It is open season on all of us, but I am so deeply concerned about our contingent colleagues, lecturers, and graduate student instructors. Hope that she sues and wins.

“Chatrooms” It’s not 1999, Sarah

As an actual Religious Studies scholar, it is an insult to our field to describe anything this student wrote about gender as "Bible-based."

it's finally time to bring Xena into the MCU

A Christmas Carol remake in which Bari is visited by the Ghosts of Journalism Past, Present, and Future

An enraging trend right now, from CBS to the CDC, of people actively undermining institutions, then taking the reins of those institutions and claiming they need to rebuild the trust they helped destroy. (Also, people already trusted 60 Minutes.) bsky.app/profile/just...

the real source of this stuff is often not actual 'working class' people, but credentialed elites / elite aspirants whose extreme, conspiratorial, or simply bigoted views have cost them access to *higher status specifically within elite spaces*

I’m sorry but it is not the fault of professors fault that elementary schools stopped teaching cursive and high schools made everything computer.

What's the most absurd reason a student has contested a grade you gave them? I once had a student argue that the 20th century counted as "an event" and they shouldn't be penalized for failing to be more specific on their history exam.

Let me fix that for you: The University of Oklahoma fired a graduate student instructor who gave an undergraduate student a zero on a routine reading response paper because she failed to follow the assignment instructions. Hope that helps because I can do this all day.

Yes.

The instructor is a graduate student who was a TA for a psychology course. The undergraduate student whose paper she graded did not do the assignment. At least get the details right.

Someone called an essay I wrote "magisterial" and I've been trying to remind myself of it more often

Something that's getting lost in this story is that the "instructor" in question is not a professor with a PhD; she is a Graduate Teaching Assistant, meaning the University of Oklahoma has thrown one of ITS OWN STUDENTS under the bus to appease a right wing grifter who tried to dunk on a trans woman

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

just a reminder that the academics TCW regularly denigrates in print are 1) technically his colleagues 2) paid on average $2500 per course they teach. not per month, per course.

A remake of "I, Claudius" starring an AI-operated vending machine

someone should do an ethnography of #9lc listeners not me

maybe I'll do historical commentary on #9lc next year, but also, maybe not

this has bene a true delight. a very happy christmas to all of you #9lc

was that... american pronunciation of "deity"?? #9lc

#9LC (Radio 4 re-broadcast)

ooh, they printed Mendelssohn's full name ("Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy"), nice #9lc

TIS TIME #9lc

why is the descant so low in the mix???? #9lc

"Sing, choirs of angels" and lo, they did #9lc

the time has come to torture my household by singing along with a David Willcocks descant #9lc

My skyline is erupting like it's a sportsball, but it's actually a liturgy. #9LC

Tell em Marshawn #9LC

david willcocks come thru #9lc

As I said last year… #9LC

he was noT #9lc

Ah, yes, our annual celebration of the famous Bethlehem harbor. So much maritime traffic in the **checks notes** Judean mountains. #9lc 🕯️

the organ scholar is having a lot of fun todeay #9lc

YES THREE SHIPS THE VIOLENTLY ENGLISH CANON HAS ARRIVED #9lc

accidentally opened a second livestream tab and now Rutter's Dormi Jesu sounds REALLY cool #9lc

I was wondering why we were being blessed with *two* John Rutter pieces this year, and then I saw this in the order of service. Everything’s a cross-selling opportunity these days, isn’t it? #9LC

I can't imagine that the Latin text "Dormi Jesu mater ridet" is in fact, of unknown origin but I'd have to get out the reference books to be sure #9lc

OH YES HE DID #9lc

The existence of a king of quires supernal implies that there may be a king of quires infernal, but thankfully, death has been defeated, so satan's off-key skillrex choir won't be an issue. #9LC

Berlioz <3 #9lc

another controversial take, I guess, but this Rutter is a snoozefest #9lc

is this a good time to bring up my favorite schoolboy bastardization of "while shepherds watched their flocks": while shepherds washed their socks by night all seated 'round the tub the angel of the lord came down and they began to scrub #9lc

love it when they make the congregation sing in middle english #9lc

I would have liked them to linger on that last cadence but I do love Benjamin Britten's carols #9lc

I do wish they would print, just for myne owne enjoyment, the original text of this: Ther is no rose of swych vertu As is the rose that bar Jhesu. etc. === like: For in this rose conteynyd was Heuen and erthe in lytyl space, Res miranda #9LC

this is obviously a very traditional reading but "all the world should be taxed" is sending me in light of the recently announced UK budget #9lc

this is more like it, although I prefer it when they use the actual 15th-century text ("Ther is no rose of swych vertu" &c) #9lc

Now That's What I Call Bruckner™️ #9lc