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Sea of Possibility Along the coast of British Columbia, First Nations lead a bold effort to protect an intact marine ecosystem.

The Great Bear Sea moves from pact to practice in Canada. A decade after a 2014 agreement, the 101,200.0 km² Indigenous-led marine protected area network in the Great Bear Sea is shifting from pledge to implementation. buff.ly/fw4yA9N
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I feel that 💯
Frustrating exception: when I drop the reacher grabber claw arm I need to pick up other stuff. 😭🦾

This is what state censorship looks like:

Sometimes I too feel ‘misbound but perfect’, Francis Jenkinson. Written in a copy of Gaspar Ens’s book on Dutch discoveries in the New World (Cologne, 1612). @theulspeccoll.bsky.social N*.5.51(G).

Image of a book jacket for Beyond the Ocean: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions by Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth.

Full book jacket just dropped, and we're pretty happy with it. Huge thanks to @cecilefromont.bsky.social, @soccerpolitics.bsky.social, Alice, and Andrés for your generous words! #earlymodern #BeyondTheOcean global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Not erotic but Naoki Urasawa’s “Pluto” is a masterpiece

Psychology says people who constantly apologize for things that aren't their fault aren't being polite. They grew up in an environment where someone else's bad mood was always their responsibility to ... That reflexive 'sorry' you can't stop saying was never about politeness — it was a survival strategy you learned before you had the language to name what was happening in your home.

"Psychology says people who constantly apologize for things that aren't their fault aren't being polite. They grew up in an environment where someone else's bad mood was always their responsibility to fix." share.google/LxDa6ftaoJmN...

Chetham's Library, Manchester - rich wooden bookshelves, floors, railings, and ceiling beams

Another in my series of libraries
Chetham's Library, Manchester, a library in continuous use for over 350 years
#SomethingBeautiful #LoveLibraries #EveryLibraryMatters #Libraries #Library #LibrarySky #libsky

A red glass decanter in front of a Cezanne print, and in front of it two school bells, a box, and some ribbon, on a white cloth, all reflected in the decanter, which also casts shadows on the print and the frame. The red decanter was a gift for my grandparents ruby wedding anniversary. I used to play with the bells as a child. She composes these from things in her house.

#SomethingBeautiful another still life by my aunt Mary Lace, Cezanne and Red Vase

Our Milky Way’s supermassive black hole has a hiccuppy past It may erupt every few centuries, but don’t panic!

If you need a momentary distraction right now — and by heavens (literally) we all do — then here's a story about how our local supermassive black hole undergoes episodes of cosmic indigestion. The last one was just over a century ago!

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/our-milky-...

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A) The idea of and technique for colorizing ultrasound imaging is fascinating. B) Peter Paul Verbeek is gonna write So Many Papers on this

the shape of soft tissues and how the blood is flowing

Ooh yay, a great publisher joins the feed! Give a follow, SFF friends!

a cartoon drawing of a bear with a cross on it 's arm Alt: A gif of a cartoon capybara waving.

HI ALL!👋 We heard that the sky is bluer here so we thought we’d come over and take a look!

Duckweed, sun & shade - bullfrog mostly hidden

Bullfrog of the day ...
Monday, 2 Mar 2026

Improbably Famous, Then Perpetually Forgotten. Now, the Renaissance of Edmonia Lewis

Improbably Famous, Then Perpetually Forgotten. Now, the Renaissance of Edmonia Lewis

A 19th-century sculptor of Black and Indigenous ancestry was acclaimed, then overlooked. But a groundswell of scholars and artists are keeping her flame alive in new projects.
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Texas A&M helped me thrive as a transgender person. Now, it's complicated. A mostly good college experience is hard to square with the school that exists now.

back from my socials sabbatical because for the past few weeks i've been trying to put down words about how it feels to be trans and see what's been happening at my alma mater, texas a&m university.

on being trans, texan, and loving things that can't love you back: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Hey everyone, it was a big night tonight. For the first time ever, a Hollywood production company asked us to help promote a series. And y’all came out and did it. I’ve said this for 7 1/2 years but Historians At The Movies belong to all of us. This was a real win for #HATM.

See you tomorrow.

Turquoise icebergs seen from above, with a huge amount visible under the water - far larger than the bits visible above the water. There are also some bits of flat ice at the top right that look a little pink in the setting sunlight.

More ridiculously turquoise icebergs in Jökulsárlón glacial lagoon a couple of nights ago.

#Iceland #DronePhotography #DJIMavic3Pro

I love the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District posting in observance of Pulaski Day

“The method holds promise for enhancing breast tumor imaging, monitoring of nerve damage caused by diabetes, and brain imaging, among other applications.”

This is wondrous!

Bringing Optical Color to Ultrasound By combining two imaging techniques, Lihong Wang and his colleagues have developed a tool that can image blood vessels, in color, while still being able to clearly detect tissue morphology

Scientists in California have created a new way to see inside the body by combining ultrasound with a light-based technique called photoacoustic imaging. The result produces fast 3D images that show both the shape of soft tissues and how blood is flowing.
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I get it now.
AI means “artificial information.”

The 49th Latin and Palaeography Summer School, 27-31 July 2026 The School, formerly the Keele Latin and Palaeography Summer School, returns for its 49th year. In 2025 The Ranulf Higden Society took over the organisation of the Latin and Palaeography Summer Sch…

#Skystorians - New to medieval and early modern #Palaeography? Looking to improve your skills? Then the 49th Latin and Palaeography Summer School - to be held in #Birmingham (rather that Keele, as previously), might just be for you.

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Hi friends - I'm working on article about efforts to measure, track, and adjust WORKLOAD in higher ed, both for staff and faculty.

I'm interested in talking to people who have experiences w/:
-Workload management gone wrong
-Exemplars of workload measurement
-True tales of workload being adjusted

Prove this place is good for culture and post a good book cover.

@adapalmer.bsky.social

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Ada Palmer on Inventing the Renaissance: How Golden and Dark Ages Are Constructed and Why They Matter

Our comeback choice for the #nostalgia reading group is a perhaps unusual and long (but I promise rewarding) listening: an interview (by @veganfuturist.bsky.social) with historian @adapalmer.bsky.social on her book "Inventing the Renaissance" open.spotify.com/episode/58Ku...
Tue 10/03 (link soon)

Stream 4,000+ Public Domain Movies on WikiFlix: Silent Classics, Academy Award-Winners, Hitchcock Films & More Humanity was already enjoying motion pictures a century ago. But the ability to do so at home still lay a few decades in the future, and the ability to pull up a movie on demand through a streaming se...

1000s of public domain films that you can stream, no ads!
www.openculture.com/2026/01/stre...