Born today: Dr Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native American woman to earn a medical degree and a tireless advocate for public health and land rights for the Omaha, was born 17 June 1865.
Read more about her at infinite-women.com/women/susan-la-flesche-picotte
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@northodoxpress.bsky.social knocked it out of the park last year. A cross between Farthing Wood, Silence of the Lambs & The Godfather, it was one of 2025’s most unique & confident debuts ⚡📚💙
My review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Concerning to see that the tools of my very first job (reporter on the Reading Chronicle, a fine weekly paper), are now considered worthy of inclusion in a (slightly eccentric) museum of labour, in Ronda, Spain where I am spending a few days. My typewriter however didn't rest on a crochet doily.
It has been ten years since Jo Cox MP was murdered by a far-right extremist while serving her constituents in Batley and Spen.
Today, we pause to remember Jo and her belief that “we have more in common than that which divides us”.
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“Universities were not built as establishments of financial efficiency, nor should their primary purpose be to supply workers skilled only to serve the labour market. They were built as institutions of teaching and higher learning, meant to nurture critical-thinking citizens.”
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Diana Catchpole, contemporary UK illustrator and printmaker #WomensArt
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infinite-women.com
Pioneering Native American doctor from the Omaha tribe. She made history as the first Indigenous woman to earn a medical degree, and she tirelessly campaigned for public health and land rights for…
The view from my hotel room balcony brings to mind the cover of a minor 1920s crime mystery
HOPE not hate
Katherine Stiles
Oh my, spotted by a sharp-eyed friend in Talinn: Wildly Different amongst some truly great authors in The English Bookshop. Woolf, Orwell, Zweig, Hooks and de Beauvoir. Such amazing company!
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By the way it's Al Carns, not Al Cairns.
Doc Sarah Lonsdale
What. A. Thread.
I’ve lately had the happy task of sharing some examples of good uses of Generative AI in education. But this week I happened across some bad takes on it that are real doozies.
