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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

There's a blaze of light in every word It doesn't matter which you heard The holy or the broken Hallelujah Leonard Cohen Ph. J. Wigler

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Cohen blowing a smoke ring at the camera. He is sitting at a table with a coffee.

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Association for Molecular Pathology @ampath.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Laura J. Tafe is the recipient of our 2026 Jeffrey A. Kant Leadership Award! She will be recognized at #AMP2026 in Seattle in November. Learn about her service: www.amp.org/about/newsroom/press-re…

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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That's where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go. Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

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a wildness of grasses leaves blown by winds

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Desert Breath,1995-97, monumental land art, Eastern Sahara, Egypt, by Danae Stratou, Alexandra Stratou, Stella Constantinides, covering 25 acres of the Egyptian desert #WomensArt

Aeriel photograph looking down on a huge spiral installation in the desert sands

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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it. Camus

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

The first full moon of 2026 is known as the #WolfMoon when the wolves howl with hunger. Kiki Smith, Cathedral, 2012, jacquard tapestry #WomensArt

Artwork with standing wolf and flying bird under a full moon

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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Wishing you boldness and courage in the New Year!

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

When Rebecca Solnit asks you to turn a thread into an essay, you fucking do it. jessica.substack.com/p/cbs-news-f... bsky.app/profile/rebe...

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Debating Away Our Humanity

CBS News wants to know if "feminism failed women." Here's what they're really asking.

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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Wrapping up 2025 with what’s become a little series I’ve been working on these last few months. I’m calling them “bodies in motion” as they are comprised of figures and fabrics which seem to have movement of their own. There are 18 now. Here’s the first 12. #ljtanalogcollage #collage

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

'Snuggles' by contemporary UK printmaker Sarah Morgan #WomensArt #Sunday #Winter

Print looking down the body of a person covered in a gold covered blanket with feet protruding and a black cat laying on the top of the person

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Lia Pas @liapas.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Day 18 #ArtAdventCalendar • Here is my #SciArt #embroidery cell map (2020), which plays with the idea of the cell as a landscape and labels as poetic text. I wrote about this piece in detail on my blog: liapas.com/2020/09/07/n...

An embroidery of the diagram of a cell on blue linen. the details are in whites, blues, turquoise, burgundy, green, and deep orange. The labels are poetic text instead of scientific terms. From bottom right around to bottom left it reads: Pair of pleases. Chance it some. Chromatic & new to us (carries us some of the way) New to us. Chromatic nets. Please remember. Vacant. Reticent about apparent goals. The centre. Where sometimes we met. Two of us. Sector illustrating the firm approach to pleasure. Caring pleases. New to us. Remember. True newness (pleasure). Sector illustrating sides to where time ran and had pleasure.

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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

There’s nothing quite like the sensation of running your fingers through dried legumes. I find it soothing.

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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Each moment is a place you've never been. Mark Strand

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

'Brilliance of the souls', 2014, from Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirror Rooms series #WomensArt

Gallery space with mirrors reflecting infinity of balls of multicoloured light against blackness

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Peter Braubach @peterbraubach.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Kids were playing around with watercolour yesterday - so I had a go. #lichen and art.

Abstract watercolour rendering of cladonia lichen.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Marcella Giulia Pace, Italian astrophotographer who took ten years to capture 48 colours of the moon #WomensArt (via Amazing Physics) #FullMoon

Spiral montage of photos of the moon in different hues against a black background

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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 18/09/2025

Open science is not just for researchers. Artist @kindracrick.com created these beautiful neuron portraits with inspiration from Ramón y Cajal's drawings and reference images from our Cell Types Database. #OpenScienceWeek

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Durham County Department of Public Health (DCoDPH) @durhamhealthnc.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

As COVID-19 cases continue to increase, it's important to know accurate information about COVID-19 in order to protect yourself and others! Get the facts about common myths, and take steps to protect yourself and others.

COVID-19 myths vs. facts. myth: covid-19 is over. Fact: COVID-19 continues to spread and change into new variants, and cases are currently increasing.* As of June 23, 2024

COVID-19 myths vs. facts. myth: If my last COVID-19 illness was mild, it will be mild if I get it again.. Fact: Each new COVID-19 infection increases your risk of serious illness, Long COVID, and permanent health consequences like organ damage.

COVID-19 myths vs. facts. myth: I don’t need to mask if I stay at least 6 feet from other people while I’m out. Fact: We now know that COVID-19 can spread through the air, even after other people have left the area. This is why it is important to mask and improve indoor ventilation when you can.

COVID-19 myths vs. facts. myth: I’ve already gotten multiple doses of the COVID-19 vaccine over the years. I don’t need any more. Fact: Just like it’s important to get an annual flu shot, it’s important to get updated COVID-19 vaccines each year. The flu shot and the COVID-19 vaccine are each updated annually to protect against current strains of the virus.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

You are my sunshine (2015) by Kenyan born artist Wangechi Mutu #womensart

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

The Woman Who Lives in the Sun' (1960) by Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Print of a stylised red sun with smiling face and chin tribal tattoo, the sun has rays like petals of a flower, all against a cream background

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Sue Barry-Schulz @susanbarryschulz.com · 05/06/2025

Day 5 index card art a day challenge: “poppy” 4”x 6” acrylic paint on ink #dyicad2025

Index card with teal ink over amber ink and ivory chalk paint featuring a bright red painted poppy with a long green stem.

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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Excited to have this piece included as part of a group show at my local art gallery. #collage

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Lia Pas @liapas.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

For #WorldAsthmaDay here is my #SciArt #embroidery she breathed (2018). I don’t have asthma myself but I have a few family members that have it quite severely and have seen how much it affects them.

An embroidery on a pale natural linen. There is a bone white diagram of a vocal apparatus, trachea, and bronchi/lungs. In between the branches of the bronchioles are small words embroidered in cursive in thin burgundy thread. They read: she breathed. Inhaled. exhaled. she knew. that breathing. was beauty. was the way. inside. to outside. when her breath. tightened. she found. ways. to soften. be still. to allow that. in. of the out. breath. to be. the. way through. she found the throughline. somehow. it. also found her. still. and breathing. deeply. each day was. new. each breath. a. different. path. always. through her. and. throughout her. such a. simple. thing, breath. such a journey. through. trees. and. branches. how the body knows. to still. itself. if we learn how. to. listen deeply.

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Tendon Magazine @tendonmag.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Rest is rarely just rest. It’s a desire, a demand, a question of who gets to pause—and who must keep going. In honor of May Day, an international workers holiday, we're proud to launch our 7th issue, on Rest: hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...

A woman melts into a bed, daily objects floating around her, and a blue forest of vines lurking in the background

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John P. Friel, Ph.D. @friel.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

#SciArt Job Alert! The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is offering an opportunity for an illustrator to join the Bartels Science Illustration Program for a visiting artist residency. This is a full-time, paid temporary appointment that lasts up to one year. cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Cornel...

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Temporary Science Illustrator - Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Are you an early career artist who appreciates and understands the relationship between art and nature, and have an interest in birds? The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is offering an opportunity to an I...

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Laura J. Tafe @ljtafe.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

“Success occurs in the privacy of the soul. It comes in the moment you decide to release the work, before exposure to a single opinion. Success has nothing to do with variables outside yourself.” - Rick Rubin

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

NEW: The entire NIH payment system is currently frozen for all grantees. This is tied to DOGE’s new “Defend the Spend” caper, reported in today’s Post, which has already led to payment cutoffs to doctors and health workers at hospitals treating the poor.

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Alexander Tin @alexander-a-tin.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Labs at CDC investigating STD and hepatitis outbreaks have now been cut, as part of Secy Kennedy's layoffs Specimens were still arriving from state health departments, with no one left on job from labs to handle them "The outbreak detection is gone" www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...

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RFK Jr. cuts CDC labs investigating outbreaks of STDs and hepatitis

CDC officials are warning of delays and disruptions due to cuts to laboratory staff.

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