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Jonathan Chiche @jonathanchiche.bsky.social · 20h

A stink bug flew into the flat I am renting for a few weeks. When I opened the window before trying to usher it out, a cat ran in. Now wondering what animal will be next.

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Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

how blue is blue ? H.B. de Saussure. Cyanomètre, ca 1788, with his notes / Bibliothèque de Genève

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“the biggest lecture theatre in the world, the biggest autobahn in the world etc. etc. – the biggest lie in the world, the biggest disgrace in the world.” Victor Klemperer on the speeches of Goebbels and Hitler.

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Gallica BnF @gallicabnf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Découvrez le nouveau parcours thématique "Les écrits missionnaires et l’anthropologie en Asie" qui donne accès à un vaste ensemble de publications missionnaires chrétiennes éditées du XVIe au XXe siècle : c.bnf.fr/YEz ➕ d'infos dans ce billet de blog : gallica.bnf.fr/accueil/fr/h...

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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just made a very pretty packet of Hebrew, Latin, and Arabic paleography handouts for my @simmonsuniversity.bsky.social LIS students. Anyone want some? Here you go! Feel free to use (but please credit me if you do)...

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Jonathan Chiche @jonathanchiche.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

How is the website of Air China awful? Let me not count the ways because there are too many and I have already wasted too much time.

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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 15/09/2026

A belated Spencer Library #newacq thread here: a Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, created in circa 1430 (Pryce MS D1). A wonderful addition to our MSS holdings, and a good companion to the Vosper Hours. Let's start with the Crucifixion and the opening line of text: 📜 #libsky #rarebooks #booksky

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Jonathan Chiche @jonathanchiche.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It seems I forgot to keep on posting about books bought by Taipei Public Libraries at my suggestion. So here are the more recent ones: — Joel David Hamkins, "Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematics" (3 copies). — Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com "Jane Austen's bookshelf" (5 copies)

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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It’s 2026 and getting Covid still sucks. If you think you may be sick (with Covid or something else), please please just stay home.

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Gallica BnF @gallicabnf.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🌳 Amateur ou non de botanique, partez à la découverte de ce manuscrit du XIVe siècle richement enluminé des espèces végétales dont il présente les vertus thérapeutiques. Cet ouvrage en latin s'inscrit dans la tradition des herbiers médiévaux. 🌿 => c.bnf.fr/YDs

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hitler to Moses: But you can tell me in confidence Herr Moses. Is it not true that you set the bush on fire yourself? Victor Klemperer, reporting that jokes like this got people arrested and jailed for months.

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Inspired by recent website shenanigans from USG - and prompted by one of my talented graduate students - I present to you a new subdomain of our website... Play along: arcade.andersen-lab.com

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I just published a brief account of Jim Watson’s life, aimed at students. It leans heavily on the insights of @nccomfort.bsky.social, whose biography of Watson will be out next year. Free link here: rdcu.be/M91CnnE3N4wa

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Jonathan Chiche @jonathanchiche.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Still a wee bit upset about having been told ten days ago that Hitler should have killed all Jews.

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Gallica BnF @gallicabnf.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Aujourd’hui, Gallica se penche sur l’extraordinaire bestiaire de l’un des plus célèbres récits de voyage du Moyen Âge, "Le Devisement du monde" ou "Livre des Merveilles", de Marco Polo : licornes, dragons, léopards, éléphants ou hommes-loups sont au rendez-vous ! => c.bnf.fr/ASg

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Jonathan Chiche @jonathanchiche.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Les chances d'un second tour Hollande-Balladur en 2027 sont désormais réduites à zéro.

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Crick’s diary Nov 1954 1 - Tea at home (Rosalind rang) 3 - Rosalind (early) stayed to supper 4 - Pauling (Nobel Prize) Party. Up late 7 - Rearranged books in new bookcase 20 - Visited Michael. Climbed tree. Back same day 23 - Sydney arrived 24 - With Sydney 25 - Talked with Sydney 28 - Sydney left

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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/08/2026

HHS Replaces Childhood Vaccination Schedule With List Of Recommended Animal Bites theonion.com/hhs-replaces-childhood…

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Jonathan Chiche @jonathanchiche.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Shout-out to Melville House, who published a translation of Maurice Dekobra's "la Madone des sleepings", and I am sure many other good books! (For some reason I currently cannot access their website.)

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Look what just arrived! The Taiwanese complex Chinese edition of The Rise and Reign of the Mammals. And check out that gorgeous cover! Art by Cheng-Han Sun. Every cover mammal is a fossil found in Taiwan!

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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 24/08/2026

For the new issue of our newsletter, @sibyllacumae.bsky.social and I asked our friend, poet, librarian, & scholar @sarahbc.bsky.social to write our 1st guest issue, and SHE DELIVERED in spades. She intertwines books, nature, Cape Cod and her family. Enjoy! twohalfsheets.substack.com/p/on-nature-...

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On Nature: The Sarah Burke Cahalan Issue

Theme RK & JWD: Friends, as you all probably know all too well (looking at the thermometer), summer is almost over.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

AND it’s 14 years to the day since a woman apparently went missing in Iceland...

Two figures in a volcanic landscape in bright red and blue clothes, plus a headline: Woman still unfound - search postponed

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John Nurick @jmnurick.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Thank you for the rare opportunity to cite A.D. Godley's 'Motor Bus':

What is this that roareth thus?
Can it be a Motor Bus?
Yes, the smell and hideous hum
Indicat Motorem Bum!
Implet in the Corn and High
Terror me Motoris Bi:
Bo Motori clamitabo
Ne Motore caedar a Bo--
Dative be or Ablative
So thou only let us live:
Whither shall thy victims flee?
Spare us, spare us, Motor Be!
Thus I sang; and still and still anigh
Came in hordes Motores Bi,
Et complebat omne forum
Copia Motorum Borum.
How shall wretches live like us
Cincti Bis Motoribus?
Domine, defende nos
Contra hos Motores Bos.

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John C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

When I was a kid I read Ionescu's play Rhinoceros, where the inhabitants of a small French town turn one by one into a herd of wild, rampaging rhinoceroses. I was told the play was "absurdist", and read it as such. But living in the United States now, I see it's completely realistic.

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Here's a riddle for you, or rather for the French horticulturalist Jean-Paul d’Ardène in his 1760 book Traité des tulipes. Translation and source in alt. He couldn't figure it out, and neither could anyone else for a century.

"It is a well-known fact that if you cut all the stamens of a red tulip before they release their dust, and that you powder the stigmas of this plant with the stamens of a white tulip, the seeds of the red tulip produce some plants with red flowers, others with white, and others again white and red."
Source:
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6553184r/f130.image.r=graines

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Jonathan Chiche @jonathanchiche.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I am looking for a copy of Nabijan Tursun’s "Uyghur Reader" (Dunwoody Press, 2007). I know one can find a scanned version online, but would like a physical copy if possible. I have few followers and reposts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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Jonathan Chiche @jonathanchiche.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Je n'ai jamais de succès avec ce genre de demandes sur Bluesky.

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波鴻漫錄 || Sven Osterkamp @schrift-sprache.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"Such a formidable word as Staatsschuldenverwaltungshauptkassenoberrechnungskommissar can be most faithfully rendered by Kokusai-Seiri-Kyoku-Kaikei-kwancho [国債整理局会計官長]." 🥴 < Nitobé 1927 Japanese Traits and Foreign Influences @ archive.org/details/japa...

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

One of the most important questions in the history of biology, posed during an 1837 discussion of agricultural breeding in Brnö by Abbé Cyrill Napp, the man who recruited Mendel: "What is inherited and how?" (Transliteration, translation, reference and source in Alt)

Hr. Prälat Cyrill Napp reaffumirt in ge-
drängter Kürze den Gang der bisherigen Debatte,
tritt der von Hrn. Direktor Liehr geäußerten An-
ficht bei, macht aufmerksam, daß man von dem
eigentlichen Verhandlungsthema über die Vererbungs-
fähigkeit ganz abgekommen; es handle sich nicht um
die Theorie des Züchtungsvorganges, sondern die
Frage fey: Was vererbt und wie?

Google translate: Prelate Cyrill Napp briefly summarizes the course of the debate thus far and concurs with the view expressed by Director Liehr, pointing out that the discussion has strayed entirely from the actual subject—heritability; the issue at hand is not the theory of the breeding process, but rather the question: What is inherited, and how?

Mittheilungen der K.K. Mährisch-Schlesischen Gesellschaft zur Beförderung des Ackerbaues, der Natur- und Landeskunde in Brünn: 29. Nummer 1837

https://anno.onb.ac.at/anno-suche/simple?query=Mittheilungen&from=191&sort=date%20asc&selectedFilters=title:mgb&selectedFilters=date:%5B1834%20TO%201837%5D

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David Hull 胡大衛 @hushuo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Oh my goodness. I play her music to every one of my Chinese classes. Her Carmen is just jaw-to-the-floor awesome. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqI4...

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葛蘭 - 卡門王天林電影《野玫瑰之戀》Carmen [GeLan / Grace Chang]

YouTube video by MrHuang HK

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Jonathan Chiche @jonathanchiche.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It reminds me of Roger Ebert's "guilty pleasures".

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Paul Babinski @paulbabinski.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The annotator's choppy Arabic script imitates his source, the ligatureless printed Arabic in Postel's grammar

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Rebecca Baumann @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I’m packing my pulps to move to California. This is a daunting task. To keep myself moderately entertained I am going to post 4 random covers from each shelf I finish packing until I’m done.

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John C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Mathematician Levent Alpöge found a counterexample to the Jacobi conjecture using Claude Fable! This conjecture claims that if F: ℂⁿ→ℂⁿ is a polynomial map whose Jacobian is invertible at each point, F has a polynomial inverse. Open since 1939. But no more! (1/n)

en.wikipedia.org

Jacobian conjecture - Wikipedia

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École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) @efeo-paris.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

#EFEO - Paris 🟢 La bibliothèque est ouverte tout l’été 😎 Du 27 juillet au 7 août : ouverture de 9h à 17h ! ⚠ La bibliothèque est fermée mardi 7 juillet jusqu'à 13h. La Maison de l'Asie et la bibliothèque seront fermés mardi 14 juillet.

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

OMG look at this fishfall!! Big ole ray. That's a 1st for me! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 939 part 2 #deepwonders #MarineLife

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sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I learned about an 18th -c guy, Alessandro Macchiavelli, who did a bunch of literary forgeries, many of which were about ?legendary medieval women who may or may not have studied at university and been lawyers/doctors. The goal seems to have been to support women doing those things in his time.

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Jonathan Chiche @jonathanchiche.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I forgot to finish posting about the items offered in my catalogue last month but am happy to share that this one has been bought by the Réserve des Livres rares of the BnF, who also bought number 8. Both books are already available for consultation. People there are very nice and they have A/C.

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The discovery of mRNA was v complicated (which is why there was no Nobel for the discovery). (The thumbnail is from the end of another article on the same page) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

sciencedirect.com

Who discovered messenger RNA?

The announcement of the discovery of messenger RNA (mRNA) and the cracking of the genetic code took place within weeks of each other in a climax of sc…

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DuXpa6 @duxpacis.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

On dit qu'on a les politiciens qu'on mérite. Personnellement, j'estime mériter d'être pris pour un con avec un peu plus d'intelligence.

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Recipe change alert. He’s referring to the origin of angels as being like the spontaneous appearance of “worms” in cheese. Those worms were Piophila casei fly larvae, which can jump from cheese to cheese (there was a Nature paper on the biophysics of this in the 80s). Drawing by Swammerdam 1670s.

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Jonathan Chiche @jonathanchiche.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

This post is the reason why I'm on social media.

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Jonathan Chiche @jonathanchiche.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Passing in front of the apartment door at 1 a.m. and hearing noises as if someone was trying to discreetly open it is a situation to which I am not looking forward to being confronted again. Thanks to the police for coming. Also, not having a peephole sucks.

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