Emily Wood

Learning Latin the Renaissance Way

My colleagues at the Warburg Institute are organising some brilliant courses around languages in the Renaissance that I am very excited about:

Learning Latin the Renaissance Way, by Nathaniel Hess

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A vertically narrow rectangular collage of a group of narcissus against a dark background. There are four blooms presented from the front and two, barely visible toward the back, from the side. in the lower right are the artist's initials in red. In the lower left is a handwritten label in dark ink within a rectangle of white.

Narcissus, 1776, by #MaryDelany (English, 1700-1788). Held at The @britishmuseum.bsky.social, www.britishmuseum.org/collection/i... #womenartists #artherstory #NarcissusDay #hernaturalhistory

FBI relocation forcing National Children's Museum out of the Reagan Building - Washington Business Journal It's official: With the FBI taking over the Reagan Building, the National Children's Museum will be forced out.

Late to this D.C. news that is very relevant to my household. My opinion is the Hoover Building should become the new Children's Museum ... Brutalist indoor playground! www.bizjournals.com/washington/n...

Watercolour and Indian ink drawing of Pembroke College, Cambridge. You can see it was done in situ because the people dashed in as they walk by are transparent. I always consider it a challenge when drawing this chapel to fit the weather vane in without cutting it off at the top.

Watercolour and Indian ink street sketch of #PembrokeCollege, Cambridge. I seem to have done a lot of paintings and drawings of this beautiful college. Many are sold. I've put a collection of them in a Flickr album here: www.flickr.com/photos/baker...

Laurie's Element *Music at a Florentine Convent* is finally available to read Open Access until at least March 17! So grab a copy of our album *Ricordanze* and settle in for a tale of plague, war, privation and the not-so-quiet lives of nuns in the Tuscan hills. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

I also don’t want more Firefly, but if they bring it back, they’re going to have to ignore what happened in Serenity, right? Like, just pretend that movie never existed?

Time once again to share the little lesson from my Local Media class (drawing on the work of myriad other scholars!) about how this happened — and why it doesn’t have to be like this. The post office could + should be a vital institution for public connection — from postal mail to internet access

These are Chicago’s most endangered buildings in 2026:
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Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

White House ballroom vote delayed amid deluge of angry public comments Over 100 people have registered to speak and more than 35,000 written comments have been sent in, the vast majority of which are negative.

Symbols matter.

[Exit Murderer.]

Board Delays Vote on Trump’s Ballroom Amid Deluge of Public Criticism

~32,000 comments
> 98% of them negative

Many things are bad, but it is reassuring to know that Chotinings continue to happen.

Moving petroglyphs and bulldozing roads to Native America sites.

Groundbreaking collaboration: New Five College museums website unlocks access to more than 100,000 objects online - Daily Hampshire Gazette NORTHAMPTON — More than 100,000 objects in the shared collections of the five college campus art museums in Northampton, Amherst and South Hadley, and at Historic Deerfield, are accessible to the publ...

Check it out: museums.fivecolleges.edu

A painting of a bird beside the text "wait, you think people like this shit?"

Business card with the text: Know your rights! Interacting with Isaac Chotiner? - "Am I being profiled?" - "I exercise my right to be silent" - Refuse to sign any statements. - Do not offer express invitation to investigate further.

Every American should have this in their wallet:

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump:

"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

A photo of the Taiwan, Netherlands, Venezuela and Mexico flags hanging in the Red Sox clubhouse, representing some of the team's World Baseball Classic representatives.

Repping our World Baseball Classic participants in the clubhouse! 🌎

Does Your Country Need Regime Change? A Quiz “In announcing the U.S. military strike on Iran, President Donald Trump went significantly beyond his previous justification of destroying the coun...

Is your country ruled by an aging megalomaniac whose supporters worship him with an almost cult-like zeal?

Has your leader eroded trust in elections by attempting to bring them under his direct control and/or stoking false claims of voter fraud?

Artemisia Gold launches internationally | The Florentine A new international chapter for the nonprofit championing lost artistic legacies.

Artemisia Gold focuses on research and restoration of works by women and seems to stepping up to fill the gap left by the closure of Advancing Women Artists after the death of Jane Fortune

#OTD in 1933, Frances Perkins became the first woman in a U.S. president’s Cabinet. Her leadership helped create the New Deal and Social Security, leaving a lasting impact on workers' rights and economic justice. #TheMarchContinues

Any interest in hamantaschen? Palmiers?

this is my Roman Empire

I'll always be obsessed with this edit made by @tommchenry.bsky.social

Plan to Close DePaul Art Museum Faces Community Backlash Over 2,000 faculty and students have called on the Chicago school to reverse its decision, which came after budgetary concerns and layoffs in December.

DePaul University’s decision to close its campus art museum has sparked outrage in Chicago, including an open letter that criticized the move as “short-sighted, wrong-headed, and grounded in some deeply disappointing principles of prioritization.”

I mean… the 20th century revolutions were also often organized at cafes… so that tracks.

RFK Jr. wants Dunkin’ to prove drinking its iced coffee is safe - The Boston Globe The warning comes as Kennedy is leaning heavily into his agenda to improve American diets.

This moron has no idea how much of a third rail this is. If he goes through with a public fight with Dunkin he will never live this down. In the words of my people "fuck ya motha."