporaryart

J.M.W. Turner (1775 - 1851) awesomeness 👌

Imagine sitting at a café in 1887. Robert Koehler (1850-1917) gives us this marvelous window in time. Is this a café in New York City? Has anybody ever figured out where this is?

Legend holds that King Henry I (1100–1135) decreed the yard to be "the distance from the tip of his nose to the end of his outstretched thumb." Imagine that single yard as a scale model of Earth’s timeline. The entirety of human existence would vanish with a single, gentle stroke of a nail file.

Self portrait of Rembrandt van Rijn, 1659 (cropped view). He is about 53 years old in this masterpiece.

❤️Statler and Waldorf of the avian world.

Brilliant performance by Michael Sheen of the famous poem by Dylan Thomas "Do not go gentle into that good night" 💪 Rage, rage against the dying of the light! youtu.be/w-sM-t1KI_Y?...

Street in the evening - Paul Gustave Fischer (1860-1934)

In recent months I tiptoe through my news apps, and carefully bypass the insane headlines to get to "other news". Just slipped and tumbled, got sucked into an orange buffet of outlandish infuriating governing overseas. Mood result: Serenity now!!!

The Harp Magic Shadows Series Ph by José Luis Funes

"If you’re not at the table, you’re probably on the menu" A phrase I hear often lately. Best interpreted as a gutless attitude for joining the wrong table.

Anne Frank. Before the war, at her father's office doorstep in Amsterdam.

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Good morning! A reminder: all life on earth is one huge family. Looking at this tree never stops to amaze... 👇

Tazacorte archway, La Palma.

Dali.