Emma Hollen

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Science journalist, Podcast producer & host @Futura Creator of INFRA, a podcast about sound (FR) 🎧 I eat books & drink science 💡 #SciComm Ravenpuff with a PhD in curiosity 🦡 🦅 | Ally ✊🏻✊🏽✊🏿 | she / they 🏳️‍🌈 (@Emma_Hollen back on Twixter)

A screenshot from the 1984 movie The NeverEnding Story by Wolfgang Petersen, showing a big white, kind-looking dragon called Falcor and a young boy called Atreyu rising from his protecting embrace. © The NeverEnding Story
An image displaying a soundwave represented with soft-colored curves. The text in the top left corner says "hume" and underneath the soundwave you can read Empathic Voice Interface (EVI). Hume is a new chatbot capable of talking analyzing the tone of your voice to try and understand how you feel and respond adequately. Its voice sounds insanely human. © hume
A man holds up a ginormous mushroom. The steam is as wide as a butternut, and the cap as wide as an umbrella ! © Danny Newman
A series of logograms created for the movie Arrival, by Denis Villeneuve. Each is provided with its translation, and portions of the logograms have been color-coded to signify a particular word. © Wolfram Research, Martine Bertrand (the artist), color coding by me
An almost intact nodosaur fossil. The picture shows a perfectly preserved scaly head (featuring impressive fossilised eye sockets) and the beginning of the spiky armour on its body. It is a thing of beauty. © Royal Tyrrell Museum, National Geographic
A snapshot of Hyena Project's account over on TwiXter. Their logo is a hyena drawn within what probably is the boundary of the Ngorongoro crater in Tanzania. © TwiXter, Hyena Project
Une personne portant un pull orange est assise avec les genoux relevés en face d'une fenêtre. Elle se trouve à l'intérieur d'une pièce nue au murs sombres. La fenêtre laisse entrer un faisceau de lumière qui englobe le sujet, mais malgré cela, il semble coincé dans cette pièce, comme prisonnier. © Daler Usmonov
Une personne assise sur un lit dans une cellule du quartier disciplinaire. Le mur présente des traces de brûlures et l'image véhicule un sentiment de solitude. © Grégoire Korganow / CGLPL
Adam Tollefsen, devenu fou au cours de l'expédition Belgica, bloquée pendant un an en Antarctique. © National Library of Norway
A wordsearch challenge, in square grid of 20 by 20. The caption says "The first 3 words you see will define your 2024". Unfortunately, there are no words to find in this grid. © Crazy Optical Illusions
Micrelytra fossularum, un long insecte pas plus grand qu'un ongle, aux pattes fines et élégantes et aux longues antennes à l'extrémité rouge. © Romain Baghi
A Steller's Jay perched on a branch. This gorgeous bird, about the size of a magpie, is capped in deep brown, almost black feathers. Its wings, tail and bottom part of its body are the most beautiful shade of blue, rich with nuances and variations worthy of a tropical bird. © John Fox
A tiny little dormouse sleeping on its back. It has rolled up into a tiny ball and curved its tiny feet underneath its chin. Its tail is curled over its body to give it an extra layer of protection. It is the cutest little things and looks super soft and fuzzy. © Wild Dales Photography / Alamy Stock Photo
Un vampire lève les mains et montre les dents pour se protéger contre les affres du café
Two men holding cups of tea and looking inquisitively to someone out of frame. The caption asks "Are you one of us?"
A screenshot from a Google search : "Comic Book Artist: A comic book artist is a professional who is primarily responsible for the illustration of comics."
Une liste d'importateurs de thés responsables : Thé des cimes, Aromandise, Thé 19, L'autre Thé, Les Jardins de Gaïa
A cat standing on its hind legs, front legs spread upwards saying "You rock, this much"
A polydactyl black and white kitten. It sports 6 beans on each paw instead of the usual 4. © Roham Sheikholeslami
6 early instar larvae of the saddleback caterpillar. Their body is pill-shaped and covered in what looks like gummy spikes. They are a bright yellowish green. © Lyle J. Buss, University of Florida.
A wooden-looking snake with angry-looking eyes and a trophy-looking snout. This extra piece of nose looks like a piece of wood whose extremity has been broken off. © RGSMadagascar
Non-AI-generated image results for the search term 'woman'. All the subjects are white and most are below age 40. © Adobe Stock
A hoatzin spreads its bright orange wings above its head. Its face is blue with bright red eyes and a flame colored crest of fine feathers. He looks like he is wearing trousers of rust-colored down. © Ed Harper
A gloved hand holding a hammer-headed bat. The bat has long, pointy translucid ears and an elongated and very bulky snout, as if it had been stung by a bee. © Sarah H. Olson
A humorous montage depicting a tardigrade on its back getting tickled by a human hand. © Getty Images/Collection Mix: Subjects RM and © PNG Wing
A molted tardigrade leaves an egg mass in their old exoskeleton. © Carolina Biological Supply Company, Science Photo Library
A single tardigrade egg: a sphere covered in about 50 cone-shaped protuberances rising from its surface. A lace-like pattern runs in the spaces between the cones. © Eye Of Science, Science Photo Library
A tweet bu Massimo on Twixter, saying: 'Despite the photos you might have seen online, this is not a baby crow, but a baby buff-banded rail (Gallirallus philippensis), and isn’t even remotely related to a corvid'
A tiny spider mask with in golden brown and white hair. The four holes where the eyes once were still retain a transparent outer shell which acts like a sort of magnifying glass. Considering that you can see the pores of the finger holding up the mask, I'd say it's probably no bigger than one millimeter. © Adam Fletcher, Project Maratus
An array of rough and cut sapphire gemstones, arranged by shade: salmon, pink, grayish purple, purple, ultramarine, pale yellow, yellow, orange, and last, a red ruby. © GIA Dr. Edward Gubelin collection and William F. Larson, Pala International.
The inside of a moretta mask, with a button sawn at the place of the mouth. © Gli Amici Di Pierrot
The fragment of a painting by Pietro Longhi (18th century), showing a young girl and two women, one of whom is sporting a round black mask over the center of her face. It looks like her features, save from her eyes, have been sucked into the void. P.S. this is not an actual cosplay of a black hole. It would take another 83 years before their existence would be theorised for the first time.
The incandescent filament of a freshly exploded light bulb lets out a billowing cloud of smoke.
La couverture du podcast INFRA, représentant une enceinte qui "explose" en libérant des éléments qui émettent du bruit : un avion de chasse, une baleine ou un mixeur par exemple
The mantid lacewing has some –frankly– very weirdly articulated arms that make it look like she's put her elbows on the table and her hands under her chin to listen more closely to what you have to say.
A very beefy, strange-looking, purplish frog with tiny eyes set wide apart and a pointy noise.
A first chart, listing the logograms and their translations
A picture of a house seen from the side. The reflection of the sun in our windows spells 'oi' onto it.
A screenshot of Michael (from the series The Good Place), looking at the camera intently and saying 'Okay, here we go'
A carved pumpkin representing a Victorian manor. Candlelight is shining through the windows.
A carved pumpkin representing Edgar Allan Poe (2013)
A carved pumpkin representing a werewolf against a full moon.