publishing, writing, and science-ing • community manager @lets_experiment • phd from @umlifesciences • host for @newbooksnetwork • wife & mom

southern tier, ny
Joined September 2016
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Simon Sarris
@simonsarris18 Nov 2024
Replying to @emzanotti
They give you a deeper understanding of childhood, one that you cannot gain from your own childhood because you yourself were too small to understand. They're quite fun. Many things you only really learn by trying to teach, and they give endless opportunity. and:
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This sounds frivolous in the grand scheme of things but we need to support archivists, protect public libraries, protect journalists, writers, artists, photographers, and filmmakers. We need to continue to keep culture alive and educate our youth.
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Free scientific illustrations for biologists! 😍 @NIH has released a library of 500+ free scientific illustrations to create figures, presentations, and illustrations! all freely available in the public domain. Retweet and spread the message! bioart.niaid.nih.gov/
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that fiber artistry and lacework and “women’s work” are what led to the invention of computer programming is so incredibly beautiful and makes me cry whenever i think about it
Nine years ago today I was at the Fondazione Lisio in Florence learning to weave velvet by hand on a 19th-century jacquard loom. I designed the pattern and hand-punched the cards myself. This technology was the basis for the binary computing system pioneered by Ada Lovelace.
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Don't tell the poets but I learned today that birds sing in their sleep, dreaming the notes of their birdsongs
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Sorry but it's more Carl Jung
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Rollo May on creative people
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Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.
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“If you share what you think is cool and intellectually interesting and touching and beautiful, the world organizes itself around that intent”
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A brief introduction to John Singer Sargent, one of the greatest portrait painters in history:
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something about books getting smaller to save the planet while endless AI swallows glaciers whole to "summarize" emails
Publishers try skinnier books to save money and emissions | @BBCNews buff.ly/4guNP9K
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The only writing advice I've ever printed out at put on my desk, from Rebecca Solnit. lithub.com/how-to-be-a-write…
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Highkey love women who use a lot of explanation points in their work emails. Like yes ma’am let me know you’re friendly and a little anxious!
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Kurt Vonnegut, go into the arts
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sure I guess you *could* get an MFA, orrrrr you could just take a minute with this paragraph on Sharon Olds
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The most delightful tool for design and ideation costs $17 from ikea and it’s made for todlers.
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— James Baldwin
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The long-awaited Event Horizon Telescope images at 0.87 mm wavelength (= 345 GHz frequency) have just dropped. The super massive black hole M87* is now in better focus 🧵
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All math books should be this beautiful.
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reading a high quality book first thing in the morning is basic spiritual nourishment
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