Fun in the margins - A doodle from the margins of the 15th century, Carpentras. Bibliothèque inguimbertine, Ms. 368, f. 64v

I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again: Dinosaurs are for girls. This was the first dinosaur skull I made (back in 2022), for a lovely lady in Germany, and it rekindled my childhood love of paleontology and put me on the career path I'm on now.

#paleoart #paperart #dinosaur #paleontology #sciart

Astronomers watch a star quietly disappear without an explosion Astronomers tracked a star that slowly faded instead of exploding. The quiet disappearance may reveal a hidden way black holes are born.

Astronomers watched a star vanish without a supernova. No explosion. just gone. That is pure cosmic horror energy www.earth.com/news/a... #space #scifi #cosmicdread

'Do you love me?': The Viking messages unearthed on Sweden's rune stones Runic inscriptions from the Viking Age still turn up in Sweden 1,000 years after they were written – revealing fascinating stories of love, loss and epic battles.

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If you see this, post a character that starts with J.

GM!

Japanese woodblock print in the namazu-e genre. In a circular sumo ring, a muscular wrestler with red-orange flaming hair grapples a giant catfish wearing a red apron. The wrestler grips the catfish's head while the catfish pushes back with its fins and tail. To the left, an older man in a blue and yellow checkered robe sits cross-legged holding a fan decorated with an image of Mount Fuji, watching the bout with amusement. To the right, a figure in a yellow kimono and blue hakama kneels as referee, holding a traditional gunbai war fan. In the upper right corner, red-skinned oni demons sit on an elevated platform surrounded by gold coins. Vertical Japanese text fills the background, including a banner referencing Kashima and earthquakes. The print satirizes the 1855 Ansei Edo earthquake through the folk belief that a giant underground catfish caused tremors.

After the 1855 Ansei Edo earthquake flattened much of Tokyo, artists flooded the city with "namazu-e" - satirical prints blaming a mythical giant catfish for the tremors. This one stages it as sumo: a wrestler grappling the catfish in the ring while demons hoard coins and a ref looks on.

The Dolphin Head nebula in Canis Major constellation, photographed from my terrace

1/ The Dolphin Head (Sh2-308) is an emission nebula in the Canis Major region: a huge bubble created by material expelled by the star WR6, swept by its powerful stellar wind.
It’s also a target that drove me crazy for four years before I finally started to get a grip on it. ➡️

🔭
#Astrophotography

happy irokagu #cosmicprincesskaguya #超かぐや姫

#Women&GirlsinScienceDay Academic & particle physicist Anne Kernan was a huge advocate for women in science, on one occasion funding a trip to CERN for an undergrad she had never met, meeting her at the airport and paying for her accommodation until funding came through. www.dib.ie/biography/ke...

Crooked Beak (1994) Beau Dick Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington

Crooked Beak (1994)
Beau Dick
Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington

Black-and-white vintage portrait of Blanche Calloway (1902–1978), the trailblazing Black jazz singer, composer, and bandleader, smiling brightly at the camera while holding a thin conductor's baton horizontally just under her chin with both hands. She has short wavy hair styled in elegant waves, arched eyebrows, dark lipstick. She wears an off-the-shoulder dress with lace detailing on the bodice and puffed short sleeves, set against a dark studio background. As the older sister of Cab Calloway and the first Black woman to lead an all-male jazz orchestra (Blanche Calloway and Her Joy Boys in the 1930s), she was a charismatic pioneer in jazz who mentored her brother and influenced the era's big band scene.

Jazz singer, composer & bandleader Blanche Calloway was born #OTD in 1902.

Her #music career spanned 50+ years. First Black woman to lead an all-male #jazz orchestra (Joy Boys), she performed alongside musicians such as Cozy Cole, Chick Webb & Cab Calloway (younger brother whom she mentored). #BHM

An extract from a hand-coloured engraving of a mosaic showing a bear in profile moving to the right, flanked by trees with unusual lotus-like leaves. At the bottom, part of a circle of three-strand guilloche.

Some of us who follow #MosaicMonday were at the excellent Project Orpheus conference, either in person or online, held on Saturday @coriniummuseum.bsky.social, where the newly released Withington animals are on display. Here's the bouncy bear before lifting - now reunited with his friends 😍. 1/2

If you see this, post a character whose name starts with A.

@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social I, too, have described my preferred bicycle riding posture as "Wicked Witch of the West" but then I saw this old photograph and realized there's always room for improvement.

"Do you love your mom was a bad anime because the MC was her son "

What you mean when you say this: it's so weird how seemingly normalized incest themes are in anime

What I mean when I say this: it should have been a daughter

Inked sketch poison ivy and Harley Quinn

#poisonivy #ivy #poison #harley #quinn #harleyquinn #dc #dc_comics #ink #sketch #art #illustration #blackandwhite #ara #draw #drawing

Spiral Galaxy NGC 1512: Wide Field apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26020...
Most galaxies don't have any rings -- why does this galaxy have three? To begin, a ring that's near NGC 1512's center -- and so hard to see here -- is the nuclear ring which glows brightly with recently formed stars

This thymiaterion has five individually hand-made women sitting on the edge of a red-painted wellhead, with one sitting in her own high-baked chair. All are brightly painted, and each woman has a 'hat' with a cup on top for the burning of the incense. All painted slightly differently - three with orange-yellow tunics, two with red tunics; two red himatia (cloaks), two purple-black himatia, and one yellow himation. They each once carried an attribute in each hand, but several are missing. In this photo, one woman carries a yellow (meant to be gold) phiale, an offering plate, and a pomegranate; the other woman facing us carries a spindle with wool. Met Museum (2012.546)

One of the best examples of ancient #polychromy that I know of is this terracotta thymiaterion - incense burner - in the form of a group of colorfully dressed women sitting around a wellhead. The iconography reflects a local cult, perhaps of Demeter and Kore. 🏺 1/

4th c. CE. #MetMuseum
📸 me

Just noticed that Quin Hall's incredibly hideous hairy dinosaur in Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1918 novel The Land that Time Forgot (right) is based on the incredibly hideous hairy dinosaur from Lawson Wood's c. 1907 artbook Prehistoric Proverbs (left). And here I assumed Hall was just winging it.

Impressive 🦔 ring.

Photo of Frances E.W. Harper standing and holding the back of a chair, below is her signature

Frances E. W. Harper, American author, essayist, poet, suffragist, abolitionist. Well-known Af-Am writer; the first black wmn to published a short story,“The Two Offers”, Anglo-African Mag(1859). Co-organizer, Natl Assn of Colored Women #womenshistory #womenwriters #WriterSky #BlackHistoryMonth #woc

Two harpies, one vibrant pink, the other a muted rainbow. Their wings are extended behind them.

Little Valentine's harpies <3 #valentines #harpy #yuri #chibi

Black-and-white studio portrait of Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte, a Native American woman in her thirties or forties, facing forward with a calm, direct gaze toward the camera. She has dark hair pulled back neatly into a bun, prominent cheekbones, and a serious yet composed expression. She wears a high-necked, long-sleeved dark Victorian-style dress with a patterned white lace or floral insert at the collar, creating a contrast against the solid dark fabric.

Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte was the first #NativeAmerican woman to become a physician in the United States. A member of the Omaha tribe, she campaigned for public health & for the formal, legal allotment of land to members of her tribe.

#WomensPhysiciansDay #WomenInSTEM #WomenInMedicine

According to Shinichiro Kobayashi, who created the story for Godzilla vs. Biollante, he got Biollante's name from a passage from the poem "Chanson d'automne" by the 19th century French poet Paul Verlaine, specifically the passage: Des violons De l'automne Kobayashi combined the word violon, the French word for "violin," from this passage with the katakana character テ (te), as he noted that no other kaiju used this character in their names. Kobayashi later stated that it was a complete coincidence that Biollante's name seemed to imply biotechnology.[7]

If you wanted a connection between Godzilla villains and nineteenth-century French Symbolist poetry ... you got it.

Love for the love goddess: Samarina 🖤
#fearandhunger #fearandhunger2termina #fearandhungertermina #samarina #marina #samarie

If you see this, QTP with a female anime character you love.

Black-and-white partially framed studio portrait of Winifred Goldring, an esteemed American paleontologist (1888–1971), shown in a classic head-and-shoulders view against a soft, shaded background. She has neatly styled graying hair pulled back, a calm and dignified expression with a slight smile, and is dressed in a dark V-neck blouse or dress, evoking early 20th-century formality. As the first woman to serve as State Paleontologist of New York (1939–1954)—a groundbreaking role as the first female in the U.S. and likely worldwide in such a position—she worked at the New York State Museum for over 40 years, starting in 1912 as a scientific expert in paleontology. She rose to become the museum's first female curator, authored key works on Devonian crinoids and the Gilboa fossil forest, pioneered innovative museum exhibits (including the famous 1924 diorama of a living Devonian seed fern forest), described stromatolites, and broke barriers as the first female president of the Paleontological Society (1949) and vice president of the Geological Society of America (1950). Her legacy includes advancing paleontological research, education, and public outreach on prehistoric life. #WomenInScience

Black-and-white candid photograph of Winifred Goldring in her fieldwork attire at Mount Rainier National Park in Washington, July 1928, captured on a scenic mountain path lined with tall pine trees and rocky terrain. She wears practical outdoor clothing including a cap, long-sleeved shirt, sturdy pants or overalls, and boots, and carries a walking stick or pole for support on the uneven ground, smiling brightly with evident enthusiasm for the outdoors. As a renowned paleontologist and geologist (1888–1971), Goldring was passionate about fieldwork from her youth, hiking extensively to study fossils and geology; her research focused on Paleozoic formations, including crinoids, stromatolites, and the iconic Gilboa Devonian forest fossils. She served as New York State's first female State Paleontologist (1939–1954), the museum's first female curator, and a leader in paleontology, creating groundbreaking exhibits and inspiring generations despite gender barriers in the field. Source: New York State Museum

Winifred Goldring died #OTD in 1971.

She was the first paleontologist in the US & first woman appointed as a State Paleontologist (NY, 1939). The first woman president of the Paleontological Society (the largest association of paleontologists in the world) in 1949.

#WomenInSTEM #paleontology

A round, light brown tablet made of clay with three lines of cuneiform scripts. Two rulings, or traced straight lines, enclose the writing. The photo also shows the sides of the tablet, including a few damaged parts.

May as well dive right in.

Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball?

According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’”

Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...