Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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Houghton, H. A. G., The Latin New Testament: A Guide to its Early History, Texts, and Manuscripts (Oxford, 2016; online edn, Oxford Academic, 24 Mar. 2016), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198744733.001.0001, accessed 30 June 2023. #openaccess #oa #book #books #latin #bible #christianity #religion #history #histodon #histodons @bookstodon @histodon @histodons
With the latest wave of users to the #fediverse from the new #TwitterMigration, it really feels like we might have reached a new threshold on #mastodon to catapult the site onto the next phase of its story. Or am I wrong?
Dang Liu and others, The genomic diversity of Taiwanese Austronesian groups: Implications for the “Into- and Out-of-Taiwan” models, PNAS Nexus, Volume 2, Issue 5, May 2023, pgad122, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad122 #OpenAccess #OA #Genetics #Anthropology #Science #Taiwan #Genome #research @science
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A brilliant green meteor lights up the sky over Southern India.
Photo credit: Prasenjeet Yadav
Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CRBl8odMmI5/
Further reading: https://www.wired.com/2017/01/bright-green-meteor-lights-mountains-india/
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With a new #Twitter exodus seemingly underway, time to plug my introductory talk for #Mastodon again... https://youtu.be/xfilz2RUrmQ
Nelson, T. (2023). Markers of Allusion in Archaic Greek Poetry (Cambridge Classical Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009086882 #openaccess #oa #book #books #bookstodon #classics #greek #poetry @bookstodon
Martin, S., Long, D., & Schodlok, M. (2022). Comparison of Antarctic iceberg observations by Cook in 1772–75, Halley in 1700, Bouvet in 1739 and Riou in 1789 with modern data. Journal of Glaciology, 1-8. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2022.111 #OpenAccess #OA #Antarctic #Science #Oceanography #History #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @science
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#OTD 1 July 1770 Lexell's Comet is seen closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 astronomical units (2,180,000 km). It was discovered by French astronomer Charles Messier though later named after Anders Johan Lexell
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Aleksi Huhta (2023) Fragile Connections: Finnish Settlers and U.S. Power in Cuba, c. 1904–1959, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 51:3, 534-554, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2023.2205692
#OpenAccess #OA #USA #History #Cuba #histodon #histodons
@histodon @histodons
Victor Wilson (2023) The Swedish Slave Trade Efforts at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century: Case Studies in Nordic Transimperial History, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 51:3, 555-575, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2023.2205698 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Sweden #Europe #C19th #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
‘Great news’: EU hails discovery of massive phosphate rock deposit in Norway. https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/great-news-eu-hails-discovery-of-massive-phosphate-rock-deposit-in-norway/ #EU #Europe #Norway
Source: https://twitter.com/vtchakarova/status/1675031998878961666
Brami, M., Zedda, N., Diekmann, Y., Blöcher, J., Brou, L., Valotteau, F., . . . Brun-Ricalens, F. (2023). Investigating the prehistory of Luxembourg using ancient genomes. Antiquity, 1-8. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.71 #OpenAccess #OA #Genetics #Europe #Luxembourg #Ancient #History #histodon #histodons #Science #Research @histodon @histodons @science
Source: https://twitter.com/AntiquityJ/status/1674692503679688704
It might be because so many #viral #videos on #socialmedia have that track playing in the background or at the end of the #video.
Have you ever had a music track stuck playing in your mind? Well, I have, today it happens to be 'his name is John Cena'. #Music
#Books are a human being's best friend. @bookstodon
"In our new study, we combined genetic and linguistic data sampled in England to study the effects of culture on genetics at smaller geographic scales than generally studied." https://theconversation.com/english-dialects-make-themselves-heard-in-genes-207593 #Anthropology #Linguistics #Genetics #UK #England #Science @anthropology @linguistics @science
Source: https://twitter.com/tonythorne007/status/1674718634009083904
#Ancient #DNA study reveals large scale migrations into Bronze Age #Britain https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/great-britain-celtic-england-dna-france-b1980890.html #Science #History #Genetics #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @science
A good historical #map adds a layer to our understanding of #history that is unparalleled. Moving borders or capitals all tell a story. #Cartography
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#OTD 29 June 1534 Jacques Cartier & his crew became the first Europeans to reach Prince Edward Island.
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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