Decades ago as a baby postdoc i met with my boss to discuss a frustratingly weird experimental result. His face lit up and he said “great! That means we’re about to learn something!” Today one of my students came to me, downcast, with an inscrutable result & I told her exactly the same thing.

i feel like you all need this

Winged Migration 🦢

Everything is terrible, but the cherries are blooming in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. There are no bad pictures of the lovely Japanese walk.

Here's something good for early career scholars in history and area studies! Submissions close in a week! Tell your frens! #academicsky 🗃 #histsci #earlymodern #ancient #medieval

TODAY @ 4 -- Rick Atkinson on the revolution as war. Friends would you share? This series is meant as a resource for teachers, journalists, non-specialists/ specialists alike-- and folks who always want to learn more. Last week @rezekjoe.bsky.social kicked off this series and I learned a lot!

#FlowerReport from Newton Massachusetts A tiny hellebore sprang up & put out a tiny purple flower 🥰 and chionodoxa are now opening everywhere

This is the face of a lunar scientist who has just been told that the #Artemis II crew saw SEVERAL impact flashes (the flashes when meteors hit the lunar surface) in real time 😃 🌓💥

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable. Earth and Moon in one NASA photo. ht @astrokatie.com

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Ruffed Grouse are such cool birds. They can be *right there* and still hard to see. It’s aways exciting when you catch a glimpse! #birds 🌿

Hey, #Boston classical music fans, have we got a site for you: A calendar of upcoming classical and early-music concerts www.concertatlas.com

Happy Easter! Here’s a lovely Romano-British brooch in the form of a cheerful little hare! 😍 Copper alloy decorated with enamel, 2nd-3rd century AD. 📷 British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o... #Archaeology

🗃️ Super excited to share that we’re hiring at the Adams Papers, come work with us! @mhs1791.bsky.social www.masshist.org/admin/upload...

My son's cat enjoying the Boston sunset. @universalhub.com

What a fabulous opportunity to work with a wonderful team!

[[earnest alert]] THE CITY has been publishing for seven whole years as of this morning. very proud to be one of the originals. journalists working independently on a nonprofit model without a paywall are endangered species these days, so each year we make it, I thank my lucky stars www.thecity.nyc

Publication Day! Very excited!

Hey, folks! Today is publication day for "The American Revolution at 250: Twenty-Four Historians Reflect on the Founding!" Honored to be included with this cohort.

This extraordinary, striking Roman glass bowl is made with the millefiori (or thousand flowers) method. Its decoration looks to me like hundreds of little sea anemones or coral. It dates to the 1st century AD. 🏛️📷 Thorvaldsen Museum #FindsFriday

Hot off the press, the Adams Papers Documentary Editing Project is hiring for a new Asst. Assoc. Editor. #HistoryJobs #Skystorians. If you have questions, you might try @sarageorgini.bsky.social

🗃️ Super excited to share that we’re hiring at the Adams Papers, come work with us! @mhs1791.bsky.social www.masshist.org/admin/upload...

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

In the long historiography of the Declaration of Independence, When the Declaration of Independence Was News is the 3rd book by a woman & the 1st to be blurbed by all women--three incredible scholars whose work I deeply admire! @lmchervinsky.bsky.social @sarageorgini.bsky.social @drzara.bsky.social

As a collector of things, I like to see how other collectors make their collections publicly accessible. www.wallpaper.com/fashion-beau...

Day 3 of #DrawAFlowerADay... how about a sweet bunch of bluets?

And here’s Colleen Shogan, the 11th archivist of the US (eg the last confirmed archivist) describing this effort that began under her leadership: “For decades, the Rotunda told a powerful but incomplete story.” www.nationalreview.com/2026/04/the-...

'Given his status as an enslaver – Jefferson owned more than 610 people in his lifetime – those he held in bondage may have been the last people Jefferon saw before he died.'

The fight we’ve been waiting for, the Battle of Brattle: Waymo vs. Cambridge turkey. @universalhub.com

😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning. @exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int

🕊️ Happy Easter weekend from Coventry Cathedral (Basil Spence, 1951-52), one of the greatest works of 20th century British art and architecture.

Treat yourself this Easter to ANY book from our UK bookshop. Buy between 3 and 6 April and you'll be supporting independent bookshops AND have a chance to win a £400 digital gift card: uk.bookshop.org/shop... 1/2

If you're at a Red Sox home game and you want to send me a song request, this is the best place to do it. If you prefer to send it via Twitter, that's okay. If you prefer to send it via some other means, I may or may not see it in time. Thanks! Let's have an awesome Red Sox season together! ⚾ 🎹

Favorite books about women's history? Any time period, any geographic location. It's for a thing

Playing around with something over lunch today: a medieval / modern map mashup. The medieval map here is the 13th C. Psalter map, and the modern map is one I drew. I'm not trying to make them line up geographically...I just like the juxtaposition. #maps #psalter #mappamundi

"We've got a beautiful moonrise and we're headed right at it." -Wiseman

Artemis II lifts off

not ‘shopped. not cropped. not stock. straight from the phone of stormwater inspector Lindsay Schiel snapped yesterday at a basin in Hudson.

🗃️ Happy #RTL Day! Glad to chat with @smithsonianmag.bsky.social about Abigail Adams’ words alongside many thoughtful scholars including @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social www.smithsonianmag.com/history/abig...

On Abigail Adams' "Remember the ladies" letter to John Adams.

From award-winning historian Megan Kate Nelson, an epic account of the creation of the American West in the 19th century, shattering the traditional frontier myth that has dominated popular American culture. @mkn.bsky.social URL to learn more or buy: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-We...

Great piece with lots of wisdom from (IMHO) the nation's foremost expert on Abigail Adams @sarageorgini.bsky.social

🗃️ Happy #RTL Day! Glad to chat with @smithsonianmag.bsky.social about Abigail Adams’ words alongside many thoughtful scholars including @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social www.smithsonianmag.com/history/abig...

This turned (delightfully!) into a many-tailed thread of Really Good Ceilings and in case you want to look at pretty stuff both historic and modern, inquire within:

150,000 podcast downloads!! Love @draftingthepast.bsky.social? Tell a friend about it!

Just over a week until publication day and the book tour in support of THY WILL BE DONE is up over 15 dates! Come see me this spring/summer or invite me to come speak near you!

Good morning! 🪶

Are you an archivist, librarian, or museum worker who does outreach/advocacy work? And would you be willing to be interviewed by a student? I have a student struggling to find someone to interview (because we are all up to our necks in it!). So if you have the time/space/interest, lmk

FOUR more days to sniff this exhibition!