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The Mix @themixjazz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This makes me so incredibly happy. Delivery workers deserve so much better and DoorDash is equally as awful financially for restaurants. I really wish everyone would realize how truly horrible they are and stop using them.

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Stormrider @kwh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

At the Grand Canyon, there is a gap in the rock record representing ~1.2 billion years, or about 25% of Earth’s history. It is called The Great Unconformity. Some people say that the time is missing, but the correct statement is that the rock record itself is missing. www.nps.gov/articles/000...

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Missing Time at Grand Canyon National Park (U.S. National Park Service)

Telling Time at Grand Canyon—Missing Time

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

At 12:20 PM in Mettler, CA temperatures have reached 105°F. Pallets of freshly packed grapes are loaded onto trucks for shipment. Workers carefully position and secure each load so the fruit can be transported safely. In the background, workers continue to harvest. #WeFeedYou

A truck with boxes of grapes loaded on it by swampers

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Rajalakshmi Nadadur, PhD @drnadadur.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is very true but we must also not ignore the political narratives and perceptions around “foreign aid” that were built over decades, which contributed towards the support for and apathy towards dismantling USAID.

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S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I missed the part where George Washington transformed into a truck.

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Wut wut wut

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CNN @cnn.com · 26/08/2026

The Empire State Building lit up pink at 9:25pm to honor the late music legend and philanthropist Dolly Parton with the time being a nod to her hit song “9 to 5.”

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S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

New York cat people:

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Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I'm looking for friendly exchanges, inspiration, collaboration, interviews, etc. I've chatted w/journalists for CNN, SCMP, TIME, The China Project, RTHK tv/radio and love to share my research/expertise. I'm also on IG + Threads (latter posting only in Chinese). Thanks! Please poke me, add me, etc.

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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 19/08/2026

In what many experts have called social media's "big tobacco moment," a coalition of states is asking that Meta be penalized by around $200 billion for designing products addictive to children.

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Meta hooked children and misled public: prosecutors

A coalition of states is asking Meta be hit with $200 billion in penalties for making products addictive to children, in what many have called social media’s “big tobacco moment.”

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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Historians, archivists and digital humanities peeps! Looking for your recommendations of scholarship/readings on public-facing and text searchable historical databases, particularly of digitised records. Even better if they discuss petitions, censuses and the like. #history #archives 🗃️

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This is simply wonderful news for the Migration Museum and its ongoing project to create the UK's first permanent museum exploring migration to and from the UK. The new Museum will be in the City of London, but is already working with collaborators outside London and outside England. 1/3

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The Wolfson Foundation commits £600,000 to the UK’s ‘Missing Museum’

The Migration Museum is delighted to announce that The Wolfson Foundation has become a Founding Partner of the UK’s first permanent museum dedicated to exploring how the movement of people to and from...

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 23/03/2025

The second Starter Pack includes #History societies and associations working internationally beyond the UK and Ireland go.bsky.app/9T5F1Qc. Please share, and let us know recommendations for both the UK & Ireland and RoW packs so we can further develop these lists. Thank you. #skystorians

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 23/03/2025

Our third Starter Pack for historians lists institutes and research centres based in the UK and Republic of Ireland go.bsky.app/RbfRrhm This now includes over 90 centres with BlueSky accounts. We also welcome recommendations for additions to this pack. #skystorians

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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

In honor of women’s history month, the biographical database Orlando is open access. Wish I’d found out sooner, but good to know. view.updates.cambridge.org?qs=02674e9ef...

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Cambridge University Press

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 23/03/2025

Since joining BlueSky we've been building a Starter Pack to highlight the work of fellow historical societies and associations. We've now reached our 150 limit, so have divided the list into 2 packs: the first covers societies in the UK and Republic of Ireland go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd ... #skystorians

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Lia Sciortino @liasciortino.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Navigating a Troubled Funding Landscape for Development in Southeast Asia: Panel Talk 📅 18 March 2025 🕗 5:30- 7:00 pm 📍 SEA Junction, 4th floor, BACC Please read ➡️https://seajunction.org/event/navigating-a-troubled-funding-landscape-for-development/ #funding #USAID #civilsociety #southeastasia

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Philippa Hellawell @pbhellawell.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

PASSAGE is recruiting for two fixed-term posts to join me working on 18thC records of enslavement 1) Collections Researcher (Transatlantic Slavery) shorturl.at/aZwqn 2) Project Cataloguer (Transatlantic Slavery) shorturl.at/6aSpz If you have questions, please let me know & please circulate widely!

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Collections Researcher (Transatlantic Slavery) at The National Archives

Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

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Rajalakshmi Nadadur, PhD @drnadadur.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I wish I could repost this more than once.

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Rajalakshmi Nadadur, PhD @drnadadur.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Can confirm, having gone through the process recently myself. Folks, if you don’t know much about these processes, seriously, get to know and talk to someone who is experiencing it. It’s incredibly frustrating to listen to conversations by folks who have no idea what it entails.

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 08/03/2025

Stand Up for Science Burlington, Vermont

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Jay Rubenstein @medievaljay.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

If we lived in a world that was half just, this would be the official leader of the Democratic Party.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 07/03/2025

BREAKING: In response to our lawsuit, the National Endowment for the Arts will no longer force grant applicants to certify that they won't promote "gender ideology." This is a big step toward defeating the NEA's unconstitutional censorship.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

This is it, right here. They have always hated us, and your compliance only increases their contempt for you.

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Rob Davis @robwdavis.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach." Salary: $120K-$140K Remote: ✅ Come join us!

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Computational Journalist

New York, New York, United States

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 07/03/2025

1. Today, powerful speeches from trans representatives in Montana SJ Howell and Zooey Zephyr flipped 29 Republicans, killing anti-trans bills. While some Dems like Newsom abandon trans people, these reps show the power of representation. Watch their speech. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Powerful Speeches From Trans Dems Flip 29 Republicans, Anti-Trans Bills Die In Montana

Transgender Reps Zooey Zephyr and SJ Howell delivered powerful speeches on the Montana House floor on Thursday. Republicans defected en masse to join them in voting against anti-trans bills.

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Adriana Guatame-García @adriguatame.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience.
No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent.
And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted.
... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

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Leilani (she/her) @glittergremlei.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

You know what I think the worst part of this might be??? That the “fighters” we’re supposed to “choose” from in this headass meme are largely WOC who the party doesn’t ACTUALLY BACK UP in any fights. AOC is in a unique position as resented token for the party’s left AND WOC and that’s it.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

An entire US agency was abolished this weekend without congressional authorization.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Me: Oh no that trolley is going to run us over! Guy tied up on the track next to me who somehow thinks he's actually the guy holding the lever: Lol cry more 😂

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Rajalakshmi Nadadur, PhD @drnadadur.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Some things never change. For instance, UK universities decimating education, restructuring and running unis like businesses. Same story 10 years ago when I was part of UK academia. Join @ucu.org.uk.

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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

“If the BBC or John Lewis was cutting 5,000 or 6,000 jobs, we’d hear all about it but what we’re seeing in universities isn’t being noticed//…//.” www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Quarter of leading UK universities cutting staff due to budget shortfalls

Up to 10,000 redundancies or job losses feared as institutes undergo restructuring

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

why does this look like the behind the scenes of the trolley problem

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 30/01/2025

Stop fucking saying he blamed “DEI,” which is some abstract, non-tangible idea. He is blaming people of color having jobs he thinks they aren’t qualified for. He’s blaming race. He’s being racist every time he says it. Journalists need to get fucking backbones, my word.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Maybe stop voting to confirm his nominees

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Rajalakshmi Nadadur, PhD @drnadadur.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

@liasciortino.bsky.social Hi Lia! Lovely to see you here. We worked together in Bangkok a few years ago with Rebecca. Hope you are well!

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Christopher Pittard @christopherpittard.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

There it is.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Excellent post

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

More pro-life actions unfolding

Screenshot of NYT article heading about immediate cessation of US State Dept mine clearing activities around the world

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Alison Hennessey @alisonhennessey.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I went to the Science Museum yesterday and as well as having a ball with my nearly four year old in their amazing child spaces (god love free London museums) I was utterly charmed by this caption.

A caption from an exhibition in the Science Museum in London about a model of an Apollo 11 lunar module built by a 12 year old boy, which reveals at the very end that the creator of the model now works as Curator of the Museum’s Space Technology Collection.

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

"Harvard University has laid off its staff in the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program, the unit of its $100 million Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery initiative tasked with identifying the direct descendants of those enslaved by Harvard affiliates."

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