manu schwendener
@manuschwendener.ch
librarian, photographer
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My starter pack https://go.bsky.app/T9AKgaA
Bluesky is on https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/issues
manuschwendener.ch
My starter pack https://go.bsky.app/T9AKgaA
Bluesky is on https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/issues
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🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A man (40s?) and a teen are chilling at a table outside an ice cream cafe.
Dad's sitting back, listening attentively while Teen talks enthusiastically, pausing to laugh with her whole body.
Waffle cones of ice cream each.
Big blue sky overhead. (1)
A man (40s?) and a teen are chilling at a table outside an ice cream cafe.
Dad's sitting back, listening attentively while Teen talks enthusiastically, pausing to laugh with her whole body.
Waffle cones of ice cream each.
Big blue sky overhead. (1)
November 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A man (40s?) and a teen are chilling at a table outside an ice cream cafe.
Dad's sitting back, listening attentively while Teen talks enthusiastically, pausing to laugh with her whole body.
Waffle cones of ice cream each.
Big blue sky overhead. (1)
A man (40s?) and a teen are chilling at a table outside an ice cream cafe.
Dad's sitting back, listening attentively while Teen talks enthusiastically, pausing to laugh with her whole body.
Waffle cones of ice cream each.
Big blue sky overhead. (1)
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Our bone marrow consists of specialized tissue made up of bone cells, blood vessels, nerves and other cell types. Now, researchers @biomedizin.unibas.ch have succeeded for the first time in recreating this cellular complexity using only human cells. This could reduce the need for animal experiments.
Researchers build bone marrow model entirely from human cells
Researchers are realistically recreating human bone marrow in the laboratory using artificial bone structures and human cells.
www.unibas.ch
November 30, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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#Rewilding One of the cartoons in my new book 'Physics for Cats'. Available now in good bookshops an online nowwww.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
November 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
#Rewilding One of the cartoons in my new book 'Physics for Cats'. Available now in good bookshops an online nowwww.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
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Here's the closest thing we saw to a turkey in Borneo. It's my best view of the Great Argus to date. I've yet to see a display, but that tail is impressive nonetheless!
November 27, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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People Watching: Opening party for 'Pop to Present: American Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts' at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki on a Friday night
November 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
People Watching: Opening party for 'Pop to Present: American Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts' at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki on a Friday night
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Hey folks, this is a very cool opportunity for peeps to do an amazing postdoc in Sydney, Australia in translational vision research.
We’re hiring! Join the Sivyer Lab at The University of Sydney as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Neurodegeneration within the Snow Vision Accelerator, a $50M initiative tackling glaucoma and optic nerve disease. iPSCs, electrophysiology, drug discovery, and gene therapy.
November 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Ready to take your library career to the next level?
Applications are now open for international mid to senior library and archive professionals to join us in July 2026 for the International Library Leaders Programme.
Learn more bit.ly/BL-ILLP
Applications are now open for international mid to senior library and archive professionals to join us in July 2026 for the International Library Leaders Programme.
Learn more bit.ly/BL-ILLP
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Tracy McKechnie and Liz Gunn from Kent Prison #Libraries won our Reading Award back in 2023 for innovative use of technology at HMP Swaleside.
If you know of an individual or team doing brilliant #Reading work, nominate them for our 2026 Awards.
www.librariesconnected.org.uk/projects/lib...
If you know of an individual or team doing brilliant #Reading work, nominate them for our 2026 Awards.
www.librariesconnected.org.uk/projects/lib...
November 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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On a big grassy hill that's visible from a cafe table a line of sheep are walking along a well-trodden track, creating the world's woolliest traffic jam for a couple of trampers.
Blue sky arching overhead.
Bleats and baas filtering down into the valley on a pleasant spring breeze. (5)
Blue sky arching overhead.
Bleats and baas filtering down into the valley on a pleasant spring breeze. (5)
November 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
On a big grassy hill that's visible from a cafe table a line of sheep are walking along a well-trodden track, creating the world's woolliest traffic jam for a couple of trampers.
Blue sky arching overhead.
Bleats and baas filtering down into the valley on a pleasant spring breeze. (5)
Blue sky arching overhead.
Bleats and baas filtering down into the valley on a pleasant spring breeze. (5)
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If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!
A reminder that the median book deal for a debut author in the UK is £7000, paid over 12-18 months. (from 2022 Society of Authors report). Some of your favourite writers are struggling. societyofauthors.org/2022/12/06/a....
November 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Now for some sports news...
(this week's cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages)
(this week's cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages)
November 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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In a board game and toy shop, a tiny human (2?) is holding up a small toy kiwi.
Dad asks what sound a kiwi makes and not missing a beat, she holds up her precious bird find, bellowing: "HOOOOOOONK!"
Dad laughing. "Not quite! But... no, not even close. Let's look up what a kiwi sounds like, eh?" (2)
Dad asks what sound a kiwi makes and not missing a beat, she holds up her precious bird find, bellowing: "HOOOOOOONK!"
Dad laughing. "Not quite! But... no, not even close. Let's look up what a kiwi sounds like, eh?" (2)
November 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Anyway, do not help the Sam Altmans of the world steal Machine Learning valor to prop up a bunch of gross plagiarism machines that have all our worst biases and failings baked in.
November 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Anyway, do not help the Sam Altmans of the world steal Machine Learning valor to prop up a bunch of gross plagiarism machines that have all our worst biases and failings baked in.
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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It’s a very happy #DoctorWhoDay from us - we’re delighted to announce we’ve successfully acquired the archive of Whoniverse legend Terrance Dicks 😲 Read more at the link:
www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/ne...
www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/ne...
November 23, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Huge price cuts are already underway on the #LEGO #PickABrick site! They only show the current price on their site, so you won't know what's discounted.
Unless you visit our fabulous list! We show every part discounted by at least 40%... all the way up to 97%!
www.newelementary.com/2025/11/lego...
Unless you visit our fabulous list! We show every part discounted by at least 40%... all the way up to 97%!
www.newelementary.com/2025/11/lego...
LEGO® Pick a Brick: Thousands of pieces reduced in price
Huge reductions in price have been made for 1000s of LEGO® pieces at Pick a Brick (PaB) in November 2025.
www.newelementary.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Huge price cuts are already underway on the #LEGO #PickABrick site! They only show the current price on their site, so you won't know what's discounted.
Unless you visit our fabulous list! We show every part discounted by at least 40%... all the way up to 97%!
www.newelementary.com/2025/11/lego...
Unless you visit our fabulous list! We show every part discounted by at least 40%... all the way up to 97%!
www.newelementary.com/2025/11/lego...
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welcome to the club, wolves
November 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
welcome to the club, wolves
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Henry Cole.
Miguel Zenón's longtime drummer has a new album of his own. And what scope it dares to have. Bringing the ancestors to play bomba & plena with the sonic palettes of Hendrix, Fela & James Brown. Haven't heard music this ambitious in a long time.
Go get it.
Miguel Zenón's longtime drummer has a new album of his own. And what scope it dares to have. Bringing the ancestors to play bomba & plena with the sonic palettes of Hendrix, Fela & James Brown. Haven't heard music this ambitious in a long time.
Go get it.
Henry Cole & Villa Locura - Raw & Spiritual. Interstellar Puerto Rican Funk Music
Recorded at Electric Lady Studios , NYC By Phil Joly Mixed by Michael Brauer Mastered by Joe La Porta Produced by Henry Cole Co-produced by Jason Lindner & Phil Joly Liner note...
henry-cole.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Henry Cole.
Miguel Zenón's longtime drummer has a new album of his own. And what scope it dares to have. Bringing the ancestors to play bomba & plena with the sonic palettes of Hendrix, Fela & James Brown. Haven't heard music this ambitious in a long time.
Go get it.
Miguel Zenón's longtime drummer has a new album of his own. And what scope it dares to have. Bringing the ancestors to play bomba & plena with the sonic palettes of Hendrix, Fela & James Brown. Haven't heard music this ambitious in a long time.
Go get it.
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Stoked that the Kākāpō Files from Radio NZ will be back this summer. Follow to hear how this #kakapo breeding season - likely to be the biggest ever - unfolds! #conservation
www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
November 18, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Stoked that the Kākāpō Files from Radio NZ will be back this summer. Follow to hear how this #kakapo breeding season - likely to be the biggest ever - unfolds! #conservation
www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
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User Experience in Libraries 2026: we have just launched our theme - Pathways and Possibilities - and our Call for Papers for our next conference in York in June 2026. If you are interested in applying to present then visit our website for all the details: uxlib.org/2025/11/13/c... #userexperience
November 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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