astrOtuba
@astrotuba.bsky.social
AuDHD, into linguistics
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November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Old #Permic or #Anbur was derived from #Cyrillic to write #Komi, a #Uralic language in northern #European #Russia from 14th - 17th century.
Some of the letters were likely derived from Komi tamgas.
Full page: tinyurl.com/5n768rwb
#writingscripts
#linguistics
#history
#map
#matuww
Some of the letters were likely derived from Komi tamgas.
Full page: tinyurl.com/5n768rwb
#writingscripts
#linguistics
#history
#map
#matuww
August 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Old #Permic or #Anbur was derived from #Cyrillic to write #Komi, a #Uralic language in northern #European #Russia from 14th - 17th century.
Some of the letters were likely derived from Komi tamgas.
Full page: tinyurl.com/5n768rwb
#writingscripts
#linguistics
#history
#map
#matuww
Some of the letters were likely derived from Komi tamgas.
Full page: tinyurl.com/5n768rwb
#writingscripts
#linguistics
#history
#map
#matuww
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Why can’t more newspapers look like this?
Our latest blog features a recent acquisition: a Parisian journal, in medieval style, inspired by the 1900 Paris Exposition. Read all about it here: specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=30510
August 4, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Why can’t more newspapers look like this?
If you're a EU citizen, please sign this citizens' initiative.
It's goal is to stop videogame publishers destroying games after release / letting community to preserve games.
Only two months left and it has less than the half of votes, but it's still worth trying
eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public
It's goal is to stop videogame publishers destroying games after release / letting community to preserve games.
Only two months left and it has less than the half of votes, but it's still worth trying
eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public
European Citizens' Initiative
Give your support !
eci.ec.europa.eu
May 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
If you're a EU citizen, please sign this citizens' initiative.
It's goal is to stop videogame publishers destroying games after release / letting community to preserve games.
Only two months left and it has less than the half of votes, but it's still worth trying
eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public
It's goal is to stop videogame publishers destroying games after release / letting community to preserve games.
Only two months left and it has less than the half of votes, but it's still worth trying
eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public
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I'm delighted to say that my affordable, single volume introduction to Baltic religion in English is now PUBLISHED! Everything you wanted to know (hopefully) about the religions of the Lithuanians, Latvians and Old Prussians 🇱🇹🇱🇻🐍🔥🌳 www.arc-humanities.org/978180270249...
April 5, 2025 at 8:29 AM
I'm delighted to say that my affordable, single volume introduction to Baltic religion in English is now PUBLISHED! Everything you wanted to know (hopefully) about the religions of the Lithuanians, Latvians and Old Prussians 🇱🇹🇱🇻🐍🔥🌳 www.arc-humanities.org/978180270249...
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In the 14th century, someone who didn't have a highlighter handy thought to use octopus tentacles to mark the most important parts. I love it so much
(Manuscript from the Bankcroft library, UC Berkeley)
(Manuscript from the Bankcroft library, UC Berkeley)
March 31, 2025 at 6:46 PM
In the 14th century, someone who didn't have a highlighter handy thought to use octopus tentacles to mark the most important parts. I love it so much
(Manuscript from the Bankcroft library, UC Berkeley)
(Manuscript from the Bankcroft library, UC Berkeley)
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It seems rather fitting that one of the earliest surviving Lithuanian inscriptions, an early c16th annotation on Joannes Herolt's Liber discipuli de eruditione Christifidelium (1485), is the word 'prižadėjimas' (enchantment) next to an underlined section about snake worship 🐍
April 1, 2025 at 9:50 AM
It seems rather fitting that one of the earliest surviving Lithuanian inscriptions, an early c16th annotation on Joannes Herolt's Liber discipuli de eruditione Christifidelium (1485), is the word 'prižadėjimas' (enchantment) next to an underlined section about snake worship 🐍
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"From a distance the poster was hard to read, but it was extremely popular with the public for its exquisite attention to detail." Typography fans should be amazed/shocked by the wild type on display here. Again, total joy: www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet...
London's Underground to Wembley. Thomas Derrick & Bawden. 1924. Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd., H.M. Printers, London.
"Rare pictorial map / advertising poster for promoting subway transportation to the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley. The image illustrates Wembley's Football (soccer) Stadium in the center of the...
www.davidrumsey.com
March 9, 2025 at 10:19 PM
"From a distance the poster was hard to read, but it was extremely popular with the public for its exquisite attention to detail." Typography fans should be amazed/shocked by the wild type on display here. Again, total joy: www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet...
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Looked at another way, the Baltic is a Mediterranean of the north - with Sweden as North Africa, Finland as Iberia, Estonia as Italy, Latvia as the Balkans, Lithuania as Greece and Poland as Turkey. Gotland is Crete…
March 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Looked at another way, the Baltic is a Mediterranean of the north - with Sweden as North Africa, Finland as Iberia, Estonia as Italy, Latvia as the Balkans, Lithuania as Greece and Poland as Turkey. Gotland is Crete…
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Ukraine is Europe!
We stand by Ukraine.
We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor.
Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.
We stand by Ukraine.
We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor.
Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.
February 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Ukraine is Europe!
We stand by Ukraine.
We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor.
Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.
We stand by Ukraine.
We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor.
Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.
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Again, this is peak palaeoart.
various vetulicolians are up on my Youtube channel!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBzl...
#Sciart #paleoart #vetulicolia #cambrianperiod #Blender3D
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBzl...
#Sciart #paleoart #vetulicolia #cambrianperiod #Blender3D
February 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Again, this is peak palaeoart.
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Once again I am leaving the Munich Security Conference in a low mood. Amongst all the noise, the US signalled their plans for Europe, so things are becoming clearer. But things are clearly not good.
This is what we now know, and what we have to do about it:🧵1/17
This is what we now know, and what we have to do about it:🧵1/17
February 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Once again I am leaving the Munich Security Conference in a low mood. Amongst all the noise, the US signalled their plans for Europe, so things are becoming clearer. But things are clearly not good.
This is what we now know, and what we have to do about it:🧵1/17
This is what we now know, and what we have to do about it:🧵1/17
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Today I've discovered an animal called "Skeleton panda sea squirt" exists. A sessile, filter feeding tunicat.
February 16, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Today I've discovered an animal called "Skeleton panda sea squirt" exists. A sessile, filter feeding tunicat.
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"There is still so little available to read on Slavic mythology in English (and for adults), and The Slavic Myths is to be welcomed as a wonderful introduction to the matrix of story in the cultures of Eastern Europe". My review: drfrancisyoung.com/2025/02/15/r... @thamesandhudson.bsky.social
February 16, 2025 at 8:53 AM
"There is still so little available to read on Slavic mythology in English (and for adults), and The Slavic Myths is to be welcomed as a wonderful introduction to the matrix of story in the cultures of Eastern Europe". My review: drfrancisyoung.com/2025/02/15/r... @thamesandhudson.bsky.social
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The Ea-nasir complaint Vulcan calligraphy copper plate is going to be such a mindfuck for archeologists in a few thousand years
#startrek #eanasir #conlang 🐦🐦
www.tkayart.com/product-page...
#startrek #eanasir #conlang 🐦🐦
www.tkayart.com/product-page...
February 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The Ea-nasir complaint Vulcan calligraphy copper plate is going to be such a mindfuck for archeologists in a few thousand years
#startrek #eanasir #conlang 🐦🐦
www.tkayart.com/product-page...
#startrek #eanasir #conlang 🐦🐦
www.tkayart.com/product-page...
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Don’t know about resources, really.
My own dad is half-Łemko but grandpa completely assimilated after being resettled in Akcja „Wisła”.
When he reunited years after the war with his long lost brother, my grandpa was a Pole and his brother was a Ukrainian
My own dad is half-Łemko but grandpa completely assimilated after being resettled in Akcja „Wisła”.
When he reunited years after the war with his long lost brother, my grandpa was a Pole and his brother was a Ukrainian
February 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Don’t know about resources, really.
My own dad is half-Łemko but grandpa completely assimilated after being resettled in Akcja „Wisła”.
When he reunited years after the war with his long lost brother, my grandpa was a Pole and his brother was a Ukrainian
My own dad is half-Łemko but grandpa completely assimilated after being resettled in Akcja „Wisła”.
When he reunited years after the war with his long lost brother, my grandpa was a Pole and his brother was a Ukrainian
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Here are examples of #Glagolitic #epigraphy :
1 Rounded form
2 Angular form
3 "Semi-literate" form
4 Book cursive
More info: tinyurl.com/mwy64njj
#writingscripts
#linguistics
#history
#paleography
#archaeology
🏺
#matuww
1 Rounded form
2 Angular form
3 "Semi-literate" form
4 Book cursive
More info: tinyurl.com/mwy64njj
#writingscripts
#linguistics
#history
#paleography
#archaeology
🏺
#matuww
January 18, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Here are examples of #Glagolitic #epigraphy :
1 Rounded form
2 Angular form
3 "Semi-literate" form
4 Book cursive
More info: tinyurl.com/mwy64njj
#writingscripts
#linguistics
#history
#paleography
#archaeology
🏺
#matuww
1 Rounded form
2 Angular form
3 "Semi-literate" form
4 Book cursive
More info: tinyurl.com/mwy64njj
#writingscripts
#linguistics
#history
#paleography
#archaeology
🏺
#matuww
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Having a color-blind colleague is a good reminder that we need to be more careful when designing figures for scientific publication 🧪
My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...
My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...
Color blind friendly palettes for data visualizations with categories
A discussion of color blind friendly palettes for labeling unique catergories in data visualization.
thenode.biologists.com
December 8, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Having a color-blind colleague is a good reminder that we need to be more careful when designing figures for scientific publication 🧪
My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...
My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...
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Popeye, Mickey Mouse & Winnie the Pooh walk into a bar...
It’s not a joke—it’s a creative opportunity!
Learn more in the latest Empowering Libraries newsletter: mailchi.mp/8f9604c74fda...
It’s not a joke—it’s a creative opportunity!
Learn more in the latest Empowering Libraries newsletter: mailchi.mp/8f9604c74fda...
January 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Popeye, Mickey Mouse & Winnie the Pooh walk into a bar...
It’s not a joke—it’s a creative opportunity!
Learn more in the latest Empowering Libraries newsletter: mailchi.mp/8f9604c74fda...
It’s not a joke—it’s a creative opportunity!
Learn more in the latest Empowering Libraries newsletter: mailchi.mp/8f9604c74fda...
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A photogrammetry scan on a free app, a 3D printer and viola, a replica of an Ichthyosaurus specimen for public handling and tactile multisensory education 💖
January 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
A photogrammetry scan on a free app, a 3D printer and viola, a replica of an Ichthyosaurus specimen for public handling and tactile multisensory education 💖
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Always 💖
Don't make me tap the sign
Don't make me tap the sign
November 6, 2024 at 5:42 AM
Always 💖
Don't make me tap the sign
Don't make me tap the sign
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Golden Coptic initials in a 14th-century gospel book written in Bohairic Coptic, with Arabic translation. Collection of Dayr Qiddīs Anbā Maqqār (Monastery of Saint Macarius) in Wadi al-Natrun, Egypt. Learn more: hmml.org/about/global...
View each page (ABMQ 00017): www.vhmml.org/readingRoom/...
January 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Golden Coptic initials in a 14th-century gospel book written in Bohairic Coptic, with Arabic translation. Collection of Dayr Qiddīs Anbā Maqqār (Monastery of Saint Macarius) in Wadi al-Natrun, Egypt. Learn more: hmml.org/about/global...
View each page (ABMQ 00017): www.vhmml.org/readingRoom/...
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Go Mongolia! Incredible how the country became democratic in the 1990s while both Russia and China were still weak. And now this while Russia is distracted 🙌
m.akipress.com/news:812862:...
m.akipress.com/news:812862:...
Mongolia starts using traditional Mongol script in public office
Starting in 2025, public office activities in Mongolia will be conducted in dual scripts, Cyrillic and Mongol Script, in line with the Law on the Mongolian Language, the Ministry of Education of Mongo...
m.akipress.com
January 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Go Mongolia! Incredible how the country became democratic in the 1990s while both Russia and China were still weak. And now this while Russia is distracted 🙌
m.akipress.com/news:812862:...
m.akipress.com/news:812862:...