Doug Merrill 🌻
@bagatsen.bsky.social
Writer, editor, translator, project manager, reformed bookseller. Now Berlin previously Moscow, Tbilisi, Munich, DC, Warsaw, Budapest. Hoya Saxa! YSR! (he/him) Book reviews and oddments at https://thefrumiousconsortium.net
Informative thread. (Also interesting German orthography, but that's really niche and beside the point.)
c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 4d agoThe headlines are still covering the cyclosporiasis outbreak from lettuce, but let's talk about a different summer, long ago. The headlines in Bavaria would have called it "summer diarrhea" & it was killing babies. Enter our hero, Professor Theodor Escherich of the Julius Hospital, Würzburg.
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You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.
On the language of Homeric Greek, and the language of a certain forthcoming film: here are a few simple observations.
Smart! Maybe it's the first step in making this parasite go the way of the guinea worm.
Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · 3w agoAdding fish to rice paddies fights a horrible parasitic disease. In a schistosomiasis hotspot in Senegal, researchers stocked rice fields with two native species, African bonytongue and Nile tilapia, that eat or outcompete the freshwater snails carrying the parasite buff.ly/pLZVsmD #ShareGoodNewsToo
Husband just came in to tell me that since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln every American president has been alive at the same time as Herbert Hoover.
I commented on this proposed rule, citing what happened to German research after 1933, and the consequences of considering relativity "Jewish physics." I also said that the record showed the current administration would use these powers vindictively, cruelly and stupidly.
Bethany Brookshire@beebrookshire.bsky.social · 4w agoThere's an OMB rule change that would require political oversight of scientific grants, and could pull any that don't "reflect presidential priorities" Another country has tried this before! It was the USSR and it was called Lysenkoism. By @thsaey.bsky.social www.sciencenews.org/article/omb-...
Noted without further comment.
Joe Koch@horrorsong.blog · 4w agoThe Ones Who Walk Away From Discourse
This tale needs to be a black and white movie complete with cocktails, sharp dressers and mid-Atlantic accents. That it's madcap goes with out saying, toots.
Kingfisher & Wombat@tkingfisher.com · 4w agoOh, have I not told this one here? Okay. So Grandma had The Charisma.
Grossman was a brilliant writer, and this article is a very good introduction.
Harry C. Merritt@harrymerritt.bsky.social · 4w ago"Grossman’s ability to convince people of all ranks to talk to him meant that he could distill strategic and philosophical talks with officers with deep firsthand perspectives of life on the front for an ordinary soldier." thebaffler.com/latest/the-m...
The Shire-Reckoning @shire-reckoning.bsky.social recounts the events of the year of the War of the Ring in real time. I've found it a lovely way to experience and recall The Lord of the Rings. The year recently reset, on Middle Earth's Midyear's Day. Sauron is searching, and Frodo is as yet unaware.
The Shire-Reckoning@shire-reckoning.bsky.social · last mo.Midyear’s Day, Shire Year 1418: On the Greenway south of Bree, Gandalf the Grey meets Radagast the Brown, who brings news: ‘The Nine are abroad again. They have crossed the River secretly and are moving westward… wherever they go the Riders ask for news of a land called Shire.’
Recent wins in public health, a preview of things to come. #ShareGoodNewsToo
Your Local Epidemiologist@ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · last mo.1/ I'm starting the holiday weekend off with some good vibes. I’m not giving bad news any headspace right now, so let's pause and celebrate some public health wins that have happened recently!
The promise of nuclear fusion is being fulfilled! At a distance of 93 million miles, and with something of an intermediary.
Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · last mo.Too cheap to meter. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Malaria might someday go the way of the guinea worm. A better world is possible, and many people are working to make it. #ShareGoodNewsToo
Madhu Pai, MD, PhD@madhupai.bsky.social · last mo.We could all use some good news these days Ghana cut malaria deaths by 86%!!! And they followed science and good public health policies healthpolicy-watch.news/how-ghana-sl...
Look at all these cool pro-democracy events happening in North and Central #Bavaria in the near future: www. democratsabroad.org/de-north_central_bavaria_events I'm going to be at the #Regensburg ones. Hope to see you there! Please repost! (P.S.- stay tuned for Passau!)
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Yes. The post-Trump USA is going to need a lot of lustration. Fortunately, we have a lot of examples on how to do it.
Jenny Hamilton@readingtheend.bsky.social · last mo.lustration lustration lustration lustration lustration lustration lustration
A better future is out there, we just have to reach out and take it. #ShareGoodNewsToo
WAFB@wafb.com · last mo.New Orleans man becomes first in Louisiana functionally cured of sickle cell disease: https://www.wafb.com/2026/06/23/new-orleans-man-becomes-first-louisiana-functionally-cured-sickle-cell-disease/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_
It is possible to achieve full marks without understanding the assignment.
Sharing for Fathers Day, me and @bagatsen.bsky.social and our sister with Dad! Im the one with the evil glint in her eye
If Curaçao should defeat Côte d'Ivoire and Germany beats Ecuador, then Curaçao would advance as second place in the group.
Match of the Day {bot}@bbcmotdbot.bsky.social · 2mo agoAll 15 of Eloy Room's record-equalling saves 🧤 The Curacao goalkeeper has tied with Tim Howard for the most saves in a single match World Cup in 90 minutes 💥
Wowsers, this is something! (hat tip to @kateelliottsff.bsky.social for posting)
Adam Keiper@adamkeiper.com · 2mo agoWell now here's something pretty spiffy. New out today from the New York Vocal Collective, a choral arrangement of Paul McCartney's "Blackbird." The first two and a half minutes are fine, but then it becomes…something else entirely. (You know the THX sound effect?) www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9ot...
