#SkyStorians, I'm looking for #MedievalSky and #EarlyModern paintings, engravings & other visual sources that depict screws. (N.B. I'm not looking for depictions of screws in technical sources on this topic). If anyone has come or comes across them, I'd love to know! #HistSci #HistTech #ArtHistory

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If you enjoy Size Five and want to see it survive what is a very iffy time for the Games Industry, please do three things with your Saturday: ✅ Wishlist EARTH MUST DIE ✅ Buy a game on sale ✅ Share these links where you can store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/... store.steampowered.com/dev/sizefive

actually our AI programs are like people so its racist to say you don't like them. anyway would you like to buy one

Doctor MRO whom many of you still idolise is currently on the hellsite retweeting antisemitic conspiracy theory shit about the Manchester attacks being a Mossad false flag operation just FYI. This person claims to be an expert on medieval race. Total joke. #MedievalSky

The sequel to We Want Them Infected is done! COVID killed 1.2 million Americans while vaccines saved millions. Yet, disinformation superspreaders were empowered, where they are taking a wrecking ball to science & medicine. How did that happen?🧵 sciencebasedmedicine.org/everyone-els...

a lot of pandemic histories omit or speed past the massive, right wing billionaire-financed disinformation campaign waged against public health policies and officials. jonathan is doing critical work here. looking forward to reading it.

It’s so fucking funny that we’re still getting five NYT op-eds a week calling for the left to tone down their rhetoric

No it doesn’t, that’s you doing that

We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people." Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!

An excellent true thing is that I gave unequivocally anti-“AI” talks at Wesleyan and Tufts this month where the computer scientists and engineers in attendance have no interest in allowing this industry to hijack education and asked me “how can we get our students to take your classes?”

1/2 Dogs are capable of forming mental categories of objects, despite not having language or being trained in symbols. The dogs (mostly border collies) categorized new toys based on their experience with them. (paper) www.cell.com/current-biol...

Based on the body of evidence, what happens if pregnant women do not receive Covid booster vaccination? Thousands of hospitalizations of infants and expectant mothers @nathanlo.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

And some other curious cute animals

! Marmot sighted!

Today's rigorous research into alpine and transportation history (I. e. hiking trip): Val Beverin. From mist shrouded meadows mountains in the early morning to a trip through a sunny valley now

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

Inn in Grisons this morning going all out to look nice

This is a problem.

Getting distracted by looking for mushrooms in the mountains of Grisons

Results so far: e different sorts of edible mushrooms, a lot more that are very nice to look lol at and the cute little fella below

Discovered neolithic hobbit dwellings (also known as crot, a traditional kind of temperature controlled room for storing milk)

Busy with field research about alpine history (also known as hiking)

Busy with field research about alpine history (also known as hiking)

Discovered neolithic hobbit dwellings (also known as crot, a traditional kind of temperature controlled room for storing milk)

Results so far: e different sorts of edible mushrooms, a lot more that are very nice to look lol at and the cute little fella below

Getting distracted by looking for mushrooms in the mountains of Grisons

"Ein Angriff auf bestimmte Wissenschaften ist immer ein Angriff auf die Wissenschaft als Ganze, auf ihre Autonomie und freie Wahl von Forschungsgegenständen, Methoden und Lehrinhalten. Es ist ein Angriff auf die Verteidigung der Freiheitlich-Demokratischen Grundordnung" Deshalb #SkandiRetten!

People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".

How fucking cool is this @bradlander.bsky.social and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social at Rosh Hashanna services and EVERYONE WAS MASKING! Kolot Chayeinu was one of the first synagogues to call for ceasefire. “The rabbi spoke extensively about the war in Gaza, calling Israel’s campaign a genocide.”

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

Autism does not need to be cured! It's the rest of society that needs to be more accommodating!! Neurodivergence and disabilities cause suffering only because we have so little understanding or support. Treating it as something "broken" or "wrong" only enforces that, please just help people instead.

It works again. Not sure if there was a genuine DDoS attack or - maybe, just maybe - lots of signups? Anyway, share youre hcommons accounts!

Oxford is currently teaching a masterclass in how to demolish an institutions reputation in two easy steps: 1. Proudly proclaim to push GenAI 2. Reap the rewards by getting savagely ratioed

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

Think betting on GenAI is a brilliant PR move? Take a gander at the lovely ratio on that post and think again Delightful that they're getting roasted like this for supporting the assault on actual science & expertise by pushing GenAI-slop

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“When was Joe Biden president?” remains the most difficult question in politics

It's wild to me how ostensibly smart people cannot/could not/will not see what is so obvious. @mmasnick.bsky.social nails it. And my hunch is we'd be a better society if the Very Serious People with the Very Serious Ideas opened their fucking eyes. www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/t...

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

Immer dieser AI-Slop, der Kulturklassiker wie Lieder von Falco verhunzt 😤Im originalen Song gings schliesslich um einen netten Bären, der für Falco Zotero verwaltet!

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

if you see people parroting the "trans ideology on the bullet" theory, send them this

hello this is your semi-daily reminder that for the most part Autistics say what they mean, mean what they say, and don't generally let things "go without saying". secret agendas are unlikely, assumptions are often unnecessary, if you have questions please ask them AND expect direct answers kthnxbye

From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!) Receipts: zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...

Very much looking forward to this! (In part since I'll get the opportunity to talk a little bit about my dissertation and gaming magazines' role in maintaining the myth of women hating games in the 1990s and how that could be disconnected from reality 👀) dhbern.github.io/content/proj...

Source of the day: LandesA Glarus AG III.2409:006 In 1462 the count of Montfort had an idea to settle a border dispute with rival counts: He demanded from a judge that he should send a delegation to a very old man living on the border and to just ask him, what belonged to which count #medievalsky

In 1491 the village Rietz used a brook as a border marker for their pasture grounds, with the middle of the brook being the exact boundary. Anyone going over that line was also perfectly positioned to receive their just punishment: Getting bonked on the head with a wooden bowl Source: TW II, Nr. 10

Source of the day: TLA, Pestarchiv Akte IX 067 08.08.1550 How do you transport goods during an epidemic? By reducing contacts of course! Which is why, when people fled from an epidemic & built huts near a cargo transfer station in Lueg in Tyrol, they set up a new one in a more remote location 1/4