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"It has come for science because it was never just about the Humanities, but about how we assess American progress through infrastructures of new knowledge and its application." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/02/t...

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@jgrossman.bsky.social on @npr.org about the EO targeting the Smithsonian: "It misrepresents the work of the Smithsonian, which is one of the great research institutions in the world, arguing that the Smithsonian somehow misleads people, somehow is unpatriotic...That is simply not true." 🗃️

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This watercolour painting of a human and animal skull resting on some books was painted by J Murray in 1883. Also resting on the books are a tooth, a vertebra and the bones of a finger.

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Very much looking forward to my very first visit this coming week to Grambling State University, where I'll be the guest of the History Dept (w/ sponsorship from the @medievalacademy.bsky.social). My topic: "The Black Death in Africa: What We Know and What We Might Soon Be Learning." 🧪

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Angélique-Marguerite du Coudray was a pioneering and influential 18th century French midwife who designed equipment to teach midwife trainees about delivering babies #womensart

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If you ever need a reminder about the role of police, look no further.

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#ICYMI Our new temporary exhibition 'A Fair Field and No Favour- the History of Women in Surgery' will open on Saturday the 5th of April! Our current temporary exhibition 'Examining the eye: medicine's oldest speciality' will close on Wednesday the 26th of March.

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The Capela dos Ossos in Évora is the oldest bone decorated building in Portugal, built in the first half of the seventeenth century. It was originally dedicated to the cult of the Souls of Purgatory.

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What a fantastic meeting! I had a fantastic time presenting and listening to so many amazing scholars.

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This Friday, please join us for the virtual component of our annual meeting! This program is free and open to the public and features four fascinating panel conversations, starting at 8:45 am CST. You can register for the webinar here: unmc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Plate from Scots pathologist Robert Carswell's Pathological Anatomy published in 1838, illustrating atrophy of the convolutions of the brain in General Paresis (then known as "General Paralysis of the Insane"), a debilitating and fatal condition associated with tertiary syphilis

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#WomensHistoryMonth is starting soon, & we've never been in greater need of re-engaging w/ stories of how the status of ♀️ & perceptions of gender have changed--usually b/c of concerted efforts to make change. Professional ♀️'s history is about 40-50 yrs old. What new stories should we/can we tell?

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im deadly serious here this is a 14th century illustration of a horse dying and going to hell

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For those saying 'let's allow software companies to steal copyright work for LLMs because AI can improve cancer detection'. This expert system was developed by applying machine learning to a specialist, selected dataset. Not by wholesale theft of intellectual property. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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They'll also love our exhibition, Oracles Omens and Answers; visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/oracle.... And most probably this video about the Astronomicum Caesareum with Prof. Michelle Aroney which I'm afraid is too long for us to repost here: www.instagram.com/p/DFpj_jaMfsE/.

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Fairy tales. Allegory. Fantasy. Science Fiction. There is a reason our ancestors used these genres specifically to teach indirectly about justice & human rights. #EduSky

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Here are some nice mushrooms

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It may not look exciting but inside is #histmed treasure! Diary of Isaac Williamson who trained in midwifery in Edinburgh & Dublin in the 1760s. Records dissection & clinical classes, labours and a side-hustle selling apothecary wares. Digitised 👇 archiveandlibrary.rcsed.ac.uk/special-coll...?

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Sunday 16th Feb A couple of Spiders ; Zygiella x-notata : this was on the door window at Lidl. Probably the commonest species I see locally. Amaurobius sp : found in our hallway when I got back from my walk.

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Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring (German physician and anatomist) used this illustration to argue that corseting lead to tuberculosis, cancer and curvature of the spine. He advocated instead the wearing of pantaloons and other loose clothing

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Mississippi Kite #birds #photography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #nature #wildlife #birdphotography

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The archaeology of paper - a small thread (no pun intended). From this single sheet we pick out so many snippets of information aside from just the writing… #archaeology #paper #history #art #latin #medieval #archives

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It’s one of those days I have to bribe myself to do my work. This time it’s with a lovely pistachio and orange croissant.

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"In 1550 the name Golfo de Mexico appears for the first time on the world map the original of which...is in the @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social in Oxford. Earlier Spanish geographers used, also, the name of Golfo de Nueva España." (HT @noaa.gov) spo.nmfs.noaa.gov/sites/defaul... #GulfOfMexico 🗃️

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Reminds me of the end of Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia. Which, if you haven’t read it, is about his time fighting the fascists in Spain.

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Thursday 6th Feb Despite the glorious weather, all I could muster this morning were these 2

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Evidence of Muslim master-masons’ participation in the repairs of Seville’s defensive walls (ca. 1385). Source: Municipal Archive of Seville. #medievalsky

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Northern Flicker #birds #photography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #nature #wildlife #birdphotography

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cracks knuckles lemme tell y'all about a little dude named Napoleon III...

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What a beautiful bowl and a nice chance for a thread on glass from Japanese tombs and the Shōsōin. Excavated from a 5th-century tomb, this glass plate was likely produced in the Sassanid Persian Empire before making its way to Japan. #medievalsky colbase.nich.go.jp/collection_i...

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Sad news. Moore's works were some of the first that I read in graduate-level classes, and his insights were instrumental in finding my own path as a scholar. He will be missed.

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I love reconstructing Early Modern social networks through old trial records... Until there are up to four separate guys all named some variation of Francisco Sanchez and the scribe only clarifies which one he's talking about half of the time.

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The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

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Tree Swallow #birds #photography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #nature #wildlife #birdphotography

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Many of us started our careers going to a physical library, making physical copies of papers from scientific journals. Used to have several file cabinets full. Embraced the digital age to save paper and stopped printing anything. If PubMed goes down, no science can be done. Your taxes pay for it.

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Recently I’ve been working with some trial records that were written by a very clumsy scribe. More than once, I’ve found pages where ink has seemingly been spilled onto the page, and hastily wiped up. Maybe it’s water damage, but it’s odd to see on only a couple pages. Here’s the most recent.

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