Saw The Baltimorons today, which was very sweet and funny, but let me tell you: when watching a movie filmed in your city, just ignore the driving scenes because none of the roads connect right and nothing in the movie will make geographical sense to you

Hello and happy Saturday! This is Marina 2 (Blaze), an adoptable dog at BARCS (www.barcs.org), and today we went on a walkies.

I’m having intro chats with dissertation students this fortnight, and one of them asked which historians I’d recommend for beautiful writing they could absorb to further develop their own writing style. So, gang, which are your favourite *writers* among historians, any time, any topic, any place. 🗃️

Trinity University said Trinity University Press will be closing its doors in late 2026. Read More👉 www.tpr.org/arts-culture/20...

as someone who is a hater, i accept and welcome the fact that i have haters. what is good for the goose, etc. in fact, i think people in this business should be more open about their hating. if we think our words matter, then we should feel some kind of way about people who do bad work.

Any Philadelphia historians out there who can point me to good sources for understanding Philadelphia highlife culture in the immediate post-Civil War era? late 1860s and early 1870s? I'm particularly interested in any info on the Moyamensing Balls

Every editor who has ever faced down a too-long manuscript is furiously reading this wishing they had had this option

if I'm Bob Iger, I go to every Nexstar exec and member of Congress who has young children, and say: there is a movie on disney+ your kid watches endlessly. that you rely on be a real shame if that movie guarding your sanity from the abyss went back into the disney vault, wouldn't it Kimmel stays.

I worked some targets at CENTCOM where we had some bad collateral damage despite our best effort, and the moral injury lingers. VPOTUS is setting someone up to feel like a murderer the rest of their lives.

Hello and good evening, why didn’t any of you tell me that there is a new Alabama Shakes single out? Hello? After all I’ve done for you?????????

Good morning! Our brainy, snack-loving pals over at @projectmuse.bsky.social are hiring a Publisher Partnerships Coordinator. Maybe you? Maybe someone you know?

Good morning! Our brainy, snack-loving pals over at @projectmuse.bsky.social are hiring a Publisher Partnerships Coordinator. Maybe you? Maybe someone you know?

I have admired Karen Attiah for a long time, especially so once I learned about her advocacy on behalf of Jamal Khashoggi after his murder. The Post is unquestionably worse off without her.

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Good morning! This is Tuba. Tuba is an adoptable dog at BARCS (www.barcs.org) and today we went on a walkies.

TOMORROW! BALTIMORE BOOK FESTIVAL! COME SEE ME TALK ABOUT JONI MITCHELL with Paul Liscky (SONG SO WILD & BLUE) Music by Kristin Putchinski (aka Ellen Cherry) 5:30pm at the CityLit stage., 31st & Barclay! BOOKS! MUSIC! BALTIMORE!

Good morning! Our pals at @projectmuse.bsky.social are hiring a Library Partnerships Specialist (pls repost). Maybe it's you!

I used to have a chicken my daughter named Chick Jagger

I volunteer at the local animal shelter, and so I get the weekly volunteer newsletter (yes, it is called The Pupdate) which includes all the animals that got adopted since the last Pupdate, all of which is to say that I want you all to know that a chicken named Stevie Chicks got adopted this week.

BOOM! Studios is HIRING!!! We're looking for a talented, organized, and detail-oriented Assistant Editor with 1-2 years in editorial or a similar field! You will most likely be working directly with me on a variety of comic titles. Please visit the link to apply! bit.ly/42ooXLq #comicjobs

Y’all ever seen a mosh pit at NPR? No? You wanna? (About 14 minutes in)

My professional opinion as a historian of horrible people doing horrible things is that deep and gnawing fear is a reasonable response right now

I find it baffling that these folks never seem to consider that readers might disagree with the books they read. I mean, sorry but have you ever met a human being, never mind a teenager? What planet are you from?

It’s 2%. Here’s a baby ‘raffe. (“Baby.”)

Ever wondered what it’s like to live in a Vonnegut novel? Well, now you know.

Good morning! A new school year has begun! If your address changed over the summer because you’re starting a fun new job, now is a GREAT time to update your publisher so your royalty statement doesn’t go astray in the spring!

A surprise bestseller here at the hippie grocery

no, i cannot design a survey or do a regression. but i can open a book? and retain the information therein? and integrate it into an understanding of the present?

It's time to embrace Grantism–the belief that all of our problems can be solved by a little drinking and a lot of reconstruction

You know things have gotten weird when the pirate historians feel the need to weigh in with their expertise.

Low-stakes Friday afternoon poll: having the option (not requirement) to submit a peer review via a web form (no login or account creation necessary.) Questions on the form replicate the questions on our guidelines to readers. Yay or nay?

The University of South Carolina Press is hiring a Marketing, Sales, and Publicity Director.

Sure, ok. I often have to find experts with *very* niche academic specialities. A well crafted query to Copilot asking for 10 experts that satisfy [xyz conditions] turns up 60% people I know, 20% close but not quite, and 20% people I don’t know and who it would have taken literal hours to find.

Just downloaded this, cannot wait to be absolutely ruthlessly judgmental about the in-game book options www.theguardian.com/games/2025/a...

On today's Hopkins Press Podcast, we talk with David Shiffman (@WhySharksMatter), co-author of a new study about where scientists are convening on social media in 2025 It's a great conversation about what Twitter once was, and what Bluesky is today! tinyurl.com/43u9rpbw

Dear hivemind: Not my region, so any suggestions would be appreciated. What should I read on the violence (especially violence against civilians) during the partition of India. I know next to nothing, so mostly looking on where to start. Thanks!

Had reason to re-read the Gettysburg Address today and I gotta tell ya, 272 words delivered a century and a half ago can really drive home that we are not doing our best work as a nation or more broadly, as a species right now

Man, it is my actual literal job to inquire how much writing academics have done and even I will be putting that task off by a week or ten days, because I’m not a monster

“Broken letters will be repaired.” ❤️ (Ivy Bookshop, Falls Rd, Baltimore, MD.)

If you are in or near Baltimore you should know that the Walters Art Museum (which is free!) has a small but wonderful exhibit about cats in medieval manuscripts

Here's an excerpt from Peter Canning's new book THE FRIENDS AND FAMILY GUIDE TO THE OPIOID OVERDOSE EPIDEMIC, which you should absolutely read and have on your bookshelf if you have friends and/or family

Darlings, a reminder: an editorial assistant will, in her first six months on the job, work on more books than you will publish in your lifetime. If she warns you that an image won’t reproduce well, or that [whatever] will cause delays, or that [thing] often ends up looking silly: believe her.

On some level, it’s gratifying to see you all talking about screw flies and the sterile screwworm drop, a thing I have been obsessed with for literal years

Tom Clancy’s Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

If you contact me I will tell you whether or not you have an active book contract. Promise.

Great question: where are they sending the DC homeless? Baltimore peeps, any clue?

The keening wail that I just unwillingly uttered

I’m sorry but what the shit are these people going on about? You get used to people saying this kind of bs about Baltimore — a city I have happily lived in and where I do all of these things — and they’re wrong about that, but to say it about DC is just delusional

Here in Baltimore this morning, where clergy and activists have gathered in support of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who is set to check in with ICE this morning. Heavy faith presence in addition to, just, a lot of people for 6:45am. Kilmar himself is about to speak.