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The ones who need little sleep | Short sleepers cruise by on four to six hours a night and don’t seem to suffer ill effects. Turns out they’re genetically built to require less sleep than the rest of us knowablemagazine.org/content/a… #sleep #genetics

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The Burmese python problem: how 20ft predators are wreaking havoc on the #Everglades | There are between 100,000 and 300,000 of these #snakes in the region – and they can swallow a small deer whole. What can Florida do about this threat to #biodiversity? theguardian.com/environment/20…

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NGC 7009: The Saturn Nebula
Credits: U. Washington, WFPC2, HST, #NASA
#nature #space #astrophotography

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🎄Screaming Museum Workers | Top Archaeologist Accused of Faking Discoveries | 350,000 Artefacts Discovered In Storage | Magnificent Stuffed Rhinos | Antiquities Theft Expert Challenges British Museum's Marbles Claim | More Museum News.

globalmuseum.org #globalmuseum #museums #museumnews #news #museumjobs #jobs #artgallery

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🎄Screaming Museum Workers | Top Archaeologist Accused of Faking Discoveries | 350,000 Artefacts Discovered In Storage | Magnificent Stuffed Rhinos | Antiquities Theft Expert Challenges British Museum's Marbles Claim | More Museum News.

globalmuseum.org #globalmuseum #museums #museumnews #news #museumjobs #jobs #artgallery

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I'm looking for an opportunity to use this new discovery!

Floccinaucinihilipilification [FLOK-suh-NAH-sun-nee-HIL-uh-pil-uh-fi-KAY-shun]
(n.) The act or an instance of estimating something to be without value.
(v.) To estimate something or somebody as worthless or trivial.

Originally coined by some clever student(s) at Eton College

#Language #Englishlanguage

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@novelx456 Tenant really blew me away. When I was writing my review/report it was pretty hard to not go too deep on just how radical her feminism was for the time.

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If you haven't already, you might want to try following Fediverse groups. These are special accounts with particular themes that boost any post which mentions them.

You can find lots of groups to follow at:

➡️ fedi.directory/tag/fediverse-g…

Copy-paste a group's address into your Mastodon etc search box to follow it.

Lots more info about using groups at:

➡️ fedi.tips/how-to-use-groups-on…

Groups are especially useful for people on quieter servers, as they actively push all their posts to you.

#FediTips

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This is a very long and overwhelming list. I gave up looking less than halfway through. Maybe consider breaking it into categories?
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Sorry about that, they are also listed in the categories along with non-group recommended accounts, you can browse them from the front page at fedi.directory.

I think most categories have some kind of group included? (A lot of them if it isn't a majority, anyway.)

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Starry Night Over the Rhone
Credits: Wikipedia, B. Schaefer, LSU
#nature #space #astrophotography

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Where did the images go?


@Tio
@Fedi.Tips 🎄
Yesterday everything was fine, but today most of the images are gone. I have not knowingly changed any settings. Now the images for most posts look like this:

Any help is appreciated.

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I am skipping one internet day and look what happens :D - fixed it. A server reboot fixed it. I will have to see why it somethings happens...


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Born this day in 1884, on Neskuchnoye estate in Ukraine, the marvelous painter Zinaida Serebriakova. Here by herself at mirror in 1909. #art #painting #womenartists #Ukraine

@PP_Rubens

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These Were the 10 Most-Searched-for Museums in 2024.

Google’s annual Year in Search reveals which world museums drew the most interest in 2024

news.artnet.com/art-world/goog… #Google #GoogleSearch #SOE #museums

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‘Maya blue’: The mystery dye recreated two centuries after it was lost.
A ceramicist in Mexico retraces his Maya roots to recreate a long-lost pre-Hispanic pigment for the first time in more than two centuries aljazeera.com/features/2024/12… #Maya #Mexico #dyes #ceramics #history

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Old Kingdom kilts galore at the Grand Egyptian Museum at Giza.

#Egyptianfashion #Egypt #kilt #ancientEgypt #fashion #history #Egipt #museum

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An illustrated page from the ‘Wonders of the Seven Seas’ section of ‘Aja’ib al-makhluqat wa-ghara’ib al-mawjudat (Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing),’ authored by Abu Yahya Zakariya’ ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini (circa 1203-1283 AD).

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