“A team of more than 80 researchers… have identified a set of proteins in the blood that accurately predict lung cancers more than five years before diagnosis. The scientists also found early evidence that an existing anti-inflammatory drug could significantly reduce lung cancer risk”

Writing is thinking, pass it on

Ah yes, the "Thdpsssps"

this is the printer of our discontent

Lads next time the woke progressive left successfully captures all the elite institutions we have got to be better at it cos this time it clearly didn't work at all.

wideninge gyremaxxing

GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine, known as mRNA-4157, has shown promise in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. FIVE years later, NEARLY 70% of people in the vaccine group are CANCER-FREE. The vaccine also cut a person’s risk of the cancer metastasizing by NEARLY 60%.

We’re thrilled to award our 2026 Leary Grant to the team behind "Yellow Nineties 3.0"! In addition to securing their own archive, they seek to create an open-access toolkit for other aging #DH projects. Read the judges' full comments here: rs4vp.org/awards/leary... Congrats to the team! 🎉

the word coward and the word coda have the same etymological root in the word “coe” or tail, and it’s for this reason that if your book has a coda instead of a proper ending then you’re a big wimp and you’ve bottled it

Please take time to contact your MP, front load the email with your own personal take - just a few lines to personalise why you oppose the code. It'll take 5 mins.

🧵 The UK government has put a revised Code of Practice before parliament, which, if adopted, will intensify the serious regression of basic human rights that trans people are experiencing across the UK, and can similarly affect intersex people. Read the full statement: tgeu.org/joint-statem...

https://writetheletter.bimini.workers.dev "Parliament has until ~30 June to stop the new EHRC Code. Then it becomes law. Your MP can object. They won't unless you ask. 29 Days left to act."

Historian of something cool and niche? i've got some episode slots available on the Untitled History Podcast in the coming weeks. so if you're up for coming on and talking about your area, DM me! Think In Our Time but more casual. ESPECIALLY if its non-mil stuff. (spread the word, peeps)

Scientists are asking if it might be unconscious

KNOW THE SIGNS 🥖⚔️

This looks fantastic @emilyrohrbach.bsky.social - many congratulations! 🎉

Happy Pride Month! Remember to wave your flags with your non-dominant hand so that you're free to offer help and kindness to those in need or strike a blow against fascism with your dominant one. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

"average pig has 75% of accidents" factoid actualy just statistical error. average pig has 0 accident. Frumble Georg, who drives a pickle & has over 10,000 accident each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

it has come to my attention that busytown is anti pig

Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems." www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

i don’t recommend wuthering at that height

Im on a plane and have started the new Wuthering Heights, and, I do not say this lightly, what the actual fuck is this.

I'm super proud of this project. It's designed to help, especially, humanities scholars building datasets. It's a style guide, with tips and guidance for all the many little decisions one makes when making data. Em Nordling did an amazing job writing it. Funded by the NEH until twas terminated!

Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong

You may not like it, but this is what peak museological performance looks like

Party like no one is watching 💃🏽🕺🏽🪩

I love the glee with which @annleckie.com repeats the phrase ’crunchy worm bits’

The River Wye has just made UK history. For the first time, an entire river catchment has been formally recognised as a living ecosystem with rights - including the right to flow, thrive, regenerate, and be free from pollution. It's a major victory for nature.

Why do we refer to these entities as generative AI and not, as would seem more appropriate, extractive AI?

Took me way too long to realize this was not a call for papers for a symposium on the history of the traumatic graduate seminar.

Found a new pronunciation nemesis: ‘inassimiliable’ ‼️ I don’t have to use the whole quote in my conference paper, right? I’ll just conveniently discover that I have to cut that part of the sentence

We must not forget. The killing of up to 14 million humans by illegally erasing USAID is happening now. Congress could stop it. The courts could stop it. We must stop it.

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

🎉Congratulations to @c19thnewshound.bsky.social, our 2026 Mitchell Prize winner! His work reframes the so-called "failure" of #19thC short-lived periodicals as innovative and intentional. Our judges described the project as "analytically acute and conceptually ambitious." Read more: buff.ly/mix9hRU

Sun’s out, #museumbums out!

Rewatching all of Poirot and a new reaction gif just dropped

when I finish a book I sit with it and decide whether it goes to the bookshelves in my study (it pleases me) gets banished to attic limbo (it displeases me) or gets recycled (it offends me), and I'll be honest I think my high anglican upbringing damaged me more than I realized

The testudo remains effective. 🐢

does anyone know of any good articles/books on abridgement (either the practice itself, those abridged classics for kids, or those weird summaries for CEOs)

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

Percolating on my fall theory course & would love to hear: what single essay (or chapter of a book) makes theory (interpreted however you like) or intellectual / aesthetic infrastructures concrete in ways that have stuck with you & / or you really admire? Example: Barbara Johnson, “Muteness Envy.”

The way you know Bluesky is not a representative sample is several people are livetweeting their reading of an encyclical

You know what I appreciate about Leo's new encyclical? Numbered paragraphs for easy citation of a web-based, non-paginated document. All those digital-only academic journals without numbered pages need to get on that!

We haven't had to fire any shots so it's not obvious but a blockade of this magnitude would generally be considered an act of war. We did not do this in the 1962 missile crisis, we allowed ships not carrying weapons to proceed to Cuba

As conference season creeps up on us, I saw advice to ‘be a sponge’ [go to everything] and my counter-advice is ‘be a butterfly’ [go to things that take your fancy; find fellow butterflies and flutter off for coffee; like, uh, all good butterflies skive off and check out the local art museum]

zero bandwidt. am bandwidthout.

secret codicil stops you marrying Ladislaw? will issue

Best take down of AI I’ve seen

In the middle you put the start of another, different paper. Now you’re cooking with gas.