We hold a copy in our Library collections, but our fabulous counterparts at @mobotgarden.bsky.social have digitised their copy and it is freely available via @biodivlibrary.bsky.social. ⬆️Use our bio link to explore this item on the Biodiversity Heritage Library. #NaturalHistoryMuseum #NatureInArt

Still Life with Five Objects, 1956 – an etching by Giorgio Morandi, who was born on this day – 20 July – in Bologna in 1890 🗃️

bsky.app/profile/jodi... Lotte Laserstein "Abend über Potsdam", 1930 In the dusk of the second world war and the holocaust. Eerily similar to the present.

George Grosz, The Agitator, 1928 www.stedelijk.nl/en/collectio...

The Boys on their 1947 visit to the UK.

"The myth of technological and political and social inevitability is a powerful tranquilizer of the conscience. Its service is to remove responsibility from the shoulders of everyone who truly believes in it." —Joseph Weizenbaum

Eva Schulze-Knabe (11.5.1907 - 15.7.1976) studierte in Leipzig und Dresden. Sie trat der Kunstgruppe Assoziation revolutionärer bildender Künstler (Asso) und der KPD bei. 1933 wurde sie kurz im KZ Hohnstein inhaftiert. 1942 wurde sie vom Volksgerichtshof zu lebenslanger Zuchthausstrafe verurteilt. 🧵

Amazing mobility in this low-Reynolds-number world - where do these worms get the energy to vibrate their bristles at such frequencies ?

Otto Nückel (1888 - 1955) 'Überfall' metalcut before 1931

In C19 on bank holidays like today villagers had a party at the dolmen angevin of La Frébouchère in Le Bernard (Vendée); the elderly sat inside drinking wine while younger ones danced on top of the 8x4m capstone. Card by Dando-Berry pre-1904. #TombTuesday.

Ce dimanche, on entendra à @labnf.bsky.social une œuvre inédite de Mozart, composée lors de son séjour à Paris en 1778 (cahier de 44 pages destiné à son élève MLP de Bonnières de Guînes). Des extraits du concert seront diffusés par @francemusique.fr le 22 juin matin.

Non-equilibrium to be taken seriously. Here, when discussing economics, one should learn to handle chaos and the unsuspected occasional crash. arxiv.org/abs/2607.09620

Frankfurt (1950) British Library Endangered Archives Programme

2/n His chair too small to contain him!

I'm thinking of sending one of these pictures to Astronomy Now magazine. 🔭 🧪

The historian and the computer: Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie tries out the first computer to be introduced to the catalogue room of the Bibliothèque nationale de France on the rue de Richelieu in February 1988 🗃️

Olympus BH-2 microscope (Japan, 1980) vizreef.tumblr.com/post/8216470...

2000 years old #gold ring with a bust figure holding a wine cup. The surrounding compartments were probably set with semi-precious stones. From Gandhara - an ancient Indo-Aryan civilization in present-day northwestern Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan. © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

Charlotte Jacob, Portrait drawing of Michael Gorlin (1909 - 1942(?)) from cover of 'Märchen und Städte' Berlin, 1930

Music as formative practise of a community : nachrichten.idw-online.de/2026/07/09/t... - transferable to musical traditions without religious or spiritual roots ?

Du bist ein influencer

Die Historikerinnen Christine Glauning (Dokumentationszentrum NS-Zwangsarbeit, Berlin-Schöneweide) und Katja Makhotina (Lehrstuhl für Geschichte Osteuropas, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) im Gespräch über das Gesellschaftsverbrechen NS-Zwangsarbeit. lernen-aus-der-geschichte.de/beitrag/gese...

Just learned that the great historian of The Russian Revolution Alexander Rabinowitch has passed away at the age of 91. I never met him, but his brilliant studies of the revolution in Petrograd have had a massive impact on my thinking since I first encountered them in high school.

For Silicon Valley and its tech-bros, language is information #LLM #GenAI For Lacanians, language is “a parasite, an instrument of jouissance.” #psychoanalyis We are not the same.

One of my favourite movie publicity stills of all time. THE COMEDY OF TERRORS (1963) Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Vincent Price, and Basil Rathbone

What is it that the cyclist transports? - a mirror, a platter with sandwiches, and who ordered it ?

“However exceptional it may feel, the heatwave hitting France fits the scenarios outlined in climate projections. For decades, researchers have repeated that human-caused climate change, mainly driven by fossil fuel use, has increased the frequency, intensity and duration of these extreme events.”

Avant-garde artist and costume/set designer Natalia Goncharova was born #OnThisDay in 1881. She designed this blue and gold silk and lamé painted costume for a squid for Serge Diaghilev's Ballet Russes in c. 1916. National Gallery Australia collection. #fashionhistory #costume

It's been two years since Peter Fouché, British combat medic and volunteer, has died defending Ukraine. Eternal memory and eternal glory to the Hero. Your sacrifice will never be forgotten. Peter saved over 200 lives of our Defenders.

The National Theatre, London r/brutalism

Sacharoff hat mit den Geschlechterrollen gespielt, Jawlensky war von der Androgynität des Tänzers fasziniert. Später versuchte der Maler, ganz auf individuelle Merkmale in seinen Gesichtern zu verzichten. Alexei Jawlensky, Abstract Head: Inner Vision-Rosy Light, 1926, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Yayoi Kusam's Infinity Mirrored Rooms #womensart #JapaneseArtistsWeek

Scientific American is 180 years old. The most eminent science magazine for the general public. And today, sold off as scrap to stop the staff from unionizing. Many top editors I've worked with for a decade on several articles have been fired. What a disgrace @sciam.bsky.social

Woman sitting on a wall, Dublin (ca. 1897-1904) Photo: J. J. Clarke / National Library of Ireland

Erich Büttner (1889 - 1936) Illustrations for 'Die Magd' by Arthur Silbergleit (1881 - 1943) Eigenbrödler Verlag, Berlin 1919 hand-coloured lithographies

Carlo Ginzburg est mort cette nuit. Son intelligence, sa virtuosité historienne, son inventivité, son regard sur le monde, les mots et les anomalies vont beaucoup nous manquer. Des loups garous aux Caffres, de la microstoria à Piero Della Francesca, son œuvre est immense.

Sea surface temperatures in a key monitoring region for El Niño continue already at record high levels for this time of year. This is due to the long-term warming of the tropics (human-caused climate change), as well as the growing +ENSO event. Data from NOAA OISSTv2.1: psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...

Hans Spiegel (1893 - 1966) 'Figurine' 1920 Source: hans-spiegel.de/bilder.html

MAKING TRACKS (1956)

Wilhelm Blutbacher (1888 - 1959) Self portrait oil on canvas 1928

Nice black squares in a precarious orientation - before Malevich's one publicdomainreview.org/essay/black-...

Helmut Muehle (1902 - 1991) 'Herbstblumen' oil on canvas undated

Adolph von Menzel (1815 - 1905) 'Eisenwalzwerk (Moderne Cyklopen)' oil on canvas 1872-1875 Source: recherche.smb.museum/detail/958605

Carl Blechen (1798 - 1840) 'Walzwerk bei Neustadt-Eberswalde' oil on woodplate ca. 1830 Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walzwer...

GROUNDWORK FOR PROGRESS (1958)

For Char, the rise of Nazi Germany was not just one more chapter in the history of human tyranny but a wholly new species of evil, a catastrophe that was poisoning the wells of being. -Mark Hutchinson, from his intorduction to René Char's <Hypnos>

Leo Hubert Braun (1891 - 1969) 'Grube Reserve Eschweiler (Bergwerk und Kokerei)' oil on canvas undated - before 1944 (?)

ACTU La Bibliothèque historique vous propose, à partir du 1er juin, une nouvelle exposition et un cycle de conférences autour de son fonds photographique "C'était Paris en 1970". Photographier la "Reconquête de Paris" - mercredi 10 juin - 19h www.paris.fr/evenements/p...

Immanuel Knayer (1896 - 1962) 'Arbeiter bei der Frühstückspause' oil on canvas 1925