ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

@sharporg Welcome to Mastodon! SHARP - The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing: a global network for book historians working across a broad range of scholarly disciplines.

#bookhistory #bibliography #publishing #authorship #reading #histodons #bookstodon

Re: Job hunt during holidays

Timelines for interview results may be also skewed during this time. Some candidates reached out to me wondering if they are rejected because they haven’t heard back immediately. It’s more likely that capacity during holidays slowed everything down including interviewing other candidates.

please boost and support: the science museum of minnesota has unionized and is facing an immense anti-union campaign by leadership. the museum is run by venture capitalists who are desperate to undermine the unionizing effort and public and staff perception of it. please voice your support and sign their public petition to demand better from leadership to support their workers

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop-delaying-smm-workers-union-vote/?fbclid=PAAabJ7yOjilDRU5XsxYsLkD1ljN75ELkOHfqXTQElUAzxSkWNGzAUr4WfbCU

https://www.instagram.com/smmworkersunion/

https://new.smm.org/leaders

#smmworkersunion #union #smm #minnesota

Lego Star Wars advent calendar day 19

A cute little AT-ST even if it looks a little awkward

At this point though I'm not sure we're getting any sequel stuff. There's only 5 days left and we already know there's still an R2 coming up because he's on the box

I'll be a little sad if there's not even one Last Jedi build in there

#Lego
#StarWars

@curiousordinary @folklore

Xia Jia has a beautiful SF story inspired by this idea:

"A hundred ghosts parade tonight"

You can read it at https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/xia_02_12/

I just realised that I haven't done a proper intro for this account which I use to share mostly #JapaneseFolklore, #yokai and #JapaneseArt, especially #ukiyoe art. I also love East Asian #folklore, British folklore, Greek #mythology and anything #supernatural. I have a website with content I've shared over the years & I'm currently playing around with the idea of writing a beginner level book about #Japanese folklore. I also have a personal account @angela which I use to connect & chat.

In #JapaneseFolklore hyakki yagyo is the night parade of one hundred demons. On inauspicious nights, all the #yokai, ghosts and other supernatural creatures parade through the streets of #Japan, singing and dancing wildly. For anyone foolish enough to be outside, or even to peek out of their window, an encounter with the pandemonium of the dreaded night parade will result in death, or being spirited away by malevolent yokai.
#folklore #japodon #hyakkiyagyo @folklore
🎨Yuko Shimizu

What if we could trace #cytotoxic #Tcells throughout the human body before and during #cancer #immunotherapy?

Researchers at the University of Groningen have used a CD8-specific positron emission tomography (#PET) tracer in a phase 1/2 clinical trial. Patients with solid tumors were imaged before and ~30 days after starting treatment with #antibodies against PD-L1, PD-1, and/or CTLA-4.

Article in Nature Medicine: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02084-8

#checkpointinhibitor #solidtumor #clinicaltrial

🚨#JOB OPENING 🚨

Hey #science people! We are recruiting for a new faculty position at the Center for #Virology and #Vaccine Research at #Harvard and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. It’s for an Assistant or Associate Professor position.

Diverse perspectives are a must so PLEASE FORWARD to your women and underrepresented (#URM) colleagues in particular.

https://jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/619754/assistantassociate-professor

How Do Court Reporters Keep Straight Faces?
These are from a book called Disorder in the Courts and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and published by court reporters that had the torment of staying calm while the exchanges were taking place.
ATTORNEY: What was the first thing your husband said to you that morning?
WITNESS: He said, 'Where am I, Cathy?'
ATTORNEY: And why did that upset you?
WITNESS: My name is Susan!
_____________________________
ATTORNEY: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact?
WITNESS: Gucci sweats and Reeboks.
__________________________________________
ATTORNEY: Are you sexually active?
WITNESS: No, I just lie there.
__________________________________________
ATTORNEY: What is your date of birth?
WITNESS: July 18th.
ATTORNEY: What year?
WITNESS: Every year.
___________________________________
ATTORNEY: How old is your son, the one living with you?
WITNESS: Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can't remember which.
ATTORNEY: How long has he lived with you?
WITNESS: Forty-five years.
_______________________________
ATTORNEY: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: And in what ways does it affect your memory?
WITNESS: I forget..
ATTORNEY: You forget? Can you give us an example of something you forgot?
_________________________________________
ATTORNEY: Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn't know about it until the next morning?
WITNESS: Did you actually pass the bar exam?
__________________________________
ATTORNEY: The youngest son, the 20-year-old, how old is he?
WITNESS: He's 20, much like your IQ.
_________________________________________
ATTORNEY: Were you present when your picture was taken?
WITNESS: Are you shitting me?
_______________________________________
ATTORNEY: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: And what were you doing at that time?
WITNESS: Getting laid
__________________________________________
ATTORNEY: She had three children , right?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: How many were boys?
WITNESS: None.
ATTORNEY: Were there any girls?
WITNESS: Your Honor, I think I need a different attorney. Can I get a new attorney?
__________________________________________
ATTORNEY: How was your first marriage terminated?
WITNESS: By death..
ATTORNEY: And by whose death was it terminated?
WITNESS: Take a guess.
_________________________________________
ATTORNEY: Can you describe the individual?
WITNESS: He was about medium height and had a beard
ATTORNEY: Was this a male or a female?
WITNESS: Unless the Circus was in town I'm going with male.
___________________________________
ATTORNEY: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney?
WITNESS: No, this is how I dress when I go to work.
____________________________________
ATTORNEY: Doctor , how many of your autopsies have you performed on dead people?
WITNESS: All of them. The live ones put up too much of a fight.
_______________________________________
ATTORNEY: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go to?
WITNESS: Oral...
_______________________________________
ATTORNEY: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?
WITNESS: The autopsy started around 8:30 PM
ATTORNEY: And Mr. Denton was dead at the time?
WITNESS: If not, he was by the time I finished.
__________________________________________
ATTORNEY: Are you qualified to give a urine sample?
WITNESS: Are you qualified to ask that question?
____________________________________
And last:
ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing?
WITNESS: No..
ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
ATTORNEY: I see, but could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law.

#law
#humor

'Using Drosophila melanogaster wing shape, we ask if we can replicate allelic effects of polymorphisms first identified in a GWAS (Pitchers et al. 2019) in three genes: dachsous (ds ), extra-macrochaete (emc) and neuralized (neur), using artificial selection in the lab and bulk segregant mapping in natural populations.'

#Preprint #Evolution #GeneticVariation #Adaptation #Preprint #Drosophila
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.05.12.491649v2

People
please let us know about your hobbies. Write an info post with the hashtag #introduction

E.g. I have no idea who
@gcaw or @p_vanostaeyen or
@Gary_An are :)

I don’t know who needs to hear this, two days before winter solstice at the end of another doozy of a year, but I did want to say that my #writing improved considerably (consistency, frequency, lack of angst) when I began seeing it as an *essential* creative outlet without which I felt terrible and stopped seeing it as a Sisphyean/Herculean piece of neverending homework I was imposing on myself. This was a conscious choice I made after a *lot* of journalling and thinking. It helps.

@selina3sticks @ColesStreetPothole Buckle up, Buttercup! #Bookstodon is the hashtag used to discuss books with the larger Fediverse and if you include the bot ATbookstodonATa.gup.pe, it will boost all your posts 📚

I sense that when most people think of "canned music," they think of Muzak in the grocery store or the soft jazz station that's always on in their dentist's office. But the term, which comes from John Philip Sousa, was originally coined to refer to a much earlier phenomenon. A thread…