Emily Olsen
@emilyolsen.bsky.social
🚀 Cataloguer, Science at Sotheby’s
💫1/2 of the Art Astra Podcast
Nerd about space, art, and pop culture.
Opinions my own.
💫1/2 of the Art Astra Podcast
Nerd about space, art, and pop culture.
Opinions my own.
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TIL that blood platelets have serotonin receptors, which is why anemia can mimic depression symptoms and that is absolutely fucking fascinating.
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
TIL that blood platelets have serotonin receptors, which is why anemia can mimic depression symptoms and that is absolutely fucking fascinating.
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Huh well it turns out I heard from a few federal workers about this and well
"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Huh well it turns out I heard from a few federal workers about this and well
"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
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an old Kate Bush drawing from 2021
November 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
an old Kate Bush drawing from 2021
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3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Highlighting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931)
3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Highlighting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931)
Paul Klee led an artistic life that spanned the 19th and 20th centuries, but he kept his aesthetic sensibility tuned to the future.
www.openculture.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Highlighting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931)
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Cyborg-Technology Relations is now an *ongoing* topical collection with the Journal of Human-Technology Relations. Plan your academic writing accordingly. :D
journals.open.tudelft.nl/jhtr/catalog...
journals.open.tudelft.nl/jhtr/catalog...
Cyborg-Technology Relations
| Journal of Human-Technology Relations
journals.open.tudelft.nl
November 8, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Cyborg-Technology Relations is now an *ongoing* topical collection with the Journal of Human-Technology Relations. Plan your academic writing accordingly. :D
journals.open.tudelft.nl/jhtr/catalog...
journals.open.tudelft.nl/jhtr/catalog...
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The pope has signed on to the STS agenda.
November 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The pope has signed on to the STS agenda.
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"The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
When the gales of November came slashin'
When afternoon came it was freezin' rain
In the face of a hurricane west wind."
50 years ago today...
#OnThisDay #MaritimeHistory
#EdmundFitzgerald #GordonLightfoot 🗃️⚓
(cc: @thelongestjohns.bsky.social)
When the gales of November came slashin'
When afternoon came it was freezin' rain
In the face of a hurricane west wind."
50 years ago today...
#OnThisDay #MaritimeHistory
#EdmundFitzgerald #GordonLightfoot 🗃️⚓
(cc: @thelongestjohns.bsky.social)
The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald | The Longest Johns
YouTube video by The Longest Johns
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
When the gales of November came slashin'
When afternoon came it was freezin' rain
In the face of a hurricane west wind."
50 years ago today...
#OnThisDay #MaritimeHistory
#EdmundFitzgerald #GordonLightfoot 🗃️⚓
(cc: @thelongestjohns.bsky.social)
When the gales of November came slashin'
When afternoon came it was freezin' rain
In the face of a hurricane west wind."
50 years ago today...
#OnThisDay #MaritimeHistory
#EdmundFitzgerald #GordonLightfoot 🗃️⚓
(cc: @thelongestjohns.bsky.social)
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With SNAP/EBT cuts looming I highly recommend downloading this app! Basically restaurants and other food businesses will have available bags of random food they don’t wanna waste for ppl to buy for hella cheap! This has saved me sooooo many times when I only have $5 and need some food.
October 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
With SNAP/EBT cuts looming I highly recommend downloading this app! Basically restaurants and other food businesses will have available bags of random food they don’t wanna waste for ppl to buy for hella cheap! This has saved me sooooo many times when I only have $5 and need some food.
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A way to set up a hybrid Zoom lecture that doesn't take 15 frantic minutes of changing various settings and resharing
Tech people think we want AI, robots, and a colony on Mars but what I actually want is a home printer that simply works.
November 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
A way to set up a hybrid Zoom lecture that doesn't take 15 frantic minutes of changing various settings and resharing
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My article on the likely influence of the experiments of polymath Thomas Young on the early abstract art of Hilma af Klint is now published & open access at Leonardo / MIT Press 🎉 direct.mit.edu/leon/article...
April 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
My article on the likely influence of the experiments of polymath Thomas Young on the early abstract art of Hilma af Klint is now published & open access at Leonardo / MIT Press 🎉 direct.mit.edu/leon/article...
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This Friday, I'll be joining a Copyright Literacy webinar to talk about art, copyright and the public domain. 🌻
Join me, Ana Enriquez, Megan Eve Kilvington, Diane Crawford-Leighton and Sarah Brear online. Jane Secker and Chris Morrison will be our hosts.
copyrightliteracy.org/2025/11/10/w...
Join me, Ana Enriquez, Megan Eve Kilvington, Diane Crawford-Leighton and Sarah Brear online. Jane Secker and Chris Morrison will be our hosts.
copyrightliteracy.org/2025/11/10/w...
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This Friday, I'll be joining a Copyright Literacy webinar to talk about art, copyright and the public domain. 🌻
Join me, Ana Enriquez, Megan Eve Kilvington, Diane Crawford-Leighton and Sarah Brear online. Jane Secker and Chris Morrison will be our hosts.
copyrightliteracy.org/2025/11/10/w...
Join me, Ana Enriquez, Megan Eve Kilvington, Diane Crawford-Leighton and Sarah Brear online. Jane Secker and Chris Morrison will be our hosts.
copyrightliteracy.org/2025/11/10/w...
Beyond proud of my American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) team at the New York #OutoftheDarkness walk. We raised over $1,000 for suicide prevention this year, smashing our fundraising goal for the second year in a row. THANK YOU everyone supporting us. 💙💙💙
November 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Beyond proud of my American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) team at the New York #OutoftheDarkness walk. We raised over $1,000 for suicide prevention this year, smashing our fundraising goal for the second year in a row. THANK YOU everyone supporting us. 💙💙💙
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Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
HEAD'S UP FELLOW #CREATIVES!
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
Grammarly Rebrands Company as Superhuman, Introduces Superhuman Suite and Superhuman Go
Superhuman Platform delivers proactive, context-aware AI agents that work in the flow of work, wherever people work Grammarly today announced it is changing its company…
www.grammarly.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
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NY-area sailors reportedly delighted.
Alerting all New Yorkers to go outside and look up
November 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
NY-area sailors reportedly delighted.
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i love winding the clocks back an hour. you get an extra hour of sleep and the only downside is several months of horrible despair.
November 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
i love winding the clocks back an hour. you get an extra hour of sleep and the only downside is several months of horrible despair.
In a conversation with a colleague, I was reminded of the 2008 “Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy” conference at the @metmuseum.org and that all of it is on YouTube. 😍
So excited to revisit it, 17 years and what feels like hundreds of superhero films and shows later.
So excited to revisit it, 17 years and what feels like hundreds of superhero films and shows later.
November 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
In a conversation with a colleague, I was reminded of the 2008 “Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy” conference at the @metmuseum.org and that all of it is on YouTube. 😍
So excited to revisit it, 17 years and what feels like hundreds of superhero films and shows later.
So excited to revisit it, 17 years and what feels like hundreds of superhero films and shows later.
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Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
Fitzwilliam Museum has uncovered student’s work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of child’s burial place
An A-level pupil found the lost grave of the Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano’s daughter, revealing a story of love and solidarity in 18th-century rural England.
Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797), also known as Gustavus Vassa, escaped enslavement to become a celebrated author and campaigner in Georgian England. His memoir, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, was a bestseller. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
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The ISS Archaeological Project studied the phenomenon of crew-created visual displays in two articles (both open access): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... and www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/11...
November 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The ISS Archaeological Project studied the phenomenon of crew-created visual displays in two articles (both open access): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... and www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/11...
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THREAD: 25 years ago today, the first crew of the International Space Station for a four-and-a-half month stay. Two cosmonauts - Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev - were joined by NASA astronaut William Shepherd. Since that moment, the ISS had had at least two people onboard.
November 2, 2025 at 4:41 AM
THREAD: 25 years ago today, the first crew of the International Space Station for a four-and-a-half month stay. Two cosmonauts - Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev - were joined by NASA astronaut William Shepherd. Since that moment, the ISS had had at least two people onboard.
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I wrote something about the 25th anniversary of ISS habitation and the 10th anniversary of the International Space Station Archaeological Project
theconversation.com/25-years-of-...
theconversation.com/25-years-of-...
25 Years of the International Space Station: What archaeology tells us about living and working in space
Archaeologists have studied how astronauts use the International Space Station to improve its potential future successors.
theconversation.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I wrote something about the 25th anniversary of ISS habitation and the 10th anniversary of the International Space Station Archaeological Project
theconversation.com/25-years-of-...
theconversation.com/25-years-of-...
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The Art Astra Podcast is back for a second season! Catch our latest episode for a conversation with @mrtowne.bsky.social about security in space! Available wherever you get your podcasts!
www.artastra.space/episodes/sec...
www.artastra.space/episodes/sec...
Episode 10: Security in Space with Schuyler Towne — Art Astra Podcast
What challenges does physical security face in outer space? Would it be possible to pick a lock in space? Join Emily, Alexa, and their guest, historian of security Schuyler Towne, as they discuss how ...
www.artastra.space
October 31, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The Art Astra Podcast is back for a second season! Catch our latest episode for a conversation with @mrtowne.bsky.social about security in space! Available wherever you get your podcasts!
www.artastra.space/episodes/sec...
www.artastra.space/episodes/sec...
The lady sitting next to me on the plane needed to get into the row and apologized for making me get up and I meant to say either “you’re good” or “no problem” and it sounded like I said “your problem.” 💀💀💀
October 31, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The lady sitting next to me on the plane needed to get into the row and apologized for making me get up and I meant to say either “you’re good” or “no problem” and it sounded like I said “your problem.” 💀💀💀
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Sharks DO get cancer, as in this Great White observed in 2014 near Australia.
Every vertebrate species, with long enough observation, will display cancerous growth, because cancer is "baked-in" to multicellularity & the capacity for growth.
Rates vary by species, but *cancer is a constant*.
Every vertebrate species, with long enough observation, will display cancerous growth, because cancer is "baked-in" to multicellularity & the capacity for growth.
Rates vary by species, but *cancer is a constant*.
October 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Sharks DO get cancer, as in this Great White observed in 2014 near Australia.
Every vertebrate species, with long enough observation, will display cancerous growth, because cancer is "baked-in" to multicellularity & the capacity for growth.
Rates vary by species, but *cancer is a constant*.
Every vertebrate species, with long enough observation, will display cancerous growth, because cancer is "baked-in" to multicellularity & the capacity for growth.
Rates vary by species, but *cancer is a constant*.
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“The [MFA] has reached a historic agreement with the known descendants of David Drake (also known as Dave the Potter) regarding two monumental stoneware vessels in the MFA’s collection that were made by the enslaved potter and poet…”
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Resolves Ownership of Works by Enslaved Artist David Drake
BOSTON (October 29, 2025)—The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has reached a historic agreement with the known descendants of David Drake (also k
www.mfa.org
October 30, 2025 at 2:48 AM
“The [MFA] has reached a historic agreement with the known descendants of David Drake (also known as Dave the Potter) regarding two monumental stoneware vessels in the MFA’s collection that were made by the enslaved potter and poet…”
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A major front of the current information war: getting your facts, frames, propaganda, disinformation, etc. into the AI systems that create so much of the content we see and are rapidly becoming the de facto “ground truth” of the internet.
"ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds." www.wired.com/story/chatbo...
Chatbots Are Pushing Sanctioned Russian Propaganda
ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
A major front of the current information war: getting your facts, frames, propaganda, disinformation, etc. into the AI systems that create so much of the content we see and are rapidly becoming the de facto “ground truth” of the internet.