Jeff Grabill

A storefront entrance tile floor for Kiehl's where we can read the name of the business in the center of the tile, "celebrating over 160 years of service" in a ribbon above and "SINCE 1851" written below.

Welcome, shopper.

Hyde Park Picture House, Headingley, Leeds, painting by Allen Tortice (b.1948).

Episode 505: Our Plant Teachers | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University

Part two -- "Our Plant Teachers" -- of delightful and wide-ranging conversation with @rad-institute.bsky.social Born Curious podcast team.

Listen wherever you listen to podcast.

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UB's PPE program receives $4 million DOE grant to promote civil discourse The initiative wlll help students cultivate the virtues, skills and norms essential to productive civic dialogue and community engagement.

The Philosophy, Politics and Economics program has received a nearly $4M U.S. Dept. of Education grant to advance civil discourse and civic engagement through a new four-year initiative: From Campus to Community. 🌟

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UB researcher offers tips on winter preparedness Susan Clark has some emergency preparedness tips that can help even the most seasoned Buffalonian as we head into the worst of the winter season.

With WNY seeing no shortage of snow, winter preparedness is top of mind. ❄️

Susan Clark, associate professor and Edward J. Kikta Jr. Innovation Professor of Experiential Learning in Environment and Sustainability, shares tips to help communities stay safe.

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A stair landing speckled tan and brown vintage tile floor with a striped border at Chicago Athletic Association to coordinate with suede and leather wing tips.

Hebden Bridge, west Yorkshire, at first light, 2021, photo by Bruce Cutts.

A complex mosaic tile floor of intersecting rings and squares in tan, black and red with diamond center flourishes and red border.

Chicago Cultural Center.

Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn

Jack Levine, Election Night, 1954
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134959

Run, don't walk to buy and read and share this book by @berondam.bsky.social

Tomorrow on book release day, I'll be in conversation about When Trees Testify (from @henryholtbooks.bsky.social / @macmillanpubusa.bsky.social) with @kqedforum.bsky.social at 9 AM PST.
Listen in!

When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy

Tomorrow is release day for When Trees Testify!!!

Order now:

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Rob Pointon, Middleport Flint Mill

Using design sprints to reimagine university learning experiences With a human-centred approach and the incentive of a short time frame, design sprints can bring multiple perspectives together to reimagine modules and curricula

With a human-centred approach and the incentive of a short time frame, design sprints can bring multiple perspectives together to reimagine modules and curricula: https://ow.ly/i61350XU7Hm #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky

The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection

Umberto Boccioni, Dynamism of a Soccer Player, 1913
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135642

Gift of Mrs. David M. Levy

Jacob Lawrence, One of the largest race riots occurred in East St. Louis, 1940-41
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134647

New Year Honours at the University of Leeds

Huge congratulations to Prof Piers Forster CBE! 🎉Director of the Priestley Centre, who has been awarded a CBE in the New Year Honours 2026 for his climate science leadership and impact. A brilliant recognition of excellence and action on climate change. 🌍 Read more www.leeds.ac.uk/university-n...

If we treated them respectfully but without corporate hype (that aims to layoff half the world)

The original post shows why verifying direct quoting and details are going to be so important in the next 20 years. And we are going to need a legion of not fact checkers but detail checkers.

This gets at why I dislike LLM hype. It’s not that they’re entirely wrong but they aren’t detail oriented. they’re built for readers who skim (or writers). and their code is fine but if you have to return to the code, it degrades very fast, notably once an error happens. I’d be a lot happier…

Gift of Warren D. Benedek

Fernando Botero, The Presidential Family, 1967
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136084

Wishing everyone a safe and happy new year! 🎆 Let's make 2026 a great one 💙

#UBuffalo #UBTrueBlue #College #University

A Room (in the Second Post-Impressionist) | Roger Fry

Square green tiles with various tints and shades and white grout in a stacked pattern.

Finally stopped to archive this beautiful '60s wall on Irving Park on a gorgeous sunny day.

Arches, decorative columns, creamy wall tile, cross vaulted ceiling with blue mosaic tile and a checkered flank the Monroe Building entrance lobby.

The Monroe Building wearing Rookwood Pottery tile.

Dining room

Factory school

Terraced housing

Terraced housing

Sir Titus Salt, mill-owner and philanthropist, died OTD in 1876. The model village of Saltaire was built between 1851 and 1871 to house his employees.

Lillie P. Bliss Collection

Still Life with Apples, 1895-98
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/1134608

Flowers in stone | Paul Klee

Joan's work is beautiful.

Gift of the artist

Alexander Calder, Sow, 1928
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136111

Two-story outhouse
Gays, IL