Den stora älgvandringen I flera tusen år har älgarna vandrat samma leder för att komma till sommarens rika betesmarker. For several thousand years the moose have walked the same path to get to the rich pastures of summer. F...

*comes home*
*turns on Moose TV*

www.svtplay.se/den-stora-al...

I was very happy to discover @jtpmedieval.bsky.social's review of my monograph in the new issue of @peritia.bsky.social. Especially since it contains my favourite comment on the book so far: '[...] Boniface gatecrashes Willibrord’s party too often and Summer wisely keeps him at arm’s length'.

a duck (common merganser) with a bunch of baby ducklings on her back and trailing behind her in the water

the same ducks but zoomed out, showing the whole line of ducklings in the water

ok this is my favorite thing i've photographed. aaaaaaaaaaa holy shit

Getting a PhD and then working outside academia is dope. My advisees who’ve done that are more or less uniformly happy and feel that they’re using the skills they trained on. (I talked to one today who just landed a great gig). Just wanted to convey that to anyone it might benefit.

Three cool scientists introduce their work "Our new theory has been submitted to a peer-reviewed journal, but we feel its depths and intricacies are best appreciated on the limited-edition vinyl release."

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

Anyone here have a favourite reading on the topic of digitisation as [(not)] preservation? If not, please share if you think some of your followers might....

The position as secretary of BETH (European Theology Libraries Association) will be vacant from October 2026 - apply now!
beth.eu/2026/04/21/v...

In Dutch we say KBV, klein bruin vogeltje (little brown bird).

Birding friends, I need your help. A few months ago, someone told me that German birders have their own equivalent of the term LBJ (little brown job). It was something like "small, fast, gone". Does anyone know what that term is?

Thank god, I was feeling really down before they invented a pasta sauce that spies on us.

AI offering to summarize the article I just downloaded is a little like a restaurant offering to have someone eat the meal I just ordered.

Screenshot from the review, saying: While the book leaves us with some important questions, Elizabeth I and the Old Testament: Biblical Analogies and Providential Rule is an impressively learned study that adds a fresh voice and a provocative point of view to the ongoing scholarly debate about whether Elizabeth’s female kingship was or was not a vital component of the Elizabethans’ own religiopolitical debate. ILONA BELL WILLIAMS COLLEGE

It has taken three years, but the first review of my monograph has been published. In some ways, it’s what you want: it concludes by describing the book as “an impressively learned study that adds a fresh voice and a provocative point of view”.

Nice, right?

Nope.

Buckle in. 🧵

1/19

Cozy bibliography.

Ik kan niet voldoende benadrukken wat dit doet met een mens. Wij staan tussen de groten. Want met een goed verhaal kom je ver. Een verhaal dat je - en dit zeg ik in alle bescheidenheid - nergens anders gaat horen. Ja er is altijd meer te vertellen. Ja het kan altijd beter. En toch is dit alles.

Van de 4 Einsatzgruppen en 21 Einsatzkommandos hadden er 17 bevelhebbers met doctoraten in de rechten of de filosofie, en twee van hen hadden twee doctoraten. In Einsatzgruppe A hadden 9 van de 17 onderbevelhebbers een doctoraat, bijna allemaal juristen. Daar ben ik gestopt met tellen.

I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

Roses are red
I like to sin

Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

Antwerpse onderzoekster Rosa Rademakers wint prestigieuze 'Oscar van de wetenschap' voor baanbrekende ontdekking over dementie en ALS | VRT NWS Nieuws De Antwerpse onderzoekster Rosa Rademakers heeft in de VS de prestigieuze Breakthrough Prize gewonnen. Dat is een van de grootste wetenschapsprijzen, na de Nobelprijzen. Rademakers ontdekte 15 jaar ge...

Rosa Rademakers wins Breakthrough Prize for her discovery that ALS and frontotemporal dementia are caused by the same genetic defect.

www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

Three rows of books with decorative bindings, titles indistinguishable, on library shelves.

Friends, the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender is now accepting announcements for book-length works published in the 2nd half of 2025 & early 2026 for the next installment of the SSEMWG New Book Digest.

Deadline: April 30th
Submissions & questions: email jgoethals@ua.edu.

I know it might be radical, but add "no leaf blowers" to a platform of "the headlights are too bright" and "you should be able to pay for software once and then own it" and I would rank that candidate #1 every time.

Re: nostalgia for VHS tapes and other analog media, I saw someone say like "a VHS tape never sold my information to a nazi" and yes that's true! But the reason it's true is actually because Congress passed a law in 1988 specifically making it illegal for video stores to sell your rental history

The photo shows a wooden model of a cow giving birth accompanied by two men. One man calms the cow while the other ensures a proper delivery.The calf emerges from his mother, licking the hand of the man.

Models of everyday life were deposited in #Egyptian tombs. They were supposed to support the deceased in the afterlife. One of the most charming examples is the model of a #cow giving birth.
Carved in wood, painted.
Probably from Meir, #Egypt, dating c. 2040-1985 BC.

📷 Royal Ontario Museum
🏺

PETERBOROUGH STANDARD - Friday, April 18th, 1980 The memories live on CROWLAND'S Silver Jubilee committee was finally wound up on Thursday evening with a presentation ceremony at the library.. The Jubilee fund, described by chairman Frank Parnell as 'one of the finest efforts in Lincolnshire', fremony at the library. The Jubilee fund,. described by chairman Frank Parnet s 'one remony atremony are sony at the library. The jubremony at the library. Tremony at remony at the library. Thrremony at tremony at the liremony at the libraremony at the library. Theremony at the library. The Jubilee fund, described by chairman, Frank Premony rremony at the remony aremony at the libremony atremony at tremony at the library. Tremorremony at the library.remony at the library. The Jubilee fund, described by chairman Frank Parnell as 'one of the finest efforts in Lincolnshire', fn he latched onto a through ball. Although be was hauled down by the keeper he still managed to stroke the ball home. But for the second week running Durant had to leave the field injured, this time suffering eye trouble. The winning goal was another 25-yard shot - again from Blackstones' central defender - coming from their second chance of the game. Gary Cooper, recently signed from Old Boys, had a good debut.

Well, happy thrremony at tremony at the liremony at the libraremony at the library day to all who celebrate

"That creepy guy is here again," my boss hissed.

I looked to the pinball machine in corner. A lanky man in overalls and a soft hat was playing.

"You're making a fortune from the old coins he's using. But I'll have a word."

Later, I told my boss the guy worked as a ferryman. Why'd he get so pale?

Two donkeys with saddle bags filled with beer

TIL you can rent beer donkeys for events

My PhD defence is gonna be lit

I wonder if the length corresponds to economical trends.