Wow, what an analogy! And 💯 on the nose. I follow some sci/med types who rave about it constantly. But for most of the world I inhabit, it's lethal--ethically & intellectually. #AI #histSTM #histmed

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Super Bowl 2026 : Bad Bunny célèbre toute l’Amérique et fait enrager Donald Trump

Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...

A Reddit user identifies the boy who took a Grammy from Bad Bunny in the halftime show as five-year-old model Lincoln Fox and says that he was meant to represent Bad Bunny as a child www.instagram.com/the_lincfox/... www.reddit.com/user/BabySea...

I will eventually shut up about this but Bad Bunny’s use of the power lines is an outstanding example of how to communicate about climate and energy issues. Not about who is the smartest nerd in the room and spewing numbers but about people’s actual lives. Genius.

This February marks the 100th anniversary of Negro History Week, the predecessor to Black History Month. @bgexploredc.bsky.social has curated a month-long calendar of events for you to check out across the city:

There's no other way to describe this than as crimes against humanity. Inhumane, despicable, unconscionable. www.reuters.com/world/us/tod...

Well, let's give it a shot again and see what we get.

In 2023 @enirenberg.bsky.social & I wrote about RFK Jr's role in the deadly measles outbreak in Samoa (time.com/6289037/robe...) Turns out, Samoa was a trial run for the horrific, deadly anti-vaxx activism he's now inflicting worlwide 😔 Thx to @bymichellersmith.com & colleagues for their reporting

(Only today's abysmal job market across industries means all this wealth of direct experience doesn't easily translate into lateral extramural moves, but should you land in the business world post-academia, you will find MANY necessary skills already honed.)

Series of good short reads for anyone in HE. I want to add the anecdote that one of the scariest (and frustrating) parts of shifting to alt-ac has been the realization just how very VERY thoroughly decades in the neoliberal university prepared me for the actual-facts business world.

More #SuperBowls! #MedievalSky

Oooh, that's a baaaaad bunny! #SuperBowls

So I heard we’re posting super bowls. Here’s a Fatimid lusterware bunny. Islamic lusterwares originate in Iraq to emulate the sheen of Chinese porcelain, but the combo with highly animated-looking Fatimid animal motifs is my favorite. He even has a little snack. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

I've mentioned it before, but when I volunteered for my local library's literacy program, one of the most commonly cited reasons older adults cited for participating was to "read my medication labels."

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Experts fear the vaccine-preventable virus has regained a foothold and that the U.S. may soon follow Canada in losing the achievement of having eliminated it. https://to.pbs.org/3NunWgA

The great thing about this also being a living reference work is the we can easily update online — thank you 🙏

Awkward for everyone on Substack... www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

Look what arrived today, or at least the ebook did. This is the first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to medieval women’s writing globally,focusing on the thousand-year period between 500-1500. Entries on about 250 women writers plus longer thematic essays. You’re welcome.

I love this stunning quilt I saw on IG from @pamdorra.bsky.social

Also, nonviolent resistance that is public, takes up space, catches the attention of the press, and is done by very ordinary people (moms, kids, grannies) who don't look like "militant protesters" is crucial for breaking the regime's false narrative. Knit-ins are incredibly useful in this way.

Is craftivism performative? Yes. That's the point. Resistance includes a public demonstration of opposition at accessible events with a low barrier to entry. The red resistance hat pattern has raised $300k for the people of Minnesota. That's not effective?

A good thread on craftivism and its place within the ecosystem of resistance tactics. #DHmakes

"The new law forbids counties and local law enforcement from contracting with ICE. It mandates that public bodies terminate any existing immigration detention agreements and prohibits the use of public property for federal civil immigration detention..." kfoxtv.com/news/local/n...

"Her family sent her away when she was only 12 years old ... They feared her presence in the home would tarnish the family's reputation and her siblings would never be married. Alamelu, who is now 75, never saw her family again." #GlobalHealth www.npr.org/2026/02/07/g...

Great thread by one of the chief editors of Vaccine I can attest to Vaccine’s scientific rigor for all types of articles Last year I co-wrote a Commentary on the dismantling of US vaccine systems & submitted it to Vaccine The peer reviews were TOUGH but great 💪 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40803141/

DIRECTO | La Policía Nacional ha rescatado esta mañana, cerca de la localidad sevillana de Camas, a una persona que se encontraba desorientada y con las piernas dentro del Guadalquivir a punto de que se la llevara la corriente

Query to #MedievalSky: what would you recommend as an exemplary philological study demonstrating good stemmatics, w/ accompanying use of apparatus to lay out variants? I'm looking for something w/ a *good, intriguing story* showing why that level of variant-hunting & weighing of chronology rocks.

🚨Minneapolis Sheriffs aggressively push ICE protesters into a corner, using their police vehicles to threaten running them over to get them to move. LIVE NOW ⬇️

Minneapolis police are now showing up with riot cops to stop peaceful potluck protests now. All in service to protecting fascist death squads. Minneapolis police are fully pro fascist violence and against protestors

A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community.

Thanks for this observation! One of the things I'm finding about the work of reintegrating these new "material histories" coming from the paleosciences is that, even when they don't match completely, there are almost always accurate nuggets in "folklore" that shows us what was important to people.

This is really interesting. I remember that people in the Fleimstal area in Südtirol told me as a boy decades ago that the wood of Stradivari‘s violins came from their valley. I disregarded that as local folklore, but obviously there may have been something behind this.

In Celebration of Black History Month, we honor Black Nurse Anesthetists whose shoulders we stand on In 1966, Annette Fuller Hightower, Nurse Anesthetist graduated as the 1st Black student at Charleston Memorial Hospital, WV. Notably, she was the 1st Black CRNA to work in WV.

Dendrochronology and paleoclimatology of the Stradivari's violins: "...the majority of soundboards were crafted from Norway spruce (Picea abies) that grew at very high elevations during the severe climatic conditions of the Maunder Minimum" 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology #Climate

Not a sociologist, but doing my part as best I can.

Vance was booed at the Olympics, hilarious and deserved - NBC muted it #censorship #fascism

For years, states competed aggressively to land data centers, sprawling campuses full of computer servers. But many officials are now scrutinizing how those power-hungry projects might affect the electric bills of households, small businesses and other industries. From @stateline.org

Two of our town's better citizens were in this group, and it's great to see them using their purpose and voice to push for a better world. #NutmegSky

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

If I'm reading this right and the scientists are correct, the best Stradivarius violins were made with wood grown at high altitudes during the Little Ice Age/Maunder Minimum So in part we can't replicate because the world's a lot hotter now

OK. That's wild that solar activity can affect instrument quality.

Breaking MS NOW: The Department of Homeland Security *unsuccessfully* sought to expedite deportation proceedings against the family of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, according to a local school official. At an asylum hearing Friday, the family was granted a continuance. www.ms.now/news/dhs-rep...

There are so. many. things. that are going to need to be torn down & melted down when this is over, but first we have to somehow make it through this period. Sigh. www.npr.org/2023/10/26/1...

If you want a fun science (🧪) article to read this weekend, make it this one: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Stradivarius #Dendrochronology

"Democracy demands wisdom and vision in its citizens. It must therefore foster and support a form of education, and access to the arts and the humanities, designed to make people of all backgrounds and wherever located masters of their technology and not its unthinking servants."

"An advanced civilization must not limit its efforts to science & tech alone, but must give full value and support to the other great branches of scholarly & cultural activity in order to achieve a better understanding of the past, a better analysis of the present, and a better view of the future."