El Cabbage
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He/him/هو/إيّاهُ; Particle physics PhD candidate with a love for science and the humanities
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Ok I think I’ve found a library who are interested in carrying out this digitization project. I won’t say too much until it’s confirmed, but now we need someone at the National Archives of Egypt to reach out to for a collaboration. If you’ve done research involving the Egyptian National Archives or…
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This is how I learned that “Detroit” comes from the French word for ‘strait’
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Carausius
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This is the “Lady with the Hood.” It is 28,000 years old & perhaps the earliest depiction of a human face. Made from mammoth ivory, its delicate modelling & drapery of the hood belie the idea palaeolithic people were artistically crude. It is a beautiful piece. 🏛️📷 National Archaeological Museum🇫🇷
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lauren
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spoiler in the first episode opening montage 🙄
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Ok I think I’ve found a library who are interested in carrying out this digitization project. I won’t say too much until it’s confirmed, but now we need someone at the National Archives of Egypt to reach out to for a collaboration. If you’ve done research involving the Egyptian National Archives or…
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Frankly the world should boycott the World Cup, if not out of principle, then out of self-preservation
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Bodleian Libraries
5 days ago
Free event at the Weston Library in collaboration with
@ochjs.bsky.social
and part of Jewish Culture Month. A talk featuring two case studies of Jewish and Christian scholarly collaboration in past centuries by Professor Judith Olszowy-Schlanger and Dr César Merchán-Hamann.
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Memes are meant to be funny, not efficient. If you just wanted to convey a fact, you could just say “British houses are poor insulators, too cold in the winter and too hot in the summer”
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Morning Star
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Cuba is not a failed state – it is a besieged state - ROGER D HARRIS and SARA FLOUNDERS challenge propaganda against the blockaded socialist island
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Cuba is not a failed state – it is a besieged state
MAY Day is the most important public celebration in Cuba. This year, which marked the 100th anniversary of Fidel Castro’s birth, carried special significance in light of heightened US aggression. Over...
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/cuba-not-failed-state-it-besieged-state
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Gareth Roberts
2 days ago
I imagine this is well known to Arabists, but it's remarkable how much variation there is in grammars of Modern Standard Arabic as to how words are stressed. Here are some examples...🧵
#Arabic
#linguistics
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Ok I think I’ve found a library who are interested in carrying out this digitization project. I won’t say too much until it’s confirmed, but now we need someone at the National Archives of Egypt to reach out to for a collaboration. If you’ve done research involving the Egyptian National Archives or…
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Latin *strata is also where we get Arabic صراط, or صطرط, as it was written in some Old Arabic inscriptions
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Dr. Rachel Schine
1 day ago
Read. To. Your. Kids. I. Promise. You. Have. The. Time.
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Yoïn van Spijk
2 days ago
Words such as 'museum', 'formula', and 'ratio' instantly give away their Latin origin, but 'wall', 'street', and 'kitchen' come from Latin too! These were borrowed very early: into Proto-West Germanic, the ancestor of English. Today’s graphic shows six construction terms. Next time: food words.
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Medievalist.net
2 days ago
Can horses shape the way history is remembered? A fascinating new open-access article examines horses, memory, and political culture in The Primary Chronicle. Read more:
www.medievalists.net/2026/05/10-o...
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10 Open-Access Medieval Studies Articles from April 2026 - Medievalists.net
Discover ten open-access medieval studies articles published in April 2026, featuring new research on archaeology, genetics, trade, kingship, literature, and the strange world of smells.
https://www.medievalists.net/2026/05/10-open-access-medieval-studies-articles-from-april-2026/
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Adam Gurri
2 days ago
Today
@polphilpod.bsky.social
gives us a very important breakdown of what has happened to trans rights in the UK and what it means for the freedom of even cis citizens there. We published it because the UK press is completely captured on this topic. Please read & share with folks who live there.
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This should be illegal, especially for old and rare books
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Yeah, it’s a “hard exercise” because you have to be psychic and guess the gender of the musician and baker
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Whenever I read a genetics paper on China, I always forget that they use the name “Tubo” to refer to the Tibetan Empire and spend a fair deal of time looking up who those are. Has this always been the convention among Chinese authors writing in English? With other groups, they use the conventional…
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kobayashi ḫamṭu
4 days ago
i am now the proud owner of a Scots grammar WRITTEN IN SCOTS
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Oisín McGann
4 days ago
The genAI industry in two sentences.
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Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic
4 days ago
Baghdadi Arabic Imala (a -> e/i) Jewish (J), Muslim (M) & Christian (C) dialects 'tongue' J: lsīn M: lsān C: lsēn 'dogs' J: klīb M: člāb C: klēb 'cold' J: bīġǝd M: bārǝd C: bēġǝd 'high' J: ˁīli M: ˁāli C: ˁēli
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Brad Lander
5 days ago
TFW when your 82-year-old Midwestern dad can’t take your call because he’s too busy organzing against ICE.
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Mark Grimshaw
6 days ago
Congratulations to
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on somehow making Theresa May’s Conservative Party the most socially progressive government of the last decade, I suppose. Really impressive to be that fucking ghoulish a person.
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Rebecca R Helm
5 days ago
Life hack from a marine biologist: When your blue sea dragons need a little snack, remember that they never evolved to swim, so you have to drive the Portuguese man-o-war around and pick them up like a little bus 🎥 by me during field work :)
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David Gorski, MD, PhD
5 days ago
Antivaxxers and quacks have always killed. The only difference now is that their being in charge of the federal health apparatus of the wealthiest nation on earth allows their beliefs to become policies that kill on a massive scale.
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Evan Urquhart
5 days ago
January 2020 has become my benchmark - there were already signs of the GOP pivot to anti-trans politics as their top issue, but no legislation had been passed in any state. If you think trans people had too many rights six years ago, there's no common ground on which we can meet.
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Spencer McDaniel
5 days ago
This headline is one of the most American things I've ever read.
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Spencer McDaniel
8 days ago
It bothered me so much that so many ancient and medieval philosophers were omitted that I remade the chart and added a bunch of ancient and medieval philosophers. Feel free to debate my placements.
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Leigh Anne Riedman
6 days ago
Excited to say that my new paper with
@maxlechte.bsky.social
(and others not on bluesky) has come out in
@nature.com
! Study of sediments, geochemistry and fossils from rocks 1.75 to 1.4 billion years old indicate that the oldest known
#eukaryotes
were aerobic and benthic!
#protists
rdcu.be/fjNgL
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Early fossil eukaryotes were benthic aerobes
Nature - Integrated palaeontological, sedimentological and geochemical analyses of ancient rocks from Australia show that early eukaryotes were largely restricted to oxygenated benthic habitats,...
https://rdcu.be/fjNgL
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Markˣ
7 days ago
Plot twist: Wiktionary says the Persian is from Syriac ܕܘܿܠ 'bucket' which is related to Arabic دلو (now used of a certain kind of leather bucket, as I understand it) So I suppose the Kumzari/Emirati/Ruus Al Jibal word *could* be borrowed from a Persian word ... which was borrowed from Aramaic?!
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Me when I cold message an academic whose research I’m interested in: “Of course I know you’re super busy, so no pressure to respond :)” Me when they don’t respond:
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BeijingPalmer
8 days ago
'yes, China is conducting a massive program of forced sterilization combined with an effort to destroy cultural, religious and linguistic identity, but did you consider that calling that genocide might upset people?'
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Bex is WEAK on crime
9 days ago
Doesn't feel too out there to say that every hour of work "saved" by AI just becomes someone else's hour of work.
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STEM bros, especially those who drank the AI Kool-Aid, are an embarrassment to academia
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Nick Fleisher
9 days ago
Also like: what do these people think a citation is? It's literally a testament that you have read the source
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
11 days ago
Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed. Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.
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#StupidSuez
12 days ago
Tell your congressperson to cosponsor this resolution
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yaoi gagarin
12 days ago
the US really pulled up the ladder after themselves with regards to that whole "should someone be allowed to resist british imperialism" deal
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Jesse Hawken
12 days ago
What was a moment in world history where the book burners were the good guys
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What the fuck, Newspapers dot com doesn’t let you even read OCR transcriptions of articles without paying now? There were so many articles I saved that are completely inaccessible now
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GhileneH
17 days ago
brill.com/view/journal...
Which Was Sappho’s Best-Known Poem in Antiquity? P. J. Finglass
#openaccess
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JP Ahonen
17 days ago
This page explains very well why and how exactly you can be identified on the web even without you providing any information about yourself. It’s scary. Give it a try. It may change the way you think about privacy.
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#StupidSuez
18 days ago
Israeli television news investigation confirms what we already knew, which is that the 3 hostages who were shot and executed by Israeli soldiers were killed because the overarching rules of engagement in Gaza were such that "a man, no matter the age, you kill him straight away".
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Ola Wikander
18 days ago
Ugaritic word of the day: ảp (/ʔappu/), "entrance". Cf. Hebrew ʔaf (inflected ʔapp-) and Arabic ʔanf-, "nose" (which the Ugaritic word can also mean).
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Jonathan Last
18 days ago
What did archaeology have in common with golf, motoring and science fiction in 1967? They were among the subjects "neglected by other networks" but covered by David Attenborough's BBC-2...
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Joel S.
18 days ago
The World Jewish Congress is apparently using AI to generate fake videos of Anne Frank. Truly shameful. This opens the door to all kinds of AI slop misrepresenting the Holocaust.
www.jta.org/2026/05/07/c...
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AI Holocaust content is booming. Is it all 'slop' — or a solution for fading firsthand memory? - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Educators, ethicists and Jewish leaders are debating the question as content mills slop on.
https://www.jta.org/2026/05/07/culture/ai-holocaust-content-is-booming-is-it-all-slop-or-a-solution-for-fading-firsthand-memory?fbclid=IwZnRzaARrC3FleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEe80lni_nxc7Uvt6Ru_uFP5kBcGAH6xlW2tYoeX6UUFNdTC11rE_DhJ54uecU_aem_TA2lDUGk9O-M0ZdM9VGSmQ
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Sarah E. Bond
18 days ago
A dozen female Palestinians are working to save and preserve medieval and early modern manuscripts 📕 from the Al-Omari mosque’s library. Hang this picture in the Louvre (and the Met).
www.newarab.com/features/ins...
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Phil Chamberlain
18 days ago
#spycops
officer Andy Coles deceived a vulnerable 19-yr-old into a relationship to provide cover to infiltrate protest groups. The wannabe Tory Cllr just got beat by the Greens
#karma
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William Duguid
18 days ago
'What has been done has a name – scholasticide. Every university campus in Gaza has been demolished. Between 90%-97% of its schools have been destroyed or damaged.' Katie Hunter and Jehan Al-Azzawi, co-founder/director of Educators for Peace, via The National
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Bela Lugosi's Dad 🇻🇪 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸
20 days ago
Dawkins spending his entire career berating basically pretty normal people for being so stupid as to believe in God and then immediately giving himself Roko's Basilisk Derangement Syndrome after talking to the AI catgirl waifus is just the funniest shit.
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