I've never lived so close to a What Are We Even Doing Here real estate listing, and I am here, gifting you this experience, make sure to open the pictures www.redfin.com/MI/Ann-Arbor...

Oh, really. You're writing a book, you say? Me, too! You're doing research, you say. Me, too! You know what I rely on to find primary sources and "piece them together"? My own brain. You know who "looks things up for me"? Me, that's who. You know who writes it, from beginning to end? Me.

we're wee but y'all know @religiondispatches.org absolutely does not fuck with AI

Had to explain Ea-Nasir to my therapist

We should bring back scrolls, books are great but scrolls would be cool

"are you enjoying duo mobile" does a hamburger enjoy being made of quarks. does a fish enjoy linear time. does the mountain enjoy the first taste of a cup of hot chocolate when you get back to the ski lodge. your question means nothing to me. i couldn't enjoy duo mobile even if i tried

The other thing I’ll say is…OK, how do I put this. If you have ever tried to get faculty to do anything…you become aware pretty quickly that “reading instructions” is not real high on their list of skills. I love every single one of you but.

Torn between delight at a Mesopotamia reference, no matter how tangential, and insulted on Mesopotamia's behalf given its superior shoe and sandal game

Anyway please enjoy this pumpkin I saw yesterday

UMass-Amherst is hiring “a specialist in the visual arts, architecture, and/or material culture of the Islamic world” ! careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

KEEP SHARING YOUR STORIES about increased ACA premiums due to the disappearance of subsidies. The stories clearly are having an impact, they help people feel less helpless, and they create solidarity that leads to action. Mine went from $395→ $821. What happened for you?

Dr Frankenstein: "I believe I will start my story in childhood." Sea captain: *Tosses him into the ice.*

Really, truly good news---the series eds are real writers, who understand writing processes and are looking to work with real writers!

such exciting book mail!!! @curtisdozier.bsky.social

For the Ea-nasir fans, Assyriology podcast 'Thin End of the Wedge' just released a special episode about everyone's favorite copper merchant, featuring @gvkonsta.bsky.social, @gabemoshenska.bsky.social, and Steven Garfinkle, and yours truly. Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1338718/epis...

What we know, final edition of the night: [Now in 3 parts] —Prop 50 wins —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG —Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS —Dems defend NJ-Gov —Dems win NJ+VA trifectas —Mamdani wins —PA Dems win state supreme court —ME anti-mail voting measure loses —GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices

BREAKING: PROP 50 HAS PASSED IN CALIFORNIA

yesssssssssss

BREAKING: MAMDANI HAS WON according to Decision Desk

Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!

Announcing a brand new series launching this #Halloween 👻 Manchester Studies in the Supernatural explores how the #supernatural shapes human experience across time and place. Bridging disciplines and challenging boundaries, it welcomes bold new research on the #occult and the #unseen

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

omfg portland, that's genius

I’ve been reposting all of the crowd videos of today’s NO KINGS rallies because at some point they’ll try to say it didn’t happen.

I'll leave you from Portland with one last video of the @unpresidentedbrass.bsky.social, the unofficial house band of #NoKings

Happy No Kings Day, America. It couldn't happen at a better time.

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

even amidst intersectional apocalypses, the bear has got me

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

I want to talk about generative AI because of the defeatist impulses chronicled in this article. While simply expresssing a defiant attitude cannot always change lived-in reality, in certain cases it definitely can. This is in part because, early on, a conflict can exist at a perceptions level. 1/?

Sometimes I wonder what the point of it all is.

New Yokai sculpture alert!! In Japanese folklore, Kasa-Obake are old oiled-paper umbrellas that become alive when they reach a certain age, becoming a Tsukumogami. Not too dangerous, they enjoy surprising humans by sneaking up on them and delivering a large oily lick with their long tongues.

And now for something completely different (and really, really fun if you’re into this sort of thing!)

A few new details have come to light, most of them noted in this essay by Judith Butler. My dismay has only deepened. It is a shocking violation of institutional trust—and I write as an undergraduate alumnus and 20-year faculty member of a place that has meant so much to me. Devastating.

throw a California NEH in there and I’m all for it

A good literature review doesn’t just list citations. It shows: ✔️ where the debates are ✔️ who disagrees with whom ✔️ how the field has evolved In my latest post, I break down how to map debates in the literature: www.raulpacheco.org/2025/09/how-... #RPVSky

This polarization is going to produce some pretty dramatic statistics pretty soon.

My op-ed in the @chicagomaroon.bsky.social on the University of Chicago’s appalling plans to gut the humanities and possibly eliminate the South Asian studies department chicagomaroon.com/48353/viewpo...

Get much weirder fast, folks, you’re letting us all down.

"The closure of Religious Studies and other departments at the University of Oregon and Virginia Tech also come with serious *cultural* costs that ripple into the future." required reading for all humanists, not just those of us at UO, IU, and VT.

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.

This is why I have no patience with the “but you don’t understand, this tech can automate coding tasks!” sigh-ers. If there are any circumstances under which your technology can operate *specifically* to encourage a teenager to take his own life, it ought to be pulled until you fix it.

on the one hand I should absolutely put my phone down but on the other hand what if the forces attacking democracy operate on weeping angels logic

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