Jenny Schwartz

Fact.

Another view of the selfie captured by Perseverance earlier today.

#Mars 🧪🔭

World Economic Forum asked @bellingcat.com CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social and me to discuss disinformation.

Link: intelligence.weforum.org/topics/a1G68...

Dear everyone,

As per the post from the Bodleian librarian below, AI bots and scrapers are putting just about every website under great pressure, British History Online included.

A lot of excellent tech staff are working hard to keep everything working, but outages and siruptions are inevitable.

Apple Trees, Sunset, Eragny

Apple Trees, Sunset, Eragny
https://botfrens.com/collections/49/contents/16648

'negligent homicide because your remote drivers are working 30 cars at once and can't sleep' is an incredibly Leverage-coded story. Also given we don't have an active CSI series right now, I'm giving i maybe a year before 9-11 or some flavour of NCIS does this.

“I don’t know how you can read fiction”

I don’t know how you can’t! Free movies in ya head! I’m casting, directing and on cinematography in this bih! Everythin getting funded. Maximum budget! All practical effects! Actors can get recast mid production! 12 hrs of footage, directors cut!!

a doctor in a lab coat and tie is standing in a hospital room and says no insurance ? Alt: a doctor in a lab coat and tie is standing in a hospital room and says no insurance ? No problem. Just be rich.

When I look at US health insurance... as frustrating as the Australian version can be, the American one is diabolical

After negotiations between the two sides broke down, things suddenly became very tents - 14th century, Bodeian Library, MS. Bodl. 264, f. 83v

It's actually kinda fascinating. I peek behind the curtains at how marketers are manipulating us.

The fact that people have been working to restore American chestnuts for so long, and that there's finally hope, is one of my favorite stories.

Paid vs. Owned vs. Earned Media: What's the Difference? Earned, paid, and owned media are vital to your digital marketing strategy. Here’s an overview of each and their benefits.

Ten years indie published and I'm still struggling to understand/keep up with marketing.

Paid, owned, and earned media

I'll stop now.

Good Earth Dairy Good Earth Dairy is Australia’s pioneering camel milk company, transforming the world’s largest and healthiest wild camel population into a sustainable source of superior nutrition.

These days we have camel farms

Forgotten history of Australia's exotic cameleers revived by living relatives More than 120 years ago, thousands of camel drivers from Afghanistan and modern day Pakistan and India arrived on Australia's unknown shores.

Sandalwood used to grow in Perth (Western Australia's capital city) in the Darling Range at the eastern edge of the city (goldminers had to cross the hills to trek on to the Kalgoorlie goldfields - which reminds me of other history - camel trains!)

Sandalwood History | Sandalwood Mosquito Sticks and Chips The history of Sandalwood supercedes us but we have managed to capture and sustain this valuable asset. Get your Sandalwood chips and sticks online.

I used to drive past a factory that processed sandalwood. Heavenly.

Also, it deters mozzies.

Sandalwood Western Australian sandalwood is an important part of the State’s forestry strategy, supplying high-value products and contributing to the growth and development of regional communities.

I couldn't resist responding to a Reddit question about why so many characters are described as smelling like sandalwood by mentioning the West Australian industry. People don't realise it's a thing here.

Meteorites scattered across a blue-ice moraine in Antarctica’s Miller Range.

They’re easier to find here because glaciers act like slow conveyor belts, carrying meteorites toward mountain ranges where wind strips away the snow and exposes the ice.

#astronomy

⚛️ 🧪

Image: NASA

The Baltic Crusades: A Photo Gallery - Yale University Press London Between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, crusading armies unleashed a relentless holy war against the last pagan societies in northern Europe. In the Between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, c...

Between the 12th and 15th centuries, crusading armies unleashed a relentless holy war against the last pagan societies in northern Europe. Aleksander Pluskowski, author of The Black Cross: A History of the Baltic Crusades, shares some photographs from the region.

yalebooks.co.uk/the-baltic-c...

Looking through Canva and they have cute bilbies. Simultaneously #listening to Will Storr on status. No connection!

open.spotify.com/episode/7h6r...

A young woman with long hair covers part of her face with her hand while smiling shyly, suggesting embarrassment. The image includes the text: ‘Embarrassment: When Political Identity Slips’ and a MORES glossary icon. Image credit: Tabitha Turner via Unsplash. Composition by MORES.

Embarrassment emerges when the identity we meant to project slips in plain sight.

In everyday life, it helps repair social norms. In politics, the emotion can be amplified to question credibility or authenticity. 🧪

Read more: bit.ly/40rdZDI

#MORESresearch #PoliticalCommunication

Coin used as Leeds bus fare was 2,000‑year‑old currency The coin was handed down to Peter Edwards from his grandfather in the 1950s.

This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My photo shows a Roman floor mosaic depicting an octopus. The octopus is composed of small black tesserae (tiles) and has eight writhing arms with suckers and narrow curling tips. It is set against a white tesserae background. Octopus detail from a monochrome marine mosaic featuring Triton with a cherub and various sea creatures, including the octopus, dolphins and a cuttlefish, at the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in Herculaneum.

Spectacular octopus from the floor of the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in ancient Herculaneum.

📷 by me

#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology

Today's Painting: Lillian Wald who led U.S. Nurses' Emergency Council during 1918 flu epidemic tinyurl.com/zxjmya9 This 1919 portrait is by William Valentine Schevill She was born 10 Mar 1867 & died 1 Sept 1940 #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory

Hello, book people! I am the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for 2026 sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romantasy, and speculative books coming out in the second half of the year! If you have an adult or YA SFF/H book out July-Dec (or publicist), share the link/info here!

🤖 Humans struggle to tell the difference between the speech of fellow humans and quality AI-generated voices, according to international researchers, who say it's a skill we may all be able to learn

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#science #sciencenews #research #stem #facts #knowledge #sciencefacts #AI #AIvoice

This isn't an AI-led massacre, it's death from one-thousand cuts If you’re in an agency right now, it’s hard to avoid the truth. It’s a bit grim.I don’t hear many growth stories. What I hear, over and over, is rapid decline. Shrinking margins. Fewer big bets. And a...

Marketing

A sketch of a belltower and the quotation from Jihn Donne: any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind.

High school English class - wiser than we appreciated back then.

I went to pre-order The Antiquarian's Object of Desire by India Holton and found I already had!

This is such a cozy, lovely romantasy series.

How AI is turning the Iran conflict into theater AI-enabled dashboards, combined with prediction markets and fake imagery, are reshaping how war is observed.

"a new kind of AI-enabled wartime circus"