The 16th C composer Thomas Whythorne wrote that maids go for looks, but widows have...um...other priorities. To court an experienced woman, he said, you "must not carry quick eels in your codpiece, but show some proof of being stiff." #eels#history#medieval#datingadvice
Ik meen me te herinneren dat iemand hier laatst een hashtag opperde voor gelezen boeken.
Nu postenik gisteren zelf een (heel goed) boek en wil daar eigenlijk nog wel die hashtag aan toevoegen.
Ook leuk om zo tips van anderen te bekijken.
Maar welke was dat ook weer?
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We are cOAlition S, an international consortium of research funding & performing organisations, aiming to make full and immediate Open Access to research publications a reality by implementing #Plan_S
Okay, here we go! Giving social media another try with #Mastodon since I started to miss the academic community that social media used to provide for me.
I'm Nele, a #linguistics postdoc at the University of Oslo, working on the language of fake news in English. I'm also affiliated with Lund University through my work on the London–Lund Corpus 2 and spoken language.
That's (mainly) what I'll be posting about. Here we go again!
This one felt very timely - Surviving financially as an artist / surviving as the world slips into war. How the rise of fascism affected different people differently. People not recognising their own privilege. All put across in a story that feels very light - Really clever! @bookstodon
Still trying to get a feel for this platform. I came looking for the historians (and other cool kids) I lost with the demise of that other platform.
I am a recovered academic who now enjoys life working in a museum. Still a historian. One who now often thinks about the weird gaps between academic and public history.
Skulle gjerne ha økt andelen av folk som ikke jobber med IT i feeden. Skal ikke avfølge noen, men trenger tips om folk med anna kompetanse og interesser for å skjønne mer av feeden min rett og slett. Så håper jeg at #ITdadsonbikes ikke blir fornærmet. #Norsktut
"Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty."
The #1 choice is Mastodon!
Let's reach out to all our scientist (and non-scientist) friends and acquaintances and encourage them to join the Fediverse. If you still have an account on twitter, post some messages there with links to the Mastodon signup site. Let's welcome them here and provide some gentle hints on how to be productive here.
"I am honored to be a banned book whenever it happens, because I look at the history of books that have been banned; the history of who bans them. I will never be on the side of the people who ban the books. I'm on the other side. I will always be on the side of the libraries." @neilhimself
My job is fairly low-risk but I'm now housemates w someone who's pretty likely exposed to covid and other contagious diseases at work. (and doesn't seem concerned about it.) I guess I should get a booster to somewhat decrease my chances of transmitting things to other people around me this 'season.' I wonder about getting one ASAP vs waiting until 'updated' ones become available in ~ a month.
I am waiting on an iota-carageenan spray in the mail currently. Some of these are big allergy triggers for some people, and some are very toxic to pets (xylitol) so that's something to be aware of. People report different things about nitric oxide (enovid) spray being seized or not by U.S. customs.
it's designed for allergies, the xylitol is supposed to stop allergens from adhering to nasal walls, and in my experience it helped for that
and i feel like given that mechanism it might do for viruses what it does for allergens, and reduce the risk of infection, i know a study is being done on it for prevention but i don't know if the results are out yet, there was a study done on using it for treatment of people with COVID that showed a reduction in symptoms i think
The thing I never appreciated about an apocalypse is that multiple catastrophes could be happening all around, and I'd still be going to work and buying school supplies, filing taxes and grocery shopping.
That unprecedented times could feel surreal and ordinary all at once.
That the world would keep on relentlessly turning even as it was burning.
@jjfphd I think it will be more like a drawn out decline than an apocalypse. It will probably take 100 years or more until the Industrial Age is finally over and the old civilisations are gone. Until then, things will get worse and worse, sometimes in a great catastrophe that kills many people and destroys many things, but most of the time, it will be rather quiet and boring, just entropy doing its thing and humans being unable to repair their cities and infrastructure quite as fast would be necessary.
@obu - AMAZING comprehensive FREE online courses on a variety of topics. I'm doing one on the words of the #Buddha and I am loving it. #Education#OnlineLearning
And as @zenartcenter has noted, there are female Bodhisattvas within the #Mahayana tradition.
This is not to say that there are not problems. But I've always thought religious communities are so diverse. Consider #Christianity - you can have hardcore Christian nationalists in the US and you can have radical peace churches like the Quakers, Mennonites, and Amish within the same tradition.
The key is to not see religious traditions as monolithic and to understand that there are many traditions operating simultaneously within the larger umbrella and which can become more important in certain places, times, societies, and contexts.