What was left of my first conference abstract after my supervisor revised it.

Season's greetings from Clovis.

I assume that antifa is also antififa.

"The world of the living contains enough marvels and mysteries as it is... I am too firm in my consciousness of the marvellous to be ever fascinated by the mere supernatural." - Joseph Conrad

New crap publisher alert: Zenith Whispering Pines Publishers, who love to slap an AI cover on a classic and not bother counting the fingers.

Grand entretien avec Mircea Cārtārescu www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Today's big winner: the Hepatitis B Virus.

Looking forward to the announcement of the first NFL Prize in Literature during the Superbowl halftime show. www.nytimes.com/athletic/685...

Same as last year.

Welcome Anthony @timesflow.bsky.social to ##bookbirds #Bluesky!!! 🐦📚🩵🐦📚🩵🐦📚🩵🐦📚🩵🐦📚🩵🐦📚🩵🐦📚🩵🐦📚🩵📚📚🩵🐦📚🩵🐦📚🩵

This has Pale Blue Dot vibes.

Study: Bilingual people forget twice as many words after hitting middle age

#JosephConrad "To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe." - Joseph Conrad, 1902

"Yellowed pages?! But I bought it recently!", he thought, before realizing that he had purchased the book 34 YEARS AGO.

Buy all 4 & assemble your very own Lispector portrait puzzle

I'm tired of the constant disgracefulness.

"Unfortunately, the files were destroyed during the East Wing demolition" is a statement I wouldn't be surprised to hear in these mostly stupid times.

sad clowns vs evil clowns

"... had we been choosing our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. It seems to me that a potential master of our fates should be asked (...) about his attitude toward Stendhal, Dickens, Dostoevsky." - J. Brodsky

The latest publication from my lab. Impressive work by PhD student Marina Wakid (now post-doc in London, U.K.) who found lasting childhood adversity-associated changes in the neurovasculature (prefrontal cortex) of women, but not men! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I've just changed all my passwords to "Louvre".

They built a temporary floating bridge between #Venice and the San Michele cemetery for the Day of the Dead weekend #Venezia

Fight or flight? I prefer flight, especially if I'm in an airport.

Don't forget to set back the clocks on your phones before going to bed tonight.

Rendezvous on the Beach, by Edvard Munch, 1896

A wonderful start to the weekend.

"There's no crying in baseball", but there sure is a lot of spitting.

Le visa d'entrée aux Etats-Unis de Wole Soyinka annulé. (on espérait rien, on est quand même déçu, épisode N) www.franceinfo.fr/culture/livr...

I just aced a cognitive test.

Rilke to Lou Andreas-Salomé Chateau de Muzot s/Sierre (Valais)
Last day of October, 1925 “My dear Lou… If only I had called out long ago.” theamericanreader.com/31-october-1...

I will have spent 15-20% of my professional life managing my email inbox.

In my lab, we're generating results like no one's ever seen before. These big beautiful findings... nobody would have ever thought it was possible just three years ago.

My flight is delayed because they're unable to "reset the plane's system". Whatever that means. Don't forget to like and subscribe for more exciting content.

"Would you like to leave a 35%, 30%, 25% or 20% tip?" is a question a machine asked me a minute ago. Now I feel cheap for having left an excellent (20%) tip. That's the point, of course.

Bluesky, can we please get an "edit other people's posts" feature?

The "East Wing Soup Kitchen" would have been an inspiring demonstration of leadership and compassion.

Overheard someone say "I don't have a racist bone in my body". As if racism was a skeletal thing.

When I lived in Paris, I was under the constant domination of the pastryarchy.

Who decided it was ok to add pesto to everything?

CONFESSION Except for his Requiem, Mozart's music leaves me cold.

Late Anthropocene, also known as Gaslightocene.

"La vita oscilla tra il sublime e l’immondo con qualche propensione per il secondo." Ricordando Eugenio Montale, nato il #12ottobre 1896.

Just came back from The Hague, where I admired Vermeer's "View of Delft". Proust had Bergotte die in front of this painting during an artistic epiphany caused by "le petit pan de mur jaune". There are many theories about which little yellow wall he had in mind. I'm convinced it's this one.

Go Holland!

“Everywhere across this surface, stories are being told. It teems with stories, like a wimmelbild [teeming picture]. […] Schattenfroh is a wimmelbuch, a book teeming with images.” This tradition is alive, both in painting and writing. theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2025/10/11/i...

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