#smithsonian

Tony Nuspl

@tonynuspl.bsky.social

2 days ago

A 6-line miniature poem, in two stanzas of 3 lines each, dated 2024, author's name at top, accompanied by a screen capture of a news story published by Space.com, about an ill-fated lunar exploration journey, with robots aboard, intended as autonomous lunar rovers. q.v. the Proyecto Colmena ('beehive' project). They never made it to their destination, never had a chance to show how they might have survived the inhospitable conditions, such as the abrasive lunar dust... A couple of perfunctory hotlinks, incomplete URLs, appended at the bottom.

When these survival specialists ( 'Überlebenskünstler' or 'Sobrevivientes' ) were headed to the moon, to make their remote lunar forays, I put together this #Instapoem
#ImageAndVerse
#ThrowbackThursday
Replicas of the solar-powered bots on display at #Smithsonian #Air&Space #Museum
prompt 'Technik'

Ricardo Harvin

@ricardoharvin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy

3 days ago

We've learned so much about our home and still know so little about this amazing little ball of wonders upon which we live:

#link: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/treetops-emit... […]

Thom Mitchell

@thomm.bsky.social

3 days ago

A sign in the Smithsonian American History Museum. "American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith

This sign at the #Smithsonian Museum of American History is hitting a little different this days.

Kigyo Michio

@evanmichio.bsky.social

4 days ago

A beauty tonight, Washington, DC.
#photography #smithsonian #washingtonDC #EastCoastKin #thePhotoHour #hope #travelPhotography

Patrick Saunders Fine Arts

@patricksaunders.bsky.social

4 days ago

#art #fineart #artstream #artreview #artdiscussion #artcritique #arttalk #patricksaunders #patricksaundersfinearts #representationalart #realistart #floralart #floralpainting #oilpainting #MuseumTourTuesday #americanpainting #americanart #americanartist #mariadewing #smithsonian

Conexão Planeta

@conexaoplaneta.bsky.social

5 days ago

Rã endêmica do Panamá, extinta em 2009 por fungo mortal, é reintroduzida na natureza A reintrodução ajudará a encontrar soluções para driblar a doença e garantir o retorno de anfíbios saudáveis à natureza

Atentos à possibilidade de #extinção da #rã-dourada-do-Panamá, há cerca de 20 anos, especialistas do Instituto #Smithsonian (e outras instituições) coletaram indivíduos p/ criação em #cativeiro. No final de 2025, soltaram 100 #rãs em recintos controlados na #natureza, a fim de facilitar a observação

Suzanne Dimmit

@suzkd.bsky.social

5 days ago

Three aircraft hang from girders below the ceiling in an open multi-story space at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C. The Spirit of St. Louis, circa 1927, hangs on the left, with the modern Space Ship One and the Bell X-1 to its right. Sunlight streams in from floor-to-ceiling windows on the right side of the room, lighting the scene and creating plaid-like shadows on the wall.

The old and the new. Time flies.
#WeekJforJuxtaposition #AlphabetChallenge
#Smithsonian #Air&Space #airplanes

Black Hole Initiative

@bhi-harvard.bsky.social

5 days ago

BHI fellow Chengcheng Xin will share her research on supermassive black hole binaries at the next UMBRELLA Dialogues.

March 11, 2026
3:00 pm

Zoom:
bit.ly/4llCtb6
Passcode: 327700

#bhi #umbreladialogues #ChengchengXin #blackhole #Smithsonian #CFA #supermassiveblackhole

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@chaclo.blacksky.app

6 days ago

#Smithsonian

Janet Hulstrand

@janetjoy.bsky.social

1 week ago

WE CANNOT SELF-ERASE "Other museums may have a choice to downplay DEI. Black museums have no choice. We are the work. We cannot self-erase." Omar Eaton-Martinez

This post also has a great suggestion for how you can support the leadership of the #Smithsonian in pushing back against administration pressure to rewrite history. #BlackHistoryMonth #museums #history #DEI #diversity gretchenjennings.substack.com/p/we-cannot-...

Alicia Ault

@aliciaault.bsky.social

1 week ago

Why the National Zoo is feeding its baby elephant poop In a novel move, feces from a baby elephant in Ohio were shipped to the zoo and mixed with Linh Mai’s formula.

The new baby elephant at DC's zoo is receiving fecal transplants--by mouth--to stave off diarrhea.

#Gastrosky #microbiome #guthealth #Smithsonian #veterinarymedicine #medicine #Medsky

Lincoln Square Pottery Studio- Learning Center

@lspotterystudio-lc.bsky.social

1 week ago

Chicago’s Nick Cave is digging up America’s bones at a fraught moment for the Smithsonian “Mammoth” is the museum’s largest ever single-artist commission and opens Friday less than a mile from the White House.

Once you see how the political landscape can be a force in how your art unfolds you start seeing it everywhere
#potterysky #art #politicalart #smithsonian #artasactivism #sculpture #mammoth #contemporaryart #nickcave #chicagoartist
www.wbez.org/arts/2026/02...

Reeses Sweet Treat Travel

@reeses81.bsky.social

1 week ago

We Do Declare: Women's Voices on Independence YouTube video by Smithsonian American Women's History Museum

March is Women’s History Month. The theme for 2026 is "We Do Declare: Women's Voices on Independence". Check out the video here: youtu.be/WsbGRoShxRA?...
#WomensHistoryMonth2026 #WeDoDeclare #WomensVoicesOnIndependence #Smithsonian #AmericanWomensHistoryMuseum ##NotJustTheBirdsAndTheBees

Kigyo Michio

@evanmichio.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

Spring is right around the corner. . .
#round for the #BlueSkyartshow #smithsonian #photography #bloomscrolling #naturephotography

Thiard News@F4F

@newsen.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

Bridget Lowrie from Montgomery College Chosen for 2026 Smithsonian Fellowship Bridget Lowrie, a professor at Montgomery College, has been awarded the 2026 Smithsonian Faculty Fellowship, focusing on leadership and ethics in criminology.

Bridget Lowrie from Montgomery College Chosen for 2026 Smithsonian Fellowship #United_States #Rockville #Smithsonian #Montgomery_College #Bridget_Lowrie

#OneHitWondered

@onehitwondered.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

Bert and Earnie... and the Rubber Duckie in the Smithsonian

Ernie and his Rubber Duckie… along with his roommate Bert, are enshrined in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History collection. #SesameStreet #Ernie #Bert #Smithsonian #OneHitWondered

ESCONI

@esconi.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

Paleontologist Dr. Hans-Dieter Sues RIP (1956-2026) We are sad to hear of the sudden passing of Dr. Hans-Dieter Sues, Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Here is the Smithsonian's announcement on Facebook. It is with profound sadness that we share the news that our friend and colleague Dr. Hans-Dieter Sues, Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, unexpectedly passed away this weekend.

Paleontologist Dr. Hans-Dieter Sues RIP (1956-2026) #fossils #paleontology #RIP #smithsonian

Gilberto Brenis

@gilbertobrenis.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

#MelaniaTrump hace historia en el #Smithsonian
⬇️DALE CLICK A LA LIGA⬇️
gilbertobrenis.com/melania-trum...

Gilberto Brenis

@gilbertobrenis.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

#MelaniaTrump hace historia en el #Smithsonian. Es la primera dama en más de un siglo con dos vestidos inaugurales en la colección.

praying mantis

@gentlem.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

Congress restores funding to cultural institutions once on Trump’s chopping block — Guardian US Breaking from the president, Congress voted to fund institutions including the Institute of American Indian Arts

apple.news/AnP6vhMPzSdu...
#NEH #NEA #IAIA #Nat’lMuseumOfTheAmericanLatino
#Smithsonian
#SAAM #NMAAHC
#Nat’lWomen’sHistoryMuseum

praying mantis

@gentlem.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

Jesse Jackson for President 1988 campaign button

nmaahc.si.edu

#NMAAHC
#Smithsonian
#BlackHistoryMonth
#JesseJackson
Rest in Power, Reverend +

If my grandma had wheels she'd be a bike..

@calvinandhobbes69.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

What about her crotchless knickers? @smithsonianmag.bsky.social #Smithsonian #MelaniaTrump

SCHWULISSIMO

@schwulissimo.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

Ausstellung im Smithsonian - US-Nationalmuseum ehrt erstmals queere Kreative aus Afrika Ausstellung mit Statement: In den USA ist im weltberühmten Smithsonian National Museum erstmals eine Ausstellung queerer Künstler aus Afrika zu sehen.

Ausstellung im Smithsonian - US-Nationalmuseum ehrt erstmals queere Kreative aus Afrika #Smithsonian #queereKünstler #LGBTIQ #Afrika #Kunst

NEH Union - AFGE L3403

@nehafge3403.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

Doing the Lord's work right here; not just #DOGE staff, but a timeline of the National Endowment for the Humanities' destruction as well as other independent #culture and #arts agencies ( #Smithsonian #NGA #CPB etc.) #NEH Thanks, @jacobharr.is !

dogetrack.info/agencies/ind...

Washoe County Library

@washoelibrary.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

Cover of 'Smithson's Gamble' book detailing the Smithsonian Institution's history from 1836 to 1906 by Tom D. Crouch with an illustration of the Smithsonian Castle.

Next up in online #authortalks: take part in our conversation with Tom Crouch about the trials, errors, and incredible legacy of the #Smithsonian foundation. February 24 at 11 am via digital livestream in partnership with Washoe County Library! Register at washoelibrary.org/authortalks.

KUNST MAG

@kunstmag.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

Das Smithsonian gibt drei gestohlene Bronzeskulpturen an Indien zurück, wobei ein Shiva Nataraja trotz Eigentumsübertragung als Langzeitleihgabe ausgestellt bleibt.

#Smithsonian #Indien #Restitution
www.kunst-mag.de/2026/02/18/s...

Stephen Gutknecht

@roundsparrow.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

This Late-Night Reading Group Zipped Through Finnegans Wake in Seven Short Months A Los Angles-based Finnegans Wake reading group recently buckled down and decided to spare themselves the dozen-year cliff hanger

"That Planet Earth Turns Slowly". It's hard to say... when I'm asleep. Tim Finnegan, Woke! #FinnegansWakeIterates

#Smithsonian #SmithsonianMagazine #SmithsonianMag

"Late-Night Reading Group Zipped Through Finnegans Wake in Seven Short Months"
#FinnegansWake

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

Evening Forest News

@forrestnews.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

What changes would you make for the new Presidential portrait? Satire, news update. #presidentsday #smithsonian #newscommentary #dems #satirecomedy @MeidasTouch @Aaron Parnas @Anna Connelly TikTok video by eveningforestnews

WE’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER CANVAS - The Vain Pantload in Chief has Commissioned a Second Portrait! Expect Some Big Changes! The Only News Show With Oscar Wilde Jokes on the Internet Today!
#smithsonian #sadclownpainting #presidentialportrait

www.tiktok.com/t/ZThCL7UbH/

Jonathan Smith

@smithcreate.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103) on display at the Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia.
#spaceshuttle #nasa #museum #airandspace #smithsonian