Heads up, #humanities scholars! @ransomcenter.bsky.social is hosting an online info session about our 2026-27 research fellowships. Join me & Tracy Bonfitto next Thursday (Oct. 2) at 9 AM, CDT for details about our collections & application process. events.teams.microsoft.com/event/ad72fe... 🗃️📜📚

I'm reasonably certain this is the 1st time I've ever been included on the short list for a #photography contest! Many thanks to the @sciam.bsky.social staff for highlighting my recent #SciAmInTheWild selfie @ the Rufus Porter Museum. (Original post here: bsky.app/profile/bhgr...) #scicomm #SciAm

It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue jay. Further investigation will reveal more about their nature. #Zorknithology

Historians and STS scholars should be leading the charge against technological determinism in our libraries and universities, waving the banner of contingency above their serried ranks.

Technologically advance a band: HDTV on the Satellite Radio

- #MeanGirls costumes✅ -Annotated #ThreeAmigos scripts✅ -The pilot for #30Rock ✅ & 50 years of #SNL history✅ Come & see "Live From New York: The #LorneMichaels Collection," now open to the public! (Thanks to @mr-jce.bsky.social for visiting @ransomcenter.bsky.social earlier this week!) #ATX #TBT

"These are the building blocks of the show that's been around for so long, it's really a great history lesson for us." Curator Steve Wilson discussing @ransomcenter.bsky.social's new #LorneMichaels exhibition on the Today Show. #LiveFromNewYork #NBC #Today #SaturdayNightLive #SNL #TVHistory 🗃️📜🎭

Further proof that going to @ransomcenter.bsky.social can improve your #trivia skills! (@kenjennings.bsky.social—You & the @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social crew have an open invitation to tour Lorne Michaels exhibit the next time you’re in Austin!) www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/... #Jeopardy #SNL

Thanks to @rmwhittaker.bsky.social & @austinchronicle.bsky.social for the great write-up of @ransomcenter.bsky.social's new exhibit, "Live From New York: The Lorne Michaels Collection." (Be sure to stop by UT tomorrow for our Campus Preview Day!) #SaturdayNightLive #SNL #TVHistory #Austin #ATX 🗃️📜📺

J'aimerais rencontrer son tailleur. #Zevon

"He has shed no blood, robbed nobody, & despoiled the country of no one, which is more than can be said of any of his fellows in that line." -Daily Alta Californian (Jan 22, 1867) on Joshua Norton, who named himself Emperor of the U.S. #OnThisDay in 1859. www.kqed.org/news/1165270... #EmpireDay 🗃️

I'm not surprised that Robert Redford came to visit @ransomcenter.bsky.social in 2011. After all, the Center is home to Woodward & Bernstein's #Watergate papers. What I didn't know until today is that he drew a little cartoon of himself after signing our authors' door! #RIP #RobertRedford 🗃️📜

Today's #histSTM lunchtime read: @aip.bsky.social's Anna Doel interviews @mattshindell.bsky.social (Curator of Planetary Sci. & @historyscience.bsky.social secretary) about the National Air & Space Museum's recent renovation. #histtech #museums #NASM 🗃️📜🚀🔭👩‍🚀 #Smithsonian #SpaceHistory #FuturesInSpace

#ICYMI: Alcalde (the official magazine of @texasexes.org) published a feature on the Lorne Michaels Collection. "Live From New York," a new @ransomcenter.bsky.social exhibit exploring Michaels's career, opens this week. alcalde.texasexes.org/2025/08/lorn... #comedy #SaturdayNightLive #SNL #ATX 🗃️📜

15 years ago today, @ransomcenter.bsky.social announced that David Foster Wallace's archive was open to researchers. Since then, Wallace's papers have remained one of our most frequently consulted collections. Read the finding aid: research.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/fin... #OnThisDay #BookSky 🗃️📜

"I think the advice I would offer is to remember that leadership is a service role. Your job as a leader is to support the people who work for you, to protect them, to listen to them, & prioritize them." ARL Views with John Unsworth, UVA University Librarian 2016-2025 www.arl.org/blog/john-un...

Wait...no one has mentioned #TheCritic? I can only imagine what Jay Sherman would say about this thread!

Michael Ondaatje, the award-winning poet & novelist, was born in Sri Lanka #OnThisDay in 1943. @ransomcenter.bsky.social acquired Ondaatje's archive in 2017, which includes this notebook containing the 1st draft of his novel, The English Patient. sites.utexas.edu/ransomcenter... #booksky 🗃️📜📚

“But I find that Thibault cancels out Capo Ferro. Don't you?” “Unless the enemy has studied his Agrippa...which I have!” Spotted today @ransomcenter.bsky.social: Camillo Agrippa’s #fencing manual, Trattato di scienza d’arme (1568). search.lib.utexas.edu/permalink/01... #PrincessBride #booksky 🗃️📜

"It is intriguing, too, to think not just about the immutable heavens, but how varied are the ways we give them shape." Excited to read this @wsj.com review of "Mapping the Heavens," an exhibit curated by my colleagues @jasonwdean.com & @finchinthestacks.bsky.social. #histSTM #astronomy #KCMO 🗃️📜

The call for papers for the 2026 annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine is live now! We hope you will join us in Buffalo! histmed.org/buffalo-2026/

Not going to lie, this is the first thing that came to mind when I read the thread below... #Simpsons

Our book is out!! Happy publication day to our fantastic team of editors and authors.

I HATE when people compare AI to the printing press, it's so disingenuous. The printing press was opposed by the elites because it put power in the hands of everyday people, and popularized a vernacular. AI does the opposite, by allowing elites to bypass artists and laborers.

I think I saw this episode of #LowerDecks! #StarTrek #StarTrekDay 🖖 #DS9 #StarTrekLowerDecks

Exciting news from my colleagues @sciencehistory.org! This archive documents the early history of #MolecularBiology & efforts to determine the structure of #DNA. @matthewcobb.bsky.social provides an overview of its contents & significance in the thread below. #histSTM #histsci #histbio #Molbio 🗃️📜🧬

For more on Rosalind Franklin's tobacco mosaic virus research--and her ongoing interactions w/Watson & Crick after the discovery of DNA's structure--check out Angela Creager's 2008 @isisjournal.bsky.social article: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... #histSTM #histbio #MolBio #TMV #Virus 🗃️🔬

Welcome to Bluesky, @ishpssb.bsky.social! (Boosting the signal for #histSTM friends, especially those interested in the history & philosophy of #biology...) #histbio #histmed #philsci #philbio 🗃️🧬

If the federal government sends troops to Chicago, should we expect residents of the Windy City to respond by preparing Malört-ov Cocktails?

I really wasn’t planning to buy anything during today’s visit to the Austin Used Book Collective, but they had so many cool titles on display! Highlights included the novelization of The #DarkCrystal, a few Classics Illustrated #comics & a 1969 edited volume on making music w/computers. #booksky 📚

This afternoon, I attended my first meeting of UT's History of Sci., Tech, the Environment & Medicine Colloquium. Our guest speaker, John Handel (Baylor Univ.), described how changes in telegraph tech & infrastructure shaped global financial markets in the 19th & early 20th c. #histSTM #bizhist 🗃️📜

As Charles Fourier once said, when the Republican Calendar gives you lemons, turn the oceans into lemonade! 🍋 (That's an oversimplification, but it still gives me an excuse to share this @publicdomainrev.bsky.social article on Fourier's utopianism: publicdomainreview.org/essay/get-th...) #histSTM

"I have often been asked how I came to write. The best answer is that I needed the money." Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of #Tarzan & #JohnCarter, was born #OnThisDay in 1875. Poster from Tarzan's Hidden Jungle (1955) HT @ransomcenter.bsky.social: hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll... #booksky 🗃️📜

🎵 “The loveliest girl in Vienna was #Alma, the smartest as well. Once you picked her up on your antenna, you’d never be free of her spell…” 🎵 Alma Schindler, the Austrian socialite immortalized in song by #TomLehrer, was born #OnThisDay in 1879. https://youtu.be/-yrXSk5Y5FI?si=fX5qSrDO9iA5VoVT

"Frightful must it be; for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavour to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world." -Mary Shelley (born #OnThisDay in 1797) on the origins of #Frankenstein www.frankenbook.org/pub/ai6okwlz... (Images HT @ransomcenter.bsky.social)

Here's a #GiftLink for those who want to read the full NYT obit of historian of science & gender, Margaret Rossiter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s... #histSTM 🧪🗃️

“I said, ‘I’ve got a Manning.’ What part do you not understand?” (@alostrich.bsky.social’s Roll Call videos have become required viewing now that I work at an SEC school. Hook ‘em, Horns! 🤘) #SEC #SECFootball

“Everything is true”, he said. “Everything anybody has ever thought.” -Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Illustrated dust jackets from @ransomcenter.bsky.social's collection. Follow on IG for more: www.instagram.com/ransomcenter/) #BookSky #BookHistory #scifi #PhilipKDick 🗃️📜📚

"Each number will be furnished w/from 2 to 5 original Engravings, many of them elegant, and illustrative of New Inventions, Scientific Principles & Curious Works..." -Rufus Porter, @sciam.bsky.social (Vol. I, No. 1) published #OnThisDay in 1845 www.lindahall.org/about/news/s... #histSTM #scicomm 🗃️📜

The classroom setup for my first rare book presentation at the @ransomcenter.bsky.social. Highlights included a presentation copy of Isaac Newton's Principia, John Smeaton's account of the construction of the Edystone Lighthouse & a portfolio of strobe photos by Harold Edgerton. #histSTM 🗃️📜

Many thanks to our friends @hyperallergic.com for spreading the word about @ransomcenter.bsky.social's 2026-27 #fellowships! Learn more by visiting the Center's website: www.hrc.utexas.edu/fellowships/ #Humanities #Photography #Literature #ArtHistory #RareBooks #Theatre #FilmHistory 🗃️📜📚

How did computing education transform Americans' understanding of work, education & the economy during the 20th century? Today's #histSTM & #ComputerHistory lunchtime read: @samfranz.bsky.social reports on his efforts to answer that question-and many others--during his recent CHSTM fellowship. 🗃️📜💻

"[R]ather than impaling ourselves on the continued transaction of written work, it may be better to focus our creative pedagogies elsewhere." This whole thread is great, but I particularly appreciated @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social's emphasis on the transition from external to embedded AI tools #edtech

It’s hard to book a trip to the quantum realm, but I’ve enjoyed reading about it during my vacation in Bridgton, Maine! Coincidentally, Bridgton is home to @rufusportermuseum.bsky.social, whose exhibits describe the life & legacy of @sciam.bsky.social’s founding editor! #SciAmInTheWild #physics 🗃️📜

Sage advice for aspiring authors spotted in Harrison, Maine! #BookSky #WriteSky 📚 ✍️

Written #OnThisDay in 1897! #BramStoker #Dracula #ArthurConanDoyle #booksky

This afternoon, I took a trip to the Wadsworth Atheneum with Mom. Here are some highlights from our favorite exhibition, “The Scenic #Daguerreotype in America 1840–1860.” www.thewadsworth.org/explore/on-v... #photosky #photography #daguerreotypes #ArtHistory #Hartford #CTMuseums 📷 🎨 🗃️📜

Did you miss yesterday's #CoffeeWithACodex with @lisafdavis.bsky.social, featuring the realistic facsimile of the Voynich Manuscript? Fear not! It was recorded, and I just posted it to YouTube. Take an almost-look at one of the world's most inscrutable manuscripts. youtu.be/LlwjwLYTJug

Looking forward to Allison Marsh's presentation on her NEH-sponsored efforts to uncover the contributions women made to #ElectricalEngineering. Click here to register for tonight's event, which will be livestreamed beginning @ 7 PM, CDT events.lindahall.org/ladieswillbe... #histSTM #WomenInSTEM 🗃️📜

But also, how can ANYONE look around at what is happening to science in the US today—the systemic attacks on public health, on the very idea that evidence matters—and not perceive how interconnected everything is?? We cannot understand this moment without the humanities and social sciences.