Adam Linson

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Black and white photograph of women of Nation of Islam, dressed in all white with white head coverings. Ethel Sharrieff in Chicago in the front. Photograph by Gordon Parks; 1963.

Black and white photograph of a large group of men, sanitation workers in Memphis in 1968, protesting with “I Am A Man” printed on their signs. Photograph by Ernest C. Withers.

Black and white photograph. “Black-owned Grocery Store, Sunday, Mileston, Mississippi, 1968.” Photograph by Doris A. Derby.

“First-of-Its-Kind Exhibition Explores Photography’s Role in the ‘Black Arts Movement’” petapixel.com/2025/11/30/f...

was hoping you'd post this one...have this on 10", vaguely recall picking it up at a live show of theirs, maybe in Westwood (?), likely heard about it on KXLU!

Cappuccino mignon a table with bike helmet and medieval church of the Holy Cross (Florence) in the background

#ArtandInequality will have a full morning at the National Library in Florence today 📚…but #cappuccino first ☕️
@artandinequality.bsky.social
#medievalsky

Panic! At the oven window! It's regarding the pumpkin pie filling height! Relative to the crust edge height! Oh wait it's levelled out now! Sorry for the false alarm it's my first go and it was convex for a minute and I'd never seen that happen before!

An installation view of a museum gallery shows a large-scale Guerilla Girls collage that features Ingres's "Grand Odalisque" wearing a gorilla mask.

“Art should look like the rest of our culture,” says Frida Kahlo of the Guerilla Girls. Otherwise, “it’s not really history of art, it’s a history of power.”

I have a look at the timely Guerilla Girls show the Getty for Art Insider for @kcrw.com:

email.kcrw.com/guerrilla-gi...

The call for applications for 2026 European Advanced School in Philosophy of Life Sciences is now open! Deadline 15 Jan 2026, theme will be “philosophy of biology for a healthy planet”, all info here: www.kli.ac.at/en/events/ev... graduate students &early postdocs, do consider joining us! #philsci

Tomas Schmit: Two New Ways to Draw a Circle In 1971, the artist Tomas Schmit was commissioned to design the cover for Instant Composers Pool 010, an experimental jazz album featuring performances by Han Bennink and Misha Mengelberg recorded liv...

In honor of Tomas Schmit's archives being digitalised (drawingmatter.org/tomas-schmit...) we decided to release ICP010 on Bandcamp this morning:

icporchestra.bandcamp.com/album/icp010...

sign in a Viennese venue: "RUHE"

Louis Auzoux's 1830 medical education mannequin, in ancient Antinous pose, 1.80m.

Montpellier. Louis Auzoux's 1830 medical education mannequin, 1.80m in ancient Antinous pose. Divides vertically: flayed display (r), moveable complete dissection (l), down to skeleton w 130 numbered pieces, 1700 detailed objects. more (🇫🇷): collections.umontpellier.fr/component/k2... (my 📷) #histSTM

Louis Auzoux's 1830 medical education mannequin, in ancient Antinous pose, 1.80m.

Montpellier. Louis Auzoux's 1830 medical education mannequin, 1.80m in ancient Antinous pose. Divides vertically: flayed display (r), moveable complete dissection (l), down to skeleton w 130 numbered pieces, 1700 detailed objects. more (🇫🇷): collections.umontpellier.fr/component/k2... (my 📷) #histSTM

YouTube video by PharcydeVEVO The Pharcyde - Drop (Official Music Video)

caught them live a few times, always epic, but once right after this was 🤯 when they faked backwards moves on stage

Behavioral data can be very detailed but are usually aggregated and normalized in ways that smother the dynamics. Ben wrote a continuous-time Markov model to improve on this, and also wrote simulations for exploring and validating pipelines. All the code is here: github.com/BenKawam/ASN...

Each dyad (a, b) moves through four discrete states over time, represented by coloured circles. The dyad remains in a given state for a certain duration, or "holding time", before transitioning to a new state according to state-specific transition probabilities, indicated by arrows showing all possible (non-zero) transitions. Paintings by Sofia M. Pereira & Judith von Nordheim.

New paper!

We propose a framework to empirically study animal social relationships by modelling social network (SN) data as time-series—that is, without the need to aggregate them over time.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Before Watson and Crick in 1953 Came Friedrich Miescher in 1869 Abstract. The story of genetics typically omits the original discovery of the molecular nature of DNA: Friedrich Miescher's 1869 discovery of the substance

Watson and Crick elucidated the structure of DNA. Stop saying that they discovered DNA! This was done by another guy you probably haven't heard of! And therein lies a story. academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

💯 (had to for game 3!)

Angeleno out here 'across the pond' 😵

t̶h̶e̶ ̶d̶i̶n̶n̶e̶r̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶n̶g̶ sleep
(time zone thing)

The UC Regents finally released the “settlement agreement” the Trump administration proposed in August. It’s a doozy.

UC alumni, faculty, staff, students, parents, donors—and all citizens of California:

Now is the time to let the UC Regents know you do not want them to sign this bad deal.

Leather-bound book with the date '1374' inscribed on the cover, secured with handmade knots

Look at this #knots & #bingins - lucky to be researching #pigs, #meat, #textiles and #devotionalobjects in this beautiful 14th century book for @artandinequality.bsky.social

and my #piggycities project on pigs husbandry and meat consumption in Medieval Tuscany #medievalsky

Luthier workshop with hanging violins, tools and supplies strewn about

Luthier workshop, Florence

🧑‍⚖️

I rest my case

closer of crucial presentation on co-production by Prof. Dame Til Wykes
#MHPSummit2025

anyone On Here gonna be there tomorrow?

especially looking forward to Prof. Dame Til Wykes, "From Subjects to Participants to Co-production"

www.mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/blog/mhp-res...

⚾ Snell vs. Luzardo was a sight to behold (even w my indefatigable Buckaroo Bonzai association... just me?).

Solid fundamentals + teamwork, both teams, start to finish. Rare stuff.

Screenprint that looks like a red box of Sunmaid raisins that is changed to show a skeleton dressed as the Sunmaid holding a basket of grapes in front of yellow sun. The box says: SUN MAD RAISINS, UNNATURALL GROWN WITH INSECTICIDES, MITICIDES, HERBICIDES, FUNGICIDES Museum text: Much of Hernandez's work is informed by the challenges of rural life, which she learned of firsthand through her parents' experiences working on farms. In this screenprint, the artist replaced the Sun-Maid Raisins mascot with a smiling "mad" skeleton. Hernandez hoped her print would "unmask the truth behind the wholesome figures of agribusiness" by suggesting the health dangers faced by agricultural workers exposed to pesticides. Though created slightly later than many works in this gallery, Hernandez's Sun Mad is part of a history of recognizable figures used to communicate revolutionary ideals during the 1960s and '70s.

Hernandez's parents worked on farms.

She hoped her print would "unmask the truth behind the wholesome figures of agribusiness" and show the health dangers faced by agricultural workers.

Sun Mad, 1982
Ester Hernández, b. 1944
Chicana and American with Mexican and Yaqui heritage

#SixtiesSurreal

A causal framework for the drivers of animal social network structure Author summary Behavioural ecologists ask mechanistic questions about behaviour—causal questions. When studying animal societies, these questions often concern the drivers of social network structure....

Are you studying animal sociality?

My (now published) first PhD chapter proposes a Bayesian + causal framework to infer the factors shaping the social relationships that animals form with one another.

journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

wild card announcers weren't bad, but they were doing this too... 🤷