We don’t want Greenland. We want healthcare.

Happy Public Domain Day! At the start of each year, a new set of works is freed from copyright — ready to be shared, reused, and reimagined. See our highlights — Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, Langston Hughes, William Faulkner, and many more. #publicdomain

Worth repeating: "University presses are essential infrastructure for the humanities & should be financially supported in the same way that other higher education inter-institutional infrastructure is." Some powerful examples here:

New guest post on Membra Dispersa Sinaitica: Habib Ibrahim identifies the Sinaitic parent codex of yet another leaf from the Mingana Collection in Birmingham. @dehypotheses.bsky.social

New issue of Journal of Early Christian Studies Vol. 33, No. 3 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55688 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Breaking News: Sarah Mullally will become the next archbishop of Canterbury, the first woman to lead the Church of England.

Job posting: Research Associate - Coptic in Manchester, University of Manchester. Applications due October 31, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/researc...

MVP! www.nytimes.com/athletic/667...

🧵 Learn more about HMML’s collections—approximately 486,000 manuscripts photographed in partnership with more than 1,500 repositories worldwide: hmml.org/collections/

Conference announcement/call for papers! You’ll note that there’s no theme beyond “new research on apocryphal Christian literature.” We truly just want to hear about whatever interests you most in apocryphal Christian literature right now. More info here: www.nasscal.com/meetings/

The UC Berkeley School of Information is hiring an assistant professor in the broad field of Information--including areas of info seeking/retrieval, digital humanities, cultural analytics, info viz, & philosophy of information (among others). Deadline Nov 1! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014

BookTok loves marginalia and neuroscience is down for it: 🧪 💙📚 www.scientificamerican.com/article/go-a...

Just out & FREE to read for 2 weeks!! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Cross-Cultural Philology – Stellenausschreibungen im Exzellenzcluster: www.lmu.de/crosscultura...

New book: Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie, Falko Daim, and Susanne Greiff, eds., The Preslav Treasure from Bulgaria (Tenth Century): Historical Context, Excavations, Objects and Technology (Romisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, 2025) maryjahariscenter.org/blog/the-pre...

This is devastating on so many levels www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Very happy to see the BL digitized manuscripts continue to come back online!

Funding opportunity: 2026–2027 Metropolitan Museum of Art Fellowships. Applications due October 17, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/2026202...

When higher ed is under attack and things look bleak, I find creating academic networks helps me to feel a bit less alone and helpless

The Erich S. Gruen Prize | Society for Classical Studies www.classicalstudies.org/awards-and-f...

New pod! Matthew D. C. Larsen and Mark Letteney on Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration You can now subscribe to the show too. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2Vys...

New pod! Mike interviews Tina Shepardson about A Memory of Violence: Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious Difference in Late Antiquity. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0HyD...

What would Evagrius say?

Ethiopia opens Africa's largest hydropower project, the Blue Nile's Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam — a milestone that's sparking alarm in neighboring Sudan and Egypt.

Call for contributors: Wikidata Across the Humanities: Datasets, Methodologies, Reuse, special collection of the Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD). Submissions due September 15, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/wikidat...

The NASSCAL First Fridays Workshop 2025/2026 season begins Sept. 5 at 12:00 (EDT) with Julia Snyder's essay "Apostles Behaving Badly? Violence in the Acts of Philip." Contact us if you would like to participate.

unbelievable. one of the very few graduate translation programs in the anglosphere is shut down. america is nothing if not INSULAR

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

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.

Colloque les 18-19 septembre : Organiser les corpus d’auteurs chrétiens de l’Antiquité méditerranéenne Programme : www.irht.cnrs.fr/fr/agenda/co... Organisé par @irht-cnrs.bsky.social @lem-umr8584.bsky.social @sorbonne-universite.fr @campuscondorcet.bsky.social #patristics #manuscripts

📢 Don’t miss the first articles from CHR’s themed issue, Expanding the Toolkit: Large Language Models in Humanities Research! Read the issue #openaccess here: 📚 cup.org/4lvH2Ow #computationalhumanities #CHR @comphumresearch.bsky.social @nolauren.bsky.social @folgertk.bsky.social

Funding opportunity: American Academy of Religion Dissertation Research Grants. Applications due September 22, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/aar-dis...

"often intriguing, at times moving" Guy Stroumsa reviews Mike Chin's LIFE: THE NATURAL HISTORY OF AN EARLY CHRISTIAN UNIVERSE academic.oup.com/jts/advance-...

Excited to share the article that @mmonier.bsky.social and I wrote on the Introduction to the Gospels by ibn al-Assal and its Arabic and Ethiopic traditions 🤩 brill.com/view/journal...

ftr, *this* is who they're shutting down. from ACLS:

Post-Doctoral Position in Late Antique Syriac Literature at KU Leuven www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

just got word that my department's being shut down. two things: 1. no, i'm not okay. i've no words for how hard i've worked for this department and this institution. i feel betrayed, frankly, though i know it's not personal. 2. we rocked, y'all. i've no words for how hard we rocked, either.

New Books in Late Antiquity podcast episode featuring Tatiana Bur's Technologies of the Marvellous in Ancient Greek Religion. newbooksnetwork.com/technologies...

Do your PhD in Manuscript Cultures with us! Our Grad School invites applications for full PhD scholarships (3 years, 1300 EUR/month + allowances) in the Scholarship Programme of the German Academic Exchange Service @daadworldwide.bsky.social Apply by 30 Sep! More info here👉 uhh.de/csmc-scholar...

Another happy manuscript discovery: all the files from the 2010 digitization of the St. Chad Gospels by the University of Oklahoma/Lichfield Cathedral project have been CC licensed & made available for batch download at lichfield.ou.edu/cc-download! #medievalsky #paleography #insularart

“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception." www.mellon.org/voices/human...

Four rights: *Collect digital materials *Preserve digital collections *Provide controlled digital access *Cooperate across institutions 📚📜 blog.archive.org/2025/07/30/i...

Records obtained by ProPublica show the Trump administration is preparing to shut down seven major investigations of alleged housing discrimination and segregation, including some where HUD already found civil rights violations had occurred. By @jessecoburn.bsky.social

It is an extraordinary loss of intellectual expertise that the American people invested millions in developing Every scientist who earns a graduate degree in the US is the product of an investment by the public This is like setting money on fire

CfP DIGITAL CLASSICIST SEMINAR BERLIN 2025/26: “Potential and Limits of Digital Methods”. All info here: digital-classicist.bbaw.de/cfp #digiclass

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