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Only my silliest tweets get featured in the New York Times. nytimes.com/2022/01/14/cross…
Life update for anyone still on this website: I work here now! Thrilled to be working in communications (but not social!) at the @librarycongress.
Officially signing off on my last day at the @smithsonian. It’s been an honor to be the voice of this institution online for nearly eight years.
So long and thanks for all the fish.
It's the last day of #WorldOceansMonth! This @SmithsonianArch photo was taken by Carl Hansen in 1989 at @stri_panama, where we've been doing groundbreaking research on tropical ecosystems for decades.🌊
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🌊🦀Today's International Horseshoe Crab Day! Did you know:
🥚 One horseshoe crab can lay ~4,000 eggs.
🐦 Many shorebirds can’t survive without horseshoe crabs.
🦂 They are not true crabs.
🚑 You may be alive today thanks to a horseshoe crab.
✏️STORY: s.si.edu/3muQGFe.
Said hi to some (really, really) old friends at work today. @NMNH
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Shine bright like a ULIRG 💎
With the light of a trillion suns, an ultra-luminous infrared galaxy (ULIRG) shines in the latest @NASAWebb image. Located 250 million light-years away, this target is actually the result of two colliding spiral galaxies: go.nasa.gov/3L7dojN

ALT A black, deep space image is dominated by a large central object. This object resembles a snowflake-like feature with a bright white core and 8 pinkish orange spikes. It is surrounded by additional wisps of pinkish orange and blue gas. In reality, this “snowflake” is actually two colliding galaxies with merging cores. The brilliant light from the star formation surrounding these cores creates diffraction spikes, an optical effect that occurs when bright light interacts with a telescope’s optics. The background is punctuated with scattered red, white and orange galaxies of various shapes and sizes.
This is not what I was promised
Folks, I’m sincerely sorry that we made your favorite donut more skinny. As a consolation, I believe it is more tasty. #NewBHimage
Image from one of my favorite Smithsonian things, the Sally L. Steinberg Collection of Doughnut Ephemera in @amhistorymuseum's Archives Center.
Just feel like more people should see these absurd seed catalogs from the late 1800s in @SILibraries' collection: s.si.edu/3KwXEGf
Belva Ann Lockwood drafted legislation for equal pay for work by women in government. It became law in 1872. 💪 #EqualPayDay
She ran for president twice in the 1880s, and was the first woman to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court. 📸: c. 1880 by Benjamin Falk, @smithsoniannpg
Soaked up some horticulture this morning with @SIGardens. 🌸 These saucer magnolias in the Haupt Garden are about 45 years old!
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That’s home. That’s us. 🌎
This image dubbed the “pale blue dot” was taken by @NASAVoyager today in 1990. As the spacecraft sped toward interstellar space, it captured Earth from 3.7 billion miles (6 billion km) away. Find out 10 fast facts: go.nasa.gov/3E7eW9m
Finally made it to @NYHistory with the inimitable @em_dash_h8.
🌼: Tiffany daffodil lamp
🥪: Katz's Delicatessen/Closing Time, Alan Wolfson
Some favorites from the @metmuseum: spooky queen by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger (ca. 1590-1600), details of flowers by Severin Rosen and Vincent van Gogh.































