Deb Hanna

Late afternoon winter sun. Storrs ct

Witch hazel next to ginko and carolina allspice on right

Worcester MA-Springfield MA by road then on to Hartford CT via steamboat Massachusetts on the Connecticut River.

#CharlesDickens

🌊 Are our fears of sea level rise exaggerated?

Scientists have been raising alarms for decades that sea level rise will flood coastal communities, but what evidence is there? Turns out—a lot.

🧐 Learn more through the WHOI Ocean Learning Hub:go.whoi.edu/sealvl

Photo of an upright shoot bearing a terminal, bracteate inflorescence. The small, tubular flowers are yellow. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.

The hemiparasitic nature of Rhinanthus minor (yellow rattle) is exploited by horticulturists wanting to create wildflower meadows. This annual species is a parasite of grasses and slows their too-vigorous growth, allowing wildflowers to thrive. #parasite #Orobanchaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Promotional image for a book series titled Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines. It showcases three paperback book covers side by side with the caption “New in Paperback.” Left Book: Beyond Alterity: Contemporary Indian Fiction and the Neoliberal Script by Shakti Jaising. The cover shows a colourful photo of a street bookstall in India stacked with various books. Centre Book: Middlebrow 2.0 and the Digital Affect: Online Reading Communities of the New Nigerian Novel by Hannah Pardey. The cover is illustrated with cartoon figures sitting under speech bubbles, interacting with large smartphone screens. Right Book: Ecology of the Zombie: World-Culture and the Monstrous by Kerstin Oloff. The cover features abstract artwork with eerie, humanoid zombie-like figures. Background is soft pink with clouds and stitched border design.

📚 New in paperback from the Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines series 📚

From the cultural history of the zombie, to consuming the postcolonial in a digital era, these books offer fresh perspectives on a wide variety of #PostcolonialStudies topics.

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New Oklahoma schools superintendent rescinds mandate for Bible instruction in schools Oklahoma's new public schools superintendent is rescinding a mandate from his predecessor that forced schools to incorporate the Bible into lesson plans for students.

Good news!

“Oklahoma's new public schools superintendent is rescinding a mandate from his predecessor that forced schools to incorporate the Bible into lesson plans for students.”

apnews.com/article/okla...

ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox News and CNN won't sign new Pentagon access policy In a joint statement, executives at ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News and NBC News rejected the proposed policy, which makes it tougher to get information from military employees.

The list of news outlets refusing to sign the Pentagon's new access policy continues to grow by the day. These are among some of the outlets that have rejected the order:

• Fox News
• Newsmax
• ABC News
• CBS News
• NBC News
• CNN
• Washington Times
• Reuters
• AP
• The Guardian
• Washington Post

A win! A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump admin from carrying out mass layoffs during the ongoing government shutdown. The case centers on Trump’s statements indicating that the planned firings would be politically motivated, targeting employees based on their political affiliation.

#Saturday 's Secret Stairs

10/25 #nature #photography #Finland

They’re Trying to Publish the Best Books You’ve Never Heard Of

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/s...
💙📚 #LiteratureSky

The ‘Iron Lady’ of Venezuela Threatens to Unseat Its Autocrat (Published 2024)

A story from last year about your Nobel Peace Prize winner.

Our Common Nature When the world stopped in 2020, cellist Yo-Yo Ma started thinking about how music can reconnect people to the natural world. In this limited podcast series, Yo-Yo goes around the country to places whe...

A peaceful way to start your Friday morning.
link.podtrac.com/v7mx144d?

The new Wiley journal review system is an absolute nightmare. Editorial assistants have been replaced by a clunky, AI-enabled website that makes it harder to find and invite reviewers. Associate editor workloads have increased. I'm not convinced the invitations to reviewers are even going through.

Lake Elmore vt in happier more peaceful days

Wonderful idea for a book..and great book. 4 author's journals 1922 postwar england. Author Bill Goldstein wolf, lawrence, forster,eliot

"... and all at once, Summer
collapsed into Fall."
~ Oscar Wilde

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐡 (𝟏𝟖𝟕𝟑)
🎨 Claude Monet

Good time of year for pokeweed and rose of sharon

Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejectio...

"... records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejections for the same period a year earlier."

by @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social @vernalcoleman.bsky.social

Escape to the past. But not really thank heavens. Campus restaurant

Lieutenant river on a rainy day. Old lyme. Seen from porch of Florence griswold museum. Peaceful

Good to see old friends

The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact

The Gut Microbiome: 100 Trillion Microorganisms in Our Digestive Tract Maintain Our Health It’s an oft-cited strange-but-true fact: There are as many bacteria in your gut as there are other cells in your body. This community of microbes (not just bacteria, but viruses, fungi, archaea, and eukaryotes as well) is called the “gut microbiome,” and it plays an important role in your health. That our bodies are awash in other critters is not a new discovery. In the 17th Century, Anthony van Leeuwenhoek, an amateur lens grinder from Delft, Holland, built a microscope (he did not invent it, just improved it) and began using the device to look at pretty much anything he could find: fingernail clippings, gunk from the teeth of a man who never brushed, even his own feces.

The Gut Microbiome: 100 Trillion Microorganisms in Our Digestive Tract Maintain Our Health

It’s an oft-cited strange-but-true fact: There are as many bacteria in your gut as there are other cells in your body. This community of microbes (not just bacteria, but viruses, fungi, archaea, and…

What a life! More to it than the image of her frantically clinging to ny harbor rocks in desperation looking for help that never came.

International Melville Conference at UConn Avery Point to Celebrate ‘Moby-Dick’ Author - UConn Today About two dozen framed artworks on loan from The Melville Society are part of a concurrent exhibition at the Alexey von Schlippe Gallery of Art from now thr ...

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Hanging hills of ct. Meriden. Love this view of ridges

Uconn new science building viewed from tls std labs...