AbiWAIL KaBOOker
@akabaker.bsky.social
she/ her Independent museum collections contractor (looking for work) . Talks about museums, video games, science, politics, and pop culture. Views are my own.
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look at this cool map showing what remains of LA's streetcar system www.google.com/maps/d/viewe...
The Militant Angeleno's Pacific Electric Archaeology Map - Google My Maps
Surviving Pacific Electric Railway artifacts, as well as PE-inspired public art, compiled by The Militant Angeleno ([email protected]). All photos by The Militant Angeleno unless otherwise sp...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
look at this cool map showing what remains of LA's streetcar system www.google.com/maps/d/viewe...
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Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island.
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island.
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
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Seen (via Facebook), on Poundland at Queen Street in Cardiff. An, erm, innovative appropriation of the 'Blue Plaque'. #Heritage #BluePlaques 🗃️
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Seen (via Facebook), on Poundland at Queen Street in Cardiff. An, erm, innovative appropriation of the 'Blue Plaque'. #Heritage #BluePlaques 🗃️
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Whenever teaching @jmb1951.bsky.social (Judith Bennett)'s _History Matters_, I check to see whether the image search results for "history professor" have become more diverse in the last few years. The good news is that they have! The bad news is that the most common feature by far is still a beard.
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Whenever teaching @jmb1951.bsky.social (Judith Bennett)'s _History Matters_, I check to see whether the image search results for "history professor" have become more diverse in the last few years. The good news is that they have! The bad news is that the most common feature by far is still a beard.
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Boy howdy we just got a staff preview of the new “Stories We Keep: Collections” exhibit and have got some GOOD STUFF for YOU. Featuring: voles! goose art! netsukes! ammonites!
November 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Boy howdy we just got a staff preview of the new “Stories We Keep: Collections” exhibit and have got some GOOD STUFF for YOU. Featuring: voles! goose art! netsukes! ammonites!
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Not in the slightest
Although now I have a long-term research project to pursue: how many years for a stink beetle to stop stinking? The pitch drop experiment of Coleoptera
Although now I have a long-term research project to pursue: how many years for a stink beetle to stop stinking? The pitch drop experiment of Coleoptera
June 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Not in the slightest
Although now I have a long-term research project to pursue: how many years for a stink beetle to stop stinking? The pitch drop experiment of Coleoptera
Although now I have a long-term research project to pursue: how many years for a stink beetle to stop stinking? The pitch drop experiment of Coleoptera
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if you missed this thread the first time around, I tried to ID the culprit (epistolary insect taxonomy!) bsky.app/profile/amer...
If I had to hazard a guess re: the identity of the Stink Beetle, I suppose one of the obvious suspects would be Nomius pygmaeus, the stink beetle bugguide.net/node/view/20...
Species Nomius pygmaeus - Stink Beetle
An online resource devoted to North American insects, spiders and their kin, offering identification, images, and information.
bugguide.net
November 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
if you missed this thread the first time around, I tried to ID the culprit (epistolary insect taxonomy!) bsky.app/profile/amer...
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Part of the new exhibit highlights the William Holland archives, but regrettably leaves out their absolute highlight (Holland Mad About Stink Beetle)
infinite thanks to our fearless archivist Hanna, who found this angry letter about a stinky beetle and knew I would want to see it
![Letter typed for William Jacob Holland in 1907, to a Mrs Reuben Miller: "I have been sitting at my table going over my accumulations of mail [...] and all the while I have complaining of an intolerable odor which seemed to come from a spot not far off. [he checks the bottom of his shoe for poop; he checks the desk drawers for a dead mouse] I finally reached your letter. Whew! You certainly have gotten the beetle this time, and it is no 'harmless and inoffensive moth' as was the last specimen you sent me." [he makes his collection assistant deal with it]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ywua4qjetzwsq5hzyty3exua/bafkreia3yzicdmwrmpxldbzhbkklavxnbtftsox6nq6736so7xbsvrilci@jpeg)
!["Whatever the bug is, it has certainly fed on carrion, or it is a generator of carrion light odors itself. [...] Please do not send any more without telegraphing me in advance to that they are coming."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ywua4qjetzwsq5hzyty3exua/bafkreihl4sbvriicacocdxtnplflb2mocwkbahhwdjjuqjywpm66s3uhne@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Part of the new exhibit highlights the William Holland archives, but regrettably leaves out their absolute highlight (Holland Mad About Stink Beetle)
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Back to Genevieve with a talk about volunteers at the DMNS:
Nice seeing how roles & tasks are broken up, so that everyone (even those w/o ento. exp.) can contribute!
Love the message that "we all break bugs" - important to emphasis!
Curious what's on everyone's insect pinning playlist?🤔 #ECN2025
Nice seeing how roles & tasks are broken up, so that everyone (even those w/o ento. exp.) can contribute!
Love the message that "we all break bugs" - important to emphasis!
Curious what's on everyone's insect pinning playlist?🤔 #ECN2025
November 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Back to Genevieve with a talk about volunteers at the DMNS:
Nice seeing how roles & tasks are broken up, so that everyone (even those w/o ento. exp.) can contribute!
Love the message that "we all break bugs" - important to emphasis!
Curious what's on everyone's insect pinning playlist?🤔 #ECN2025
Nice seeing how roles & tasks are broken up, so that everyone (even those w/o ento. exp.) can contribute!
Love the message that "we all break bugs" - important to emphasis!
Curious what's on everyone's insect pinning playlist?🤔 #ECN2025
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Original Riker mounts by inventor Clarence Riker held at @denvermuseumns.bsky.social , presented by Genevieve Anderegg! 😍
The cabinets are just as intricate as the insects held within!Though lacking in collection data, lots of educational & natural history research value once imaged!
#ECN2025
The cabinets are just as intricate as the insects held within!Though lacking in collection data, lots of educational & natural history research value once imaged!
#ECN2025
November 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Original Riker mounts by inventor Clarence Riker held at @denvermuseumns.bsky.social , presented by Genevieve Anderegg! 😍
The cabinets are just as intricate as the insects held within!Though lacking in collection data, lots of educational & natural history research value once imaged!
#ECN2025
The cabinets are just as intricate as the insects held within!Though lacking in collection data, lots of educational & natural history research value once imaged!
#ECN2025
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Quick time lapse of me as a volunteer, digitizing specimens in the HKU Herbarium earlier this year. 🌱 Will post more NatHist /HK Bio Museum stuff here in the future!
In the meantime, any recommendations for things to listen to while working? Also advice on avoiding time lapse "flickering"?
In the meantime, any recommendations for things to listen to while working? Also advice on avoiding time lapse "flickering"?
November 18, 2024 at 6:57 AM
Quick time lapse of me as a volunteer, digitizing specimens in the HKU Herbarium earlier this year. 🌱 Will post more NatHist /HK Bio Museum stuff here in the future!
In the meantime, any recommendations for things to listen to while working? Also advice on avoiding time lapse "flickering"?
In the meantime, any recommendations for things to listen to while working? Also advice on avoiding time lapse "flickering"?
One of my colleagues kept a few bits and bobs (rubber bands and metal fasteners) he found in alcohol collections on display in his office window with a note about not using them. rubber band melted. One metal piece had weird encrustations from interactions with specimen (coral I believe)
used rubber bands in the alcohol collection? ONE THOUSAND YEARS DUNGEON
November 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
One of my colleagues kept a few bits and bobs (rubber bands and metal fasteners) he found in alcohol collections on display in his office window with a note about not using them. rubber band melted. One metal piece had weird encrustations from interactions with specimen (coral I believe)
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Jack Whisenant on pattern recognition approaches for capturing handwritten data from labels and logbooks
November 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Jack Whisenant on pattern recognition approaches for capturing handwritten data from labels and logbooks
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used rubber bands in the alcohol collection? ONE THOUSAND YEARS DUNGEON
November 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
used rubber bands in the alcohol collection? ONE THOUSAND YEARS DUNGEON
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to say nothing of the extraordinary Oskar Vogt, Nazi-hating socialist and neurobiologist who maintained a suspiciously large staff of entomologists and bumblebee collectors. He is pictured here holding a slice of Lenin’s brain.
November 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
to say nothing of the extraordinary Oskar Vogt, Nazi-hating socialist and neurobiologist who maintained a suspiciously large staff of entomologists and bumblebee collectors. He is pictured here holding a slice of Lenin’s brain.
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Their historical material includes 19th-century insects from Dutch visitors to Japan and the extensive Hymenoptera collection of S. C. Snellen van Vollenhoven
November 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Their historical material includes 19th-century insects from Dutch visitors to Japan and the extensive Hymenoptera collection of S. C. Snellen van Vollenhoven
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Jess Awad from Naturalis (massive Dutch biodiversity institute, formerly known as RMNH)— massive collection in a gorgeous new building (2019)
November 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Jess Awad from Naturalis (massive Dutch biodiversity institute, formerly known as RMNH)— massive collection in a gorgeous new building (2019)
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A fantastic talk from the stylish and brilliant Jack Whisenant on how to get people to read complex instructions using the power of COMICS
November 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM
A fantastic talk from the stylish and brilliant Jack Whisenant on how to get people to read complex instructions using the power of COMICS
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I for one had no idea there were social snapping shrimp and am now reevaluating everything I know about the Sea Bugs www.vims.edu/research/uni...
www.vims.edu
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I for one had no idea there were social snapping shrimp and am now reevaluating everything I know about the Sea Bugs www.vims.edu/research/uni...
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the Shrimps is Bugs faction has fully infiltrated ESA, with a nifty talk from Kristina Camia finding that social shrimp got tiny eyes
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
the Shrimps is Bugs faction has fully infiltrated ESA, with a nifty talk from Kristina Camia finding that social shrimp got tiny eyes
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Untreated mental illness
5. What is something that can ruin your life that isn't drinking or smoking?
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Untreated mental illness
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buy your local public historian what they really want
t-shirts that support important causes and not from a big box store
thread
t-shirts that support important causes and not from a big box store
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to start I'll start with my newest purchase of what's more punk than the Public Library?
this design was inspired by the DC Punk Archive and supports local library programming at the Mt. Pleasant Branch.
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this design was inspired by the DC Punk Archive and supports local library programming at the Mt. Pleasant Branch.
mtpfriends.bigcartel.com/product/what...
November 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
buy your local public historian what they really want
t-shirts that support important causes and not from a big box store
thread
t-shirts that support important causes and not from a big box store
thread
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November 10, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Cycles of juvenile crime have prompted periodic debates since the 1970s over when kids should be off D.C. streets.
At a recent D.C. Council hearing, as lawmakers debated extending our emergency curfew, residents shared nuanced views on the issue.
@maustermuhle.bsky.social reports:
At a recent D.C. Council hearing, as lawmakers debated extending our emergency curfew, residents shared nuanced views on the issue.
@maustermuhle.bsky.social reports:
With another extension, debate continues on youth curfew
It's temporary for now, but Mayor Muriel Bowser wants to make it permanent.
51st.news
November 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Cycles of juvenile crime have prompted periodic debates since the 1970s over when kids should be off D.C. streets.
At a recent D.C. Council hearing, as lawmakers debated extending our emergency curfew, residents shared nuanced views on the issue.
@maustermuhle.bsky.social reports:
At a recent D.C. Council hearing, as lawmakers debated extending our emergency curfew, residents shared nuanced views on the issue.
@maustermuhle.bsky.social reports:
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While the Edmund Fitzgerald is the most famous, the #GreatLakes are home to an estimated 6000 - 10,000 shipwrecks. Many wrecks occur in fall due to the "November Witch" winds caused by a clash of cold Canadian air from the north + warm Gulf air from the south www.discovermagazine.com/as-an-underw...
As an Underwater Graveyard, the Great Lakes Have Claimed Close to 10,000 Ships
Though called the Great Lakes, these massive bodies of water are actually inland seas, and can be just as unpredictable as the ocean.
www.discovermagazine.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
While the Edmund Fitzgerald is the most famous, the #GreatLakes are home to an estimated 6000 - 10,000 shipwrecks. Many wrecks occur in fall due to the "November Witch" winds caused by a clash of cold Canadian air from the north + warm Gulf air from the south www.discovermagazine.com/as-an-underw...