Edward A. Rueda
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MARCH 2026: Don't miss my online #RootsTech talk on Searching for Latin American #Genealogy on FamilySearch.org! Sign up for free (or register for the in-person conference): rootstech.org
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Plus you’ll hear about @katecarp.bsky.social’s favorite pens (and mine)! We shared a lot of excellent nerdy joy here about thinking and writing history.
What a pleasure to talk with @kawulf.bsky.social about her love of all aspects of her work for this episode! You'll hear about the making of her new book, Lineage (@oxfordunipress.bsky.social), and how she keeps writing as director of the @jcblibrary.bsky.social. draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...
Episode 76: Karin Wulf Keeps Her Brain Humming Along - Drafting the Past
In this episode, Kate is joined by Karin Wulf, the director and librarian of the John Carter Brown Library, to discuss her new book, Lineage, and her research and writing process.
draftingthepast.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Plus you’ll hear about @katecarp.bsky.social’s favorite pens (and mine)! We shared a lot of excellent nerdy joy here about thinking and writing history.
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Excellent piece by The Quantum Record on #AI and photo regeneration that cites Coalition for Responsible AI in Genealogy photo policy. #craigen #quantumrecord #artificialintelligence
@craigenorg.bsky.social
thequantumrecord.com/science-news...
@craigenorg.bsky.social
thequantumrecord.com/science-news...
Genealogists Warn that AI Image Generators Threaten Historical Records - The Quantum Record
AI is useful for piecing together fragmented historical records, but genealogists warn that image generators distort old and damaged photos.
thequantumrecord.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Excellent piece by The Quantum Record on #AI and photo regeneration that cites Coalition for Responsible AI in Genealogy photo policy. #craigen #quantumrecord #artificialintelligence
@craigenorg.bsky.social
thequantumrecord.com/science-news...
@craigenorg.bsky.social
thequantumrecord.com/science-news...
My kid was eating Bugles, I saw the bag is labeled "America's #1 Finger Hat," and LOLOL @pymundgenealogy.com, how far the Galitzianer Fingerhuts have come! 🧐
November 25, 2025 at 2:49 AM
My kid was eating Bugles, I saw the bag is labeled "America's #1 Finger Hat," and LOLOL @pymundgenealogy.com, how far the Galitzianer Fingerhuts have come! 🧐
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🧬 We're re-releasing our most popular Season 6 episode: The Fall of #23andMe, where @efsacco.bsky.social & @rrbbgenealogy.bsky.social joined us to talk about #DNA tests, genetic privacy, and even #eugenics: www.spreaker.com/episode/redi...
November 25, 2025 at 2:39 AM
🧬 We're re-releasing our most popular Season 6 episode: The Fall of #23andMe, where @efsacco.bsky.social & @rrbbgenealogy.bsky.social joined us to talk about #DNA tests, genetic privacy, and even #eugenics: www.spreaker.com/episode/redi...
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Genealogy doesn’t have to be overwhelming. I’ve put all my YouTube teaching handouts into easy digital guides you can download, print, and keep by your desk. From Ancestry + FamilySearch tips to DNA sorting and 1700s–1800s strategies—browse the full shop: www.etsy.com/shop/ancestr...
November 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Genealogy doesn’t have to be overwhelming. I’ve put all my YouTube teaching handouts into easy digital guides you can download, print, and keep by your desk. From Ancestry + FamilySearch tips to DNA sorting and 1700s–1800s strategies—browse the full shop: www.etsy.com/shop/ancestr...
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The Nuremberg trials began 80 years ago today. Leading Nazis sat in the dock before the International Military Tribunal. One of the journalists at Nuremberg was Ernst Michel – just 22 years old at the time and the only Holocaust survivor reporting from the courtroom. (1/2)
November 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The Nuremberg trials began 80 years ago today. Leading Nazis sat in the dock before the International Military Tribunal. One of the journalists at Nuremberg was Ernst Michel – just 22 years old at the time and the only Holocaust survivor reporting from the courtroom. (1/2)
Also saw this with Spanish -- your average AI bot just makes things up if it's not specifically trained to read handwriting, like FamilySearch's Full-Text Search.
November 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Also saw this with Spanish -- your average AI bot just makes things up if it's not specifically trained to read handwriting, like FamilySearch's Full-Text Search.
Big thanks to Jen for clueing me in to FamilySearch's Full-Text Search... yes, this will another major development:
18 Nov 2025 Go look at your account and report back! #genealogy #ancestry
November 19, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Big thanks to Jen for clueing me in to FamilySearch's Full-Text Search... yes, this will another major development:
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Andrew meets family historian and heirloom re-uniter, Simon Howard and hears about a woman whose father lived a very different lifestyle to her, and we're looking…
https://familyhistoriespodcast.com/2025/11/18/s10ep02-the-disinherited-with-simon-howard/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
https://familyhistoriespodcast.com/2025/11/18/s10ep02-the-disinherited-with-simon-howard/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
November 18, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Andrew meets family historian and heirloom re-uniter, Simon Howard and hears about a woman whose father lived a very different lifestyle to her, and we're looking…
https://familyhistoriespodcast.com/2025/11/18/s10ep02-the-disinherited-with-simon-howard/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
https://familyhistoriespodcast.com/2025/11/18/s10ep02-the-disinherited-with-simon-howard/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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The rapid expansion of AI server installations in the US poses sustainability challenges in terms of water usage and carbon emissions. A study in Nature Sustainability quantifies these potential impacts and outlines mitigation strategies for the AI sector to achieve net-zero. 🧪
Environmental impact and net-zero pathways for sustainable artificial intelligence servers in the USA - Nature Sustainability
The rapid expansion of AI server installations in the United States poses sustainability challenges in terms of water usage and carbon emissions. A study now quantifies these potential impacts and outlines coordinated mitigation strategies for the AI sector to achieve net-zero.
go.nature.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The rapid expansion of AI server installations in the US poses sustainability challenges in terms of water usage and carbon emissions. A study in Nature Sustainability quantifies these potential impacts and outlines mitigation strategies for the AI sector to achieve net-zero. 🧪
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You're a parasitic ant queen eyeing the colony of another species. You have a simple plan:
1. Hide your scent by rubbing workers on your body
2. Infiltrate the nest
3. Spray the queen with chemicals that goad her daughters into tearing her to bits
4. All hail the usurper!
(my latest for CNN) 🧪
1. Hide your scent by rubbing workers on your body
2. Infiltrate the nest
3. Spray the queen with chemicals that goad her daughters into tearing her to bits
4. All hail the usurper!
(my latest for CNN) 🧪
Parasitic ant queen chemically manipulates workers into killing their mother | CNN
Scientists newly described how a parasitic ant queen infiltrates another ant species’ colony and tricks the workers into killing their mother.
www.cnn.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
You're a parasitic ant queen eyeing the colony of another species. You have a simple plan:
1. Hide your scent by rubbing workers on your body
2. Infiltrate the nest
3. Spray the queen with chemicals that goad her daughters into tearing her to bits
4. All hail the usurper!
(my latest for CNN) 🧪
1. Hide your scent by rubbing workers on your body
2. Infiltrate the nest
3. Spray the queen with chemicals that goad her daughters into tearing her to bits
4. All hail the usurper!
(my latest for CNN) 🧪
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Would you like some speculative evolution?
In this alternative history of life, Asgard archaea died, but giant sulfur bacteria evolved into multicellular eukaryote-like life 🧪🦠
AI helped me to visualize this imaginary world 💻
Read more in my blog:
communities.springernature.com/posts/altern...
In this alternative history of life, Asgard archaea died, but giant sulfur bacteria evolved into multicellular eukaryote-like life 🧪🦠
AI helped me to visualize this imaginary world 💻
Read more in my blog:
communities.springernature.com/posts/altern...
November 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Would you like some speculative evolution?
In this alternative history of life, Asgard archaea died, but giant sulfur bacteria evolved into multicellular eukaryote-like life 🧪🦠
AI helped me to visualize this imaginary world 💻
Read more in my blog:
communities.springernature.com/posts/altern...
In this alternative history of life, Asgard archaea died, but giant sulfur bacteria evolved into multicellular eukaryote-like life 🧪🦠
AI helped me to visualize this imaginary world 💻
Read more in my blog:
communities.springernature.com/posts/altern...
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12,000 years ago in what is today northern Israel, someone made a tiny clay image of a woman. Mating with a goose. Today that figurine got its own prestigious scientific paper.
The lesson: make weird art. Express whatever is in you, however you want. In AD 14,000 they will thank you
🏺🧪🎨🎭🪿
The lesson: make weird art. Express whatever is in you, however you want. In AD 14,000 they will thank you
🏺🧪🎨🎭🪿
A 12,000-year-old clay figurine of a woman and a goose marks symbolic innovations in Southwest Asia | PNAS
Paleolithic representations of human–animal interaction are rare, with only a few
painted or engraved examples recorded in Upper Paleolithic contex...
www.pnas.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:19 PM
12,000 years ago in what is today northern Israel, someone made a tiny clay image of a woman. Mating with a goose. Today that figurine got its own prestigious scientific paper.
The lesson: make weird art. Express whatever is in you, however you want. In AD 14,000 they will thank you
🏺🧪🎨🎭🪿
The lesson: make weird art. Express whatever is in you, however you want. In AD 14,000 they will thank you
🏺🧪🎨🎭🪿
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Here's Prashant's 2024 first-author paper in Nature Microbiology 🎉🧪:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I'm also going to recommend the "Smarter Every Day" video that includes interviews with Prasant, explores some of these structures and how they function.
It's 30 minutes, but very watchable:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I'm also going to recommend the "Smarter Every Day" video that includes interviews with Prasant, explores some of these structures and how they function.
It's 30 minutes, but very watchable:
Nature's Incredible ROTATING MOTOR (It’s Electric!) - Smarter Every Day 300
YouTube video by SmarterEveryDay
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November 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Here's Prashant's 2024 first-author paper in Nature Microbiology 🎉🧪:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I'm also going to recommend the "Smarter Every Day" video that includes interviews with Prasant, explores some of these structures and how they function.
It's 30 minutes, but very watchable:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I'm also going to recommend the "Smarter Every Day" video that includes interviews with Prasant, explores some of these structures and how they function.
It's 30 minutes, but very watchable:
Astounding! ⚙️🦠
Prashant Singh in the lab of Tina Iverson at Vanderbilt published this image of the bacterial 🦠flagellar motor, a detailed molecular model made possibly by CryoEM 🔬.
The similarity to mechanical motors are strong enough we can use terms like stator, rotor, rod & gearing to describe it.
The similarity to mechanical motors are strong enough we can use terms like stator, rotor, rod & gearing to describe it.
November 18, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Astounding! ⚙️🦠
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The Altamura Neanderthal skull keeps getting cooler. 🧪🏺
'Perfectly preserved' Neanderthal skull bones suggest their noses didn't evolve to warm air
An analysis of the only intact Neanderthal inner nose bones known to exist reveals that our ancient cousins' enormous noses did not evolve to withstand harsh climates.
www.livescience.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The Altamura Neanderthal skull keeps getting cooler. 🧪🏺
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_The American Revolution_ offers a look at how complex and violent — and also inspiring— the American founding was. Getting huge coverage, it may give folks time to digest that complexity as 2026 commences. Premieres tonight + PBS has preview clips of all episodes. www.pbs.org/show/the-ame...
The American Revolution
Thirteen colonies unite in rebellion, win their independence, and found the United States.
www.pbs.org
November 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
_The American Revolution_ offers a look at how complex and violent — and also inspiring— the American founding was. Getting huge coverage, it may give folks time to digest that complexity as 2026 commences. Premieres tonight + PBS has preview clips of all episodes. www.pbs.org/show/the-ame...
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Omg I just did this and here’s my block in the 40s
November 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Omg I just did this and here’s my block in the 40s
To hell with human #genealogy! I used the incredible website 1940s.nyc and AI to try to uncover the story of the large oak tree in front of my Brooklyn apartment building: geneticfunhouse.blogspot.com/2025/11/my-t...
My Tree Grew in Brooklyn
"...all this [passage of time] happens in a couple of new fissures, an inch of added rings. The tree bulks out. Its bark spirals upward like...
geneticfunhouse.blogspot.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM
To hell with human #genealogy! I used the incredible website 1940s.nyc and AI to try to uncover the story of the large oak tree in front of my Brooklyn apartment building: geneticfunhouse.blogspot.com/2025/11/my-t...
My Tree Grew in Brooklyn
"...all this [passage of time] happens in a couple of new fissures, an inch of added rings. The tree bulks out. Its bark spirals upward like...
geneticfunhouse.blogspot.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
To hell with human #genealogy! I used the incredible website 1940s.nyc and AI to try to uncover the story of the large oak tree in front of my Brooklyn apartment building: geneticfunhouse.blogspot.com/2025/11/my-t...
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revolutionaryroots.americanancestors.org
American Ancestors has launched a Revolutionary War research page. #genealogy #familyhistory #RevolutionaryWar
American Ancestors has launched a Revolutionary War research page. #genealogy #familyhistory #RevolutionaryWar
American Ancestors® - A National Center for Family History, Heritage and Culture
American Ancestors® is a national nonprofit center for family history, heritage & culture based in Boston, Massachusetts, that has been setting the gold standard for family history research since its ...
revolutionaryroots.americanancestors.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:22 PM
revolutionaryroots.americanancestors.org
American Ancestors has launched a Revolutionary War research page. #genealogy #familyhistory #RevolutionaryWar
American Ancestors has launched a Revolutionary War research page. #genealogy #familyhistory #RevolutionaryWar
Rodent Men through history 🐀🧐
Regency-era Lord Byron fangirls (& boys):
'That beautiful pale face is my fate'
'the sweetest countenance I ever beheld'
'Byron's countenance is a thing to dream of'
'Lord Byron's head is, without doubt, the finest in our time'
Victorian memorabilia:
'That beautiful pale face is my fate'
'the sweetest countenance I ever beheld'
'Byron's countenance is a thing to dream of'
'Lord Byron's head is, without doubt, the finest in our time'
Victorian memorabilia:
November 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Rodent Men through history 🐀🧐
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Genealogist Elizabeth Shown Mills popularized the concept of the FAN Club. These people often appear in your ancestor’s records and can be key to solving tough questions.
Look for familiar names in land records, witnesses on documents, and census neighbors. Your ancestor didn’t live in a vacuum!
Look for familiar names in land records, witnesses on documents, and census neighbors. Your ancestor didn’t live in a vacuum!
November 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Genealogist Elizabeth Shown Mills popularized the concept of the FAN Club. These people often appear in your ancestor’s records and can be key to solving tough questions.
Look for familiar names in land records, witnesses on documents, and census neighbors. Your ancestor didn’t live in a vacuum!
Look for familiar names in land records, witnesses on documents, and census neighbors. Your ancestor didn’t live in a vacuum!
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"Through 1950, census-takers commonly determined the race of the people they counted. From 1960 on, Americans could choose their own race. Starting in 2000, Americans could incl. themselves in more than 1 racial category. Before that, many multiracial people were counted in only 1 racial category."
The different race, ethnicity and origin category names in the U.S. census have often changed in a reflection of changing politics and public attitudes. Explore those changes, from the first census in 1790 to the latest count in 2020.
What Census Calls Us
Explore the different race, ethnicity and origin categories used in the U.S. decennial census, from the first one in 1790 to the latest count in 2020.
www.pewresearch.org
November 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
"Through 1950, census-takers commonly determined the race of the people they counted. From 1960 on, Americans could choose their own race. Starting in 2000, Americans could incl. themselves in more than 1 racial category. Before that, many multiracial people were counted in only 1 racial category."
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This week, an #AI #chatbot gave us genealogy questions to spark conversations! Don't miss this week's shocking ancestral stories: www.spreaker.com/episode/redi... #ChatYipiti
November 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
This week, an #AI #chatbot gave us genealogy questions to spark conversations! Don't miss this week's shocking ancestral stories: www.spreaker.com/episode/redi... #ChatYipiti