#Photogrammetry news!! Potentially of interest @scholarslab.bsky.social !

Mosaic depicting a wolf with what appears to be a large grin on its face. Two children (Romulus and Remus) stand underneath the wolf.

Happy birthday Rome! According to Roman tradition, Romulus founded the city #OnThisDay in 753 BC.

Here's a mosaic of Romulus's early years being raised by a wolf (who had a great smile) #BeforeTheyWereFamous

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A nest with a closed top and sideways entrance in a basket with leaves on top of a dead light on a balcony. Chicks whose eyes haven't opened yet are inside. It looks very cozy.

Carolina wren chick update!

this logically implies the existence of hitherto undiscovered clay post-it notes and flipchart pads

Today is Election Day in Virginia! Vote YES, VA!!

YOU CAN DO IT, #VIRGINIA! #ElectionDay #VAElections

Rubin bags 11,000 new asteroids! This is just the beginning, too. There are more millions more out there waiting to be seen.

The Vera Rubin observatory has already discovered 11,000 *previously unknown* asteroids... and the proper observing sessions haven't even begun yet!

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A pigeon on the go, wearing a fez, painted in acrylic over a green background

Today's pigeon is wearing a fez, and was painted in a hotel room

No, I doubt very much that these were Palestinian souvenirs. These were new-looking, and the women I know were very wealthy but not likely to travel that way.

Hey Virginia! If you haven't voted yet, please make a plan to vote YES tomorrow. 6am -7 pm! I believe in you.

VOTE YES TOMORROW, VIRGINIA!!!

Truthfully, I'm kind of worried it won't pass, so yell your friends to go vote!! The R's campaign has been so dishonest.

"I know the machine eats babies! But what if one day the same machine is used to help humans? I think it would be cool if in a few years we reclaim the BABY-NOMMER-9000 and use it for emails only! And with only 1 baby (that we communally own) fed into it per month. So it CAN be reclaimed, ok?"

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

I have seen three different women wearing gold and diamond Jerusalem Crosses recently. 👀😬

You guys. A goose is nesting under the Spoon Bridge and Cherry. This is our Romulus and Remus moment. We already became ungovernable. Now we become myth. #Minneapolis.

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For the past two years, the final project in my pseudoarchaeology class (ANT2290) was to craft a zine on an archaeological site, that presents both the actual evidence and a fanciful interpretation of it based on pseudoscientific practices covered in class. This year's crop was outstanding!

Final fun fact: Robert E. Lee may have made a number of bad decisions during Gettysburg because he was suffering from dysentery. (Also possible that he was a wildly overrated commander.)

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That´s right folks: We are officially looking for more freelance artists to help us with upcoming projects.✍️

Here are the requirements:

a man in a lobster costume is dancing in a room with the words maryland residents above him ALT: a man in a lobster costume is dancing in a room with the words maryland residents above him

How can you tell you're from Maryland? When the facilities manager at 1 of your 2 current Charlottesville temp jobs--who happens to be from PG County--deposits a bag of refrigerated but fresh steamed crabs in Old Bay on your office desk.
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I keep saying he's going to go full Türkmenbaşı, with a gold statue to himself.

The John Rylands Library to stage first ever international exhibition in North America - About Manchester The John Rylands Library will make history in 2026 by taking its first major international exhibition to North America, showcasing one of the world's most

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A must-see if you're anywhere near Austin, TX!

John Rylands Library is loaning star objects for an exhibition opening this month.

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#ClassicsBlueSky #AncientBlueSky #Egyptology
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I saw Maya Angelou speak wearing a sparkling pink gown that made her look like a magical serpent deity in Baltimore once, and I cannot imagine ever having the guts to question her about anything.

Do you understand how the Heritage Foundation also has weekly church services inside its offices? Is that a tax thing on top of their Christian Nationalist stuff?

My mom holding an embroidery of a trilobite wearing a crown of flowers.

My mom - a geologist - gets out the embroidery that I made her every spring. Because trilobites wearing a crown of flowers are a harbinger of springtime.

#Embroidery

I'm increasingly struck by the way the only reason we get Nice Things in the US is that the EU makes it happen.

Was it seeing hellebores, irises, daffodils, and columbines all blooming at the same time like Olav and I did this morning? Because that seems like an AI hallucination but it seems to be real.

He is mostly Norwegian elkhound, with other surprises thrown in.

A very steep, terraced hill covered in green in Raymah, with a settlement of stone houses at the hill's peak

A view of a steep green hillside in Ja'afariyah District, with houses visible up and down the precipitous slope

A view of Jabal Bard in Kusmah District, Raymah Governorate. Jabal Bard is the highest mountain in Raymah Governorate and the second highest in Yemen

A long, serpent-like road winding down a partially terraced mountain toward Hudaydah's Tihama plain in Raymah Governorate

Only made a governorate in 2004, Raymah has similarly ancient bona fides

Characterized by steep mountains, Raymah is one of Yemen's most isolated areas, and the region's Arabic dialect allegedly retains aspects of the ancient Sabaic language that was supplanted by Arabic with the coming of Islam

A Map of Yemen showing Ma'rib Governorate highlighted in its center

Ancient ruins of the Sabaean city of Ma'rib south of the modern-day city, with series of pillars in a row popularly known as the 'Throne of Bilqis' in the center

An aerial view of a large roundabout in Ma'rib City

Yemeni fighters backed by the Saudi-led coalition stand at a distance from the front line after clashes with Houthi rebels on the Kassara front line near Marib, Yemen.

Taking the old Incense Road south from Jawf, we arrive at one of Yemen's most storied governorates: Ma'rib

Students of ancient history will know Ma'rib as the stronghold of the mythical realm of Sheba, while those who follow the current conflict know it as a last bastion of the Yemeni government

The ancient ruins of the city of Baraqish in western Jawf, which served as a capital of the Minaean people

Map showing the area controlled by the Kingdom of Ma'in in northern Yemen and southern Saudi Arabia

Map showing the overland incense route from Hadramawt to Ma'rib and then all the way north through Saudi Arabia up to Petra, Bostra, and Damascus. The path mostly skirts the western edge of the Empty Quarter.

A Minaean inscription that uses the ancient South Arabian script, with an engraving of long-horned Arabian oryx, still an important symbol of Yemen

This is of course not to say Jawf is unpopulated. Far from it. The western 1/3 is densely populated, and back in the 7th century BCE was the center of the South Arabian kingdom of Ma'in, which grew rich off the Incense Route that stretched all the way from Yemen to Syria