Springsteen dedicated “The Promised Land” to the “memory of slain Minneapolis woman Renee Good, decrying the ‘Gestapo tactics’ that he said have resulted in a climate where citizens can be ‘murdered for exercising your American right to protest.’” variety.com/2026/music/n...

A brilliant presentation on history of photography in astronomy, and the blurring of the analog / digital divide, by @carljoseph.bsky.social Winner of Langham prize at this years @aahpsss.bsky.social conference Highly recommend #hps #histsci #scicomm

AA Milne was born on this day in 1882. “Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.” 🌱🐋🧪#PhilSci #booksky

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

🖼️ A Winter's Evening by Canadian artist Cyril Cox

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

Physics Ph.D. student Yihao Zhou is using a NASA FINESST grant to create simulations that uncover how supermassive black holes form and collide. Her work will guide future gravitational wave discoveries and reshape our view of the cosmos. 🧪 ⚛️ #Astronomy #WomenInSTEM www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...

Deadline approaching!👇 #philsci

@nysfocus.bsky.social Hi I was wondering if you could repost this beautiful dog. Her name is Melia. She's looking for an adult only home. No dogs. 👇 www.facebook.com/reel/1451850... Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter (516) 785-5220 3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit Wantagh, NY 11793

Crossing Dandry Mire Viaduct. 5 January 2026. #railway #photography

the entire population of England in 1086 will return in... Avengers Domesday

For what it’s worth I don’t use a gmail account and won’t be randomly contacting new authors enthusing about their books and giving them dodgy links to click on. There’s a new wave of author impersonation going round apparently.

🚨 NHS England is rolling out Palantir software for our health records - handing huge power to a US firm with a track record in surveillance, military technology and human rights abuses. Email your local Trust and say NO to Palantir in the NHS: notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...

In today's AIP History Weekly Edition, Anna Doel spotlights two BJHS articles, by Matthias Heymann and Carolina Granado, covering the international balancing act of assembling the Global Atmospheric Research Program and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The common factor? Bert Bolin.

This is both genuinely nice to read, and also worrying because I feel like I half-arse this shit all the time because I'm only one person perpetually behind a (self-imposed) deadline. It'd be nice to imagine people with massive media organisations doing better, not worse, than one bloke.

You know what, just because. We had the BEST YEAR EVER, EVER in 2025. And we're all chuffed to bits at Bluemoose Books. We strive to find great stories that the mainstream deem too risky. From Hebden to Hollywood. Bloody Magic. @thebookseller.com www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

New on the Archive: Weatherall, James Owen and Wolfson, Jesse (2026) Correctness, Artificial Intelligence, and the Epistemic Value of Mathematical Proof. [Preprint] https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27923/

The latest issue of SF2Concatenation is out with reviews by yours truly of several books including: A Sword of Gold and Ruins by Anna Spark Smith (my top fave SFF book of 2025) The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow and The Collected Short Stories by Cixin Liu And more!!! www.concatenation.org

👀 In 1943- Knut Hamsun - a Norwegian Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1920 and a Nazi sympathizer - sent his #Nobel medal to Third-Reich propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels as a token of his admiration. uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

The latest issue of SF2Concatenation is out with reviews by yours truly of several books including: A Sword of Gold and Ruins by Anna Spark Smith (my top fave SFF book of 2025) The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow and The Collected Short Stories by Cixin Liu And more!!! www.concatenation.org

Approaching Settle Junction. 3 January 2026. #railway #phtography

Dancing as the world burns. Between my personal loss and the state of the world right now, it feels wrong to spend my time making art. I should be doing more somehow. But it also feels like the only thing I can do with all these feelings. Monoprint. Acrylic on paper. #figurativeart #printmaking

Hearing the sad news that Kenny Morris has passed away: he was with Siouxsie And The Banshees from 1977-79 and played on the first two albums. Rest in Peace.

ATTENTION BAJORAN WORKERS:

Happy 91st birthday to Robert Silverberg! Back in the exhibit hall of the 2005 Glasgow Worldcon, I snapped him at 70 as he paused by a display for the 1957 London Worldcon which featured him at 22. When I spotted that serendipitous moment, I ran across the room to capture that 48-year gap.

A new piece with the physicists Jonah Messinger and Florian Metzler – abstract in the ALT text. #philsci #sts #philtech

Good.

Since the dumbasses in Washington think Greenland is bigger than it really is, it seems appropriate to re-post this: xkcd.com/977/

Good morning. Ghost Mountain by @ronanhession.bsky.social is launched in France today. Translated by Charles Roux. Written in Dublin, published in Hebden Bridge and now travelling the globe. Art by Tom Climent. Magic. @thebookseller.com

Coming later this year: The Reality of Structure and The Structure of Reality ed by Fred Muller Springer, open access With contributions by the likes of Kerry McKenzie, James Ladyman, Laura Felline & myself, finally nailing down an answer to the question ‘wtf is structure?!’ #philsci

Patrons of the dark arts will undoubtedly enjoy “Demons in Glass,” the fantastic new poem by @writerjencrow.bsky.social. kaleidotrope.net/winter-2026/...

We hope to have the final Table of Contents finalized and announced in the next couple weeks, but for now, we sleep**🖤☠️ **kidding ofc, we don’t actually sleep ha ha oh christ-

It's officially poetry award nomination season. Things move fast and the biggest award in SpecPo, the Rhysling Award, is now accepting nominations from Science Fiction Poetry Association members. Radon is immensely proud of our poets and we want to help you find our poems that are eligible.

Remember when the Tories said privatisation meant efficiency? Bills up. Pipes bursting. Water gone. CEO on £400k salary + £104k bonus. Investment funds shareholders (70% in Canada and Australia) laughing all the way to the bank. Thatcherism is still poisoning Britain. #UKPolitics

New paper just published in Synthese: Instrumental Understanding link.springer.com/article/10.1... In this paper I start developing an account of pragmatic understanding fit for an epistemology of scientific instruments, drawing especially on Davis Baird's Thing Knowledge. #philsci #philsky

Sad to learn that fellow Tyndall correspondence editor Sir Roland Jackson (@rolandjackson.bsky.social), also Tyndall biographer and author of the recent Scientific Advice to the Nineteenth-Century British State, among MUCH else, has passed away. upittpress.org/authors/rola... #HPS #histsci

Edward Gorey’s fabulous cover art for a 1960 edition of H. G. Wells’ “The War Of The Worlds”, as used on a promo poster for the 2000 NYRB reprint of the edition.

Every hour is the witching hour. We are as potent at dawn or noon as we are at the suggested 3am. We flourish during the solar alchemy of twilight. We are creatures of the threshold. The turning of time is a powerful engine of magics. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

The length of the Palestine Action-linked remand prisoner's hunger strike has surpassed Irish republican Bobby Sands' hunger strike during his 1981 UK imprisonment

Me and @federicabocchi.bsky.social on paleoecology & how it might help us think about our relationship to nature & how it might help us think about the future… #philsci

It's a stressful day with trans sports bans at the Supreme Court, but we have counterprogramming in the form of a lovely story about trans people playing games with little painted figurines. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

EU official: the EU will not hesitate to [insert thing] *EU proceeds to hesitate on that thing for 5 years minimum*

Good morning and always a great start to the day when you spot The Hebden Heron. Marvelous.

UCU members are on strike today in 25 colleges across the UK. Their starting salaries are just above minimum wage and well below their equivalents in schools and 6th form colleges. This has to change. Let our members know you back them.

As we approach lunar new year, I wanted to talk about a gaming trend in East Asia, Jubensha, murder mysteries with deduction and role play. Its popularity led to immersive RP studios across China, which is why I was delighted to meet Suspense Studio at Dragonmeet. #game #rpg #ttrpg #asian

We're reserving a few copies of our book for local bookshops and some other places so there's only 30 or so copies of our book left to buy online. Reprints won't be exactly the same This is the only chance to have a genuine first edition. If you want one, order soon. www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

The govt has launched a new TikTok that shows videos of people being handcuffed, bundled into police cars and frogmarched into detention centres. Why? It's a cruel, desperate bid for attention from a government failing to actually improve people's lives www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...

Be careful of ghosts on the mountain. Wendy Nikel's "Whispers of Ascension" reminds us that there's worse out there than the wind: