Simcha Gross shares insights into Talmud scholarship and the shift toward historical considerations. www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/3/...

🗣️ new Element in Religion in Late Antiquity! 🗣️ @monikaamsler.bsky.social's EDUCATION IN RELIGIOUS CONTEXTS OF LATE ANTIQUITY ⚡⚡⚡ free through April 8! ⚡⚡⚡ www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Fuckers. "The TSA is sharing with ICE officials the names and birth dates of travelers believed to have been ordered out of the country by a judge [making] it easier for the Trump administration to detain and deport undocumented immigrants as they pass through airports."

The goal is the annihilation of history, identity, human dignity.

Powerful stuff from our students: "AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it.... With our own university leading the charge, AI is now corrupting those few sacred spaces and leaving us with nowhere to engage in true scholarship."

Come listen to me and @antiquitypod.bsky.social talk about ancient Palestine & the Levant for an hour! Key topics: - What does the word "Palestine" refer to? - How do we deal with the complexity of west Asian history & empires vying for the region? - What's "biblical archaeology" doing?

I really feel that it’s a privilege to get older, but I think I would be able to enjoy that privilege more if my sleep wasn’t so catastrophically disturbed by things like “it got a little warmer outside.”

It is my enormous pleasure to share the most recent issue of #ResDiffJournal, Res Diff 2.2 (2025). "Rez Diff: Indigenous Perspectives," guest-edited by Ashley Lance (@aerl.bsky.social) and Tara Wells. #OpenAccess resdifficiles.com/res-diff-2-2...

I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.

Yep, zero need for Religious Studies classes to help our students operate with a deeper understanding of our present world and how religious history and scriptures shape identities and actions www.jpost.com/opinion/arti...

Good thing some US colleges are closing their Religious Studies departments—definitively not “useful” at all or an area of expertise that might be relevant for understanding our present…

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS (ABD and early-career) Racing the Classics, a Mellon-funded initiative, invites applications for its second cohort. It involves a two-week in-person Summer Institute, and an academic-year practicum over Zoom (Sept ‘26-May ‘27) See here: www.racingtheclassics.com

2. AG Paxton of Texas announced a new interpretation of state law that would extend the state's ban on gender-affirming care for minors to mental health providers, declaring that any therapist who affirms a trans youth's identity is "facilitating" illegal treatment and committing child abuse.

Here's the recording for the book launch of our second 4T book. Hear Fabien Muller and Aaron Johnson discuss Porphyry, theology, theurgy, and more!

Everything is the worst rn. Work keeps on keeping on. Support research in feminist and ethnic studies (not necessarily mine). If you are inclined: PREORDER dukeupress.edu/inside-the-b... Discount code E26PINTO @dukepress.bsky.social

Journal of Early Christian Studies Vol. 34, No.1 (2026) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56477 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social @sarahparkhouse.bsky.social

Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially. transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS (ABD and early-career) Racing the Classics, a Mellon-funded initiative, invites applications for its second cohort. It involves a two-week in-person Summer Institute, and an academic-year practicum over Zoom (Sept ‘26-May ‘27) See here: www.racingtheclassics.com

This is bad news for everyone in the South, and really bad news for low-income trans folks. The surgeons getting pushed out of university hospitals will move to private practice and while SOME people will still get trans surgeries covered by insurance, those on Medicaid won’t.

They killed 36 girls today. www.news18.com/world/36-stu...

"Every fascism has its subhumans. To technofascists, humans are the subhumans." -- Kelly Hayes

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims. By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

Excellent fellowship opportunity for animal ethics & animal studies scholars.

Beyonce could do the funniest thing and release her album during the state of the union

Did I mention I am hiring? Yes, I’m going to repost this frequently

Thinking about attending the SCS in Boston? Love monks and Late Antiquity? Submit an abstract for this panel!

Soon I'm giving two public lectures at Scripps College in CA as part of the O'Brien Distinguished Visiting Professorship. LA-area friends, would love to see you there! March 31, 4:30pm: Lyricism as Historiography of the Long Past April 1, 4:15pm: Feminist Histories and the Problem of the Real

The utterance of "A.I.'s inevitability" is one of the most stark pure performatives I've seen in my time working in higher ed. Every time it is uttered, it is clearly not reporting a fact about the world but instead actively trying to create the reality it narrates. We can and must refuse.

This case is insane: ICE shot and killed a citizen last March then *hid it for a year.* The young man they killed had no criminal history. All we know about shooting is from internal ICE docs. We don't know officers' names. We don't have footage. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

i'm only 14 pages into Susanna Elm's IMPORTANCE OF BEING GORGEOUS and it's sooooooo good www.ucpress.edu/read/books/t... (read for free!)

The second volume in our series, Texts & Translations of Transcendence & Transformation (4T): Fabien Muller's /Porphyry of Tyre on Theology and Theurgy/

Job: 1-year Lecturer in Religion, Ethics, and Politics and/or Philosophy and Religion at Princeton (we hope for at TT search next year). Preference to candidates who can teach an undergraduate survey course such as "Religion and its Modern Critics." Deadline: 4/1/26 apply.interfolio.com/181428

Please donate to this if you can. We say “Minneapolis” but ICE is everywhere and the East Side of St. Paul has been hurting just as bad.

"Decarceral and labor organizing are inseparable." —Maya Ragsdale of Beyond the Bars on how the temp labor market exploits formerly incarcerated people, to the detriment of all workers.

Excited that “Dorotheus the Doorkeeper: Slavery and Confinement in the Vision of Dorotheus” will be in one of the open-access issues of Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum! If you like early Christian lit written in Homeric Greek & learning about enslaved doorkeepers, this is the piece for you

Illness as policy:"This outbreak should not be framed as an anomaly or a breakdown in operations.It is the foreseeable result of policy choices that confine people, inc children, in high-risk environments w/o the basic protections required to safeguard health &life." www.statnews.com/2026/02/04/m...

very excited to have my response included in the latest Boston Review forum against Democratic moderation! here it is, my best argument for why Dems shouldn't "moderate" on transgender rights & LGBTQ issues more generally (as they are inextricably linked): www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

Over the next year, I’ll be transitioning into the role of editor-in-chief for the journal Biblical Interpretation. So a reminder to all you who work on biblical and adjacent materials to consider submitting. brill.com/view/journal...

To continue is not what you imagined. - Peter Gizzi, “Bolshevescent”

Each and every time I start to write something, anything, I feel like I have to teach myself from the beginning how to write all over again. Shouldn’t I be better at this by now?

Check out the beautiful cover of the latest issue of QTR: A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion, featuring the incredible work of Amber Norman, and brought to you by @dukepress.bsky.social !

Last year, I posted daily about representations of #AncientBlackness as well as Black Classicism and Africana receptions for #BlackHistoryMonth. Here's the beginning of the thread.

Finally wrote about it. "I’m calling it the Cookie Theory of Collective Action: Everyone has a role, anyone can start small, and joy is an essential part of the broader fight for your community." snackstack.net/2026/01/30/t...

Incarceration of people mirrored in the incarceration of data, the sickening metaphor of new authoritarianism. Both have a staggering human cost at the end, although of different immediacy.

still so damn good

University of Minnesota PD arrested 40 or more people at a noise protest at tge Graduate Hotel on campus last night. Anyone have more information? Not seeing it mndaily.com/top-story/do...

The ICE deaths we're not talking about Trump's biggest concentration camp in Texas is rocked by 3 deaths in 33 days - one deemed 'homicide' after a violent encounter with guards. The ICE detention death rate is 10X (!!) Biden's final year My new column on a crisis www.inquirer.com/opinion/deat...

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.