Elizabeth Neswald
@octobeth.bsky.social
historian of science at Brock University
standing up for the spineless
standing up for the spineless
Today in marine invertebrates
Getting ready
Getting ready
November 27, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Today in marine invertebrates
Getting ready
Getting ready
Today in Canadian problems: Bourbon
November 26, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Today in Canadian problems: Bourbon
Post a famous bathroom scene
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Post a famous bathroom scene
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C'est aujourd'hui que paraît l'ouvrage 'Expérimenter, conserver, transmettre. La collection d'instruments scientifiques de Lausanne, du XVIIIe à nos jours', par Jérôme Baudry et Yohann Guffroy @yguffr.bsky.social, avec la collaboration de Ion-Gabriel Mihailescu ! www.epflpress.org/produit/1621...
November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
C'est aujourd'hui que paraît l'ouvrage 'Expérimenter, conserver, transmettre. La collection d'instruments scientifiques de Lausanne, du XVIIIe à nos jours', par Jérôme Baudry et Yohann Guffroy @yguffr.bsky.social, avec la collaboration de Ion-Gabriel Mihailescu ! www.epflpress.org/produit/1621...
Today in marine invertebrates and safe streets
when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
November 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Today in marine invertebrates and safe streets
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Exciting new project with a great PhD opportunity just announced
A major new research project will delve into Wales’s long and often overlooked history of herbal medicine, shedding light on how people treated illness and maintained their health before the arrival of the NHS wp.me/p8Mk4U-198p
New project launched to uncover Wales’s forgotten herbal medicine traditions
A major new research project will delve into Wales’s long and often overlooked history of herbal medicine, shedding light on how people treated illness and maintained their health before the arrival o...
nation.cymru
November 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Exciting new project with a great PhD opportunity just announced
Chinese food family here
it fascinates me how most everyone in the U.S. does turkey for Thanksgiving, but we are all over the map as to what we eat for Christmas (as is proper for a hugely diverse nation).
I come from a Christmas prime rib roast family, myself.
I come from a Christmas prime rib roast family, myself.
I also use the bacon method. Although turkey is Christmas dinner where I come from.
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Chinese food family here
Today in marine invertebrates
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Today in marine invertebrates
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Let’s create some backlash to bill 60. It aims to privatize our water. We need safe water that is well regulated by government. We don’t want another Walkerton incident in Ontario. Tap water should always be free and safe.
#Onpoli #cdnpoli #dougford #safewater
cupe.on.ca/bill-60-beco...
#Onpoli #cdnpoli #dougford #safewater
cupe.on.ca/bill-60-beco...
Bill 60 becomes law: Ontario water at risk as government rushes privatization and deregulation - CUPE Ontario
TORONTO – The Ford Conservatives rushed to pass Bill 60 today, a move the Keep Water Public coalition says will make water less safe and less affordable for all Ontarians. Keep Water Public is a campa...
cupe.on.ca
November 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Let’s create some backlash to bill 60. It aims to privatize our water. We need safe water that is well regulated by government. We don’t want another Walkerton incident in Ontario. Tap water should always be free and safe.
#Onpoli #cdnpoli #dougford #safewater
cupe.on.ca/bill-60-beco...
#Onpoli #cdnpoli #dougford #safewater
cupe.on.ca/bill-60-beco...
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ALERT: this website remains in Elevated Screaming Lungfish Mode.
Please flop around angrily in the mud until this warning terminates.
Please flop around angrily in the mud until this warning terminates.
March 2, 2024 at 3:29 PM
ALERT: this website remains in Elevated Screaming Lungfish Mode.
Please flop around angrily in the mud until this warning terminates.
Please flop around angrily in the mud until this warning terminates.
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Doug Ford's government claims the province isn’t privatizing water.
Experts aren't convinced.
pressprogress.ca/ontario-clai...
Experts aren't convinced.
pressprogress.ca/ontario-clai...
Ontario’s Government Claims the Province Isn’t Privatizing Water. Experts Are Not Convinced.
“The way that this act is written creates this slippery slope towards privatization”
pressprogress.ca
November 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Doug Ford's government claims the province isn’t privatizing water.
Experts aren't convinced.
pressprogress.ca/ontario-clai...
Experts aren't convinced.
pressprogress.ca/ontario-clai...
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Oh, man. One of cinema's most reliable weirdos, and I mean that in a highly complimentary fashion. RIP.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
Udo Kier, German Actor Who Appeared in ‘My Own Private Idaho,’ ‘Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein,’ Dies at 81
Udo Kier, a German actor who collaborated with everyone from Andy Warhol to Lars von Trier to Madonna, died on Sunday morning. He was 81.
variety.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Oh, man. One of cinema's most reliable weirdos, and I mean that in a highly complimentary fashion. RIP.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
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Study: Bilingual people forget twice as many words after hitting middle age
Study: Bilingual people forget twice as many words after hitting middle age
OTTAWA, ON ― An alarming new study out of the University of Ottawa suggests that years of recommendations to learn a new language in order to stave off cognitive decline may in fact have the opposite ...
www.thebeaverton.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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I am adding new words to mute.
I do not appreciate the current expansion of my vocabulary, however.
I do not appreciate the current expansion of my vocabulary, however.
November 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I am adding new words to mute.
I do not appreciate the current expansion of my vocabulary, however.
I do not appreciate the current expansion of my vocabulary, however.
Today in marine invertebrates
Myusy, a festive sea slug, is a mascot for the coastal town of Hayama, in Kanagawa Prefecture. Myusy supports beach cleanups and activities to protect the marine environment.
November 23, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Today in marine invertebrates
There are so many things that I wish I did not know
November 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM
There are so many things that I wish I did not know
Beets: The Day After
November 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Beets: The Day After
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Meet IHPST alumna Alison Li (PhD 1992), who was awarded the Jason A. Hannah Medal by the Royal Society of Canada for Wondrous Transformations (UNC Press, 2023).
🏅 The medal honors outstanding work in the history of medicine published in the past five years.
🏅 The medal honors outstanding work in the history of medicine published in the past five years.
November 22, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Meet IHPST alumna Alison Li (PhD 1992), who was awarded the Jason A. Hannah Medal by the Royal Society of Canada for Wondrous Transformations (UNC Press, 2023).
🏅 The medal honors outstanding work in the history of medicine published in the past five years.
🏅 The medal honors outstanding work in the history of medicine published in the past five years.
There was a difficult death in my community this week and it has been genuinely disorienting.
November 22, 2025 at 2:04 AM
There was a difficult death in my community this week and it has been genuinely disorienting.
Today in marine invertebrates
BIG news about vampire squid! I just learned their Japanese name "koumori-dako" means "bat-octopus," which is objectively better* and I'll be using it from now on. 🦇🐙
That's not the news though, the news is that scientists sequenced their genome and it's ENORMOUS 🧪🧵
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
That's not the news though, the news is that scientists sequenced their genome and it's ENORMOUS 🧪🧵
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Giant genome of the vampire squid reveals the derived state of modern octopod karyotypes
Marine organism; Genetics; Evolutionary mechanisms; Phylogenetics; Genomic analysis
www.cell.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Today in marine invertebrates
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Number one this day in 1981 on the UK official singles chart
Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure
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Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure
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Queen & David Bowie – Under Pressure
From Queen’s Hot Space, released in 1981. Order via Amazon UK & US below.. CD. Vinyl. (UK) CD. Vinyl. (US)
www.davidbowienews.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Number one this day in 1981 on the UK official singles chart
Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure
Video of the Day
Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure
Video of the Day
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle
November 21, 2025 at 3:26 AM
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle