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Congratulations Eric!! Wishing you the best for the next steps and many more great discoveries ahead 👏

when you grow
but the room does not
and you shrink yourself
just enough
to keep
going

“Whoever lives there,” thought Alice, “it’ll never do to come upon them this size: why, I should frighten them out of their wits!” So she began nibbling at the righthand bit again, and did not venture to go near the house till she had brought herself down to nine inches high.

The Walrus and the Carpenter are not villains in the usual sense. They play roles.

“It seems a shame,” the Walrus said,
“To play them such a trick…”

The Carpenter said nothing but,
“The butter’s spread too thick.”

Together, they take what the situation requires while sounding sorrowful about it.

Did you know this is the world’s longest suspension bridge. It is spanning dardanelles in Turkey. We crossed the hellespont over it back in 2023, a year after it was built- the first bridge here, i think, since Xerxes’ pontoon bridges.

Exhibition: "Martin Karplus: Moments & Monuments"

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“The time has come,” the Walrus said,
“To talk of many things:
Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax
Of cabbages—and kings—
And why the sea is boiling hot—
And whether pigs have wings.”

Russian women take center stage in ‘Motherland,’ a riveting new history Julia Ioffe’s new blend of history and family biography takes on the contradictions of female selfhood in Soviet Russia, from achievement to marginalization

MOTHERLAND, says the @washingtonpost.com, is "riveting."

www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

David Trotter · Unconditional Looking: Mrs Dalloway’s Demons Virginia Woolf admired Jane Austen above all for her ability to grasp the exceptional moment – ‘in which all the...

‘The novel’s final sentence is its least declamatory, pure cotton wool. “For there she was.”’

David Trotter on 𝘔𝘳𝘴 𝘋𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘺: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

i did not know about this imaginary novel at all. “keraban the inflexible” by jules verne- about the turkish tobacco merchant taking a guest home to uskudar for dinner - angry at the new tax he needs to pay to cross the bosphorus!

“When Abraham arrives in the promised land from his native city of Ur, a Philistine king is already there to meet him.”

Princeton alumna Mary Brunkow *91 receives Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Brunkow received her Ph.D. from Princeton in 1991 in molecular biology. She shares the award with Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for discoveries about how the immune system is kept in check.

www.princeton.edu/news/2025/10...

Magnetotactic bacteria optimally navigate natural pore networks Diverse magnetotactic bacteria are adapted to the local geomagnetic field and grain size to maximize their swimming speed through the pore space.

Magnetotactic bacteria swim along geomagnetic field lines to navigate sediments. Using microfluidics and simulations, this study shows their motility is optimised, revealing how evolution fine-tunes life for challenging environments.

Sound by friction (stridulation) ! Spiny lobsters have lost the large claws (chelae) of true lobsters. Instead, they rely on long antennae for defense and sensing. When the antennae move, a pad-like plectrum at the base rubs against a ridged file on the head producing a scary underwater sound!

Cyzicuz- after King Kyzikos who hosted Jason and his crew on their way to the Golden Fleece… and mistakenly killed by him.

“…and the Ptolemies send with him the scholar-adventurer Eudoxus of Cyzicus. Eudoxus makes a successful return and then leads a second trading voyage of his own to the Indian coast.” — Cyzicus today is an archaeological site near the town of Erdek in Balıkesir Province, Türkiye.

Josephine Quinn · Born on the Beach: Ancient Coastlines Seas are repetitive creatures, working in cycles of tides, migration and climate change, which is normally to say the...

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Ferdinand Mount · Biff-Bang: Tariffs before Trump It is the least convincing cliché of the age that ‘globalisation has passed its sell-by date.’ On the contrary,...

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“The threat is from leaders who are “walking versions of the dark triad” – narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism – in a world menaced by the climate crisis, nuclear weapons, artificial intelligence and killer robots.”

Inimitable hand | Royal Society During Elizabeth Gould's brief career as an ornithological illustrator, she made a significant contribution to the natural history of birds, as Katherine Marshall discovers.

In her short career as an ornithological illustrator, Elizabeth Gould (1804 - 1841) produced over 650 lithographic plates, a significant contribution to the natural history of birds. Picture Curator Katherine Marshall uncovers her story on our blog: #WomenInSTEM royalsociety.org/blog/2025/07...

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Göbekli Tepe challenges the idea that religion emerged after agriculture, whereas Stonehenge shows the maturation of societies with symbolic, ritual, and calendrical structures.

Gobeklitepe vs. Stonehenge

Harvard seeks billions in funding restored at a pivotal hearing in its standoff with Trump administration A lawyer for Harvard, Steven Lehotsky, said at Monday's hearing the case is about the government trying to control the "inner workings" of Harvard.

www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

These women are performing a festival chore: specifically, they’re perfuming clothes and fabric that they’ve placed on a stool and suspended above smoking wood. The one on the left is pouring
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“Revolutionary Science Comes from Unexpected Angles”

Thoughts from our own Tom Rapoport on the role of basic science in curing disease. magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/rev...

Odds of winning NIH grants plummet as new funding policy and spending delays bite Funding multiyear grants up front will sharply cut number of investigators receiving awards

New Science story about multi-year funding and it potential catastrophic consequences

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Mount Holyoke College in lovely western Massachusetts is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist. Amazing students and fantastic faculty support - please share!
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Franz Kafka Before the Law — Harvard University Press Read a short story from Franz Kafka’s Selected Stories, featuring beautiful illustrations as well as authoritative annotations and all-new translations by Mark Harman (“the finest living Kafka transla...

www.hup.harvard.edu/features/fra...