Orion🌈&sm9eb
@sm9eb.bsky.social
Archaeologist specializing in Late Neolithic/Halaf Şanlıurfa, Turkey; D.C.-born; foodie; astronomy & gardening buff; former guardian of Urfalı cat Commander Orion 🌈🖤; current guardian of not-a-Guest-anymore Cat Italy!
My People, after confining myself indoors for rather long, at last I bring you #Charlottesville 's infamous...
⚡️🏔MOUNT CHIPOTLE!!🏔⚡️
Our mountain of myth and mystery has arisen once more!!!⚡️🏔⚡️❄️
🧱 #UVA 🧱
But seismic activity told us strong throughout Barracks Road...
⚡️🏔MOUNT CHIPOTLE!!🏔⚡️
Our mountain of myth and mystery has arisen once more!!!⚡️🏔⚡️❄️
🧱 #UVA 🧱
But seismic activity told us strong throughout Barracks Road...
February 3, 2026 at 1:56 AM
My People, after confining myself indoors for rather long, at last I bring you #Charlottesville 's infamous...
⚡️🏔MOUNT CHIPOTLE!!🏔⚡️
Our mountain of myth and mystery has arisen once more!!!⚡️🏔⚡️❄️
🧱 #UVA 🧱
But seismic activity told us strong throughout Barracks Road...
⚡️🏔MOUNT CHIPOTLE!!🏔⚡️
Our mountain of myth and mystery has arisen once more!!!⚡️🏔⚡️❄️
🧱 #UVA 🧱
But seismic activity told us strong throughout Barracks Road...
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Have you ever introduced students to relational databases using some kind of physical example (index cards, yarn, etc.)? I'm not satisfied with the way I've been doing it on slides.
February 2, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Have you ever introduced students to relational databases using some kind of physical example (index cards, yarn, etc.)? I'm not satisfied with the way I've been doing it on slides.
...But that leaves open the question: what's happening to the NSO??? Did all those musicians just lose their jobs??
@musicologyduck.bsky.social Got any ideas??? Baltimore Symphony is already at Strathmore.
@musicologyduck.bsky.social Got any ideas??? Baltimore Symphony is already at Strathmore.
CNN is reporting the real reason Trump is closing the Kennedy Centre for two years is not for renovation: “the Kennedy Center does not have a 2026/2027 season. There would not have been any programming to announce."
February 2, 2026 at 9:55 PM
...But that leaves open the question: what's happening to the NSO??? Did all those musicians just lose their jobs??
@musicologyduck.bsky.social Got any ideas??? Baltimore Symphony is already at Strathmore.
@musicologyduck.bsky.social Got any ideas??? Baltimore Symphony is already at Strathmore.
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Do you ever wonder about trilobite appendages?
Literally everything ever known has now been reviewed by Sarah Losso @thomashegna.bsky.social @invertebratepal.bsky.social 🧪⚒️🦑
osf.io/preprints/pa...
Literally everything ever known has now been reviewed by Sarah Losso @thomashegna.bsky.social @invertebratepal.bsky.social 🧪⚒️🦑
osf.io/preprints/pa...
February 2, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Do you ever wonder about trilobite appendages?
Literally everything ever known has now been reviewed by Sarah Losso @thomashegna.bsky.social @invertebratepal.bsky.social 🧪⚒️🦑
osf.io/preprints/pa...
Literally everything ever known has now been reviewed by Sarah Losso @thomashegna.bsky.social @invertebratepal.bsky.social 🧪⚒️🦑
osf.io/preprints/pa...
It's 38F outside!! Maybe some #snowcrete will melt!!
February 2, 2026 at 7:41 PM
It's 38F outside!! Maybe some #snowcrete will melt!!
A #2026MMM COMBATANT CLUE!! Hmmm looks like a catalogue number....
The first "combatant clue" is 9780316585835. @mmmletsgo.bsky.social #2026MMM
a man with glasses says it 's a clue in front of a hulu logo
Alt: White-haired, bespectacled Steve Martin says "it 's a clue"
media.tenor.com
February 2, 2026 at 7:29 PM
A #2026MMM COMBATANT CLUE!! Hmmm looks like a catalogue number....
The #2026MMM TOURNAMENT PAGE IS A GO!!! Exactly *one* good thing is happening right now, and this is it.
As per always on this most holy of mammal holidays, Groundhog's Day, March Mammal Madness launches our annual tournament page! #2026MMM @mmmletsgo.bsky.social libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM...
February 2, 2026 at 7:28 PM
The #2026MMM TOURNAMENT PAGE IS A GO!!! Exactly *one* good thing is happening right now, and this is it.
BREAKING NEWS!
Fortunately Phil lives in the library and did not have to break through #snowcrete to make his prediction.
Fortunately Phil lives in the library and did not have to break through #snowcrete to make his prediction.
Punxsutawney Phil has predicted six more weeks of winter after seeing his shadow during the annual Groundhog Day ceremony in Pennsylvania. #GroundhogDay
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/lif...
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/lif...
Punxsutawney Phil’s Groundhog Day prediction revealed
www.independent.co.uk
February 2, 2026 at 6:24 PM
BREAKING NEWS!
Fortunately Phil lives in the library and did not have to break through #snowcrete to make his prediction.
Fortunately Phil lives in the library and did not have to break through #snowcrete to make his prediction.
Octopus squid for a Two in One #2026MMM bracket. One Thing Or The Other? A return of Why Not Both?
Mondays are better with an octopus squid 🦑💫
The octopus squid (Octopoteuthis deletron) is unusual among squids. Most squids have eight arms and two long tentacles, making a total of 10 appendages. As young Octopoteuthis mature, their two feeding tentacles are reabsorbed into their bodies.
The octopus squid (Octopoteuthis deletron) is unusual among squids. Most squids have eight arms and two long tentacles, making a total of 10 appendages. As young Octopoteuthis mature, their two feeding tentacles are reabsorbed into their bodies.
February 2, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Octopus squid for a Two in One #2026MMM bracket. One Thing Or The Other? A return of Why Not Both?
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Mondays are better with an octopus squid 🦑💫
The octopus squid (Octopoteuthis deletron) is unusual among squids. Most squids have eight arms and two long tentacles, making a total of 10 appendages. As young Octopoteuthis mature, their two feeding tentacles are reabsorbed into their bodies.
The octopus squid (Octopoteuthis deletron) is unusual among squids. Most squids have eight arms and two long tentacles, making a total of 10 appendages. As young Octopoteuthis mature, their two feeding tentacles are reabsorbed into their bodies.
February 2, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Mondays are better with an octopus squid 🦑💫
The octopus squid (Octopoteuthis deletron) is unusual among squids. Most squids have eight arms and two long tentacles, making a total of 10 appendages. As young Octopoteuthis mature, their two feeding tentacles are reabsorbed into their bodies.
The octopus squid (Octopoteuthis deletron) is unusual among squids. Most squids have eight arms and two long tentacles, making a total of 10 appendages. As young Octopoteuthis mature, their two feeding tentacles are reabsorbed into their bodies.
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February 2, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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Two stars in this #NASAWebb image are responsible for the horizontal jets. Known as Herbig-Haro 797, they are ingesting gas and dust—and periodically sending out two-sided jets. They’ll form over thousands of years.
Credit: ESA, NASA, CSA.
Credit: ESA, NASA, CSA.
February 2, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Two stars in this #NASAWebb image are responsible for the horizontal jets. Known as Herbig-Haro 797, they are ingesting gas and dust—and periodically sending out two-sided jets. They’ll form over thousands of years.
Credit: ESA, NASA, CSA.
Credit: ESA, NASA, CSA.
Letterpress your own Valentines!!! GOING!
💜 seeing our space @uvalibrary.bsky.social full of folks learning to use tech (digital or not!) for good+community. Join us next Mon (2/9 2-4) too: @josefbeery.bsky.social shows you how to letterpress print your own Valentines Day cards ❤️ Free + open to the public cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/16214282
February 2, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Letterpress your own Valentines!!! GOING!
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I heard there were over 70 people at this Saturday event—& the roadways here have been bad, like people still can't get cars unparked & local schools closed today. Thank you to @josefbeery.bsky.social for all his work building welcoming creative community—especially impressive vs. the rough weather!
💜 seeing our space @uvalibrary.bsky.social full of folks learning to use tech (digital or not!) for good+community. Join us next Mon (2/9 2-4) too: @josefbeery.bsky.social shows you how to letterpress print your own Valentines Day cards ❤️ Free + open to the public cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/16214282
February 2, 2026 at 1:52 PM
I heard there were over 70 people at this Saturday event—& the roadways here have been bad, like people still can't get cars unparked & local schools closed today. Thank you to @josefbeery.bsky.social for all his work building welcoming creative community—especially impressive vs. the rough weather!
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Great news from South Georgia, where an Antarctic blue #whale photographed in 2019 has been re-sighted in 2026! Whale “Magrathea” comes from a small but growing photo-ID catalogue (42 individuals) of this Critically Endangered whale at #SouthGeorgia, collected by visitors & researchers
February 2, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Great news from South Georgia, where an Antarctic blue #whale photographed in 2019 has been re-sighted in 2026! Whale “Magrathea” comes from a small but growing photo-ID catalogue (42 individuals) of this Critically Endangered whale at #SouthGeorgia, collected by visitors & researchers
She seems sad. Maybe I'm projecting.
The aptly-named "Snow Moon" was a stunner Sunday night.
Check out this incredible capture from Dave Lyons.
Picture-perfect framing as the full moon rose above the U.S. Capitol and aligned with the Statue of Freedom.
Check out this incredible capture from Dave Lyons.
Picture-perfect framing as the full moon rose above the U.S. Capitol and aligned with the Statue of Freedom.
February 2, 2026 at 4:32 PM
She seems sad. Maybe I'm projecting.
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Archaeology is political. Heritage is political. The past is political.
February 2, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Archaeology is political. Heritage is political. The past is political.
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Lilly is still available!
Have a kitty. This sweet girl is Lilly. She’s available for adoption in Minnesota through Tri-County Humane Society. You can learn more about her here: tricountyhumanesociety.org/adopt-a-cat/...
February 2, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Lilly is still available!
Someone explain to me why anyone takes Yuval Harari seriously.
the chiefest and greatest reason why this is downright stupid is because if you know anything about the human race you know that even if we invented an actual sapient robot we would not give them civil rights for a minimum of 300 years
lol
February 2, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Someone explain to me why anyone takes Yuval Harari seriously.
My best friend's little sister had an internship at the Walter Reed museum when we were in high school, so I got to go visit and see the storage shelves. Holy Severed Arm With A Bullet Wound in a Jar, Batman! You think the Mütter Museum has gory stuff?? This is Civil War battlefield injuries.
I would like an exhibit at Walter Reed about It Happening. I love that museum.
February 2, 2026 at 6:29 AM
My best friend's little sister had an internship at the Walter Reed museum when we were in high school, so I got to go visit and see the storage shelves. Holy Severed Arm With A Bullet Wound in a Jar, Batman! You think the Mütter Museum has gory stuff?? This is Civil War battlefield injuries.
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They’re basically doing Fight Club math on how many people is too many people to lose their minds.
February 2, 2026 at 12:46 AM
They’re basically doing Fight Club math on how many people is too many people to lose their minds.
Sigh.
The British Museum posted Al slop and quietly deleted it. Here's what it was and why it matters.
#archaeology🏺#musuem #culture #heritage #history
#archaeology🏺#musuem #culture #heritage #history
February 2, 2026 at 4:41 AM
Sigh.
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A reminder that the Kennedy Center is the literal and legal and congressional designated presidential memorial to JFK. This would be like Trump tearing down the Lincoln Memorial to build something “better.”
February 2, 2026 at 1:28 AM
A reminder that the Kennedy Center is the literal and legal and congressional designated presidential memorial to JFK. This would be like Trump tearing down the Lincoln Memorial to build something “better.”
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They want to make protecting children dangerous, treat those who try to do it as criminals.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
January 31, 2026 at 12:55 PM
They want to make protecting children dangerous, treat those who try to do it as criminals.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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Billie Eilish during her #GRAMMYs speech for Song of the Year:
“As grateful as I feel, I don’t need to say anything except that, no one is illegal on stolen land. It’s really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, I feel hopeful in this room and we need to keep protesting… fuck ICE.”
“As grateful as I feel, I don’t need to say anything except that, no one is illegal on stolen land. It’s really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, I feel hopeful in this room and we need to keep protesting… fuck ICE.”
February 2, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Billie Eilish during her #GRAMMYs speech for Song of the Year:
“As grateful as I feel, I don’t need to say anything except that, no one is illegal on stolen land. It’s really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, I feel hopeful in this room and we need to keep protesting… fuck ICE.”
“As grateful as I feel, I don’t need to say anything except that, no one is illegal on stolen land. It’s really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, I feel hopeful in this room and we need to keep protesting… fuck ICE.”