The good news is that my university's library now has the full run of MAD magazine library.uoregon.edu/news/new-don...

University of Arizona Libraries is hiring for a RARE BOOK LIBRARIAN! 1st review of applications February 9, 2026. arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... We have great collections and great people here. Not on the committee, happy to chat.

Birkbeck is hiring a Lecturer in Medieval Studies (c.1300-1500), full-time and open-ended. They will be formally based in English but expected to be able to contribute about 0.5FTE to History, including teaching and supervision. Closing date Feb 23rd: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Anyone in my orbit specifically on Bluesky studying medieval Jewish illuminated mss?

Your regular reminder that if you are a member of a faculty union you can put a union 'bug' on your slides, handouts, etc. like this one

The more we say to young people "everything that needs to be known is already available to you via this convenient chatbot" the more we signal to them that their brains are vestigial...no need to work on your reading, thinking, or writing skills, machines can do that better. Go scroll.

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

Lectureship in Liberal Arts and Religion/Philosophy (Teaching and Research) at the University of Leeds with scope for focus on the Islamic world www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPY440/l...

[Open Iberia/América] new teaching unit by Andrea Pauw, the aljamiado "Coplas sacadas de los castigos del hijo de Edam" (Versified advice for the sons of Adam) (ca. 1600) available Open Access in English and Spanish versions at openiberiaamerica.hcommons.org/2026/01/02/c...

Shared Storyworlds in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Retellings of the Hebrew Bible in Medieval Iberia (author's Open Access postprint) works.hcommons.org/records/e77y...

Love to see a prize celebrating both Steinschneider and good primary source publishing in Jewish Studies :) networks.h-net.org/group/announ... 📚📜🗃️

As a current fellow, I’m happy to answer any questions about this predoctoral fellowship application ⬇️⬇️

University of Southern Denmark, 3-year postdoc in Medieval Studies memorients.com/news/univers...

*Putting this on my reading list for next year.

Teacher here: Teachers absolutely DO NOT need AI to make their jobs easier. We need good high-quality curriculum (costs money) We need resources and supplies (costs money) We need smaller class sizes (costs money) We don't need AI slop substituting for any of that.

I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model

Anyone haz PDFs of Paz y Meliá's edition of the Biblia de Alba?

For sure I think there will be a lot of meaningless assessment standards that are expected to be met, but will go largely unmonitored while the tougher work of real experimenting either goes begging or happens underground. We've seen this play before in other realms.

Pro-tip for paper and grant reviewers: your job isn't to be an asshole

Are you interested or do you know someone who's interested in doing a PhD on Arabic translations of the Bible? The new #BibliaArabica long-term project is looking for candidates! (tbh, that would have been my dream position a few years back) Spread the word!

"Rethinking #Kabbalah: its origins and its beginnings" with Tzahi Weiss and Saverio Campanini (@unibo.it/@ephe-psl.bsky.social), hybrid from @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social #JewishStudies #MedievalSky #EarlyModern

If you are preparing courses for January and need free premodern Iberian texts (translated into Spanish or English), with intros and notes, check out the 22 (and counting) open-access teaching units at openiberiaamerica.hcommons.org

[conferencia] Dr. Ronnie Perelis, "El marrano en el espejo: Antonio de Montezinos y su encuentro con la tribu perdida de Reuben en los Andes" Domingo 14 diciembre 15h Argentina (virtual). Inscripción previa a [email protected] #conversos

Pleased to have this essay published in 'Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Medieval Mediterranean' edited by Jessalynn Bird and Rita George-Tvrtković brill.com/display/book...

*spits coffee while laughing*

I want jobs for humanities experts to kill AI systems.

Universities: investing millions so students ”develop literacy in the language of AI” Also universities: defunding the humanities so students are illiterate in ordinary languages

También tenemos un poema en hebreo por Mereçina de Girona, s. XV (ca. 1450). Ver Kaufman, Shirley, Galit Hasan-Rokem, and Tamar Hess, eds., Hebrew Feminist Poems from Antiquity to the Present: A Bilingual Anthology, Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1999, pp. 64-65.

Did you miss our Open House for prospective MA and PhD Students? You can now watch online! Tune in to presentations from our Faculty, Students, and Alumni, and follow the Q&A for in-depth answers to frequently asked questions. youtu.be/oAPHoiinClk?...

El viernes pasado falleció a sus 100 años Margit Frenk, maestra absoluta de literatura del Siglo de Oro y de cultura popular. No sé por dónde empezar, pero quiero hablar de ella. Pocas obras de investigación humanística tienen la trascendencia de su legado

ICYMI AAUP is starting a PAC news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

We are thrilled to announce a call for our inaugural Yiddish & Hebrew issue edited by @samspinner.bsky.social Please circulate widely. We are open to work that engages with Jewish literature, culture, and thought in any language. @hopkinspress.bsky.social

JOB POSTING! Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Rare Books and Prints at the @folger.edu amherst.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FSL_Em...

My department is hiring a tenure track assistant professor in in the visual arts, architecture, and/or material culture of the Islamic world. Please circulate! careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

Research Spotlight: Albert Evan Kohn, review of Judah D. Galinsky, The Making of a Medieval Bestseller: Rabbi Isaac of Corbeil’s Pillars of Exile and Its Readers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025). #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/19491

Francisco Goya, Girl Dancing to a Guitar, 1796-97, Indian ink wash, 170 x 99 mm (Museo del Prado, Madrid)

Mañana, DM y te mando el enlace

UC alums take note

[book] Rose Walker, Art and Artifice in Twelfth-Century Iberia www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

[book] Elena Caetano Álvarez, Alfonso X, the Dream of Empire, and (Re)Writing History in the Estoria de Espanna www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

If you know anyone who works on medieval Judaism, please send them this! Binghamton is hiring a Talmud/Rabbinics assistant prof: half in Judaic Studies, half in the Med/Ren center. A killer R1 job for the right person, and not a ton of applicants so far....

Interested in doing a Ph.D. in Hispanic literatures, cultures, and linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst? We are holding an information session next week, on Friday. Please share widely!

We are now accepting applications for the 2026-2027 Shohet Scholars Grant for research on the Ancient Mediterranean! Awards range from $2,000-$30,000. Deadline is Feburary 1, 2026. More information: www.catacombsociety.org/shohet-schol...

Guillem Gavaldà (@uab.cat) online about Alonso de Espina's Fortalitium fidei, next Tue, Nov 11 16.00 CET Link medieval.udl.cat/en/activitie... #Conversos #MedievalSky

Katja Šmid, David Bunis & Chava Turniansky (eds), #Rabbinical Literature in #Yiddish and #Ladino www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... from @degruyter_brill #JewishHistory #JewishBooks #OA A long awaited project finally coming to fruition! בשעה טובה ומוצלחת!

[podcast] Què tenen en comú Joanot Martorell i Quentin Tarantino? Clàudia Rius conversa amb Marta Marfany sobre l’univers de Joanot Martorell, un escriptor singular i més modern del que sembla open.spotify.com/episode/7poR...

@davidwacks.bsky.social sobre el Shevet Yehuda de Shelomo ibn Verga, entre la historia y ficción #EarlyModern #JewishHistory #JewishStudies En línea y luego disponible en canal de YT de la benemérita cátedra libre de Estudios Judíos de la #UBA 👉https://www.youtube.com/@catedramosesmendelssohnffy3260

Here's a nice public humanities DH project memorializing David Miller AKA Frog, who sold his joke books on the streets of Eugene for some 40 years before his passing last year: frogsjokes.org

Konkurso de Kompozision en Ladino /#Ladino Short Story Contest! 3 levels! Deadline 12/31/25 - all details here: americanladinoleague.org/programs/con...

I miss translating literature so much. last week I read a chapter from henry berlin’s “alone together” for @albertlloret.bsky.social’s class and couldn’t resist trying to translate the ausiàs march excerpts into portuguese. here’s one example (lines 9-12) from poem XIII.