RFK Jr.: “You probably don’t understand this as you’re not a scientist.” Dana Bash: “You’re not a scientist either.”
LadyGiada
@ladygiada.bsky.social
Early Modernist. From the British Isles to the sunny Mediterranean. EUI Marie Curie Fellow on Gender and Sexuality.
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
Colorado River. Humans are the most selfish, ignorant & destructive species on earth. If you have children/grandchildren, you might want to get engaged & be proactive in working with your government officials to save what is left of our natural resources. They will thank you ~
And then they throw in some Celtic languages and yoink bits of languages from around the world along the way. The result: a language where there are usually about 10 different ways to say something, but when it comes to writing, you sit at your desk for 20 minutes trying to think of one 🤣 #amwriting
watched the odyssey last night. film ruined by everyone speaking english instead of ancient greek.
World champs x2 🇪🇸🏆🏆 Spain is the first nation to simultaneously hold the men's and women's FIFA World Cup crowns!
Watching an episode of The Bob Newhart Show and my mind is REELING at the size of airplane seats in the 1970s. It's like they're designed for a person to sit in them
Remember, both the Iliad and the Odyssey were originally audiobooks.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." ~ Aristotle
New article today in 'Transactions of the RHS': 'Men, Emotions and the Sickbed in a Sorcery Trial from Seventeenth-Century Germany', by Alison Rowlands bit.ly/453Xe3F A story and its meanings of illness, harmful magic and bewitchment in 1660s Rothenburg. Now available OA #Skystorians 1/2
🇪🇺 Today marks the anniversary of Simone Veil's inaugural speech as President of the European Parliament. Following the first direct European elections in June 1979, she became the first woman elected to its presidency. 📜 Read the full speech at @eui-euarchives.bsky.social loom.ly/B_6-Fxs
'Early career opportunities have rapidly declined in the fields of arts and humanities amid UK job cuts, with teaching-only roles increasingly the only positions available for those just starting out, an analysis by the British Academy has found.' 1/3
Humanities hardest hit as early career opportunities disappear
Analysis of staff data finds skew to teaching-only roles in entry-level positions, with scale of cuts not reflected at more senior levels
timeshighereducation.com
"This is a crisis for social mobility, young people’s careers, the skills our economy depends on and the opportunities available in communities across the UK" Our newest data covered by The Guardian this evening and dropping tomorrow morning to our SHAPE Observatory. shorturl.at/Qpa9Q
Humanities among degrees being ‘extinguished’ by hard-up universities
Exclusive: Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one year
theguardian.com
New book cover alert! The second, expanded edition of the Science of Demons is coming out at the end of this month! It features two new chapters and an epilogue, as well as corrected and updated content. Preorder (with a discount!) at www.routledge.com/The-Science-... #earlymodern #hextag
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... what you need to know before you go to the Odyssey. In 50 minutes. 90+ combined years of reading the odyssey distilled for you!!
Christopher Nolan's Odyssey 1: What you need to know before you go
Podcast Episode · Instant Classics · 9 July · 48min
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To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
In Japan, valuable trees are relocated instead of cut down during development. Arborists use nemawashi, a technique combining horticultural knowledge and modern engineering, to prepare the trees for relocation.
Japan does not cut down centuries-old trees for development. Instead, experts spend months preparing their roots and relocating them
When roads, railways or new buildings are planned, centuries-old trees are often among the first casualties of development. In Japan, however, some of the country's most valuable trees are given a sec...
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year
In this era, I feel like I need to re-up this every few months.
Dr Lindsey Fitzharris@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 5mo agoI posted a 1912 photo of a man with smallpox and someone asked if it was AI. That says something about the moment we’re living in: because of vaccination, we’re now so far removed from this virus that real images of it look fake. #medicalhistory #vaccines #vaccineswork #skystorians
@socialhistsoc.bsky.social thank you for an amazing conference.....and the dance moves #70s🕺🕺🕺
I'm back: I may be made redundant in September, but right now I am still part of a world leading @leverhulme.ac.uk research project, working with a whip smart group of people using cutting edge AI technology to produce a dataset of of unprecedented scale. I will be focusing on research when I can.
Everyone is talking about Trump’s mock up arch at the Great American State Fair, so I filmed it from top to bottom and front to back for everyone who can’t see it in person.
A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.
🚨 PLEASE SHARE WIDELY 🚨 If you are an Exeter alumnus, and wish to express your horror at the proposed cuts to the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, please sign the Google Doc petition below. Not an alumnus? You can still help by signing the Exeter UCU petition at c.org/msXfsb2g5b 🗃️
Alumni petition against the cuts to the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Any Exeter alumni who wish for their names to be added to the petition below should please complete the form at this link: https://forms.gle/SpdYvmmsCaJbmZft6. If you are not an alumnus, but still wis...
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