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Hikes and crochet. She/they 🏳️‍🌈 STEM Librarian, Critical AI prof

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"This is what a broken, corrupt political system looks like: [people] follow the rules, register to vote before the deadline, and still risk losing their ... right to the ballot box because their government failed to do its job."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In March, Washington State passed a tax on millionaires to fund public education, childcare, and expand its earned income tax credit. Now, special interest groups backed by the rich are trying to trick voters into repealing the tax by claiming it will apply to non-millionaires. Don't fall for it.
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Washington Taxed Its Millionaires. Now the Rich Want It Repealed.
Washington State voters will get a chance to accept or reject the 9.9 percent income tax on millionaires approved by the Legislature, which broke the state’s taboo against levying income taxes.
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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So yeah, if you suppress all knowledge of queerness, then on some level, you do end up with fewer openly queer people. You get to have more miserable, self-hating stunted people instead. YAY YOU WIN. If you just want us gone, then yeah, that's a victory condition.
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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The "social contagion" thing drives me screaming angry. When I was young I had no clue trans ppl existed. I'd never met anyone trans. I saw cruel caricatures in pop culture occasionally. When I realized trans was a thing someone could be, it hit like a lightning bolt. My life felt newly possible.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Muting this now. Too many people in my mentions thinking they could never get tricked, conned, propagandized, or sold a bill of goods, & holding 0 compassion for people who might. Yeah some of these ppl are all-in on "AI," but some will just be trying to live life. No one is immune to manipulation.
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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 19h
Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪
A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026
Men—we need to talk: •Timothy Hudson raped & killed his stepsister—he got pretrial release •7 men at Cornell drugged, trafficked, & raped a woman—they faced no consequences •An American man annihilates his entire family—every 5 days Women are not safe around men www.qasimrashid.com/p/women-are-...
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Women Are Not Safe Around Men
This is a fact. The data is unambiguous and the solutions exist. The only thing missing is the will to act.
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
tfw you think you’re an end and you find out you’re a means
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 20h
The raw visceral hatred some men have for women, at least women who step out of line, is shocking. I know it sounds like some sorta "one of the good ones" ploy but I am genuinely taken aback when I see it because I think: I had a fairly normal socialisation as a man in the west, how did I miss this?
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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 20h
“There’s a feeling today that Britain only found out about the Holocaust at the end of the war. But in 1942 [...] you couldn’t really escape this information in Britain. It was in every newspaper. It was on the BBC," said historian Martin Winstone www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Britain knew about the Holocaust as it happened. A new exhibition reckons with that truth
Research draws upon reporting and witness testimony, while a permanent memorial is planned for London
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Alan 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @bows4crows.bsky.social · 19h
Mantua court dress, 1747 I found another haul of old dresses, so lets go! You may notice that the hips are slightly accentuated - a subtle touch, I'm sure you'll agree 😁 The bodice itself is quite beautiful, with the neckline ruffles a lovely touch. #fashionsky #fashionhistory #dresshistory
Museum photo of a court dress in pale yellow and white silk. It has chinoiserie embroidery throughout, a pointed stomacher, and a square cut neckline trimmed with ruffles. The most obvious visual feature is the extremely enlarged side hips, extending a good 70cm or so from the bodice to the right and left. These enlarge the skirt considerably and are likely supported by hoops and panniers.
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
lol didn't see this in time for today's Pivot - Meta Muse uploads your past and present Apple Messages to Facebook's cloud, even if you told it not to appleinsider.com/articles/26/09/28/…
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Meta Muse AI reportedly read Mac Messages without consent
In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 19h
My episode with Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social where we talk about what happened in Ceuta and why anti-immigrant narratives are so crucial to fascism. open.spotify.com/episode/3Hee...
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After Ceuta
It Could Happen Here · Episode
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JoeMyGod @joemygod.bsky.social · 19h
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Moms For Liberty Activist Guilty Of Election Fraud - Joe.My.God.
The New Republic reports: For all their browbeating about election fraud, it turns out that Donald Trump’s MAGA acolytes aren’t following election laws. Gaea Powell, a Moms for Liberty activist and lo...
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ken Paxton: The only thing that really saves us is that the Supreme Court came along and allowed Super PACs. Otherwise... I would be sitting here and never have a chance...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We can spend our lives debating the justifications (I more or less have); but we are wasting our time. What we need is a massive clampdown on the influence of money over politics, including lobbying transparency, campaign finance reform, an end to the revolving door between politics and lobbying.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here is how politics, in most cases, works: Rich and powerful interests, whether in fossil fuels, finance, big tech, media, meat, pharma or foreign governments, make a demand, and use their sophisticated tools to persuade a government to adopt it. The government adopts it. Please read whole🧵
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ONLY EIGHT PLAYERS GOT A WATER BREAK AT AN ARIZONA WORKOUT IN AUGUST???? This is literally criminal.
Rund’s report said Powers directed a water break roughly 20 minutes into the workout. The players said otherwise: Their only water break came 35 to 45 minutes into the roughly 75-minute workout, after a grueling bear crawl, and lasted just seconds. The only players who got water during the break — about eight — were the first finishers of the drill.

“The first of us to finish had a few seconds at the bottles before being ordered back while others, including Matthew, were still crawling,” players wrote. “This was the only water break.”
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Holy shit
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
hey yeah maybe forcing the ncaa to collectively bargain with college athletes is the right thing to do.
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 29/09/2026
Texas GOP Senate nominee Ken Paxton tells a forum of the U.S. Hispanic Business Council that data centers will be “a huge economic boon” for Texas, while suggesting rural areas are more appropriate locations for them. “There’s plenty of open space in Texas,” he said.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
I'm not even getting into the science of it because who fucking cares. It's a non-issue that is unlikely to ever affect you. The first sports ban was Idaho in 2020 and nobody gave a fuck before then. Hell, in 2016, the country revolted when North Carolina passed a bathroom ban. It's so dumb.
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Shoresy: This Is So Dumb
ALT: Shoresy: This Is So Dumb
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
But if trans girls are "cheating" by playing women's sports, what else are the sneaky trans people cheating about. They're also coming for Title IX. They don't care about women in sports. They want women out of sports. Please, I am begging you, stop falling for this shit.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
What's happening is that Republicans are priming Democrats and Democratic voters for more violent forms of transphobia. They're manipulating people into caring about something that is most likely never going to affect them.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Before the NCAA capitulated to this nonsense and banned trans women from competing on women's sports teams, the head of the NCAA told a Senate panel that he knew of less than 10 athletes competing in sports in the NCAA. What are we fucking doing here, people. It's a non-issue.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Save Women's Sports, an anti-trans organization whose entire existence is built around ferreting out trans athletes who want to run rougshod over your cisgender girl could only find 5 athletes competing K-12. Five.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
The trans women in sports panic has got to be one of the GOP's most successful manufactured culture war campaigns. Somehow they got a lot of people who would otherwise say they support trans rights to somehow fear "fairness" in sports. It's a non-issue.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Jesus fucking Christ
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World Peace Cookies @worldpeacecookies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I think of this quote from Fleishman is in Trouble far too often.
“It was like those T-shirts all my daughter’s friends were wearing to school now, the ones that said THE FUTURE IS FEMALE in big block letters. How they march around in broad daylight in shirts like that. But the only reason it’s tolerated is that everyone knows it’s just a lie we tell to girls to make their marginalization bearable. They know that eventually the girls will be punished for their futures, so they let them wear their dumb message shirts now.”
― Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential.
Emma Sulkowicz carrying around a mattress on the Columbia campus in 2014 to raise awareness of her alleged rape and the university's inaction.
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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
PMC COVlD Update, Sep 28, 2026 (US): 🔸We're in a 13th COVlD wave. 🔸40 states & territories continue to have COVlD outbreaks, stable from last week. 🔸Levels likely peaked between Sep 7-13 at a PMC-estimated 580,000 new daily infections. pmc19.com/map
The US has at least 40 states and territories with COVlD outbreaks, the same number reported last week. These include Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
     There are likely outbreaks in additional states. The summary statistic of 40 only includes counties with observed data, rather than estimated data. For example, Idaho, Louisiana, Maryland, and Tennessee likely have outbreaks, but monitoring is poor.

Nuance: 
Note that while PMC uses forecasting to estimate national statistics through Sep 28 and beyond, the state-level data do not, meaning they are now 9 days old. If the national forecast is correct, levels peaked between Sept 7-13, closely aligned with our prior forecasts. This would mean that levels are declining more so than depicted in the map. Levels often decline slowly, suggesting the need for ongoing precautions. Additionally, Biobot and 200 CDC sites are offline this week, and both have experienced major retroactive corrections of late, so the national forecast has more uncertainty than usual. For example, we could see the peak adjusted upward or a double peak. It is unclear how quickly reporting will resume at the offline sites. 

Note that while PMC national statistical estimates include forecasting, the state-level data do not, meaning they are now 9 days old. If the forecast is correct, levels peaked between Sept 7-13. This would mean that levels are declining more so than depicted in the map. However, Biobot and 200 CDC sites are offline this week and both have experienced major retroactive corrections of late, so high uncertainty.
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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We actually don't hate this administration enough
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Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️‍🌈 @cybrarerin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There’s also a Queer Liberation Library available — www.queerliberationlibrary.org
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Queer Liberation Library
Queer Liberation Library (QLL) is fighting to build a vibrant, flourishing queer future by connecting LGBTQ+ people with literature, information, and resources that celebrate the unique and empowering...
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Ms. Rosenberg @msrosenberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Stop advertising about how I sue people or I will sue the hell out of you
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Roger Marshall alleges defamation in new ad about former Kansas patient arrested while in debt • Kansas Reflector
Lawyers for U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, a Republican running for reelection, sent his opponent a cease-and-desist letter demanding the Democrat stop airing an ad featuring one of the senator’s former pa...
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I've been reading bell hooks, and she talks about children being the most oppressed class in society. To this end, the United States has not ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child-- I wrote about this years ago www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-p...
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Why won’t the U.S. ratify the U.N.’s child rights treaty?
The non-ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child is hypocritical.
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Neil @realneilc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
bell hooks was right as always, and on top of that, America always uses kids as pawns. Denying kids school lunches to make cruelty the point. Using "kids online safety" as a Trojan Horse for feeding more data to Big Tech and denying resources to kids in the LGBTQ+ community
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If children had any political power, instead of being treated like property, we wouldn't be in such a mess. Exhibit A: Attacks on Critical Race Theory started in schools as "parents' rights" and book bans-- within 7 years, this morphed into an anti-DEI purge of adults in workplaces and academia.
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s happening again. LLMs reporting someone’s in progress research as if it’s own discovery.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 28/09/2026
I feel this in my bones. We're mourning the death of a career many of us thought we could have, while witnessing our chronic illnesses and disabilities becoming more debilitating. The networks of mutual support that suspended us in meaningful relationships with the rest of society have come undone.
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Sexy Tuna: Train Conductrix @dirtynerdy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
catholicism is still anti-queer and anti-women’s rights so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ catholic hospitals have been putting women’s lives in danger for decades. and now those same catholic-owned health care centers are also denying trans care as much as they legally can.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today, I see angry young men online LARPing as Catholics, often for the aesthetic. They celebrate strength and hate the weak. The use slurs against the disabled and fantasize about enacting Crusader violence against their enemies. I wish the Pope would speak directly on this.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Pope reminds me of a version of Catholicism I knew growing up as a young man attending anti-war and anti-death penalty protests, where I met elderly Catholics who shared their version of faith with me. I learned that Catholicism was about love and mercy for the weak, the condemned, and the poor.
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 28/09/2026
This sums up my own experience in recent years. My theory is that there are so many genuine existential crises right now that people's instinct is to treat even low-stakes issues (movies! fandoms! personal preferences!) like existential crises. Makes having a normal conversation almost impossible.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 28/09/2026
Social media is weird because if you give people a good feeling they will be overfamiliar with you, and if you do not do that they treat you like a human yelp page
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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Great! So are you going to talk about trans care at Mt. Sinai and NYU Langone, and efforts the city might make to restore, protect, and secure it? Thanks in advance!
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
After further thought, I actually wouldn’t mind if a bird messages me to say it’s running for office and needs my support. TREE SWALLOW FOR SENATE #birds 🌿
A dark blue bird the white throat and belly stands facing the camera, appearing to look fiercely at the photographer.
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Birds are the best. They may look at you like this but they’re never gonna send you unwanted texts or emails (Osprey) #birds 🌿
A bird of prey looks straight at the camera with beak open and tongue showing, looking a little goofy.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I wonder what it would be like to write the same column, over and over again, endlessly. Seems like it’d be boring. But maybe it brings one comfort, like having your parents read you the same story every night before you go to bed.
Opinion
Opinion by Megan McArdle
The Great Awokening is over.
This lesbian bar shows why.
A meltdown over masking shows where cancel culture is now.
Today at 07:00 ET
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🦋 Alie of the Woods 🦋 @humanbyweight.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Princeton finally handed off some advance copies for the 2nd Edition of my wasp book, and they look phenomenal! Thank you everyone for your exceptional patience! Go order it right now!! press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
A photo of me (a white woman with long brownish hair wearing glasses and a dark blue shirt) holding an advance copy of my book "The Social Wasps of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean: Second Edition" in front of an old wooden railing and some lush sassafras leaves. There is a big illustration of a bald-faced hornet on the cover. 

This photo is slightly misleading, since it was taken by my mom a year ago in 2025, immediately before we noticed the major printing errors in the plate series that required us to completely redo the printing from scratch. My joy is nonetheless real, and I feel justified in using this photo since I never posted it the first time around. It's all good now!
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