Jennifer Miller

Authorities said he had no signs of injury “other than maybe a hangover and poor life choices.

April 1805. Charlie Brown is now master of Europe. Only the British fleet stands before him- Oceans are now battlefields.

What does this mean for you? It's getting harder and harder to know what is data-driven and what is spun, and now the CDC website has entered the arena. There are parts of CDC I still trust, and there remains an important distinction between political operatives and the scientists doing the real work. In other words, there is still information there that I trust only because I have firsthand insight from friends and colleagues I speak with every week. That's a privileged position to be in, and it's not advice the general public can realistically rely on. So, what do you do? • At this time, I suggest the general public avoid the CDC website. • If you do go to the CDC website, avoid anything on vaccines, reproductive health, environmental science, or health equity. • Data systems are still largely under the control of states and CDC scientists. Flu and wastewater data, for example, are good to go. • Find trustworthy navigators outside the federal government, such as AAP, ACOG, and healthychildren.org, as well as many credible scientific communicators. (The Evidence Collective put together a comprehensive list of scientific communicators and organizations for you here!)

good advice from YLE yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/i/179508318/...

Black and white historical illustration from "The Frog Book" showing two toads partially submerged in a pond, with the male toad sitting more erect and a dark-colored throat visible. Below, a separate image depicts a tranquil pond landscape on May 1st, surrounded by trees and vegetation including skunk cabbage leaves and unrolling cinnamon fern fronds. The scene captures early spring natural habitat where toads gather.

🐸 The frog book: New YorkDoubleday, Page1907

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A map showing a town called Deer Park next to a town called Kildeer

Easy choice if you're a deer deciding where to buy a house

There is no “liberal” or “woke” overtaking of American higher ed. The dominant trend in our time is the opposite: widespread state censorship of academic freedom, free expression, and evidence-based learning or research. The dominant trend in higher education is authoritarian--full stop. 2/

604 NOW 604 Now • Follow 2h •0 •.. X Canadian man goes on a joyride with riders on board. Police say a 36-year-old Ontario man took a bus while the driver was on break, drove it up the Mountain and made real stops with about 10 passengers riding. The bus was stopped 15 minutes later and the man was arrested. 604 NOW Canadian man who took bus on joy ride 'did a great job' driving, left no dings, say police

US news: everyone in government is a pedo, armed men stealing kids off the street

Canadian news:

Jennifer unlocked a badge! Stout Day (2025): Thank you for celebrating International Stout Day by savoring a delicious stout! Stout enthusiasts like you know that there's a world of flavor waiting to be explored within the stou...

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oh they're calling NJ for sherrill

PETITION: Protect the Center for Disease Control Library Staff at the CDC Library were laid off on October 10th and have not been brought back. Sign the petition to call for their return.

The CDC Library plays an important role in providing our public health professionals with access to the best information.

Without them, CDC employees will lose access to information and resources in an outbreak.

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I was grateful to give a lecture about academic freedom and misinformation about higher ed at the University of Alabama last week. I found the campus fascinating—a living museum to an era when U.S. colleges were truly anti-free speech and intolerant of diverse views. 1/5

#EduSky

Purchased 1940

Eric Ravilious, The Vale of the White Horse, 1939
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1113981

Thicc Satan

Wordsworth: welcome to the meeting of Romantic Poets. We need to set our agenda, and I am recommending clouds, flowers, or possibly clouds shaped like flowers

Percy Shelley: or the severed head of a tyrant

William Blake: or thicc Satan

Wordsworth: or what???

Blake: I have produced a sketch-

“The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.”
Samuel Johnson, born on this day in 1709

It Is My Right Not to Weep: On (Compelled) National Mourning I didn’t want to write this piece today: I know I am risking racist/White supremacist vitriol by pushing “post” on this piece.

My latest for Critical Thinking 101.

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the goat won't stop

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Image shows our program title: Resisting the Spell: How Jane Austen Redefines Beauty, illustrated with a graphic of a Regency-era woman in a yellow gown, facing a mirror. The mirror shows an image of the face of actress Jennifer Ehle in her role as Lizzie Bennett in the 1995 BBC miniseries Pride and Prejudice.

It's the 250th anniverary year of Jane Austen's birth! Join us for an engaging talk by Professor Kenneth Brewer, exploring how Austen invites us to question why we value beauty, & whether we can—or should—resist its allure. Wed. 8/27 @ 7pm. Register: scotlib.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=210913

To me, this is Digital Humanities

lol NYT doing us a favor this morning

London library forced to briefly close after fox 'made itself comfortable' inside Foxes have been known to live everywhere in London from back gardens to the top of the Shard

Fantastic

Public broadcasting is about more than content. It's about an ethos. That there need to be spaces in society that are not soaked in the logic of consumerism and profit. Where people are treated as citizens, valued for humanity and their ideas rather than disposable income. It's simple, but powerful.

the republican party is a modern day Slave Power and the only way forward for this country is to sweep it into the ash heap of history

A massive headstone that says “Read” in all caps and absolutely nothing else.

My best local headstone has got to be this one, which I assume was the ALA literacy campaign’s attempt to reach Goths

"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine

A White Nationalist Wrote a Law School Paper Promoting Racist Views. It Won Him an Award.

Wealthy + politically connected conservative/libertarian groups have partnered with extremists for years to normalize bigotry and falsehoods as “new” and legitimate intellectual viewpoints—thru invited speakers, centers for “conservative thought,” “neutrality.” 1/2

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...

photo of a white book with red text saying " HELL" below there is an image of a penguin ( because the book is a part of the penguin archuve collection) an below that is "DANTE". the book is small and the photo seems. there are green bedsheets below the book.

this tiny edition of Dante's Inferno looks like its about a penguin from hell hahhaha

what a design choice..

A spherical yellow mascot with blue legs, heart hands, white wings, a red nose, and four antennae

Ibalucky, an athletics mascot from Ibaraki Prefecture, is an alien with heart hands. He flies around delivering good fortune to people who he detects with the antennae on his head.

The wizard is attending a relief printing class at the library. He's sketching a simple design.