Big turtle with flat shell and narrow snout- kind of like a Chinese soft shell?
Different view of the turtle
Does anyone know anyone familiar with turtles in LA or southern California? Or anyone who might be familiar with more exotic species in parks?
Hillside of native flowers including rampant poppies
Caterpillar on a red flower by a poppy
Unthinkable a year and change ago.
Meme update of the ol’ I…worked on this INFERNO for a year…and…he just…he tweeted it out
Dante, if he could hate post:
Text message: Big news for King Henry VIII
well-played, friends
Many popes have been entangled In politics. Here are 5 of them.
Sorry but I only read about political popes in terza rima
The spirit of provenance research is community, and that community extends far beyond the other authors in the volume: it’s all of the hundreds of researchers, librarians, students, archivists, and visitors around the world who have shared their research, perspectives, and questions with us.
In the spirit of international Provenance Research Day, officially forthcoming this summer: shop.getty.edu/products/pro...
There is a useful link to the other Carlos pieces ex-DvB on the exhibition website, and the chat there does reference the prior ex-DvB returns from the Carlos in 2023 and 2024: collections.carlos.emory.edu/groups/bothm...
#provenanceonview An installation at the Carlos on repatriation long in the making, as folks at AIA 2025 know, with a great deal of online content + shots of the unforgettable Fanta cans:
carlos.emory.edu/exhibition/l...
Aristarchus crater has greenish hues, reports Jeremy Hansen from #ArtemisII. And there are a lot of brown hues visible in crater rays. It' amazing hearing the crew describe their impressions in real time. 🧪
Paleo bat signal- does anyone know of good dinosaur/illustrated geology poster sources? Or illustrators with cool wall art options of dinosaurs and/or geology that a curious toddler might enjoy? A friend is finding a sad lacuna in the museum poster market, which seems greatly diminished these days
A vernal pool and the battered, beautiful, wildflower mountains of Malibu
This is the twentieth anniversary of the first time I lived in LA, and it’s times like this that I remember why we came back and stayed.
Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.
captain sisko repping the Niners and a disparaging vulcan
texts and office chat filled with opening day updates, what a day to be alive
good morning. our long national nightmare is over.
after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...
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⚠️ New Publication ⚠️
Our chapter "Provenance as accountability: Transparent and verifiable cataloguing for the digital age" is here!
This chapter proposes a strategic shift in provenance practice, moving from traditional pedigree models toward a digital framework of institutional accountability.
This is great to hear- is this largely acquisition-related provenance data, or is there older provenance data (eg earlier auctions) that are part of the records as well?
The landing page for an object lot in the American Numismatic Society database, with provenance metadata, a map showing the geographic distribution of the lot, and a paginated list of specimens from the lot.
The landing page for Edward T. Newell in the American Numismatic Society database, with provenance metadata for all associated object losts, a map showing the geographic distribution of the lots, and a paginated list of specimens from related lots.
Coming soon to the American Numismatic Society database: provenance records for object lots, with distribution maps of the lot contents and a list of associated objects. It is possible to drill down into entities (eg Edward T. Newell) to gain a big picture view of their collecting/donating history.
One for the #provenance reading lists: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Definitely one for the diaries — this is such a rich resource, very student friendly as well if you’re designing projects, and a wealth of archives represented.
So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:
"...natural history museums are communal places."
"...one in five visitors passed through the exhibit without reading any words, presumably using their existing knowledge to make sense of what they were seeing."
"...people gravitate toward the dinosaurs. And they’re gravitating toward the T. rex"
🏺🗃️📚 Thanks to Emma Southon's ASTONISHING new book #Servus*, when I look at these objects (and pretty much everything else made "by" Romans), what I see are layers upon iayers of enslaved labour
*out in May, pre-order it, you will not be disappointed
This is a fun romp, lots of ethics chat! Provenance book club? Let me know if you want to borrow it!
