Carving of a hippopotamus figurine made from calcite, featuring a stocky body, prominent bulging eyes, short legs, and textured surface, displayed on a glass shelf.
Apparently it's #WorldHippoDay! π¦π¦
Let's celebrate with this #Egyptian carving of a Hippo, made 5.000 years ago from calcite.
Hippopotami were associated with life, regeneration, and rebirth.
On display at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
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15.02.2026 12:23 β π 473 π 126 π¬ 12 π 12
Latest drop in UK student visa applications βdeeply concerningβ.
There were 19,800 applications last monthβa 31 per cent decrease on January 2025, when there were 28,700. It is the fourth month in a row that monthly visa applications have been at a four year low.
12.02.2026 15:20 β π 8 π 12 π¬ 2 π 2
I spent several hours with Gisele Pelicot in Paris
She is remarkable
This Sunday her only UK TV interview airs across the BBC
11.02.2026 12:24 β π 283 π 57 π¬ 7 π 1
I changed the audio
10.02.2026 17:29 β π 427 π 155 π¬ 20 π 42
This teenager saved his neighbor's dog from drowning in a freezing pond. This is Bernard. His family contacted emergency services right away, but high school senior Hugh Pinneo got to Bernard first. Hugh said he's "just glad I acted that day and saved the dog's life." We are too. 12/10 for all
10.02.2026 18:08 β π 8568 π 1160 π¬ 215 π 107
I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.
07.02.2026 14:45 β π 1854 π 339 π¬ 78 π 156
YouTube video by Johns Hopkins University
Apes Share Human Ability to Imagine
Imagination in bonobos!
I am thrilled to share a new paper w/ Amalia Bastos, out now in @science.org
We provide the first experimental evidence that a nonhuman animal can follow along a pretend scenario & track imaginary objects. Work w/ Kanzi, the bonobo, at Ape Initiative
youtu.be/NUSHcQQz2Ko
05.02.2026 19:18 β π 286 π 110 π¬ 10 π 10
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientistβbecause the person felt she did didnβt deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
06.02.2026 09:09 β π 46789 π 19187 π¬ 1339 π 785
A very loose, spare, painterly watercolour of a long view over a flat expansive landscape dotted with winter trees in broken sunshine under a cloudy sky
Other work of the Ladybird artists.
A February Day
Artist: Rowland Hilder
05.02.2026 20:28 β π 440 π 78 π¬ 7 π 2
New wadertales blog on how quickly juvenile godwits learn to feed efficiently through their first winter:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/l...
From new @asab.org paper led by Josh Nightingale:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#ornithology
05.02.2026 08:14 β π 13 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0
Last week, RPN broke a string of stories on significant changes to funding across a number of research councils (see thread below)
This morning, UKRI chief executive is appearing at the Commons science committee, where he is being asked about them by MPs
Here are some key moments so far π§΅
03.02.2026 10:51 β π 23 π 26 π¬ 1 π 5
bsky.app/profile/long...
01.02.2026 09:59 β π 1 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0
Decorative flowers and stems on balustrade of curving staircase
Can't resist revisiting this Art Nouveau winding staircase decorated with metal flowers and vines, designed by architect Ede Magyar, at ReΓΆk Palace in Szeged, Hungary (1907)
20.01.2026 06:59 β π 344 π 88 π¬ 6 π 7
βAmbitiousβ plans to use research funding to attract industry investment of Β£25 billion by the end of the decade are likely to prove βextremely challengingβ given falling levels of university-business spending, experts have warned. @jgro-the.bsky.social reports #academicsky
https://ow.ly/CKxs50XTrmp
09.01.2026 07:45 β π 1 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Iβd like to double/triple like this.
07.01.2026 20:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
I caught this beautiful sunset today. #London #HousesofParliament
06.01.2026 22:33 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Could you post the full portrait? It would be nice to see the whole thing.
04.01.2026 10:36 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
a man in a green elf costume is standing in a hallway .
ALT: a man in a green elf costume is standing in a hallway .
βYou sit on a throne of liesβ - Christmas has officially begun.
24.12.2025 20:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Blue painted circle over waved horizontal line on a cream background
Georgia O'Keeffe,
You Are The Sun, 1977
#Womensart #Solstice
21.12.2025 08:39 β π 518 π 84 π¬ 1 π 8
On leaving the University of Manchester β Soft Machines, by Richard Jones
How should universities work with combined authorities and business to support inclusive growth in our city-regions? Some reflections on my five years in Greater Manchester, to mark the year of my retirement from the University of Manchester.
softmachines.org?p=3213
19.12.2025 08:36 β π 9 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0
This illustration was originally the front cover picture of the ladybird book.
Two herons and clusters of other birds stand around a partially frozen lake under a yellow winter sky
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 21
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
(What to Look for in Winter, 1959)
21.12.2025 08:36 β π 525 π 98 π¬ 14 π 4
12.12.2024 20:39 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
'Bananas.' (1956) Throughout his career Lucian Freud was fascinated with plants and approached the painting of them without smothering them with symbolic meaning much the same as his mentor Cedric Morris, himself an evocative and unsentimental flower painter.
16.12.2025 17:12 β π 63 π 10 π¬ 1 π 1
It is a really interesting concept and the first two books take different approaches to the idea of time and continuity and how to live within them when they become displaced.
13.12.2025 20:40 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Books I have read and enjoyed on my holiday: The Original by Nell Stevens, the second of the βOn the Calculation of Volumeβ by Solvej Balle, and The List of Suspicious Things by Janine Godfrey.
13.12.2025 15:56 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
The UKβs continuing economic growth crisis β Soft Machines, by Richard Jones
Many plausible candidates contributing to this dismal performance, from the factors leading up to the 2008 crisis, post-crisis policies that made the situation worse, and the shocks of the last decade
My blogpost: The UK's continuing economic growth crisis
softmachines.org?p=3206
13.12.2025 11:54 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Looks excellent!
11.12.2025 17:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
This new issue of #PhilTransB expands the field of cultural #evolution and shows why it matters for todayβs biggest challenges. It highlights research funded by the @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social's Transformation Fund, which focused on #DEI: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...
11.12.2025 14:03 β π 9 π 11 π¬ 0 π 1
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