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Critical thinking is more important than ever. How can I improve my skills? We’re told we need to think critically, to not fall for misinformation. Thankfully, it’s a skill we can practise and become better at.

Critical thinking is more important than ever. How can I improve my skills?: theconversation.com/critical-thi...
#CriticalThinking #Reason #Reasoning #Logic #Debate #Rhetoric #Communication #Argument #Argumentation #Conclusion #Misinformation #Disinformation #Thinking #Rationale #AcademicSky #EduSky

Let’s go 🔥🔥🔥🔥

The work of Maud Lewis, (1903 – 1970), Canadian folk artist from Nova Scotia #WomensArt #Spring

Quilted textile artwork with images of various realistic lookibg butterflies and moths in different colours, shapes and sizes on a black background

Susan Brubaker Knapp, contemporary expert quilter, as well as an artist and author (Via J.Cannel FB) #WomensArt

Take a look!

New Zealand is a good sort!

I’m glad you have this choice. Wishing you a lovely departure🌈

Kay Sage Tanguy Fund

Lee Bontecou, Untitled, 1961

https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136544

Nick Cave Is Serving You Everything Hrag Vartanian interviews the artist in his Chicago studio about his childhood, his evolving craft, and what he does to stay optimistic during difficult times.

“I grew up in a family of makers, from woodworkers to seamstresses to poets. I was always surrounded by a way of doing and watching things being produced from nothing. So it was just magic to me.” –Nick Cave in the latest episode of the Hyperallergic Podcast

Damn those flies!

Blue and white print looking down the interior of a giant greenhouse with rows and rows of plants and flowers going off into the distance

"Cosmos in the Greenhouse" by UK contemporary printmaker Janis Goodman #WomensArt

Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.

💯👇🏼 clearly half of America have already crossed this threshold‼️😒😡🤬💔😞

I hope Dutton is sunk and The Greens and the ALP form government 💚

Painted artwork featuring a lush green forest with large pink blossoms in which two mouse-like creatures stand and a pair of eyes peeps out from behind a tree

Cover artwork for the book 'The Moomins and the Great Flood' created by Finnish artist and author Tove Jansson in 1945 #womensart

Artwork with stylised golden bird in flight, flying left, with a flying woman on its back or flying parralell to the bird, wearing a long greenish dress, all against a purple background

Yuko Hosaka, contemporary Japanese illustrator and printmaker #WomensArt

a bronze plaque of a man in armor who looks down at a dog sitting at his feet. the man pets the dog with his left hand. the entire dog and a little bit of the plaque surrounding him is shiny and much brighter than the rest of the plaque from hundreds of years of people petting him.

This plaque in Prague has been rubbed to a shiny gold because for centuries, passersby have touched the dog for good luck, and also to reassure him that he's a very good boy. 14/10

Monochrome photograph featuring a standing woman facing forwards with short dark hair, in dark clothes and sungasses, holding a sign stating ' NOT AFRAID', all against a white background

"Art is a way of survival"
- Yoko Ono,
91yr old artist & peace activist
#WomensArt #Monday

We cannot allow Temu Trump to be Prime Minister. The time to start fighting is now

Supporting each other through difficult and challenging times - The Research Companion Science, healthcare and education are threatened worldwide. Here are some starter ideas for ways to work together to share and save vital information. And to care for one another.

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Two blue and white ceramic stylised sitting cats facing each other and looking outwards, both pieces are decorated with flower motifs in blue on white and have blue cat faces, all on a black surface against a white wall

'Garden Cats' by Vicky Lindo, contemporary UK ceramicist who creates often quirky, highly decorated ceramics #WomensArt

Monochrome photograph featuring the head and shoulders of a white woman who looks directly out to the viewer, her face is fused with the image of a cat's face, so she has a cat nose and whiskers and one right cat's eye

Mon chat et moi (autoportrait avec son chat), 1932, by Italian photographer Wanda Wulz, who created this image by printing two negatives-one of her face, the other of the family cat, on a single sheet of photographic paper #WomensArt

Photo of a large-scale installation in a gallery, the work features a huge triangular shaped table set with individually created ceramic plates and embroidered cloth name places with the names of notable women from history, the whole work is under light in a dark room

The Dinner Party, 1979, installation by Judy Chicago, regarded as first epic feminist artwork #womensart

Dutton has the worldview of a Queensland cop, someone once wrote. We should take that seriously Peter Dutton wasn’t party to any of this debauchery of Queensland Police under the reign of Joh Bjelke-Petersen. But he's every inch a product of the culture and politics of the time.

Opinion | Joh Bjelke-Petersen's Queensland was the political swamp from which Peter Dutton emerged. Anyone who thinks that’s a worldview we should embrace either didn’t grow up here, is too young to remember it, or too foolish to care.

Back to the grind today - trying to finish some work from last year

Stylised pen and ink artwork featuring a white woman in black with dark hair, upper half, holding a white dog, resting her head on the dog's head lovingly, on a cream background

Woman and dog, 1935 by US artist Christina Malman #womensart

And the median wage in Australia is $65k. If you’re earning that and have a higher education debt, you’ll be paying 2% of your income to the tax office.

Sewing pattern for part of a shirt. It is clearly made from a dark brown manuscript page with small lettering written in two columns.

This is a sewing pattern. It is also a page from a late 14th century manuscript that is one of two primary sources for an important Icelandic saga (Sturlunga saga), but that was probably not important to the 17th century person who really needed a sewing pattern.
#upcycling

Children’s board book on shelf. It is a flip the flap book called Pull it Down with a drawing of a sculpture of Captain Cook falling off a pedestal leaving only his feet.

Found this board board in Pictures and Pages (tiny but with a good selection of kids & grown ups books in Coburg, Melbourne). Iconoclasm for toddlers by Matt Chun!

Another reason why I’m glad I don’t live in QLD.