Anne Boticario
@anneboticario.bsky.social
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'Known as hibakusha in Japan, the survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the only people in the world with firsthand experience of the horrors of nuclear warfare' ...
How a Japanese museum project is passing on the testimony of the last atomic bomb survivors
As numbers of atomic bomb survivors decline, can such deeply personal, traumatic memories truly be passed on to someone who did not live through them?
theconversation.com
August 13, 2025 at 10:25 AM
'Known as hibakusha in Japan, the survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the only people in the world with firsthand experience of the horrors of nuclear warfare' ...
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"All languages, large and small, have a lot to contribute to our common humanity if freed from linguistic feudalism. Education policies should be devised on the basis that all languages are treasuries of history, beauty and possibility." ~ Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Take away our language and we will forget who we are: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the language of conquest
The long read: The late Kenyan novelist and activist believed erasing language was the most lasting weapon of oppression. Here, Aminatta Forna recalls the man and introduces his essay on decolonisatio...
www.theguardian.com
August 13, 2025 at 7:42 AM
"All languages, large and small, have a lot to contribute to our common humanity if freed from linguistic feudalism. Education policies should be devised on the basis that all languages are treasuries of history, beauty and possibility." ~ Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
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This week’s new issue of #ScienceSignaling is out!
A long noncoding RNA offers a potential target in triple-negative breast cancer, mutual information uncovers pathways that underlie heterogeneity in pancreatic cancer, and more. https://scim.ag/45uRxLR
A long noncoding RNA offers a potential target in triple-negative breast cancer, mutual information uncovers pathways that underlie heterogeneity in pancreatic cancer, and more. https://scim.ag/45uRxLR
August 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
This week’s new issue of #ScienceSignaling is out!
A long noncoding RNA offers a potential target in triple-negative breast cancer, mutual information uncovers pathways that underlie heterogeneity in pancreatic cancer, and more. https://scim.ag/45uRxLR
A long noncoding RNA offers a potential target in triple-negative breast cancer, mutual information uncovers pathways that underlie heterogeneity in pancreatic cancer, and more. https://scim.ag/45uRxLR
Injury and Inhibition
The misunderstood story of Phineas Gage shows that we need a new way of understanding the experiences of brain injury survivors | Ben Platts-Mills
aeon.co/essays/how-t...
The misunderstood story of Phineas Gage shows that we need a new way of understanding the experiences of brain injury survivors | Ben Platts-Mills
aeon.co/essays/how-t...
How the ‘myth of Phineas Gage’ affects brain injury survivors | Aeon Essays
The misunderstood story of Phineas Gage shows that we need a new way of understanding the experiences of brain injury survivors
aeon.co
August 14, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Injury and Inhibition
The misunderstood story of Phineas Gage shows that we need a new way of understanding the experiences of brain injury survivors | Ben Platts-Mills
aeon.co/essays/how-t...
The misunderstood story of Phineas Gage shows that we need a new way of understanding the experiences of brain injury survivors | Ben Platts-Mills
aeon.co/essays/how-t...
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August 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
📍Matagarup Bridge
August 2, 2025 at 5:44 AM
📍Matagarup Bridge
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Numerical cognition in birds
Review by L. Regolin, M. Loconsole, O. Rosa-Salva, K. Brosche, M. Macchinizzi, A. Felisatti & R. Rugani
Web: go.nature.com/4lVxb5K
PDF: rdcu.be/eyEEM
Review by L. Regolin, M. Loconsole, O. Rosa-Salva, K. Brosche, M. Macchinizzi, A. Felisatti & R. Rugani
Web: go.nature.com/4lVxb5K
PDF: rdcu.be/eyEEM
July 31, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Numerical cognition in birds
Review by L. Regolin, M. Loconsole, O. Rosa-Salva, K. Brosche, M. Macchinizzi, A. Felisatti & R. Rugani
Web: go.nature.com/4lVxb5K
PDF: rdcu.be/eyEEM
Review by L. Regolin, M. Loconsole, O. Rosa-Salva, K. Brosche, M. Macchinizzi, A. Felisatti & R. Rugani
Web: go.nature.com/4lVxb5K
PDF: rdcu.be/eyEEM
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Hope some of y'all will read along with me for #WITMonth!
I've got stories queued up by some of Japan's best-known women writers (+ some you've likely never heard of), translated by some of my favorites—Balistrieri, Bergstrom, H Kawai, M Powell, Nieda, Takemori, Wilson, Yoneda...
Starts Friday!
I've got stories queued up by some of Japan's best-known women writers (+ some you've likely never heard of), translated by some of my favorites—Balistrieri, Bergstrom, H Kawai, M Powell, Nieda, Takemori, Wilson, Yoneda...
Starts Friday!
31 Short Stories for Women in Translation Month
I had so much fun reading along with RJL supporters for January in Japan, that I hope you’ll join me again for #WomeninTranslation Month. #WITMonth an annual event each August that has played its o…
readjapaneseliterature.com
July 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Hope some of y'all will read along with me for #WITMonth!
I've got stories queued up by some of Japan's best-known women writers (+ some you've likely never heard of), translated by some of my favorites—Balistrieri, Bergstrom, H Kawai, M Powell, Nieda, Takemori, Wilson, Yoneda...
Starts Friday!
I've got stories queued up by some of Japan's best-known women writers (+ some you've likely never heard of), translated by some of my favorites—Balistrieri, Bergstrom, H Kawai, M Powell, Nieda, Takemori, Wilson, Yoneda...
Starts Friday!
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This fall, Searoad will be back in print! This series of interconnected short stories winds through the lives of members of a small coastal community over time.
Searoad will be available from the Library of America on October 7th.
Cover design and illustration by Kimberly Glyder.
Searoad will be available from the Library of America on October 7th.
Cover design and illustration by Kimberly Glyder.
July 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
This fall, Searoad will be back in print! This series of interconnected short stories winds through the lives of members of a small coastal community over time.
Searoad will be available from the Library of America on October 7th.
Cover design and illustration by Kimberly Glyder.
Searoad will be available from the Library of America on October 7th.
Cover design and illustration by Kimberly Glyder.
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To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!
🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!
🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
July 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!
🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!
🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Daryl Hall and Todd Rundgren "I Saw The Light"
YouTube video by TRSD Global
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July 24, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.
~Joyce Carol Oates
#sundaysentence
~Joyce Carol Oates
#sundaysentence
July 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.
~Joyce Carol Oates
#sundaysentence
~Joyce Carol Oates
#sundaysentence
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Looking to discover a gem, maybe a long-lost book? Try a bookstore crawl!
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
‘The best way to discover hidden gems’: why you should try out a bookshop crawl
Like bar-hopping, but for browsing books: this trend, popularised on TikTok, makes for a great day out – and can help you discover unique literary spots
www.theguardian.com
June 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Looking to discover a gem, maybe a long-lost book? Try a bookstore crawl!
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
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For all #skystorians interested in #earlymodern intersections of medicine, gender, and race. Just dive into this fascinating post by Carolin Schmitz 1/3:
www.mmor.co.uk/blog/discurs...
www.mmor.co.uk/blog/discurs...
‘Discurso de Su Vida’: A Black Woman Healer’s Biography — Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720
Inquisition records from the Spanish, Portuguese and Roman Inquisition have become key sources to expand the range of voices within the combined histories of medicine and slavery, precisely because th...
www.mmor.co.uk
April 28, 2025 at 11:07 AM
For all #skystorians interested in #earlymodern intersections of medicine, gender, and race. Just dive into this fascinating post by Carolin Schmitz 1/3:
www.mmor.co.uk/blog/discurs...
www.mmor.co.uk/blog/discurs...
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I just turned on the lights to go downstairs and found this…
April 26, 2025 at 4:08 AM
I just turned on the lights to go downstairs and found this…
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What a blurb from Susan Hill
April 24, 2025 at 5:32 AM
What a blurb from Susan Hill
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"If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege."
Tim Walz
Tim Walz
April 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
"If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege."
Tim Walz
Tim Walz
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Check out this coverage of our work on trauma, imagery, and PTSD led by @rcyeung.bsky.social.
When you’re asked to remember something, does an image pop into your head?
Though using imagery can help people keep their memories vivid for longer, @rcyeung.bsky.social 's research shows that for people with #PTSD, a strong sense of imagery could be harmful.
Though using imagery can help people keep their memories vivid for longer, @rcyeung.bsky.social 's research shows that for people with #PTSD, a strong sense of imagery could be harmful.
Image-Based Memory May Heighten Symptoms of PTSD
Using imagery can help people keep their memories vivid for longer, but for those with PTSD, a strong sense of imagery could be harmful.
www.psychologicalscience.org
April 20, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Check out this coverage of our work on trauma, imagery, and PTSD led by @rcyeung.bsky.social.
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Wow! And the binder to Shakespeare's printer Richard Field possibly using a letter to Anne Hathaway as binder's waste. Did some households give/sell their old business correspondence to binders?
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Shakespeare did not leave his wife Anne in Stratford, letter fragment suggests
Professor says text shows Hathaway lived with playwright in London, upending the established idea of an unhappy marriage
www.theguardian.com
April 23, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Wow! And the binder to Shakespeare's printer Richard Field possibly using a letter to Anne Hathaway as binder's waste. Did some households give/sell their old business correspondence to binders?
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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Five people have seen a color never before visible to the naked human eye, thanks to a new retinal stimulation technique called Oz.
Learn more in #ScienceAdvances: scim.ag/442Hjn6
Learn more in #ScienceAdvances: scim.ag/442Hjn6
Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale
Image display by cell-by-cell retina stimulation, enabling colors impossible to see under natural viewing.
scim.ag
April 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Five people have seen a color never before visible to the naked human eye, thanks to a new retinal stimulation technique called Oz.
Learn more in #ScienceAdvances: scim.ag/442Hjn6
Learn more in #ScienceAdvances: scim.ag/442Hjn6
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anyone else act like a different person when they speak a different language? asking for a friend...
#langsky #linguist #multilingual #psychsky
#langsky #linguist #multilingual #psychsky
The Language I Live In: How Linguistic Habits Can Make or Break Your Conversations — Alexandra Ciufudean
Why multilingual people often have very different conversations depending on the language they’re speaking—and it’s more than just code-switching.
www.lunifer.net
April 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
anyone else act like a different person when they speak a different language? asking for a friend...
#langsky #linguist #multilingual #psychsky
#langsky #linguist #multilingual #psychsky