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Absolutely thrilled to have seen the new Chicago Archaeopteryx exhibit. This specimen never ceases to amaze me. Featuring my fanart of said dead bird.

#chicagoarchaeopteryx #fieldmuseum

I find it wild that if you’re verbally abusive to a police officer or a nurse you can be prosecuted, but we are saying that when it happens to teachers it’s not even appropriate to send a child home.

On a certayne kynde of darke nighte yn Januarye, the past doth seeme so close. All of the thinges that hurt, and all of the thinges that were delightful. The smyles on the faces of friendes. Those tymes, irrevocable. Ich hope everichon Ich knewe ys doinge okaye, and Ich mourne those who are gone.

Etna lava flow is still warm some 25 days after eruption.

Image taken yesterday by Sentinel-2.

🌡️😊

A wizard scowling at a scroll in cursive that looks like it says "How to summon a demon", with a magical circle containing a lemon on the right.

Country diary: In my moment of loss, birds came like gifts | Amy-Jane Beer Ripon City Wetlands and Welburn, North Yorkshire: First a starling ​and then a robin​ arrived like visitations​. I am truly grateful for ​them both

‘Star. Sister. Bird. Blossom. All the same interchangeable stuff.’ The most beautiful, moving piece of writing, & a tribute to loss from dear @amyjanebeer.bsky.social

Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake
Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke
Thursdaye Ich care nat for thee
Yet Fridaye - Ich am yn love

[twangy, moody lute arpeggio]

Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye
Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye
No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye
Yet Fridaye - Ich am yn love

a Ship of Feceus, if you will

olivine + anthophyllite + tremolite

The metamorphic assemblage olivine (high birefringence grains) + anthophyllite (grey prismatic xx), plus some tremolite to accommodate extra Ca. A contact metamorphosed serpentinite.

Monte Capanne Pluton aureole
⚒️ #geology

Middle grey crystalline rock with multiple generations of whitish fracture-/vein fillings. Picture: Thomas Hammerich

(Hard-) #RockyMonday ⚒

📷 Multiple generations of fractures & vein-fillings (white) inside crystalline rock.

📍Bellano, Lecco, Lombardy, Italy 🇮🇹

#geology #geoscience #Italy

a chest x ray and two blood tests? Always January.

Country diary: Mammoth and bear, replaced by mattress and beer can | Michael J Warren Grays, Essex: I visit an unassuming gorge where a wealth of ice age fossils was once found, telling us about Britain’s megafauna – and Neanderthals

Country diary: Mammoth and bear, replaced by mattress and beer can | Michael J Warren www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Dr Kareem Carr man: i wish to publish @kareem_carr Jan 21 reviewer 2: your paper is no good man: i'll do anything to improve reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini Andre Pagliarini @apagliar Jan 21 a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC

I just thought everyone should see this

The root of hag come from the German hagzussa and Old English hægtesse – hedge-sitter. For those old boundaries of the land, whether tangled threshold of hawthorn or stacked stone, were magical thresholds. Sitting atop them, the witch could see beyond into the Otherworld. – #EmilyCBanting, 1981

Welcome back to #FossilFriday

Here is quite a large solitary rugose (horn) coral belonging to the taxa Grewingkia canadensis. This specimen was collected from the Upper Ordovician Whitewater (upper cincinnatian series) Formation in Indiana.

A long long tyme ago
Ich kan yet remembir
How the music oft wolde make me smyle
And Ich knewe that yf luck payed me court
Thenne Ich koude make the folk cavort
And mayhap to be mirtheful for a while

9️⃣6️⃣ candles on the cake today...
January 20, 1930
Wishing Buzz Aldrin a very Happy Birthday
May you circle around the sun for many more years to come!

Have a great day, Buzz!!

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forallmankind.de

Right now there are three aluminium Lego figures orbiting around Jupiter aboard the Juno spacecraft.

They represent the goddess Juno, the god Jupiter and the astronomer Galileo.

Unlike ordinary LEGO figures, they have no movable parts.

#astronomy #space

Image: NASA/Lego

My photo shows a small horse statuette in a museum display case. The horse, viewed in profile, was masterfully carved from mammoth ivory around 15,000 years ago. The sculptor has depicted many realistic details such as the eyes, nostrils, and ears flattened against the head. The coat is represented by finely incised lines and dots. The mane is sculpted in relief, with incised lines on both sides. The four legs and tail are incomplete. The surface of the ivory has a shiny brown patina. Dimensions: Length 7.3 cm x Height 3.5 cm. The statuette is known as ‘The Little Horse of Lourdes’. It was discovered in 1886 in a rock fissure in the Espélugues cave, Lourdes, Haute-Pyrénées, France. Part of the collections at the Musée d'Archéologie Nationale, Domaine national de Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

Ice Age art!

A lovely little horse figurine sculpted from mammoth tusk around 15,000 years ago!

Known as ‘The Little Horse of Lourdes’ it was found in 1886 in the cave of Les Espélugues, Lourdes, Haute-Pyrénées, France. 📷 by me.

#Archaeology

In county folklore, the Queen of Owls reigns from dusk to dawn. In each of her feathers, a map of wisdom. On each of her talons, three drops of blood to cure or curse. Her carved avatars are everywhere. Each one providing her with intelligence. From pew to pub, she peers upon us all. – Dr. M.Benn

#Aurora #NorthernLights Poor photos, but central southern England, North Wessex Downs. Could see the big green bolt others have pictured, with my naked eye!

#tankgirl

Third place in the main category of our photo competition went to Simon Newman for “A Hobbit Hole in Hampshire”, showing soft morning light glowing through a woodland tunnel near Cheriton.

Congratulations, Simon! 😊

Now that is a pleasure. Happy with the Norfolk coast, but miss the wolds.

Good morning.

A regular reminder: a tiny few hoard staggering wealth and own much of the media, while millions struggle to survive.

That’s not an accident. It’s a choice made by those in power.

Tax wealth. Fund public services. Build an economy for everyone - not the 1%.

Miss him almost as .much as Bowie

My photo shows a bronze Buddha statuette sitting on a double lotus flower against a grey background in a glass display case. The bronze is now light green in colour, but would originally have appeared like burnished gold. The Buddha is sitting cross-legged with feet upturned. His right hand rests against his knee and his left arm is raised holding his monastic robe. A raised dot on the forehead represents Buddha’s third eye. His expression is serene, with smiling lips, and eyes gazing ahead. His facial features were highlighted with silver, tin, and black niello. There is glass residue in the eyes and the raised dot on the forehead was highlighted with a layer of gold. Height 8.4 cm, width 6.4 cm. It was probably made in the Swat Valley (present-day Pakistan) in the late 500s-mid 600s. It was excavated from Viking-age settlement buildings dated AD 800. It isn’t known how it arrived at its final destination but this exotic object travelled far, hinting at far-flung trade routes. I saw the Helgö Buddha on display at the British Museum’s ‘Silk Roads’ exhibition in October 2024, on loan from Historiska Museet, Stockholm.

A small and exotic Buddha found far from home in #VikingAge buildings on the Swedish lake island of Helgö.

Probably made in the Swat Valley, the Buddha travelled some 5,000 km from its place of origin, encapsulating the idea of long-distance trade during the Viking Age.

#Archaeology

Quite bored with “but ID cards work elsewhere, why not the UK?” Different countries have different political & legal cultures. The UK has a centralised, secretive, at best semidemocratic state with inadequate checks & balances, & which benefits a narrow class & shares power grudgingly if at all, so🤷

Gold Triarthrus eatoni trilobite with small gold eggs

In 2017, I supported a paper that described trilobite eggs in the cheeks. Horseshoe crabs also store eggs this way until they are fertilized.

I helped with the SEM images.

Beecher's Bed is one of my favorite localities.

#12DaysofFossils