Then it's worth mentioning the Middle Persian word for "giraffe": /uštargāwpalang/ (NP شترگاوپلنگ /šotorgāvpalang/) (camel+cow+leopard)

Insisted that we stay and listen to the entirety of the iron forge demonstration that we happened upon “by chance” at Harpers Ferry

This is a closed form with a ring jug attached to it. It is inspired by stirrup jugs I saw at the Princeton Art Museum last year. The surface design is (of course) inspired by Minoan jars.

Things can always go south, but I’m excited to see how this one turns out

There was an interesting instance of this where Tamil traders — one Hindu, one Muslim — set up a beef operation where Hindus worked as cattle herders and Muslims worked as butchers Its original site in Bang Rak is now the old Customs House, and the Muslims brought in founded Haroon Mosque

This piece is another example of how evidentiary standards for covering young people basically don't exist. It's a take on the supposedly widespread and normal use of this language anchored around guesstimates from two (2) people about behavior at a single high school.

Things that have already made academic research stop: - adjunctification - defunding (of, like, everything) - outright closure of depts and schools - censorship & attacks on academic freedom - obscene teaching and service loads

saw the clickbait headline "most academic research should stop" from the chron in my inbox and my first thought was "um, it already has????"

For a man who said he would miss a lot of parades, he sure is attending a lot of parades

The GWU Textile Museum's online catalog is a real treasure trove. The vaguely worried eyes of the figures on this Coptic tunic decoration are great.

As a lapsed English major who specifically was kind of a punk about English majors (in the way only a 20 yr old can be) before I switched to history, I never thought I would be riveted by 5 hrs of conversation about close reading. Close reading! And yet. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Found this photo again - I look at it & can see the maker at work...I can hear tap, tap, tap of hammer on punch, way the piece was moved as they decorated it, the overlap of punch marks - there's so much movement. ❤️ I wonder who they were... if only I had a time machine, eh? #Archaeology #Torcs 🏺

Literally this is one of the reasons I began learning pottery. I am definitely not yet producing museum shop-worthy replicas. But the Predynastic bowl with feet was the first thing I ever tried to make and it is the last thing I will ever perfect.

So much pointless destruction

Me, learning about Wahaca Mexican restaurant

Me after a minor surgery: I feel great! Also me (singing Hamilton): 🎶 I been reading Thomas Sense by Common Paine 🎶

Marcos, you legend you

Oh hey this is my favorite form that I’m trying out right now at the studio

Nobody used the term "arms race," but that's what they're describing: enormous pressure, including from some professors, to use AI or fall behind those who are. Many say they hate it, don't want to use it, but they feel like now it's submit or fail. 5/

Just got back from judging my first ever National History Day competition. What a great institution, and what a surprise it isn’t that this administration would defund something that encourages teens to make and create such great things

thinking about how mahmood mamdani called america a "habit-forming society" as i read about goitein thinking of leaving the US after two years, only to extend his stay for a year longer, and then another year. twenty-five years later, he died in the US

Indian Ocean sickos, today’s game is for us www.maptap.gg June 13 100🎯 97🔥 100🎯 95🏅 99🎯 Final score: 979

big boy in the yellow shirt having fun

a worker on the scaffolding turns around and a spotlight finds him. it's lin-manuel miranda! he begins to rap about john f kennedy. we've been had

If they put up more scaffolding I stg

The meme of the two guys on the bus, and it’s my spouse going to bed happy and well-adjusted after the soccer match and me staying up like a gremlin to watch scaffolding being built

We can get it to 100k before they do it. I believe in us and also their desire to drag this out as long as possible.

Widow’s Bay, World Cup, the great scaffolding saga — there’s simply too much good stuff on TV tonight!

What's so insidious about this is that it's cloaked in the language of reestablishing academic rigor and standards even as they do not feel beholden to these things. Is their report peer-reviewed? No. Is it rigorously factual? Also no. Are its methods clear and accessible? Haha. No.

THAT’S TWO BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP GOALS IN THE FIRST HALF FOR TEAM USA

The two genders: Watching USMNT in World Cup vs. the Kennedy Center livestream

USA scoring via great buildup but then an own goal by its adversaries just feels like a real return to the 20th century

Melancholy Wedgwood by Iris Moon is very good, and shout out to whoever it was on here who recommended it mitpress.mit.edu/978026254634...

this neverending saṃsāra could have been an email

So much of humanities education is teaching students to listen in carefully on people from the past talking candidly among themselves. The AI chatbot is the opposite of that: all of history marshaled towards you and you alone, the most important person in the world with the most important questions.

The major professional organization in Jewish Studies sent out an advertisement this morning for an AI chatbot that lets you talk to "the most fascinating Jews in history." It seems that a major university press was not only on board with but a major partner in this waste of resources.

I'm Clavicular, and this is 60 Minutes

Hamawy, Mamdani and El Sayed really just straight up do not belong anywhere near the same category as Platner and it is strange to see people both pro and anti Platner make this comparison

I think there should be an examiner appointed to determine Britishness, it should be the sticky toffee pudding guy, and it should be done in the same format as he rates the sticky toffee pudding

This is what novel plot revision feels like

My friend’s daughter was abducted from a Birzeit University dorm at 3 am on June 2. She is a US citizen with a health condition that requires regular treatment. Please call your representatives. www.imeupolicyproject.org/release-sama...

if someone defends LLM use by saying "i think of the LLM as part of my team, i'm writing *with* them, not *by* them, and that's why i fed it half-digested morsels of thought that it turned into complete sentences," i think boy i never want to co-write anything with this person

I left my laptop at home while on vacation (a first in my adult life), and I have to say, this thing absolutely cannot process the betrayal upon my return. It has completely fallen apart

Not three years ago, a fan died of heat exhaustion at a Taylor Swift Eras concert, which similarly banned outside water bottles. Absolutely despicable policy.

I've mentioned this before, but the name for a robin is ابو الحنّاء which can't be translated verbatim but basically means "henna daddy" or "henna dude".

Presenting on maritime sovereignty and coastal livelihoods for the Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire seminar at the Oxford Center for Global History on 8 June at 2 PM BST / 9 AM ET. Please email [email protected] for Zoom link.

Can’t divest, condemn, mock, and abandon young people when they conform and then jail, surveil, deport, track, and kill them if they protestors and *then* wonder why they don’t believe in the system.

Last week, I gave a guest lecture on Jewish-Arabic Bible translations. I began with a series of examples of their physical form to illustrate the diversity of the Arabic Bible. I’m sharing the images here for your viewing pleasure in this thread, along with a few notes. 1/n