Research fellowships at Yale’s Beinecke Library! 📜📚 First: Short-term Research Fellowship (2027-2028) For anyone not a student. (Students: see next post.) Application deadline is August 15, 2026. beinecke.library.yale.edu/programs/fel...

Looking for recommendations for non-fiction books and resources on the 70s Punk scene. #research

You might need this little soapstone carving of a whale today… (1200-1600 CE, Chumash culture, California, held at Musée des Beaux Arts, Montreal)

Scientists just found the first-ever name of a Maya astronomer. His name was Sak Tahn Waax, meaning “White-chested Fox.” Maya astronomers have long lived in obscurity, uncredited for their work. Now we finally have a name. #Archaeology #AncientMaya @antiquity.ac.uk 🧪🏺 New at #NationalGeographic

😂😂 @gryphonrose.bsky.social just sang Hungry Eyes as Cartman from South Park (the song was on the radio). #RoadTrip

If we’d speak more ill of the dead, maybe it would remind the living not to be assholes.

At least Graham's family and associates are honest enough to announce his passing. If only somoene in Kentucky had that level of humanity.

No statement from Mitch McConnell on the sudden passing of his senate colleague? So much for decorum

Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.

The award ceremony for the 2026 Spiel des Jahres is about to get underway in Berlin, and if you're not into modern board games then you may want to look away for a couple of hours, as I'll be live-bleeting the whole thing, and these threads go long.

I'm sitting in a relatively quiet area in the hotel while waiting for my panel, and some random men realize there's a teen lounge and stick their heads in to see which girls are looking forward to drinking. So I told them off and they left. But ugh.

Authors with cookies at the Crazy 8 panel yesterday. 🍪

This could be us, but we sold out our good ol' American Ingenuity years and years ago.

Are hospitals and medical offices required to inform patients if they're using AI? Even on their websites and phone trees. They should be. It should be announced along with "this call may be recorded"

Day one of #ShoreLeave was awesome! Now preparing for day two.

This. I *TRIED* to report what happened to me. The police wouldn't take a report. Crimestoppers told me that they could find out who I was, and accused me of lying. I was threatened with arrest for "wasting time" Because nobody wants to believe another person can hurt someone else like that.

U.S. military spending could soon hit a record $1.5 trillion. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that have routinely price-gouged the government, according to investigations. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed eight straight audits. Hello???

EXCLUSIVE: Here is where things stand so far in the fight for free and fair elections this November: Active Voting Rights Cases: 159 Active Anti-Voting Cases: 82 Active Pro-Voting Cases: 73 Active DOJ Lawsuits: 32 102 Victories 44 Losses www.democracydocket.com

One of my problems with AI-generated content is the laziness isn't even smart or sneaky laziness, which I could begrudgingly respect. Users prompt the AI and then don't even read it to make sure it doesn't sound AI generated. We see this over and over again and it is baffling to me.

Have not seen it pointed out enough that the Trump admin's targeting of the Smithsonian is being influenced by David Barton, the debunked amateur historian and Christian nationalist activist who has spent decades peddling claims that church-state separation is a myth.

Acknowledge some GOOD NEWS, no matter how small: My favorite sunglasses fit over my regular glasses! 😎

We are going to reach a point where every student is paid 50,000 dollars to take a rightwing class to turn them against the idea of government spending

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Seeing a new doctor today. Extremely nervous, because it so often ends badly. I have hEDS, which is prominent in my family and was officially diagnosed. Too many doctors shrug it off and doubt the validity of the doctors who diagnosed it. I'm still 9/9 on the Beighton.

The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti

We are still on the hunt for reviews/essays/interviews related to disability/queerness and the intersection therof with speculative works. Pitch us: www.interstellarflightpress.com/submissions....

Our esteemed canine houseguest... is barking at helicopters. 🙄

NPR: "The pastor who wants to repeal voting rights for women is becoming more mainstream" Becoming more mainstream? You mean like getting an interview with NPR, where he praised the "respectful hearing" he received? www.npr.org/2026/07/06/n...

The world is in a dark place right now. "The party says the software, launched in pilot phase this week, will be ready for full implementation next year."

Pronatalist policies are rising as birth rates fall. In The Lancet, LCDS researcher @sanderwagner.bsky.social says support should focus on autonomy, fertility care, childcare and parental leave — not pressure. Read: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Oh, joy. The neighbors are having their front walk redone and trees cut down. Jackhammering started before 9am. Chainsaw is simultaneous. I hope it means they're planning to sell and move. 5 dogs barking at all hours is a lot!!

Today, I got our home internet bill reduced, and we're getting an upgraded router. It's apparently been so long since our last upgrade that we qualify for some perks.

I recently read a middle grade novel (Liar and Spy by Rebecca Stead). I always take the time to rate books on Storygraph, and then I go look at what others had to say after I put in my rating. I was incredibly surprised that someone put schizophrenia/psychosis in the content warning section.

Having to provide your personal information and agree to marketing texts in order to find out if a medical office has any availability is such a dystopian capitalist nightmare. They had no availability. Now they have my phone number.

I remember how we could always tell when the leaders of the Soviet Union were deathly ill. Soviet state media would either go silent or would keep saying the leader was fine but provide no recent pictures. Weird how the GOP is doing the same thing now.

An aunt recently told me she couldn't find a doctor through a web search or on her insurance website, so she asked ChatGPT - which gave her a bunch of bogus answers, but one result connected her to a real doctor, which is better than Google or her healthcare site could do.

I've just discovered that the sound of one bird's tweet, when filtered through the sound of the window unit, comes through as someone whispering "listen." Creepy dream explained! I was in an abandoned mansion and someone unseen was whispering "listen." Again and again. #dreams #birds

I've just heard through the neighborhood grapevine that there's a sinkhole a block over. Apparently, the City is on the case.

I am always surprised when audiobooks still have the "End of disk/tape one" audio in them. You'd think they would have removed that when the format changed.

Who is someone you admire for their style? I love it when people are unafraid to be bold with color and don't care about opinions. This is why I greatly admire Prue Leith's fashion aesthetic. She reminds me of the art teachers and school librarians I adored growing up.

If you're an up-and-coming bibliographer, I hope you'll apply for @bibsocamer.bsky.social New Scholars Program. Apps due Sept 16. As a former New Scholar myself, I can attest to how great this program was for supporting my research! bibsocamer.org/fellowships-...

Now seems a good time to remind y’all that my most recent novel, the Scribe Award-nominated Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: RING OF FIRE—currently out in hardcover, eBook, & digital audiobook— has a trade paperback version coming out on July 28th. Pre-order it now! davidmack.pro/writing/ring...

Growing ecstasy face meme: - play D&D with me and @clairewillett.bsky.social - it’s DM’d by @nome.bsky.social - it’s STAR TREK THEMED - Star Trek Discovery writer @carloscisco.bsky.social IS PLAYING TOO -IT’S A MURDER MYSTERY SET ON RISA Bid now!!!

Y’all, none of these tech companies can be trusted with digital only products. You need to consider everything digital a rental from here on out, and you need to buy physical media whenever you can.

Would you like to buy a monkey and support my public astronomy programs? www.melaniermeadors.com/store/p/sock...

Happy Disability Pride Month to all my friends, and individuals who have a form of disability whether it be physical, neurological, etc. There is a lot going on with the disability community at this very moment in our country & the world. But know that you are absolutely worth it.

I have my first beta reader feedback on my novella. It's an overall positive with some great notes on what could be tighter, and a good catch where I mixed up a seating chart. Letting it breathe while the other readers have it, and then I will finesse the story. #Writing

The collective journalistic freakout over someone disliking a cafeteria sandwich at Oberlin or some Yale students asking their peers to be less racist at Halloween has generated far more copy and uproar than multiple universities illegally firing faculty for nonconservative speech they disliked.

Been playing Words With Friends with an old family friend. She warned me that there are creepy men who play... But holy cow, I didn't think they were going to try to VIDEO CALL!! Ewww to FB for even making that possible.