Sarit Kattan Gribetz begins a review forum engaging Moulie Vidas' The Rise of Talmud.

My article (open access) on the apocryphal Epistle to the Laodiceans, canonicity, paratexts, and Latin manuscripts!

exciting opportunity! with alt-text:

i enjoy netflix's THE FOUR SEASONS as an amusing portrait of various relatable types of middle aged neurosis, i don't need colman domingo joking addressing tina fey as "my brother in christ" to make it clear that the writers room has the same relationship to microblogging sites that i do

SURELY YOU JEST, MADAM.

Almost all our articles are now online www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfmr20/0/0, I'll give you a summary as soon as they are grouped together.

from: “Ghost in the Machine: Crusade Medievalisms in the 21st-century United States,” in Politischer Mediävalismus, ed. Cordelia Heß, Christoph Dartmann, Lukas Rösli, Sita Steckel (De Gruyter, forthcoming).

look how much craftsmanship we've lost in clothing in just a hundred years

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My mom finally switched from google to duckduckgo, and has already substituted "ask the Duck" for "google it" No notes

There is a new, open access 🚨 📖 book tracing the global history of Zoroastrianism from antiquity (6th century BCE-7th century CE) to the Middle Ages—and then into modernity. My friend & top Manichaeism scholar @babelalexandria.bsky.social has a chapter as well. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

see they would makes great characters in a murder mystery! bring in Benoit Blanc's late ancient ancestor!

I'm actually working on a murder mystery that's at least in the vicinity! (On Paula and Jerome)! youtu.be/U_tqWnRjb8g?...

i half-joked about this at NAPS but I wouldn't be mad if someone wrote a murder mystery about the death of Naucratius sent in the 4th c. in the weird, asceticizing estate of Macrina, Basil, Gregory, et alii en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naucrat...

Job Alert: tenure-track position in Theological Ethics at the rank of assistant professor to begin in the fall semester of 2027, in the Dept. of Theology at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. Please share widely!

my latest (!): "The invention of blackness in Ovid's Metamorphoses" - is now out with postmedieval #OpenAccess link.springer.com/article/10.1...

to say the quiet part out loud: most PhD programs fund grad students with a mix of fellowships and teaching, but mostly through teaching. if TAs are replaced by AI, most PhD programs will cease to exist

It is definitely the case that people just get on long international flights for fun. So it doesn't matter where they are going. People who planned on going to San Francisco would be just as happy to go to Houston.

ah, apparently it's Sam Ezersky's (NYT Bee editor) birthday! it's the 3rd S-Bee: 1. 2500th Bee 2. Back to school 2025 3. Today www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/c...

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not great! even after I completely tanked it and saw the answers it took me 2 hours to figure what "bo" was supposed to be (my kingdom for a "stop tracking streaks" option so I can just enjoy a game)

I guess this is the updated flyer!

Today on AJR, Julia Hintlian offers her review of Working with Manuscripts: A Guide for Textual Scholars by Liv Ingeborg Lied and Brent Nongbri (Yale University Press, 2025)

On Youtube today: Prof. Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social talks us through the vision of Hell (with two L’s) in early Old Norse texts, with a focus on the unique syncretism of pagan and Christian elements in the Icelandic treatment of some deeply weird apocrypha. youtu.be/fvhbnJSvSwI

🚨 S IN THE NYT SPELLING BEE! S IN THE NYT SPELLING BEE! 🚨

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oh no thank you this is none of my business!

I thought I'd get maybe 25 replies to this request and use two or three of them. We're now at 1400. The column, which is 4600 words long (blame yourselves), is finished, but this thread should be studied by future historians. No era has ever been as utterly annoyed, as molecularly fed up, as we are

this is a very funny tweet that has passed through my skyline multiple times but i want to point out the alt-text is crafted with the care and detail of a professional archivist!

i know the point of the homeland sec'y making this empty threat is to "rile the base" by saying Sanctuary City into the mirror 3 times but I think even the most M4G4fied partisan realizes that airports *by definition* are not localized services

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"Not only does empire shape the family, but, given the imbrication of sexual and racial politics, empire also enters the bedroom" a great article, thank you for persevering, @opietasanimi.com!

my latest: "Race, Rhetoric, and Infidelity in Calpurnius Flaccus's Natus Aethiops" - now out with Rhetorica muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

People of (the greater) Philadelphia (area), Kiki Aranita's article about my book is in the food section of the print edition of the Inquirer today! @inquirer.com @phillyinqfood.bsky.social

You underestimate my power

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She's not an accuser ffs. She sued and won.

just in time for your summer reading! The latest issue of QTR: A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion is online NOW hot and ready for your reading, assigning, citing, and sharing with friends, colleagues, students, mentors, frenemies, and crushes! read.dukeupress.edu/qtr/issue/3/1

this was the rare leah finnegan gawker column that was actually not mean enough www.gawkerarchives.com/nick-bilton-...

lol what?

If there's still a Veronica Mars-shaped hole in your heart this is pretty good FYI

A blog post, in which the author yaps about this book even more manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/05...

well this seems unhinged #medievalsky youtu.be/cXA3Zgsky18?...

I'm so excited to have my book featured in Pasts Imperfects this week! Thank you to @sarahebond.bsky.social for great editing!

New Cambridge Element 🚨 A Franciscan Tombstone in Fourteenth-Century China, by Nancy Wu was just published. Read it for free for the next 2 weeks at cup.org/4dM6PAg

Next week! With Christine Shepardson (The University of Tennessee Knoxville) and @philipforness.bsky.social (KU Leuven)!

This is so great to see, thanks @zinnedproject.bsky.social!

part of them also thinks they're insulated against Dem attacks now or Dem prosecution later: if Dems protest now, how can they also prosecute? that's why Dems need to do more than complain: get out in front *now* about seeking justice when they get back in power

Quick, summarize America in one headline