oh btw the everlasting has a slightly different cover for the paperback release! like a plucky romance heroine who has altered her old gown for the ball!! torpublishinggroup.com/the-everlast...

And here's the link to the published study (#OpenAccess): www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Belly is getting tootered 🥺 #cats #catsofbluesky #kitty

A #wip snippet for Monday, or whatever day this is. From Hierarch: "What is it you truly want from us? Speak it!" "Schools and hospitals," Bashasa said. "Archives. The ones you destroyed in my city. I would be happy to rebuild them with your bones."

I don't really care about etiquette but take your fucking hat off you hateful ghoul!

Bella got a new bocks! #bella #cats #catsofbluesky #kitty #gato

We are making (our first) cassoulet and it smells bewitching. Drooling in anticipation. #cassoulet #cooksky photos to come...

I'm pretty excited about a new study of the African influence on Neanderthal X chromosomes. It's because a pattern of dispersal of early modern people based on matrilineal kin networks makes a lot of sense. www.johnhawks.net/p/matrilinea...

New post up on the Chopping Blog 🪓🪓

The chapter I'm most eager to see in the long-awaited book on the Hereford Cathedral excavations? Radiocarbon dating and chronological modelling, Peter Marshall, Derek Hurst, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Elaine Dunbar, Sanne Palstra, Paula Reimer & Marie C Weale, www.oxbowbooks.com/978178925868...

Borrowed this one...

I want you to know when I says "the peasants wanted blood" in the thumbnail here *I* mean that in a positive sense.

There are many important books to read on Black history, but if you can only commit to one choose this. You will unlearn lies we've been taught + learn the truth. It will empower + enlighten you. Michael writes w humor + brings receipts for every historical fact. #BHM = Black History Matters✊🏽

I'm supposed to fly home from New Jersey on Monday and I'm really scared I'm going to get trapped by the storm. I will lose my mind. I want to go home. 🥺

Here we go. It's Friday, and this dropped.

Augusta Baker was a children's librarian at NYPL in the 1930s through the 1970s. She was dedicated to curating collections with positive portrayals of Black people in children's books, becoming a storytelling specialist. #BlackHistoryMonth educatingsouthcarolina.blogspot.com/2011/07/augu...

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Current read: app.thestorygraph.com/books/3f9997... #booksky

There is a fab new book out about the 2022 polychromy exhibition at the Met. It underscores 38 scholars who are the 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 experts in polychromy today. Coming out of polychromy retirement to review _Chroma: Sculpture in Color from Antiquity to Today_ for @hyperallergic.com (edited by Natalie Haddad).

Guest writer Tannia Suarez explains how Bad Bunny transformed Super Bowl LX into a declaration of linguistic and cultural power, showing why authenticity, not translation or apology, is what truly expands influence.

This is Lil Cat. She’s in Mendocino. A little shy. VERY sweet. 8 years old. And was well loved. Can anyone give her a soft spot to land? That face! If not, can you share? www.mendocinohumane.org#sl_embed&pag...

Making and posting this in 2021 is indirectly how I fell into a magical relationship that gets stronger every day.

Cats out of the bag, we were Grass number 12 in the Halftime show. #SuperBowl #SuperBowlHalftimeShow #BadBunny #joking

This is badass 🔥🔥🔥 And I love it so much…

"Debui Tiravisse Plures Photos," Cuniculi Mali magnum elegansque carmen

Michelle Obama, exactly as she is. Beautiful, graceful, intelligent, and strong woman. Joy is resistance. Grace is power. #SheShed

You can also meet some *much* less friendly members of her species in my book WALLFLOWER ASSASSIN autonomous-press.myshopify.com/products/wal...

Donald Trump will never know this L❤️VE.

Recommending some romantasy books by Black authors for your TBR 🌸🪄❤️

Stop callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "slop peripherals"

I'm talking with Gareth in Cardiff as part of the Children of Strife release tour (full details here adriantchaikovsky.com/events.html)

Current read #books #booksky app.thestorygraph.com/books/7d11dd...

This week on the blog! By request of the ACOUP Senate (that is, patrons on Patreon at the patres et matres conscripti level), a very brief introduction to the Late Bronze Age Collapse, a collapse even more severe than the fall of the Roman Empire in the west! acoup.blog/2026/01/30/c...

My LA peeps, I appreciate the resolve, but CUT THIS SHIT OUT‼️ Trump has been openly talking about invoking the Insurrection Act. So I’m going to sound like an old man for a second, but it’s coming from a place of love and experience. 1/2

Current read app.thestorygraph.com/books/b1680e...

This is a fun read from a few months ago: www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-...

eyyyy sid sagar and moira quirk are audie award finalists for their narration of The Everlasting! congrats to the whole list!! people.com/31st-audie-a...

We're 2 pages into Volume 2 of WEIRD LUCK. After spending Volume 1 trying to track down the "interdimensional deal-broker" known as Smiley, Agent Sojac is face-to-face with him and hoping to get some answers––but he's not what she expected. New page tonight, 9pm PST! weirdluck.net/comic/2-1-1-...

A Tennessee library has banned a book where cartoon chickens model historical undergarments and I’m sorry, I need this on my shelves immediately and probably you do too. A History of Underwear with Professor Chicken by Hannah Holt and Korwin Briggs hannahholt.com/store/a-hist...

Do you want to draw mountains like an eel historian? Of course you do! And in this week's post on maps and mapping, I walk through a couple of different techniques for doing just that. It's free to read, so go ahead! A world of mountain sketches awaits you! www.patreon.com/posts/fault-...

I was wondering where to get trained, and of course No Kings has us covered. See you there. www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

One of my classic teaching materials

For my fellow East Bay, CA folks, this is the number for the Alameda County emergency immigration legal defense group. Program it into your phone now 💛

Haven't checked out the #Sinners syllabus yet? Well, w/ a record of 16 Oscar nominations, it's high time to do so! bsky.app/profile/disc...

Absolutely delighted to be on this episode of American Medieval, it was a fantastic time chatting.

Happy Saturday! My webcomic is WEIRD LUCK. Here's a favorite panel: a gathering of gangsters from Volume 1. Fun fact: the city where the comic takes place is surrounded by a chaos-warped wasteland called the Endless Plateau. #webcomics #comics #fantasy #scifi #oc #espionage #crime weirdluck.net

My novel about systematic evil & the need for regular people to team up & fight it is now available in the UK. Sadly, some themes never go out of style. THE DEVIL IN SILVER. With a gorgeous cover and a wonderful introduction from the great @sgj.bsky.social www.penguin.co.uk/books/476343...