Joseph Davis
@joseph-m-davis.bsky.social
Jewish Studies. Live in Bala Cynwyd (near Philly). Grew up in Providence. Wife, three kids, cat. "Do nothing, know nothing, be nothing.
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We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications
The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...
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December 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
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there’s a 25 year old Canadian biopic called Eisenstein starring Simon McBurney in the title role by a director called Renny Bartlett who never made another feature
as far as I can tell almost no one but me ever saw it and the few people who did thought it was mid to meh, but I absolutel loved it
as far as I can tell almost no one but me ever saw it and the few people who did thought it was mid to meh, but I absolutel loved it
December 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
there’s a 25 year old Canadian biopic called Eisenstein starring Simon McBurney in the title role by a director called Renny Bartlett who never made another feature
as far as I can tell almost no one but me ever saw it and the few people who did thought it was mid to meh, but I absolutel loved it
as far as I can tell almost no one but me ever saw it and the few people who did thought it was mid to meh, but I absolutel loved it
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This volume of Lithuanian Historical Studies includes an article, "The Yiddish Nation as an Imagined Community," on use of LLMs on #YIVO archival materials for study of pre-war E European #Yiddish - based #Jewish identity. Looks fascinating @dhjewish.bsky.social @mmargolis.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This volume of Lithuanian Historical Studies includes an article, "The Yiddish Nation as an Imagined Community," on use of LLMs on #YIVO archival materials for study of pre-war E European #Yiddish - based #Jewish identity. Looks fascinating @dhjewish.bsky.social @mmargolis.bsky.social
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The latest edition of Lithuanian Historical Studies is out, featuring an article by Mindaugas Šapoka on the question of how close the Stuarts came to moving to Poland-Lithuania brill.com/view/journal...
December 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The latest edition of Lithuanian Historical Studies is out, featuring an article by Mindaugas Šapoka on the question of how close the Stuarts came to moving to Poland-Lithuania brill.com/view/journal...
My Congressperson @repdean.bsky.social just emailed this.
Each year, I return to Conn. Gov. Wilbur Cross’s 1936 Thanksgiving message: www.jud.ct.gov/lawlib/histo... He wrote that the world had “brought us by a way that we did not know to the end of another year.”
By a way that we did not know.
Each year, I return to Conn. Gov. Wilbur Cross’s 1936 Thanksgiving message: www.jud.ct.gov/lawlib/histo... He wrote that the world had “brought us by a way that we did not know to the end of another year.”
By a way that we did not know.
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December 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
My Congressperson @repdean.bsky.social just emailed this.
Each year, I return to Conn. Gov. Wilbur Cross’s 1936 Thanksgiving message: www.jud.ct.gov/lawlib/histo... He wrote that the world had “brought us by a way that we did not know to the end of another year.”
By a way that we did not know.
Each year, I return to Conn. Gov. Wilbur Cross’s 1936 Thanksgiving message: www.jud.ct.gov/lawlib/histo... He wrote that the world had “brought us by a way that we did not know to the end of another year.”
By a way that we did not know.
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Which I think is a good sign they are really losing the cultural battle.
Also that last part is absolutely not true. Every artist hates a bunch of people sometimes including close friends of theirs.
Also that last part is absolutely not true. Every artist hates a bunch of people sometimes including close friends of theirs.
November 30, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Which I think is a good sign they are really losing the cultural battle.
Also that last part is absolutely not true. Every artist hates a bunch of people sometimes including close friends of theirs.
Also that last part is absolutely not true. Every artist hates a bunch of people sometimes including close friends of theirs.
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Indiana Senate Republican Greg Walker “said he would have reported the alleged violation to federal authorities “if I thought that there was anyone of integrity in Washington that would follow through on my accusation ..”
@adamwren.bsky.social #redistrict
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@adamwren.bsky.social #redistrict
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November 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Indiana Senate Republican Greg Walker “said he would have reported the alleged violation to federal authorities “if I thought that there was anyone of integrity in Washington that would follow through on my accusation ..”
@adamwren.bsky.social #redistrict
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@adamwren.bsky.social #redistrict
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Someone else (probably Stephen Miller) obviously wrote this post. Not that it matters that much, since I’m sure Trump shares most of these vile opinions, but it’s a harsh reminder that Gramps isn’t actually running the country, and the people who are will still be around after he kicks the bucket.
November 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Someone else (probably Stephen Miller) obviously wrote this post. Not that it matters that much, since I’m sure Trump shares most of these vile opinions, but it’s a harsh reminder that Gramps isn’t actually running the country, and the people who are will still be around after he kicks the bucket.
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Walter de Staplecat, Simpkin IV, Teabag, Balthasar and Benny D Cat take the stage as we meet the college cats of Oxford. And, of course, Magdalen’s Ozymandias. Read on for our photo special. (Includes a cat map.) oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
College cats of Oxford
Once upon a time, we featured an image of Magdalen's kitten, Ozymandias, in our newsletter. We figured it might be a gentle contrast to our regular diet of planning and local politics.
The grey ball ...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Walter de Staplecat, Simpkin IV, Teabag, Balthasar and Benny D Cat take the stage as we meet the college cats of Oxford. And, of course, Magdalen’s Ozymandias. Read on for our photo special. (Includes a cat map.) oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
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This is part of our universe.
An area of sky about the size of a grain of sand held at arm's length.
The spiked features are stars in the Milky Way.
EVERYTHING ELSE IS A GALAXY.
An area of sky about the size of a grain of sand held at arm's length.
The spiked features are stars in the Milky Way.
EVERYTHING ELSE IS A GALAXY.
November 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
This is part of our universe.
An area of sky about the size of a grain of sand held at arm's length.
The spiked features are stars in the Milky Way.
EVERYTHING ELSE IS A GALAXY.
An area of sky about the size of a grain of sand held at arm's length.
The spiked features are stars in the Milky Way.
EVERYTHING ELSE IS A GALAXY.
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A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
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November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
White's essay on freedom is worth reading. So is Charlotte's Web, of course. And so is his essay on democracy, but it is behind The New Yorker paywall.
NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about.
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
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November 17, 2025 at 1:57 AM
White's essay on freedom is worth reading. So is Charlotte's Web, of course. And so is his essay on democracy, but it is behind The New Yorker paywall.
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if only there were anything in the bible addressed to people fixated on the finer points of liturgy and religious law but devoid of all concern for their fellow human beings
November 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
if only there were anything in the bible addressed to people fixated on the finer points of liturgy and religious law but devoid of all concern for their fellow human beings
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Get in loser … we’re reinventing the rule of law from first principles
November 15, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Get in loser … we’re reinventing the rule of law from first principles
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A Medieval Woman Was Named Diot Coke – historyandmystery.org
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November 13, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Properly prepared for Polish Independence Day tomorrow!
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Properly prepared for Polish Independence Day tomorrow!
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
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New — While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesn’t erase the psychological terror of the last few weeks.
I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:
I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:
The voices of SNAP
Recipients have become political pawns. They explained, in their own words, what Trump withholding funds has been like.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 7, 2025 at 10:55 PM
New — While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesn’t erase the psychological terror of the last few weeks.
I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:
I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:
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Ellis begins by quoting from Carl Sandburg's "Chicago": www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
Chicago
Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Ellis begins by quoting from Carl Sandburg's "Chicago": www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
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We have the first result of any of the 190+ races on my cheat sheet, and it's from Florida.
The only Republican on Orlando's city council has lost his reelection bid: Jim Gray was defeated by Democrat Tom Keen.
The only Republican on Orlando's city council has lost his reelection bid: Jim Gray was defeated by Democrat Tom Keen.
November 5, 2025 at 12:32 AM
We have the first result of any of the 190+ races on my cheat sheet, and it's from Florida.
The only Republican on Orlando's city council has lost his reelection bid: Jim Gray was defeated by Democrat Tom Keen.
The only Republican on Orlando's city council has lost his reelection bid: Jim Gray was defeated by Democrat Tom Keen.
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The charge being, "Assault With A Deli Weapon."
November 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The charge being, "Assault With A Deli Weapon."
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Technology is radically restructuring so many elements of social life, from development and education to dating and politics.
Watch what happens to dating around 2007...
Watch what happens to dating around 2007...
October 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Technology is radically restructuring so many elements of social life, from development and education to dating and politics.
Watch what happens to dating around 2007...
Watch what happens to dating around 2007...