Rebecca
@jeybecques.bsky.social
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Current librarian, former classicist, perpetual nerd. Expect special collections, book history, yarn. “Is there anything you aren’t interested in??”
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New year, new spines! This is a new favorite for me
The Avant-gardener. (Journal run starting with blue paper spines with blocky italic titles, transitioning to red buckram spines with stamped sans serif titles, from 1968-1974)
jeybecques.bsky.social
no love for the duodecimo???
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girlinthe.bsky.social
Look at this incredibly funky Z (for 'Zelentides', birds that eat plagues of locusts) from the Hortus Sanitatis of 1499. #rarebooks #GLAM 📚
A captial letter Z made of four elongated tear-drop shapes. If you didn't know it was from 1499 you might think it was from the 1970s. Woodcut illustration of two birds on a rock above some text in Latin starting with the funky Z.
jeybecques.bsky.social
airplane game discord did not appreciate this enough

I am disappointed in them
jeybecques.bsky.social
so thanks to the airplane game that ate my brain, I learned about the aviat eagle, an aerobatic biplane

and now i desperately need an aviat Igel

because puns
badass looking little biplane with heavily stylized eagle paint job model of same airplane, only with very similar paint job that looks like a hedgehog instead
jeybecques.bsky.social
(one day many many years ago I was sad about something so my partner sent me this emoji: 💩)
(I said no that was far too happy, and he went and spent actual real money on a BBM sticker set with the sad poop in rain sticker)
(that set will be my favorite forever)
(just maybe not at work)
jeybecques.bsky.social
my most favorite stickers feel just a tiny bit too far beyond the line of professionally appropriate and I was so looking forward to using the sad shark
a sad poop emoji under a rain cloud a happy poop emoji with a party hat and confetti
jeybecques.bsky.social
today at work I discovered that we don’t have the legal sharks in our teams stickers options and I am genuinely heartbroken about it
jeybecques.bsky.social
otoh I am now cursing one specific model of propeller plane and also regretting my choice of decline and fall over the life of Marlborough

an exciting weekend
jeybecques.bsky.social
the world might be a disaster but i just spent 20 minutes online with a group of people staring at an airplane on our screens waiting for it to land in antarctica
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doctorwaffle.substack.com
In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:
Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right) 
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy? 
What the hammer that hath hewn it 
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee, 
Or an external franchisee?
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ryanmarino.bsky.social
This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
leahmcelrath.bsky.social
⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes
A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.
interestingengineering.com
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reniadeb.com
truth coming out of her well to shame mankind
a frog holds itself upright while poking its upper body out of a manhole cover set in a pavement or road
jeybecques.bsky.social
tfw you realize that the institution most like yours has like three times as many staff people
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diane.dianeduane.com
I am the gar
I long and thin
I have a jaw
things fit within

Yet sometimes shapes
are wrong for head
so do my best
& lik the bread
elindur.at.app.wafrn.net
Oh my god, it's him! The gar that licked the bread!
A text post from cattycattitude on tumblr. It reads "You're telling me a gar* licked this bread?
*a North American freshwater fish of the family Lepisostieidae"
The poster replies to their own post with a picture that's labelled "A helpful visual" and contains a gar (A long thin fish) licking a loaf of bread. An arrow then points to a small pile of garlic bread.
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shire-reckoning.bsky.social
After rescuing the hobbits from Old Man Willow, Tom dances away upstream ahead of them. Hurrying along behind, they reach his house and hear Goldberry welcoming them with song.

‘Now let the song begin! Let us sing together
Of sun, stars, moon and mist, rain and cloudy weather.’
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biodiversitypix.bsky.social
🍍 Herbarium Blackwellianum emendatum et auctum, id est, Elisabethae Blackwell collectio stirpium.
Norimbergae: Typis Io. Iosephi Fleischmanni, 1750-1773..

[Source]
Illustration from an 18th-century herbarium book depicting a pineapple plant with a large crown of long, pointed, green leaves and a small, round, golden-yellow pineapple fruit. To the right, a detailed cross-section of the fruit shows its fibrous interior with multiple dark seeds. The image includes handwritten scientific labels in Latin and German beneath the plant and fruit, displayed on an aged book page with page number 361 visible at the top right.
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biodivlibrary.bsky.social
It's #FatBearWeek! To celebrate, here's a nice #FatBear from BHL's image collection. For more historic #SciArt of bears (of all sizes) see our BHL Flickr collection: www.flickr.com/photos/biodi.... For this year's fattest bears, see www.explore.org/fat-bear-week 🐻
A fat brown bear standing in front of a river with its front paws on a rock. There are snow covered mountains in the distance.
jeybecques.bsky.social
And so often, the republicans are so entrenched that attempts by the cities to improve things bring about retribution! (not that I’m thinking of specific retaliations against the UM system or anything here)
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tkingfisher.com
This is so wholesome I don’t know what to do with my face.
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dbellingradt.bsky.social
Working in an #earlymodern print shop? Have a large boulder the size of a small boulder ready to press the paper into its form, and also have a washing line handy to dry the printed sheets. #bookhistory
A printed image that shows a print shop around 1800: a printing press, a drying line for the prints, and a big stone to press paper sheets. Source: Historische Darstellung aller Künste und Handwerke : ein Weihnachtsgeschenk zur Belehrung und Unterhaltung für die Jugend  	http://resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB00031C6F00000000
jeybecques.bsky.social
Could they be watch parts?
jeybecques.bsky.social
absolutely indecent.

(oh how I miss aspens)
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book-historia.bsky.social
Sometimes at the end of a long day you need to carve out some time to hang out with tiny books
Allie’s hand holding a book in red Morocco, roughly the size of an iPhone + Allie’s hand holding a small book with a gilt tooled spine, roughly the size of an old iPhone Allie’s hand holding a tiny little worn out chonky book, roughly the size of an Oreo (if Oreos were square) Allie’s hand holding the chonky tiny book open to the first page
jeybecques.bsky.social
very excited to find that the medium size rare books are not devoid of #pottani
Copperplate title page ornament with cherubs collecting plants and displaying them to an older and significantly more clothed artist