a wintry bridge with bike tracks and footprints in the snow (human shoe, and coot feet).
Snow makes neighbors of us all.
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a wintry bridge with bike tracks and footprints in the snow (human shoe, and coot feet).
Snow makes neighbors of us all.
Cape Lion! 💔🦁🧡 Can't wait to see the book.
Love her escherinhetpaleis.nl/en/whats-on/...
Stenciled black paint on white that reads All Harpooners Are Bastards. Beside "All" and "Are" are stencils of stylized sperm whales, facing opposite directions.
When people ask, "Right before the Republic crumbled, who was doing the best 19th century literary pun stencils?" remember my name.
cc: @ailishlalor.bsky.social 🐋
Early twentieth-century, black-and-white photo of two boys, one seated in a wooden chair, the other standing, both wearing bowler hats, and standing before a magnificent fuzzy sheep who is looking directly into the camera.
Absolute unit sighting at hollandmuseum.org in Holland, Michigan -- across the pond from @themerl.bsky.social and worth a visit. 🐑
Here’s an essay I wrote about trees. It’s also about climate narratives, loss, and Dutch women in early twentieth-century botany. But mostly it’s about 🌳🌳🌳 (and 🪲🪲🪲). With illustrations from @naturalis.bsky.social
First baby is out of the nest. 🪶
I could, and shall, spend the whole day listening to these baby birds sing. #Birds #Koolmeesjes 🪶
Inner label in an old library book, reading (in Dutch): “Readers are invited to cooperate to the best of their ability protect the books from unnecessary wear and tear. Books should be collected, read and returned in their covers; do not make notes inside and avoid reading during meals; damage to books should be reported immediately. If an infectious disease has broken out at home, books borrowed will be removed and disinfected free of charge by the Municipal Decontamination Service.”
Nogal intens, dit. Uit de Universiteitsbibliotheek Leiden, 1926. 😷📚❤️ @ubleiden.bsky.social
Brightly coloured poster advertising a May 17 event on Nature & Politics at Leiden University. Full info via the link in the post.
My students and I are organising this event at @unileiden.bsky.social on May 17. Open to current students, prospective students, staff and alumni. For more info and to register, visit: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/ex...
ce n'est pas une université
Yes! It's a delightful, weird, charming little museum. And for a coffee and downtime I remember liking Booksa's cafe, and the Program Bar next door.
I have taken
the resources
that were in
the budget
and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education
Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities
One of my favourite things in headlines are where you can see the muscle memory of legal training being applied to animals, buildings, train lines.
View of bare winter trees from below. Dark, spindly silhouettes against a mottled blue-grey sky, a clearing in the middle. And at the edges, four dark smudges of birds’ nests. (I should rewrite my alt texts as haikus, I’m thinking now.)
Nests.
Haha, must be the legs. A famous Dutch bird guide from 1912 suggests that once you're in the hide, the birds will settle faster if you go in there with some friends, and then ask one of them lto eave. Then the birds think the coast is clear! But the book warns that crows can count to 4. ❤️
Ooh thank you for mentioning it! Very much enjoying this: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I *love* your collage! And wow, it has been a long time - email me!
Black-and-white photograph of someone walking along a beach with lots of birds flying up above. Of the person you can only see who legs, peeking out from under a cube with small windows cut out of it, which have the effect of making a smiley face. I get a smiley face looking at this image.
I will never tired of photographs of people walking around carrying bird hides on their head. From the book, In de ban van vogels (a history of Dutch ornithology), by Karel Voous.
A card featuring 9 black-and-white stamps of a wading oystercatcher, and (also stamped) letters spelling out: “happy new year.”
Pictures that explain things.
Trees in Winter (back endpapers)
Artist: SR Badmin, 1963
Though I guess I should have served them to (or flung them at) the leaders of the CDA, SGP, and ChristenUnie 😡 www.dutchnews.nl/2024/12/chri...
Red-square cakes lined up on a white dish, with an ingredient list posted: "SOLIDARITY FOREVER (also gluten, dairy, & too much sugar)"
Contribution to the staff holiday party. #WOinActie #DoeHetNiet
Sheep sitting on the four concrete bases of an electrical power line tower. Green grass, grey sky, cold day.
Sheep sitting on the four concrete bases of an electrical power line tower. Green grass, grey sky, cold day. (Close-up.)
Me: "Check out these cool sheep I saw on my bike to work today. Do you think they were there seeking warmth? Or maybe because it was dry compared to the grass?"
Wife: "They were probably just charging."
Co-sign. I love this.
A rough, curly, faded orange lock of hair sitting in a glass case upon a dark wood-grained table.
Lock of hair belonging to William IV, Prince of Orange (1711-1751), currently on show at the Mauritshuis as part of their 'Lost Museum' exhibit. Arresting to encounter- it stopped me in my tracks! Though it also looks suspiciously like a cat coughed up a hairball. www.mauritshuis.nl/nu-te-doen/t...
Environmental Humanities LU presents: Dirk-Jan Visser & Gus Drake — New Horizons — How does a bee see a landscape? What is the perspective of a tree? The New Horizons Initiative explores different interests in a landscape by visualizing perspectives of non-human life. Through predictive modelling the project aims to provide insights into the consequences of political decisions on the environment and to give a voice to non-human perspectives. 16 December @ 15:00
How does a bee see a landscape? On December 16, come hear artists Dirk-Jan Visser and Gus Drake talk about their project on analyzing and visualizing the different interests of more-than-human life in (decision-making about) the natural world. researchplatform.art/events/new-h...
