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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
When Nyunmiti Burtom & other female Australian Indigenous artists heard of the Christchurch Mosque attack, 2019, they showed solidarity by creating a canvas for NZ Muslim community depicting people separated by sea, culture, but united in humanity #WomensArt
December 26, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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floellabenjamin.bsky.social
Merry Christmas everyone, especially my #Playschool Babies. Be kind, considerate and compassionate as the festive season continues. Spread joy everywhere you go and remember the best gift you can give is unconditional love ❤️🎄❤️
December 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Santa's World Tour 2025 has come to a successful conclusion.
NORAD Santa Tracker is standing down until next year.
Thank you all for being a part of the festivities & allowing a little magic to brighten the night.
Merry Christmas. Happy Holidays.
May peace find us all.
Santa sleeping on his couch NORAD Santa Tracker HQ
December 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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adalovelaceday.bsky.social
Mary Eliza Mahoney was the first African American woman to become a licensed nurse and to work professionally as a nurse in the USA. She was one of only three to successfully graduate from her class of 42 women. adalovelaceday.subst...
Mary Eliza Mahoney, Licensed nurse
Mary Eliza Mahoney was the first African American woman to become a licensed nurse and to work professionally as a nurse in the USA.
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December 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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politicdormouse.bsky.social
Cleone Benest aka C Griff #motorist #metallurgist. 1 of 1st women #engineers to pass mechanical exams of City & Guilds of London Institute & The RAC. Published on engineering & establisd own firm managed & run by women @wes1919.bsky.social member. d. #OTD 23 Dec 1963 bit.ly/3uzpaYs
Cleone Benest aka C Griff in motoring leather 1920s style
December 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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marym276.bsky.social
My great aunt Dora's Wiki page has been viewed over 6000 times! Plus news update on my novel.
Wiki Women
There is a group of editors called the Wiki Women in Red (WWR) who aim to address the gender bias in Wikipedia's profiles of 'notable people.' Since 2014, when only 15.5% of profiles in English language Wikipedia were about women, they have steadily added more, including Dora, so that now over 20% of profiles are about women. Quite an achievement but still a way to go!
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December 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
Cinderella’s second ball dress (1964)
Artist: Eric Winter
Cinderella stands in a blue silk and lace ball dress with stars in her hair. To her right is a footman in livery and to her left is the smiling fairy godmother
December 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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adalovelaceday.bsky.social
Katalin Karikó co-discovered that modifications to mRNA could prevent an immune reaction, allowing it to be used to order cells to make any protein. Her work laid the foundations for the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. adalovelaceday.subst...
Dr Katalin Karikó, Biochemist
Katalin Karikó is a biochemist whose work on RNA-mediated immune activation was essential for the development of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.
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December 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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The only known photographs of mathematician and computing pioneer Ada Lovelace have been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery just before they were expected to be sold to a private buyer.

www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/nat...
National Portrait Gallery buys rare photographs of Ada Lovelace for the nation
The only known photographs of mathematician and computing pioneer Ada Lovelace have been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery just before they were expected to be sold to a private buyer.
www.ianvisits.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
Article if you’d like to read: www.sfgate.com/local/articl...
America’s oldest park ranger dies at 104 years old in Bay Area home
“She led a fully packed life and was ready to leave,” her family wrote.
www.sfgate.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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silverpebble2.bsky.social
Merry solstice from my 300 year old wee Willie winkie lamp with tiny chimney & these tiny scented narcissi-the first of the year. Now the light will begin to return…
December 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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benpatrickwill.bsky.social
Finally, if you can get through the paywall this piece from earlier in the week illuminates how the experience above is just a tiny part of an industrial-scale, global, and sector-wide catastrophe of AI and citations to nonexistent papers in academic publishing bsky.app/profile/mile...
milesklee.bsky.social chopped unc crisis hotline @milesklee.bsky.social · 9d
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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silverpebble2.bsky.social
There are still a few spaces left on my botanical (10) & bird illustration (24) & mental health w'shops in January
I'll teach you how to draw🌿🌱 or🐦‍⬛👇
AND how creative activity alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health
I'm an molecular cell biologist & illustrator:
workshops.emmamitchell.uk
cornflowers, sweet peas and Russian sage on a Kraft paper sketch book with my drawings of them alongside and the pen I used nearby My pen and ink drawings of 5 much loved Uk garden birds: wren, long tailed tit, coal tit, redwing & blackcap My drawing of 3 long tailed tits in a winter hawthorn 5 plant varieties that flower or bear berries in the winter on white sketchbook paper with my illustrations of them alongside and the pen I used nearby
December 20, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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johnharris1969.bsky.social
Superb by @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social
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Imagine a classroom with almost nothing in it, save some hard wooden benches and a stack of Bibles. Imagine the school it is in has only one loo, no canteen, gets freezing cold in winter – oh, and the playground is full of gravestones. If this sounds to you like the perfect setting to teach the country’s most vulnerable children, then you’re going to love Reform UK’s new Send policy, which involves cutting the bill for taxiing children to far-flung special schools by repurposing nearby “empty churches” (a term that in itself may surprise vicars) as schools on weekdays. But if you have actually met any children, and therefore suspect this idea isn’t going to fly, then read on to find out why Reform looks more beatable at the end of what has undeniably been its breakthrough year than it did at the beginning.
December 19, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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edmondslyn.bsky.social
This #fungus caught my eye as well as some winter sun last week in Cambridge - ID help appreciated
#FungiFriends #FungiFriday #Mushroom #MushroomMonday
A fungus growing on a wooden fence surrounded by autumn leaf litter
December 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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paullewismoney.bsky.social
Michel Mone linked firm goes bust bit.ly/3Yzqwns Liquidation means the money will not be repaid unless the govt can go after the personal assets in trust but that could be tricky.
PPE company linked to ex-Tory peer Michelle Mone goes into liquidation
PPE Medpro owes government £148m for supplying unusable personal protective equipment during Covid-19 pandemic
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December 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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politicdormouse.bsky.social
Della Crewe (1884-1926) US motorcyclist. 1914 cross-country trip from Waco Texas to New York City in 1914 on Harley-Davidson 2-speed twin-engine & sidecar. Travelled with Boston Bull Terrier named Trouble "the only trouble I will have with me on this trip" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Della_C...
Della Crewe in 1914 on her Harley-Davidson 2-speed twin-engine & sidecar.
December 19, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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womenshistnet.bsky.social
Today is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. We remember lives lost and call for safety, dignity, and justice.

Archives can help us understand past sex worker struggles: womenshistorynetwork.org/reading-agai...

#IDEVASW #SexWorkers
Reading against the grain: sex workers lives in a government archive by Vicky Iglikowski-Broad
Reading against the grain: sex workers lives in a government archive Vicky Iglikowski-Broad Historically, sex workers lives have been medicalised, criminalised and moralised, and this is reflected …
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December 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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daltmann.bsky.social
Get your flu vaccine and protect Gran at Xmas👇
December 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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politico.com
Vought says National Center for Atmospheric Research will be dismantled
Vought says National Center for Atmospheric Research will be dismantled
Loss of the program would mean “public safety is at risk and science is being attacked,” Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said in a statement Tuesday,
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December 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
Elon musk tweet We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could gone to some great parties. Did that instead.
December 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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adalovelaceday.bsky.social
Biologist Danielle N Lee studies the connections between ecology, evolution and animal behaviour. She studies the African giant pouched rat's behavioural syndromes and the potential role of genetics in these behaviours. adalovelaceday.subst...
Prof Danielle N Lee, Behavioural Ecologist
Danielle N Lee is a biologist whose research focuses on the connections between ecology, evolution and animal behaviour.
adalovelaceday.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
My friend Subhadra Das is very worried about her friend Dr Ayo Khalil who has been arrested outside HMP Bronzefield
After the ambulance left with Qesser to take her to hospital the protest group outside of HMP ronzefield packed up their stuff and started leaving together as agreed with the police. The police then jumped on Dr Ayo Khalil and arrested him for no reason. They haven't arrested the white doctors who were also there, only him. The only black male doctor at the scene. He may have helped save Qessers life today, calmly, with knowledge and expertise and great planning and communication. And now they've arrested him. Call the met. Put a complaint in. And watch @kelechnekoff 's live now for on the ground updates. They must de-arrest him and face the consequences of their actions.
December 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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joannechocolat.bsky.social
Door 17 of #Shedvent:: The forest folk return to their home, taking you with them: riding a sledge of grasshopper glass, drawn by Arctic foxes, you enter a forest in which every tree is lit with particles of light, and every turn of the path seems to lead to a new and singular mystery…
December 17, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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adalovelaceday.bsky.social
Irene C Peden is an electrical engineer & was the first woman scientist to live and work in the interior of the Antarctic, developing techniques for studying deep glacial ice using radio waves. adalovelaceday.subst...
Prof Irene C Peden, Electrical engineer
Irene C Peden is an electrical engineer who was the first woman scientist to live and work in the interior of the Antarctic, developing techniques for studying deep glacial ice using radio waves.
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December 17, 2025 at 9:16 AM