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bfletcherwatson.bsky.social
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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michaelokun.bsky.social
RIP Dr. Nolan R. Williams (1983-2025) professor at Stanford. He was a pioneer in the treatment of depression and a friend. I read this Substack eulogy on him this morning, and I thought it really captured both the man and his brilliance.
thefrontierpsychiatrists.substack.com/p/a-eulogy-f...
October 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
September 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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vajra.me
Science fiction is the subset of fantasy where we are being fashionable about science. This is science fiction's own novum: the idea that "science" can be an aesthetic and that then-current models and ideologies of knowledge, both in form and content, can be a source of both constraint and excession
August 31, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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logandean.games
You cannot support democracy without supporting trans rights.
August 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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garnethenderson.com
I actually just shed a tear. This is the most absurd story I’ve ever read. Levels of absurdity have never been higher
August 21, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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paulsummergrad.bsky.social
Leaving aside the variations of this hypothesis the elegance of the recent paper in Nature on the role of Lithium in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s (linking with the Amyloid hypothesis from the lab that first focused on AB42) is a remarkable piece of work that needs replication and human trials.
August 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Does anyone at the Philadelphia ritual last night remember what V said to introduce The Future is a Foreign Land?
Something about rainy days? #thebandghost
July 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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mikejohansenmd.medsky.social
These researchers deserve and award. Novel idea w/10 years of follow-up.

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Fracture Prevention with Infrequent Zoledronate in Women 50 to 60 Years of Age | NEJM
Zoledronate prevents fractures in older women when administered every 12 to 18 months, but its effects on bone density and bone turnover persist beyond 5 years. Whether infrequent zoledronate admin...
www.nejm.org
January 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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novysan.bsky.social
MAKE PHILOMENA CUNK THE NEXT DOCTOR WHO YOU COWARDS.
January 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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davidmcswane.bsky.social
Let me tell you a story – one of the more haunting I’ve seen in 20 years of journalism. It’s about greed, death and denial. It took two years to unravel one doctor’s myth, a hospital’s complicity in creating it, and a documented trail of suspicious deaths…🧵
December 7, 2024 at 3:52 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
As you PROBABLY heard, It's #GivingTuesday!! (AHHH)

Our goal at @skypeascientist.bsky.social is to increase monthly donors.

Getting $5-10 a month from hundreds of people is how we've sustained our program for the last 8 years (!!)

Will you join our monthly support squad?
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Monthly Skype a Scientist Support Squad
Help us increase our monthly donations by $1000/month
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December 3, 2024 at 5:07 PM
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the-soloist.itch.io
The Soloist's 2024 Gift Guide is out with recommendations from 20 indie tabletop game designers. This community-currated list includes:
👃 scented dice
📚 magazines and books
🎴 playing and Tarot cards
🎲 and a load of solo/GMless games.
Thanks to everyone who contributed!
🎁 The Soloist's 2024 Gift Guide
Gifts for tabletop gamers recommended by 20 indie designers
soloist.substack.com
December 2, 2024 at 3:40 PM
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stjbs.bsky.social
"Across Texas, residency applications in ob-gyn dropped significantly. Data from the Gender Equity Policy Institute revealed a fifty-six-per-cent spike in maternal deaths in the state between 2019 and 2022."

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Texas Ob-Gyn Exodus
Amid increasingly stringent abortion laws, doctors who provide maternal care have been fleeing the state.
www.newyorker.com
November 27, 2024 at 2:47 AM
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mikejohansenmd.medsky.social
It's gonna happen everywhere with abortion bans. There isn't much slack in any of these systems and the areas with already tight supply are going to be hit the hardest. New docs might stop over for a few years, but will flee once they experience the cruelty.
November 25, 2024 at 10:02 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
I'm packing up advent calendars for the rest of the day. Get one today and I'll drop it at the post office first thing tomorrow morning.

We're in the advent calendar home stretch then I can stop posting about 'em and you can stop seeing me post about them 🤝

Get one here: squidfacts.net
sarahmackattack.bsky.social Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · Nov 23
Hey procrastinators.

Advent starts in about a week.

Did you get an advent calendar yet??

These will give you a frog fact every day of advent. You scratch off the sparkles to reveal facts!

Bonus? Sales support science education nonprofit @skypeascientist.bsky.social
a rectangular poster being held up by Sarah with flowers in the background. there are 24 sparkly shiny stickers and the poster is covered in frogs, illustrated in bright colors, including a leopard frog, poison dart frog, green tree frog, other tree frog, wood frog i think, and bullfrog.
November 24, 2024 at 7:57 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
I did some math in August & noticed that if we sell 5000 advent calendars, I can fund @skypeascientist.bsky.social 2025 without getting any grants. I wrote grants anyway, but I wanted some backup!

So far, 0 grants for 2025.
BUT!
We've sold 2,183 calendars!!

1/2 way funded!

Get one: Squidfacts.net
Sarah holds up a calendar covered in iridescent silver/rainbow stickers. The top says "Frog Facts" and there are 7 frogs and toads on the calendar including a bullfrog, wood frog, and suriname toad in the water, a poison dart frog and leopard frog on land, and two kinds of tree frogs in the tree.
November 12, 2024 at 6:43 PM
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engber.bsky.social
gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Fraudulent Science of Success
Business schools are in the grips of a scandal that threatens to undermine their most influential research—and the credibility of an entire field.
www.theatlantic.com
November 19, 2024 at 4:25 PM
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mlbarnett.bsky.social
A project of mine with 300 other colleagues

Send over questions and support!

www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/18/b...
Citing ‘burnout,’ nearly 300 primary care doctors at Mass General Brigham take steps to unionize - The Boston Globe
The doctors comprise the vast majority of primary care physicians employed by Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 18, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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jbcarmody.bsky.social
Aw jeez, not this again.

According to this consultant, hospitals now *lose* an average of $304,312 per physician per year.

🤦🏻‍♂️

Guess it's time for another thread on budgetary gerrymandering.
Screenshot from the Kaufman Hall “Physician Flash Report,” which asserts that the average physician “subsidy” topped $300,000 for the first time in Q3 of 2024. “The employment model where hospitals subsidize physician employment is broken and needs to change.”
November 17, 2024 at 7:12 PM
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shematologist.medsky.social
This shouldn’t have to be said.

Be kinder to all of the trainees.
cj-cregg-cook.bsky.social Connor J. Cook, MD @cj-cregg-cook.bsky.social · Nov 16
Dear Medicine:

Please be kinder to PGY1’s…

That’s all I ask #medsky
November 16, 2024 at 10:01 PM
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tomewing.bsky.social
While unwell I’ve been binge reading Haruko Ichikawa’s excellent Land Of The Lustrous - a strange far future manga. Her panel compositions use scale and greys and symmetry in really thrilling ways
A panel from Land Of The Lustrous - two thin figures by a covered table in the foreground in front of a set of vast windows with a vault of gothic arches stretching into the distance A black and white panel from Land Of The Lustrous - two thin figures carrying swords walk through some massive modernist architecture - a structure propped up by huge buttresses. White clouds and a dark sky in the background A grotesque picture of a crystalline humanoid missing chunks of their legs and their forearms, their head has been replaced with crystal spikes jutting out at wild angles - the spikes have flowers on the end. Stark white background Two panels from Land Of The Lustrous - in the top one four stick figures are standing between symmetrical lines of bare trees, looking up into a greyscale sky full of clouds and a geometric shape - both also symmetrical. The bottom panel shows the four weary and damaged faces looking up, presumably at the same view
October 18, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
Elmo was cracking me up on set when we shot this video.

Me: mucous can seem kinda gross
Elmo: no no. Mucous doesn’t SEEM gross, it IS gross

I had so much fun sharing Jersey shore wildlife with these kids!

Check it out!
youtu.be/NNItHwcj2no?si…
Sesame Street: Elmo and Kids Meet a Marine Biologist featuring @hihokids
Let's take a dive into the wonderful world of the ocean! Elmo and his friends from HiHo Kids meet a Marine Biologist who studies animals that live in the sea...
https://youtu.be/NNItHwcj2no?si…
July 13, 2024 at 2:14 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
psst...

Starting April 30th, I'm teaching a just-for-fun, 4-week online class all about animals in the dark

We're talking nocturnal animals, cave & soil animals, deep sea animals... any animal that lives without light, we're talking about 'em.

Join us!
www.atlasobscura.com/experiences/...
Life Without Light: Creatures in the Dark With Sarah McAnulty
In this 4-part lecture series, learn about some of the planet’s most fascinating creatures that dwell in the dark. Course Description As night falls, saucer-eyed aye...
www.atlasobscura.com
March 31, 2024 at 10:49 PM