"Brushing off these practices as unscientific implies that 'true' science is, and always has been, unimpeachable. It denies us a chance to examine what flaws may fuel our own ways of thinking."
A new mailbag from @wbarlowrobles.bsky.social
It's that time of year when the trees are blooming, the birds are singing, and belligerent carpenter bees crash into my face.
Love this: "Weirdness is not a flaw in a picture book. It is often the doorway in. It tells children this space is not governed by ordinary rules."
And this: "A picture book read aloud is not just text being delivered. It is performance. It is call and response. It is music with page turns."
all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant
I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...
If the world knows that the President of the United States is about to commit war crimes by bombing the infrastructure of another country, isn’t it imperative that he be prevented from doing so rather than simply watch it happen
Everyone's job today
The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.
Stephanie Smallwood’s Saltwater Slavery is more about the Middle Passage itself—but I think still pertinent to the question!
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They made them take down the videos because they would cause "reputational damage" to people like this young man, Nathan Cavanuagh, so definitely don't post this all over the internet with the name Nathan Cavanaugh attached, or this guy might suffer reputational damage. This guy, Nathan Cavanaugh.
Yes—it’s so beautiful. Lines 17 and 18 = one of my favorite couplets in the English language.
We had to recite it in Middle English in college and I found two guys who rapped it online. Best study guide ever.
Macro photograph of a cluster of goldenrod flowers, one at top left crisply in focus, while a blurred bumble bee approaches in face view at upper right, its wings spread.
One of my favorite pollinator photos, and the bee isn't even in focus. Which is why I love it. (Bombus sp, Illinois)
Publishers Marketplace announcement reading: Historian, science writer, and author of CURIOUS SPECIES Whitney Barlow Robles's SPECIMANIA: LIFE, DEATH, & LOVE IN THE MUSEUM, a scientific love story of the adventure and madness of natural history collecting, tracing how it evolved into a desperate attempt at preservation in the face of the extinction crisis, to Ryan Harrington at Timber Press, by Zoe Pagnamenta at Calligraph (NA). Rights also to Connor Stait at Icon Books (UK), by Sally Holloway at Felicity Bryan Associates, on behalf of Calligraph. Rights: rights@calligraphlit.com
Some exciting news today: I'm writing another book!
My take on AI use
1) It's making it harder for people to learn *how* to learn
2) If you can't do everything you think ou should be doing without resorting to it — then you're doing (or being asked to do) too much
www.patreon.com/posts/149942...
The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante
The dj on the MIT station just went on a gorgeous tangent about how this semester he’s taking all liberal arts classes, and instead of asking him to reproduce established knowledge (as in most MIT courses) they push him to think about how he thinks.
My Super Bowl MVP.
JD Vance @JDVance X.com Remember when we learned that our wealthiest and most powerful people were connected to a guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring? And then that guy died mysteriously in a jail? And now we just don't talk about it. 8:28 AM • 9/4/21
JD Vance in 2021:
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” - James Baldwin
DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:
An ICU nurse rushes to help a woman who has been violently shoved to the ground by ICE. And they execute him in cold blood for it. I can't even wrap my head around the depravity.
they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem: “Immigration detainees are violent criminals.”
ICE is a secret police force. No warrants. No courts. No lawyers. And no appeals. People vanish in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer means anything. The knock on the door is the sentence.
Spanish-language worksheet in which pictures of things have been relegated into “the present” or “the past.” Things in the present column include computers and cars. Things of the past include typewriters and…chalkboards.
The educator in me is dying at chalkboards apparently being a “thing of the past” 😭
Like they’re as quaint as a quill or gramophone
Source: my kid’s kindergarten homework
#EduSky
A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
Pastor: I said to this ICE agent, 'Take me, stop harassing her.' The agent got in my face, pointed a gun at me, and said, 'Are you afraid now?' To which I said, 'I am not afraid.'
Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
I had the chance to interview James for my first book and he is truly a gem.
A hilarious read. Especially:
"The shark had looked sunken and strange after dissection, so the team “just shoved a load of lab coats in it”, says Maclaine, laughing at the idea that the stitches might burst in 100 years’ time, spewing foetid lab coats and puzzling future researchers."
