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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Thoughtful piece on the sad demise of Jason Arday sarahditum.substack.com/p/the-most-u...
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The most unfortunate thing
Jason Arday's death is terrible. So is using it to attack journalism
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
What's going to happen to all those special eclipse glasses after the eclipse is over????
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hoergen @hoergen.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
*American farmers slid solar panels over 62,000 acres of farmland, and the biggest payoff had almost nothing to do with electricity* #Erneuerbare #Renewable #Solar #Photovoltaik energiesmedia.com/solar-panels…
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American farmers slid solar panels over 62,000 acres of farmland, and the biggest payoff had almost nothing to do with electricity
Long rows of solar panels march across the desert, and underneath them, where the ground should be baked and bare, there are rows of green.
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Olivier de Saint-Aubin du Pressoir @chrisoligh.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Anyone and everyone - what is the best/most memorable/most enjoyable etc icebreaker you've ever done at an event you've attended with people you don't know? All ideas welcome!
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
"nearly 75% of instructional staff in American higher education now work outside the tenure system. Contingency no longer exists at the edges of academic life; it increasingly defines the structure through which the university teaches, adapts, + reproduces itself." working-mass.com/2026/06/04/i...
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Intellectual Homelessness: The Adjunct and the Disappearing University - Working Mass
By: Ashraf Hazeyen Every semester, the adjunct professor walks into the classroom carrying the full symbolic weight of the university while possessing almost none of its protections. They enter with a...
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...
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Lament for the MIT Libraries - MIT Faculty Newsletter
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
For all my reading group friends! www.lrbstore.co.uk/products/aut...
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Author Clock
Author Clock transforms the simple act of checking the time into a moment of literary discovery. Each minute reveals a quote from classic and modern literature that includes the current time within it...
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
news.yale.edu/2026/04/21/l...
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‘This Land is Your Land’: A historian’s road trip across America
For a new book, Yale historian Beverly Gage explores 250 years of American history by traveling to 300 historical sites in 19 states across the U.S.
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
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New study challenges notion that aging means decline, finds many older adults improve over time
Aging in later life is often portrayed as a steady slide toward physical and cognitive decline. But a new study by scientists at Yale University suggests an
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
It's migration season! Monarch butterflies travel over 4,000 km to winter in Mexico's stunning oyamel forests. Witness the beauty of nature's incredible journey.
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
It was a pleasure to share some thoughts on Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage with the Neglected Books Pilgrimage reading group yesterday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnY0... Thanks to @neglectedbooks.com for the opportunity.
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Reading Pilgrimage 2026: April 6 - Honeycomb
YouTube video by Neglected Books - Brad Bigelow
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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Bees sleep between five and eight hours a day. They enjoy company and even hold each other's feet.
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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Last week @freedomhouse.bsky.social released Freedom in the World 2026. The bottom line: "Global freedom declined for the 20th consecutive year in 2025. A total of 54 countries experienced deterioration in their political rights and civil liberties, while only 35 countries registered improvements."
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The Growing Shadow of Autocracy
Global freedom declined for the 20th consecutive year in 2025. But even in this especially challenging moment, there are reasons for optimism.
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Laundry as art [📸 Helga Stentzel]
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Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
A disconcerting photo of the novelist Elizabeth Taylor as a little girl and her letter to Virginia Woolf about The Waves (1932). Just finished #MrsPalfrey and god how sad it is. Have also been dipping into the biography of Taylor which is really rubbing me up the wrong way. #NYRBWomen26 #BookSky
Photo of novelist Elizabeth Taylor as a little girl in a black hat and belted check coat. Text of ET’s letter to VW
Dear Miss Virginia Woolf,
May I tell you how grateful I am to you for The Waves. I have been reading your work since I was at school and it has always helped me to have an un-muddled attitude to life, to see the vividness and importance of every minute, the significance of every action.
The Waves was a tremendous adventure. I have just read it a second time. So rarely, in prose, is anyone so keenly appreciative of individual words. It is like a symphony. Suddenly the English language is translated into fluid music, like Greek.
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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Words and eggs must be handled with care. Once broken they are impossible things to repair. Anne Sexton
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Dr Earhart Sampson PhD 🌎 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🇲🇽 🇩🇰 🇺🇦 @earhart.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Airfare Is Just the Beginning
Expensive plane tickets are a preview of what could come next.
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Ali khaliq @khaliqali.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
This is not a painting - its thd view from beneath an ancient pedunculate oak. Its over 400 years old www.facebook.com/615505373000...
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Guillevic, tr. Denise Levertov #soapboxpoem 27/31
Voir

Il s’agit de voir
Tellement plus clair,

De faire avec les choses
Comme la lumière.To See

It’s a question of seeing
so much clearer,

of doing to things
what light does to them.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly (@ wildheartrescue on TT)
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Nolan Principles Matter. End the #GazaGenocide💔💙 @philildo.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Destroying our planet minute by minute. Time for real change. For hope for our future. Join @greenparty.org.uk www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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UN issues new climate warning as El Niño looms
The Earth's climate is further out of balance than at any time in recorded history, the UN's weather agency says.
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
A 1631 edition of the Bible lists “Thou shalt commit adultery” as the Seventh Commandment. (The omission of the word “not” earned this edition the nickname “the Wicked Bible.”) There are only about 20 copies of a print run of 1000 left in circulation. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
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Typos Have Plagued Us for Centuries. Just Ask the Publishers Who Printed the Seventh Commandment as 'Thou Shalt Commit Adultery' in 1631
A new exhibition at Yale Library explores the history of typos across five centuries. Visitors will see corrections that were listed inside copies of works by James Joyce, Upton Sinclair and Nicolaus ...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Hard to be optimistic about anything at the moment, but there is one positive development I suppose. Donald Trump has made the strongest possible case for why countries must turn their back on fossil fuel. And they seem to be listening.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
70% oppose the UK joining Trump and Netanyahu’s war in Iran compared to just 17% who support it, according to new YouGov polling for Sky News.
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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Spring flowers and an indoor pot plant, very old watercolour of mine (from 1988). Sold ages ago and I don't know who has it now. #watercolour #crocuses #ipheion
Spring flowers and an indoor pot plant, very old watercolour of mine (from 1988)
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Front page @latimes.com today Thousands in LA County, Millions in the US @corinnepurtill.bsky.social www.latimes.com/science/stor...
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
'Since 2021, global media coverage of climate change has dropped 38 percent.' Source: data from the University of Colorado Boulder’s Media and Climate Change Observatory grist.org/language/glo...
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The planet is overheating. Why is the news looking away?
Since 2021, global media coverage of climate change has dropped 38 percent. Blame wars, political chaos, and Jeffrey Epstein.
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
And it's only £103.63 www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/you...
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You can now have afternoon tea in the Old Bailey
The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, known the world over as the 'Old Bailey', regularly offers tours of the grand building, but they are now adding an afternoon tea option as well.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The number of US nationals applying for British citizenship is soaring - up 42% during the first year of Trump’s second term. #TrumpFlight
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British Citizenship Applications by US Nationals Hit Record High
The number of US nationals applying for British citizenship hit an all-time high in the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term in the White House.
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
#rachelcusktogether Cusk on 'A Life's work': '"If everyone were to read this book,...the propagation of the human race would virtually cease, which would be a shame." The reviewer was a woman. I had met her, in fact, at some literary festival or other years before. She had seemed harmless enough.'
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
#rachelcusktogether V interested in Cusk's approach to autobiog & fiction: 'Whom does Cusk expose in the process of shielding herself? ... her travel book, The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy (2009), was pulped after someone she wrote about launched a breach of privacy suit.' Sydney review of bks
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
#rachelcusktogether The animals are still with me. I dreamed my cat, who went missing for 13 months, jumped out of the back of the car, walked across a busy road nearly getting run over by a vehicle towing a wagon; I followed, she crossed back as did I. She suddenly picked up speed, & tore away.
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
It is unfortunate that so many people are suspicious of vaccines now. How did we get here? A sign of diminished trust in science and more generally.
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
“Memory conceals itself in the quietest moments ... the smell of turpentine, the taste of Victoria plums, a pile of orange peel, a freshly ploughed field.” Shelley Klein, The See-Through House
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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Whoa. “This vaccine, what we term a universal vaccine, elicits a far broader response that is protective against not just the flu virus, not just the Covid virus, not just the common cold virus, but against virtually all viruses, and as many different bacteria as we've tested, and even allergens.”
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Happy year of the fire horse [Mark Rothko, Red on Red, 1969]
Mark Rothko canvas, red on red
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
cam.ac.uk
Political division in the US surged from 2008 onwards, study suggests
Almost all the rise in US polarisation over political issues since the late 1980s occurred from 2008 onwards, a new study suggests. Most of this has been driven by the American left becoming more soci...
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
'You can meet an old mushroom forager and you can meet a bold forager, but you'll never meet an old, bold mushroom forager!' 'Every plant is edible once!' Looks like a great exhibition bringing nature, humanities and science together, at the Sterling Memorial Library at Yale.
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The Roots of Healing
YouTube video by Yale University
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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Jean Valentine, Sanctuary
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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Mahmoud Darwish T. by Catherine Cobham.
The picture and the frame
If a picture frame gets broken, as the result of a minor earth tremor, you take the picture to a good picture framer and he makes it a frame that may be better than the original. But if a picture is ugly, as the result of some basic artistic flaw, and its frame remains intact, you will not need it unless you are short of wood for the stove. It is the same thing with an idea: if its frame is broken, you find a stronger, more solid one for it. But if the idea is broken, its sound frame will be no more than a sad memory you preserve like a frustrated shepherd who keeps the bell from one of his rams after it has been killed by wolves.
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
I love this!
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WBUR @wbur.org · 11/02/2026
The files, found on a bygone piece of audio recording equipment, may give scientists new evidence about how humans have changed the ocean.
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Oldest known whale song recordings discovered in Cape Cod archives
The files, found on a bygone piece of audio recording equipment, may give scientists new evidence about how humans have changed the ocean.
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
❤️
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
#rachelcusktogether Reminded of the ending of Kudos when I went to this exhibition by Marguerite Homer at Clare Hall, Cambridge - 'All of your demons will wither away'. Paintings of the Pacific. 1 Into the light 2 Sit down next to me 3 Follow me now 4 Soleil pour over me
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
#rachelcusktogether That man on the beach at the end could be the neighbour from Outline. Not sure what to make of the ending but it's not warm and fuzzy for sure. Now I've gotta read more about Rachel Cusk. Somehow I don't feel I'd like her.
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