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Josh Turek @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

To every Iowan out there struggling, I know what it’s like because I’ve been there. I know that you're struggling just to keep food on the table, a roof above your head, and keep gas in your tank. I’ll be a senator who fights for you — not for billionaires and big corporations.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Hard not to notice that Democrats who are doing the best are the ones who are leaving this whole civility-and-norms, we-go-high, we-need-a-strong-Republican-Party bullshit behind and are simply giving Republicans exactly what they all ought to get at all times, which is undisguised contempt.

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Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Congratulations to our Wildlife Photographer of the Year winners! 🎉📸 🐘 Federico Veronesi is our Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026, awarded for his mesmerising image, ‘The Aftermath’. 🪲 Oscar Whitfield’s ‘Labour of Love’ crowns him our Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026.

A female adult elephant carrying a deceased calf with its trunk. By Federico Veronesi.

A dung beetle carrying a ball of dung. By Oscar Whitfield.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

“A college in Illinois tried to cancel its Flock contract—Flock refused to take its cameras down so Elgin Community College covered them. The company snuck back to uncover them” www.theverge.com/tech/1009411...

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A college in Illinois tried to cancel its Flock contract and it refused

Flock refused to take its cameras down so Elgin Community College covered them. The company snuck back to undo it.

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Big news: @chrismanias.bsky.social and I are planning a #PALEOART MEETING in London for early next year: a whole day devoted to palaeoart practice, science, history and culture. Interested? Please complete and share this survey to help shape our plans! forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

Charles Knight's awesome mural of Late Cretaceous dinosaurs with the words "The Palaeoart Salon: a proposed meeting about palaeoart, Survey" written over it.

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Dr. Katie Sagal @aksagal.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is an utterly delightful thread.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

184 new cuneiform tablets ✍️ (total), dating to c.1400 BCE. “Preliminary examination of the texts has revealed references to military activities, epidemics, the death of an infant princess & requests for assistance sent to the king by Hittite military commanders” www.heritagedaily.com/2026/10/184-...

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184 cuneiform tablets discovered in Hittite royal archive

Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Kayalıpınar in Türkiye have discovered a Hittite royal archive containing 184 cuneiform tablets and fragments. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A Prime Day reminder that Amazon... -Helps fuel ICE's deportations -Gave $1M to Trump's inauguration -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $75M for the Melania doc -Donated to Trump's ballroom -Wants to reboot The Apprentice w/ Don Jr

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Francesca Giannetti @jofrankie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Still a few more slots in my Data Visualization with Embroidery workshop next 10/15 in the DH Lab at Alexander Library, Rutgers. I'll be preparing supply kits for in person attendees (online attendance is possible too). 🥰 🧵🪡 libcal.rutgers.edu/event/17621114 #criticalmaking #dhmakes

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Data Visualization with Embroidery

What do wartime, espionnage, and steganography have in common? Embroidery! Come for a brief history of data visualization in textiles and a hands-on activity in which we will learn...

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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Gazing at horizons afar, we have always felt compelled to reach further. Our library has many books memorialising exceptional journeys into the unknown. These priceless holdings are now facing significant risk due to mould - could you please us with any donations small or large, 👉️ buff.ly/6JKP7k9

18th-century engraved plate showing a Guayaquil balsa raft with a large sail, crew rowing and steering, stacked cargo on deck, a decorative title cartouche above and a German caption below against a cloudy sea.

Engraved coastal scene titled "View in Portlock's Harbour, N.E. Coast of America," showing two rowers in a small canoe on choppy water before a palm‑lined sandy shore, rocky islets, steep mountains and tall trees under a cloudy sky.

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Dr. Katie Sagal @aksagal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Many, many things from Space Balls, but my favorite is "Keep going, assholes!"

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We tell women preventing sexual assault is completely their responsibility and then get mad when they protect themselves. It's literally insane.

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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the institutional sanction of sexual violence against women and the state trying to kill a woman and failing. galling to take those together

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Dr. Katie Sagal @aksagal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Repeatedly. In the same session. And different programs that theoretically use the SSO. And oh, the 2fa code didn't come through. ☠️

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yesterday was a big day for Indigenous literature as Kinsale Drake, Darcie Little Badger, and Stacie Shannon Denetsosie received the 2026 American Book Award for Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms. redpopnews.com/beyond-the-g...

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Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms Receives 2026 American Book Award

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Dr. Katie Sagal @aksagal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Something Succession was spot-on about.

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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

✒️ "Written & Edited by his Wife" Join us for a research talk by Dr Grace Exley who will explore how women’s hands have shaped our impression of some of the most famous scientists of the nineteenth century. 21 Oct, 5-6.30pm Cambridge University Library Book your FREE ticket loom.ly/KpzUmgM

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Make any comment about the evil of AI on the internet and you will inevitably get people saying, "Ah, but you can't halt progress." You know what else people thought was progress not long after it came into common use? Asbestos.

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 22/09/2026

I think you had to be very online at a time when most people weren't to know that the bush administration was comically evil to the extent that it was, but for those of you who weren't: trust us! these were stupid evil people, not so different from the current ones!

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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We’ve published issue 3.2 of ‘Plant Perspectives’, a special issue on ‘Global More-than-Human Histories of Palms’ (guest edited by Sophie Chao, Pilar Egüez Guevara and Jayson Maurice Porter); #openaccess here: www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/issue/vie... #plantstudies #envhum #palms

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Excited to announce that my large interdisciplinary project Living Beings as More-Than-Human Heritage (Live Heritage) has been funded by the Research Council of Norway! Over 6 years, we will explore how living beings are both part of cultural heritage and help shape it. www.uis.no/nb/om-uis/th...

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40 millioner til forskning på planter og dyr som kulturarv

Forskere i Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities ved Universitetet i Stavanger får nær 40 millioner kroner fra Forskningsrådet til å løfte fram levende dyr og planter som en viktig del av vår felles historie.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 14/09/2026

IGN's ownership chooses busiest time for games media in years to lay a bunch of people off: aftermath.site/ign-layoffs-al...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“Guys, they want us to go home.” 🔥 🇫🇷 French short film about what would happen to society if all the immigrants listened to angry old racist white men and left (aka the Republican agenda)

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

just take a look at this pig ok

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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Lena photographed each specimen sheet using two flashes, capturing incredible details of the flowers, leaves and stems unseen by the naked eye, as well as the structure of the 18th C paper with its details. You have go to see it to believe it!

Photographer perched on a step ladder adjusts a DSLR to photograph a pressed botanical specimen laid on a table below, with extra lens, camera bag and phone nearby.

Backlit cluster of translucent blue flowers with delicate veined petals and slender stems arranged like a botanical scan against a textured off-white background.

Three overlapping translucent dried leaves with prominent reticulate veins and thin dark stems, backlit against a pale, slightly textured background.

X-ray–style botanical study showing two translucent, trumpet-shaped flowers on a slender stem, highlighting delicate petal veins and dark anthers against a mottled pale background.

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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you ever wanted to get within uncomfortably intimate distance of herbarium plants, our new exhibition is NOW OPEN! We are showcasing deeply detailed photographs by Swedish artist Lena Granefelt that accompany original herbarium specimens More here: buff.ly/nmXnQxU

Herbarium — "Plants in a new light" poster promoting a free exhibition of Lena Granefelt’s botanical photographs, set over translucent blue pressed petals and listing The Linnean Society at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London.

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

I love a flower!, c. 1833, by #SarahMappsDouglass (American, 1806-82), who was born #otd, Sept 9. From the Amy Matilda Cassey Album, The Library Company of Philadelphia, digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/ob... #artherstory #womenartists #hernaturalhistory

Album page containing a watercolor drawing of a wild pink rose above eight lines of allegorical verse about the beauty of flowers. Shows the rose with a stem, five green leaves surrounding the petals, and two buds. The eight lines of verse read: I love a flower! it ever brings/ A warmth of feeling to my heart,/ Unlike those gay and gilded things/ That flatter coldly, coldly part./ But flowers! – Oh they are eloquent/ They speak when lips would still be dumb/ When by the hand of friendship sent,/ Her price interpreters they come.

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Dr. Katie Sagal @aksagal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

These are fun but I'm always pretty easily clocked--NJ apparently has enough dialect idiosyncrasies that it only takes two or three questions to nail it.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Well, now my haters may finally believe I didn't kill Tupac.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Can’t afford groceries? No problem! It’s not safe to consume them anyway!

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deven parker @devenparker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

ROMANTIC MEDIA AND WARTIME NETWORKS, my first monograph, is out today with @stanfordpress.bsky.social. It tells the story of how the state revolutionized its wartime communication networks in the Romantic period and how writers responded to - and resisted - this media revolution.

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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Call for postdocs at the Mahindra Humanities Center (Harvard) in Environmental Humanities (e.g. humanistic approaches to climate change, biodiversity, social justice, env justice, food justice, landscape, and animal studies) Due date Nov. 20, 2026 #EnvHist #EnvHum networks.h-net.org/jobs/70205/h...

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Harvard University - 2027-28 Mahindra Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellowships | H-Net

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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

New series announcement! Early Modern Maritime Humanities 1400-1800: Oceans in History & Culture Series Editors: @clairejowitt.bsky.social & John McAleer Publisher: @dgb-mem.bsky.social brill.com/page/forthco... Feel free to DM me with questions, or email me at Erika.Gaffney@degruyterbrill.com

A series announcement designed to look like the front cover of a book. The featured image is a painting in which two storm-tossed ships appear (a small one at left, a larger one at right).

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Conference Announcement: The Last Man at 200: Imagining the Future after Environmental Disaster The Keats-Shelley Association of America (@ksaacomm.bsky.social) and the University of Notre Dame invite you to a hybrid conference next month! More on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6578

Cover for The Last Man at 200: Mary Shelley, Postapocalyptic Politics and the Environmental Humanities, edited by Eileen M. Hunt.

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Just re-upping this, as everyone starts to think towards the semester. Help us spread the word that Wesleyan is hiring a tenure track professor of early modern literature! Deadline September 15!

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Liza Blake 🏹 ♠️ @medrenliza.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

💚🤍🖤 Happy Aromantic Spectrum Visibility Day! 💚🤍🖤 To celebrate: a poster I made to let people know of an aromanticism studies reading group I'm planning to (co-)organize this Fall. If you're interested in potentially joining us, please fill out a registration form at tinyurl.com/AroRG26 .

A poster with a hand-drawn stack of books in the center; the book spines are colored in to be the aro flag (from the top: dark green, light green, white, grey, black). The books are stacked roughly in the shape of a heart (very roughly), and a green arrow shoots through them.

The text on top reads: An invitation to an aromanticism studies reading group. The text below reads: Every few weeks | Fall 2026 | on Zoom. More info and registration, https://tinyurl.com/AroRG26

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The Verge @theverge.com · 27/08/2026

Americans have declared war on Flock cameras. They’ve protested them, damaged them, and destroyed them. Flock camera destruction isn’t just popular — in some cases, it has also proven highly effective at getting rid of them. Read more from @janus.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/tech/985155/...

Verge headline: Americans are cheering for vigilantes who take down Flock cameras

Illustration of a Flock camera flanked at the sides by instruments of destruction and/or vandalism

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