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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 10h

Got it.

Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 10h

Do they have Liz Truss on them?

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 14h

Ouch.

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 1d

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 16h

Thank you thank you!

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 16h

I see you and raise you:

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 17h

For the Monday afternoon crowd.

RCP museum @rcpmuseum.bsky.social · 3d

To celebrate the launch of exhibition 'A Body of Knowledge', lead curator & rare books librarian Katie Birkwood shares her thoughts reflecting upon a career in libraries, the RCP library specifically & the exhibition:

👉 history.rcp.ac.uk/blog/librari...

@rcphysicians.bsky.social #BodyOfKnowledge

Katie Birkwood delivering a speech in the Dorchester Library.

An open book showing illustrations of roosters in a display case.

The smallest book in the RCP library open showing an illustration of a skeleton.

Katie Birkwood standing next to the famous displayed anatomical text by Andreas Vesalius in the exhibition.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 19h

oh god no he hoovered up his own brain

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 22h

That's the written equivalent of having a coughing fit while calling in sick.

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Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social · 1d

For #CoffeeWithACodex on October 16, Curator @leoba.bsky.social will visit @rosenbachmuseum.bsky.social where she'll join Librarian Elizabeth Fuller for a look at MS 1004/29, a mid-fourteenth-century physician's belt book. #medievalsky #cwac

Register here: https://bit.ly/4ohnEqu

Coffee with a Codex On The Road: Bat Book at the Rosenbach

An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different...

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 1d

We do say maize maze, and the repetition is what makes it fun!

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 1d

Well, yes, but that's a different complaint what's being taken to me 'ha ha they don't know Stonehenge is in Wiltshire'.

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 1d

Isn't the article anyway about people in Cornwall looking for a Stonehenge-like thing in Cornwall? I think there's a reading comprehension fail at work here.

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 1d

But isn't the point that they're looking for Cornwall's equivalent of Stonehenge? Hence the phrase.

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 1d

See also: "Only digital surrogate retained".

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Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · 1d

NUNS
Sister, in my studies I have inventede a Niewe Letter
Indeede sister
It is to Followe the Letters U and W. I call ite The Triple-U
Uuu
Exactlie

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 1d

Quercus cerris, aka the Turkey oak, has acorns with furry little cups. It's grown in the UK as an ornamental tree: this acorn from one we spotted in Exeter. Information thanks to the excellent tree walks produced by Sidmouth Arboretum: sidmoutharboretum.org.uk/tree-trails/ #ConkerClub

A brown acorn in its cup. The cup is coverd in short bristly woody hairs.

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 1d

The fourth, yes *fourth* #QueerBibliography annual conference is coming up in 2026!

J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 2d

Your challenge for this weekend is to put in an abstract for Queer Bibliography 2026. It's what all the cool kids are doing.

The theme is Space, Place, Community (widely understood, certainly not limited to the South). CFP: shorturl.at/XAVJ0; Submit: forms.gle/XD7FgrrStp3j...

Athens GA and online

Poster reads: March 12–14, 2026; Queer Bibliography in the South: Space, Place, Community; University of Georgia, Athens, GA.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 1d

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

A comic strip in six panels. The panels inerlock like a jigsaw with knobs and sockets. Two stick figures walk right to left through all the panels.

Panel 1: Person 1 says "I hear you're working on a new theory."
Panel 2 & 3: Person 2 says: "Yes, I'm calling it the jigsaw model. I think it could change our whole View of reality."
Panel 4: Person 1 says "When Will you publish?:
Panel 5: Person 2 says "But a couple of things are still bothering me." (this piece/panel is a bit squint)
Panel 6: This piece is rotated ninety degees and fits to the others very badly. Person 2 is saying "Soon. I feel like I'm really close"
A second look at the whole comic shows that the last two panels read in the wrong order because the jigsaw has been put together incorrectly.

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Christiaan Monden @cmonden.bsky.social · 3d

Great (paid) PhD opportunity. Excellent environment, conditions, and supervisors. And a topic close to my heart. (Selfish reason for promoting this: I fear there won't be enough concerts for retired me to go to. Geen dag zonder Bach.) vacatures.knaw.nl/job/The-Hagu...

PhD position "Is the audience for classical music concerts fading out?"

vacatures.knaw.nl

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 2d

This in no way surprises me!

Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 2d

Two thoughts.

1. Someone's wrapped Måns in catering clingfilm.
2. I do love me a man in vintage Adidas trainers.

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 2d

Makes me think of the 'we played Mozart to plants/babies/dogs and they were more/less whatever than before' news stories: total lack of nuance.

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Karen Sugrue 🏳️‍⚧️🌈🇵🇸 @karsugrue.bsky.social · 2d

Homophobia 🤝 transphobia

Growing up in the 70s, 80s, & 90s we heard the exact same stuff - word for word - being said about gays and lesbians.

#transrightsarehumanrights

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, very good.

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