Rearing horse, 1503 #leonardodavinci #highrenaissance

NASA astronaut Christina Koch sits in an U.S. Navy MH-60S Seahawk attached to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 23 on the flight deck of the San Antonio Class amphibious transport dock USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) after returning from space on Apr. 10, 2026.

This picture of Astronaut Christina Koch after the Artemis landing is frankly incredible and beautiful.

Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.

Female Head #highrenaissance #leonardodavinci

Und noch bevor morgen der erste Hahn kräht, wird sie ihren alten Kameraden vergessen haben.

So the history of OA reinforces what we already know: that academic publishing simply does not make sense as a market-based activity. Many of the experiments in OA now point to models much less dominant by market incentives, which is a more interesting debate than who was right about APCs.

#ITeachPhysics another relative velocity video for you

Oh that is fresh

National Center for Biotechnology Information

Just read a very good article at the US Library of Medicine. My research will be vastly improved as a result. If only I could do that for most academic articles, rather than be blocked out by an unaffordable charging system www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

I agree: a dismissive stance is unhelpful but I fear the point of using legal or conventional means of removing them has come and gone. And anyway "them" is doing a lot of heavy lifting; "they" have permeated all levels of government and judiciary. Like asbestos. Similarly hard to remove.

Not just plausible. Likely. Dry run in Hungary next weekend. It's bad

Cover of Cory Doctorow's book "Enshittification" damaged by the enshittified retailer. A strip of brown paper glued across the entire front

Reading #Enshittification (the copy @richardlittler.bsky.social got from the online retailer who serves as a case study in the book). I like the morphological fun that @doctorow.pluralistic.net has with his neologism: "Disenshittificatory countermaneuver" is just downright giddy 🤣

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

My word, the tack makes me shudder

Oh man...

The Benjamin quote is still my fave description of this — the phases don’t have to be strictly sequential. “Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed; and finally, a textile one, where it is woven.”

Why mathematicians are boycotting their biggest conference More than 1,500 mathematicians are demanding that their field’s most prestigious meeting be moved from the U.S.

More than 1,500 mathematicians are demanding that their field’s most prestigious meeting be moved from the U.S.

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Such ein Buch Fünf Bücher, die sich lohnen – und noch viele mehr.

Wir haben literarische Ostereier versteckt: Es kommen Feiertage, und damit bleibt vielleicht endlich Zeit, um zu lesen. Fünf Buchtipps – und weitere zum Suchen.

📢 Nur bis zum 14. April: Die Republik zum halben Preis.
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Still Life - Pink Roses - 1890
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/15276

Still of evil spirit from Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood, 1957

Photo featuring a horizontal sculpture resembling a sleeping woman covered in vivid green moss and grass sited in a woodland area

'Sleeping Mud Maid', living sculpture, in summer and in winter, by UK artist Sue Hill (and Pete Hill) at The Lost Gardens of Heligan, Cornwall, UK #WomensArt #Spring

The Doge's Palace (Le Palais ducal) - 1908
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/1316146

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Lucy is working hard to close the Wikipedia gender gap.

Untitled, 1969 #rothko #minimalism

Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives

"Leave big tech behind"...on the front of the Graun, even. Are things finally shifting? #ai #socialmedia #google #enshittification www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Waterloo Bridge, Hazy Sunshine - 1903
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10909

📢 New #DiamondOA event series by SeDOA
Real examples, lessons learned, and discussion on implementing Diamond OA in practice.

🔎 First session 5 March 2026 | 14:00–15:00 CET
Diamond OA with Janeway at @tuwien.at
More details & registration: eveeno.com/139459322

#OpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing

This art features 100 bees of various colors and shapes. These bees are designed in a cartoonish style, based on real species. The common name or species is written below the animals. Some bees are moving leaves, scraping plant hair, or sticking out their tongues. Some male bees have hairy faces and unusually shaped legs. There are also baby bees that have just hatched from their petal nests. Cute and colorful atmosphere. There are over 20,000 species of bees, so I only depicted a very small fraction of them!

Bees 🐝