Hybrid meeting: Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Biblical Hebrew, 7 November 2025, 9:30–17:00 (CET), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/online. Register here: networkinstitute.org/2025/10/03/e...

This image was posted on X today by a Chicago Tribune reporter. Trump’s government has declared war on the American people — or some of them, based on race.

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

This week, Emma Donington explores the #digital storytelling facilitated by #digitizing the Royal Botanic #Gardens’ collections. The article examines digitised Japanese specimens and showcases Kew’s database platforms, digitisation techniques, and digital collections now public! #newpost #DHaccess

"Sometimes these women shed their pelts in some secret place / To become human women again." Read more of "The Dog" by aracelis girmay, from LARB Quarterly, no. 46: Alien. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/from-aracelis-girmays-the-dog/

One day. Five hundred miles. Three town halls in small town Maine. Four hundred people. We will leave no person and no place behind.

Religious extremism isn’t about Bible stories or faith in a god, it ‘s about manipulation via power & obedience - no point arguing against those using ideas of Jesus - they don’t give a toss about Jesus - similarly, many terrorists are more driven by being abusive men than any religious texts

JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

nothing compared to what he deserved. Absolutely terrible.

Strange country. Unwilling to ban guns in case of government overreach, but willing to ban apps due to government overreach.

📣 2025-26 grant applications for the UCLA Library Modern Endangered Archive Program (MEAP) are open! Apply for funding to document, digitize and make accessible at-risk collections from around the world. Applications due Nov 17, 2025. Full details and Oct 9 webinar registration: ucla.in/4n8aJGS

Of interest to the @digitalorientalist.bsky.social’s audience!

#tbt to a piece by Chris Diamond, contributor for #DH in Indian literature and culture Do you like 🎙️ podcasts? Diamond and colleagues did one on the topic of digital repatriation. Here, he details the steps behind this work👇 #DHtools #DHinpractice #teaching digitalorientalist.com/2023/03/17/p...

Hillary Clinton referred to SOME Trump supporters as”deplorable,” and the political media had a meltdown. Trump refers to all Democrats as anti-American radical communists and “the enemy within,” and it’s no big deal. His reckless and dangerous demonization has been fully normalized.

House Republicans didn’t even show up for work today, and they’re going to blame Democrats for shutting down the government? Please.

Today Brian Tsz Ho Wong (@edinburghuni) completes his series on the NDLJP Full-Text Search System using the system to identify different locations visited by politicians in the 1940s. Check out the latest installment, with links to part 1 &2 digitalorientalist.com/2025/09/30/u...

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

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So far today, Chuck Schumer has said his strategy for preventing Trump sending troops into blue cities is to win over Republican senators (!) while Hakeem Jeffries praised Eric Adams's courage and authenticity (!!) while refusing to endorse Mamdani. Again. These two gotta go.

79. American citizen.

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

No other magazine covers developments and topics in the #DH worlds of Asian, N. African and Middle Eastern fields. It is run by a team of dedicated scholars, librarians, and students, who bring you useful tips and new studies. All open access! Support us

Ppl are claiming that the Chinese name for 'Israel' means 'racism.' Indeed, the Yiselie 以色列 could be superficially parsed as "classify 列 according to 以 colour 色". But of course, the choice is purely phonetic - it's attested since 1838 in Karl Gützlaff's 古今萬國綱鑑 1/

Are you working with #DHtools? Are you doing research involving #DH and want to put some thoughts and results out there? The #DO accepts submissions on a rolling basis. Give your work some visibility! Check it out 👉 digitalorientalist.com/submit-your-...

#newpost! By guest contributor Andrew Chittick. A description of his latest project Maritime #Asia in the Third Century CE, using the #ESRI #StoryMap #Maritimestudies #Vietnam #SoutheastAsia, #India, #MiddleEast #DHinpractice #DHtools 🔗 Link in bio

How is this tolerated? We want legal immigration - good. Fine. How does gratuitous violence towards anyone - citizens too - help with that?

To read the university’s triumphant all-campus email about restored NIH funding, you’d think UC administrators made it happen. But that’s not true. In fact the UC *Faculty Association* organized the lawsuit; administrators kept their heads down and hoped it’d go away.

This White House literally created the crisis…

When someone shows you who they are, believe them. Chuck Schumer has showed us time and time again that he is wholly incapable of understanding and meeting the dangerous moment we are in. It’s time for new (and better) Democratic leadership.

Hide and Seek #sonyalpha #sonyphotography #nature

The application for the Master and PhD programs at Tsinghua University is now open! If you have students eager to learn about the ancient world, this is a great place for it. #ancienthistory #ancientstudies yz.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/info/1035...

Pure dystopia. Even in some of the dictatorships in the world we know where prisoners are.

"What Ernaux is often writing about in her books is what Virginia Woolf describes as 'moments of being,' rare instances in one’s life when one is fully alive." Sarah McEachern reviews the new translation of Annie Ernaux’s “The Other Girl.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-other-one-is-me/

I’m old enough to remember when using a teleprompter was mocked by the MAGA. Guess it was only mocked if Biden used it

V. good piece. @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social is so terribly wrong, in a way only privileged people shielded from the hate that Kirk promoted can be.

"There are SO MANY other ways to do science that aren't strictly academia and industry." ...uh, what sectors are left after you rule those two out and collapse the public sector? Hobbyist? Valet-style science for a billionaire hobbyist?

Not a solitary citation to law. Any law. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Trump's Executive Order on Antifa is written such that someone recording masked agents snatching people off the streets, or asking these agents what they're doing, can be deemed a "terrorist."

YouTube auto-dub is one of the most stupid things ever. And there's quite a few of them.

This is so lost on people. Most of us, really. There is no understanding of the infrastructure, of how things are connected, and the need for expertise for the most mundane things to work. Like, traffic lights and radio safety, things we all benefit from daily.

Gonna start buying Tylenol just because.

AOC would have had an answer.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

@madpoli.bsky.social maps out essential DO posts for anyone working with #EastAsian sources 🔍 A handy resource guide covering everything from #OracleBone inscriptions to #mapping tools. 🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2025/09/19/a...

another piece of mine for the @digitalorientalist.bsky.social! An overview of #DH tools for East Asian studies, primarily #Chinese. Enjoy! 👇

When y’all cancel your Disney+ subs, please consider giving some of that money to your local NPR or PBS station, or other independent media like @boltsmag.org or @propublica.org

The wonderful scholar (and my good friend) Rita Dal Martello (Ca' Foscari, Venice) just published her first monograph! #openacess, it brings you some of the most recent research on agriculture in Yunnan, #China! edizionicafoscari.unive.it/it/edizioni4...

It’s not surprising, yet it bears stressing: so far, those able to set the record straight, stand up to bullies, and speak clearly about what’s going on have been almost all women.