Olivia Smith
@oliviasmith.bsky.social
Early modernist. Thinking with literature and science about natural history, big emotions, cognition. I like working in archives, or do I mean hiding?
Interesting new paper on cellular memory - link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Of what is “cellular memory” the name? Perspectives across the life sciences - Biology & Philosophy
In contemporary life sciences, memory is increasingly attributed well beyond its paradigmatic uses in psychology and cognitive science.Immunological and epigenetic memory are among the best-known unco...
link.springer.com
90s techno is the most effective giant spreadsheet music
Tired lady with gsoh seeks funny thing to watch on tv… any suggestions?
Thinking of doing a completist Shakespeare film watch (as in, all the plays). What are your favourites?
Thinking of doing a completist Shakespeare film watch (as in, all the plays). What are your favourites?
Just read a commenter explaining that British children's top three fears in the early eighties were: rabies, quicksand and the Bermuda Triangle. This is TRUE.
I’ve got my jumper on and I’m so happy. Oh ye gods of the weather please never let me have to be so hot again. I pledge myself to a life of devotion to my hot water bottle.
I am upstairs in the house, closing and then quickly opening each door in turn like an amdram Nosferatu. That has been proven to work, right?
This was in my bag and none of the usual suspects put it there.
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your paws for a hundred miles through the afterlife repenting. You only have to let the soft bear of your body love what it loves.
very sportsmanlike of England to wait until the entire nation of Croatia has arrived near the box before attempting to score
What’s the best way to get rid off quite a lot of expensive academic books?
Have had to reset so many passwords today. We're down to the surnames of people I once had lunch with; pets in law thrice removed; my neighbour's strimmer brand.
When those of us with not just north-facing but north-minded, north-souled rooms can smile.
Some people perusing my ‘free please take’ are discussing how My Year of Rest and Relaxation is like The Yellow Wallpaper and I want to open the fourth wall of my front door and say ‘what a good point’
My cousin's theatre (she manages it) show is coming to Oxford. It's called Perfect Show for Rachel. www.oxfordplayhouse.com/.../perfect-....
oxfordplayhouse.com
We had some really cool feedback from people about our @thewhale1851.bsky.social episode on Ch 9: The Sermon, which explores the scriptural story of Jonah. It turns out this chapter means a lot to loads of people, as does Jonah - a book for prisoners, miners, exiles, people in the belly of the beast
How do you guys like to relax before the busy workday? Because I like to chase my long-haired cat around in a makeshift hazmat suit with a sponge and some scissors. iykyk
They’ve put my council tax up by 5%, argh. Just so they can buy more rats.
What is that film, the title maybe a city name, maybe a Polish film, where a pair of people have such a queasy love bond they end up going mad. She has blonde hair and is a dancer.
Very confused listening to someone talk about a pit bull crossbred with a mollusc, until I realised it was short for ‘molossus’ — an intimidating guard dog like a mastiff.
The smell of old books. ‘Quite a small piece of Fenugreek would make your Bible smell like a ripe cheese.’ Humphrey Gilbert-Carter, Director of @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social to Harry Creswick @theul.bsky.social, identifying a plant in a 15th-century Bible as Helichrysum stoechas. Inc.1.A.7.2[860]
