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When I was in graduate school I had the superpower of being caller #4 to the New York NPR station (WNYC) for ticket giveaways. My wife and I saw a LOT of classical music.

Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · 2w ago

Okay, my QUESTION OF THE DAY is… What is your weirdest actual accomplishment? Not the biggest necessarily…but the weirdest?

We all need this right now

Emma Mitchell@silverpebble2.bsky.social · 3w ago

I may have posted it before but in case you haven’t seen her here is my capybara pebble. She had fallen out of an old flint wall in Linton Cambridgeshire & was lying on the pavement 🤎

The views are incredible from this place

@darthbluesky.bsky.social Important update, darth: the combination laundromat/natural food store I just went to in Edinburgh has Scotties.

Extreme heat is the deadliest weather-related hazard in the U.S. — and kills half a million people globally every year. Unfortunately, only 37% of Americans recognize heat waves as a serious health threat.

Perfect

Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew@amandasmith.bsky.social · 3w ago

My friends & I are on a trip and were just discussing this. The best assessment was “Fahrenheit is how temperature feels to humans, Celsius is how temperature feels to water”

Look at this charming man in Edinburgh

Got to be in London tonight for the game. Have the great fortune to be in Edinburgh to see the Scots hate watch the semi in a few days.

London folks: anyone know a good pub to watch the England-Norway match on Saturday? Ideally near St Pancras/Bloomsbury?

London folks: anyone know a good pub to watch the England-Norway match on Saturday? Ideally near St Pancras/Bloomsbury?

Amid all the Belgium discourse today, I find it fascinating that one of their most prominent youth football talents is currently sitting at 3rd in the Tour de France GC.

Official classifications of Tour de France 2026 - Stage 3

Classifications of Tour de France 2026

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Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · last mo.

worst of all, this appears to have unified the Belgian team, just when I was so close to turning the Dutch-speaking ones and the French-speaking ones against each other

Looks like a banger

Journal of Disaster Studies@jds-disasters.bsky.social · last mo.

Join us on Tuesday 14th July for a special Disasters: Deconstructed livestream event co-hosted and co-curated with the Journal of Disaster Studies. /1

Time for a Tripel Karmeliet and some frites with mayo.

If you haven't already read this excellent book by @richardckeller.bsky.social and are thinking about the heat wave across Europe, the shocking number of deaths so far, and / or are feeling the heat on the east coast now, it's time! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Fatal Isolation

In a cemetery on the southern outskirts of Paris lie the bodies of nearly a hundred of what some have called the first casualties of global climate change. They were the so-called abandoned victims of...

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Thanks, Keanu. I keep hoping the book will lose its relevance, but it seems everyone has forgotten the lessons of 2003.

Keanu M. Heydari@keanuheydari.bsky.social · last mo.

I am coming back to @richardckeller.bsky.social's essential book, "Fatal Isolation: The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003," to help put the unfolding climate catastrophe in Paris, and Europe more broadly, in historical context. I recommend others do the same.

Fascinating piece. I've always wondered what the larger context was for my grandfather, who played soccer (an "unrecognized minor sport") at Rutgers in the '20s and '30s.

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · last mo.

For my newsletter on this US Knockout Gameday, I am honored to reprint my now decade old @unusualefforts.bsky.social piece on the history of the American Soccer League, the Soccer Wars, and how football became a foreign sport here in the US. www.burnsnotice.com/how-soccer-b...

Francis Mer, French minister of finance, days before heat killed 12,000 older people, said “To solve the problem of health insurance, I see only one solution. Quite simply, we need to eliminate the last year of life. Because that’s the one that costs the most to the social security system.”

JAC 🐔@jaconthebrazos.bsky.social · last mo.

it's starting to feel like the government is trying to get rid of old people while those ministers probably have access to a/c often.

A thousand excess deaths and counting. This number will go up, and will do so dramatically. It's very likely that many of those who've died haven't been found yet. And with extreme heat coming back by the weekend, many vulnerable populations have not had enough of a respite.

Paris mortuaries overwhelmed as France counts victims of devastating heatwave

France estimates that its death rate rose by at least 1,000 people during the devastating heatwave that swept the country last week – but that is at the cautious end of the estimate. As authorities co...

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I agree with Kendra here. Despite the evidence being crystal clear, the problem is just compounding. As I argued in this paper last year, high summer mortality is becoming so regular that it's increasingly hard to measure. muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis@kendrawrites.com · last mo.

Non-Americans who see my skeets, I think, think I'm being smug. I'm not. I'm incandescent with rage, in part because I was in Paris in the summer of 2003 - when things were hot but before things were very very bad. I don't understand.

Taught my kid how to plant herbs in the window boxes in his apartment

Ryan Nanni@celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It is time once again to discuss the Most Dad Things we have done in the past year. A couple of reminders: - gender is a social construct, anyone can do Dad Things - you need not be a parent to do a Dad Thing - the definition of a Dad Thing is entirely subjective and maybe made up I’ll go first:

Agassi, 1999 Roland Garros, or KK Harvey last fall.

The 984@the984.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Who is the best athlete relative to their sport you saw play live? I'm gonna say Mia Hamm at the 1996 Olympics.

@edsbs.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social Not sure if anyone else has sent you this but UW did indeed try to cancel Jump Around due to fears of structural damage at Camp Randall in 2003. It was not popular! news.wisc.edu/jump-around-...

Do you want to work with the coolest group of people in the medical humanities? The Department of Medical History and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health is hiring an Administrative Manager. See this link for all the info! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/adminis...

Administrative Manager - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:Academic StaffEmployment Type...

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I ride my bike past UW's cows every day.

Drew McKevitt@drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My public research university literally has a cattle ranch

Heading to ESHS/HSS in July? Then be sure to mark your calendar for Wednesday's distinguished lecture from none other than Dr. Pablo Gómez, who'll be discussing "The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of Science and Medicine." Congratulations, Pablo! convention2.allacademic.com/one/hss/hss2...

Yes, they will. Potentially in record numbers, which are getting increasingly difficult to determine, as I wrote last year: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

Terrence Peterson@tgpeterson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

People are going to die. I don't say this lightly: it has happened in previous heat waves. @richardckeller.bsky.social has written important stuff on this:

So happy to see my new book "How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic" published today with @hopkinspress.bsky.social! #histmed #histsci #plague #rats #pandemic www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/... The book is also available Open Access via Project MUSE: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/oa_mon...

Okay, I've just gotten my second email along the same lines as this one today. What's this scam all about?

Richard C. Keller, PhD@richardckeller.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Speaking of books discourse, delighted to report I finally got one of these heartfelt invitations. Honored! (BTW, if you're interested, you can find the book here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...)