250 iconic Blake & Mortimer pages stolen from a Brussels vault, sold for millions, and still missing. A decade-long saga of art, greed, and mystery fascinates collectors worldwide. www.parismatch.com/culture/livr...

From the Nellie’s quiet deck, #JosephConrad lets the Thames unspool into an “interminable waterway,” a reminder that civilization is but a thin film on the vast deep. The river itself becomes a text: legible, ancient, uneasy. #HeartOfDarkness

Rereading Heart of Darkness never feels like returning to a novel, it feels like docking again at the edge of an ethical abyss. #JosephConrad opens not in Africa, but on the Thames, and that choice is everything as darkness begins at home.

Did you find your copy of Heart of Darkness? Grab it and read with us, we start tomorrow. Ch. I: Nov 17–22 Ch. II: Nov 24–29 Ch. III: Dec 1–6 #JosephConrad

Passive aggressiveness at Brussels airport… In case you didn’t know, now you know.

Did you find your copy of Heart of Darkness? Grab it and read with us, we start tomorrow. Ch. I: Nov 17–22 Ch. II: Nov 24–29 Ch. III: Dec 1–6 #JosephConrad

Looking forward to chairing the lecture by @waitmanwbeorn.com on Tuesday @theajruk.bsky.social conference.

If you’re browsing bookstores, look for Peter Kuper’s graphic adaptation of Heart of Darkness. A striking, ink-rich reimagining that captures Conrad’s fevered atmosphere with bold, expressionist clarity. #JosephConrad

What are you doing today? I’d suggest rewatching Apocalypse Now (1979, dir. Francis Ford Coppola). It’s closely tied to Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, a loose adaptation that shifts the story’s spirit from colonial Africa to the Vietnam War. #JosephConrad

After the Louvre heist and its “password-level” security, the jokes just write themselves. Two Belgians 🇧🇪 walked in with a rolled canvas and a Lego frame… and hung it in the Mona Lisa’s room. Hard to tell what’s more impressive: their nerve or the museum still trying to log into its own security.

Grab your copy of Heart of Darkness and read with us! We begin next Monday, Nov 17. Ch. I: Nov 17–22 Ch. II: Nov 24–29 Ch. III: Dec 1–6 Slow reading, shared journey, join in. #JosephConrad

Stopped for lunch in Reed City one day back in August and saw this gem of a post office. Can also warmly recommend Pompeii's Pizza: good food, great prices, and extremely friendly staff. pompeiis.restaurants-world.com

Belgian defence attaché, Brigadier general Bart Verbist, in Washington resigns after comments on Trump. The move follows an article for the Belgian Military Journal in which he described 🌮Trump’s policy as "characterised by chaos and unpredictability" 🤷 prez.ly/YF0d

Grab your copy of Heart of Darkness and read with us! We begin next Monday, Nov 17. Ch. I: Nov 17–22 Ch. II: Nov 24–29 Ch. III: Dec 1–6 Slow reading, shared journey, join in. #JosephConrad

We made it to Friday, but at what cost!

El calendario solidario de @fundacionfero.bsky.social en memoria de Cecilia Bufarrull: su creatividad sigue viva desde la investigación oncológica, su legado es creer que un día habrá cura para el cáncer que no la esperó. calendari2026.fero.org?fbclid=PAZnR...

Ten years later, Bataclan still sings of courage. Life, art, and freedom must always outlast hate.

Another pic of colleague Prof Earle Havens showing us a gigantic map inserted into the monumental Piranesi’s “Views of Rome” that appeared in the 18th century. What a privilege to have such a great colleague

Bataclan

In November 1915, the “emergency university” of Amersfoort closed — a Dutch university created for Belgian refugees during WO I. Its classes offered not just education, but also served a moral purpose and had to maintain a lasting bond with home. NL: bit.ly/49bm3OB FR: bit.ly/47TOgam

As a scientist, there are not many things more gratifying than to see my teams’ work directly involved in saving lives and @nanoporetech.com applied routinely in the clinic. Big thanks to all the great team from Schneider Children’s Medical Center. academic.oup.com/narcancer/ar...

Bataclan París 1865

L’ex-compagne de Salah Abdeslam mise en examen pour un projet d’attentat Maeva B. et deux autres personnes ont été mises en examen et incarcérées lundi soir pour association de malfaiteurs terroriste en vue de la préparation de crimes contre les personnes ➡️ https://l.leparisien.fr/qlvR

Booker Prize 2025 : le Britannico-Hongrois David Szalay remporte, avec « Flesh », le prestigieux prix littéraire

"Vast numbers of people are very interested in learning more about some of history’s most beautiful works of art, as any quick visit to the Met or the Uffizi Gallery will make abundantly clear." 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #filmsky #museum ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/identity-c...

Bataclan 50 Boulevard Voltaire Paris ca. 1900

Hunters in the Snow https://www.wikiart.org/en/pieter-bruegel-the-elder/hunters-in-the-snow-1565

Get this: Coffee suppressed atrial fibrillation! Unexpected results for recurrence from a randomized trial in participants after cardioversion from AF #AHA25 @jama.com jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Putting “Watson” on my mute words list 🙄

Today, Germany remembers the November pogroms of 1938. 87 years ago, Jews were targeted in a wave of orchestrated violence in Germany. Jewish shops and synagogues were destroyed. Many Jews were murdered. These acts of terror paved the way for the Holocaust. #NeverForget

Over the next few days, around 30,000 Jewish men were rounded up and imprisoned mainly in Dachau, Sachsenhausen & Buchenwald These imprisonments led to the ‘Kindertransport’ and to the Kitchener camp rescue, which began in February 1939, & which brought out around 4,000 men from the camps to the UK

❗️🇫🇷French fishermen from the coast of Brittany and volunteers from the organization Kernic Solidarités have shipped approximately 280 kilometers of used fishing nets (weighing several tons) to 🇺🇦Ukraine. These horsehair nets will be used to create anti-drone tunnels, which are stretched over roads.

If I started doing this it would sooner or later turn into an obsession, I often dream of being able to "collect" and archive the blue hues of the sky. Joan Miró, Photo: This Is the Color of My Dreams, 1925

This project is fascinating. Located in the state of Morelos, 🇲🇽 a region blessed with mild to warm temperatures year-round the Sanctuary of the Lord of Tula is a heritage worship site with over five centuries of history. It stands today as a reconstructive response to the earthquakes of 2017.

Studio visit at Mieke Geuëns in #Mechelen

To me, the field of A.I. is a branch of Philosophy, not Science. I would even call it “Applied Philosophy”.

"However terrible the war and its consequent famine in Sudan is today, it can still get much worse" From Alex de Waal, who knows Sudan better than anyone www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/r...

🧠 Neurofriends: Who is going to SfN this year? Would anyone like to help me run The Confound Hour on Tuesday night?

@thepaleusher.bsky.social @nemimeli.bsky.social Are you joining the Argentinians to read Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad? They’re starting on November 17!

We made it to Friday, but at what cost?!

We made it to Friday, but at what cost?!

Le milliardaire Michael Bloomberg investit 100 millions de dollars dans la lutte contre les émissions de méthane Lire ⤵️

❔| #TTP: Has Europe Given Up its Leadership on Climate Change? ➡️ COP30 takes place amidst increased pessimism about the world’s commitment to climate action. Beset by a host of other challenges, can Europe still maintain a leading role? carnegieendowment.org/europe/strat...

We are extending the alphabet of @nanoporetech.com by installing synthetic modifications in DNA. The goal: multi-omic profiling on the same long DNA molecule pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Wild West M. C. Escher 1920

Cometierra (Unburied) is out on Prime Video, a work of rare beauty and courage. I couldn’t be prouder of Mónica Herrera, my former student and its gifted screenwriter. www.primevideo.com/detail/Unbur...

Manus Deī

It’s worth noting that Belgian author Caroline Lamarche was among the four finalists for the 2025 Prix Goncourt with Le Bel Obscur. I suppose many of us are already thinking about which books to give 🎁🎄, and which to keep for ourselves this season.

Le documentaire "Blake et Mortimer. Le mystère du trésor disparu", relatant l'affaire des planches d'Edgar P. Jacobs volées, sera diffusé le 16 novembre sur France 2, dans l'émission "13 h 15 le dimanche". Communiqué de presse : www.francetvpro.fr/contenu-de-p... #BD @tintinologist.bsky.social

A bit of MCM. IRPA Brussels, 1955.