12/21/1922 — b. Cécile DeWitt-Morette, French physicist, mathematician, author. Significant contributor to the development of physics in the 2nd half of the 20th c.; noted work in mathematical physics, general relativity + Feynman path integrals #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #SciSky #MathSky #HistSci

A win! Thanks to everyone who spoke out. Following public backlash, Mike Lee backtracked on the National Parks proposal, which would have rescinded legislation protecting national parks and maintaining their boundaries as federal lands.

Celebrate your holidays like the old ones would. Hide inside your mossy haunted cottage in the forest, delve for secrets in arcane books, and blame goblins for your problems.

Ran away to the mountains for the weekend to celebrate the solstice with friends. 10/10 would recommend.

Did you ever read the first book in a series, and love it to pieces, but be afraid to buy/start the next one in case it wouldn't be as amazing? Well, I started 'The Retired Assassin's Guide to Orchid Hunting' by #NaomiKuttner and I am loving it!! Buy it, #booksky !

All I want for Xmas is one last 5⭐️ read… it’s been so long!!! 😭 #booksky #readersky

Two Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers taken to hospital www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Your personal forecast for this evening: Exhaustion, ennui, dubious online purchases, soft pants, a lack of cavorting, some regrets.

~ Christmas 2025 ~

Haven't been to the park since late November. Hopefully that will change this week.

Photobomb, prairie style

I left it a bit late to take pics of Mike's Christmas blow-ups. I was foolishly hoping for a little snow. Ohhh wellll!

Looking back to October

#LookAndSee 283 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky This is just for fun! No rules. I will post a pic often for your music association… 🎧 #LookAndSee (Day 283) 🎶 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Dh3...

'MINUTE: You wouldn't believe how long a minute can be.' - Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas, 1870s

Affordable last minute gift ideas! - mysterious jar of moss - invisible helmet - thrift store goblin bones - fox laughter - map of good burritos - curly fries & kindness

Ok random but serious question: I just ate a Reese's peanut butter cup. Have my taste buds changed, or are they more sugary now than they used to be? Less nutty, more sweet?

CBS news is the house that Walter Cronkite built. Shame on them. How dare they compromise the integrity of that legacy for the likes of this criminal President?

Happy Solstice, peeps. It's been a dark year. Looking forward to the increasing light. Going to try to be part of the illumination. Slàinte.

Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose

New painting #Koffiart37 #koffiimageworks #visdev #artist

Do you ever feel like the best Christmas present would be sleep? Uninterrupted sleep, with no distractions, no responsibilities, just your atoms floating through the vast echo of time and space?

My Natural History Museum book Ancient Sea Reptiles went to THIRD EDITION in 2025. So, what to expect... what's new? Come to Tetrapod Zoology to hear about news on tanysaurs, ichthyosaurs large and small, new mosasaur finds and more... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/12...

The next round in the dinosaur cognition wars is now out. We push back against the 'endothermic brain hypothesis' AND the 'cognitive arms race' hypothesis! anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Okay but hear me out: A book club, and everyone brings a cat.

Whaaat? The Sorrow of Bees is a finalist in the @nnlightsbookheaven.bsky.social 2025 Book Awards! They reviewed thousands of books, and mine is in the Romantasy category with just two other contenders. I'm so, so honored. 🤯😍🐝 Thank you! nnlightsbookheaven.substack.com/p/announcing...

Leaders of a Catholic church in Massachusetts kept a Nativity display with an anti-ICE message in place on Monday, defying an order from the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to remove it. The display shows Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus missing, replaced by a sign reading “ICE WAS HERE.” trib.al/adPW46y

12/17/1706 — b. Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician, physicist, author. Wrote scientific treatises + many works on philosophy+religion were published posthumously.Renowned for her translation+notes on IsaacNewton’s “Principia Mathematica” #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistSci #SciSky #MathSky

Sitting in the lovely, cozy Cohesive Coffee shop in Greenville while my kitty Furlough is undergoing his last radiation session for cancer. (It won't cure him but I hope will give us more time together. He's eating great and purry, so I say a prayer multiple times a day for comfort and time.)

Nancy Wilson on Hollywood Blvd in 1963 Photo by Ken Veeder

Me: I hope my guests don’t find any cat hair in their food My Cat: #Caturday

My wife handed me a clean towel and asked me to “put it in its place.” So, I looked at it and said, “Don’t forget that you’re only a towel,” and I was reminded yet again of just how lucky this woman was to be married to me.

Image of a red wing blackbird's song, visible via the bird's breath in cold air and early light Photographer Kathrin Swoboda

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin In her biography, Franklin envisions Jackson as “belonging to the great tradition of Hawthorne, Poe and James” & her invigorating portrait stands as the definitive biography of a generational avatar and an American literary genius #Booksky

I made my fat breakfast burrito and I smothered that glorious creation in hot sauce 😌

I just love the way snowy trees look 🤩 #nature #photography #winter

Family will be arriving here shortly so I’m off to the kitchen make something yummy. I’ll pop in later and let you know if I have 🎄tree lights on!

Christmas lights and friendly pups. This is Reno. Just met him walking around. I almost did a video but my puppy baby voice is eeesh.

If you love words, if you love time travel, if you love “atmospheric” anything, if you are burdened with a sense of humor…. 💙📚🖋️

A note re chocolate shortbread recipe. You’re going to be mixing this and thinking that nothing is happening, it took 6 minutes for it to turn into a ball today. You’ll want to use your deepest bowl because this is going to blow all over the place! I rolled it out, not patted. Read the ALT.

"Now is the time when my winter coat is at its fullest, yet my soul is still empty." ~ Henri, le Chat Noir Image of Henri, le Chat Noir by his guardian William Braden #Caturday

Treat yourself, those who love words!😻🫶🏻🎄

Think I'll set up my miniature Bedford Falls village today so I can play Late Stage Capitalism and crush that little Savings & Loan once and for all.

Very very nearly done on an incredible and exciting deep study of a Wealden animal we all know and love. News soon... Meanwhile, some Wealden books to consider :)

A typical surface in the office right now