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Vampire bats' mutual grooming helps spread innovative rabies vaccine A gel that bats lick off one another’s fur could help prevent rabies outbreaks in cattle, a growing problem in Latin America

This is really cool! A rabies vaccine, applied as a gel to fur, spreads quickly among bats as they lick and groom each other. That prevents rabies outbreaks in other animals. www.science.org/content/arti...

Linocut portrait of Isabella Aiona Abbott in indigo on cream coloured paper. She’s facing forward at a table in a shirt and sweater vest with a sheet with algae samples on the table. In my print, she is surrounded by algae of the Pacific, all of which appeared in Abbott's research publications, including several species she discovered, or based on images of specimen she personally collected or whose traditional use as food she documented. The algae are in pinks, khaki green and rust.

Happy birthday to #botanist Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919-2010), 🧪🐡👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci renown algae expert, celebrated seaweed cook, devoted teacher & mentor, expert on Hawaiian ethnobotany, 1st Indigenous Hawaiian woman to earn a PhD in science & 1st woman or person of colour to become a full professor on 🧵

Short profile of mom on PBS: “A brief, but spectacular take on piecing the past to the future” #quilts #quilting #art #Juneteenth

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When it comes to self-defence, skunks and spitting cobras have nothing on the medieval “bonnacon”. It was said to defecate with such explosive force that it could scald targets more than a football pitch away with its fire-like dung. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/bonnacons

Welcome to the archives.

A Bestiary of Loss To mark Lost Species Day, images of 39 recently extinct animals and their stories — from the aurochs to the ivory-billed woodpecker.

For #WorldEnvironmentDay today, “A Bestiary of Loss” — images of 39 recently extinct animals and their stories, from the aurochs to the ivory-billed woodpecker: publicdomainreview.org/collection/e...

I was happy for the opportunity to edit two Austen novels for the 250th. These are for a general audiences—introduction, context essays, suggestions for further reading. There are Austen novels with explicit references to empire, the slave trade, abolition, etc. +

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As we write, DOGE is reportedly inside the gates of the IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services), where Keith Sonderling, Deputy Secretary of Labor and “somehow now Acting Director” of IMLS is dismantling the agency that helps libraries be libraries. /1

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A blue Tesla Model 3 has been crushed by an Olmec statue. A man with long black braids leans against the hood of the car with his arms crossed, staring down the camera.

Tesla Model 3 crushed by an Olmec statue
By Mexican sculptor @chavismarmol.bsky.social

Artist Crushes Tesla With Colossal Olmec Head Sculpture Chavis Mármol told Hyperallergic that he wanted to “crush an object that represents a sinister figure like Elon Mollusk.”

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Apologies if you know this already...but you can refine your search on Etsy. After you run a general search, click on "All Filters," go to "Shop Location," click on "Custom," and type Ukraine.

Found this 5-star shop that looks promising. (And they're having a sale!)

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An automaton fuelled by tomes of newly available knowledge sweeps away the old society. No, not a self-portrait by ChatGPT in the style of a Georgian satirical print, but one of several “March of Intellect” cartoons published ca. 1828: publicdomainreview.org/collection/m...

James Harrison, whose blood donations saved over 2 million babies, has died Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.

James Harrison, whose blood donations saved over 2 million babies, has died. www.npr.org/2025/03/03/n...

An pencil sketch illustration of different spring flowers and their petal shapes, by mojacookie

A visual guide to spring flowers in East Asia. Clockwise from top right, in Japanese. I added English + Korean and Chinese Mandarin readings below

梅 plum (ume/maehwa/mei)
杏 apricot (anzu/salgu/xing)
李 plum (sumomo/jadu/li)
桃 peach (momo/boksung-a/tao)
櫻 cherry (sakura/beotkkeot/ying)

🎨 mojacookie

In ONE DAY?!? That's *incredible*! Congratulations!!! 🎉🎊🎉

Oh hey! Still at US AID. We’re blocking 14th Street now!

What a cool promotion! A JAFF raffle. A JAFF-le! I love it. Happy for whoever wins this! (Five books it *a lot*. Congrats on having created such a collection!)

Congratulations! That's FANTASTIC! 🎉🎊🎉

Thanks for sharing this!

What a fascinating woman! Her words remind me of Seneca:

"Do you forbid me to contemplate the universe? Do you compel me to withdraw from the whole and restrict me to a part? …Do you bid me live with my head bowed down? No, I am above such an existence; I was born to a greater destiny."

Screen shot of Amazon listing for "Intentions and Mishaps" showing it as #1 in the "British Short Stories" sales category.

Congrats on the new release! Can't do much better than #1! :)

#JAFF

Thanks for this review! Hadn't heard of this.

Boosting to #JAFF

This is great work! Really informative and clearly communicated. And it's so good/important to see Black patients depicted in medical illustration. Thanks for sharing!

Image of Micheal Fassbender as Mr. Rochester in the movie adaption of Jane Eyre.

What an interesting premise. And such a cinematic cover!

(And for an A-List movie, too. Your Darcy looks so much like Michael Fassbender! Excellent "casting.")

Congrats on the release!

I see this is your first post on Bluesky. Welcome! Just so you know there's a Jane Austen Fan Fiction feed. (Created by Abigail Reynolds.) If you want to promote your work there, add #JAFF or #Austenesque to your posts!

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Ha! I love that as the indie author's "by hook or by crook."

By prose or by toes. 📖🦶

One way or another, I'm going to finance this thing!

And I can totally see why. So great to have found someone like that. And in such a win-win situation, too. Hope it continues! (Paid for by prose not by toes.)

Wow! I just looked at her site and I'm so impressed.

And I'm kinda shocked at her rates. If you paid anything close to the prices she's advertising, you really got your money's worth! Totally eye-catching.

(Sorry if that's weird to say. Not trying to publicly pry into your finances!)