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Edward A. Rueda
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Edward A. Rueda @mredwardrueda.bsky.social · Sep 25
MARCH 2026: Don't miss my online #RootsTech talk on Searching for Latin American #Genealogy on FamilySearch.org! Sign up for free (or register for the in-person conference): rootstech.org
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susanabernethy2.bsky.social
Blanche II, Titular Queen of Navarre and Princess of Asturias, died on this day in 1465

thefreelancehistorywriter.com/2025/02/22/b...
Blanche II, Titular Queen of Navarre and Princess of Asturias
Contemporary paintings of Blanche II of Navarre (right) and her sister Leonor In doing some research in Spanish history, Blanche II, Queen of Navarre, appeared with her intriguing and sad life. Her…
thefreelancehistorywriter.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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ancestryaimee.bsky.social
Confused by changing DNA ethnicity results?
I sat down with Crista Cowan of Ancestry to explain how Ancestry actually determines your ethnicity and why those updates happen.

Watch the breakdown: How Do They Come Up with DNA Ethnicity? www.youtube.com/watch?v=laE5...
#genealogy
How Do They Come Up with DNA Ethnicity ???
YouTube video by Aimee Cross - Genealogy Hints
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December 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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familyhistpod.bsky.social
It's time for your mid-season episode 'The Vaccinator' with Roberto and Ramón Parra... and here is Roberto talking about his relative Florencio Pérez Comoto who helped fight smallpox in Mexico.

#genealogy #smallpox #mexico #ancestry #FamilyHistory
December 1, 2025 at 10:54 AM
mredwardrueda.bsky.social
Old-timey newspapers can read like an odd, editorializing inside joke. Here's a one-line item in Missoula, Montana in 1890 on my Great-Great-Great-Uncle Joe, a pawnbroker: "Recent events seem to show that Joe Davis pants for notoriety."
December 1, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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redisclatinidad.bsky.social
A #Chicano #Thanksgiving treat: Genealogist Moisés Garza shares how he built a Mexican-American family tree of 1.3 MILLION PEOPLE, spanning South Texas and Northeast Mexico! Listen now: www.spreaker.com/episode/redi...

For more info, visit MoisesGarza.com & MexicanGenealogy.com!
November 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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auditorynerves.bsky.social
New related open access study in Cell Genomics 🧪🐱🐾:

The late arrival of domestic cats in China via the Silk Road after 3,500 years of human-leopard cat commensalism.
www.cell.com/cell-genomic...
The late arrival of domestic cats in China via the Silk Road after 3,500 years of human-leopard cat commensalism
Leopard cats lived commensally with humans in ancient China for over 3,500 years before domestic cats were introduced via Silk Road merchants around 1,400 years ago. Ancient DNA shows that while two s...
www.cell.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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auditorynerves.bsky.social
New study in Science magazine 🧪🐱🐾:

The dispersal of domestic cats from North Africa to Europe around 2000 years ago.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The dispersal of domestic cats from North Africa to Europe around 2000 years ago
The domestic cat (Felis catus) descends from the African wildcat Felis lybica lybica. Its global distribution alongside humans testifies to its successful adaptation to anthropogenic environments. Unc...
www.science.org
November 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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kawulf.bsky.social
Maybe esp. Phil Deloria's NYer piece on "the Invention of Thanksgiving." I still send that around to a lot of folks this time of year. Hope you and yours are where you wish to be, in all ways, this week/end. 4// www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
The Invention of Thanksgiving
Massacres, myths, and the making of the great November holiday.
www.newyorker.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
mredwardrueda.bsky.social
You can't have #Thanksgiving without #PhallusThursday!
anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social Anthony Majanlahti @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social · 4d
It's #PhallusThursday and time to party! I'm wearing my party outfit of a cloak, a wreath crown, and absolutely nothing else; I'm bringing an #amphora and an enormous #Roman sausage! From c. 50 BCE, in a fresco possibly from the #necropolis of #VillaPamphili. #AncientBluesky 🏺
DIONYSIAC FIGURE, C. 50 BCE. THE BRITISH MUSEUM. This detail of a fresco bought from a French nobleman in 1873 shows part of a Bacchic dance in a garden, in a fresco that is said to have come from the necropolis of Villa Doria Pamphilj and probably does. This mostly naked man with right arm upraised in celebration is already drunk and in movement, carrying an amphora in the crook of his arm. His lineaments are sketched in with red paint and this is almost more of a drawing than a painting, but it's all expertly done with great economy. He's nude from his navel down, and his long phallus is delineated by a line that ends in a dot at the tip of his foreskin. Remember that for the Romans, you were not offensively naked unless the foreskin was retracted.
November 28, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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#Thanksgiving & football go hand in hand, and THE FRESHMAN (1925) shows the frenzy has been around for over a century. Harold Lloyd’s chaotic climactic game helped shape every underdog sports comedy that followed. Touchdown! 🏈

Watch the full #publicdomain classic ⤵️
archive.org/details/the-...
November 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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fakehistoryhunter.net
Tres bien!
New reconstruction of a neolithic house at the Samara Parc Archéologique:
www.facebook.com/samaraparcar...
November 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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kawulf.bsky.social
Plus you’ll hear about @katecarp.bsky.social’s favorite pens (and mine)! We shared a lot of excellent nerdy joy here about thinking and writing history.
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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craigenorg.bsky.social
Excellent piece by The Quantum Record on #AI and photo regeneration that cites Coalition for Responsible AI in Genealogy photo policy. #craigen #quantumrecord #artificialintelligence
@craigenorg.bsky.social
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Genealogists Warn that AI Image Generators Threaten Historical Records - The Quantum Record
AI is useful for piecing together fragmented historical records, but genealogists warn that image generators distort old and damaged photos.
thequantumrecord.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
mredwardrueda.bsky.social
My kid was eating Bugles, I saw the bag is labeled "America's #1 Finger Hat," and LOLOL @pymundgenealogy.com, how far the Galitzianer Fingerhuts have come! 🧐
November 25, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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redisclatinidad.bsky.social
🧬 We're re-releasing our most popular Season 6 episode: The Fall of #23andMe, where @efsacco.bsky.social & @rrbbgenealogy.bsky.social joined us to talk about #DNA tests, genetic privacy, and even #eugenics: www.spreaker.com/episode/redi...
November 25, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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ancestryaimee.bsky.social
Genealogy doesn’t have to be overwhelming. I’ve put all my YouTube teaching handouts into easy digital guides you can download, print, and keep by your desk. From Ancestry + FamilySearch tips to DNA sorting and 1700s–1800s strategies—browse the full shop: www.etsy.com/shop/ancestr...
November 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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arolsenarchives.bsky.social
The Nuremberg trials began 80 years ago today. Leading Nazis sat in the dock before the International Military Tribunal. One of the journalists at Nuremberg was Ernst Michel – just 22 years old at the time and the only Holocaust survivor reporting from the courtroom. (1/2)
Graphic showing a yellowish prisoner card for Ernst Michel with personal details such as name, place of birth, place of origin, and occupation. The personal items handed over upon admission are also listed. His signature is at the bottom. His name is written in white letters on a blue background at the bottom left, and the Arolsen Archives logo is at the bottom right.
November 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
mredwardrueda.bsky.social
Also saw this with Spanish -- your average AI bot just makes things up if it's not specifically trained to read handwriting, like FamilySearch's Full-Text Search.
November 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
mredwardrueda.bsky.social
Big thanks to Jen for clueing me in to FamilySearch's Full-Text Search... yes, this will another major development:
formidablegen.bsky.social The Formidable Genealogist @formidablegen.bsky.social · 13d
18 Nov 2025 Go look at your account and report back! #genealogy #ancestry
November 19, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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familyhistpod.bsky.social
Andrew meets family historian and heirloom re-uniter, Simon Howard and hears about a woman whose father lived a very different lifestyle to her, and we're looking…

https://familyhistoriespodcast.com/2025/11/18/s10ep02-the-disinherited-with-simon-howard/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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November 18, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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The rapid expansion of AI server installations in the US poses sustainability challenges in terms of water usage and carbon emissions. A study in Nature Sustainability quantifies these potential impacts and outlines mitigation strategies for the AI sector to achieve net-zero. 🧪
Environmental impact and net-zero pathways for sustainable artificial intelligence servers in the USA - Nature Sustainability
The rapid expansion of AI server installations in the United States poses sustainability challenges in terms of water usage and carbon emissions. A study now quantifies these potential impacts and outlines coordinated mitigation strategies for the AI sector to achieve net-zero.
go.nature.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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laminda.bsky.social
You're a parasitic ant queen eyeing the colony of another species. You have a simple plan:

1. Hide your scent by rubbing workers on your body
2. Infiltrate the nest
3. Spray the queen with chemicals that goad her daughters into tearing her to bits
4. All hail the usurper!

(my latest for CNN) 🧪
Parasitic ant queen chemically manipulates workers into killing their mother | CNN
Scientists newly described how a parasitic ant queen infiltrates another ant species’ colony and tricks the workers into killing their mother.
www.cnn.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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georgykurakin.bsky.social
Would you like some speculative evolution?

In this alternative history of life, Asgard archaea died, but giant sulfur bacteria evolved into multicellular eukaryote-like life 🧪🦠

AI helped me to visualize this imaginary world 💻

Read more in my blog:
communities.springernature.com/posts/altern...
Mycelial organism with sulfur granules Forest of tree-like organisms accumulating sulfur Coral-like organism with sulfur inclusions Slime mould accumulating sulfur
November 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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twigtechnology.bsky.social
12,000 years ago in what is today northern Israel, someone made a tiny clay image of a woman. Mating with a goose. Today that figurine got its own prestigious scientific paper.

The lesson: make weird art. Express whatever is in you, however you want. In AD 14,000 they will thank you

🏺🧪🎨🎭🪿
A 12,000-year-old clay figurine of a woman and a goose marks symbolic innovations in Southwest Asia | PNAS
Paleolithic representations of human–animal interaction are rare, with only a few painted or engraved examples recorded in Upper Paleolithic contex...
www.pnas.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
Here's Prashant's 2024 first-author paper in Nature Microbiology 🎉🧪:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm also going to recommend the "Smarter Every Day" video that includes interviews with Prasant, explores some of these structures and how they function.

It's 30 minutes, but very watchable:
Nature's Incredible ROTATING MOTOR (It’s Electric!) - Smarter Every Day 300
YouTube video by SmarterEveryDay
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM