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Napoléon, rends les œuvres ! La première grande restitution : épisode du podcast Pillage ! Quand l'art est dérobé AUDIO • Pillage ! Quand l'art est dérobé, épisode : Napoléon, rends les œuvres ! La première grande restitution. Une série inédite proposée par France Culture. Écoutez Le Cours de l'histoire, et déco...

Fascinating #frenchpodcast on how the musée Napoléon (aka Louvre) was filled with the looted art of Europe … and then had to give it back in1815. #Frhistory with Bénédicte Savoy. www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Short History Of... - The Louisiana Purchase - BBC Sounds In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson purchased 820,000 square miles of land from Napoleon.

In 1803 Napoleon sold off an enormous amount of land (mostly lived on by first peoples rather than by the French or Spanish), doubling the size of the USA. Counter-intuitively, this was partly because the French had just lost Haiti. Interesting podcast #FRhistory www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Rois de France - Aux origines du royaume : Saint Louis, le Très-Chrétien (1/2) Podcast Episode · Au fil de l'Histoire · 06/01/2026 · 30m

First of two #frenchpodcast on Saint Louis, who was not bad as kings of France go, apart from all that crusading. Handy histoire événementielle for those who get their Louis mixed up. #Frhistory podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

Plantagenets at War: A Fight for the Throne Podcast Episode · Gone Medieval · 30/01/2026 · 53m

When Henry VI comes to the throne of England at 9 months old, he is supposedly heir to the kingdom of France as well. What could possibly go wrong? A story of uncles behaving badly and the Parliament of Bats (ie wooden clubs). Sort of #FrHistory podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

Opening the Ottoman Archive You want to do granular research on the Ottoman Empire and its successor states, but don't read Ottoman Turkish. Do you throw up you hands or look for a new set of powerful tools?

Colin Greenstreet from @marinelives.bsky.social is working on a specific LLM for the Ottoman texts. I'm linking his article here: generativelives.substack.com/p/opening-th...

Emil Ruff Leads Team to Explore Dark Oxygen Through NASA Collaborative Award | Marine Biological Laboratory For more than a century, textbooks asserted that molecular oxygen (O2) on Earth is produced almost entirely by photosynthesis, through plants and microbes. But discoveries over the past decade have ov...

Meet "OxyMoRon" our 5-year NASA ICAR program to study dark oxygen production in Earth's hidden ecosystems. We have multiple positions and are happy about collabs.

Co-PIs:@valdeanda.bsky.social @microbiaki.bsky.social @valiergaly.bsky.social Ranjani Murali, Scott Wankel

www.mbl.edu/news/emil-ru...

New pod up, on #BBCSounds and everywhere else. @nataliehaynes.bsky.social and I take a vigorous trot over Andy Burnham, Suella Braverman, and Donald Trump in Davos, as we try and answer Trump’s question: Are you a stupid person? #StrongMessageHere

Well this is very exciting!!! Just received copies of the latest reprinting of Femina, released this year, and now the cover says INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER!!! Copies winging their way around the world soon!!!

Robert Macfarlane (@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social) Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc Nature, climate, people. Pr...

What a terrific interview with the great @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social on BBCR4 Today on his inspirational collaboration with @brittensinfonia.bsky.social & their shared reimagining of Holst’s The Planets suite. Longing to hear it!

Wanna see Jupiter in the sky tonight? It’s the bright “star” near the almost-full Moon. Both Jupiter & Earth are currently on the same side of the Sun, so we’re close to each other. Even so, due to light travel time, you see Jupiter only as it once was, 36 mins ago.

Fantastic, Andreas. Ist’s a nice target well captured 🧪🔭🤩

Two skate passing in the dark.

Between 200 and 145 million years ago, during the Jurassic period, these cartilaginous fish emerged — part of the class Chondrichthyes, which also includes sharks, stingrays, and chimaeras. ROV pilots filmed these at skate 432 meters during #ArgentinianDeepSeeps

Black Holes Eating Stellar Shedding Stars shed material as they shine, and today's authors think this may be enough to power X-ray emission from a massive black hole!

From Brandon Pries: Stars shed material as they shine, and today’s authors think this may be enough to power X-ray emission from a massive black hole! ⚛️🔭☄🧪
astrobites.org/2026/01/22/m...

Thanks to the dedicated and tireless work of our crew on board R/V Falkor (too) supporting a worldwide array of researchers and scientists — we’re working daily to boldly explore our unknown ocean, every day! #OceanExplorationDay Read more: www.linkedin.com/posts/schmid...

Long COVID👉 neurological, cardiovascular and immune dysfunction, needs recognition and care pathways.
@virusesimmunity.bsky.social @michaelpelusomd.bsky.social @daltmann.bsky.social @weselymd.bsky.social @nisreenalwan.bsky.social et al
@nature.com
Vol 11, 92, 2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Pooch going mad

I have no idea what any of this is in reference to .... and I'm glad 😊

This.. and we keep tracking, because looking away is not an option

What a US military base lost under Greenland’s ice sheet reveals about the island’s real strategic importance Listen to Paul Bierman, an expert on Greenland’s ice, talk to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the history of the island’s ice sheet.

Trump's got it all wrong.

❄️🧪💙📚
#scicomm
#climate
#science

theconversation.com/what-a-us-mi...

Fireball with ash

AstroBin's Image of the Day: "Fireball with ash" by Henry Xu
www.astrobin.com/vfzaw3/
#astrophotography

50p x 200 is £100
50p x 2000 is etc etc

In these lean days for many of us I would really like to access some of the, undoubtedly sterling articles I see. I would like to be able to pay 'per article', 'not' have to take out 'another' ongoing subscription. (Were I wealthy I would pay for a full sub but no, so, how about a pay per article?)

The didn't promote it because they Don't want to pay for it.

The McSweeney strategy was a total flop from the very beginning. All it has done is infuriate Labour voters (look at the polls), undermine what would always have been a difficult term in office & pretty much wrecked Starmer as PM & trashed his legacy as well. A disastrous strategy all round.

“This isn’t North Korea we’re talking about - this is state sponsored torture in THIS country - happening right now”

Looks like a cobra listening to a prawn god.

Pecksniff: Don’t mention the war! Media hush over both Russia and US In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life

NATO, MI6 and the British armed forces warn we are already effectively at war with Russia * No-one is shocked when Zahawi and Jenrick jump ship to Reform * Andy Burnham is tipped for a Commons return.

This and much more in Pecksniff's Diary ⤵️

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social

More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland.

They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

Fallen Feathers by me

Fallen Feathers goes back up to its regular price on Monday, so hurry up if you want to get your hands on a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ thriller

"Unputdownable"
"I loved this"
"Sensational"
"Superb"
"Great sequel"
"Brilliantly written"
- Amazon reviewers

£4.99 now (£7.99 from Monday)

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G2CDCMV8

A group of 13 #Avocets prior to dusk at S Devon's #PassageHouse on the Teign Estuary today. 3 fem/imm Goosanders and 10 Little Grebes were site high counts for me. A rare encounter in the field with @clennonvalley.bsky.social too 👍. #DevonBirds #UKBirding #birds