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After a trial over the last few years, Ireland has launched a permanent scheme giving a basic income of €325 a week for artists. 2,000 will be eligible, and successful recipients will be chosen at random from applicants, who must be "professional artists" (definition tbc).
Ireland announces scheme to provide basic income for artists
The Basic Income for Artists (BIA) project is believed to be the first permanent one of its kind in the world.
bbc.co.uk
‘From a European perspective, this is a story of explosive celebrity and subsequent disappearance. Baya’s gouaches and sculptures were exhibited in Paris when she was sixteen. She modelled in clay alongside Picasso.’ Susannah Clapp on the mid-century Algerian artist. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Susannah Clapp · On Baya
The artistic gift of Fatima Haddad – who chose to be known as Baya – was quickly celebrated. But celebration was...
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Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."
BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. (1/2 🧵)
In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...
Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
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In celebration of Mamdani's first day in office, the map from our 2016 NYC atlas celebrating Queens as the most linguistically diverse place on earth. (800 languages spoken in NYC, according to NY's Endangered Language Institute, which collaborated with us on this map.
PHOTOS: As Americans prepare to attend New Year's Eve events tonight, millions of people around the world have been ringing in 2026.
Photos: New Year's Eve celebrations around the world, as countries ring in 2026
South Pacific nations welcomed 2026 first — 18 hours ahead of NYC, where organizers are preparing for the Times Square ball drop.
axios.com
The board should give itself a Pulitzer for this.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 7mo agoPresident Trump’s spiteful defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board may backfire, as the latter is now demanding Trump’s psychological records, prescription medication records, and tax returns in the discovery process. trib.al/LUCScTR
Remembering Edith Piaf on her birthday 🎂 📷 Irving Penn, New York, 1948 "Avert your ears and Piaf’s life was a punk opera decades before the genre exploded." - Jeremy Allen
“I want people to realize that it’s not just when things get out of hand that things are expensive..It’s quite expensive to even have a single case for a district.” www.marketwatch.com/story/the-pr...
The price of the measles: It costs at least $16,200 each time someone gets them.
As measles outbreaks increase and more people contract the disease, the U.S. healthcare system faces a costly bill.
marketwatch.com
Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars For The Holidays
Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated. In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the immense violence of the prison syste...
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Further down thread it says 170 fac have been given offers (buyouts, retirements). If not enough take them there will be “involuntary separations.” 170! Think of the collective yrs of training, specialization, teaching, the number of students taught, advised, mentored, the wealth of KNOWLEDGE.
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 8mo agoNew School “administrators have started to implement a plan to close, overhaul or merge about 30 academic programs or majors; pause nearly all admissions to doctoral programs; and offer buyouts or early retirement to what professors say is about 40 percent of the full-time faculty.”
We're kicking off the Christmas Bird Count with @rosemarymosco.com and @corinanewsome.bsky.social, who join us celebrate the common birds that might not be at the top of your pecking order, but should be.🐦⬛
'Just' A Blue Jay? Don't Overlook These Magnificent Common Birds
This Christmas Bird Count, we salute the fabulous, underappreciated, common species. Here's to you, house sparrow.
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Did you know? The Arctic fox is a seasonal fashionista. During winter, it sports a dense coat of white fur that helps insulate it from the cold, and it can withstand temperatures of up to −90°F (-67.8°C)! Photo: Jonathen Pie, CC0 1.0, Wikimedia Commons
The tardigrade, a tiny invertebrate with a reputation for surviving the toughest conditions, has come to symbolise resilience in an age of ecological crisis, writes Lucy Jones.
What is a tardigrade?
This tiny, complex invertebrate is the most mind-expanding animal in the microcosmos
prospectmagazine.co.uk
No more excuses for not having read *the* book of the year on the working poor & homelessness. A book that fundamentally challenges the conventional definition of "homeless," one that shines a light on exploitation & profitmaking out of all of this and does so through powerful, personal stories.
Yesterday, Spc Sarah Becstrom was laid to rest in West Virginia at a VA National Cemetery. Surprisingly none of the major major news media mention it. No flags were lower to half staff. Well the Convicted FElon keeps the news focus on him. www.wvva.com/2025/12/10/s...
Spc. Sarah Beckstrom laid to rest with full military honors at W.Va. National Cemetery
Spc. Sarah Beckstrom was laid to rest with full military honors Tuesday in Grafton.
wvva.com
And next Tuesday 12/16 Lisa Kaltenegger will be doing a live talk @amnh.org on the search for life everywhere on ALIEN EARTHS (St Martin's Press) @carlsaganinstitute.bsky.social #blskyscience #exoplanets #space #arewealone #standupforscience #womenscientistsdoingscience www.amnh.org/calendar/exo...
Alien Earths: The Hunt for Life on Exoplanets | AMNH
Join astrophysicist Lisa Kaltenegger to explore the possibility of habitable worlds outside of our solar system.
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New heroes portrait of Lisa Kaltenegger for the @nationalacademies.org. Kaltenegger is among the world’s leading experts on exoplanets, those distant worlds orbiting other stars. explorers.com/lisa-kaltene...
One of the greats, illuminating the world of science for the rest of us www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/s...
John Noble Wilford, Times Reporter Who Covered the Moon Landing, Dies at 92
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Map of PFAS 'forever chemicals' contamination levels across Europe Source: www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decod...
Beyond books: Christmas gifts for the literature lover in your life
Beyond books: Christmas gifts for the literature lover in your life
Sometimes the hardest thing to buy for a bookworm is a regular novel, biography or history book. Here's a selection of bookish gift ideas that go beyond the norm
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KSJ fellowships are an opportunity for science journalists to step away from chasing deadlines and connect with their curiosity. Applications are open now! Apply by Jan 9 https://ksj.mit.edu/news/2025/11/14/apply-for-2026-2027/
This is one heck of an indie journalism gift guide from @marisakabas.bsky.social <3 we are thrilled to be featured alongside so many of our faves
Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide
The Handbasket has subscription suggestions for almost everyone on your list.
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