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Olivia Smith

@oliviasmith.bsky.social

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Early modernist. Thinking with literature and science about natural history, big emotions, cognition. I like working in archives, or do I mean hiding?

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Olivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social · Nov 12

Hello, I am a researcher of mixtures: early modern literature, big feelings, writing, the natural world, love— those sorts of things. I have a little substack to put my most casual mixtures on: ofsmith.substack.com

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Olivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sure I watched Foreigner with a Frenchman on channel 436 last night

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 1d

looking up the types of residence cards you can get in France for a piece and HONKING at this part of the drop-down list, from the official government website (!!) www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers...

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Olivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the modern equivalent of being a pigeon fancier.

Olivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social · 1d

Recalled an email and it actually worked.

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Olivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social · 2d

I've lost track of how many people over the past years I've told to watch for Elizabeth Scott-Baumann's next book coming out, and now it's here. Proper good ideas: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Sex and Style

A new literary history that places women writers at the center of poetic theory and practice in English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

press.princeton.edu

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Isabelle Marie @isabellemarie.bsky.social · 4d

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts.
www.popsci.com/environment/...

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

www.popsci.com

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Olivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social · 13d

Complained to one of my elderly neighbours about my local council gripe for so long *she* made excuses to get going. I just thought I should tell everyone that I have broken the natural order and space/time is about to collapse.

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Olivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social · 19d

What if you *are* in your office, but your soul is no longer in your body?

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Olivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social · 23d

He looks like he’s at a Napoleon Dynamite fancy dress party

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Dr Dan Jones @hookean.bsky.social · 24d

Here is the first clear photograph of Andromeda, the closest galaxy to our Milky Way. It was taken by Welshman Isaac Roberts in 1888
#Astronomy 🔭
#Science 🧪

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Olivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social · 24d

That is terrifying.

Olivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social · 28d

What on earth is a ‘coach-heir’? What a pretentious academic title, I think to myself for twenty minutes, before I see it written down.

Olivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social · 29d

Oh wow! That looks lovely and neat. I’ll have to show you a pic of my cake when I next make it.

Olivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social · Sep 8

Love this kind of question btw!

Olivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social · Sep 8

That’s what I was about to say. (However as someone who lives with a tweenager I know that handwriting can change as fast as the weather.)

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Olivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social · Sep 8

That’d be an interesting thing to write about.

Olivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social · Sep 8

Not in the good sense.

Olivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social · Sep 8

Ah, the perfectly-chosen ending to a day like today: standing on a wasp.

Olivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social · Sep 6

Like a Daston-esque scientific object.

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Olivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social · Sep 6

Covering it, I’d say. They’re definitely out now.

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Olivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social · Sep 6

There was a big inflatable one outside the British Library.

Olivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social · Sep 6

I find it very funny how they were briefly fashionable in their very long billions of years.

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Olivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social · Sep 6

Do you remember when everyone was into tardigrades for a year or two?

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Olivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social · Sep 6

I always make it and it never goes wrong. Also it can hold more plums than the recipe says.

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Olivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social · Sep 6

I’m not a cake fan either, but this is genuinely nice (we’ve been having it for breakfast all week) www.jamieoliver.com/inspiration/...

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