Alyssa W.

Read Banned Books under a shelf of books.

Happy Banned Books Week! 🗃️

For more information on Book Bans, check out this recent report from @penamerica.bsky.social

pen.org/report/the-n...

Explore The Map | Lynching In America Over 4,000 racial terror lynchings between 1877 and 1950.

We were talking about the lynching plotline in Marrow of Tradition in Am Lit II today, & I got to share @eji.org's map, the Without Sanctuary exhibit, Ida B. Wells, & the work of @kidadaewilliams.com as part of the conversation. This work we do is damn important.🗃️

lynchinginamerica.eji.org/explore

RIP. Bsky is always so far behind, great tributes elsewhere. A fave:

This cast metal statue of trump and epstein holding hands is now back in position in downtown Washington, DC. With the government shutdown there are no Park Service employees to take it down again. 🧪 #TeamFish#GreenSky

"If we lose hope, we're doomed."

We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

Jane Goodall reaches out and touches a small monkey.

Jane Goodall was my first childhood hero, as I loved animals as a kid and was inspired by her story. I still remember the National Geographic specials about her. RIP.

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

Contemporary photo of exterior of the baths with three men and a small girl at the door. (Photo courtesy of 'Paul')

Advertisement for the baths in the South London Press (2 January 1869)shortly after their opening, with charges and times.

The New Surrey Chapel, partly built on the site of the Turkish baths, was opened in 1888 with a sermon by the Rev C H Spurgeon. The building to the right looks similar in style to that housing the Turkish baths.

#onthisday, 30 September 1868, James Bryning opened the #Surrey #TurkishBaths at 191 Blackfriars Road, London. More about the image (with link to more about the baths) at www.victorianturkishbath.org/6DIRECTORY/A... The baths closed in 1888, becoming site 4 the New Surrey Chapel & Schools. 🗃️ #C19th

Changing The Record How has paperwork served over time as a radical tool for empowerment and change?

"Archives hold many examples of the centrality of paperwork for marginalised groups when rights are unstable or out of reach. They show how migrants use paperwork to imagine rights - to see a right to protection before one exists."

Roundtable reflections on the radical history of paperwork 🗃️🎙️

My linocut print of Kepler’s Somnium (or Dream) in darkest blue on white with chine collé collaged papers for aliens. It shows the Earth in space viewed from the mountainous moon where a boy and daemon in a cave view the giant serpent like creature (on marbled paper in swirling pink, orange and blue) and three pinecone shaped creatures on pink, peach and turquoise paper.

Day 30 of #SciArtSeptember 🧪🐡🔭#histsci prompt dream: Kepler’s Somnium. This hand-printed linocut illustrates astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler’s science fiction story Somnium, or “The Dream”. Kepler (1571-1630) wrote the strange manuscript in Latin, and circulated it amongst friends, 🧵

Improving the Status of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Recommendations for history department chairs, many of whom can influence change in as the integration of NTTF into departmental life and cultures.

The AHA has developed recommendations for department chairs to improve the status of non-tenure-track (NTT) faculty. Click the link for a list of ways chairs can play a leadership role in supporting their NTT colleagues. 🗃️

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I’m supposed to be at a dinner right now w/Shannon discussing this wonderful (highly recommend!) book but forgot I had school this evening, had to miss 😭 -cant be absent from this 1x week web conference for this very crucial class. Buy/read this lovely, empowering book!
#FiredUpBook

This is figure 4, which shows the evolution of the 2025 Santorini crisis.

A more than 30-day earthquake episode that struck Greece in January 2025 could be explained by the volcanoes Santorini and Kolumbo sharing a magma chamber, according to a paper in Nature. go.nature.com/4pDboC1 ⚒️ 🧪

Strange Bird Spotted in a Texas Backyard Is the First Known Hybrid Between a Blue Jay and a Green Jay The ranges of the two parent bird species have expanded due to climate change and now overlap around San Antonio, researchers say

#birds
#jays
#corvids
#climatechange
#nature
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Main frontage of the baths building in Grange Road, just south of the Thames.

Plan of part of the basement which housed the Turkish baths. These comprised three hot rooms, plunge bath, shower room, shampooing room fitted for two shampooers, and provided with the usual shampoo slabs and bowls. There was also a complementary steam room.

The carpeted cooling-room at the baths, with loungers, tables and chairs, and thirteen cubicles, each containing a couch and small table, etc.

A still from a 1930s Bermondsey Council film 'Where there's life there's soap' promoting their Turkish baths. Can be viewed online, courtesy Wellcome Collection at https://wellcomecollection.org/works/zrgauwtq

#onthisday, 24 September 1927, #Bermondsey opened its £150,000 Grange Road Baths. Some papers lammed the council for providing 'luxurious' #TurkishBaths on the rates as they were well fitted out for a local authority facility. Gay friendly. Closed 1973—"structural defects". Demolished 1975. 🗃️ #C19th

Kicking Neutron Stars from the Nest Neutron stars are born running, and recent research explores just how fast they start off.

Neutron stars are born running, and recent research explores just how fast they start off. aasnova.org/2025/09/24/k... 🔭🧪

Alien Skies: Exploring Distant Exoplanet Atmospheres with Webb YouTube video by Space Telescope Science Institute

Did you miss last week's Deep Space Dialogues with STScI's Nestor Espinoza, as he chatted about atmospheres of distant exoplanets? Watch it now and learn about how #NASAWebb is dramatically changing our understanding of planetary systems in the cosmos. 🔭 🧪

UCLA's frozen federal grants to be restored by Trump administration, judge says The federal judge ordered that grants that were terminated by a form notice without a "grant-specific explanation for the termination" be restored.

www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n... 🧪

New study (2025) examines if people can detect bias in AI training data. Key finding: Training data cues were largely ineffective; users relied on AI performance instead to judge bias + consistent with prior work on AI bias, the majority of participants failed to notice any bias in training data 🧪

Gigantic dinosaur with 'claws like hedge trimmers' found with croc leg still in its jaws in Argentina Speedy megaraptor Joaquinraptor casali had big arms and claws like hedge trimmers that would have made T. rex's forelimbs look puny.

This is one of the coolest new #dinosaurs I've seen for a long time. Joaquinraptor casali was about 7 metres long, had powerful "claws like hedge trimmers" and was found with the leg bone of an ancient crocodilian in its jaws. 🧪 🦖

www.livescience.com/animals/dino...

maybe it's the microplastics packed into your brain and guts, maybe it's maybelline (containing phthalates and forever chems) 🧪
Our petro-chemical based materials are killing us, maybe we should stop using them. source.washu.edu/2025/07/leaf...

Your silence will not save you! #AcademicSky

YouTube video by UnAmericanBandstand Woody Guthrie~ All You Fascists Bound To Lose

Just a reminder ... 🗃️

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwcK...

Ugh

A bit of good news from our History Department. Our enrollments this fall are 150% of last yr’s (strong) enrollments!

Really glad to see this news (actually, it's 146%, but am rounding up....)
@emorycollege.bsky.social #skystorians #Emory #academicsky

Today was my last day at the Eisenhower Library. I came across a 1964 letter Dwight Eisenhower wrote warning against “hate-filled people who set themselves up as super-patriots and, so doing, try to destroy the rights, liberties and opportunities of the average loyal American.” Worth heeding 🗃️

Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny - Watch the documentary now! | American Masters | PBS Discover Hannah Arendt, who transformed her time as a political prisoner during World War II into daring insights about totalitarianism.

Good timing .... Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny (@pbs.org, #skystorians): www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

Perhaps, but it is also worth noting that every major American assassination attempt is, at its core, a whiny, jealous POS with a gun. Much like all school shooters.

🗃️ For example:

John Wilkes Booth > Whiny and jealous of his more famous brother, also a total piece of shit.

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