I say this with love and as a professor of art history: the report on this study is junk. It’s not measuring a response to “real art” vs “reprints”; it’s measuring “seeing art in a museum” vs “seeing it on googles while in an MRI machine.” www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

Real art in museums stimulates brain much more than reprints, study finds

Scientists in Netherlands using eye-tracking and MRI scans found ‘enormous difference’ between genuine works and posters

Saw your bio, @larryglickman.bsky.social ; glad someone's doing that work!

Boston Public Library has reopened its search for a Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts. Position posting is here: city-boston.icims.com/jobs/26768/c... Additional information and how to apply is posted on most of the usual job boards. (Alternately, hit me up and I’ll send you our info doc.)

Public notices

Someone who really didn't understand how academic publishing works: "For a while he paid the rent by writing articles for scientific journals." Admittedly, this is from 1978.

Hey #medlibs#jobad#MedLibJob#LibraryJobillinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... You'd be reporting to her and you know I think highly of her! Open to early career!

I had a nasty Escherichia coli infection as a tween due to inadvertently swallowing stagnant water from a pipette. Raw water.

And another: Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica, serotype typhi.

Another microbe in "raw" water: Vibrio cholerae.

Shigella dysenteriae is one of those microbes that "raw" water is rich with.

STdanglinghemmie.bsky.socialSep 22, 2024 6:20pm

the cool thing about the reactionary back to nature folks is that they're all going to explosively shit themselves and die

Ok, now that's funny.