Happy birthday to Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594) renown Flemish cartographer. 🧪🐡⚒️ #histsci What made Mercator a great #cartographer, was in fact his abilities as a #mathematician -and like those of us scientists who feel compelled also to create art he was wasn’t hindered by his immense abilities 🧵

Pour le rappeler, les jeunes femmes sont en moyenne plus compétentes que les jeunes hommes dans les domaines numériques (pas que, mais là c'est le focus). Pour la journée du 8 mars, @statbel-fr.bsky.social réexplique cette évidence présente en Belgique comme généralement en Europe.

👩🏻 𝗪𝗶𝗸𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻. 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁! Around #InternationalWomensDay, heritage organizations are organizing Wikipedia writing sessions at 16 locations in Flanders. 📅 March 8, 9 & 10 Write & help make women more visible on Wikipedia. w.wiki/HYSv Cartoon: Iris Van Robays.

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My first language was Walloon, a critically endangered language from Belgium. And I’m 13th generation Canadian.

How to read this chart: the typical Belgian earns as much as the typical Californian but works about 24% less. Pretty smart move to calculate such data for the “bottom 95%” only. Worth exploring further. Source: sethackerman.substack.com

Daronne exhibant sa collection de tote bags, 1681, colorisé.

moved my data to the european servers of @eurosky.social really enjoying the account's new name 😀🇪🇺 the procedure is very well explained and easy to follow but you need to concentrate so better do it with a bit of quiet. thank you @bsky.app for making this possible! 💙🦋 www.eurosky.tech/register

📆 25 MARS 2026 | Collège Belgique : "Organiser la toponymie bruxelloise : des réformes du XIXe au réseau de la STIB" - Christophe Loir & Frédéric Dobruszkes : bit.ly/4r60Uui #Toponymie #bruxelles #STIB #rues #histoire #urbanisme #skystorians

you should really follow @bartgonnissen, the port of antwerp is just 🤯

Clara Peeters was a master of hiding in plain sight! If you look closely at the pewter lid of the jug behind the cheeses, you’ll spot her tiny reflection. A secret self-portrait tucked into her still life.  Clara Peeters, Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels, c. 1615

"With almost all media now online, high-quality AI translation is freely available. As a result, Flemish newspapers can now be read in Walloon villages where no printed Flemish paper has ever circulated – and vice versa." Many interesting thoughts in this piece by Philippe van Parijs...

Her: I’m starving, let’s go to Waffle House Me: Sure, just let me throw on my-

Oh la belle idée. Dommage que je n'aie plus 8 ans.

Is Jacques Dupuis (1914-1984) België's meest underrated architect?

5 galeries d’art incontournables à visiter à Bruxelles https://www.beauxarts.com/lifestyle/5-galeries-dart-incontournables-a-visiter-a-bruxelles/?xyz

Een nieuwe generatie gidsen loodst bezoekers langs de stille sporen van kolonialisme in Antwerpen. Op de fiets, tussen monumenten en in musea laat oprichtster en politicologe Sadjo Thiam zien hoe de stad zelf een archief kan zijn. buff.ly/qZCR0yP

when you don't ride an ebike in bxl 😇

Cher réseau, la Société royale d’Archéologie de Bruxelles a rejoint ce jour ce petit coin de ciel bleu !

#brussel #brussels #brusselsgovernment

Verlichte kerk van Molenbeek, gezien vanuit Onderwijscentrum #Brussel

Marie Louise Compernolle 1st #Flemish woman chemical engineer in #Belgium graduating Ghent University in 1932. She managed to get assistant jobs but was subjected to sexism from colleagues who didn't approve of women in workplace. d. #OTD 11 Feb 2005 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_L...

the tintin rocket 🥹

Relatedly: "Smell," one in a series of paintings depicting the five senses by 17th-century Flemish artist Michaelina Wautier

Enjoyed a delicious Ethiopian vegan sharing platter with friends at Toukoul in Brussels last night - all sorts of tasty elements, and delicately spiced. A Westmalle Tripel to accompany it, then a Tej honey wine for dessert

In 2024, seven European street artists worked with local communities to transform facades across Belgium into powerful works of art. These reflect visions of a sustainable, fair, innovative, and democratic Europe.

tiny house 🍼

brussels sunset 🩷🩵

600 days without a local government. Brussels is still standing, still singing. Jaune Toujours plays Ici Bruxelles for Respect Brussels. ✊🎶

At last an AI tool I can get behind “Upload an architectural render. Get back what it'll actually look like on a random Tuesday in November.” antirender.com

#brussels at night

In my wildest fantasies I'd summon up my two favorite Belgian comics artists of all time, André Franquin and Jean Roba, and then have a beer together at some Brussels bar afterwards. #kidlitart

I love how much Belgium celebrates its comics everywhere you go.

Une simple prise de sang au doigt permettrait, à l'avenir, de détecter la maladie d'Alzheimer avant la manifestation des premiers symptômes. C'est ce que montrent les recherches du projet PREDICTOM, auquel contribuent l'UZ Bruxelles et la VUB. press.vub.ac.be/une-simple-p...

One of the conclusions from yesterday and today’s sightseeing: do not walk round a Belgian city center with kids. They will stop at all of the (many, many) chocolate shops.

According to Heroes for Zero, since 2017, eight people have died after being hit by police vehicles in Brussels.

what a lovely sight on such a grey day 🥰

Cool 14th c. wooden chest built to hold the charters of the city of Antwerp. It has various locks and key were held by different magistrates at the same time. The chest is still being held at the city hall of Antwerp. Photo: kabinet v/d burgemeester.

📸lukdc #antwerpen #linkeroever #thisisantwerp #zonsopgang #skylineantwerpen #nofilter

Koffietje in Predikheren bibliotheek #2800love #Vlaanderen #Mechelen #bibliotheek #library #coffee #Belgium #koffie #belgie #architecture #Malines #photography

Last Friday we had a great experience driving an autonomous shuttle in the city of Leuven in Flanders, Belgium. Not another pilot or project but regular public transport for all citizens. In this case not replacing normal buses but offering services that didn't exist before.

Illustration pour le calendrier du « Journal Tintin » belge n.º 50 (11 décembre 1957), et français n.° 480 (2 janvier 1958).

Verified accounts uit België, het zijn er ondertussen een 50-tal. Veel media-accounts en ook een heleboel politici. Neem zelf eens een kijkje : go.bsky.app/Fc8PPs8

seeing more and more european activities, this one is supported by a dutch ngo.

#Brussels 🧡 by night ...

Antonina Grégoire #Belgian business engineer, feminist, communist. #WWII ran intelligence gathering section for Belgian Partisans Armés resistance. Post war politician before being expelled from Communist Party because of "bourgeois origins". b. #OTD 23 Jan 1914 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonin...

Een wandeling langs Nutteloze Borden in Genk (B), leuke manier om de stad te verkennen met Belgische humor.

Started reading King Leopold’s Ghost yesterday and paused at this. Remarkable how certain evils and temptations arise again though differently across history.

Zoek mee in jouw stamboom naar #patrijskinderen: voorhuwelijkse kinderen die later ‘gewettigd’ werden door een ‘vader op papier’. Was hij ook de biologische vader? Met citizen science combineren we archiefonderzoek + DNA (KU Leuven). Meedoen kan t.e.m. 30/06/2026 👉 depatrijzen.be 🔍🧬