I always tell students if you ask a good question the article will write itself

if you're wondering, the answer is "probably not on purpose"

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Congratulations, Winter #UWGrad Class of 2025! 🔴🎓⚪️

Look back at today’s ceremony where our new alums and speakers reflected on the hard work, perseverance and self-discovery that will launch UW–Madison graduates into the next stage of their lives and careers.

Sometimes social media language comes in handy. Thinking about how to shorthand the difference between Latin's demonstrative pronouns and ended up with hic, haec, hoc ('this, these' [nearer]), ille, illa, illud ('that, those,' [farther]) and iste, ista, istud ('that, those' [derogatory]).

From scorpion embryos to ancient quartz veins from the Baraboo Hills, @uwmadscience.bsky.social's 2025 Cool Science Image Contest winners reveal how nature evolves in tiny steps over millions of years.

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Coming back to Bluesky after a while.

My fav bit from Babatha's archive is the ketubah (Jewish marriage contract) in which she makes her husband promise that if she is abducted into slavery or taken prisoner in war, he will pay her ransom. I think about the level of mistrust that suggests between a couple, as well as the real dangers...

A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius.

This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology

Gandalfs magic is the opposite of occult. It states pre-existing, but previously unknown, spiritual truths to the physical world, whiich then conforms to those truths.

The opposite of “occult” is “revelation.”

And I suppose while we're at it, Latin makes the same warrior/soldier distinction as English does. Roman soldiers are milites ('soldiers,' etymologically 'men in units') but never bellatores ('warriors') except in poetry, a word otherwise restricted to mythical heroes, gods and barbarians.

Does it even require saying that "the inauguration is moving indoors because the weather outside is likely to be terrible" is a bad omen?

I mean, how are they supposed to augur in anything if they can't see any birds or - worse yet - the birds are dead of frostbite.

Potato - A Lightweight Tool for Debugging and Testing Python Code

https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1huiq1y/potato_a_lightweight_tool_for_debugging_and/

'Sutton Hoo & Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?' This is one of the most exciting things I've written (so far..!). Thanks to everyone who helped.
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It’s Flag Day. Randall Flagg day. 🤣