Sarah Emily Duff
@sarahemilyduff.bsky.social
Radiant ambiguity/unclassified residuum (historian of age, gender, reproduction, opinions my own and not my employer’s etc.)
https://www.colby.edu/people/people-directory/sarah-duff/
https://www.colby.edu/people/people-directory/sarah-duff/
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The Second House (detail), 2009-2011 by Eran Reshef
November 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The Second House (detail), 2009-2011 by Eran Reshef
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No. 2 (No. 7 and No. 2)
https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/4844
https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/4844
November 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
No. 2 (No. 7 and No. 2)
https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/4844
https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/4844
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AI in education is obviously not just a technology but something that different groups interpret and construct in various ways. I thought I'd have a go at characterizing them:
November 22, 2025 at 11:13 PM
AI in education is obviously not just a technology but something that different groups interpret and construct in various ways. I thought I'd have a go at characterizing them:
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Feeling queasy now I've learned that Google is not only now offering Gemini ambassador certificates to teachers but also awarding students and *children* to be corporate AI mascots. Coercive normalization of commercialized digital education. blog.google/outreach-ini...
November 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Feeling queasy now I've learned that Google is not only now offering Gemini ambassador certificates to teachers but also awarding students and *children* to be corporate AI mascots. Coercive normalization of commercialized digital education. blog.google/outreach-ini...
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Kandinsky Portrait Bauhaus Movement Modern.
November 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Kandinsky Portrait Bauhaus Movement Modern.
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The Red Disk https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/the-red-disk
November 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The Red Disk https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/the-red-disk
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𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢
Untitled, 1969
Acrylic on wove paper mounted on linen
52 3/4 x 39 7/8 in. (134 x 101.3 cm)
Hara Museum Collection/Foundation Arc-en-Ciel, inv. no. 49.
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Untitled, 1969
Acrylic on wove paper mounted on linen
52 3/4 x 39 7/8 in. (134 x 101.3 cm)
Hara Museum Collection/Foundation Arc-en-Ciel, inv. no. 49.
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
November 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM
𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢
Untitled, 1969
Acrylic on wove paper mounted on linen
52 3/4 x 39 7/8 in. (134 x 101.3 cm)
Hara Museum Collection/Foundation Arc-en-Ciel, inv. no. 49.
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Untitled, 1969
Acrylic on wove paper mounted on linen
52 3/4 x 39 7/8 in. (134 x 101.3 cm)
Hara Museum Collection/Foundation Arc-en-Ciel, inv. no. 49.
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
‘hanging in Gallery 2 is a … truncated figure of Christ carved from poplar in the French Romanesque twelfth century, first encountered cut off at the elbows, knees, and neck and being employed by a farmer as a scarecrow.’
Spectrum of Desire
4columns.org
November 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
‘hanging in Gallery 2 is a … truncated figure of Christ carved from poplar in the French Romanesque twelfth century, first encountered cut off at the elbows, knees, and neck and being employed by a farmer as a scarecrow.’
‘In the 1980s the splendidly-named Principal, Sir John Hrothgar Habbakuk had a grey tabby universally known as Habbakat. He was not the most sociable cat but was often seen patrolling first quad.’
College cats of Oxford
Once upon a time, we featured an image of Magdalen's kitten, Ozymandias, in our newsletter. We figured it might be a gentle contrast to our regular diet of planning and local politics.
The grey ball ...
oxfordclarion.uk
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
‘In the 1980s the splendidly-named Principal, Sir John Hrothgar Habbakuk had a grey tabby universally known as Habbakat. He was not the most sociable cat but was often seen patrolling first quad.’
‘the case showed that there can be trade-offs in designing and using hyper-secure systems.
“It turns out that managing keys and managing secret keys is the hardest part of this — even among the world’s best cryptographers”’
“It turns out that managing keys and managing secret keys is the hardest part of this — even among the world’s best cryptographers”’
Cryptographers Held an Election. They Can’t Decrypt the Results.
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:39 PM
‘the case showed that there can be trade-offs in designing and using hyper-secure systems.
“It turns out that managing keys and managing secret keys is the hardest part of this — even among the world’s best cryptographers”’
“It turns out that managing keys and managing secret keys is the hardest part of this — even among the world’s best cryptographers”’
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The Artist's Sister in Law in a Striped Dress, 1917
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25953
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25953
November 21, 2025 at 3:31 AM
The Artist's Sister in Law in a Striped Dress, 1917
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25953
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25953
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Kazuo Torigoe www.instagram.com/kazuotorigoe/
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Kazuo Torigoe www.instagram.com/kazuotorigoe/
“As Sheehan said, ‘nature designed the penicillin molecule to teach organic chemists a little humility.’”
Liam Shaw | Metabolic Magic
Streptomycetes are soil bacteria that could easily be mistaken for fungi, their cells snaking through the earth in long...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 9:36 PM
“As Sheehan said, ‘nature designed the penicillin molecule to teach organic chemists a little humility.’”
‘After Norris-Clark decided she did not believe in gravity, Saldaya announced she was no longer “round [Earth] committed”.’
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
‘After Norris-Clark decided she did not believe in gravity, Saldaya announced she was no longer “round [Earth] committed”.’
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Latest update from @britishlibrary.bsky.social says they are launching a new version of their main catalogue on Monday 8 December and around that time also launch an interim version of their Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. Hooray!
www.bl.uk/stories/news...
www.bl.uk/stories/news...
Restoring our services – November 2025 update
In the coming weeks and months we will be restoring a number of key functions.
www.bl.uk
November 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Latest update from @britishlibrary.bsky.social says they are launching a new version of their main catalogue on Monday 8 December and around that time also launch an interim version of their Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. Hooray!
www.bl.uk/stories/news...
www.bl.uk/stories/news...
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a man who rides a horse is called a horseman
November 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
a man who rides a horse is called a horseman
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Next Tuesday will be the third lecture of our Livestock Histories Lecture Series! Helen Cowie (University of York) will be talking about Silk of the Andes: Acclimatising Alpacas in the British Empire. For more information and to register visit our website: cattlefrontiers.eu/helen-cowie-...
Livestock Histories – Helen Cowie
Helen Cowie – Silk of the Andes: Acclimatising Alpacas in the British Empire
cattlefrontiers.eu
November 21, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Next Tuesday will be the third lecture of our Livestock Histories Lecture Series! Helen Cowie (University of York) will be talking about Silk of the Andes: Acclimatising Alpacas in the British Empire. For more information and to register visit our website: cattlefrontiers.eu/helen-cowie-...
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White Cranes, Walter Leistikow (1865 - 1908)
Oil on Canvas.
Oil on Canvas.
November 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
White Cranes, Walter Leistikow (1865 - 1908)
Oil on Canvas.
Oil on Canvas.
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At the Edge of the Cliff - Laura Knight, ca. 1917
November 13, 2025 at 11:31 AM
At the Edge of the Cliff - Laura Knight, ca. 1917
‘One of the most longstanding Habsburg legacies is the attribution of virtues and harms to the empire itself.’
Holly Case · Thin Pink Glaze: Habsburg Legacies
We still live in the long shadow of Habsburg disintegration. In addition to the lingering legacy of 19th-century state...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
‘One of the most longstanding Habsburg legacies is the attribution of virtues and harms to the empire itself.’
‘Devices like Apple watches and Oura rings work by looking at pulse fluctuations rather than electrical heart signals. Few studies have examined how accurate these devices are.’
Fitness Watches Track Heartbeat Variability, and More Change Is Healthier Than Less
Milliseconds of variability, now detected by fitness watches, can improve well-being
www.scientificamerican.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
‘Devices like Apple watches and Oura rings work by looking at pulse fluctuations rather than electrical heart signals. Few studies have examined how accurate these devices are.’
‘So limited was the coverage that even parliament was oblivious. Around six months after the cyber incident I talked to the then chair of the science select committee, who was not aware of this incident that was having such a profound impact on the research community.’
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
‘So limited was the coverage that even parliament was oblivious. Around six months after the cyber incident I talked to the then chair of the science select committee, who was not aware of this incident that was having such a profound impact on the research community.’
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chatgpt is down, post handmade em dashes
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
chatgpt is down, post handmade em dashes
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Fragment, 17th century
Class: Textiles-Velvets
Medium: Silk
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/230679
Class: Textiles-Velvets
Medium: Silk
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/230679
November 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Fragment, 17th century
Class: Textiles-Velvets
Medium: Silk
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/230679
Class: Textiles-Velvets
Medium: Silk
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/230679
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Ceramics, 1918
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25957
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25957
November 17, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Ceramics, 1918
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25957
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25957