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Photo of two boys - one vaccinated against smallpox, the other not - published in 1901 by Dr. Allan Warner. Smallpox killed over half a billion people in the 20th century alone. On 8 May 1980, the WHO announced its eradication, which was achieved through #vaccines, surveillance, and containment.

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The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural and artistic revolution of the 1920s and 1930s that celebrated Black creativity, identity, and intellectual brilliance. It was named after a neighborhood in New York City that was a common destination of workers who left the southern segregation. ➡️ w.wiki/3rPQ

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Also a major presence in naval hospitals as nurses. Just how prevalent was obscured for over two centuries, because black nurses rarely showed up as individuals in pay records. Often they were slaves then later contracted servants, with a master/contract agent being paid for the service provision.

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I have just, finally, finished A City on Mars by @zachweinersmith.bsky.social and @weinersmith.bsky.social – what a well researched and snort-into-your-tea fun book.

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Gonna put some more fire on this take. Many publishers are not manually going through each and every review when they are looking at reviews to determine if they want to re-sign an author or acquire an author previously published elsewhere. They just see that Paige O'Woord's last book has a 3.5 on

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So I quit my University position but I have no speaking gigs scheduled for February at all. If Indigenous topics/futurisms is at all your thing, you should hire me! apihtawikosisan.com/about-2/spea...

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🪡 Unknown, research in progress. Gown of purple silk satin embroidered with a floral motif in tonal green silks and gold colored metal spangles and couched elements, 1803-07. © @ Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. #FashionHistory

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🪡 French. Evening dress, c.1817. Off-white silk and wool gauze with pale pink silk satin, iron floral pailettes, silk embroidered pomegranates & oak leaves. silk-wrapped paper, cording of silk around metal core& glass beads. © The Philadelphia Museum of Art. #Fashionhistory

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Simple mathematical model predicts development of cultural structures observed in human societies phys.org/news/2025-01...

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Great and very informative post from @mattdpearce.com on how people used AI during the LA wildfires Spoiler: they mostly did not at all. it's still too unreliable for news and health-related info mattdpearce.substack.com/p/people-sto...

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After lying hidden beneath metres of volcanic rock and ash for 2,000 years, a "once-in-a-century" find has been unearthed in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in Italy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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🚨 PSA: If you are an Israeli army soldier or officer and have firsthand knowledge of unreported war crimes or other atrocities committed in Gaza, the West Bank, Israel, Lebanon, or Syria, find a news outlet that uses SecureDrop and send it an anonymous, encrypted tip.

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Green men in the 14thC cloister ceiling at Canterbury Cathedral. Often claimed to be associated with pre-Christian religion or fertility, in reality no one really knows why they are there #canterbury #greenman #greenmen #canterburycathedral

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A medieval woman was buried with archery equipment and had healed fractures of her upper arms like many men did. Is it fair to call her a warrior, or was it more complex? 🏺🧪

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An intriguing new study suggests laser-stimulated fluorescence can elicit new information from ancient tattoos. But some researchers aren't convinced. 🏺🧪

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'Dangerous Journeys' on 7 February - just signed up.

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The little Tiktaalik wants YOU to go to the Paleontological Research Institute’s website, buy a bunch of plushies of Paleozoic life, and help them out in their time of dire financial need! pri-gift-shop.myshopify.com

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I am exceptionally grateful to Dr Jess Wade for putting details about women scientists (and others) on Wikipedia. I would not have known about many of them otherwise. www.theguardian.com/science/2023...

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In Australia, items that enter the public domain this year include: - unpublished works by authors who died in 1954, - orphan works (i.e. works with no known author) created in 1954, and - govt publications created in 1974. #AusLaw #PublicDomainDay

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I've never understood the fuss about New Year's. We all count down to zero, nothing happens, then everyone cheers. The Yule Gate is sealed for another year, its boundless horrors kept at bay by joyous revelry. Big deal.

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They easily could’ve just driven the dude from Altoona to The Tombs in a musty old Crown Vic met after dark by one frumpy guard holding a donut, instead of helicoptering him directly to Wall Street to be met by the mayor himself and this windbreaker platoon.

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Truly, this is a Christmas present to the many information professionals in the world. You are seen. This section in particular struck me. Not that AI doesn't have particular uses, but that it doesn't do everything. And this is one of those.

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If you're just landing on Bluesky we've started a little Starter Pack to help you find some of the Shambles regulars. We'll keep adding to it. go.bsky.app/JFn8ivf

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My cartoon for this weekend’s @theguardian.com books.

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🧵 Cool thing about BlueSky? You can learn how one of the best minds on public health law on the planet thinks about emergency declarations and bird flu 👇👇

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Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.

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Very… erm… interesting items at the British Heart Foundation charity shop. Don’t all rush at once!

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Residency for a writer at any stage of their career who is writing a new piece of work for theatre, with private studio, on-site accommodation, and a weekly stipend of £350. DunsPlayFest will stage a scratch reading or rehearsed reading as part of PlayFest 2025. Other awards also. Please share

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Should be in every newsagents window.

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"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all." Arthur C. Clarke

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Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious Objects Flying Over New Jersey www.openculture.com/2024/12/hear...

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Looking for a holiday gift for the child in your life? My husband @tealcartoons.bsky.social and I wrote an illustrated kids' book called PLAGUE-BUSTERS - about medicine's battles with history's deadliest diseases! A pro-science, pro-vaccine rollick! Check it out: bookshop.org/p/books/plag...

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Medical historian here to remind you of the benefits of #vaccines! This is the final stage of tetanus when nerves fire continuously & body contorts into agonizing posture known as opisthotonus. The mastication muscles clamp down to form the hallmark lockjaw. A vaccine didn't appear until 1924.

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May I recommend @foxlanebooks.bsky.social as an indie bookshop that will giftwrap books and send them on for you?! Absolute Christmas lifesaver! #welovebooks #indielegend #booksforChristmas www.foxlanebooks.co.uk

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Judith Butler is 100% correct. The word "woke" is pure reactionary bullshit. Its contemporary meaning also distorts history by making it seem as if every positive cultural change of the past 200 years has happened naturally, without agitation by people considered, at the time, dangerously "woke."

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When #polio had no vaccine Babies were put in #ironlungs (At SeaView they also had #tuberculosis) 💉Vaccines save lives @gbosslet.bsky.social @madhupai.bsky.social @ravenscimaven.bsky.social @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social @robincogan.bsky.social @dohertyta.bsky.social @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social

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Join us on 29th-30th March 2025 for our Art Deco Centenary Celebrations! The event location is the Crowne Plaza John Lennon Airport, a Grade II* listed Art Deco hotel that is an Art Deco lovers' dream. We look forward to welcoming you there! More event details below

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Suchir Balaji, the former OpenAI researcher who blew the whistle on his bosses, on how OpenAI was hoovering up copyrighted work, was found dead in his apartment. 🧪 #tech @mollycrabapple.bsky.social writes here 1/2: mollycrabapple.substack.com/p/death-of-a...

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It’s not fair to post things like this when I’m feverish. My grip on reality is already fragile

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Pull the freaking untested product that hoovers up copyrighted consent without credit or consent, only to vomit out lies.

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Wanna know about the history of Christmas?🎄 Here is a thread of five funny podcasts I’ve done on different bits of Christmas history (Uh… Christory?!) We’ll start with the classic… BIZARRE VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS CARDS! (This was my undergrad dissertation) artuk.org/discover/sto...

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I think cis ppl misunderstand the danger people like JS pose. When the guy came for me, I had him blocked but bc he put me on blast, I got over 800 unique accounts sending me threats & suicide bait in just a few hours. The only thing that saved me was locking my account which you CAN'T DO HERE.

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If anyone is interested in where 'sin-eating' comes from, this is a great thread about the subject that our film The Sin-Eater was based on! And yep, our awesome writer @treeandtroll.bsky.social based the ceremony on Richard Munslow ⚰️

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Icymi: Chilling quote from this fantastic piece on antimicrobial resistance in war-torn nations: “If you dismantle the health infrastructure of urban life, you can take more lives than bombs could ever do.” www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/m...

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Okay, who is selling COVID test kits in bulk these days? I need to buy enough for between 30 and 50 attendees to test daily at a 4-day conference. Would prefer Flowflex.

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This is deeply upsetting and shows the extent to which executives interpret calls for accountability as a threat.

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