I love a deep dive into the arcana of scientific nomenclature

#Librarians + #faculty! Discover how to unlock the full potential of #ArtstorOnJSTOR at our #webinar on Nov 19 @ 11 AM ET w/ Blair Woodard University Of Portland + Whitney Barlow Robles Dartmouth 🌲 as they share how they use #images to enhance student learning. Free reg: bit.ly/4e7DAWF

Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue will be coming out in August 2025! We now have a book website (services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/K/Knowin…) thanks to Lever Press. More on chapters by Alexis Lycas Gail Chen Patricia Murrieta Digging Into Early Colonial Mexico Mariana Favila Barbara E. Mundy

Subterranean termites are bedeviling because by the time you find them, they... started from the bottom now they're here.

Got a William Morris comforter at T.J. Maxx today and part of me feels he’d be all “Ruskin’s muffins, what’s this capitalist perversion!?” and part of me knows he’d secretly be happy about his willow bough reaching the masses.

Going through my handwritten notes and honestly it's worse than reading cross-hatched letters from circa 1838

Halloween, a time change, the fate of the republic, national redhead day. It's all too much for one week.

In the coming days there's gonna be a lot of opining about what the Harris campaign did wrong, but this election was not an indictment of Kamala Harris. It was an indictment of America.

Just remember he has a blank check this time.

Tempted to found a nonprofit whose sole mission is to give a skateboard to every single solitary turtle on this green earth

Hard to believe CURIOUS SPECIES is a year old today! What better way to celebrate than by letting the ultimate curious species in my life take a cat nap with it? Yale University Press

And here I thought this was Olivia Pope's innovation. Or maybe she's always two steps ahead and dabbles in philology?

it's incredible that we don't have a single memorial, or a day of remembrance, or really any meaningful attempt to collectively process the scale of loss and trauma we all experienced as a country or as a world

As part of #NHMUnlocked the team have been taking whole drawer imaging of the beetle collection including this unique Christmas tree drawer #festivespecimens #12DaysOfChristmas

If you're in Philly, come see me talk about my book at the Am Phil Society on Dec. 10! There's also a live stream (pre-reg required). I'm even sometimes known to use jazz hands at these. I promise they don't disappoint. amphilsoc.org/events/curious…

The platypus is possibly the weirdest animal: it's a mammal but lays eggs, its duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed and venomous. It has electroreceptors for locating prey, eyes with double cones, no stomach, and 26 pairs of chromosomes. It's fluorescent and glows under UV

Sometimes, when r/StopEatingSeedOils is sending me into a panic, I head over to r/UFOs to calm down #truestory

A Barred Owl dropped in through the chimney of a home in Arlington, Virginia earlier this week. The owl decided to settle on top of the homeowner’s Christmas tree as a resting spot. It was then safely released back into the wild by AWLArlington, VA.🦉

What do curiosity cabinets and our own information age share in common? Read my article with JSTOR Daily to find out!

You can find me over in the great blue yonder. I will miss my devoted following of sexy ladies—Did Jesus spurn Mary Magdalene?—but the bots can't keep me here. bsky.app/profile/wbarlo…