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Sarah Emily Duff

@sarahemilyduff.bsky.social

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Radiant ambiguity/unclassified residuum (historian of age, gender, reproduction, opinions my own and not my employer’s etc.) https://www.colby.edu/people/people-directory/sarah-duff/

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Alerts from NWS Gray/Portland ME (UNOFFICIAL) @gyx.nws-bot.us · 12h

🚨 Frost Advisory issued October 8 at 2:07PM EDT until October 9 at 8:00AM EDT by NWS Gray ME 🚨
Additional Details Here.

* WHAT...For the Frost Advisory, temperatures as low as 32 will
result in frost formation. For the Freeze Watch, sub-freezing
temperatures as low as 23 possible.

* WHERE...In Maine, Interior Cumberland Highlands, Southern
Franklin, and Southern Oxford Counties. In New Hampshire, Belknap,
Merrimack, Sullivan, Northern Carroll, Northern Grafton, Southern
Carroll, and Southern Grafton Counties.

* WHEN...For the Frost Advisory, from 2 AM to 8 AM EDT Thursday. For
the Freeze Watch, from Thursday evening through Friday morning.

* IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other
sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor
plumbing. Frost could harm sensitive outdoor vegetation. Sensitive
outdoor plants may be killed if left uncovered.

* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 26 possible.

* WHERE...Portions of south central and southwest Maine and central
and southern New Hampshire.

* WHEN...From Thursday evening through Friday morning.

* IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other
sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor
plumbing.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 18h

It's #WorldOctopusDay! Pictured here a “Polypus levis Hoyle” from a 1910 publication on the German Deep-Sea Expedition of 1898, led by Leipzig University Professor of Zoology, Carl Chun. Buy it as a print here: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/octopus/

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

sleights of hand and countless subtleties

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 1d

My colleague Jack Bouchard's book Terra Nova is out today! It's about early 16th-century mariners and the seasonal fishery around present-day Newfoundland, and its place within the Atlantic World. I cannot wait to read it

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Terra Nova

A bottom-up story of the fishworkers, whalers, First Nations, merchantwomen, oceans, and animals who together made a new colonial world in the early Atlantic...

yalebooks.yale.edu

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 3d

Joseph Stella, First Light, c. 1928
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135045

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Gustav Klimt @klimtgustav.bsky.social · 22d

Blumengarten
https://botfrens.com/collections/109/contents/28524

Gustav Klimt's "Blumengarten" captures a vivid tapestry of colorful blooms in a densely packed garden, showcasing his mastery in blending vibrant colors and textures. This piece, imbued with a lush, almost mosaic-like quality, reflects Klimt's fascination with nature and the ornamental aspects of his Vienna Secession style.

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

THE SECRET PROJECT I'VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR THE PAST FEW MONTHS IS FINALLY LIVE

CHECK IT OUT

outsidersartsclub.com

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Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · 19h

‘These structures, known as metal-organic frameworks, have a wide range of uses, including collecting water from air, capturing toxic gases and trapping carbon dioxide.’

Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Architects of Metal-Organic Frameworks

www.nytimes.com

Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · 19h

‘The keyboard manuscript has a lavish binding in red leather with gold decoration, suggesting that it was once owned by a wealthy individual. It had been repurposed around 1810, with some of the blank music staves being used as lines for the index of Thetford town council records.’

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell

Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

www.theguardian.com

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 2d

Le Corbusier photographed by Willy Rizzo c. 1953
#LeCorbusier #BOTD #Photography

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Miss Kimmi Kitty Mama @miss-kimmi.bsky.social · 10d

Jean Cocteau by Lucien Clergue on the set of "Le Testament d’Orphée", Les Baux de Provence, 1959.

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Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · 1d

‘The researchers’ work showed that this tunneling process and quantized energy levels could occur in a system “big enough to be held in the hand.”

“Quantum mechanics is the foundation of all digital technology”’

Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded for Work in Quantum Mechanics

www.nytimes.com

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Defakator (Officiel) 🧆 @defakator.bsky.social · 2d

Haddock : Quelle semaine, hein ?
Tintin : Capitaine, on est lundi, il est 10h

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Agnes Martin @agnes-martin.bsky.social · Sep 8

Starlight https://www.wikiart.org/en/agnes-martin/starlight

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@dlp. @umadlp.bsky.social · 10d

Agnes Martin in her studio at Coenties Slip in New York City, 1960.

ph. Alexander Liberman.

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Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · 2d

‘the research had provided a “new handle” on how to approach autoimmune disorders, or treatments and organ transplants.’

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded for Work on Immune Systems

www.nytimes.com

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Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · 2d

‘America has become one big bet on AI. Outside of the AI plays, even European stock markets have been outperforming the US this decade, and now that gap is starting to spread. …
AI better deliver for the US, or its economy and markets will lose the one leg they are now standing on.’

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

on.ft.com

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 2d

the three boats lay there on that gently rolling sea, gazing down into its eternal blue noon

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Paul Welsh @paulwelsh89.bsky.social · 5d

William Holman Hunt
The Sphinx at Gizeh

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Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 2d

The people behind @thecontinent.org have launched a new paper focused on South Africa called @thefridaypaper.bsky.social and the cover story is about gold and Johannesburg's new gold mine.

You can read it for free here: www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...

Front cover of a newspaper called "The Friday Paper". The cover image is a drawing of the central Johannesburg skyline showing skycrapers and beanth the skyscapers are horizontal layers of pastel-coloured rock.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 3d

2/2 Baby J riding happily on orb of the world, waving to a hermit who has come out to greet poor Saint Christopher. From the workshop of Joachim Patinir.

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Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · 3d

Same—even after buying a jersey from them, which is nice but definitely not the incredible quality they claim it is.

Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · 3d

Pleasure!

Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · 3d

Sorry then all the gift links have been read!

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@dlp. @umadlp.bsky.social · 4d

Roob-5 building in Ebisu, Tokyo.

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