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lorimmiller.bsky.social
I work in Higher Ed. History PhD; MSLS. Ex-librarylander/resrch admin; you get the idea. I post about baseball, birding, cats, & etc. l still have hope despite everything & am endeavoring to be kind. Opinions strictly my own; she/her/hers. KY
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Many people have compared what is happening in America to what happened in 1930s Germany - and rightly so. But I want to remind everyone that the current situation is not a fait accompli, and I worry that these comparisons sometimes imply otherwise. The situation is dire, but not without hope.

submitted 19 hours ago • 9 comments

I am officially "getting unsolicited emails from Viking Cruises in my in-box" years old.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

BIG NEWS! We’ve found that ash trees are fighting back against ash dieback disease! 🌳💪 Scientists at Kew & QMUL ‪@qmul.bsky.social have discovered that young ash trees are evolving resistance to this devastating fungus - & fast 🌍 Read the story👉 www.kew.org/read-and-wat... #PlantScience #SciNews

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Ancient silver stater (coin) with an octopus on the reverse side 🐙 🤩 Minted in Eretria, Euboea, Greece, 500-480 BC. Photo: British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o... #Archaeology

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

"Thank you for your attention to this matter" is what I expect to see in notes in the break room scolding co-workers about microwaving fish, not in social media posts announcing the US is at war.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

apnews.com/article/louv...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

They got the little glasses!

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

This is a good piece (gift link) on how the federal government ghosting Northwestern on congressionally-appropriated funding for three months is affecting the university...and will affect medical research more broadly.

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments

New study finds that using ChatGPT to write essays led to reduced brain activity & memory compared to writing without tools or using a search engine. While ChatGPT made writing easier, it also caused cognitive offloading, weakening learning and engagement over time. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872

submitted 14 days ago • 22 comments

“We create our own reality”

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

you are surrounded by amazingly beautiful things. amazing people. art. systems. sometimes an unexpected turn captures these marvels, when a fleeting moment makes us stop and see something differently. life is a moment—filled with moments. here's to unexpected beauty within every one of them.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Love to see a post on Facebook that my city's 911 lines are not working. 😬

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Individuals can and should have their own opinions. They cannot have their own facts. Facts are social, public, shared. History is a fact-based discipline. Historians may disagree over how to interpret evidence or over what counts as evidence, but not over basic facts. The Holocaust happened.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

ASSIGNMENT: COMMENT ON SCHEDULE F 1 week left to comment about Schedule F, potentially making NIH institute and center director essentially political appointees. www.regulations.gov/commenton/OP... 1/n

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

Going to start _Miss Austen_, and dang, it was just yesterday that we were watching Keeley Hawes in MI-5 on actual physical DVDs from Netflix that came in the mail.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment