Nancy Lowe
sciencecandance.bsky.social
Nancy Lowe
@sciencecandance.bsky.social
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July 23, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Wintry mix = Oobleck. My least favorite kind of winter weather. But it does mean that spring is coming.... not soon, but eventually. Also, why does everything feel like a metaphor lately?
February 15, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Reposted by Nancy Lowe
In 1883, a national paper reported that "an Iowa woman has spent 7 years embroidering the solar system on a quilt." Ellen Harding Baker used her quilt to teach astronomy in an era when women could not attend college
Cosmic Threads: A Solar System Quilt from 1876
A serenade to the universe in wool and silk.
www.themarginalian.org
January 18, 2025 at 5:47 AM
#artscience du jour: Jim Costa -- prolific biographer of Darwin and Wallace, scholar of their lives and scientific discoveries -- has another book out. Can't wait to dig into this one! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Radical by Nature
A major biography of the brilliant naturalist, traveler, humanitarian, and codiscoverer of natural selection
press.princeton.edu
January 16, 2025 at 11:20 PM
#artscience du jour: Check out the work of @fernandaoyarzun.bsky.social At the intersection of marine biology, ceramics, evolution, larval forms, humans and non-humans, ecology, sculpture, interdisciplinary collaboration... this is beautiful, thoughtful work. www.fernandaoyarzun.com
Fernanda X. Oyarzun
Biologist, visual artist and Interdisciplinary researcher
www.fernandaoyarzun.com
January 14, 2025 at 10:41 PM
#artscience du jour: It's been cold and dark in the northern hemisphere. Here are some sounds from the sun, accompanied by other music: soundsofspaceproject.bandcamp.com/album/suncon...
Sunconscious, by Sounds of Space Project
12 track album
soundsofspaceproject.bandcamp.com
January 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
#artscience du jour: Call for artist -- apply for NaturePLACE Collaborative Arts Program. Baltimore, NYC, Newark, Kaibab Nat'l Forest AZ. Hosted by @usfs.bsky.social @tnoc.bsky.social and partners: ufsarts.com
NaturePLACE collaborative arts program - Urban Field Station Artist
Urban Field Stations exist as a network of sites supported by the USDA Forest Service in collaboration with municipal, state, nonprofit, and academic partners across the United States. The Urban Field...
ufsarts.com
January 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
#artscience du jour: Janine Antoni's "here-ing" -- environmentally embedded artwork at U Kansas Field Station & School of Architecture & Design, commissioned by Spencer Museum of Art Arts Research Integration program: groundworks.io/journal/proj...
here-ing: Place-based, Artistic Research at a Biological Field Station | Ground Works
groundworks.io
January 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM
#artscience du jour: The European Marine Board (EMB) is looking for two new artists/groups of artists for the 2025 – 2026 edition of its ‘EMBracing the Ocean’ artist-in-residence programme. See www.marineboard.eu/open-calls
Open calls
The European Marine Board (EMB) is looking for two new artists/groups of artists for the 2025 – 2026 edition of our ‘EMBracing the Ocean’ artist-in-residence programme. As we enter the fifth year of t...
www.marineboard.eu
January 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM