ATTENTION, EVERYBODY 📢 It's finally here! At long last, I can share the cover for my new book, FORBIDDEN FRUIT: THE SECRET, SCANDALOUS HISTORY OF CONTRACEPTION AND ABORTION, coming this January from @putnambooks @penguinrandomhouse

Péter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Sunday in a landslide, shared a bombshell with reporters that the outgoing leader had diverted taxpayer funds to bankroll the American Conservative Political Action Conference. trib.al/ct7GGV3

This is incredible: Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here’s How to Use It. I knew some of these but not all, e.g. verbatim mode “returns results for exactly what you typed, stripped of personalization and synonym-swapping.” [cardcatalogforlife.substack.com]

Yesterday was the "official" release day for Esther Keeps the Score, and I am anxious and excited to share my words with you all. Many thanks to @scmpress.bsky.social for making this process so enjoyable. scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...

Losing patience. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

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Werewolves and furries, we're having a blast of a discussion to end our Blood Moon month with none other than @scareyoutosleep.bsky.social 🕯️ @princeis.me @bloody-disgusting.com

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended

This is your reminder that if you are a class member and have NOT yet filed a claim in Anthropic v. Bartz, the AI copyright lawsuit, you have 9 days to do so.

You are invited! Join me and these lovely biblical scholars - Sarah Emanuel, @brownsmith.bsky.social, and Katherine Gwyther - on Tuesday, April 7th, to celebrate my forthcoming book. www.eventbrite.com/e/esther-kee...

I'm hiring! 🏛️ This is a VA-based, hybrid 3-year position for a historian working on digital projects related to religious history. We'll also be hiring a historian working on onsite programming and training related to religious history. Feel free to reach out! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

I am teaching again after a few years away, and I am utterly defeated by the rampant use of AI on every assignment (despite a course policy against the use of AI)

It is such an honor for @ssrn.bsky.social to feature my work! Thank you to Apoorva Anand for getting to know my scholarship and for writing this up!

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

Marlboro Reds and Vanilla Fields

🚨CALL FOR CHAPTERS!🚨 @amaramarasingam.bsky.social and I are putting together an edited collection looking at the use of pseudoscientific ideas by extremist movements. If you are interested, please send us your abstracts at this link: forms.gle/mAUtpDGNEj9i...

It's ironic that you have to verify you're 18+ to view the Epstein files

Very pleased to be able to finally announce "The Critical Edition in the Infrastructure of Philology," a special issue of Philological Encounters edited by me and @danielpicus.bsky.social out this Spring.

Come to Nijmegen and be my colleague! 3-year postdoc on ethnicity and (in)equality in early Christianity, supervised by @matthijsdendulk.bsky.social. All I can say is we are a great group of people and Nijmegen is a pretty good place to live.

It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Does anyone have Josephine Balmer's translation of Catullus to hand, and could send me her translation of poem 85 (Odi et amo) please?

So excited about this new podcast from @jstuart.bsky.social and @ccjones.bsky.social about family history (especially as I'm thinking about a family history research project). The first episode features a fantastic interview wih @kawulf.bsky.social.

RESEARCH REQUEST: I’m looking for a local news morning show producer to interview for book research. Bonus if they’re based in New Orleans, Atlanta, or Nashville, but open to yankee cities. If that’s you or you know someone, please connect us! Thank you! I’ll put you in the acknowledgments 🙏🏾

SEEKING PARTICIPANTS For their MA thesis, my advisee is conducting an oral history on family members of people living with HIV/AIDS in the 1980s-90s. They are seeking folks to interview. See the flyer for details. Wondering if folks can share this with their networks. Thank you!

Hello repro writers from the mid to late 20 teens - I just discovered Cosmopolitan at some point pulled almost every politics/repro story from the 5 years I wrote for them offline (except two, which they put under someone else's name and gave me "additional reporting" which it very much was not)

Shalom, friends! The story of Judith and Holofernes is not only a #Hanukkah classic, it’s been the subject of some of the greatest artworks in history…. Plus these. Welcome to 8 Unhinged Depictions of Judith and Holofernes in Art History! Enjoy, & have a safe & happy Hanukkah youtu.be/hP7Ywv8G9A8

My book, _An Exotic Apocalypse: Revelation and the Appropriation of Judaism in the Roman Empire_, is officially forthcoming with Penn State University Press. It'll be the inaugural book in their _Religions in the Ancient Mediterranean_ series.

.@PVDMayor tells reporters a person of interest in yesterday’s shooting at @BrownUniversity has been detained

"Rachel Friedberg, a Brown economics professor, said the mass shooting happened in a review session for the final exam of her Principles of Economics course. She said she learned what happened from a teaching assistant who led the session. Friedberg herself was not present."

Last week, SCOTUS heard arguments in a case involving faith-based pregnancy centers. In this @pbsnews.org segment, @carrienbaker.bsky.social explains how these centers operate, why patients can be misled, and why their lack of medical licensing and privacy protections raise serious concerns.

Open access article on religion and punk music www.theologyandreligiononline.com/article?doci...

NEW: The controversial interim CEO of Planned Parenthood Southeast floated ending in-clinic abortion procedures and spoke of dropping abortion care altogether. Leader of the affiliate serving Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi remains in her role after an investigation that sources call a "farce."

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It is a waste of educators’ labor to worry about policing students’ work or jury rigging AI-proof assignments.There are desultory ways of going about responding to such papers. But that doesn’t mean acquiescence. That means working towards and demanding structural changes at our institutions.

Today I got my first request for a family law attorney referral here, and I’m bone dry— do we have anybody who practices family law in northeastern Florida (Jacksonville area)?

Good morning! First Choice v. Platkin oral arguments start momentarily and I will be following along. More background on this case and its importance in this thread/this @autonomynews.co story:

👋 Call for sources: My name is Julia Métraux, and I am @motherjones.com disability reporter. I am working on a series (to be published before May 1) profiling three American aging adults (50+) about how you're aging independently while taking care of your health. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🔔 We’re honored to open a new round in the @susih.bsky.social -IU Community Scholars Program, which unlocks onsite + remote library access for 3 years for contingent scholars + historians working beyond the academy. Please apply + share! CFP due 2/1. Onward! 🗃️ s-usih.org/2025/12/cfp-...

BREAKING: According to a recent investigation by NYC's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, Starbucks illegally violated workers' protection laws in NYC 500,000 times since 2021. Over $35.5 million will be paid in restitution to Starbucks workers! gothamist.com/news/starbuc...

Non-ladder faculty do the riskiest teaching at most universities, an innovation that soothes both the routinized risk aversion that wins one tenure and the anxious admin desire for flexibility. The whole point of the arrangement is ensuring that it’s easy to shed anyone who becomes inconvenient.

This was such a good conversation! Knowing the history of the pregnancy test--and pregnancy testing more generally-- is more important than ever in today's reproductive climate. The pregnancy test continues to be overlooked as an important technology when it comes to individual AND state control.

‘So it's what happens when these helpers become gatekeepers, become so powerful that they usurp the relationship they're supposed to be facilitating. And it follows a characteristic pattern.’

🌟 Exciting news! The deadline for the Olivette Otele Prize has been extended to Friday 12th December! Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity for a fast-tracked publication, apply now! 📝

Windmill Farms workers are fighting for a union! Support their boycott. This holiday season, don’t buy Windmill mushrooms! ¡Los trabajadores de Windmill Farms están luchando por una Unión! Apoya su boicot. ¡Estas fiestas, no compres hongos Windmill! #BoycottWindmillMushrooms

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

Nothing Is Ever That Urgent: A Manifesto For Academic Workers