Zaftig Parcheesi

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Vaccine breakthrough for deadly elephant virus A vaccine against a deadly disease that affects young elephants is shown to be effective in a world-first trial.

Vaccine breakthrough for deadly elephant virus. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ancient association building unearthed in Sagalassos Archaeologists uncover remains of a communal building in the ancient city of Sagalassos, believed to have hosted meetings, feasts and even weddings organized by Roman-era professional and religious as...

As I have discussed before: artisans tend to cluster in city districts and then erect a clubhouse called a schola for their collegium. At Roman Sagalassos in Turkey, they have found such an association meeting-place near the 80 workshops that made up the potter’s district. 🏺 #collegia

Despite These Times...my department is hiring! I really like my department, we have a good mix of disciplines and organisms and we're really low-drama. We also get pizza at faculty meeting. So if you're a computational and structural biologist, join us! 🧪 jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/260...

梨が好きです。がんぼるぞい。

translation:
I like pears.

Today marks the first day in the 55-year history of PBS and 54-year history of NPR that public media has broadcast to its audiences without federal funding. But even though lots of local outlets are at risk, PBS and NPR are still here, providing fair, accurate news coverage and will not be silenced.

Playmobil figure kitted out as prehistoric iceman Ötzi.

#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit.
Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil.
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#PlaymobilÖtzi
#PlaymobilInfestation

Eagle brooches: 1,500-year-old pins filled with dazzling gems and glass — and worn by powerful Visigoth women Visigoth women may have worn eagle-shaped pins as a symbol of power.

This week’s astonishing artifact is a pair of cloisonné eagles found in the grave of a Visigoth woman. 🏺🧪

Duke’s Inspiration from other Institutions How did other universities and institutions inspire the design of Duke's campus?

They even tried to source the exact same stone, but had to settle for something similar.

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My photo shows a mosaic fragment from the floor of a Roman villa in Spain, dated AD 100-200s. It depicts a cartoon-like, stylised octopus using red, yellow, white, and black limestone tesserae, against a white background. The front-facing octopus has a large red and white head/body outlined in black. Its yellow circular eyes are outlined in black with a central black dot. Below the head/body are eight writhing tentacles

Charming little octopus from a Roman villa at Villaquejida, León, Spain. Limestone, 2nd-3rd century AD.

Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 me

#Archaeology

The world is kind of scary right now, so here's what I'm offering:

Hognose snake drinking water.

Be sure to stay for the lip smack.

a black ant is crawling on a piece of paper next to a drop of honey . Alt: A black ant is crawling on a piece of paper next to a drop of honey. It begins drinking, and the abdomen swells, becoming semi-transparent, and changing to a golden honey color as the exoskeleton stretches and swells.

This GIF appears to show a honeypot ant.

A specialized caste of workers called 'rotunds' or 'repletes' act as "living larders."

Their abdomens can swell to enormous size to store food fed to them by other workers, a phenomenon called 'physogastrism' (from Greek "swollen belly").

YouTube video by Viviane Chidid - Topic Shamalama Ding Dong

Viviane - Shama Plus

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i made a helpful reference

Episode 1: The Problem

This is great reporting on why — heads up, this will send you into a rage 😡

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White moth on a leaf. Front wings have brown smudge pattern with 3 white & black vertical eye patterns. There are grey wavy pattern on the back wings. The abdomen has a grey “six pack” pattern on the back.

A white bird dropping on green leaf. It looks like the moth.

A Drepanidae moth or hitotsume-kagiba (Auzata superba). This moth aspires to be a bird poop. Actually, there are many insects that try to look like excrement. Tokikubo, Komoro, Nagano#Invertebrate #Insects
ヒトツメカギバ。長野県小諸市鴇久保 #虫

The Adjusted PhD: What Accommodations Work(ed) For You? Today I initiated conversations with my new institutional home’s Disability Support Services.  As a disabled postgraduate researcher returning to PhD study after a previous unsuccessful attem…

I'm thinking of this piece I wrote way back in June 2014, about the problematic assumption that when you're a starting PhD student or PGR who is disabled, you'll know what access support you'll need, even though you've never done a research degree before

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A black and white photo of a young Black woman seated at her desk and turning her head to smile for the camera. Her desk is set against a wall, and on the wall, a very big poster of the moon.

Jeanette Scissum (1939) is a US mathematician, space scientist, and diversity advocate who put forward techniques for improved forecasting of the sunspot cycle.
Here, at her desk in NASA.
#WomenInSTEM

The state could have backed him but instead they demonstrated for the thousandth time that there is no level of respectability that will prevent white people from serving you up on a platter in order to appease powerful racists.

Meet the New Host of Reading Rainbow: Mychal the Librarian After 20 years, Reading Rainbow is back! The new host is Mychal the Librarian, who has been spreading library joy online for years.

This is the best news of the day. 🥹🥹

"Mychal has been spreading library joy across social media for years, and now he’s the resident librarian at PBS."

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Clinical Research Coordinator The Center for Healthcare Delivery Science (CHDS) at Nemours Children’s Health is seeking a full-time Research Coordinator (RC). The position is available mid-summer and is based in Wilmington, DE. Th...

Hiring! Please share. Searching for a Research Coordinator in DE / Philly, in-person. Multilingual skills (Spanish and/or Haitian Creole) valued but not required. See link:

@nemours.bsky.social

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YouTube video by Kiwi Hellenist Yes, 'blue' existed in ancient Greek

And if you want continued rejection of the ridiculous idea that Greeks didn’t have blue, see @kiwihellenist.bsky.social’s videos based on his splendid blog. youtu.be/bTM_VAx79Lg?...

Yeah, this is sadly a universal thing for Black attorneys

Gov. Pritzker to address deployment of federal agents in Chicago after downtown deployment, other incidents This comes after a federal agent fired a pepper ball at a CBS News Chicago reporter outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview.

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ICE is an outlaw organization. Under no circumstances can their attack on a news truck be considered within their jurisdiction.

This is big news, especially if academic researchers lose (affordable) access to #CRSP
#econsky #finsky

Please join us for this guest lecture with the brilliant Dr Eugenia Anderson (KNUST/Oxford) titled: 'We do not fear intimidation,
we will express our opposing views.' Thursday 23rd October, 4-5.30pm. All welcome! @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social @brisblackhums.bsky.social

🌟 Postdoc Opportunity in Marine Biogeochemistry at CNRS-CEREGE!

🚢 Are you a passionate researcher ready to tackle climate change? Dive into the ERC-funded Deep-C project in Aix-en-Provence, France!

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Yesterday, the PA Supreme Court held that when a board of elections decides before Election Day that a mail-in ballot won't count because of an error, the voter has a right to know so they can vote provisionally.

And that's why the GOP wants to axe them. Vote YES to retain.
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Bringing these shirts back for the fall, shipping in early November 🫡

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Mona Minkara uncovers patterns in how our lungs interact with airborne viruses The 2025 Trailblazers guest editor uses computational models to study lung chemistry while building resources that help blind scientists succeed

"You couldn’t stop me from pursuing science. . . . It was just part of who I am." - Mona Minkara. cen.acs.org/physical-che... #chemsky 🧪