Absolutely! Volumes of the CSWR's new series, Texts & Translations of Transcendence & Transformation (4T), are released concurrently as open-access PDFs and affordable, but appealing, hard copies. My book is already avail., and the next (Muller, Porphyry) will be by year's end.

so The Rapture is scheduled for Rosh Hashanah? Is this deliberate or another one of those "sorry it was the only day that worked for everyone" situations?

Out now: New issue of MTSR featuring a symposium on @feelingtheory.bsky.social's WILD EXPERIMENT, in which @maiakotro.bsky.social and I take the opportunity to fire off some long-simmering hot takes on how J. Z. Smith is used in discussions about comparison as a method. brill.com/view/journal...

oh & unlike academia dot edu you don't have to join to access archives on KC! I have all my stuff on KC linked on my professional website and you can access it all from there (along with my various course websites and online essays): andrewjacobs.org/vita.html

None of the most prominent people talking about universities have any real idea what does and doesn’t happen in classrooms.

Oooookay that's the push I've needed for however many years to finally delete

Duke UP has put the Introduction to my book online! See here: bit.ly/42yhObv

UCLouvain seeks to recruit a full-time academic in Exegesis of Biblical and Extra-Biblical Texts. jobs.uclouvain.be/PersonnelAca...

It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.

Aw man I wish academics had headlines like this. “Stephen Aguilar (existential dread) is not expected to write today, per @mpolikoff.bsky.social”

Something very short I wrote on my new book and the 4T book series (Texts & Translations of Transcendence & Transformation), published by the CSWR and distributed by HUP.

This is now out in paperback and the publisher sent me copies. I've got four to give away — if you're a graduate student, early career, or contingent researcher, I'm happy to send you a copy in the US, or deliver to AIA/SCS/AAR/SBL. Just chime in here or send me a DM.

My essay on the need for Mutual Academic Defense Compacts (MADCs) in this moment is now up in @aaup.org's @academemagazine.bsky.social, and will appear in print in the Fall issue. Please give it a read and share! #MADC www.aaup.org/mutual-defen...

Please spread the word—The Scholars’ Workshop in Early African American Print at AAS Jan. 12-15, 2026. A writing workshop and intro to archives for junior scholars working on the dissertation or first book. Fully funded. Apply by Oct. 15 2025. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD

You know him for /Against the Christians/, /Homeric Questions/, /On the Cave of the Nymphs/, the /Isagoge/, and /On Not Eating Animals/. More from Porphyry coming soon! Like the Pearlsong, this volume will be available as an open-access PDF and a beautiful hard copy.

With the caveat that I've been the editor for all of three minutes, here's a thread about the goings on at the Journal of Early Christian Studies---far rosier, for reasons that I think have to do with size

🔥 Forget #AI check lists, here are 10 well proven book curses to detect hallucinated reference in academic texts:

This is such an important thread, but this post really made me sad, because the broader scholarly infrastructure has (been) eroded to the point that knowledge exchange simply can't exist in the way it used to and there's little that journals can do about it. Because that infrastructure was people.

This week I finished typesetting the next 4T book, Fabien Muller on Porphyry's Letter to Anebo & Philosophy from Oracles: Greek & Latin fragments, Eng. translations, glossaries, and short commentary. Stay tuned if you're interested in gods and daemons, theurgy, and oracles in dactylic hexameter!

A quick update about my forthcoming Diogenes book with Basic Books: you can now also pre-order the audiobook, narrated by the amazing Cassandra Campbell. www.audible.com/pd/Diogenes-...

came downstairs, and yep, i’m right next to ambe maa. not sure i warrant all that, but i’m so happy about how proud they are.

There's a new issue of the Journal of Ancient Judaism, in which I discuss palm trees, Smyrna, and the discursive deployments of Judea in the Roman Empire: brill.com/view/journal...

Why are so many university cuts targeting Religious Studies…? New article in CHE quoting @vox-magica.bsky.social & others = www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

CUNY friends, we're getting organized! The CUNY Alliance for Defending Higher Education is organizing faculty & staff to stand up to attacks and advocate for a CUNY-wide defense compact Follow us @cadhe.bsky.social and sign up on our website to support and stay informed! cadhe.commons.gc.cuny.edu

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AAUP-HARVARD, AAUP, & UAW WON THE HARVARD CASE!!!! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“Residential fellowships are a vestige of a time when academic families lived on a single income, when life revolved around the career of this breadwinner, and when scholars were overwhelmingly men with stay-at-home wives” Also: some fellowships barely pay enough to cover the cost of the move+rent

"for a Latin class"?????

"What about them Boyz" Chicago, Illinois

This is a great piece. But, honestly, the biggest hurdle for tenured faculty at private universities unionizing is not the law, it's the organizing. A sufficiently organized and strategically bold faculty could force voluntary recognition of a union, even under NLRA w/ Trump NLRB & SCOTUS.

Well. It’s official. You can now submit your proposals to the New Perspectives on Ancient Greek Religion book series, published by Edinburgh University Press! #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

Got sick of listing Languages on my CV like so many hunting prizes and wrote this addendum: “I view language proficiency as a journey rather than a possession. Currently, I use Judaeo-Arabic and Modern Hebrew the most for research, and Hindi/Urdu, Tamil and Mandarin Chinese the most for leisure.”

Meet our team! Starting today: Maria S. Thomas The GenAut Project: "The Followers of the Apostles as Literary Characters" genaut.univie.ac.at ‪@dekayra.bsky.social‬

My college has openings for four tenure-track positions to begin fall 2026: literatures of the French-speaking Caribbean, Environmental Social Sciences, Religion in the United States, and Public/Medical Sociology. Come be my colleague! slc.peopleadmin.com/postings/sea...

NEW: Tenure-track position in History at UC Berkeley in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY. We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration. I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.

Happy to share my just-published Oxford Bibliography on "Early Transmission of Rabbinic Literature." It was helpful for me to think through this topic, and I hope that the resulting annotated bibliography will be helpful to others! www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...

There's a lawsuit about AI stealing your work. It's the same lawyers taking on Elsevier et al in a separate case. Academics: 1. Check if your work is in LibGen at www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... 2. If so, let the lawyers know at www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

Another academic year, another 300 students in Introduction to Early Christianity and the New Testament, because—contrary to what short-sighted and uninformed administrators at other institutions might have you think—college kids are actually super interested in religion.

We are pleased to announce a dedicated podcast feed for "New Books in Late Antiquity," sponsored by Ancient Jew Review. Follow on Apple (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n... ) or Spotify (open.spotify.com/show/6uGXkAl...) now!

Pythagoras has heard ENOUGH about the Rancho Gordo Bean Club

I'm crazy about lists of books or contents in manuscripts. This is another example of why it's such a fascinating research topic:

This is happening tomorrow, and I hope you'll join us! We have a few prepared thoughts, but mostly it's a chance for contingent/independent scholars to pool ideas and strategies for research funding!

Journalism has brought me into contact with a lot of sources who tried to blow the whistle. Often, those people ask to be anonymous. This is the rare story of someone who took on a major Wall Street firm and is willing to tell her story. 🎁 link www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Kelsie Rodenbiker's new book on the Catholic Epistles is available digitally via OUP and honestly it's a blast. Chapters 3 and 4 especially heavily critique notions about the stability of the Catholic Epistle collection and the formation of the New Testament canon. tinyurl.com/46e88p25

New podcast! Mike Motia interviews Walter Scheidel about his book, What Is Ancient History? @princetonupress.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/what-is-anci...

"Will Harvard remain a place where important issues can be debated respectfully and constructively, without political interference? Or will we strike a Faustian bargain — selling our souls to regain research funding and political favor?" By @olveczky.bsky.social. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.

It sounds naive, I'm sure, but looking back over the last 20-odd years of discussions about what is wrong with academia and how or how not to fix it, the idea that scholars produce knowledge (not just jobs, tech, or texts), and that that is an important social good, is largely and strikingly absent.