Word nerd click bait but fascinating—1965 (my birth year) originated words/phrases that you associate with the 60s (hippie, Black Panther, midlife crisis, lava lamp, groupie) but also words that you’re like, whoa, that far back?—pixel, natural language processing, megabyte, mockumentary.

Time Traveler by Merriam-Webster: Words from 1965

See which words were first recorded in 1965. Or search for other words by the year when they were first used.

merriam-webster.com

The Kampong is an amazing place and this looks like an amazing opportunity.

Virginia Gewin@virginiagewin.bsky.social · 7d ago

📣Journalists--The @ntbgarden.bsky.social journalism fellowship is being held in Miami, Florida for the first time this fall! Get your applications in.

haven't seen bluesky this excited about the underdog taking on the big money team since Cape Verde almost beat Argentina

Miami is, let's just say, not rich in biking and walking trails. So we're grateful for The Underline, the 10-mile linear park nearing completion. This is a segment from Riviera Dr to Granada Blvd, not officially open but pretty much finished and lovely.

You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.

Unfortunately, and as anticipated, yesterday's widespread lightning-following-heat event amid severe drought has sparked a large number of additional wildfires, expanding existing outbreak across OR, WA, & BC. Numerous heat signatures & large smoke plumes are evident. #ORwx #WAwx

An excellent piece about social care in the UK—and the situation is far worse in the US (many recent posts on here about the unbelievable monthly costs of social care). A major challenge: a third of people in Britain believe social care is free for everyone, and only 2% think it's a major issue.

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is a really good short primer on the social care issue www.ft.com/content/c314...

For those outside of academia and writing instruction: This is a cataclysm and an outrage. The National Council of Teachers of English (@ncte.org) has unilaterally decided to dissolve its Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), without consulting CCCC leadership.

When the local data center (public library) is also the local compost drop-off station.

Ethan@ethankomoroski.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Back at the Minneapolis data center

Another lightning outbreak now ongoing in PacNW (TS Elida's remants), & this time fuels are considerably drier west of Cascades following recent heat. Numerous additional wildfire ignitions are likely across much of OR/WA over next 48 hr, worsening existing outbreak. #ORwx #WAwx

The Odyssey or The Simpsons? The Bluesky Story

Miss Trixie@misstrixie.bsky.social · 2w ago

Why do you say that Homer doesn't think that?

Amazing story about two Scottish volunteers (secondary school students at the time) revisiting their mapping work 60 years later in the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh (h/t @kmcdono.bsky.social for posting this)

Mapping memory | National Library of Scotland

Two volunteers revisit their 1960s maps from the Second Land Utilisation Survey, revealing the human stories behind Britain’s land use mapping.

nls.uk

Tim Watson@timwatson.bsky.social · 2w ago

How am I just now learning about Alice Coleman and the epic 1960s Second Land Utilisation Survey she directed with volunteer researchers who walked every square mile of England and Wales (and some of Scotland) hand-annotating Ordnance Survey maps? Thanks @kmcdono.bsky.social for posting about it.

How am I just now learning about Alice Coleman and the epic 1960s Second Land Utilisation Survey she directed with volunteer researchers who walked every square mile of England and Wales (and some of Scotland) hand-annotating Ordnance Survey maps? Thanks @kmcdono.bsky.social for posting about it.

I regret to inform you that the fall semester begins in less than 4 weeks (at least here, where of course "fall" does not exist—but fall semester certainly does)

Donovan Schaefer@feelingtheory.bsky.social · 2w ago

just sent my first 'enjoy the rest of summer' email

heading to central OR next week so I've been watching this alarming situation develop—more lightning is the last thing they need there

Jim Whittington🔥@jimwhittington.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you missed it, the PNW is now at PL5 with 36 large fires as of this morning. Yesterday saw existing fires grow by 65,752 acres. On Wed, monsoonal moisture gets spun up this way & will bring lots of lightning. E of the Cascades and in SW OR, initial attack forces will be challenged. 1/

This thread is an excellent explanation of both the changes to international student visas and the post-WW2 history of the internationalization of US higher ed, now under major attack.

Abbie Boggs@abbieboggs.bsky.social · 2w ago

On 7/17, the Federal Register published a new rule to tighten the conditions on student visas. Now it goes to Congress for review and likely applications starting 9/15. My students are getting official emails and starting to ask questions, so wrote up some observations based on my research: 1/

I read this depressing piece right after finishing Kate Brown's wonderful, uplifting book Tiny Gardens Everywhere, which shows how working-class and Black residents of US and European cities have created productive, mostly unofficial garden cities in urban spaces since the nineteenth century.

How turning front gardens into driveways has added to night-time heat

There’s a growing trend to pave over front gardens.

theconversation.com

Whether you call it Flame Tree or Royal Poinciana or Flamboyant or Delonix regia, it's a stunner.

Hard to overstate the impact on US research universities. Catastrophic, in all likelihood. If I was a prospective PhD student and knew my visa would run out before I got my PhD, would I apply to a US university, in the hope that USCIS would renew the visa when the time comes? Hell, no.

AILA@aila.org · 3w ago

DHS has published its Final Rule to eliminate "duration of status" for F, J & I nonimmigrants. One of the most significant changes to international student, exchange visitor & foreign media programs in decades, it will be costly, cause chaos, and cut legal immigration.

A major new wildfire outbreak is now underway across interior Pacific Northwest, with dozens (or more) new wildfires already popping up in eastern Oregon & Washington following tens of thousands of lightning strikes in region experiencing moderate to extreme drought. #ORwx #WAwx

He called it (15 months ago)!

Jim Naughton @jimnaughton.bsky.social · last yr.

Make Cyclospora great again!

required reading today

Love and hate collide: England v Argentina is not simply a grudge match | Jonathan Liew

Look beyond the flashpoints and flare-ups and perhaps this is the greatest and most romantic of footballing rivalries

theguardian.com

This is a terrific piece—I especially like the way "we" changes as the piece goes on. I hope Ms. Wanga writes for LRB again after today's match, I'd love to read her take on England/Argentina.

Jude@judeinlondon.com · 3w ago

Ahead of tonight’s semi final I wrote about identity and Englishness and why it’s ok to be ABE - Anyone But England. Except Argentina. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...

I found this piece to be a really informative assessment of where we are—and what we don't yet know—about the cyclospora outbreak(s). What a time to be an epidemiologist, OMG.

Why we still don’t know what foods are the source of the cyclospora outbreak

“You cannot thin a system, defer the tools that would speed it up, and then wonder why the public is left guessing,” writes epidemiologist Katrine Wallace.

statnews.com

This seems like common sense, but both the US (in 1974) and the UK (1968-71) tried this before and abandoned it quickly each time. Kids going to school in the dark in the winter is pretty unpopular, it turns out. Maybe it'll be different now so many kids are driven to school in SUVs these days.

CBS News@cbsnews.com · 3w ago

BREAKING: The House passes a bill to make daylight saving time permanent, which now heads to the Senate.

This is a huge win for environmental activists and the Miccosukee who've campaigned relentlessly over the last year. Let the concrete get swallowed up by Big Cypress National Preserve that surrounds it.

Miami Herald@miamiherald.com · 3w ago

What’s next for the property?

three siblings and I would utterly fail to replace any of them ... sibling 1: somehow keeping the NHS IT systems functioning; sibling 2: woodworker and artist; sibling 3: keyboardist in Stereolab.

Bethany Albertson@albertsonb2.bsky.social · 3w ago

Thought experiment- if you were suddenly appointed to do your sibling’s job, how badly would you suck at it?

some Miami drivers won't stop underneath the bridge being constructed across from FIU south campus when there's a red light ahead—which isn't surprising if you remember the tragedy that happened the last time they tried to build a bridge there

In hindsight my time as a 1990s postcolonial studies grad student from England at Columbia was all leading to this moment.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 4w ago

The Trump curse. Norway wins 1-0, Kane misses a penalty, gets to spend the rest of the summer focusing on his golf game. Haaland celebrates his winning goal by donating another priceless Norse scroll to the national archives in Oslo.

England's Kane confirms golf outing with Trump, praises president's game

England captain Harry Kane has confirmed he once played golf with U.S. President Donald Trump, describing ​the experience as "surreal" and praising the president's game.

reuters.com