Anti-anxiety baking… but we’re only two in the household…

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

New research names the companies owning the trillions-of-dollars-worth of fossil fuel plants that would be stranded if climate action keeps global temp rise to 1.5C or 2C #climatecrisis www.nature.com/articles/s41...

'Beyond the book: recycling print in early modern England' is out in splendid & lovely English Literary Renaissance. 50 free downloads, warm & ready to go, at www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/Q2MMD... (pcis: Bodleian coffret lined w. Horace & Virgil; damasked pages in Worcester College deed box)

One more in digital corpus building news: all the web apps on corpustools.prendrelangue.fr can now output XML files ready for import into @sketchengine.eu. #linguistics

I have some bad news. One, if you need to use ChatGPT for your graduate application letter, you are not ready for graduate school. Two, no, not "everyone is doing it" and those who don't do it aren't "losing out." ChatGPT is not an advantage.

Interesting detail…

Man muss mal sagen, dass die englische Sprache mit "fall" und "spring" zwei perfekte Bezeichnungen für die Jahreszeiten erschaffen hat, ich schlage zur Ergänzung "sweat" und "depress" vor

Cardamom knots cheered me up today: #breadsky

It seems here’s the answer! readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

Rather chilling episode on detention and mass incarceration in the US. ‘Detention economy’ prompts the question: who’s currently benefitting? podcasts.apple.com/ch/podcast/h...

Happy with how my 100% rye sourdough turned out today.

Bitte Rehpost 🦌 💌 ! Armutsbetroffene im Visier des Rechtsextremismus: Vortrag von Natascha Strobl, danach ist Gelegenheit für Fragen. Die Veranstaltung findet am 19.01.26 um 19:00h online statt. Anmeldung: forms.office.com/pages/respon... Die Veranstaltung ist kostenfrei. #armut #rechtsextremismus

#OTD 241 years ago, Jacob Grimm (1785–1863) was born 🥳 He was one of the pioneering scholars of German philology and Indo-European linguistics, author of the German Grammar. Based on the sound changes of Germanic consonants, he formulated the so-called Grimm’s Law. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 213 years ago, Louis Lucien Bonaparte (1813–1891) was born 🎂 He was Napoleon Bonaparte’s nephew and was briefly also a French politician. Later he became an expert on Cornish and other Celtic languages, and particularly on the dialect cartography of Basque. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! An extra episode to accompany our Films of Ideas series: David explores The Designated Mourner by Wallace Shawn, the writer and co-star of My Dinner with Andre. How did a play first performed in 1996 turn into a prophetic text for our times? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Diaries at the ready... the next Corpora & Discourse International Conference will take place from 23-25 June 2026, at Lancaster University. We are also very excited to launch our website, with plenary speaker info, key dates, and much more besides: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/. Please share widely!

Trump’s war on drugs? Yeah… www.bbc.com/news/article...

"if you are pronouncing a new law that wherever Communism reigns against the will of the people, even though it's happened internally, there the United States shall enter, then we are going to have really terrible wars in the world". Margaret Thatcher, 1983. www.margaretthatcher.org/document%2F1...

Some smart people were blaring alarm sirens in 2001 that allowing the President to do anything he wants as long as he designates it as an anti-terrorist operation will come back someday, well, it just did.

Die USA haben den Präsidenten eines anderen Landes entführt.

Having lye bread w the 🫕 (moitié-moitié) tonight :-) #BreadSky

The sentence in one of the many reviews of 2025 that stayed w me (about a bad situation from an artist in a resistance movement): “This will not last!” Here’s to the power of resilience and hope!!!!!!!!!

Triple choc rolls. They were best with goat cheese! Recipe Lutz Geißler. #breadsky

Classical Athenian theatre isn’t all you wd think! Go behind the scenes here on Instant Classics podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...

Es ist genau das. Jede Besitzstandswahrung, jede Verteidigung des Status Quo, jedes staatsmännische Regieren und sonst nix, jedes Aufgehen in Regierungsverantwortung, jedes bitte noch etwas Zeit, jedes jetzt aber wir in der Regierung, jedes Kulturkämpfen ist ein Kreisen in den Untergang.

The @transkribus.bsky.social "Egerton: English Secretary Hand" model is now public! app.transkribus.org/models/publi.... We have a website with sample transcriptions for different hands, information about our training conventions, and more: sites.northwestern.edu/egerton/

The date is set! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181190/ 30% off through @manchesterup.bsky.social 's website.

Wheat-rye-buckwheat, yoghurt&milk mix, honey, sunflower seed oil, a smidgeon of yeast, short proof at room temperature followed by over-night cold proof. Shaped and baked first thing in the morning for on-the-road lunch.

These have crushed pretzels in them, too. What should they be called? Cootzels? Pretties? Bistzels? Preskets?

And some bird yoga by the side of the lake

Autumn glory today

The other stuff came out alright

World food day/ bread day today and the Swabian souls (Seelen) decided to play an early Halloween trick on me by growing little feet at the back of the oven 😱

Why humanities are essential and not simply a ‘nice-to-have’: podcasts.apple.com/ch/podcast/a...

Now deep into this and enjoying it very much. It resonates with so many questions of today. Also looking forward to Ypi’s reading at Kaufleuten (Zurich) tomorrow evening.

When a bread is ambiguous between being open crumb or not :-( tastes alright, though #breadsky #sourdoug

We warmly invite you to another term of exciting seminars - our programme this term explores manuscripts, identity, & heritage from Central Europe to the States, Scotland to the South East 📖 bit.ly/londonmedieval

Got the book this week, started reading and am already in awe of the courage it took the author to embark on the journey that made it possible.

I lost not just a colleague but a friend this week. Thinking back to the nice dinner we shared w Martin and his wife in July when he was giving us a glimpse of what his farewell lecture in November was going to be about. He’ll be sorely missed.

So cool!

Online lecture, 26 September: Prof. Stefan Dollinger: The #Dictionary of #Canadianisms on Historical Principles, Third Edition (2025): non-dominant varieties and the national-identification angle in the 2020s Details & free registration: blogs.helsinki.fi/hellex-socie... #hellexsoc #lexicography

In case anyone’s looking for arguments in favour of immigration: theconversation.com/us-and-europ...

Very much looking forward to reading this!!!

geschichtedergegenwart.ch/der-blick-na... Diesen Sommer aus dem Augenwinkel gesehen: Verheerende Waldbrände in Spanien.

Ten days to go! sunypress.edu/Books/Z/Zen-...

At the Guggenheim in Bilbao today. Nice twist.