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Humans are so weird. I love them.
'Tis the season for some festive science songs.

If you've ever wanted to hear someone sing about a dimunitive tyranosaur then now is your chance
December 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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No, I don't want to "quickly hop on a call with you". I want to bump into you at random on a rain-lashed heath, nod at you in silent mutual admiration as we watch a buzzard gliding smoothly over a dramatic chicane in the river, then get the fuck on with my day
December 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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First have your coffee time, then do your stretching, fight evil until lunch, then you can have a little nap; then you'll bring joy to the world, then cocktails.
December 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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The back stacks of Houghton Library were filled with boxes of un/barely cataloged c19th pamphlets. Many of boxes have something written on them thematically like "spirit mediums."

The message here is the coolest things that wont be digitized, IME, are unknown to the archivists too!
Archivists/librarians please share the coolest thing in your collections that will never be digitized.
I live in the heart of California gold country. One of the richest mines ever in CA is nearby. Opened circa 1860 closed 1942. A local foundation has preserved the records on site. I know not a stitch has been digitized and am confident no more than 2 pro historians have ever been in there.
December 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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My response to anything over the next two weeks
December 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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In case you can’t quite place the name, this is the writer of classic Trek’s Trouble with Tribbles. Let’s help him out.
December 17, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Grief - even tiny, weird grief - is surprisingly exhausting.
December 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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In Boston, we like our protests with a whole lot of history.

#teaparty #dumpICE #Dec16
December 17, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Do you do archival research? Do you know anyone who does? Our travel grant is a very easy application and we give $1,500 to come do research onsite in Storrs, CT. Apply! Repost! library.uconn.edu/location/asc...
December 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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For anyone who uses archival methods, we’ve offering a $4,000 fellowship to use any of our holdings on site in Storrs, CT. Easy application! Please apply! Please repost! library.uconn.edu/location/asc...
December 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Tubi is such a crazy streaming service. It’s like if the Criterion Closet was in a gas station
December 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Right now we have hundreds of mice and lobsters making their way across the world. And we think that's beautiful.

We can't guarantee new international orders will get to you by Christmas, but there's still time for people ordering in the UK!

merl-shop.co.uk/shop/curiosi...
December 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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A brief return of the Murderbot Humble Bundle! The charity is still World Central Kitchen.
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December 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
I really need Mercury to go forward again, because the breakage list is getting untenable.
November 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Spiritualism skyrocketed in the US after its brutal Civil War killed roughly 750,000 people - and now in the wake of Covid’s million+ death toll, modern Americans are using ChatGPT to speak with the spirits. In this paper I will
I'm literally just living a normal life while also experiencing a theophany via communication with the satellite called VALIS.
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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i don’t know if i have a full length book in me but a 90 page argument? definitely
November 19, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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man we should bring back the pamphlet
Hey historians 🗃️: Do you know of presses that publish short books (around 30K words / 90 pages plus notes)? I have been working on an article project that could easily turn into an great micro-history of that length, but I'm not sure it would make it to the usual full 60-90K words...
November 19, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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a “Space Force”, if you will
we need a department of kerning
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Some of you seem to have failed to cultivate a thirst for vengeance. It's not how I raised you.
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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In a normal democracy, a total collapse of party leadership would result in an no-confidence vote and immediate snap elections to find leaders who can lead
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Go Fund Me for the teacher who was kidnapped in front of children in her classroom today: www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...
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November 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"
November 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
In this case the radio is my upstairs neighbors.
cool I wanted to stay awake all night listening to baseball radio
November 2, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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If you're a rich guy having a Gatsby party you have to do the book all the way until the end.
November 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM