Lyz
@elizabethloea.bsky.social
UCL English lit / Digital Research + Communications Fellow @ Science Museum / Ancillary Review of Books / Ask me about Ursula K. Le Guin! / 🦕🌈📚💃🏼
Missed the last issue of the Science Museum Group Journal? Check out Kierri Price's review of the Medieval Women: Voices and Visions exhibition:
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August 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Missed the last issue of the Science Museum Group Journal? Check out Kierri Price's review of the Medieval Women: Voices and Visions exhibition:
dx.doi.org/10.15180/252...
dx.doi.org/10.15180/252...
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The rapid decline of American science has few precedents in history, argues @rossandersen.bsky.social. We are witnessing an unparalleled act of self-sabotage:
How Scientific Empires End
And what it means for America
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August 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The rapid decline of American science has few precedents in history, argues @rossandersen.bsky.social. We are witnessing an unparalleled act of self-sabotage:
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I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.
July 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.
🏛️ From the archive: How do exhibition ideas evolve? This case study of Wounded: Casualties, Conflict and Care explores how themes of time and scale—especially the ‘anonymous individual’—shaped a powerful visitor experience through emotional and conceptual transformation. dx.doi.org/10.15180/201...
Wounded – an exhibition out of time - Science Museum Group Journal
This article examines the way exhibitions develop over time in relation to their original concept. The piece argues that temporary exhibitions evolve over time in relation to their original concepts, ...
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June 24, 2025 at 9:56 AM
🏛️ From the archive: How do exhibition ideas evolve? This case study of Wounded: Casualties, Conflict and Care explores how themes of time and scale—especially the ‘anonymous individual’—shaped a powerful visitor experience through emotional and conceptual transformation. dx.doi.org/10.15180/201...
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The clearest image of Pluto captured by the New Horizons spacecraft.
June 17, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The clearest image of Pluto captured by the New Horizons spacecraft.
🏛️ From the archive: What can amulets tell us about healing in Europe? This article explores 10 objects from the Science Museum, revealing how these overlooked items challenge modern classifications and offer rich insights into the use and history of amulets.
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A history of amulets in ten objects - Science Museum Group Journal
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June 17, 2025 at 8:51 AM
🏛️ From the archive: What can amulets tell us about healing in Europe? This article explores 10 objects from the Science Museum, revealing how these overlooked items challenge modern classifications and offer rich insights into the use and history of amulets.
dx.doi.org/10.15180/191...
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“A Sims home is not a haven or stage for emotions,” writes Zoe Hu. “It is only a system that challenges players to maintain its various parts.”
Break the Aspiration Meter! | Zoe Hu
In 1860 Milton Bradley released The Checkered Game of Life, a board game in which players compete across a patterned plane of gilt and muslin, beginning
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June 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
“A Sims home is not a haven or stage for emotions,” writes Zoe Hu. “It is only a system that challenges players to maintain its various parts.”
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Just a reminder that the Smithsonian museums belong to everyone living in the US, so when you go to the Smithsonian National Zoo as a US resident, it is perfectly alright to say "who's MY good boy? Are you MY good boy?" to the wolves.
June 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Just a reminder that the Smithsonian museums belong to everyone living in the US, so when you go to the Smithsonian National Zoo as a US resident, it is perfectly alright to say "who's MY good boy? Are you MY good boy?" to the wolves.
🏛️ From the SMGJ archive: A collaborative essay exploring how Christ’s wounds were visualized in late #medieval devotion, from life-giving wells in prayer books to Dürer’s ‘Syphilitic Man’ and gendered piety in illuminated manuscripts for women: dx.doi.org/10.15180/211...
‘Your body is full of wounds’: references, social contexts and uses of the wounds of Christ in Late Medieval Europe - Science Museum Group Journal
The wounds of Christ was an immensely popular motif in Late Medieval Europe. This collaborative essay discusses three different instances where the iconography is adapted to respond to the devotional ...
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June 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
🏛️ From the SMGJ archive: A collaborative essay exploring how Christ’s wounds were visualized in late #medieval devotion, from life-giving wells in prayer books to Dürer’s ‘Syphilitic Man’ and gendered piety in illuminated manuscripts for women: dx.doi.org/10.15180/211...
🪴 Naomi Haywood considers the connections between lifelong engagement with science and children's science capital in her new piece in the Science Museum Group Journal:
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See, move, wonder: supporting young children with low science capital to learn from science museum objects - Science Museum Group Journal
This paper considers how a simple resource can support object learning for young children with low science capital in school groups. The resource was successful by encouraging children’s movement and ...
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June 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
🪴 Naomi Haywood considers the connections between lifelong engagement with science and children's science capital in her new piece in the Science Museum Group Journal:
dx.doi.org/10.15180/252...
dx.doi.org/10.15180/252...
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"He asked you to shoot at people who weren’t shooting back,” growled Vimes, striding forward, “That makes him insane, wouldn’t you say?”
“They are throwing stones, Sarge,” said Colon.
“So? Stay out of range. They’ll get tired before we do."
Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
“They are throwing stones, Sarge,” said Colon.
“So? Stay out of range. They’ll get tired before we do."
Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
June 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
"He asked you to shoot at people who weren’t shooting back,” growled Vimes, striding forward, “That makes him insane, wouldn’t you say?”
“They are throwing stones, Sarge,” said Colon.
“So? Stay out of range. They’ll get tired before we do."
Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
“They are throwing stones, Sarge,” said Colon.
“So? Stay out of range. They’ll get tired before we do."
Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
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I have just been hearing about the content of this book and it sounds amazing!
One to watch.
One to watch.
I have a book cover! Cover image is by Wolfgang Suschitzky of a woman jumping a puddle on Charing Cross Rd in 1937. Cover b/w and silver. Details of book now on @uchicagopress.bsky.social at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
June 5, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I have just been hearing about the content of this book and it sounds amazing!
One to watch.
One to watch.
📖 I've been trying to read more short fiction outside of anthologies recently...here's a new favorite!
clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/
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Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole by Isabel J. Kim
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
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June 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
📖 I've been trying to read more short fiction outside of anthologies recently...here's a new favorite!
clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/
clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/
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Extremely honored and delighted to appear on this most cool of lists. Congrats to all the finalists!
The #IgnyteAwards finalists for the Critics Award are individuals or entities recognized for reviews and analysis of the field of speculative literature. Congratulations to these critics:
June 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Extremely honored and delighted to appear on this most cool of lists. Congrats to all the finalists!
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Kathryn Hughes on the contradictory lives of medieval women
Feminists in Wimples | Kathryn Hughes
A new book about the lives of four medieval women offers an engaging if flawed perspective on the past.
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June 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Kathryn Hughes on the contradictory lives of medieval women
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Bluesky isn’t about popularity, it’s about gathering all 17 William Morris lovers together in a single online location!
May 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Bluesky isn’t about popularity, it’s about gathering all 17 William Morris lovers together in a single online location!
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“What will you do with your one wild and precious life?” I hear my creative writing professor whisper, as my seven year old repeatedly body slams me because we’ve run out of Goldfish crackers.
December 29, 2024 at 11:29 PM
“What will you do with your one wild and precious life?” I hear my creative writing professor whisper, as my seven year old repeatedly body slams me because we’ve run out of Goldfish crackers.
I have written 14,000 words in the last two days as the writing demon acts up only in the days between Christmas and New Year's
December 30, 2024 at 6:44 AM
I have written 14,000 words in the last two days as the writing demon acts up only in the days between Christmas and New Year's
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If any family member asks “so are you still doing that writing thing?” you are allowed to take one of their presents of your choosing.
December 25, 2024 at 1:28 PM
If any family member asks “so are you still doing that writing thing?” you are allowed to take one of their presents of your choosing.
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Granny Weatherwax would know better than to even try picking it up
Hard mode: name a FEMALE non-LOTR character that could resist the One Ring.
I saw someone say Granny Weatherwax, but I have not read so I can’t be sure.
The only other woman I saw was Princess Leia and I’m sorry but that woman would be a dark emperor in a heartbeat & the galaxy would be well-run.
I saw someone say Granny Weatherwax, but I have not read so I can’t be sure.
The only other woman I saw was Princess Leia and I’m sorry but that woman would be a dark emperor in a heartbeat & the galaxy would be well-run.
December 24, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Granny Weatherwax would know better than to even try picking it up
Check out my substack post on Effective Altruism, Ursula K. Le Guin, and utopianism. :) open.substack.com/pub/larkspur...
On Utopias, Thought Experiments, and "The Dispossessed"
Thoughts on goodness, effective altruism, and dusty outer space wastelands.
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December 24, 2024 at 5:32 PM
Check out my substack post on Effective Altruism, Ursula K. Le Guin, and utopianism. :) open.substack.com/pub/larkspur...
Ursula K. Le Guin writes "Outside the locked room [of variety seeking] is the landscape of time, in which the spirit may, with luck and courage, construct the fragile, makeshift, improbable roads and cities of fidelity: a landscape inhabitable by human beings." I think there's something worthwhile--
December 23, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Ursula K. Le Guin writes "Outside the locked room [of variety seeking] is the landscape of time, in which the spirit may, with luck and courage, construct the fragile, makeshift, improbable roads and cities of fidelity: a landscape inhabitable by human beings." I think there's something worthwhile--
Something I've been working on lately...the newest issue of the Science Museum Group Journal! Writing from academics across disciplines of science museum practice, curatorial studies, and more: journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk
Home - Science Museum Group Journal
The Science Museum Group Journal presents the global research community with peer-reviewed papers relevant to the work of science museums everywhere. It is completely Open Access and freely shares the...
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December 23, 2024 at 5:36 AM
Something I've been working on lately...the newest issue of the Science Museum Group Journal! Writing from academics across disciplines of science museum practice, curatorial studies, and more: journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk
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ever since hearing like three seconds of Jingle Bell Rock yesterday i've been thinking about how devastating it would be if you're stuck behind someone who's walking too slow and you hit em with "giddy up jingle horse"
December 21, 2024 at 6:53 PM
ever since hearing like three seconds of Jingle Bell Rock yesterday i've been thinking about how devastating it would be if you're stuck behind someone who's walking too slow and you hit em with "giddy up jingle horse"
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Homemade caramel popcorn.
December 21, 2024 at 8:58 PM
Homemade caramel popcorn.