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how delicious to be a Cat 😻

These arresting images come from the Alexandra Soteriou Photographs Collection 📸 While a student at UK she took photos and created a scrapbook that documented everyday life in Lexington from April to June 1968. Explore the whole collection here: https://bit.ly/43zd2eD

your whiskers get to tingling ✨ yes, it’s clear: you have a Cat Hunch 😻 if you could collect and analyze the right sort of data, there’s something powerful that you could prove 🔭 do not let your whiskers tingle in the void!! explore Sage Research Methods here: https://bit.ly/4peDxhR

invite the ghost of the Big Barn into your heart 🐴 make yourself a content volcano 🌋 apply here by Nov. 21!! 😻 https://ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/606142

In a free public lecture and hands-on workshop, designer and printer Brad Vetter will demonstrate the ways in which blending analog and digital technologies can profoundly alter both. Find more information and RSVP here: https://bit.ly/3JChaDP

grilled gator anyone?? 🐊

#bbn #wearegoodatfootball #gocats #uky

After sitting empty for over 40 years, the Lyric Theatre was reopened in 2010. Learn the story of the Lyric's revitalization in the latest episode of Saving Stories, featuring a 2015 Nunn Center oral history interview with Lexington activist Tom Tolliver, here: https://bit.ly/4nyrdrf

you are in the stars ✨ the stars are in you 😻 the stars are on the second floor, the starbucks, the stairwell 🌝

Dear Cats 😻 we know the spooky spirit is within you 🙀 feed it a big reeses peanut butter cup and let it grow 🦇 let the mayhem tumult about within you, pour it from your frightful pitcher into the glooming night, be fierce with it, be Fearless Unabashed Cats!! 💀

the most high-stakes quizlet of the semester 🎃😻🍫 what should Willy T be for Halloween??

it's getting spooky out there, Cats 🙀 you know what that means!! 🔥 CLAWS OUT 💅

there is nothing more miraculous than that jellyblob pulsing all wild and delicious behind your beaming Cat Eyes 😻 your Cat Brain, your Cat Mind! 🧠 it is sacred, holy, joyful, wondrous 🌤️ do not rob yourself of the opportunity to Engage the Miracle Within You 🕯️

We are very excited to share the news that Doug Boyd, Director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, has authored a new introduction to the oral history form published by Oxford University Press.

Learn more here: https://bit.ly/48AyBib

we can't hear anything over the sound of our very clever costume ideas 🚜😻👻

we don't judge

hear that twist, twist, click-click-click, twist, twist, click? that's us cracking the code on the Lockbox of Knowledge and prying it out of cold dead corporate hands with our Crowbars of Freedom for the benefit of Cats everywhere, cowabunga!! 🔓😻 learn more here: https://bit.ly/4hehHbw

the pages crinkle from centuries of broken hearts and surprise questions on exams that we didn't even learn about this in class, it was in the optional reading? srsly? 💔 waterfalls of weepings 😿

UK has free mental health resources for students! https://pres.uky.edu/mental-health-resources

the rainbow road of the universe bends toward Willy T 🌈 it's a barn of gold! 🪙🐴

work is fun!! we love work!!!

UK Libraries collections are full of materials documenting the powerful history of Kentucky workers fighting for their rights. Explore the powerful Herndon J. Evans Collection here: https://bit.ly/4pJwYop

fall is in the air 🍂 and you know what that means! ✨it's Three Academic Articles Season!! 😻 we are here to help you search for articles like a pro, learn what makes an article “scholarly,” and knock your assignments out of the park 🧢 just use our Scholarly Articles tutorial: https://bit.ly/46zAedd 🪞

both valid concerns, honestly 🏈 there are many ways to be a Cat!! 😻 but POT did drop the ball on the SOC 235: Inequalities in Society group project (how ironic) and we had to pick up the slack *at the Big Kroger* 👀 so don't blame us for feeling a little spicy!! 🌶️

On Thursday, September 25, UK Libraries will welcome Jessica K. Whitehead to share the fascinating life story of the Kentucky writer, artist, and sustainability pioneer Harlan Hubbard. Find more info and RSVP here: https://bit.ly/4moqZ5o

use your Cat paws! 🐾 hear the creaky wheeze of the machine! 🔩 feel alive again! ✨ remember what it is to touch things and be one with them! 😻 smash your screen! 💥

scoop the Goose and get down with the Printing Bug -- it's catching!! 🪿🪿🪿🪿🪿

we are this boy 👔 this boy is us 📝 we are the surprised promise of 1991 talking to Jim Beam master distiller Frederick Booker Noe II in a rare interview from the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History in the latest episode of WUKY's Saving Stories, here: https://bit.ly/4mjBAPd

they're so cute we could just squeeze em till their plush popped! 😻 squeeze em until their cute little pillows rolled down the stairs! 😻 squeeze em until we and they were one contiguous uncleftable chair! 😻

give em a squeeze and find our poll here: https://bit.ly/4pl8jGp

along with small boxes, crowded countertops, and other Cozy Cat Palaces to Bloom the Mind & Brain 🧠📔😻✏️🛌

Join us on Tue. Sept. 16 for the 2025 Earle C. Clements Lecture-Symposium featuring Gayle Jessup White, author of Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant’s Search for Her Family’s Lasting Legacy.

More info here: https://bit.ly/3VDlDZc

didn't even give us a waffle fry 😿

never a dull moment in the Big Barn 😻 find more info about these and other future happenings right here: https://bit.ly/3lFiQjY