“In a historic milestone for Caltech, the incoming undergraduate class will comprise 50% women. The class of 2028 is the first to reach gender parity since the Institute began admitting female undergraduates in 1970” https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/incoming-class-50-percent-female via @Researchbuzz
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 21:50:53 JST John Overholt
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 22:53:33 JST John Overholt
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Have you tried turning it off and on again again?
Have you tried turning it off and on again again again?
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 23:45:53 JST John Overholt
In the teaching Olympics, you have to take a middle school class here.
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2024 03:21:57 JST John Overholt
I’m doing prep for a big Summer 2026 exhibition on American independence and I was delighted to discover that we’ve got the first newspaper printing of the Declaration to go along with the broadside version.
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jun-2024 01:48:44 JST John Overholt
God Bless America
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 01:13:33 JST John Overholt
It is a difficult thing to have devoted your life to a profession whose purpose is helping people find accurate, useful information and contemplate a future where everything is drowned in a tsunami of plausible-sounding robot gibberish.
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2024 07:45:00 JST John Overholt
A top secret D-Day landing map is just one of 25,000 World War II items digitized as part of a new University of Oxford project. https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-06-03-oxford-project-discovers-over-25000-world-war-ii-artefacts-and-makes-them-accessible
Via @Researchbuzz
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 03:13:16 JST John Overholt
I love these metatextual type specimens from 1907--the opposite of lorem ipsum. https://uwmspeccoll.tumblr.com/post/749853640601255936/typography-tuesday
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Saturday, 04-May-2024 06:37:13 JST John Overholt
I’m in Baltimore for a library event but it happens also to be the Flower Mart street fair and the weather for it is lovely.
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Saturday, 04-May-2024 06:37:12 JST John Overholt
The George Peabody Library is magnificent as always.
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Saturday, 04-May-2024 00:28:30 JST John Overholt
Am I so out of touch? No, it’s the ethics that are wrong. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/05/did-student-or-chatgpt-write-that-paper-does-it-matter/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%2020240503%20(1)
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Sunday, 21-Apr-2024 22:53:36 JST John Overholt
Wartime censorship leaves a letter home a bit Swiss cheesed. https://uniqueatpenn.wordpress.com/2024/04/17/loose-lips-sink-ships/
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2024 04:33:22 JST John Overholt
@mckra1g We have an EGOT--though our Oscar is not nearly as early.
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2024 04:04:23 JST John Overholt
New from the Newberry Library, a collection of more than 8000 digitized postcards illustrated by named artists. Perfect for posting to Mastodon--they come with alt text! https://www.newberry.org/news/digitization-complete-for-john-i-monroe-collection-of-artist-signed-postcards
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 03:36:31 JST John Overholt
The kind of title page that feels like it should be followed with "THREAD (1/?)"
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 06:55:16 JST John Overholt
*stares in librarian*
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 06:55:14 JST John Overholt
@platypus Once they create the Torment Nexus, there will definitely be a popup asking how likely you are to recommend the Torment Nexus to a friend.
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 06:22:37 JST John Overholt
Spotted in the stacks: a collection of prints made from gravestone rubbings of type designers. https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/99156839980503941/catalog
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 05:05:51 JST John Overholt
Group of 3000 non-tenure track Harvard faculty file for union recognition under the UAW. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/3/5/haw-uaw-files-for-recognition/
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Monday, 26-Feb-2024 06:54:03 JST John Overholt
Talk about rare—witness the only known photo of David Bowie looking uncool. https://rylandscollections.com/2024/02/24/introducing-the-terence-pepper-collection/
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