So many politicians posting *really important* statements about current events as images w/o alt-text. Shame on you. Alt-text makes images "readable" for those w/ vision-impairment, dyslexia, cognitive/learning disability, etc. Do these people not deserve to know your position? Do. Better.

So many politicians posting *really important* statements about current events as images w/o alt-text. Shame on you. Alt-text makes images "readable" for those w/ vision-impairment, dyslexia, cognitive/learning disability, etc. Do these people not deserve to know your position? Do. Better.

Ok, the answer for "poppyseed" is hilarious. And correct.

ooo...I can't wait to add this to my collection of examples of the way costuming creates a biblical "Never-Never" period devoid of temporal, geographic, or cultural context.

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I’m speaking at the BFI tonight. Reuben Library (Southbank) 6:30pm. Talking about the great directors drawn to the Bible and why certain Jesus films have proved so controversial.

Also, a huge Thank You! to the author, Frederick Cooper, for writing something so readable and comprehensible to somebody from an entirely different discipline – a true rarity.

This is not the main thing to focus on here (primary issues are covered below), but... the SATs are not a measure of intelligence. Nor are they a good measure of academic success. Some people, rightfully and fairly, get into good unis w low SAT scores. Others get in the American way, with money.

Fish & Chips is owed to three waves of refugee migration (French Huguenots and Sephardi Jews in the 16th & 17th C, and Ashkenazi Jews in the 18th). It's considered quintessentially British *now* but it might never have existed without immigration.

Also, a huge Thank You! to the author, Frederick Cooper, for writing something so readable and comprehensible to somebody from an entirely different discipline – a true rarity.

"Decolonization implied, in Radhika Mongia’s words, 'the standardization of inequality structured through the form of equivalence.' All this now appears as the natural order of things, not as an historical trajectory." This article is SO good!

This is my favourite example of size as social status. The small standing figure may be an enslaved child, but it's equally possible that her diminutive size simply indicates her enslavement (or servitude). www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

If you like historians who know where to find the joke no matter what the topic, go see James! He's hilarious!

Anybody know any journalists who might be interested in a (UK based) disability discrimination story?

PhD opening in Bergen. Come and work with me on my NFR project looking at violence and warfare in antiquity: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Is this a case of nominative determinism?

Anybody know any journalists who might be interested in a (UK based) disability discrimination story?

Had bacterial pneumonia in infancy so, yup, death. (And medical progress aside, as a Jew, this is a grim game anyway)

Fund. The. Damn. Public. Universities.

If there was any "success" of the Tory gvmnt, it was in establishing the US as the benchmark / goal / ideal in healthcare, education, voting, and many other aspects of public life. I've been here 21 yrs now and It's been so weird watching UK attitude re social services shift so completely.

Ah, and I’d be remiss if I didn’t say that most of the reconstructions are also here: www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/...

"Power doesn't always corrupt. Power always reveals. When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do." -Robert Caro

lol after writing this thread i opened up my own assigned homework for my students today, edward greenstein's 1984 essay "biblical law" in "back to the sources." and voila: "what we now call religion embodied in antiquity, not a segment or area of life, but an entire world view that permeated..."

Terrific piece by @rexhuppke.bsky.social on Elon Musk, White Nationalist

"Power doesn't always corrupt. Power always reveals. When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do." -Robert Caro

Just saw a Reform billboard with the slogan 'Family, Community, Country.' Hard to know whether they're aware that it's worryingly close to interwar pseudo-fascist and WWII Vichy France's tryptich of 'Work, Family, Country/Fatherland.'

It comes with bada-bangs

It comes with bada-bangs

On this day I remember the RE advisor who laughed in my face when I suggested that Valentine's Day was/is connected w religion. SO FUN that these people are responsible for writing school curricula! Anyway, Happy totally-secular-definitely-nothing-to-do-w- religion-ever SAINT Valentines Day! 💘

Justice for linen socks of Tut! books.google.com/books/about/...

On this day I remember the RE advisor who laughed in my face when I suggested that Valentine's Day was/is connected w religion. SO FUN that these people are responsible for writing school curricula! Anyway, Happy totally-secular-definitely-nothing-to-do-w- religion-ever SAINT Valentines Day! 💘

Physiognomy is bad, even when you’re targeting someone you don’t like!

What does it mean to be "affiliated with a religion" when you're Jewish? Or a member of any other ethno-religious group?

That's 100% why I created leavesubstack.com -- got tired of re-hashing the points; wanted to make a simple 1-pager.

At no point in this article did I guess what the next sentence would be. But in seriousness, people who labor under the delusion that “proving” things about historical religion will materially alter the behavior of the religious need to talk to more religious people. That’s not how it works.

Interesting changes in progress... "This is an opportunity to strengthen RE as an academic discipline." – Let's hope so!

No AI-involved system will work in favor of humans.

I want to live the kind of life where I *am* the consultant historian on staff.

Millennials will be dying of old age and people will still be talking about us like we're all 18-29.

I want to live the kind of life where I *am* the consultant historian on staff.

Millennials will be dying of old age and people will still be talking about us like we're all 18-29.

Erin's filling in CHE's holes again and collecting adjunct pay info. Drop yours at the form.

Today's the day #SuperbOwl #DefensiveLineup

In 1973 the US Justice Dept filed a civil case against Donald Trump (and his father) for violating the Fair Housing Act - they'd been refusing to rent to black people (39 buildings containing 14,000 apartments!) Anyway, yes it's racism. It's always been racism. It's racism all the way down.

They tell us we only need STEM education now, and everything the tech bros are doing and saying makes a case for why we actually badly need the humanities.

If you didn't know already, pre-orders for my second book, Esther Keeps the Score, are live! @scmpress.bsky.social scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...

May I introduce you to… Shavuot.

i love it when evidence wrecks tidy scholarly arguments, ngl.

This is great! Fellow scholars, volunteer to guest lecture for Minnesota faculty struggling to teach during shutdown!

"the Biblical case for border security" is a WILDLY incomprehensible statement.