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Reminds me of an old, long retired colleague who once summoned me to a corridor telling me that “today the sun will perfectly align with the windows in the doors at both ends” and then we congregated there every year for the event.

Numerologists take note: tomorrow, 27th September 2025, is a square date in both US and Everywhere Else notation. 5205² = 27092025 and 3045² = 9272025 This is the last time this will happen for a thousand years! (from @EdPeggJr on math-fun)

i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT "he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality "this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening START WITH WHAT IT IS not what it isn't

Londoners, what's the consensus pronunciation for 'Mildmay', as in 'Mildmay Line'? Is it like 'Holy Infant so tender and mild' or like, err, 'mildew'?

OA-doing library folks can any of you help with this query?

#ConkerClub meets the fibre world. 🧶

Happy Birthday @RCPhysicians - 507yrs old today! The charter founding of the RCP was granted by King Henry VIII in 1518. While it has an impressive seal, the document itself appears unfinished. Archive manager Pamela Forde considers the mystery in her blog 👉 history.rcp.ac.uk/blog/empty-t...

Bluesky is all about the conkers today and long may it continue. #ConkerClub

Things that are hard than they should be: buying a walking stick withing walking distance of where I work or live. Two local pharmacies, one sold out, the other 'nah we don't sell that'. wtf

Crikey it's today. I thought something was off. #BisexualVisibilityDay

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

“Some say”, “controversial”, “experts disagree”. Just say they’re talking bollocks, man, the world is ending and we haven’t got time for this

I thought I'd managed to switch DMs off, but someone's sent me one. If it was you, please try skywriting instead.

Something Something EQUINOX Something Something SACRO BOSCO #NewberryLibrary (Inc. 4402) #Ratdolt #1485 #Peurbach #Regiomontanus #Equinox

Where are my volvelle fans at? Click through if you dare for the full (not-quite-)feature-length Apian volvelle explainer. #volvelles #rarebooks #GLAM 📚

It's the #AutumnalEquinox today at 18.20 GMT! This 16th-century paper machine, called a volvelle, helps explain how the sun moves through the sky from equinox to solstice throughout the year. Find a full explainer video on our exhibition website: history.rcp.ac.uk/exhibitions/... #BodyofKnowledge

Trying to tell a colleague about the #Sainsburys1980sYoghurtWorldCup but I'm not logging into X (spit spit) to dig out all the flavours. Alas.

Happy #JacobinDay new year, folks.

Where are my UK train nerds (affectionate) at? Is there somewhere that lists the stations **run** by a particular company, not the stations they serve? (For instance, Great Northern trains stop at Cambridge, but the station is run by Greater Anglia, so wld be no good for my purpose.)

I spent some of the summer helping to wrap old books in blue paper. Come and see them tomorrow at London Open House (history.rcp.ac.uk/event/open-h...), or at our Museum Late on 2 Oct (history.rcp.ac.uk/event/rcp-mu...), or take a peek at the installation video (history.rcp.ac.uk/exhibitions/...). 📚

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

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An Infusiast

@superteadrinker.bsky.social I dreamt last night that I was getting piano lessons with you, and I had to bring my own keyboard to lessons. I don't know what this says about anything.

Yesterday was our first Manuscript Studies Interest Group of the year! 10 astronomical manuscripts from Penn's collection and a dozen attendees. We made volvelles using a plan from @marshslibrary.bsky.social. No photos of the event, but here's a link to a booklist: drive.google.com/file/d/1wzDx...

“An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the artificial intelligence industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny.” Out from behind the paywall: the Editors on the literature of AI resignation. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Scientists believe we could be just years away from discovering the opposite of "anti-fascist".

Off to an immigrant community funeral tomorrow to say farewell to one of the last of my relatives not to have been born here. So the current climate is 💯, no notes, very comforting. Anyway, today went for a toddle round the reliably bonkers local art festival as an antidote.

@melindahaunton.bsky.social We've not officially launched this yet, but it is on our website, so while I remember... Look what we're doing at work in half term: history.rcp.ac.uk/event/tales-... Colleague said 'I wonder if we could get a storyteller in' and I said 'I know just the person!'.

If you have a VERY large room, Lambeth Palace Library is selling off its old bookshelves. www.lassco.co.uk/product/the-...

Booklist for the 10th century library at Bobbio. Among the various categories: "Books We Have But Can't Find" (de libris quos non reperimus sed habemus)

If you like books and you like words about books, you'll love the new exhibition 'Katie has written lots of words about books'. Online version at the link below. 📚

Exhibition, ‘A body of knowledge’ is open! 10 Sept 2025 - 23 July 2026. history.rcp.ac.uk/exhibitions/... Discover the surprising treasures of the RCP Heritage Library & explore how 500 years of book-collecting have built a wondrous, enduring library. @rcphysicians.bsky.social #BodyofKnowledge

New exhibition is alive. Here: history.rcp.ac.uk/exhibitions/... and in the physical real world @rcpmuseum.bsky.social. There are books in it. More to follow when I've had the customary lie down in a darkened room.

Got major FOMO for not being at this conference up the road. I'm not there because I'm putting the finish touches on a #LibraryHistory EXHIBITION, 'A body of knowledge' opening at @rcpmuseum.bsky.social TOMORROW. Online exhibition goes live tomorrow, too: history.rcp.ac.uk/exhibitions/

@jaffne.bsky.social Morning! Forgive my ignorance, but how does one tell quickly if a piece of legislation is Eng+Wales only, or includes all of UK? I'm interested in this: www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/3... It says 'UK Public General Acts' at the top, is that indication enough?

It's happening again.

If you're the person who's sent me a DM in the last day or so, please know that I haven't age verified my account, so I can't read it. If important, please try again via carrier pigeon, semaphore, lighting a beacon on a hill, etc.

Come and see our library display curated by two of our Museum volunteers, Dora & Freya. The display explores the development of Victorian Alpine exploration, the first successful ascent of the Matterhorn, and the history of wood engravings, illustrated through the work of Edward Whymper.

I'm happy to share this advert for a permanent part-time role in the library of @royalastrosoc.bsky.social share.google/K1v6wLMnhxQp...

I really hope friends like long and complicated explainers about early modern volvelles. Because I have had A Day getting the video together.

#yayadvent and #yayswap signups are now live. Though I'm around, this account is not actively monitored so please get in touch via the contact form on the website if necessary. yayadvent.weebly.com

@jaffne.bsky.social It was you I was going to tell about this?

On 16 September, we are hosting a Music and Reformation Symposium in conjunction with our exhibition, 'Sing Joyfully: Exploring Music in Lambeth Palace Library'. Among other themes, we will foster discussion around music fragments recently discovered and identified in library collections. 🎶

A long time ago (or so it feels now) in a lockdown not very far away, I learned all the words to "It's the end of the world as we know it" so that @slamdunc.bsky.social & I could do this for a Bastard English zoom session: youtu.be/YywNUqbJF5s?...

At last, some proper British vandalism. (source - www.facebook.com/share/p/1MeV...)

British culture at its finest. No notes.

Think I locked the case lid on all the prep for the physical bits of the new exhibition today, probably, aside from a couple of interactives still to arrive. Probably. Celebrating with a vinho verde we should have drunk two years ago. Ooops. Acidic early #ConfinedCocktails greetings to all.