My wrestler drawings are quite nice at the moment. 🤼 www.chloecumming.com/wrestlerdraw...

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Claude-Joseph Vernet, acclaimed French marine artist, born #OTD 1713; trained in Rome & inspired by works of Claude Lorrain, he was commissioned in 1750’s by Louis XV to paint 15 naval ports of France. In 1771, he painted this idealised port: La nuit: un port de mer au clair de lune. Musée de Louvre

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132 years ago, on the 27th of June 1894, Annie Londonderry departed on a circumnavigation of the globe by bike, becoming the first woman to do so. Annie would later say, "I am a journalist and a 'new woman,' if that term means that I believe I can do anything that any man can do." #otd #history 🗃️

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"Perhaps Hobsbawm’s canonization—his “myth,” to borrow Chabal’s term—was a Western tribute to a great historian who had erected a monument to Europe at the time of its decline." Enzo Traverso on Emile Chabal's intellectual biography of Eric Hobsbawm: www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-ce...

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Today @longcovidch.bsky.social posted its position on the limited role of biopsychosocial and neuroplastic approaches in the management of long covid. On the whole these models do more harm than good. Recovery narratives and testimonials are no scientific evidence. long-covid-info.ch/news/positio...

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