The Mayflower passengers who arrived in Plymouth November 11, 1620
vs.
The Mayflower passengers who survived to Thanksgiving 1621, less than one year later.
New work reveals the impact of anxiety & depression on PhD students.
"Anxiety and depression can have a substantially detrimental impact on graduate students’ experiences [..] and likely also contribute to increased time to degree and student attrition."
https://t.co/iNitLTuagj
You (yes, you!) are invited to join the New England’s Hidden Histories project as a volunteer transcriber. NEHH has documents for both beginners and experts to transcribe, so anyone is welcome, regardless of skill or experience.
I’m very particular about my honey. What I mean by this is I will only use the kind that comes in a squeezable bear. I have no brand or source preference, but I refuse to consume an ounce of bee spit that isn’t produced from an ursine-adjacent container. I have goddamn standards.
So this is my job for the rest of the afternoon!
This beautiful copy of Robert Smith's 1738 book on Opticks has 83 of these amazing fold-out plates.
And someone has to count them to make sure they are all there!
It’s cool they do international skateboard trick competitions on top of where they executed the king. RIP Louis XVI, you would have loved this sick kickflip frontside lipslide.
The first swimmer emerging from the Seine river, in the Triathlon, stated the water quality was actually not that bad! #Olympics#Olympics2024#Triathlon
And....day 22 of my @AmAntiquarian fellowship. Looking for marginalia in the Mather family #astronomy titles. Found a #sammelband of 6 titles by Robert Hooke, including his work on comets, a response to Hevelius, and his observations on planetary motion.
#histsci#bookhistory