Kat Long

RT @USFWS: A hellbender but give it an 80s department store studio portrait. https://t.co/SmMuDm3ipH

I hope in 15 years there's a think piece on The #Terror being "sincerely beloved by a certain type of guy (gender neutral)"

Gabriella Paiella @GMPaiella

I wrote about why guys are obsessed with Master and Commander, 20 years later. Thanks to @AlexYablon, @willmenaker, @davidgross_man, @rachelmillman, @nandorvila, former Fox chairman Tom Rothman, and the legend Peter Weir for their thoughts. https://t.co/mhlF3QHum6

"Life is indeed not only present, but multitudinous. Bacteria, archaea, fungi, algae, viruses. All making their way in the otherworldly environment of polar sea ice, swimming in brine pockets, gobbling up carbon, feeding the food web in the depths below." https://t.co/qzs1hLArqq

Got my ticket to tonight's @DCSWA holiday party where I may not know anybody, having moved (back) to D.C. quite recently!!! Time to put on my extrovert hat 🤠 💪

Journalists: Always get the donkey's name https://t.co/hv6n7bI9uG

1950s pulp fiction writer Marijane Meaker (who passed away last month) published books under numerous pseudonyms, partially because she hated her first name but also because of this absolutely brilliant marketing scheme https://t.co/e5NznsUhIS

William #Scoresby on the moon seen through Lord Rosse's telescope: "It appeared like a Globe of Molten Silver ... Edifices of the size of York Minster might be easily perceived if they had existed ... the general appearance, however, was like one vast ruin of nature." https://t.co/YoxwDcmody

Found a partial description of William #Scoresby Jr's bequest to the Whitby Lit & Phil ... "Arctic relics" including walrus head, narwhal tusks, whale bones, polar bear teeth and ... two platypuses?! https://t.co/JbtaKp39F4

RT @miwipe81: We broke the world record in ancient DNA today! 2-million-year-old DNA from plants and animals were retrieved from geological…

I read this piece this morning and I’m still mystified why “wooden object found on beach” merited a whole story in the NYT

The New York Times @nytimes

An unknown object protruding through the sand at Daytona Beach Shores in Florida was recently discovered by beachgoers, local officials said. The object appears to be made of wood and metal and to be about 80 feet long. https://t.co/K7c5uqxGbu

❤️❤️❤️ https://t.co/ciWiQasTSs

My kind of database https://t.co/I8HqX0if1C

Why did no one urge—nay, IMPLORE—me to watch "The Lighthouse" before last weekend?! These salty seadogs are my people! https://t.co/tMbVW3KXIs

Straight into my veins

British Library Publishing @BL_Publishing

From lurid Arctic narratives of life amongst polar bears to tales of ghostly visitations within the wind-blown wilds of the southern continent, this new collection uncovers a wealth of neglected material from this niche of literature obsessed with the limits of human experience. https://t.co/WeMyxSowVZ

Love this story on the synthesis of technology and chance that sparked @neworder's "Blue Monday"—by @kenpartridge https://t.co/PD0fVE2YFO

RT @TimDee4: Woolen hats worn by Dutch whalers, 1700-1800, preserved in their graves in Spitsbergen: https://t.co/1GwYnajh9T

Just found a letter at @ExploreWellcome by #Arctic explorer Charles Francis Hall, who died mysteriously #OTD in 1871, describing plans for his North Pole march. Written on Polaris stationery, dated 10/11/71 with a postscript: "Tell Hannah and little Punny to be good always" https://t.co/gj5X2hO1s4