New today from Reckoning X, our celebratory, extra-fancy tenth anniversary issue: "Camouflage", a painting by @rainjordan.com in which a dodo cosplays as a fan coral to fake out approaching colonizers reckoning.press/camouflage/

saw a cool image—sort of Moebius x Ragged Trousered Philanthropists—which turned out to be midjourney, on a blog that should have known better. Searched upstream to likely influences, then downstream to contemporary humans with similar influences, rediscovered @harriorrihar.bsky.social. So great.

Sara Cardona: "so many of the #preColumbian figures have gaping mouths and eyes—they are on shamanic journeys—and they give me the sensation that they are not just seeing an ancestral deity, but maybe…looking at us. So I…return them to the contemporary world" 1/2 www.revuecolle.com/issues/vol-2...

[opens fridge] [condiments, sauerkraut, four bags of shredded cheddar, two large jars of experimental homemade nonalcoholic whisky] [aloud] Our fridge is weird. I will eat leftovers. [opens freezer] [drawer overflowing with crochet nudibranchs]

This, from Ada Palmer as part of The Chronicle's survey of 11 scholars on the future of higher ed, is what I needed to end the week.

this is such good news. If anything happened to BHL it would change the course of waterwayscollective.org zine-making.

This showed up in my feed adjacent to the news that Meta is going to introduce versions of your feed that continue without you after you're dead. Same conjuration tradition.

There's an unrealised world of weird LLM variants, and then there's the form that big corps locked LLMs into within 5 min of creation. Katy Gero, LARB: "Artists of all stripes are allowed to play with technology. That’s our role: play with the world, test its limits, poke at the holes and problems."

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” Philip K. Dick

Not 1 but 2 evening #sciart events (w drinks) during #OSM26 in #Glasgow! * zine-making in the pub, Mon 23 Feb (link below) * opening for Constraint Made Visible (Transmission Gallery, 24 Feb)—collabs among local mathematicians, artists, crafters, and ocean modellers Pls help spread the word!

How much temperate rainforest could there be in the UK and Ireland, and where? Despite campaigns calling for restoration in both countries, these questions have been difficult to answer. In our new paper we assess the evidence base 🌏🧪🌐🌳🌲 1/9

a hundred thousand idling diesel cars. Energy requirement of a quarter million homes. For *one* data centre. aprs.scot/press-releas... Can we replace the word "hyperscale", which sounds like slick sci fi but is hiding horrors? "earthcrusher-scale"? "demon-summoning-scale"?

Ooh I like this one: Five classes I took at university * The End is Near! (actual title: apocalyptic traditions) * Chaos and Dynamical Systems * Introduction to Buddhist Art History * Quantum Mechanics * History of Jazz sort of eclectic but sort of all on a theme, in retrospect.

This makes me want to be a biochemist, or be Björk, or believe in gods, or I'm not sure. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn8A...

Ocean zine making in the pub during #OSM26! Please join waterwayscollective.org and the @mastscot.bsky.social Energyscapes Working Group for an evening of #zines and collage in a cosy #Glasgow pub, following day 1 of the 2026 Ocean Sciences Meeting. Sign-up link below, spread the word!

LivingMaps is hosting an online panel discussion with waterwayscollective.org on 3 Feb, where we will share some of the scientific visualisations, zines, and performance materials that have grown out of our #art-science field trips following #Scottish #salmon #rivers. Tickets below. Should be fun!

🧪🦤🌐 Why are North Sea sandeels getting smaller? New study finds prey community shifts, not warming, likely drive size declines. A growth model shows how prey, temperature, turbidity, and early-life timing interact under climate change. bit.ly/meps15010 @neilbanas.bsky.social @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk

Sharing another new painting included in my solo exhibition at LeMieux Galleries in New Orleans. In Our Veins is on view now through February 21st as well as online at lemieuxgalleries.com. "Void" Acrylic on canvas 12" x 12" #art #painting #surrealism #nature #wildlife #contemporaryart

yes @mobydickatsea.bsky.social-bot, I am in fact I am warming up for a weeklong meeting about the Atlantic Meridional Conveyor Belt, its moods and its long sufferings at our hands. Maybe all #leviathan literature is #AMOC literature.

My 'winter abstractions' embroidery series has just gone live! Snow and ice over water in various shades of blue and teal. There was a focus on shape for these aerial landscapes, both in the water and ice... it was great to explore! Now all here: victoriaroserichards.co.uk/collection/a... #art

@monicabyrne13.bsky.social 's novel _The Actual Star_ completely shook up how I think about radically transformed climate futures and resilience (in a good way!) and I bet this online course will be amazing.

"Breath…is repeatable and trainable, yet also unpredictable and resistant." This conversation about inspiration goes lots of unexpected places. Ultimately I think it's about finding comfort and rhythm in bodies and creative practices that are always a bit creakier and wheezier than one envisioned.

But none of us are in heaven yet.

This megathread of "craziest archive stories" from @appuhn.bsky.social is like actually existing #troikarpg*. Radioactive books on radioactivity; trout; castles; nuns with ladder opinions; maybe I should become an archivist? *(sci-fantasy farce of your choice, if you don't yet play #troikarpg)

“You want to have some bright people work through scenarios of how [AMOC collapse] could interact & cascade across society... we’re only just starting to, with minimal trust foundation kind of financial support, no public money... which is a bit odd.” - Prof. Tim Lenton @gsiexeter.bsky.social

"The Bath paper one morning announced the arrival of the Dowager Viscountess Dalrymple...; and all the comfort of No. — Camden Place was swept away for many days."

"At some point an important moment in singing: the Turoń faints, and then everyone tries to resuscitate it by massage, lighting hay as a kind of an incense, blowing wind under its tail, pouring vodka into the muzzle of effigy and undoing hexes" wikipedia.org/wiki/Turoń, via minouette.bsky.social

"I fell in love with the idea that the mysterious thing you look for your whole life will eventually eat you alive." - Laurie Anderson explaining her attraction to Moby-Dick

"People always ask, 'Who’s your ideal reader?' Mine is somebody who reads a few pages and then falls asleep and has a fantastic dream." —Eliot Weinberger www.theparisreview.org/interviews/8...

Tag yourself. I'm ventral turtle

#thanksfortyping, 1500s style. I'm enjoying @minouette.bsky.social's #artAdventCalendar and learning a bunch of science history I had totally missed!

"I like the way people bewilder me and I like the way the natural world gives me opportunities to express that bewilderment more or less coherently." brevity.wordpress.com/2025/12/03/e...

"Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely homework." ~ Joyce Carol Oates

I’m FABULOUS, says this polychaete (bristle worm) larva! #marineplankton 🦑

A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance. @MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury

The bobtail #squid is betting that survival rates when camouflaged as midmarket real estate will prove higher than when camouflaged as downwelling moonlight." Lovely, sly story by @leeconell.bsky.social in @ecotonemagazine.bsky.social. ecotonemagazine.org/fiction/non-...

Scotoplanes globosa. The #sea #pig. That is all. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2004126... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotopl...

“Zugunruhe: the term for the innate restlessness that birds feel which eventually spurs on migration” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zugunruhe

Ernst Haeckel (left) and his assistant Miclucho-Maclay (right) in 1866.

Really pleased to be a collaborator/data portal/cheerleader on this @iapetusdtp.bsky.social #PhD project, wistful that I don't get to chuck the rest of my commitments and do this PhD myself!

Very cool paper for all the #diatom nerds and primary productivity folks out there!

Happy #SeaSlugDay! Here are some of the #origami #nudibranchs that I have on display at the #Glasgow Art Club through 22 Nov. On the wall is the unfolded crease pattern for one of the designs I make on repeat (foreground of the other image, copper and tan). Working on new designs for sacoglossans!

Great PhD linking kittiwake tracking, energetics and changing oceans. Based @ukceh.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social collaborating with oceanographers at @unistrathclyde.bsky.social 🌊 Includes fieldwork, stats training and some very cool open-ended research questions. iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

The goat https://www.wikiart.org/en/mikalojus-ciurlionis/the-goat-1904

inspired (haunted?) by a recent post by anavaldi.bsky.social, here is the 📉 #UKRI award rate (%) by research council over the last decade. Data from www.ukri.org/publications... Unfortunately this dataset doesn't let you distinguish individual funding schemes from each other.

If you need some #origami #nudibranchs and tangled marine connectivities in your life, Waterways Collective and I have an exhibition at Glasgow Art Club through 22 Nov. It's an offshoot of a beautiful Wasps Studios group show--details at glasgowartclub.co.uk/.../23rd-oct...

Allan Grant, Fire Resistant House, 1949

Which whale species did I see? Leatherwood et al. (1982, p. 10) is hard to beat...

Don't we all initially mistake for potatoes the fine 12th Dynasty heads we dig up while, as part of the punishment exercise, digging up potatoes. One might say this mistaking _is_ the punishment exercise.