Hippolyte

Rabbits capture, try and execute a hunter. The Smithfield Decretals, decorated in London, England, in the 1340s: Royal MS 10 E IV, f. 59v-61v

Bad bunnies from long ago
www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

Follow the duck!

Me, watching the news everyday.

A painting of a nude study with a figure knelt on a stool peering behind a box

When you've already searched behind this box for your missing sock, but you might as well have another look anyway 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

Gustave Courbet's "Study of a Nude Man", early 1840s, from @metmuseum.org 😁

Sweet 16 🤩

🚀 Sixteen years ago today, the largest space window was on its way to the International Space Station aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour.

🌍 Enjoy the views from Europe's bay window onto Earth.

📸 @esa.int/ @astro-slawosz.bsky.social

Elle ne connait pas Trump, ni Poutine, ni Epstein, ni Musk, ni Lang, ni CNews, ni la haine et elle est détendue en attendant le printemps.

Photo Bruce McCandless during an EVA, this time much closer to the shuttle. The Earth below him is sky blue and covered in clouds. Space above the Earth is black and featureless; any stars that would be visible are washed out by the bright surface below. McCandless is in his white, clunky spacesuit with its reflective copper-colored visor and a large, blockish maneuvering unit on his back.

When you are a human satellite. (5/5)
🧪 🔭 🚀

Image: NASA
Source: www.flickr.com/photos/nasac...

One of the Lewis Chessmen - currently on display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. Found in 1831 on a beach at Uig on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, the Chessmen dates to the late 12th or early 13th century. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #LewisChessmen #NMS

Perseverance: Sol 1765 Navcam and Hazcam images, and map freshly updated with current location

📷 areo.info/mars20/ecams... @areoinfo.bsky.social
🗺️ science.nasa.gov/mission/mars...

🧪🔭 #Mars

This is creepy when we recognise contemporary AI is all humans all the way down, just obfuscated behind the screen or dashboard. Based on stolen data, stolen labour, stolen humanity... AI is not currently emancipatory and just serves the privileged and deskills those who think this is automation.

"Je suis de ceux qui pensent que la science est d'une grande beauté.

Un scientifique dans son laboratoire est, non seulement un technicien, il est aussi un enfant placé devant des phénomènes naturels qui l'impressionnent comme des contes de fées."

Marie Curie

It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

This Giant Phantom Jelly Won’t Eat You. Maybe.

Beautiful footage of an elusive giant phantom jelly 🪼 in the midnight zone in the south Atlantic
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www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/s...

AI can accelerate scientific discovery, but only if we maintain rigor through open data, simplicity, and human understanding. Don't delegate ethics.
Read this article in full via @ox.ac.uk  https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/ #AI #science #research #physics #astrophysics

A 3D micro-CT scan of ant Ctenobethylus goepperti encased in amber

Hey bsky! I’d like to share some cool work I recently coauthored that integrates entomology, paleontology, and German cultural history. 🔶🐜⚡️ We discovered a fossil ant in the amber collection of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe! Read on for a delightful story of #museomics and #collectomics. >> 1/

Couverture de la bd Medieval girlfriends par Juliette Cousin L'image représente une femme chevalier sur un cheval

Je suis tombé par hasard sur cette petite pépite dessinée : "Medieval Girlfriends", par Juliette Cousin. Un roman graphique sans texte qui réinvente avec finesse le mythe du chevalier tueur de monstres... #vendredilecture #medievalsky #medievalists

Et hop ! Nouveau même dans la galerie. Merci Nanarland 🔥

World is entering an era of 'water bankruptcy' Countries have spent beyond their sustainable water budgets for so long that critical assets are depleted and the world faces huge economic, social and environmental costs

Countries have spent beyond their sustainable water budgets for so long that critical assets are depleted and the world faces huge economic, social and environmental costs

There are no shortcuts. Those who do not take heed of these warnings are doomed to fractally if not frantically mix-and- match from incompatible ideologies. Computationalism may or may not be abandoned, but either way it is not compatible with anything goes. Thou shalt not make a machine to counterfeit a human mind. Frank Herbert (1965, p. 18)

Absolutely no need to read my work but notice the parallel with the title and ending quote 😅

Modern Alchemy: Neurocognitive Reverse Engineering. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/25289

Ma découverte du jour : le compte de Mac Rebisz qui réalise de sublimes œuvres portant sur les missions spatiales.
Je vous encourage à aller voir ses publications !

Ajd, on va parler d'IA, mais il ne faut pas oublier que derrière cet acronyme se trouvent des entreprises privées qui défendent leurs intérêts.
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#sqrlpix maybe????

Seriously go read this (have a barf bag handy, tho):

ROV pilots filmed this glass squid at 1,725 meters (5,659 feet) deep. www.iflscience.com/watch-a-gian...

🔦 Past Paper Highlight: BiLRP, explaining Machine Learning Models Through Feature Interactions

📄 Building and Interpreting Deep Similarity Models
🔗 ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/918...
💻 github.com/oeberle/BiLR...

Troie, cité de paix : ce que l’épopée n’a jamais raconté Troie, cité de paix : ce que l’épopée n’a jamais raconté

www.archeologie-actualites-et-decouvertes.fr/2026/02/troi...

#archéologie #troie #histoire #antiquité

A pencil sketch of a topless hunky sailor getting a tattoo on his chest from an equally hunky tattoo artist

"Ok, but you know I can only do Bart Simpson or Velma from Scooby-Doo though, right??" 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

@tomoffinland.org 's "The Tattooed Sailor", 1961. Part of the *glorious* Tom/Beryl Cook exhibition at Studio Voltaire, London in 2024

Ancient Mesoamerican cultures were undefeated at having ceramic vessels that were also just a little guy

To understand physics, we need to tell – and hear – stories | Aeon Essays Don’t be intimidated by physics: it is made of stories and metaphors. Learn these and the field will open up to you

Scientists can regain public trust by a) being honest in their work and b) not being so proudly inaccessible in their writing. The best physics writing uses different kinds of stories, and I also tell my own.

aeon.co/essays/to-un...
@aeon.co #scicomm #writing #editing #publishing #highenergyastro ⚛️