Huh. well not interested in this really, so I suppose I will have to bid all of you adieu. All the best to you.

The New York Public Library Presents an Archive of 860,000 Historical Images: Download Medieval Manuscripts, Japanese Prints, William Blake Illustrations & More www.openculture.com/2023/11/the-...

A stargazer, craving a dark night, Told his neighbor, in the form of an invite, “I’ll show you a cluster, And things of low lustre, If only you’ll turn off your porch light.” 🔭

This also was and remains a core goal of the disinformation our info spaces have been flooded with - to explicitly destroy empathy, without which there is no cooperation on fighting climate change etc. it's why I am always preaching solidarity and mutual aid and unionizing etc.

I really, really like this! Two additional things I like: 1) cut-and-paste newly inserted text into the response letter, thereby saving the editors/reviewers the job of finding it; and 2) summarise rambling reviewer comments, ie., don’t include them verbatim in the response letter.

Want to be a plant conservation scientist? Application now open for post-baccalaureates to do a paid year of plant conservation research at botanical gardens in San Diego, Atlanta, LA and Chicago. Please share! 🧪🌽🌴🌳🎋🏝️ More here: atlantabg.org/conservation...

🎄 BOOSTER THREAD FOR MAKERS 🎄 Every year on X I did a thread to boost people making cool things that might make good Xmas pressies. If you create things, reply with: - description - picture - link to buy And I will boost you. Non-creators, boost this thread and buy the cool things! MERRY XMAS

This review of the biography of Derek Parfit, entitled Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality is so intriguing. It begins with a very disquieting anecdote from the philosopher's life, and goes on to consider the consequences of truly living your philosophy.

Cool Faculty Fellow position in the Program in Museum Studies in the Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York University. Seeking those with research interests in decolonial theory and museums/cultural heritage. Base salary of $60,000.

Mah book! Available for preorder omg

Christmas tree up. Lots of rain this year, so they grew tall instead of wide. Properly snowed here, so had to let it drip dry before decoration. 8 feet, £35.00, not bad.

For a deep dive into what this looks like in a specific discipline (History) in the UK, see the Royal Historical Society's 2 Gender reports (2015, 2018). Read alongside its 2018 Race and 2020 LGBT+ equality reports: royalhistsoc.org/policy/equal... . Sobering reading for science/Wissenschaft.

Yet another paper on gender imbalance in EU academia. Although women and men are similarly graduating from a PhD, the academic positions beyond the PhD level are gender imbalanced across all disciplines (75-25 ratio) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Chrysanthemum by Piet Mondrian, 1908 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137414

I write a gardening newsletter. If you want to check it out, I would appreciate it. rockdovefarm.substack.com/publish/post...

I’ve started a journaling and meditation practice twice a day about a week ago, and wish I would have done this years ago. The mental calm and focus resulting is incredible. Deep uninterrupted sleep. Wow. So simple.

More info and application instructions here: birdpop.org/docs/job... 🪶🌎🧪#fieldinclusive

Have you considered applying for a Linda Hall Library fellowship? Join me & Toni Bettasso (LHL's Coordinator of Research & Scholarship) for an online info session next Friday (Dec. 8). We'll discuss the application process & strategies to strengthen your project proposal. #histsci #histSTM📜🗃️

Science and empire workshop on Monday. I'll be talking about the mathematics that circulated with astrology and cosmography in early modern Iberian-American territories (free online, organised by ENS -PSL Paris) royalhistsoc.org/calendar/col...

asking for an image of a professor and asking to make it "more professor", a thread.

Obituary of Evelyn Fox Keller www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... I wrote about meeting her a few years back at a strange meeting in Austria about gender and Wissenschaft occamstypewriter.org/athenedonald... #womeninstem

Lovely online advent calendar from the Ashmolean www.ashmolean.org/advent

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/newton-chr... If you are up Lincoln way on 13 December, the Newton Christmas Lecture is afoot: Why it Matters: The Story of Atomism with me and Andrei Zvelindovsky in Maths/Physics. I think this will be streamed on You Tube as well. Free registration at the link above.

I did the spotify thing. My town was Oxford. Yes I am a dweeb.

New Royal Historical Society blog post on ‘Web access to British Library databases: workarounds for historians’. If you have any info about other relevant resources, there’s a link to submit suggestions too 🗃️

It's that time again. I made this comic a few years ago, and now I hear people using the phrase "weird duck time" without knowing where it came from, which makes me happy beyond words. Here's to the season of spectacular ducks 🪶

Are you of African or African Caribbean heritage, based in the UK, and have an idea that you would like to develop into an academic book but are unsure where to start? Check out the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship: bit.ly/3sPnWxB

Every generation gets a bunch of lectures about how women are selfish and destroying American families, young people are overly-sensitive narcissists, and nobody wants to work anymore from a class of out of touch pundits uninterested in analyzing power or inequality.

William Blake was born #OTD 28 November 1757 in Soho Isaac, William, Eduardo and me! thonyc.wordpress.com/.../isaac-wi...

Routledge are selling the paperback of my ‘Histories of Egyptology’ edited collection with a 25% discount: www.routledge.com/Histories-of...

It’s finally happening!! Cambridge’s newest journal, Public Humanities, is an open access journal at the intersection of humanities scholarship and public life. Submissions are now open for its inaugural Manifesto Issue, edited by journal co-founders Zoe Hope Bulaitis and Jeffrey R. Wilson.

Christmas cards out the door…early because I’m sending them the cheaper way and they need to go abroad. Tree this weekend. Way excited.

Johns Hopkins University Press is particularly good for #histsci titles, including @schottemargaret.bsky.social's own book on the navigational sciences 😃 📚 www.press.jhu.edu/books

British Library advises that reader and customer data is now being sold on the dark web: www.bbc.com/news/enterta...

I’m very excited to announce the Dec 18 performance of a short play I co-wrote, ‘Interactions’ about the (interior & exterior) lives of scientists, featuring Vera Rubin & Jocelyn Bell-Burnell as characters. This is part of the Microcosms collaboration between AMNH & The Public Theater, tix here:

Join us for the next GEMMS free virtual lecture by Arnold Hunt on 11 December at 5:00 pm GMT/12 pm EST: "From print to manuscript: The commonplacing of printed sermons” Register to join us live or receive a link to the recording: www.eventbrite.ca/e/arnold-hun... #earlymodern #17thC

"a new report from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences contradicts the narrative that #humanities degrees are a waste of money. College graduates in every state who majored in humanities...outearned people with no degree, according to the academy’s data." bit.ly/49NiT1o

Social costs of the pandemic will be felt for a decade, says the British Academy: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/social-...

Gardening without a garden 🌱

I couldn’t live without grapes They’re my raisin d’être

Katherine Small Gallery is a delightful design book shop & wee gallery in Somerville, MA. Michael Russem runs the shop & is this perfect combination of deeply funny & knowledgeable. If you seek interesting books on typography, book design, & related topics: ksmallgallery.com

Students working on Herculaneum? Grants are available from the Herculaneum Society, deadline 1st December 2023 www.herculaneum.ox.ac.uk/node/264

Guten Morgen und einen schönen Sonntag Allerseits 👋😉

It can happen to anyone...

Sunday morning mood: a Greek skyphos (a two handled drinking cup), decorated with an adorable and somewhat bewildered owl. Dating second half of the 5th century BC. On display at Museum August Kestner, Hannover. 🏺

Selecting cabinetry for the laundry room and driving DH bananas by changing my mind, but we settled on something. I am so grateful we can do this project. It will make my life much easier and more pleasant.