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

what the actual fuck

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!

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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...

Don’t knock it till you try it.

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

It /is/ a problem that the right has articulated a reactionary vision for the humanities and the left has pushed ROI analysis to boost tech and marketing degrees.

Me at the balcony of my 2 story outhouse

Religious studies/theology folks: Please share word of this 3-year postdoc (junior research fellowship) at Trinity College, Oxford. Application deadline January 21. Full details available here: www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

Well hot damn. Progress. A temp manuscript catalog is back.

Two fellowships for research in special collections at Haverford College: The Gest Fellowship ($3000) for research on Quakerism and the Thomas Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation Fellowship ($5000) on mental health and the history of mental health care. Deadline: February 16, 2026.

It is impossible to overstate how accurately this book predicted the rise of a certain type of guy

It seems to me The New School's 'leadership' created a budget hole then went 'oh no, a budget hole! we must attack the faculty!' That's gross but not unfamiliar as an administrator play. What's surprising from this document is that they seem to be doing so while paying many millions to a trustee?!

In our current contract bargaining, Harvard administrators are attempting to carve ~1000 workers out of the union, claiming that they are ineligible for various reasons. When we've presented clear evidence that they are wrong, admin's response has been "You're free to take this to the NLRB!"

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

New favorite description of research: We are all of us “like ants—patiently constructing networks of tunnels and routes along which finds and supplies might move” From Cole and Hoffman, SACRED TRASH (2010)

New issue of Journal of Early Christian Studies Vol. 33, No. 4 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56088 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social

i think a (perhaps underappreciated) aspect of this whole situation is the extent to which every elite profession is filled with people who excel at drawing attention and want to be famous more than they want to do the actual job

6,000 faculty members at Penn State has filed for a union. These professors and other faculty will vote on unionizing in the coming year. If they win their union it will be the largest public union in Pennsylvania.

someone should invent a thing that's like a university but it's goal is to facilitate learning

Bar Bahlul's /Lexicon/ has Syriac headwords, with definitions and explanations, long & short, in Syriac and/or Arabic. For more Bar Bahlul, have a look at /The Pearlsong/:

All solidarity with New School faculty, staff, and students facing outrageous, unilaterally imposed retrenchments, including termination of 40% of f-t faculty. NYC friends, come out at 4 to say no to the cuts! Folks elsewhere can watch the @aaup.org livestream here: youtube.com/live/w8NJOS7...

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... "an alumnus gifted the land to Harvard in 1678, though the University did not touch the land until a century later. Harvard sold the land in 1780, though members of the Penobscot and Abenaki peoples lived there at the time"

My reflections on Patristics in Canada - just out in SR! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I refuse to surrender classical antiquity or Times New Roman font to the fascists.

Bit of news here: genaut.univie.ac.at/?p=1595 @erc.europa.eu #ERCCoG

If you don't want to work in higher ed, it's really ok, you can just leave!

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One interesting statistic from the article followed by two equally interesting statistics about U Nebraska: