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Christopher Schmitt, Ph.D @fuzzyatelin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’ve had several students participate in IDEAS over the years and every single one has said it was a life-changing experience with respect to how they experienced and saw themselves in science as a profession. I cannot recommend it highly enough! Apply!

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American Association of Biological Anthropologists @bioanth.org · 23/09/2026

Want to support the diversity you’d like to see in Biological Anthropology? Applications are open to join us as a 2027 AABA IDEAS Faculty (9 positions) or Student (15 positions) Scholar at our Annual Meeting in Philadelphia March 31 - April 3, 2027! Details are below! bioanth.org/about/divers...

This is a flyer providing details on the AABA IDEAS STUDENT SCHOLAR PROGRAM for 2027. It shares details on the program and eligibility to apply, along with an application link. Applications are due November 13th.

This is a flyer providing details on the AABA IDEAS FACULTY SCHOLAR PROGRAM for 2027. It shares details on the program and eligibility to apply, along with an application link. Applications are due October 14th.

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Christopher Schmitt, Ph.D @fuzzyatelin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Dear @ensembl.org what are you doing with your website?! Why have you tanked biomaRt?! All of my Chlorocebus genomics pipelines and 1KG human pipelines are now broken and your website is completely non-functional for both my research AND teaching… who made this horrendous update?

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Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

1/ here to blurb all 13 essays from @bulaw.bsky.social “The University & Democracy” special issue. Incisive, sharp, provocative analysis abt why universities keep cowering & colluding w segregationists & authoritarians. @aaup.org #CLC #SNDHE long 🧵w highlights from each. www.bu.edu/bulawreview/...

It is this uncomfortable place—the recognition that universities might, in fact, be sites of antidemocracy—that motivated the Boston University Law Review’s 2025 Symposium on “The University and Democracy.” The thirteen essays in this Symposium issue help us begin to interrogate, struggle with, and perhaps answer why so many of our institutions have accommodated fascistic attacks on their own communities and commitments

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Kendra, PhD @dnakendra.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Queer Science! 1 day *free* conference for high school students. Participate in science and engineering activities, see UConn labs, hang out with queer scientists. June 6 at Storrs. Registration tinyurl.com/QueerScience...

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On Saturday, June 6,2026 UConn is hosting a free in- person summer program where you can meet LGBTQIA+ scientists & engineers:
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Christopher Schmitt, Ph.D @fuzzyatelin.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Interested in a population genetics that uses a trusted text (Hartl & Clark) but also has a flipped lab component where students do R-based bioinformatics work with real human genomics data (from the 1000 Genomes Project)? Look no further: bsky.app/profile/anth...

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American Association of Anthropological Genetics @anthgen.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Hey professors and instructors! 🧑‍🏫👨🏾‍🏫 Are you stressing about lecture prep? AAAG has a bank of syllabi and teaching materials to support courses in genetics, anthropology, and related fields! 🧬🏺🦴 You can access these materials through our webpage with an active AAAG membership 🤓! anthgen.org/Education

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ALT: a cartoon of tom and jerry in a classroom with a chalkboard

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American Association of Anthropological Genetics @anthgen.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

And that’s a wrap for #aaba2026! Congratulations to the winners of our Outstanding Trainee Presentation Awards 2026 👏🏽🏆🥇We hope everyone had a wonderful conference and look forward to seeing you at the next meeting. Follow us for more updates throughout the year incl. AAAG events at other meetings. 🧬

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American Association of Anthropological Genetics @anthgen.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Fun times at AAAG cocktail hour! #AABA20/6

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American Association of Anthropological Genetics @anthgen.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Join us for some good DNA themed conversation! #AABA2026

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American Association of Anthropological Genetics @anthgen.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Join us for the AAAG cocktail event at historic Wynkoop Brewery 🍻today from 8 - 11 pm. We will have appetizers, cash bar and nerdy conversation! #AABA2026 directions below 👇 maps.app.goo.gl/1jx5FPsGDdK6...

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American Association of Anthropological Genetics @anthgen.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Want to learn what DNA from animals🐕🐟🐋, insects🪲, worms 🪱 & microbes🦠 tells us about human evolution? Join us for today's AAAG/AABA Joint Symposium: Human-Associated Genomes in Anthropological Genetics organized by VP Andrew Kitchen starting 8am in Plaza A #AABA2026 www.xcdsystem.com/aaba/program...

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American Association of Anthropological Genetics @anthgen.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Thanks to all the speakers who participated in our symposium today! If you weren’t able to make it ,watch this account for a thread 🧵 coming soon linking to our speakers’ work and discussing all we learned about domestication, metagenomes, tapeworms, woolly dogs and more! 🤓 #AABA2026 #aaba2026

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American Association of Anthropological Genetics @anthgen.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Hey #AABA2026 are you interested in ancient DNA 🧬💀? Check out AAAG members' posters in today’s Session 12 on Ancient DNA and Population Histories starting at 4:30 pm www.xcdsystem.com/aaba/program... #aaba2026

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Fernando Villanea @fervillanea.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

We're excited to be recruiting an NSF funded postdoc to work in the Villanea lab at CU Boulder. We're specifically interested in candidates who want to work at the intersection of population genetics, ancient DNA, and computer modeling. Please RT jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

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PostDoctoral Associate

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Nandita Garud @nanditagarud.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I am seeking a postdoc to join my group at UCLA -- ideally the candidate would have some experience in either population genetics or microbes/microbiome (computational background needed). We have a range of projects and are happy to tailer to your interests. Please dm/email me if interested.

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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

🧬 NEW JOB: @york-bioarch.bsky.social is hiring a Postdoc in Ancient DNA Work on the RoBMobS project to explore mobility and diversity in Roman Britain using genomic data. 💰 £37k - £39k ⏳ 34 months 📍 York, UK 📅 Apply by 24 March 2026 jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

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Jobs - The University of York

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American Association of Anthropological Genetics @anthgen.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Can't wait to see everyone at #AABA2026 😃 in Denver🏔️! AAAG 🧬has a great event lineup this yr including a cocktail event at Wynkoop Brewing 🍻 on Fri. Mar 20 🗓️! RSVP for this event here: aaag.wildapricot.org/event-6597192

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American Association of Anthropological Genetics @anthgen.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Good morning AABA! ☀️Don't miss AAAG members at Session 3 - Symposium: Post-Contact Evolution: Selection, Admixture, and Health in American Populations starting at 9:30 am in Plaza F #AAABA2026 #aaba2026 www.xcdsystem.com/aaba/program...

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American Association of Anthropological Genetics @anthgen.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Today: Learn how AAAG members reconstruct human history and population dynamics in Session 12 starting at 1:30 pm in Plaza A #AABA2026 www.xcdsystem.com/aaba/program...

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Opinion from a plant science PhD. student in Wisconsin who grew up in Sacramento, attended UC Davis, and is worried the Trump administration is killing science "STEM careers at risk: NIH funding cuts impact the sciences | Sacramento Bee" share.google/BfnM7qnrFt1j...

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I became a scientist, but I don’t know if my career will exist in five years | Opinion

“The opportunities I had as an aspiring researcher are gone. The path to a better life for kids in Sacramento is slipping away.”

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

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Ted Pavlic (he/him/his) @tedpavlic.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪 www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...

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How a discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR - Richmond Scientific

A discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR, the gold-standard COVID-19 tests used to fight the global pandemic.

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Tom Hollenstein @tomhollenstein.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

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Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.

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Yoav Gilad @ygilad.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

I’ve been studying gene regulation in primates for over 20 years, and using RNA-seq since 2008 to compare expression across species. We thought we were being careful. We used curated orthologous exons to minimize alignment bias and focused on biologically meaningful comparisons. We were wrong.

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Jasmin Hufschmid @jhufschmid.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

🧪 White nose syndrome in North American bats appears to have been introduced from a cave system in the Ukraine back in 2006. Fantastic new research shows that European bats are affected by two separate clads of the fungus, but only one clade has (so far) been introduced to N-America: rdcu.be/epN7x

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Two distinct host-specialized fungal species cause white-nose disease in bats

Nature - The identification of two cryptic species of the fungal pathogen that causes white-nose disease in bats highlights the need to integrate studies of genetic variability in pathogens into...

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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

We're thrilled to announce that the FIRST International Conference on Palaeogenomics will happen in Stockholm, Sweden, June 23-26 2026! Topics will span from humans to wildlife and sediments 🧬🦣💀🦠 bring it on! Save the dates! Follow @palaeogenomics.bsky.social for news 👉icp2026.palaeogenomics.org

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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 26/05/2025

Marvel could pay for my healthcare for the rest of my life for a fraction of 1% of profit from Spider-Man Noir, a character whose original comics I edited. For Peter David to die in medical debt, co-creator of Spider-Man 2099 and writer of countless seminal Hulk and X-Factor comics—that's a disgrace

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Steph Godfrey @stephgodfrey.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

We're looking for TWO lecturers (in Conservation Biology & Evolutionary Ecology) to join us in this beautiful corner of the world! Come join our pretty awesome (if I do say so myself!) department! 💚 @zoologyotago.bsky.social otago.taleo.net/careersectio... otago.taleo.net/careersectio...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/05/2025

tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.

whitehouse.gov

Restoring Gold Standard Science

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United

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Richard Castillo, PhD, FAAPM @rcmedphys.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

As of yesterday using publicly available data via Grant Watch grant-watch.us/nih-data.html: 05/24/2025 word cloud depicting 165 unique words or phrases, flagged 10904 times, within 2118 terminated NIH grants. @standupforscience.bsky.social @altnih4science.bsky.social

May 24, 2025 word cloud of 165 unique words or phrases, flagged 10904 times, within 2118 terminated NIH grants.

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Jon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

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Neil Shubin @neilshubin.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

New paper from the lab: Our teeth arose as sensory organs on the outside of the body of ancient jawless fish.!! Congrats to Yara Haridy and the team! Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05... Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

phys.org

Teeth first evolved as sensory tissue in the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish, fossil scans find

Anyone who has ever squirmed through a dental cleaning can tell you how sensitive teeth can be. This sensitivity gives important feedback about temperature, pressure—and yes, pain—as we bite and chew ...

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Who's calling the shots at NIH? Sworn testimonies and internal e-mails reveal for the first time the breadth of DOGE's control over the world's largest public biomedical funder. DOGE has provided lists of hundreds of grants to cut, and DOGE is now reviewing ALL NIH awards before they're released

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NIH killed grants on orders from Elon Musk’s DOGE

Court documents and internal correspondence show the cost-cutting force has broad control over the world’s largest public biomedical funder.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

The Trump administration is pausing NSF’s 15% overhead restriction pending the results of a lawsuit filed by AAU. Waste of everyone’s time.

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Policy Notice: Implementation of Standard 15% Indirect Cost Rate

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Christopher Schmitt, Ph.D @fuzzyatelin.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Happy 21st birthday to same-sex marriage in Massachusetts (and thank you)! 🏳️‍🌈🍾🍻

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Senator Angela Alsobrooks @alsobrooks.senate.gov · 13/05/2025

It's official. I filed a Senate Resolution of Disapproval. RFK is CLEARLY in violation of his constitutional oath. He must resign.

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Marc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Postdoc job opportunity! We're looking for ECR in evolutionary genomics to study the relation between intra-specific gene expression variability, polymorphism, and macro-evolutionary rates. We have the data in 3 fishes & amphioxus, just waiting for your expertise and enthusiasm! tinyurl.com/3aewk286

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Opportunités de carrière : Postdoctoral position in evolutionary genomics (22280)

Saisissez une liste de termes, que nous allons rechercher dans le titre du poste et sa description. \nAstuces\xa0:\n\nNous rechercherons tous les mots figurant dans la recherche.\nLes r\xe9sultats…

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National Center for Science Education @ncse.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Teachers, we've partnered with Evolutionary Studies at Vanderbilt (@evolutionvu.bsky.social) to offer a workshop on evolution in celebration of the Scopes Trial 100th Anniversary. Please join us in Nashville on July 11! forms.gle/wECR4X2q5KCQ... #ScopesSymposium #iteachbio #EduSky #edchat

Flyer: Text reads: Using Evidence and Practical Applications to Overcome Misconceptions About Evolution, Nashville, July 11, 2025 at Vanderbilt. A Scopes Anniversary Workshop on Evolution for teachers. Includes $50 stipend. Imagery is old chalkboard with photo cut-out of John Scopes. The text is drawn in chalk.

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Andrew Willoughby @andrewilloughb.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

THE NSB (NSF Board) announced the existence and exploration of a pilot program to privatize the GRFP graduate fellowship (my wording). This includes branding opportunities for the companies sponsoring fellowships. This is short sighted and self-destructive, and threatens the mission of the NSF. 1/

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!! Has a take action toolkit with: 1. Press outreach templates 2. Social media toolkit 3. Elected official outreach 4. Talking points Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come. www.savensf.com

Welcome to Save The U.S. National Science Foundation
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TAKE ACTION
Save NSF is a coalition of concerned scientists and allies who are working to save funding for scientific grants through the U.S. National Science Foundation.

Our mission is to support and advocate for the continuation of vital research and innovation in various scientific fields. NSF funding is critical to this work.

Join us in our endeavor to ensure a sustainable future for scientific exploration and discovery.

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones

US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

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Jonathan Wosen @jonathanwosen.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

NIH cancels participation in Safe to Sleep campaign that decreased infant deaths. Exclusive via Ismael M. Belkoura for @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/04/30/n...

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NIH cancels participation in Safe to Sleep campaign that decreased infant deaths

NIH has cancelled its participation in Safe to Sleep, a 30-year campaign to prevent babies from dying in their sleep

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anthrobiology.bsky.social @anthrobiology.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

First primatology episode of the year with @fuzzyatelin.bsky.social! This interview has everything! Epigenetics! Fieldwork! Colorful monkey genitals! Listen now: open.spotify.com/episode/6vOZ...

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Dr. Christopher Schmitt - Vervets and woolly monkeys

AnthroBiology Podcast · Episode

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Good Boy @goodboy.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here

Marisa said she is eft with nothing BUt questions.
"What if I would have been armed," she 2 said. "You're breaking in. What am 1 supposed to think? My initial thought was we were being robbed-that my daughters, being females, were being kidnapped. You have guns pointed in our faces. Can you just reprogram yourself and see us as humans, as women? A little bit of mercy. Care a little bit about your fellow human, about your fellow citizen, fellow resident. We bleed too. We vork. We pleed justlike anybody else bleeds. We're scared. You could see our faces that we were terrified. What makes you so much more worthier of your peace? What makes you so much more worthier of protecting your children? What makes you so much more worthy of your citizenship? What makes you more worthy of safety? Of being given
the ight t that they took from me to protect my daughters?"

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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

The National Institutes of Health, the largest funder of biomedical research in the world, has fired 1,300 employees and cancelled more than $2 billion in federal research grants. cbsn.ws/4daiCrv

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How cuts at the National Institutes of Health could impact Americans' health

Cuts and layoffs to the National Institutes of Health threaten medical research around the U.S., agency insiders warn.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

My life as a reader will not be complete until I get hold of one of these 18th Century book wheels, designed to allow a person to keep seven books open at once.

A 300 year-old book wheel in the Bibliotecha Palafoxiana, Mexico.

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