@bookswain.bsky.social
Starting over, again. Science, history, books, etc.
I share books and other items I collect, one of my hobbies. I was a Jedi once, like my father before me.
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I share books and other items I collect, one of my hobbies. I was a Jedi once, like my father before me.
All posts protected by the 1st Amendment.
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“At the fly-agaric people’s camp” engraved Walrus tusk by the Chukchi artist Lidiya Teyutina. It depicts stories she heard in her youth about the Fly Agaric people from the older members of her community #FungiFriends easteast.world/posts/94
February 5, 2026 at 1:38 PM
“At the fly-agaric people’s camp” engraved Walrus tusk by the Chukchi artist Lidiya Teyutina. It depicts stories she heard in her youth about the Fly Agaric people from the older members of her community #FungiFriends easteast.world/posts/94
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Titanus giganteus is the world's largest beetle! They can grow up to 7 inches long and are native to tropical forests in South America.
February 4, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Titanus giganteus is the world's largest beetle! They can grow up to 7 inches long and are native to tropical forests in South America.
Mind boggling 👇
"How and how much the media cover climate change matters greatly.
This 2025 downward trend appears in contrast with ongoing global warming where average temperatures in the most recent years have been the highest in nearly 150 years of recorded history."
This 2025 downward trend appears in contrast with ongoing global warming where average temperatures in the most recent years have been the highest in nearly 150 years of recorded history."
MeCCO Monthly Summaries :: Media and Climate Change Observatory
mecco.colorado.edu
February 5, 2026 at 3:11 AM
Mind boggling 👇
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"How and how much the media cover climate change matters greatly.
This 2025 downward trend appears in contrast with ongoing global warming where average temperatures in the most recent years have been the highest in nearly 150 years of recorded history."
This 2025 downward trend appears in contrast with ongoing global warming where average temperatures in the most recent years have been the highest in nearly 150 years of recorded history."
MeCCO Monthly Summaries :: Media and Climate Change Observatory
mecco.colorado.edu
February 5, 2026 at 2:35 AM
"How and how much the media cover climate change matters greatly.
This 2025 downward trend appears in contrast with ongoing global warming where average temperatures in the most recent years have been the highest in nearly 150 years of recorded history."
This 2025 downward trend appears in contrast with ongoing global warming where average temperatures in the most recent years have been the highest in nearly 150 years of recorded history."
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The 'With These Hands' trail features plaster casts which reproduce artefacts from the Mohenjo-daro ruins, one of the great cities of the Indus Valley Civilization (3000-2500 BC). Sold as cultural souvenirs, these casts connect modern makers with disappearing histories.This seal was donated in 1955.
February 4, 2026 at 3:59 PM
The 'With These Hands' trail features plaster casts which reproduce artefacts from the Mohenjo-daro ruins, one of the great cities of the Indus Valley Civilization (3000-2500 BC). Sold as cultural souvenirs, these casts connect modern makers with disappearing histories.This seal was donated in 1955.
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Pegmatite is a type of igneus rock that frequently contains large crystals of quartz, feldspar, or mica. When looked at with a longwave UV flashlight, these minerals seem to glow! Kids at our museum can see this for themselves up close and personal.
February 2, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Pegmatite is a type of igneus rock that frequently contains large crystals of quartz, feldspar, or mica. When looked at with a longwave UV flashlight, these minerals seem to glow! Kids at our museum can see this for themselves up close and personal.
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@michaeltconnelly.bsky.social et al. sequenced 342 Pocillopora coral samples from the Eastern Tropical Pacific, revealing four distinct species; algal symbiont community profiling identified dominant symbionts that varied according to host species.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf235
#genome #evolution
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf235
#genome #evolution
February 3, 2026 at 9:33 AM
@michaeltconnelly.bsky.social et al. sequenced 342 Pocillopora coral samples from the Eastern Tropical Pacific, revealing four distinct species; algal symbiont community profiling identified dominant symbionts that varied according to host species.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf235
#genome #evolution
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf235
#genome #evolution
“LE PIRAPÈDE (fig. 239) This fish is endowed, to a certain extent, with the ability to fly; by spreading its large pectoral fins..”
A fish plate & the description above (translated) from “Tableau Encyclopédique et Méthodique des Trois Regnes de la Nature. Ichthyologie” published in 1788. 🦑 #sciart
A fish plate & the description above (translated) from “Tableau Encyclopédique et Méthodique des Trois Regnes de la Nature. Ichthyologie” published in 1788. 🦑 #sciart
February 3, 2026 at 10:12 AM
“LE PIRAPÈDE (fig. 239) This fish is endowed, to a certain extent, with the ability to fly; by spreading its large pectoral fins..”
A fish plate & the description above (translated) from “Tableau Encyclopédique et Méthodique des Trois Regnes de la Nature. Ichthyologie” published in 1788. 🦑 #sciart
A fish plate & the description above (translated) from “Tableau Encyclopédique et Méthodique des Trois Regnes de la Nature. Ichthyologie” published in 1788. 🦑 #sciart
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“Crawford Lake: Layers in Time” offers an engaging look at the record of human life on Earth.
On until Sept. 13, 2026, Crawford Lake illustrates how everything from early agriculture to modern nuclear weapons testing has left its mark on this unassuming Canadian lake - and on the Earth at large.
On until Sept. 13, 2026, Crawford Lake illustrates how everything from early agriculture to modern nuclear weapons testing has left its mark on this unassuming Canadian lake - and on the Earth at large.
January 30, 2026 at 8:16 PM
“Crawford Lake: Layers in Time” offers an engaging look at the record of human life on Earth.
On until Sept. 13, 2026, Crawford Lake illustrates how everything from early agriculture to modern nuclear weapons testing has left its mark on this unassuming Canadian lake - and on the Earth at large.
On until Sept. 13, 2026, Crawford Lake illustrates how everything from early agriculture to modern nuclear weapons testing has left its mark on this unassuming Canadian lake - and on the Earth at large.
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New research from #ProcB: Early vertebrate biomineralization and eye structure determined by synchrotron X-ray analyses of Silurian jawless fish royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... | #Palaeontology #Fossils #Synchrotron
February 3, 2026 at 9:00 AM
New research from #ProcB: Early vertebrate biomineralization and eye structure determined by synchrotron X-ray analyses of Silurian jawless fish royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... | #Palaeontology #Fossils #Synchrotron
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Ramos Polychrome Human Effigy Vessel created by the Pre-Columbian Casas Grandes Culture (AD 1200-1450).
Collection of El Paso Museum of Archaeology.
My 📷
Collection of El Paso Museum of Archaeology.
My 📷
February 2, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Ramos Polychrome Human Effigy Vessel created by the Pre-Columbian Casas Grandes Culture (AD 1200-1450).
Collection of El Paso Museum of Archaeology.
My 📷
Collection of El Paso Museum of Archaeology.
My 📷
Bullfrogs everywhere tipping a glass of wine to Chuck Negron’s memory 🍷
February 3, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Bullfrogs everywhere tipping a glass of wine to Chuck Negron’s memory 🍷
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Remembering poet & Chingford resident Gerda Mayer (1927-2021) evacuated from Prague on a Kindertransport flight in 1939. Her father probably died in a Soviet labour camp. Her mother died in Auschwitz. Her poem Make Believe:
‘Say I were not sixty, say you weren’t near a hundred, say you were alive...
‘Say I were not sixty, say you weren’t near a hundred, say you were alive...
January 27, 2026 at 11:18 AM
Remembering poet & Chingford resident Gerda Mayer (1927-2021) evacuated from Prague on a Kindertransport flight in 1939. Her father probably died in a Soviet labour camp. Her mother died in Auschwitz. Her poem Make Believe:
‘Say I were not sixty, say you weren’t near a hundred, say you were alive...
‘Say I were not sixty, say you weren’t near a hundred, say you were alive...
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Study of Light,
Frederick Cuming (1930–2022), Williamson Art Gallery & Museum, Birkenhead. © the artist's estate. 🖼️ Williamson Art Gallery & Museum. Fred Cuming taught at Walthamstow School of Art. For @artukdotorg.bsky.social's #OnlineArtExchange on light and dark. artuk.org/discover/art...
Frederick Cuming (1930–2022), Williamson Art Gallery & Museum, Birkenhead. © the artist's estate. 🖼️ Williamson Art Gallery & Museum. Fred Cuming taught at Walthamstow School of Art. For @artukdotorg.bsky.social's #OnlineArtExchange on light and dark. artuk.org/discover/art...
January 29, 2026 at 8:58 AM
Study of Light,
Frederick Cuming (1930–2022), Williamson Art Gallery & Museum, Birkenhead. © the artist's estate. 🖼️ Williamson Art Gallery & Museum. Fred Cuming taught at Walthamstow School of Art. For @artukdotorg.bsky.social's #OnlineArtExchange on light and dark. artuk.org/discover/art...
Frederick Cuming (1930–2022), Williamson Art Gallery & Museum, Birkenhead. © the artist's estate. 🖼️ Williamson Art Gallery & Museum. Fred Cuming taught at Walthamstow School of Art. For @artukdotorg.bsky.social's #OnlineArtExchange on light and dark. artuk.org/discover/art...
Found this folded up in a book this morning, I had forgotten all about it. I think we got a little pin too, know clue what happened to it. I was a pilot a long time ago in what may as well have been a galaxy far, far away. Lots of big Hindu Kushy mountains, etc.
February 2, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Found this folded up in a book this morning, I had forgotten all about it. I think we got a little pin too, know clue what happened to it. I was a pilot a long time ago in what may as well have been a galaxy far, far away. Lots of big Hindu Kushy mountains, etc.
Ramos Polychrome Human Effigy Vessel created by the Pre-Columbian Casas Grandes Culture (AD 1200-1450).
Collection of El Paso Museum of Archaeology.
My 📷
Collection of El Paso Museum of Archaeology.
My 📷
February 2, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Ramos Polychrome Human Effigy Vessel created by the Pre-Columbian Casas Grandes Culture (AD 1200-1450).
Collection of El Paso Museum of Archaeology.
My 📷
Collection of El Paso Museum of Archaeology.
My 📷
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You may have heard of Enheduanna, the princess, priestess, and poet who is also the earliest named author in history.
Well, a tiny broken artefact made of lapis lazuli preserves the name of Ilum-pālil, her hairdresser. It is a fragmentary cylinder seal, excavated from a tomb in the city of Ur.
Well, a tiny broken artefact made of lapis lazuli preserves the name of Ilum-pālil, her hairdresser. It is a fragmentary cylinder seal, excavated from a tomb in the city of Ur.
January 13, 2026 at 2:23 PM
You may have heard of Enheduanna, the princess, priestess, and poet who is also the earliest named author in history.
Well, a tiny broken artefact made of lapis lazuli preserves the name of Ilum-pālil, her hairdresser. It is a fragmentary cylinder seal, excavated from a tomb in the city of Ur.
Well, a tiny broken artefact made of lapis lazuli preserves the name of Ilum-pālil, her hairdresser. It is a fragmentary cylinder seal, excavated from a tomb in the city of Ur.
A butterfly colored by hand on a copperplate engraving after art by amateur naturalist Edward Donovan.
It’s from his “The Natural History of British Insects (1792–1813)” He was born in Cork, Ireland, originally surnamed O'Donovan, but moved to London and anglicized his name. Pity. 🦋
It’s from his “The Natural History of British Insects (1792–1813)” He was born in Cork, Ireland, originally surnamed O'Donovan, but moved to London and anglicized his name. Pity. 🦋
February 2, 2026 at 1:40 PM
A butterfly colored by hand on a copperplate engraving after art by amateur naturalist Edward Donovan.
It’s from his “The Natural History of British Insects (1792–1813)” He was born in Cork, Ireland, originally surnamed O'Donovan, but moved to London and anglicized his name. Pity. 🦋
It’s from his “The Natural History of British Insects (1792–1813)” He was born in Cork, Ireland, originally surnamed O'Donovan, but moved to London and anglicized his name. Pity. 🦋
For #MolluscMonday, a cephalopod engraving from ‘Tableau Encyclopédique et Méthodique des Trois Règnes de la Nature’ published in Paris in 1791.
Coin for scale. 🦑 🐙
Coin for scale. 🦑 🐙
February 2, 2026 at 1:15 PM
For #MolluscMonday, a cephalopod engraving from ‘Tableau Encyclopédique et Méthodique des Trois Règnes de la Nature’ published in Paris in 1791.
Coin for scale. 🦑 🐙
Coin for scale. 🦑 🐙
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Somebody already did this for 2025 (& I would give credit if I could find the post). But in fact January deserves its own censure from Lady Catherine de Bourgh:
I take no leave of you, January. I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.
I take no leave of you, January. I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.
February 1, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Somebody already did this for 2025 (& I would give credit if I could find the post). But in fact January deserves its own censure from Lady Catherine de Bourgh:
I take no leave of you, January. I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.
I take no leave of you, January. I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.
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Arctic in Disarry!! It’s been the story of the winter so far. Warm-Blocky Arctic displacing cold airmasses southward. It’s how a rapidly warming Arctic - at a rate 4X the global average - and record low Arctic sea ice - helps enhance the patterns that lead to mid-latitude cold air outbreaks… 1/
February 2, 2026 at 12:29 AM
Arctic in Disarry!! It’s been the story of the winter so far. Warm-Blocky Arctic displacing cold airmasses southward. It’s how a rapidly warming Arctic - at a rate 4X the global average - and record low Arctic sea ice - helps enhance the patterns that lead to mid-latitude cold air outbreaks… 1/
I think (maybe) @earlymodjustice.bsky.social might find the entire call and response between the Governor and Massachusetts Congress interesting.
February 2, 2026 at 12:33 AM
I think (maybe) @earlymodjustice.bsky.social might find the entire call and response between the Governor and Massachusetts Congress interesting.
A December 4th, 1774 call from the Massachusetts Provincial Congress to unite, organize, & prepare for potential armed conflict in response to oppressive British policies.
From my copy of a book published in 1818 outlining the chartered rights infringed by the King & Parliament from 1765–1775. 📚💙
From my copy of a book published in 1818 outlining the chartered rights infringed by the King & Parliament from 1765–1775. 📚💙
February 2, 2026 at 12:30 AM
A December 4th, 1774 call from the Massachusetts Provincial Congress to unite, organize, & prepare for potential armed conflict in response to oppressive British policies.
From my copy of a book published in 1818 outlining the chartered rights infringed by the King & Parliament from 1765–1775. 📚💙
From my copy of a book published in 1818 outlining the chartered rights infringed by the King & Parliament from 1765–1775. 📚💙
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Moorish tiling in the fourteenth-century Alhambra in Granada, Spain on the left and M. C. Escher’s sketch he made during a 1936 visit on the right.
🖼️ 🧮
🖼️ 🧮
February 1, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Moorish tiling in the fourteenth-century Alhambra in Granada, Spain on the left and M. C. Escher’s sketch he made during a 1936 visit on the right.
🖼️ 🧮
🖼️ 🧮
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New Photos: Guyana 2026
This coming week I'll start sharing my new Guyana photos in earnest, but as usual my BlueSky audiences gets a sneak peek!
Here's a lovely tropical flat snake we found during one of our night walks.
Preview more photos from this trip: www.maxwaugh.com/2026/01/30/n...
This coming week I'll start sharing my new Guyana photos in earnest, but as usual my BlueSky audiences gets a sneak peek!
Here's a lovely tropical flat snake we found during one of our night walks.
Preview more photos from this trip: www.maxwaugh.com/2026/01/30/n...
January 31, 2026 at 2:10 PM
New Photos: Guyana 2026
This coming week I'll start sharing my new Guyana photos in earnest, but as usual my BlueSky audiences gets a sneak peek!
Here's a lovely tropical flat snake we found during one of our night walks.
Preview more photos from this trip: www.maxwaugh.com/2026/01/30/n...
This coming week I'll start sharing my new Guyana photos in earnest, but as usual my BlueSky audiences gets a sneak peek!
Here's a lovely tropical flat snake we found during one of our night walks.
Preview more photos from this trip: www.maxwaugh.com/2026/01/30/n...