Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026tfw you voted Lula 13 early on a Sunday morning (but in London, not São Paulo) 000
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026To understand how surprised I was, there’re two things you need to know: I’m obsessed with Riemenschneider; I didn’t know there was Carving at the City & Guilds School. So when I walked away from oil-on-canvas and saw what looked like V&A’s Riemenschneiders, it startled me 1/3 110
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Structure, structure, structure was very much the first thing that jumped at me when I first encountered image and language models. Great discussion here ⬇️ 010
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 27/08/2026And that’s me behind the mic (out of shot, ongoing series) 000
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 23/08/2026‘You’ll recognise me by the cut of my clothes and the carapace on my back’ <My Life as a Turtle> 110
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Cannot be unseen (FT headline: Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis steps down to become chair) 020
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Great public health comms in Brazil after Fonseca’s victory against Djokovic — the vaccination mascot is saying ‘our vaxxed guy won’ 061
Reposted by Vania SchiffPantéa Javidan, JD, PhD @pjavidan.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Makes good point that despite the far-right MO of catastrophizing—that the nation is irredeemably divided, headed for disaster, & far-right is the only savior—“the UK is generally very comfortable being a multi-ethnic society.” In 2020, 93% rejected the idea that you have to be White to be British 26218
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Absolutely heartbroken. She had the most intelligent, animated eyes. RIP VALIE EXPORT 020
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Vote counted in the early hours — a v good local result 💚 000
Reposted by Vania SchiffReading Museum @readingmuseum.bsky.social · 08/05/2026We have loaned a remarkable object to the V&A’s exhibition The Music Is Black - an African thumb piano made using a Huntley & Palmers biscuit tin. This early 20th century instrument transforms an iconic Reading export into a living piece of African musical heritage. 🎹 1992.162.18 #FridayFinds 1263
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 01/05/2026close reading (studies in white, iris ‘white city’, 2/2) 010
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 01/05/2026close reading (studies in white, iris ‘white city’, 1/2) 000
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 26/04/2026🚨 ‘Clear your diaries!’ PSA 🚨 Frank Bourke as Man Ray in This Is Not a Murder Mystery. Weds 29th, Channel 4 and elsewhere, not to be missed 🍿 010
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 23/04/2026As seen by bees and butterflies — Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg’s tapestries from the Pollinator Pathmaker series, based on garden designs that respond to the pollinators’ needs @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social 000
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 11/04/2026The worst radioactive accident outside of a nuclear power plant happened in Goiânia (Brazil) one year after Chernobyl. Radioactive Emergency (miniseries now on Netflix, essential viewing) shows the efforts to contain contamination & help the victims + the institutional errors leading to the tragedy 1111
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 10/04/2026I started thinking about the Windham-Campbell Prize and anxiety when the poet Natalie Scenters-Zapico was selected in 2021. She’s always been open about the weight of this feeling on her creative and professional life 1/5 110
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 04/04/2026St John Passion, St George’s Hanover Square (Bach in Handel’s church) 000
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 02/04/2026‘First in Space’ — a pal is visiting Transnistria and I cannot get enough of this virtual, strangely topical ride. 000
Reposted by Vania SchiffElias Najarro @najarro.science · 31/03/20263D particle life running on browser using WebGPU/WGSL - najarro.science/pl 3489
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Lenten shrouds (Our Lady of Assumption & St Gregory) 120
Reposted by Vania SchiffDaniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Text mining before the age of LLM training. 935380
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 28/03/2026‘squashed as though someone had tried resizing him in a Word document and forgot to lock the aspect ratio’ (or, the superior quality of alt text for owls) 020
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 27/03/2026A Hand to Hold — hilarious, horrific, hard-to-let-go short film. Frank Bourke is great as the doctor. 100
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 27/03/2026‘organisations adopt quantitative rules not because numbers are more accurate but because they are more defensible. Judgment is politically vulnerable. Rules are not. The procedure exists to make discretion disappear, or seem to’ 000
Reposted by Vania SchiffAaron Hertzmann @aaronhertzmann.com · 25/03/2026If asked to draw a person's portrait, many people would say “I cannot draw.” Why is observational drawing so hard? In a new paper, @judithfan.bsky.social and I answer: it's the limitations of human vision. Learning to draw is learning skills to overcome them. aaronhertzmann.com/2026/03/23/d... 1/aaronhertzmann.comWhy Drawing is Hard: Visual Limitations and the Skills to Overcome ThemIf asked to draw a picture of a tree or a person in front of them, many people would say “I cannot draw.” Thirty years ago, two psychologists pointed out that this should be surprising. They reasoned ... 210635
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Hazelnut Leaf and Pure Colour (Rose Wylie, 2017, and Sheila Heti/Ellsworth Kelly, 2022/1964-5) 010
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Meanwhile, in Beirut: ‘He asks if we can help him get insulin. He’s been 10 days without it despite being a type 2 diabetic’ 020
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Small, but perfectly formed show — the last of the Encounters series pairing Giacometti and a contemporary visual artist. Nearly missed the concert I was going to afterwards. 110
![Photo of smiling Fonseca with a tennis racket. Headline in Portuguese from the Correio Braziliense translates as “Zé Gotinha [Brazil’s vaccination mascot] congratulates João Fonseca and teases Djokovic: ‘The vaxxed one won’”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mw5kphxpm676akqucoql5ntn/bafkreib3kd2n4xxz3uavww4nzzvjdn6mj7kgwd6ewee3njrovstxacvmtu)
![Guardian article screenshot:
The watcher, Television
This Is Not a Murder Mystery: cosy-crime meets art in an irresistibly surreal Belgian drama
Famous artists including Magritte are suspects in this glossy, grisly whodunnit - and it's loads of fun
[Photo of an actor as Magritte, who is smoking a pipe. The blue sky and white clouds mimic the style of Magritte’s paintings]
Photo caption: Rude awakening ... René Magritte (Pierre Gervais) uncovers a killing in This Is Not a Murder Mystery.
Photograph: Channel 4](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mw5kphxpm676akqucoql5ntn/bafkreicwog5nn2gv7iwsbxhln2mllngyl4dhzxsp7qzcihfnyh2q6qv6ru)
