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Just arrived! Next book in line by our @rad-institute.bsky.social fellows for me to read: Katy Simpson Smith's Weeds! She picked this one for me after I asked her with which of her books to start, Really looking forward to this one!
November 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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smellosopher.bsky.social
Currently reading the book of @rad-institute.bsky.social fellow, Rebecca Lemov: "The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion"
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The Instability of Truth
An acclaimed historian of science uncovers the hidden history of brainwashing—and its troubling implications for today., The Instability of Truth, Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasio...
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October 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Inspiring article on MacArthur Fellow and Math Professor @harvard.edu Dr. Lauren Williams news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor... Coincidentally, she was a Fellow also at the @rad-institute.bsky.social but not the same year that I was. #Mathrocks
Lauren Williams awarded MacArthur ‘genius grant’ — Harvard Gazette
Math professor honored for theoretical breakthroughs with sometimes surprising applications across phenomena such as tsunamis, traffic.
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October 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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smellosopher.bsky.social
"We need groundkeepers, not gatekeepers."

My favorite sentence in @berondam.bsky.social's book "Lessons from Plants."
(Go read it! Follow her here, get her 2nd & very soon upcoming book, aaaand keep eyes out for her current @rad-institute.bsky.social's work too):
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Lessons from Plants — Harvard University Press
An exploration of how plant behavior and adaptation offer valuable insights for human thriving.We know that plants are important. They maintain the atmosphere by absorbing carbon dioxide and producing...
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October 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Congratulations to @ievajusionyte.bsky.social, @itsgala.bsky.social, and Lauren K. Williams—all Radcliffe fellows and, as of today, 2025 MacArthur Fellows!

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MacArthur Fellows - MacArthur Foundation
The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, we work to ...
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October 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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At 1 PM ET, join us for the "Diagnosing the Divide: Innovations in Women’s Health" webinar! Panels will discuss X-linked cancers and health through life stages, and the physician Elizabeth Comen, author of All in Her Head," will close with a keynote.

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Diagnosing the Divide: Innovations in Women’s Health | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
We will explore cutting-edge research and clinical medicine that support women’s health, with discussion of X-linked cancers, factors that differentially affect the course of women’s lives, and the hi...
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October 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Precision medicine, environmental epidemiology—what do innovations in these areas mean for women's health? This symposium on Monday, 10/6, will explore. Register to watch online! www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2025-d...
Diagnosing the Divide: Innovations in Women’s Health | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
We will explore cutting-edge research and clinical medicine that support women’s health, with discussion of X-linked cancers, factors that differentially affect the course of women’s lives, and the hi...
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October 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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smellosopher.bsky.social
This is like a dream where you can do everything: science, humanities, art, .. I plan to play Philip Glass' Metamorphosis by the end of October, without notes.

I may also plan to chain myself to this building by the end of the fellowship @rad-institute.bsky.social Ahem.
September 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Meet some of this year's fellows.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
From Chimpanzee Novels to Crowdsourced Astronomy: How the Radcliffe Institute’s 51 New Fellows Study the World | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study welcomed its 26th cohort of fellows, who will undertake interdisciplinary research projects ranging from investigating the importance of human connecti...
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September 29, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Congratulations on seeing this project come to life!
triofrancos.bsky.social Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · Sep 23
Today is publication day!

EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...
September 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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This past Monday in the Knafel Center, the geneticist David Reich gave a tour of findings from his decade of studying ancestral DNA.

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Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette
Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.
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September 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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TOMORROW at noon ET, as part of #HarvardClimateActionWeek, see newly minted fellow Diana Hernández talk about the intersection of climate change, energy policy, and public health. Online registration is still open! www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2025-d...
In the Heat of This Moment: The People's Struggle for Climate Justice, Health, and Power at Home | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
Drawing on insights from her new book Powerless: The People’s Struggle for Energy, Diana Hernández will reveal how everyday households are navigating the compounding pressures of rising energy costs, ...
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September 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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A huge welcome to the 2025–2026 class of Radcliffe fellows, whom we had the pleasure of meeting yesterday for the first time—you’re all superstars! 🌟🌟🌟
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September 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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I’m excited to share that I'll be joining the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study as a Fellow for the 2025–2026 academic year. @rad-institute.bsky.social 1/3
August 20, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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smellosopher.bsky.social
In honor and preparation of being the incoming Bunting fellow at the Radcliffe (@rad-institute.bsky.social), I'm reading this biography of Mary ('Polly') I. Bunting.

"Society gets the kind of excellence it values"
🔥

My goodness, this woman was a revelation!
Book: books.google.com/books/about/...
August 12, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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We’re looking for a senior director of major & leadership gifts to help drive our mission forward! If you or someone you know is passionate about fundraising and making a difference, check out us.smrtr.io/42V6R.
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#JobOpportunity #Fundraising #NowHiring
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August 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Fellow Claudia Goldin is helping players of pro women's basketball to negotiate a new union contract. www.si.com/wnba/wnba-pl...
In Search of Equity, WNBA Players Have a Nobel Laureate on Their Side
Harvard economist Claudia Goldin, who focuses on the role of women in the American economy, has been advising the WNBPA in its CBA negotiations.
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July 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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What the Nose Knows
Climate change is altering the Earth’s smells and how we perceive them. Experts gathered at Radcliffe to explore—and try to remedy—this sensory deficit.

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What the Nose Knows | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
Climate change is altering the Earth’s smells and how we perceive them. Experts gathered at Radcliffe to explore—and try to remedy—this sensory deficit.
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July 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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osgaoxford.bsky.social
👏 Congratulations to Professor Leigh A. Payne (Professor of Sociology & Latin America #LatinAmericanCentre) who has been selected as a 2025-2026 @rad-institute.bsky.social Lisa Goldberg Fellow!
More: www.osga.ox.ac.uk/article/prof...
June 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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For Juneteenth we're sharing the Black Women Oral History Project Interviews. Supported by The Schlesinger Library @rad-institute.bsky.social, this project recorded women who made significant contributions to American society in the early 20th century.

Photos: Judith Sedwick.

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Etta Moten Barnett, actress, concert artist, and radio personality, smiling and leaning against and open iron gate in front of a stone building. Transcript: Project Spotlight. Black Women Oral History Project, 1976-1981 on Flickr Commons Mother Waddles, ordained minister, pastor, and published author, smiling mid-dance below a sign for Mother Waddles Medical Center. Pleasant Harrison, accomplished artisan and caregiver, sitting in a home environment, looking into the distance with hands folded on a blue and white patterned table. A group of portraits including Alice Dunnigan, schoolteacher, political activist, and journalist and Zelma Watson George, sociologist, diplomat, and opera singer
Kathleen Adams, teacher and historian. Transcript: Black Women Oral History Project, Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in American, see the full gallery on Flickr Commons in the link.
June 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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asifamajid.bsky.social
So grateful to @rad-institute.bsky.social for supporting our Exploratory Workshop on The Lost Odors of Nature: The Impact of Climate Change on Human Olfactory Experience
rad-institute.bsky.social Harvard Radcliffe Institute @rad-institute.bsky.social · Jun 18
Now available! Learn how climate change is changing what we smell, meet two Harvard College students who credit an Institute program with giving them confidence, revisit Radcliffe Day 2025 with Jodie Foster, and get to know the work of several fellows.

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Radcliffe Magazine Spring 2025 | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
Radcliffe Magazine Spring 2025
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June 19, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Now available! Learn how climate change is changing what we smell, meet two Harvard College students who credit an Institute program with giving them confidence, revisit Radcliffe Day 2025 with Jodie Foster, and get to know the work of several fellows.

www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/radcliffe-ma...
Radcliffe Magazine Spring 2025 | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
Radcliffe Magazine Spring 2025
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June 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Shout out to @rad-institute.bsky.social who honored my grandmother Patricia Leghorn ‘46, on the grid! (plus a 1997 photo of both of us with some VERY #NewJersey hair). Radcliffe opened up Granny Pat’s world and I’m honored to follow the path she and many women trod.
An image of Radcliffe’s instagram grid, including a picture of Patricia Leghorn Everett on her 99th birthday. Baby Laura with gigantic red 90s jersey hair with her grandmother who is also looking superfly. In a instagram post from Radcliffe.
June 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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✨ I feel deeply honored that Policing Patients received the Herbert Jacob Award from the Law and Society Association. I love being part of this smart, engaged, and generous community of scholars ✨ @lawandsociety.bsky.social @rad-institute.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social
May 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Your weekend listen: In a special collab with Grief Is a Sneaky Bitch, the latest episode of BornCurious explores how the Palliative Story Exchange uses storytelling to create connection among palliative caregivers.

Click through to listen now!

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Episode 408: Storytelling and Grief in Palliative Care | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
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May 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM