Happy #InternationalWomensDay Founded to investigate science, literature and antiquities, @ria.ie encouraged debate between scholars of diverse background & interests so long as they were male. Our blog, 'Skirting the issue', looks at the first women of the Academy www.dib.ie/blog/skirtin...
What a lovely thing to hear!
Photograph of Marietta Blau
For #WomensHistoryMonth: Let us celebrate the life and accomplishments of experimental physicist Marietta Blau (1894-1970), a pioneer in the use of photographic emulsions to study subatomic particles, including those from cosmic rays. 🎢⚛️🧪 #WomenInSTEM 🧵1/n
March 7 - Remembering Lucy Parsons
On this day in Labor History the year was 1942. That was the day a house fire claimed the life of a true champion for working people. Lucy Gonzales Parsons was born in Texas.
on this day in 1965 "what became known as Bloody Sunday occurred in Selma, Alabama. The march was named for the 600 marchers who were attacked while crossing Edmund Pettus bridge. Law enforcement officers attacked unarmed marchers with billy clubs and sprayed tear gas."
On this day in 1943, a 97 year old Dutch Jewish woman arrived at the Sobibor extermination camp where she was murdered in the gas chamber. Her name was Jannetje Philipse-van Buren
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I’d love to discover some smaller accounts that share great dog content.
If you know any you enjoy, please recommend them below.
At once impeccably cool and aggressively unfashionable, Joe Jackson’s Steppin’ Out is four minutes of nightmare disco and nightclub jitters which paves the way from ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’ to the Magnetic Fields. Detours through Motown and Freud. A perfect single. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJwt...
UNFOLDING If there is no spirit unfolding itself in history, No gradual growth of consciousness Beneath the land grabs and forced migrations, The bought elections, the betrayal of trust By party faction in the name of progress- What about spirit in the personal realm Unfolding slowly inside us, so slowly That our best days seem like a holding action? Seasons repeat themselves, but the tree Shading the yard keeps growing. Don't be chagrined that the sadness you felt This evening beside the bed of a friend Who's growing weaker wasn't more profound Than the sadness of yesterday, that you still Can't imagine a fraction of what he's feeling As the world he loves slips from his grasp. No progress from your perspective, But who's to say what you might notice If the scroll of the last few months were unrolled On the table before you, how clear it might be That your your understanding of all you're losing In losing him has been slowly deepening? Another day, you say to yourself, at dusk As you climb your porch steps, which you notice Could use some scraping and painting this weekend, A fresh coat that with luck will last a year. --Carl Dennis
SO many great poems in these old issues of The New Yorker
Pets are so weird like it's just this little individual that lives in your house and you can't speak to each other but you're just best friends.
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Me to my dogs: why on earth are yall barking right now
Dogs: last time we checked we're dogs
Me: touché
Oh and #adhd ... British Journal of Psychiatry whole bunch of experts Professor Tamsin Ford, Head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge leading ⬇️
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Madge Adams
3/6/1912 — b. Madge Adam, British astronomer, solar physics researcher, scholar. Intl renown for her research on sunspots; director, Univ of Oxford Observatory; instructor of physics + #astronomy, Oxford (1937-57); fellow, Royal Astronomical Society #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM #AstroSky #SciSky
We’re coming to the top of the hour.
Doors open.
Stay awhile.
The best critics are not afraid to sit in ambiguity, just as Ariella Budick does here in her first-rate review of Ceija Stojka, an artist who survived the concentration camps as.ft.com/r/e65fffc4-1...
Rosa Luxemburg’s mug shot
Rosa Luxemburg was born March 5, 1871.
At times like these it always helps to read some William Butler Yeats
Brilliant and fascinating detail! Great illustration of exactly why history is endlessly rewarding and challenging
1. Exile on Cold Harbour Lane - Alabama 3
2. Smart - Sleeper
3. The Signs Are All There - Blameless
4. Drastic Fantastic - K.T. Tunstall
5. Ruins - First Aid Kit
#FridayFive loving the albums a bit more
3 panel illustration of a person who opens a book that says how to make money, and inside it says work so they start crying
me
1. Street Legal - Bob Dylan
2. Sky at Night - I Am Kloot
3. The End of History - Fionn Regan
4. From Scotland with Love - King Creosote
5. Careless Love - Madeleine Peytoux
#FridayFive
#FridayFive are albums you don't think get enough love.
1. The Sun is Often Out. The Longpigs.
2. Baby I'm Bored. Evan Dando.
3. On. Echobelly.
4. Penguin Eggs. Nic Jones.
5. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. Neutral Milk Hotel.
RIP Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, died this day 1966, nominated for Nobel Prize in Lit in 1965 and 1966.
“Rising from the past, my shadow
Is running in silence to meet me.”
"Wild honey smells of freedom
The dust - of sunlight
The mouth of a young girl, like a violet
But gold - smells of nothing.”
While many cannot visit Kyiv,
and perhaps not everyone will be able to even after the war,
I’m honored to be your eyes into my beloved city and country.
It lives.
Save this place for the future (or the present): Kitchen & Garden
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In case anyone needs some good vibes today youtube.com/watch?v=5AVY...
You make so many good points in this thread Ben. Do you think this may even be part of the reason for the backlog situation we currently face? That in fact we don't have the research to actually address the issues we promise to fix?
4. Except we're building this on an assumption that's highly suspect at least. The @schoolsweek.bsky.social investigation into what was on EHCPs was hair raising. So much dubious practice.
schoolsweek.co.uk/send-provisi...
Screenshot of text from the linked story overlaid on a lino cut print of a telegraph pole.
Singing in the Wire.
A Willerby Story.
One final five minute call with someone you never said something you should have to.
Who would you call? What would you say?
willerby.substack.com/p/singing-in...
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Harriet Tubman
#WomensHistoryMonth2026
Harriet Tubman
Born enslaved in Dorchester County,she became the most influential conductors of the underground railroad. She escaped slavery 1849, but helped more Marylanders.She helped guide 70 people to freedom. Explore more on Harriet Tubman Byway Maryland.
