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This week @olkcampbell.bsky.social on Cousin Marriage @ucl.ac.uk Anthropology. DFL 3.30-5PM followed by 🍷
ruthmace.bsky.social Ruth Mace @ruthmace.bsky.social · 23d
UCL Evolutionary Anthropology seminars starting up again for the new term every Tuesday pm. Anthropology Dept. 14 Taviton St. DFL 3.30-5pm followed by 🍷. All welcome.
www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
Evolutionary Anthropology seminars
Exploring the evolutionary roots of human behaviour, biology, and culture through interdisciplinary research and debate.
www.ucl.ac.uk
January 26, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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musicologyduck.bsky.social
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
January 20, 2026 at 1:57 AM
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scotttobias.bsky.social
Maybe the best thing on the internet still? Certainly the most essential counter we have to our current shitstream of social media-driven misinformation.
chrissteller.bsky.social Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 17d
Wikipedia is 25 today.
January 15, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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normcharlatan.bsky.social
Me, reading and studying history: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

Me, realizing I am living through a historical event: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
January 15, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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catbus.phd
mood
January 13, 2026 at 1:38 AM
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retrotechdreams.bsky.social
Even calendar apps used to have themes. Expresso Calendar and Address Book (1994)
January 11, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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waiterich.bsky.social
Slightly diminish a band:

They Might Be Kinda Tall
wardqnormal.bsky.social Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 21d
Slightly diminish a band:

Men Who Occasionally Wear Hats
bcdreyer.social Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 21d
Slightly diminish a band:

The Calfsills
January 11, 2026 at 3:27 AM
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ironically the word "slop" is contextual, communicative, and evocative, which is the opposite of what it describes
joshuajfriedman.com Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 21d
The American Dialect Society's Word of the Year is SLOP!

“Slop isn’t a new word. It has moved from the pig sty, to the algorithm, and now forms newcompounds such as sloppunk, slopification, and friend slop,” Dr. Kelly Elizabeth Wright said. “This productivity has no end in sight.” 🧵
American Dialect Society Selects Slop as 2025 Word of the Year NEW ORLEANS MARRIOTT–JAN. 9—The American Dialect Society, in its 36th annual words-of-the-year vote, selected slop as the Word of the Year for 2025. More than three hundred attendees took part in the deliberations and voting, in an event hosted in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America’s annual meeting.The word slop was recognized for its widespread use for low-quality, high-quantity content, most typically produced by generative AI. While AI slop was a nominee in the American Dialect Society’s 2024 Word of the Year vote, in 2025 slop could stand on its own, with theAI context often implicitly understood. Slop was also recognized as a productive combining form to describe anything of little value generated in mass quantities. Presiding at the Jan. 9 voting session were Ben Zimmer, chair of the ADS New Words Committee, and Dr. Kelly Elizabeth Wright of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.“Slop isn’t a new word. It has moved from the pig sty, to the algorithm, and now forms new compounds such as sloppunk, slopification, and friend slop,” Dr. Wright said. “This productivity has no end in sight.”Word of the Year is interpreted in its broader sense as “vocabulary item”—not just words but also phrases, compounds, and affixes. The items do not have to be brand-new, but they have to be newly prominent or notable in the past year.The vote is the longest-running such vote anywhere, the only one not tied to commercial interests, and the word-of-the-year event up to which all others lead. It is fully informed by the members’ expertise in the study of words, but it is far from a solemn occasion.
January 11, 2026 at 6:11 AM
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amoodybun.bsky.social
No one can stop me from putting a party hat on a frog
#frogsky
A painting of a brown tree frog with a cartoonish pink party hat
January 9, 2026 at 3:24 AM
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housefeminist.bsky.social
a thing about me is that if I stop cultivating whimsy and beauty around me I die
January 7, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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Yifat Merbl found a new facet of the immune system hiding in cellular trash. She’s part of Nature’s 10 for 2025. #immunosky 🧪
This scientist found a new trick of the immune system by digging through cellular rubbish
Yifat Merbl is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025.
go.nature.com
January 4, 2026 at 10:44 PM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
Love this from Guillermo del Toro
“Be kind, be involved, believe in your art,” he said. “At a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always the prelude to fascism. When they tell you it doesn’t matter, when they tell you a fucking app can do art you say, if it’s that important, why the fuck do they want it so bad? The answer is because they think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human. And that, in my book, and in my life, includes monsters.”
January 5, 2026 at 2:16 AM
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retrotechdreams.bsky.social
Remember software UIs before minimalism?
EyeWitness Encyclopedia of Nature 2.0 (1997)
December 30, 2025 at 10:26 PM