Really interesting piece about the conservation of a #textile sample book from the #18thcentury. rylandscollections.com/2025/12/02/c...

Hey @portersqbooks.bsky.social: you have these in stock right now? I need a new lace journal. I loved this book for that purpose. And I'm at the end of this one. IIRC, there was a pink one. I hope that's next. I'll be over shortly.

I spent yesterday at Smith's Castle in N. Kingston RI. Doing a #BobbinLace demo in a home of the right period for #IpswichLace makes me happy. But they have this mystery painting, with a sitter draped in black lace that haunts me. www.smithscastle.org

This is wonderful. I am pretty sure it was drag queens that also made me realize that some people carved a life outside of the lines. And it looked great, and it looked fun. But I didn't even know it was this great. What a life. #TransRights

Sigh. Science is under assault on every front. I never heard of a Science Museum bomb threat.

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino now admits that when he peddled bogus conspiracy theories about the pipe-bombs case, he didn’t know what he was talking about. “I was paid in the past for my opinions,” he said. I’m not sure if he’s fully thought this through. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Just to be clear, there are as many 6-year-old kids on Ozempic as there are kids who had gender affirming surgery while at school without parents knowing about it or babies aborted after they were born.

Who is doing the right hand pins? Those seem to be working.

BREAKING: Trump Institute of Peace 2026 class schedule highlights: - Intro to Committing War Crimes - Starting an Unnecessary Regime Change War - Intro to Conducting a "Dear Leader" Cabinet Meeting - How NOT to Lobby the Nobel Committee

I was not aware that #RumeysaOzturk was still held in this limbo. Damn. #SomervilleMA

As for the #ACIP meeting today, this is the only thing you need to watch. And, to be clear, you do need to watch this.

My housemate and I have joked about living in our house until the sea comes up to the bottom of our stairs. Maybe it will. #ClimateChange #MApoli #Boston www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Please signal boost. Need a wheelchair tech who can help troubleshoot in Silver Spring, MD.

More #lableak crankery, still getting debunked.

I will be doing live coverage of the ACIP meetings tomorrow and Friday on Bluesky. Here's the agenda: www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa... And here is Your Local Epidemiologist and The Evidence Collective's prebunk: open.substack.com/pub/yourloca... Should be an interesting time

Exactly this. The staff at these institutions have taken decades to assemble and their collective knowledge and understanding will take almost as long to reconstitute. DOGE, RFK Jr, and the Trump regime are doing generational damage to the Crown Jewels of American science and science policy.

Holy nonsense. The slope downward to the endarkenment has been so fast. And we can thank everyone in the #lableak gang who spread all this misinformation and got us here for this. Damn.

Dedham Priest pissing off all the right people by removing Jesus from the church's nativity scene and putting up an ICE WAS HERE sign in His place. www.boston25news.com/news/local/i...

I'll be sorry to lose vaccines. Sigh. www.sciencefocus.com/news/shingle...

A longtime climate scientist told me he just got a five-year UK “Global Talent Visa” www.gov.uk/global-talent

Funny DNA privacy story. For my work, I got a #23andme account. I wanted to understand the service, see the data, see the software, etc. However, I used a fake name to protect my privacy. Now in the privacy breech settlement I have to fix the fake name problem to get privacy protections.

I’m at the Cambridge Public Library for tonight’s panel discussion on how Gen. George Washington is remembered in this university town. (Harvard rushed to give him an honorary degree in April 1776 at the end of his military service there.) historycambridge.org/events/dec-2...

Sometimes you just need to sleep it off. www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/...

There have been several good #GeneTherapy stories of late. This is what the Human Genome Program promised--but would take years to play out. It's playing. But all our progress is threatened right now by the clown car driving science policy. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/w...

Was volunteering today at a #vaccine clinic. With nurses. Who are doing front line public health for our communities. They do not deserve to be denied "professional" status. And they know this means fewer people will be able to get degrees. Hitting staffing. All bad news. #BadIdeaJeans

This is true. They aren't fearmongering with needles about GLPs. And I bet some of the same botox-ed antivaxxers are having no problems with their GLP shots.

Every year Jean Leader makes a #lace #AdventCalendar. Each day a new piece of lace is revealed behind the doors. Today's piece is special and offers the pattern too. Click on the 2. I might try it. I need a little ornament. #BobbinLace #NeedleLace #tatting jeanleader.net/calendar/ind...

I want to crack a joke about 18th century rolls being back but.... Ew.

Watched the film again tonight. I had forgotten that Rent is a #ChristmasMovie. La vie Bohème La vie Bohème La vie Bohème La vie Bohème youtu.be/i5tuzq-uIVc...

day 1 is "penzeys revolution blend" and i cant stop laughing at "we have to GET RID of this lying, cheating, CORRUPT SCUMBAG PRESIDENT!! RESIST! REVOLT! REVOLUTION NOW!! good on roast poultry and carrots"

This was stolen Canadian turtle valor? Geez.

As was I, mainly by my physician colleagues. In fact, I was told that deconstructing quack claims in general was a poor use of my time. And guess what? One of the physicians who criticized my activities in this sphere is currently in charge of FDA CBER.

525600 minutes of retrograde. See? #WorldAIDSDay

My bipartisan IRS MATH Act with Senator Bill Cassidy is now law. Now, if you mess up your taxes, the IRS has to tell you where you made a mistake and how to fix it. No more spending a fortune on lawyers or hours to find errors. That means fewer headaches and more money in your pocket.

I was just rewatching this, thinking about #WorldAIDSDay. We had made so much progress. 525600 minutes and so much backsliding. youtu.be/6DCbviP3nx0...

BTW, there are a LOT more than 40

It can wipe you out if you are working too. Nobody's safe.

Interesting story as an editor tracks down a ChatGPT "journalist". Sigh. This is relentless. thelocal.to/investigatin...

Remember that jerk from the BU Republican club that called in about those people working at the car wash? Good sign. #immigration #ice #Boston

Interesting. This is the most unhelpful signage ever designed, but it is a quirky thing and I like it anyway. I don't think I've seen it lit up. Will go by there sometimes for a look. #SomervilleMA

Medical frymmblal. This is the bad place.

we have to go back. to warn them.

I'm rewatching a lecture on the Laces of Ireland project that's underway. The closed caption function is not handling the brogues all that well.... "Lazy artists" my arse. Lace artists. #Lace lacesofireland.ie

Includes interesting ways to serve those leftover pumpkins from Halloween.

How to handle those vaccine conversations this year...

#SomervilleMA will wait in line a long time for bakery goods.

Almost missed this the other day. Finally we'll get Canadian hydro power. I was livid that "enviro" groups like Sierra Club were working against this. www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...

Hard agree. You know it wouldn't go like that for @mayorwu.boston.gov . He would treat her like he treats female journalists. Women know this. It's very wise to make this call. Don't pretend otherwise.