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Joan Sheldon Apr 6, 2023

Amadi Lovelace Mar 20, 2023

Really getting tired of articles in major newspapers based in the false dichotomy of “immune or lucky” for those of us who’ve managed to avoid #COVID. For almost all of us it’s required burning our lives down to the foundation and becoming hermits or as close as our existences will allow. We’ve lost time with family, we’ve lost income and opportunities, we’ve lost nearly everything in order to keep our lives and whatever health we have. Luck plays no part in it. I wish we were lucky.

Joan Sheldon Apr 1, 2023

Second loaf from Wednesday’s dough: The extra fridge time helped, it handled well and I got better at shaping. But then it stuck to the floured proofing cloth and I had to use a scraper to get it off. 😡 I managed that without tearing, but the extra handling made the dough spread out. 😭 I managed better scoring and a more effective way to steam the oven, and this loaf opened up more and had a much thinner crust and more open crumb, even though it’s not the best shape. #sourdough

Joan Sheldon Apr 1, 2023

Alexandre B A Villares 🐍Apr 1, 2023

Research Article
Knitted origami
Elizabeth L. Wilmer

"Techniques are presented for embedding horizontal, vertical, and45◦diagonal crease lines into garter stitch knitted fabric. While theseare mostly based on standard lace knitting stitches, the horizon-tal creases use double-cable-crossed elongated stitches in a non-standard way. This crease library suffices to knit a model of a squaretwist, a foundational origami tessellation unit."

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/17513472.2023.2191572

Knitted origami

Techniques are presented for embedding horizontal, vertical, and 45∘ diagonal crease lines into garter stitch knitted fabric. While these are mostly based on standard lace knitting stitches, the ho...

Taylor & Francis

Joan Sheldon Mar 31, 2023

Baked my first pain au levain today! There’s a LOT of room for improvement in texture: it’s way too dense. But the flavor is really good! This recipe has a refrigerated stage of bulk fermentation that can be between overnight and 4 days. This half of the dough I took out after 12 hours. I’ll give the other half more time and see if that helps, and also try to do better on tighter shaping using less flour, and deeper scoring.

Joan Sheldon Mar 30, 2023

Michele Banks Mar 30, 2023

Opening is tomorrow evening, 3/31 at Artists & Makers in Rockville, MD #art #sciart https://www.eastcityart.com/openings-and-events/artists-makers/

Artists & Makers Studios Presents Ivan Amato and Michele Banks Micromajesty: Intersections of Art and Science and the Resident Artists Green | East City Art

East City Art | DC's Visual Arts Publication

Joan Sheldon Mar 30, 2023

Texas Observer Mar 29, 2023

WE DID IT! The Texas Observer will remain open!

Our board just voted to rescind both the layoffs and the closure. We'll have more news soon, but we believe this is the start of a very positive transformation at our publication—and you were a huge part of it. THANK YOU! You proved to the world that #TexasNeedsAnObserver!

https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-observer-no-layoffs-remains-open-board-vote/

#Fediverse #Mastodon #WeWin

We Did It, Y'all! Texas Observer Will Remain Open!

"Thanks to the extraordinary success of the staff’s fundraising this week," the publication's board of directors voted to rescind layoffs and shutdown.

The Texas Observer

Joan Sheldon Mar 29, 2023

Sourdough update: I’ve been offline for a while, but in the meantime my starter that was quite sour but slow to rise has finally come around! Feeding it 100% rye for 12 days didn’t seem to make any difference so I gradually changed the flour ratio to 10% rye 90% bread. Partway through that, it also spent a week in the refrigerator where it didn’t rise one bit while I was on vacation. But a couple of feedings later, it smells like yeast! Currently building up starter volume to bake some bread!

Joan Sheldon Mar 15, 2023

Michele Banks Mar 15, 2023

Gonna have 12 pieces on display at the #NIH Clinical Center from July-October

Joan Sheldon Mar 11, 2023

John Kennedy Mar 10, 2023

Stitch of the Climate 2022 - Arctic sea ice extent, difference from the 1991-2020 average, 1979-2022. Data from OSISAF (https://osi-saf.eumetsat.int/products/osi-420)

Joan Sheldon Mar 11, 2023

Michele Banks Mar 10, 2023

Coming soon! Micro #photography of #chemistry by Ivan Amato and #Science inspired watercolors by me. Opening at Artists & Makers gallery in Rockville MD on March 29 #sciart #art https://www.flickr.com/photos/39321951@N07/albums/72177720305959967/with/52684702526/

Micromajesty

Micromajesty: Intersections of Art and Science, runs from March 29 through April 26 at Artists and Makers Studios. All are invited to opening receptions with the artists on Friday, March 31, 5 – 9 PM and also Friday, April 7, 5 – 9 PM. In an exploration of intersections between science and art this month at Artists and Makers Studios in Rockville, MD, Ivan Amato and Michele Banks revel in the aesthetic potential of their microscopic obsessions: molecules, microbes and cells. Ivan Amato has always been smitten by the gorgeous diversity of data that scientists gather to learn about the world. Drawing upon his background in chemistry and science communication, he embraces the artform of crystal micrography. To create his pieces, Amato dissolves substances, from table sugar to prescription medicines, coaxes them to resolidify on microscope slides and then tours the slides to capture the resulting crystalline beauty. His work has been shown in DC Arts Club and appeared in literary publications and in science journals. Amato is the author of Supervision: A New View of Nature, a celebration of science imagery. He has written several other books and hundreds of articles, produced podcasts, and orchestrated science café events. His day job is as the science communications manager for the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University. Michele Banks is an artist inspired by science. Her artwork, on themes ranging from neuroscience to the microbiome to climate change, has been shown at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and at the Society for Neuroscience, as well as at many galleries and art festivals. Her paintings have been featured on the covers of journals and books and in publications including Scientific American, The Scientist and Wired. Michele’s work in this exhibition explores the idea of the vessel in semi-abstract watercolor paintings inspired by structures in plants as well as in the human body. Her paintings celebrate the tiny, crucial carriers of everything from water to blood to electrical pulses – the flow of life.

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