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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her)

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Author of the award-winning RENAISSANCE ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE INVENTION OF THE HUMAN.
Pre-order HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY from fall 2024.
Words: TLS; Nature, Science, Aeon. surekhadavies.substack.com. www.surekhadavies.org.
Repped: Roz Foster (FGLA)

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Can you believe it was the link to my new book?!?! On the landing-page?! At least there were other links elsewhere.

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A shout-out to #authors and everyone else with a personal website. Check links regularly! Sometimes you change stuff elsewhere and then a major link on your landing page website becomes nonfunctional for months even though you've been updating other things on your website.

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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her)'s avatar Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
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Try this instead: a GORGEOUS Kennedy Center concert by the Philadelphia Jazz Orchestra. I streamed it most days over the last five weeks - one of the things that's been getting me through copy edits. www.kennedy-center.org/video/millen...

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🥲 It always killed me how various outdoor DC things are only scheduled in the summer - when it's too hot to be out there. Us residents like there to be stuff to do when we're around and not melting.

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Come join the "Correspondence Corps"! Be a part of the exclusive launch team for The Dragon From Chicago.

As a special team member, you'll receive early details and get the chance to spend time with Pamela, asking questions about the book. 🗃️ Sign up here: forms.gle/2QpJZVzMJniQ...

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We have access to an extraordinary amount of materials that will explain the same concepts in twenty different ways. What most people often need is to listen to the person in question to figure out what you’re missing.

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So a thing about AI is that, not understanding the material itself, it cannot understand what the gap is in someone else’s understanding. Students already have access to materials that will repeat important points over and over. They don’t need more.

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Bruce Arthurs's avatar Bruce Arthurs @brucearthursaz.bsky.social
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Through July 14th, the Smithsonian's bookstore is having a 20% off sale with code BOOKS20 at checkout. Lots of interesting titles: History, cookbooks, science, childrens books, fiction by black SF writers (Butler, Delany, Jemisin, etc.).

www.smithsonianstore.com/books/

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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her)'s avatar Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
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I'm in awe; the essay is amazing! Now enjoy a well-earned sleep.

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Melanie D’Arrigo's avatar Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social
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If you steal $1000, you can be sent to prison. When health insurance companies steal $50,000,000,000, they get tax breaks, subsidies and government contracts, while the people they steal from die or go into debt. But keep blaming immigrants and poor people for rising crime.

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Ben Gross's avatar Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social
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Let's kick things off by introducing the members of the Linda Hall Library's 2024-25 fellowship cohort.

This year, we will be supporting 22 scholars (12 virtual, 10 residential) based in the US, Europe & S. America.

Read more about their projects: lindahall.org/research/lin... #histSTM [2/9] 🗃️📜

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Ben Gross's avatar Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social
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Sometimes at the end of a short week and the middle of a holiday weekend, I like to reflect on the recent accomplishments of Linda Hall Library scholars.

That's right, #histSTM, #STS & #histsci friends...it's time for another revolutionary edition of #FellowFriday! [1/9]

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Ben Gross's avatar Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social
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"Each of them tell us something different about Galileo’s intentions & tell us something different about the world #Galileo lived in." -@jasonwdean.com

Thanks to KSHB's Charlie Keegan, who visited LHL to look at all 3 of our copies of Sidereus Nuncius!

www.kshb.com/news/local-n... 🗃️📜 #histSTM

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Thank you! 😍 There are some jaw-on-floor stories, for sure.

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Erin Biba's avatar Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social
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Author of the post blocked me even though I was just doing a teachable moment and was being very polite to them so here's the post so we can all continue to learn.

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Stanford University Press's avatar Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social
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We asked some of our authors to respond to the Supreme Court's recent decision on presidential immunity—you can read what they have to say on the SUP blog

#ReadUP #ReadSUP #SCOTUS

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Mo Ryan's avatar Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social
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I don’t know writer/journalist Annabel Ross personally, but what she had to say about the Gaiman situation covers a fair bit of what I think so far… now I’ll go back to trying to find an emoji that conveys “goddammit I’m so fucking furious & sad & exhausted”

open.substack.com/pub/politics...

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Randall Gross's avatar Randall Gross @randallgross.bsky.social
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Project 2025 will double down on protections for fossil fuel industries while killing clean power initiatives, while this is going on, but the media is mostly focused elsewhere for some idiotic reason
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Emergency Workplace Organizing's avatar Emergency Workplace Organizing @organizeworkers.bsky.social
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Damn, they got Everything You Wanted to Know About Starting a Union on these things?

📆Thursday, July 11, 2024, 8:30–10 p.m. ET (5:30–7 p.m. PT)

(You can also register on your phone or computer.)
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Amal El-Mohtar's avatar Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com
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Oh hey y’all guess what I have a new book coming out in March 2025 & you can pre-order it if you want!
You can do so from anywhere, I recommend your local indie, but meanwhile here’s Macmillan’s link us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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Mere Smith's avatar Mere Smith @evilgalprods.bsky.social
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it’s that last sentence tucked at the end that the right is truly terrified of

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Phil Plait's avatar Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social
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Just found out about a massive data leak at Twitter/X. I don't use it anymore but I keep my account alive so no one else can claim my username. I just changed my password and suggest others do too. Also use 2FA whenever you can.

More:

cyberpress.org/9-4gb-twitte...

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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her)'s avatar Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
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AI in six words, for WIRED: "The emperor's new clothes, only crapper."

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*mandated. It's a truth universally acknowledged that a skeet with a typo is a skeet that will go viral.

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KJ Charles's avatar KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com
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Also: Get off your arse and vote. My constituency was won for Labour by 15 votes. A high turnout from the French sorted this. You don't vote? Well, the fash do. If you're replying to this with why it's ideologically impure for a truly left wing person to vote, please just block yourself, I'm tired.

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Shane Thomas's avatar Shane Thomas @tokenbg.bsky.social
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UK's is 6 weeks. And some of us think even that's probably a little too long. I do wonder who's making the $ out of these long campaigns bc someone sure is.

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Greece, take note. Whoever green-lit and mandate a national 6-day working week is... wrong. No one thrives when they are so tired that their brain and body tick more slowly and make more mistakes.

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Patrick S. Tomlinson's avatar Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek.bsky.social
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Wow. @nytimes.com has closed their Threads account and left the platform after days of getting just shredded in the replies for their handling of Biden post debate.

Now they're getting dog piled on Instagram for running from Threads.

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I might consider joining Threads just to see this.

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Meanwhile, corporate welfare, a.k.a. tax breaks, probably large enough to power the country, continue apace. 🤮

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The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

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"In the US, the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974 and its various amendments mandated the EPA to maintain a register of toxic pollutants; there are now about a hundred chemicals on the list and environmental groups agitate to include many more." But since the end of the Chevron Deference, what next?

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Steven Shapin on Christy Spackman's The Taste of Water @ucpress.bsky.social. Re: North America and Europe: "There were now political institutions you could complain to if you thought the water tasted odd or if there were reasons to think it unsafe." 1/ 🧪 #histsci

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Faith Kearns's avatar Faith Kearns @fkearns.bsky.social
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Had a great time talking with Christy Spackman about her book THE TASTE OF WATER. So many interesting points about how we’ve come to prefer water that tastes the same everywhere + how to gain appreciation for water that tastes like the places it comes from azwaterinnovation.asu.edu/asking-why-w...

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