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Security is great and all, but with 2FA we are now beholden to not just websites, but our phones, and if one access methods fails, we are screwed. Have to admit, I'm becoming increasingly frustrated and cynical about being this reliant on multiple tech avenues *at the same time*...

Overview of LabSafety Bench.

All major AI models risk dangerous experiments

AI is revolutionizing scientific research, yet its growing integration into laboratory environments presents critical safety challenges

Benchmarking large language models on safety risks in scientific laboratories 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

“It took trust for the US to become a scientific powerhouse. It took 70 years – and was destroyed within six months” - roboticist Wali Malik.
It remains to be seen whether the parochial, sexist, racist corners of European academia will learn to treat newcomers as colleagues and humans. #academicsky

Opportunities in February 2026 Residencies, fellowships, grants, open calls, and jobs from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, the Rubin Museum, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.

Hyperallergic Opportunities is a monthly list of residencies, grants, open calls, and jobs for artists and creatives seeking funding and community support to further their work.

A colour photograph of a page containing a 17x6 ruled table. In the table are 8 samples of grey paint colours with a range of uses listed for each.

A photograph of a printed page titled 'Werner's Nomenclature of Colours' in all caps.

Fresh Wood Ashes, Breast of the Robin round the Red, Common Calcedony -- What's your Werner Grey colour today? Follow the link in our bio to see more of Werner's Nomenclature of Colours in our Digitised Special Collections. #NatureInArt

Absolutely terrifying.

Green book cover of 'Umbrellas and their History' by William Sangster.

Opened book showing the title page of 'Umbrellas and their History', and the frontispiece, which includes an illustration of Jonas Hanway, 'The First Englishman Who Ever Carried An Umbrella'.

Today is National Umbrella Day - very apt for this continuously wet weather! ☔

Our book collections include 'Umbrellas and their History' (1871) by William Sangster, which seems like an ideal read for today!

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#NationalUmbrellaDay #RareBooks

Excited to share the striking cover of PAIN SONGS by Daniel Sluman. Lyrical, confessional poems exploring the experience of chronic pain & disability, fertility & pregnancy, the ways the body & the world interact & intersect.
Ready to pre-order now, out in May.
ninearchespress.com/publications...

I want to love this because mycology is awesome, but the use of AI in a sustainability project seems to defeat the purpose...

Luca Signorelli’s way with a crowd In his ‘Lamentation over the Dead Christ’, the painter’s attention to detail heightens the contrast between life and death

‘Working in oils on panel, Signorelli had time to attend to details that would be impossible to achieve in fresco before the plaster set […] there are 200 fingers in the foreground of this painting.’

Thomas Jones looks at the ‘Lamentation over the Dead Christ’ in Cortona.

#DIBLives One of the first female surgeons in New York city, Gertrude B. Kelly (b. #OTD 1862) worked in slums & tenements where she frequently assisted poor patients. Her experience undoubtedly contributed to the development of her activist political views. www.dib.ie/index.php/bi...

jesus.

No surprises there. Not to mention how dystopian it is to suggest AI as a "solution."

A picture of the health pass, with printed and handwritten text. This image is from the Wellcome Collection, London.

Italian health pass enabling bearer to pass despite quarantines due to plague, 1722. The word quarantine was derived from the Italian words quaranta giorni, meaning 40 days - the number of days a ship coming from an infected port had to sit at anchor before entering Venice.

Nurses Need History Too – AHA Teaching history to nursing students gives essential context to the healthcare systems they work in.

In #AHAPerspectives, @drkyliesmith.bsky.social shares how she approaches teaching history to her nursing students. “Students need to learn a broad conception of history that explores the economic and political forces that shape their patients’ lives, as well as their own profession.” 🗃️

Books are not clutter. Clutter is all the other stuff that gets in the way of having more books.

About this Collection | Rosa Parks Papers | Digital Collections | Library of Congress The papers of Rosa Parks (1913-2005) span the years 1866-2006, with the bulk of the material dating from 1955 to 2000. The collection, which contains approximately 7,500 items in the Manuscript Divisi...

www.loc.gov/collections/...

A page filled with densely written cursive handwriting on yellowed paper, conveying an antique, historical document. The text appears aged and archival.

📢 The County Descriptions of the Physico-Historical Society is now live in the Repository, digitised through the Nowlan Grants @ria.ie.

This cross-border collaboration brings 18th-century scientific and local history to life, available to all on open access!

Find out more: dri.ie/news/new-col...

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#sciart OMG gorgeous 😍

Our new banner art is a molecular view of dermal-epidermal junction. Central to each hemidesmosome is an integrin that binds to the laminin in the basement membrane, which itself is attached to the intermediate filament anchoring protein plectin.

Thank you all for such a warm welcome! We’re thrilled to join the growing scientific, artistic, and medical communities here on Bluesky.

We are a team of digital artists with graduate degrees in biomedical communication and professional certifications in medical illustration.

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Love your reaction! Better fight than flight!

In Politika, Aristotle says you can recognize a tyrannical regime in the fact that it intrudes into every aspect of the lives of its subjects while enshrouding the tyrant and his enablers in complete secrecy. What we see with ICE is the demonstration of that principle. bsky.app/profile/davi...

T cell polarization and NFAT activation are stiffness dependent and differentially regulated by the channels PIEZO1 and ORAI1 Target stiffness influences T cell polarization and gene expression through distinct Ca2+ channels.

A new study suggests that the “softening” of cancer cells that occurs in some malignant tumors may help the cells to evade antitumor immune defenses.

Learn more in #ScienceSignaling: https://scim.ag/3MaX9W5

Locking down your phone, being mindful of what you're wearing, and coming up with plans to communicate with others are all key steps to take before attending a protest. ssd.eff.org/module/atte...

Skeletons reveal Stone Age mother and daughter had a rare genetic condition Despite physical limitations, Romito 1 and Romito 2 likely lived into adulthood about 12,000 years ago.

Skeletons reveal Stone Age mother and daughter had a rare genetic condition www.popsci.com/science/ston...

404 Media has published the full user guide for ELITE, the tool Palantir made for ICE to bring up addresses for deportation targets. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.

Scoop here by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

Some Irish supermarkets have reduced the price of Kerrygold butter from today A pound of Kerrygold will now be 50 cents cheaper in Supervalu and Centra.

Finally, some good news 😅

This provides an update on the two events coming up – the first, Holly Fletcher's 'The Fats of Life in the Early Modern World' (5 Feb, 5.30 pm, IHR Wolfson Room NB02 and online via Zoom), the second Brodie Waddell's 'Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in Early Modern England (5 March, IHR Wolfson Room NB02 and online via Zoom). The background image is a yellow-toned image by Bruegel of people working crops.

Our first event of this term is taking place very soon, on Thursday 5 February! Holly Fletcher (UCL) will be speaking on 'The Fats of Life in the Early Modern World, 1500-1750: Matter in Multispecies Medicine'. You can sign-up to attend in person and online here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

We Can Fight This: Minnesota’s General Strike Shows How A day before Alex Pretti’s brutal killing by federal agents in the Minneapolis steets, Minnesota showed us a way forward: the general strike.

“The general strike is the name for when the riot, the strike, and the commune all happen at once,” late theorist Joshua Clover said..."that’s the day, the week, or the year where there will be a role for everyone.” There is a role for everyone; that time must be now theintercept.com/2026/01/24/s...