coming March 2026! @monikaamsler.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Today's extremely niche academic copyediting gripe: Why on earth would you put commas in the name of your book series?!

Please share widely! 3-year Postdoc in Early Christian Studies. Deadline: 8 March. Let me know if you have any questions or want to nominate a colleague.

📣Are you a NAPS member? Did you publish your first article in 2024 or 2025? Do you like cash money? Send a PDF of that first article to me at [email protected] by January 31, 2026 Best First Article prize and a cool $250 awarded at the NAPS annual meeting!

"I’ll explore what tethers our current higher education policy realities to past moments in history, leading to potential lessons on crafting an American higher education system that thrives within a multiracial democracy." this series from @bakerdphd.bsky.social look amazing!

JTS is excited to announce a 10-session online Introduction to Judeo-Arabic course, from March 5 to May 28, 2026. Taught by Dr. Yaara Perlman, the course will primarily focus on the close reading of classical texts as well as documentary materials such as private letters and legal documents.

Enormous lol @ "Having sufficiently expressed my admiration for this work, I will now pass on to some more critical remarks..." on page 5

several excellent events in store for Durham as Chris Newfield takes up a residency at Duke literary knowledge as anti-fascism, building the new cultural order Stuart Hall wanted 30 years ago, parallel universities,+defeating the empire of AI. fhi.duke.edu/event/fhi-sh...

#OutNow: Sahidic Coptic by Bill Manley 📖 This new textbook offers students a clear and concise introduction to the grammar of Sahidic Coptic, as well as essential historical and cultural context. Download the eTextbook for free. Find out more: uclpress.co.uk/book/sahidic...

Online today @JewishCurrents: my examination of how nearly a century of cooperation between American universities and the military-industrial complex has made a mockery of the concept of academic freedom jewishcurrents.org/higher-eds-b...

The Apostle Paul:

To learn more about Egyptian workers during the 19th and early 20th centuries, I’d truly recommend reading: Hidden Hands Egyptian Workforces in Petrie Excavation Archives, 1880-1924: www.bloomsbury.com/us/hidden-ha...

HDS Library Staff Picks! This month, Nell was excited to share a recent discovery from the stacks. It is a 16th century figurative map depicting the continent of Asia as a winged horse. . . . #harvarddivinity #hdslstaffpicks #librarylife #harvard

Visited @letter-kunde.bsky.social’s walhalla of printing presses today. It was a good day! #bookhistory 💙📚📜

Watch this space…

By way of introduction: my book, The Multiplicity of Scripture: The Making of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible (Toronto: PIMS 2025) pims.ca/publication/... Available in North America via @uoftpress.bsky.social, in Europe via @brepols.net, and in digital form by @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

THEORY AT THE BARGAINING TABLE UIC United Faculty hosts a roundtable on education technology, faculty autonomy, power mapping, board composition, lobbying state legislators, artificial intelligence, surveillance+ data-mining, Ponzi austerity, + more. theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/theory-at-...

Friends, I hope you’ll share this widely. The @jcblibrary.bsky.social is hiring 2 3-yr research associates for collaborative work on religions and freedoms in the early Americas. Info is here and I’m happy to take questions offline: brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...

Apply to be the 2026-7 Munby Fellow in bibliography and history of the book @theul.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ688/m...

It’s here! I’m delighted to share a new theme issue of @histandtheojrnl.bsky.social, “Philology Now.” Valeria López Fadul and I edited this issue, featuring smart contributions by Emily Apter, Peter de Bolla, Alan Durston, Cymone Fourshey, Claire Gilbert, Anthony Grafton… historyandtheory.org/64-4

University of Florida Critical Theory Reading Group Conference The State of the Unions Keynotes: Sianne Ngai, Anna Kornbluh -How have unions+ labor itself, been the subject of - or been eliminated from - literary studies, literary texts, pop culture? call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/12/...

on this sunday-est of sundays, syllabus-ing for a new term you're not alone against the oligarch agenda of cognitive deskilling, data capture, surveillance, and bias: we've got assignment ideas, memes, recommended readings, o' captain speeches, syllabus policies, and so much more against-a-i.com

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Here's my president's update on the activities of the International Catacomb Society in 2025 and what we have in the works for 2026! Follow us @catacombsociety.bsky.social #archaeology #grant #humanities #ancient 🏺 AncientBlueSky

You could make this argument for bombing and regime change in the US. “Donald Trump was ineligible for the presidency in 2024 under the 14th Amendment, and therefore the United States must be bombed to restore democracy.” Somehow I don’t think the pundit class would be so credulous in that case.

Streets? As many of us as are physically able out in them? Seems like am important next step here

I dunno if any writer has lived the dream like Nabokov. I think most writers would like to be so technically impressive that their showing off is not only tolerated but appreciated. so many of his paragraphs are “look what I can do lmao… holy shit…”

See, e.g., my profile description on this site!

You should definitely read this thread, but I've bit my tongue almost to bleeding about that "...no one has anymore"

Here's the call for the Interntational Society for Neoplatonic Studies affiliated panel at the Society for Classical Studies annual meeting in Boston in January 2027. Please consider submitting an abstract, otherwise help spread the word!

The weight of history needs your support. Your contribution helps ensure every page, every fragment is digitized. Celebrate 60 years of preservation by joining the $75,000 match, protecting stories across cultures and centuries. Support preservation: hmml.org/give #HMML60 #PreserveAndShare

My (free) website for learning to read from Greek manuscripts is available. Still some tweaks to be made but it’s ready with 12 lessons, tips and hints, downloadable reports if you use it for a class, and links to lots of resources. Please share and give feedback! xeirographa.com

“In 1914 Thomas W. Bicknell, a wealthy eastern author, historian, and Education Commissioner for Rhode Island, offered a thousand-volume library to any Utah town that would rename itself after him.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicknel...

A Christmas surprise: if you want to download the open access copy of Stealing from the Gods, you now can... The official birthday is in a couple of weeks, but time is an arbitrary construct. (Oh, and we'll be PA6029.T46 K67 2026 at the library. An actual real call number!)

unbeatable soundtrack for we of all traditions

“Our aim is to lower tenure density so that we can hire lecturers for classes that students need in high-demand programs.”

And this is our poster:

So excited to see Susan Harvey's new book out this month! And it's available for free download! www.ucpress.edu/books/minist...

14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

THERE ARE NO JOBS IN ACADEMIA! NO JOBS! DOZENS OF HYPER QUALIFIED APPLICANTS PER JOB!

Lovely CSWR "Research Reflection" @maiakotro.bsky.social cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2025/12...

The 2025 GenAut FWF START project seminar is completed! Excellent group of papers, check them out. The 2026 series, on GenAut figures in cultic contexts, is curated by Maria S. Thomas (info soon). Recordings: youtube.com/@receptionmatters The 2025 programme: genaut.univie.ac.at @fwf-at.bsky.social

This is also Harvard University's position. Mgmt of these prestige non-profits really all pulling from the same playbook, huh?

listening to respondent fumble through an answer to this question like

Come do research with Printing & Graphic Arts! library.harvard.edu/grants-fello...

Assistant Professorship in Classics (Greek literature) (x2 posts) at University of Cambridge www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPW515/a...

📣 Call for Participants - New Workshop Series: Saints Outside Hagiography