The photo shows a wooden model of a cow giving birth accompanied by two men. One man calms the cow while the other ensures a proper delivery.The calf emerges from his mother, licking the hand of the man.

Models of everyday life were deposited in #Egyptian tombs. They were supposed to support the deceased in the afterlife. One of the most charming examples is the model of a #cow giving birth.
Carved in wood, painted.
Probably from Meir, #Egypt, dating c. 2040-1985 BC.

📷 Royal Ontario Museum
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Live Peregrine Falcon BirdCam | University of Birmingham YouTube video by University of Birmingham

University of Birmingham have a live feed for the nesting Peregrines on the Old Joe clock tower.

www.youtube.com/live/4dsZIFf...

The Artemis II crew – Mission Specialist Christina Koch (top left), Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen (bottom left), Commander Reid Wiseman (bottom right), and Pilot Victor Glover (top right) – uses eclipse viewers, identical to what NASA produced for the 2023 annular eclipse and 2024 total solar eclipse, to protect their eyes at key moments during the solar eclipse they experienced during their lunar flyby. This was the first use of eclipse glasses at the Moon to safely view a solar eclipse.

aptured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun. From the crew’s perspective, the Moon appears large enough to completely block the Sun, creating nearly 54 minutes of totality and extending the view far beyond what is possible from Earth. The corona forms a glowing halo around the dark lunar disk, revealing details of the Sun’s outer atmosphere typically hidden by its brightness. Also visible are stars, typically too faint to see when imaging the Moon, but with the Moon in darkness stars are readily imaged. This unique vantage point provides both a striking visual and a valuable opportunity for astronauts to document and describe the corona during humanity’s return to deep space. The faint glow of the nearside of the Moon is visible in this image, having been illuminated by light reflected off the Earth.

Solar eclipse viewing - IN SPACE!!!! 🤩 #Artemis

📷: NASA
ℹ️: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

Earth and Moon from DSCOVR NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured this unique view of the Moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. This view shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth. Ian Regan processed this version of the image to account for the Moon's motion. NASA / NOAA / Ian Regan

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable.

Earth and Moon in one NASA photo.

ht @astrokatie.com

Tonight I'll be talking about the First Women of Science, while Christina Koch, the 1st woman to orbit the moon, is currently onboard #Artemis on her way to make history.🥳

If you're in #Edinburgh, do come along! I have a few ticket discount codes to share: reply if you're interested.

The alt text for this image is available upon reasonable request.

Majestic, well done @rickcarlsson.bsky.social

One of my favourites of his.

by Shari Vincent

#JeudiDialectologie - Sur cette carte, on voit la répartition des formes "soixante-dix" et "septante" dans les parlers galloromans à la fin du XIXe siècle, d’après les données de l’Atlas linguistique de la France - THREAD (1/6)

A very grey morning at Wheldrake Ings, made photography difficult, but I was pleased with this long-distance shot taken right across the floodplain.
#WheldrakeIngs #YorkBirding
@ldvnnr.bsky.social @yorkbirding.bsky.social

Brilliant!

Comments (15:58:15) First STABLE BEAMS of 2026!
The final #LHC run
Towards a more luminous future

What? Is it Easter already? 🐇⚛️

#nicheJoke

Sorry - no alt-text! Image shows the Large Hadron Collider status display as it delivers the first proton-proton collisions of 2026

Here we go!

CAREERS

Calling the #scicomm community, and anyone looking for a new career in bonny Scotland. New job alert for an Education & Learning Officer at the fantastic #Kirkcudbright Dark Space Planetarium. Application deadline: 27th March. 🔭🎢

www.darkspaceplanetarium.org/explore/care...

A screenshot of Google's AI Overview answer to the question "is haggis an animal". It says "Yes, the haggis is a small, furry mammal native to Scotland" and goes on to give the typical "asymmetrical legs" details.

The Scottish have won the AI Wars.

Help us appeal the High Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project

We always knew this would be a long and hard fight. We are going nowhere.

We will fight until the battle is won:
https://goodlaw.social/m3oe

Those are beautiful pictures - what a great investment. Sorry to read that things continue to be difficult.

Love Brimham Rocks!!!

Just showed my husband the masterpiece that is Galaxy Quest for the first time. “Let’s get out of here before one of those things kills Guy!”

The logo for LGBTQ+STEM Day, with the hashtags below and the date 18 of November, over a rainbow background

Happy International Day of LGBTQIA+ People In STEM!

How are you celebrating it?

#LGBTQSTEMDay #PrideInSTEM

Comic. [Person with ponytail pointing at diagram while speaking to three other people] PERSON: If the emergency stop is activated, any riders on the waterslide will be diverted into the beam dump, a large graphite block which will safely absorb their momentum. [caption] We regretted hiring an accelerator physicist to design our water park.

Beam Dump

xkcd.com/3168/

The golden age of diversity and democracy in Oz.

Interested in a fully funded PhD place in Experimental Particle Physics in Edinburgh?

We have fully funded studentships, including a specific scholarship for students from a Black heritage (including mixed Black background).

More info: inspirehep.net/jobs/3080808

In which, as usual, prosody does almost all the indexical and semantic work at the same time and the lexical content is just along for the ride

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children.

This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...