Dr Buki Fatona

Interior of the Bodleian Library in Oxford, showing historic wooden bookcases and a decorated ceiling. In the foreground, a sign displays the traditional Bodleian Oath, which readers must read aloud before being admitted to use the library. The oath reads: 'I hereby undertake not to remove from the Library, or to mark, deface, or injure in any way, any volume, document, or other object belonging to it or in its custody; not to bring into the Library or kindle therein any fire or flame, and not to smoke in the Library; and I promise to obey all rules of the Library'

The traditional Bodleian Oath, which every reader is required to read aloud on seeking admission to the Bodleian Libraries 📚

#WorldBookDay

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Moses is in the foreground, his right hand palm up and his left hand on the Tablets of Stone. Behind him to his right stands his wife, a black woman, Zipporah; shevholds her right hand to her chest.

Moses and His Ethiopian Wife Zipporah

Jacob Jordaens, c.1645-1650

Outcry Roils BAFTAs After Guest With Tourette Syndrome Shouts N-word at Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo Lindo told Vanity Fair afterward that he and Jordan “did what we had to do” while presenting—but that he wished “someone from BAFTA spoke to us afterward.”

Delroy Lindo told Vanity Fair that he and Michael B. Jordan “did what we had to do” while presenting but that he also wished “someone from BAFTA spoke to us afterward”

Purrrf pastry

I'll see myself out...

images by Umberto Fratini

A model in a pale blue dress and green kitten heels

A model in a black dress and matching shoes

A model in a red jumpsuit and matching shoes

Tolu Coker in an oversized denim shirt and trousers combo

Some catwalk images from Tolu Coker's show at London Fashion Week today (19 Feb).

King Charles made an appearance "walking across [a recreation] of Mozart Estate" where the fashion designer grew up.

Acclaimed artist Betye Saar is 99 years old.

She turns 100 in July.

#ArtSky #BlackSky #BHM

The irony of an AI system asking me to verify that I am human will never cease to infuriate 😡

Daffodils in a vase

Signs of Spring 🙏🏽❤️

#BloomScrolling

15 years ago today I arrived on Downing Street in a cage.
I've seen off Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak and I'm still going strong.
Only two Prime Ministers have ever done longer stints here: William Pitt the Younger and Sir Robert Walpole.
Bill and Bob - I'm coming for you...
(Photos AP)

Pages of Whitehead's 'Science and the Modern World'

Happy birthday to Alfred North Whitehead. On #science and #religion he says,

“When we consider what religion is for [hu]mankind, and what science is, it is no exaggeration to say that the future course of history depends upon the decision of this generation as to the relation between them."

The room featuring pottery by Ladi Kwali at the Nigerian Modernism exhibition currently at Tate Modern

LADI KWALI: OF SOIL AND STONE Ladi Kwali transformed traditional Nigerian pottery with her use of high-fired glazed stoneware. She was born in 1925 in the Gwari region of northern Nigeria, where pottery was traditionally made by local women. Her aunt taught her to make pots and other vessels using the coiling method. She looped ropes of clay in concentric circles to build up the walls of the pot, before beating them into a flat, even surface. Her work earned her a reputation as a highly respected artist, prompting local ruler, the Emir of Abuja, to commission her work for his palace. In 1954, Kwali became the first woman trainee at the Pottery Training Centre (PTC) in Abuja. British potter Michael Cardew, who ran the centre, invited Kwali to join after seeing her work at the Emir’s home. At the PTC, she learnt how to throw pots on a wheel and work with different glazes. She continued to make Gwari-style coiled water pots but used stoneware clay, which is fired at high temperatures in a kiln, rather than earthenware, which is more suited to traditional open-air firing. Drawing into the clay using sharpened palm and bamboo, Kwali created designs that reference local folklore. Mythical scorpions, lizards, fish and snakes animate her vessels. The incised lines are filled with white porcelain, which glows under the thick glaze. As Kwali experimented with new forms, she began to make vessels that no longer served a domestic function but existed solely as works of modern art.

The room featuring pottery by Ladi Kwali at the Nigerian Modernism exhibition currently at Tate Modern

As if all that isn't enough she "also won a prize in ‘Diseases of the Skin’, and a medal in Forensic Medicine - the first woman in the history of Edinburgh to do so. She was also awarded the Dorothy Gilfillan Memorial Prize as the best woman graduate in 1929."

#WomenInStem

Agnes Yewande Savage (1906 – 1964) Influential Scottish-Nigerian doctor, and the first woman of West African heritage to train and qualify in orthodox medicine. Image Agnes Yewande Savage Agnes Yewande Savage was born in Edinburgh in 1906, the daughter of Richard Akinwande Savage Sr - a Nigerian medical doctor, newspaper publisher and a 1900 Edinburgh graduate - and Maggie S. Bowie, a native Scotswoman. Her brother was Richard Gabriel Akinwande Savage, also a doctor and Edinburgh alumnus, who became the first person of West African heritage to receive a British Army commission.

On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, remembering Agnes Yewande Savage (1906 – 1964).

The first woman of West African heritage to qualify in orthodox medicine (a distant relative).

She obtained 1st class honours in all subjects from University of Edinburgh (where I received an MSc).

When I was five/six, my mother read Orwell's 'Animal Farm' to us as a bedtime story.

I realise now that she was inoculating us against authoritarianism.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Sideview of a woman in an elaborate headpiece.

'Beekeeper'

Tamara Natalie Madden

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95 ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

Revd Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

Good Boi-cycles 😍

Minneapolis church has delivered more than 12,000 boxes of groceries to families in hiding DHH church has hundreds of volunteers packing and delivering groceries to families who have been too scared to leave their homes during the immigration operation.

They have quite an operation going.
www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...

A woman embraces two children in her arms.

Madonna

1982, Elizabeth Catlett

African Princesses,

c.1950, Ellis Wilson

The deadline approaches to submit a proposal for our next conference, the 21st European Conference on Science & Theology (ECST XXI). Leeds, UK; 19-22 Aug 2026

Conference title: Lost in Translation? Celebrating Language Diversity in Science and Religion

Deadline: 31 Jan 2026

More details👇🏾

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river.

We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.

―Desmond Tutu

Help is behind you?

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

Trust in God, She will provide.

--Emmeline Pankhurst

a single central figure-a woman in a blue cloak-dominates the composition before a faceted background.

'Mother Courage II,

1974, Charles White

Strength & courage for the New Year 🙏🏾

Tree of Life’ windows in blue and white and tiling (depicting Saint Dominic) in a chapel.

beautiful ‘Tree of Life’ stained glass windows in a chapel.

Happy birthday, Henri Matisse (b. 31 December 1869).

Among his final works are these beautiful ‘Tree of Life’ windows, and tiling (depicting Saint Dominic), in Chapelle du Rosaire aka “Matisse Chapel”