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

Turner Classic Movies is airing an 11-film exploration of trans identities in movies hosted by the authors of Corpses, Fools, & Monsters (great recent history of the topic) starting tomorrow at 8

Check out the updated and streamlined version of the project website "Sons of Providence: The Jewish History of Providence College, 1917-1965" detailing research Jen Illuzzi and I did on Jewish students at Providence College (@provcollege.bsky.social) library-exhibits.providence.edu/s/sons-of-pr...

The wonderful people at @uncpress.bsky.social sent me an advance copy of my book and I think I’ll have a little cry now. You can order it from here and it will arrive soon (use code 01UNCP30) for a discount uncpress.org/978146968920...

Would you ask a judge to declare a house haunted? What about suing a fortune-teller for mispredicting your future? Should the law even allow these claims? If you write about law, believer or sceptic, you can contribute to our book on Supernatural Law: Regulating the Paranormal. tinyurl.com/46jwmcnh

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Rough day to be any sort of survivor of sexual violence. Solidarity to all of you, please be kind to yourselves

This year at #AARSBL, the #AncientEducation and #BookHistory program units are teaming up to host an off-site session at the Boston Athenaeum, just a short walk from the Convention Center. bostonathenaeum.org 1/

"Behind the push is a pressure campaign by Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, an influential group fighting to ban abortion in the U.S., to condition Republican support for ACA funding on tougher abortion restrictions."

Announcement! Ancient Jew Review is the new host of Models of Piety (MOP), the annual meeting of scholars of religion in late antiquity. If you regularly attend SBL/AAR, come join us at this year's cocktail hour. More info here:

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I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Virginia has elected Ghazala Hashmi as the state’s next lieutenant governor, making her the first Muslim woman ever elected to statewide office in the United States. 19thnews.org/2025/11/virg...

FUCK UP THE SYSTEM ALERT: Southerners on New Ground is organizing a Grocery Solidarity Network for folks in the South. You can sign up to be a grocery deliverer/funder or grocery recipient. I signed up to support Central Texans, you can do the same for your area! www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...

hell yeah!!!

I'm still out of work and can no longer afford to support The Flytrap, so someone should subscribe in my honor

Scholarship on early American Jewish History? Give me your titles. Asking for a student. I'm out of my depth here.

My student during our historical cemetery project found two connected gravestones with somewhat mysterious second inscriptions, and I'm a bit stumped - any ideas? Orthodox church symbology?

Love seeing @monstermakeup.bsky.social's Death Drop Gorgeous get a shout-out on this list in Fangoria!

When I say "I have a conflict with this meeting" I do not mean that I have another meeting at the same time. What I mean is, I take ubmrage against it. I have a feud with it on a historic scale.

Attending #NAPABA2025? Join us for “Originalism’s Impacts" (Sat 11/8, 9:15am) w folks from from the state judiciary, @legaldefensefund.bsky.social, @myconstitution.bsky.social & @publicrightspro.bsky.social - we'll explore how originalism is reshaping the law & equal justice for #AANHPI communities!

Aca-Christmas-Horror-Colleagues I’ve an emergency for an essay on eco-horror and Christmas involving supernatural or magical creatures, pointing to a pagan/folk horror past. Can’t involve ghosts but can be in any media. If interested drop me a message to: [email protected]

I don’t suppose anyone connected to the SBL or AAR would like to tell them that misspelling the name of a scholar like Phyllis Trible in the heading of a Memorial is a disgrace. #SBL #AAR

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Super grateful that this Revealer podcast discussion about trans approaches to the Bible with Melissa Harl Sellew and me, hosted so generously by Brett Krutzsch, is now available wherever you get your podcasts!! @therevealer.bsky.social @brettkrutzsch.bsky.social therevealer.org/podcast/epis...

Surprise, surprise… 🙄

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

it’s officially book promo time! so, hey, i wrote this book; it comes out in a week! would you mind signal boosting and asking your library to buy it? if you’d like a copy, the code AUFLY30 will get you 30%off.

This new piece by @ericdharvey.com is so thoughtful and points to the fact that “indie” became, across the 2010s, an identity representing the “tasteful” individual subject, the neolib “subject of interests” par excellence. ericdharvey.substack.com/p/everything...

Coming up this Thursday, October 30, 6:30PM at the PSCO: A (👻seasonally-appropriate👻) talk by me: "Haunting Houses: Property as Evidence for the Unseen in Late Ancient Christianity" There's a Zoom if you're interested---write me at emuehlbe at umich.edu and I'll shoot you the link!

I try to avoid "real organizers vs. fake/keyboard organizers" framings for the most part but one thing you learn quickly from organizing is how difficult it is to get people to do anything at all, how much you're competing against sociologically. people are overworked and tired

Building momentum for a general strike is very hard because everyone thinks they're The One who'll feel the backlash, rather than realizing that the more people involved, the less backlash there can even be. And naysayers sneering "you 1st" fundamentally miss that it's gotta be a bunch of us at once

I spoke recently on Greco-Roman women in white nationalist thought and a smart grad student pointed out they admire only on ideal/unreal women, because that's how misogyny works. So this conference on "subversive motherhood" is welcome, w/ several papers on historical women tinyurl.com/4bhbyw4r

My book "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" is now available for pre-order. Use promo code WIN26 to get 30% off. Coming January 6th 2026! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Any early modernists in Princeton who could look at a ms for me?

Nigel Farage is cosying up to the US anti-abortion group that challenged Roe v Wade. Women in Britain should know that | Zoe Williams

It's official: MY BAD: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE QUEER 90S AND BEYOND has a cover! I love how the yellow feels like a run over hazard sign, and the mixtape is perhaps my personal 90s icon. As for those sexy statues? You'll have to read it to find out...

interesting piece on the intersections of conspiracy theory and classical studies (open access, I think) muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

The horrific South Carolina abortion ban that lawmakers held a hearing on last week would also consider it “aiding and abetting” an abortion to host or maintain a website that informs women and pregnant people how to obtain an abortion. First Amendment attacks on abortion are coming

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance. If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

byzantinists: does this little cross motif say anything to you?

It’s Baby Loss Awareness Week. After losing multiple pregnancies in my 20s, I eventually wrote The Dark Womb about theology and pregnancy loss. Part of that was a selection of prayers & liturgies - available here @scmpress.bsky.social #babyloss #babylossawarenessweek #theology #prayers

I wrote about MAY for my horror column. This movie was a favorite of mine when I was a teenager, and I wrote about why and how it spoke to me then, and how my relationship to the film has evolved in the time since. www.patreon.com/posts/monste...

ICYMI: One of Turning Point USA’s first campus events since Charlie Kirk’s murder is a panel of abortion “abolitionists” — extremists who want women executed for ending their pregnancies. jessica.substack.com/p/turning-po...

By the power of Grayskull!

If you've done in-person research at any of the following presidential libraries in the last 8 months, can you please follow me/contact me—soon—for a story I'm working on (can be off the record)? Hoover FDR Truman Eisenhower JFK LBJ Ford Carter And either way, can you please share this request? 🙏

Day 1 of our five-day series, "The Unraveling Safety Net," takes a look at one of the first states that carried out the "defunding" of Planned Parenthood and other family planning: Texas. Within the first two years, Texas lost about 25% of all clinics, most of which were not Planned Parenthoods.