Herman Melville

under-appreciated imo

250 is the new 230.

Who's the weirdo who thought of separating bathrooms in hotel rooms with a glass wall?

The most dangerous bias is the one that feels like common sense.

Explain your @ First and last name.

Resharing because currently rereading.

Courte entrevue parue la semaine dernière. www.journaldemontreal.com/2026/06/01/l...

"Claude Simon"

Libraries > TikTok

I feel like we don't talk enough about Eugenio Montale.

Had Miles Davis been born in France, he would have been called Kilomètres Davis.

Let us live and love, not listening to old men's talk. Suns will rise and set long after our little light has gone away to darkness. - Catullus, 5 (t. by Whyte)

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Just in case anyone needs a lullaby tonight, here is one of my favorites in the form, as written by W. H. Auden.

Today in 1868, Darwin wrote to a friend, "It drives me mad & I know it does you too, that one has no time for reading anything beyond what must be read: my room is encumbered with unread books." 📚🧪

CIHR, circa 2035: "Following another consultation (lol) we are pleased to announce that Project Grant competitions will now occur every 5 years. The handful of proposals submitted by each university after a gruelling internal review process, will be thoroughly assessed and bin-ranked by ChatGPT."

Congrats to the Montreal Victoire on becoming the PWHL Walter Cup champions 🏆 🔥

Now I wonder if the name Olga Tokarczuk was AI-generated.

This beautiful study was part of Kelly's PhD thesis, which she brilliantly defended last December. She's now a postdoctoral fellow at Yale. A rapidly rising research star!

Fun and productive!

when you need books more than you need a view

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😢 www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

"Cependant la sagesse du jour prend forme d'un bel arbre et l'arbre balancé qui perd une pincée d'oiseaux, aux lagunes du ciel écaille un vert si beau qu'il n'y a de plus vert que la punaise d'eau." - Saint-John Perse (Éloges)

Elon Musk: "The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy..." You wouldn't believe how weak I am.

It's just a matter of time before the Vatican is accused of enriching uranium.

AI is adding so much mediocrity to the world...

The new episode of the best Italian literary podcast Not My Cup of Read is dedicated to Antonio Lobo Antunes. m.youtube.com/watch?v=OXwF...

Free will?! In this economy?!

This is tragically beautiful.

Instead of flowers, people bring sticks to this dog’s grave. ❤️

losing contact with the earth for 40 minutes sounds nice

Apparently, it's healthier to eat until you’re around 80% full. Not sure I could get used to the 30% drop.

With the rumblings around CIHR wanting to move to one cycle per year not going away, in consultation with a diverse stakeholder group, we have put together a letter for CIHR leadership. Please consider signing this letter and share/RT: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @cannabrain.bsky.social

A view of the night sky from Mars. (Yes, really)

It was the biggest massacre for decades - 10,000 Sudanese killed over two days. The international community knew genocide was inevitable. Why and how did it happen? #KeepEyesOnSudan www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

I feel like rereading Tolstoy’s Excursion and Peace.

Distinct origins and niches determine the cellular responsiveness of CNS macrophages after repopulation www.nature.com/articles/s41...

PSA: there's no such thing as "enriched iranium".

Say what you will about twitter, but over there, my posts often went viral, with more than a dozen likes.

Now we know why St. Augustine never came close to making a billion dollars! So much introspection about the nature of time without ever realizing that time is money... What a loser.

"We have to defend the straights of Hormouz against the radical leftists who want trans for everyone."

Please consider joining us in May by registering ! Abstract submission deadline extended to March 12th! The last 48hrs to submit your work 😇 Register until April 30th to attend our 3rd CANGlia symposium, with Cagla Eroglu as keynote speaker, and excellent symposia 😎 #Glia #neuroscience #conference

I'm sure he thinks they're "Golf states".

Preparing for the 2030 Nuclear Winter Olympics.