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Taylor Sakmar, the MBL's senior collector, regularly visits biodiverse estuaries, marshes and ocean sites around Cape Cod to fulfill requests for unique organisms that scientists at the MBL are studying. 🔗 Learn more about his role: go.mbl.edu/take5-sakmar 📸: Camille Ledoux

A marine cold snap has sent ripples through Northeast fisheries. 🥶 A new WHOI-led study shows that the sudden drop in temperature pushed warm-water species out of the region, causing economic turmoil for certain fisheries. Dive in: go.whoi.edu/gulf-coldpulse

27 OCTOBER 1776, WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK: George Washington urges the Continental Army to be braver when encountering British cavalry, and offers a reward for doing so: founders.archives.gov/documents/Wa...

Sculpture by John Morris.

🎧 Night twenty-six is DAY OF THE DEAD (1985)

Luo Li Rong sculpture

make sure you’re in before the end of the month so you can get my first plant mail ever 🥹🩷

Ann Miller

Atom Age Vampire. 1960. Far from the best of Italian but more enjoyable than the badly hacked and oddly retitled US cut suggests. Cheap and trashy fun. #horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #film #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #italianhorror #horroraddict #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam

The Car (1977) Directed by Elliot Silverstein stars James Brolin, Kathleen Lloyd and John Marley.

Kay Johnson in Madam Satan (1930)

Hands of the Ripper 1971

Mark Darcy once said, “If you ask me, there isn't enough blue food.” If you're also a fan, try lingcod! Some lingcod have bright blue meat—but don’t worry, it doesn’t affect the flavor, and the meat turns white when you cook it. And it’s delicious! https://bit.ly/4zcVMtp

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26 OCTOBER 1776, NEW YORK: “The cautious conduct of Genl Howe in all the operations of this Campaign is generally approved of,” redcoat Frederick Mackenzie tells us out of the blue, though the fact he then launches into a discussion of a battle from two months ago suggests this might not be true.

Only my closest besties know that I'm a bit of a Dairy Queen junkie. Well, I guess everybody knows that now, but prior to this post I mean. 🤪

Are you curious about graduate studies in ocean science or engineering? Find out if the #MIT_WHOI Joint Program is right for you at our virtual info session October 28! 🧑🏽‍🎓👩🏻‍🔬🤖 📲Get the details and register:mit.whoi.edu/admissions/info-sessions

26 OCTOBER 1776, PHILADELPHIA: Like the rest of the Continental Congress, North Carolina delegate William Hooper anxiously awaits news of the expected battle between the two armies in New York, two days’ ride away:

Thank you, Walter. RIP

Bayreuth, Germany 🇩🇪

Margravial Opera House 🇩🇪

26 OCTOBER 1776, LONDON: Law student John Laurens is delighted to learn in a letter from his father, the Vice President of independent South Carolina, that the Declaration of Independence has inspired him to renounce slavery and start planning how to free his hundreds of slaves.

JEEPERS CREEPERS (1939)

🔬 Happy #MicroscopyMonday! Take a look at this image of neurons growing in culture expressing a fluorescent voltage-sensitive protein that can be paired with optogenetics. Imaged by Kevin Chen in the 2026 Neurobiology course.

26 OCTOBER 1776, BELCHERTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS: The three children, all girls aged five to one and a half, of Moses & Amy Cowles are killed when their house burns down while Amy is briefly out. Moses is away serving with the Continental Army around New York.

Matchboxes featuring cats by Arna Miller and Ravi Zupa.

Happy National Pumpkin Day

Too cute. Can't hack it. Currently dying of cuteness overload.

But a combination of the hecticness of the last five weeks and the army’s embarrassment at having their officer caught spying by the British and executed for it has conspired such that neither the army nor any of Hale’s friends have written to his relatives.

Hale was hanged as a spy on September 22, and one of William Howe’s aides personally informed members of Washington’s staff of it the same day.

26 OCTOBER 1776, WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK: Nathan Hale’s brother Enoch finally receives the family’s first confirmation of Nathan’s execution, having been forced to travel to the Continental Army camp to inquire personally about the rumors rather than receive any notification.