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Michèle Plott

@micheleplott.bsky.social

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Historian of the emotions, visual & material culture, (sometimes) gender, lately monuments & memory in the urban landscape

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Michèle Plott @micheleplott.bsky.social · Nov 6

motherwell hitting harder w/this today.

Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · Nov 6

Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 110 by Robert Motherwell, 1971

https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137843

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Gift, Agnes Gund, 1984

Robert Motherwell © Dedalus Foundation, Inc./Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

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Michèle Plott @micheleplott.bsky.social · 52m

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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 3h

A city some would say

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 6h

the US govt has mounted a repeal of the right to culture. There is simply no other way to understand dismantling Dept of Ed, PBS, NPR, NEH, NEA + IMLS, defunding universities, censorship of artists, attack on equal access to institutions,+ erosion of free speech.
hyperallergic.com/1049388/how-...

How to Protect Your Right to Culture

The United States government’s coordinated repeal of the right to culture has grave consequences for the texture of our daily lives. But there are ways to fight back.

hyperallergic.com

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 3h

Holy moly “what you don’t have in integrity you could never make up for with experience” Mamdani to Cuomo. Jesus.

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J M Millett @jmmillett.bsky.social · 14d

Urban Canyon at sunset
#Boston #Buildings #Photography

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Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · 5h

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6h

It's d̶e̶b̶a̶t̶e̶ bingo night in NYC!

And since Andrew Cuomo rarely has anything new to say, the odds are in your favor.

Download/print a board nd follow along starting at 7 p.m. on NBC 4 New York, Telemundo 47 and their digital platforms.

zohranfornyc.com/bingo

N.Y.C. Mayoral Debate Bingo!

A small preview of a bingo board where the center piece is "Zohran's Name Mispronounced."

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 5h

kinda want one of these tbh

Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 7h

A photo of a building with a long row of identical large posters on the wall. The posters say "DON'T OBEY" with a drawing of the Portland inflatable frog's face.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 5h

USC IS OUT!

Let me tell y'all, the emergency meetings that got called yesterday and today...

dailytrojan.com/2025/10/16/u...

USC declines Trump administration compact - Daily Trojan

The University of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brown University have also declined the compact which was sent to nine colleges Oct. 1.

dailytrojan.com

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 8h

PENN IS OUT! That means both institutions that signed prior agreements with the administration have said no. We're at 3 rejections.

I told y'all once the second one hit yesterday, the clock started for the rest.

www.thedp.com/article/2025...

Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment

With the decision, Penn becomes the third university to decline the offer.

www.thedp.com

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 12h

Russian drones breaching EU airspace make headlines, but they’re just the surface.

A new GLOBSEC report says Moscow has carried out or attempted 110 attacks in Europe since 2022—often using criminals, not spies, in its hybrid war.

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Jacopo Iacoboni @jacopoiacoboni.bsky.social · 12h

Diana Loginova, 18 anni, studentessa del conservatorio Rimskij-Korsakov, è popolare tra i ragazzini a Pietroburgo come Naoko. Siccome col gruppo canta per le strade anche brani delle “foreign agents” Monetochka e Zemfira), è stata arrestata e condannata a 13 giorni

Russia today

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13h

If you were “prematurely anti fascist” about this you were a hysterical lib, if you were wrong about it you’re a respectable intellectual with lots of billionaire connections bsky.app/profile/gtco...

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.

We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 1d

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?

Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do

www.forbes.com

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 4d

Here's Diane Keaton at Warren Beatty's AFI tribute, talking about a perfect (no exaggeration) scene in Reds--taking the mystique out of filmmaking and then putting it right back in, in just two minutes. She was exquisite. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_RS...

Diane Keaton on making REDS with Warren Beatty

YouTube video by American Film Institute

www.youtube.com

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Kristian Kiehling @kristiankiehling.bsky.social · 20h

The Russians have yet again launched a massive air raid on Ukrainian cities in the early hours of today. A Nova Poshta postal terminal and residential buildings were hit in a double tap strike in Nizhyn, Chernihivtsy (DSNS). The emergency services are working.
kyivindependent.com/russian-miss...

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Dr. Sabine Metzger 🦇 @drsabinemetzger.bsky.social · 20h

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

‘I need to do everything now’: the Ukrainian combat medic-turned playwright

Since Alina Sarnatska’s first play premiered a year ago, she has documented wartime Ukraine with unflinching frankness

www.theguardian.com

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 21h

There’s 1,000 times more chatter about the Maine senate race in a year than about Maine’s ballot measure in 3 weeks that’d bring voter ID and crack down on mail voting… maybe let’s start there??? boltsmag.org/maine-questi...

A Ballot Measure Targets Mail Voting in Maine - Bolts

Question 1, on the November ballot, would set up a barrage of new restrictions on absentee ballots that would considerably affect older voters and people with disabilities.

boltsmag.org

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MaSu Sarajisto @masusa.bsky.social · 21h

Hyvää huomenta 🤍☕

Good morning 🤎🍂

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Michèle Plott @micheleplott.bsky.social · 1d

I thought that too & then really laughed to hear him say it! 😎

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Michèle Plott @micheleplott.bsky.social · 1d

beautiful (& just a tad surreal) 😎

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 1d

Brown is out! They had to do more dancing in their letter because they previously capitulated and needed to reference their previous agreement but, at its core, this reiterates MIT's letter.

The clock is now on for all other institutions.

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

www.brown.edu

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Michèle Plott @micheleplott.bsky.social · 1d

beautiful (& just a tad surreal) 😎

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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Michèle Plott @micheleplott.bsky.social · 1d

Why are we able to remember emotional events so well?

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

These cells could be a fresh target for treating Alzheimer's disease and memory conditions associated with PTSD

go.nature.com/4789FvR

How emotional memories are engraved on the brain, with surprising helper cells

Astrocytes have a more active role in stabilizing memories than once thought.

go.nature.com

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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 21d

We're back! 🎉 And we're thrilled to announce our term card for Autumn 2025! Our first event is on Thursday 16 October at 5.30 pm. Lyndal Roper will be discussing 'Turbulence and the German Peasants' War of 1524-6'. You can register to attend the event at: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

To attend, please register at the event of your choice here. If you have signed up but suddenly find yourself unable to make it, you can relinquish your spot by emailing: ihr.events@sas.ac.uk. If you would like to attend in-person and the event reads as fully booked, please do drop by anyway as we can always find some extra chairs!

Thursday 16 October, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm
Lyndal Roper (University of Oxford), Turbulence and the German Peasants’ War of 1524-6
Please register here if you would like to attend.
Hybrid. Online-via Zoom & Room 243, Second Floor, Senate House

Thursday 30 October, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm
Emily Vine (University of Exeter), Birth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London
Please register here if you would like to attend.
Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House

Thursday 27 November, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm
Nailya Shamgunova (University of East Anglia), ‘English and Scottish Scholars at the Global Library, c. 1500-1700’
Please register here if you would like to attend.
Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House

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