@senfoonglim.bsky.social helped me distill the whole thesis of my documentary into a 35 second sound bite. So, thanks, Sen! And thank you, @ludologypod.bsky.social for this wonderful chat!

Welp here we are again, fresh out of Archaeologists for Skype a Scientist matches. This fall, we have matched 248 groups with Archaeologists for online Q&As. I have 38 more groups who need a match, but I'm out of Archaeologists! Archaeologists! Please volunteer www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

Largely agree with what Bouie says here, but also think it's interesting that he's using the language of Baudrillard to make these points!

Sending love to all my colleagues submitting reappointment, tenure, or promotion files today. And sending love to everyone out there who's done it recently or will be submitting soon. It's a lot of work to package up all of your work, especially while the world crumbles around us.

Patricia A. Matthew explores class, leisure, and the historical context of Pride and Prejudice. lithub.com/what-pride-a...

I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, invites applications for their fellowship in the Digital Humanities itatti.harvard.edu/fellowship-d...

The Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe (SISECSE) is a two-week residential workshop that provides scholars of Eastern Europe time and space to dedicate to their own research and writing in a collaborative and interdisciplinary setting. www.acls.org/competitions...

the @folger.edu opens their long-term and short-term fellowship scheme for 2026. Includes book in progress fellowships, artistic research fellowships, and public humanities fellowships www.folger.edu/research/the...

Very much this. The IHR really is open to everyone and this includes our common room and our library as well as our wonderful seminars. All free, all welcome!

shit ain’t over til it’s over

The financial incentive (push) is annoying enough on its own. But the way it's crowding out other dimensions of teaching really chaps my hide. (I'm guessing the source of this is funders/admin more than the teaching center itself.)

Delighted to share that my first book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England (co-written with the fantastic @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, and Hannah Robb) has been published and is available free and Open Access! doi.org/10.1017/9781... #earlymodern #economic #history

It's the #AutumnalEquinox today at 18.20 GMT! This 16th-century paper machine, called a volvelle, helps explain how the sun moves through the sky from equinox to solstice throughout the year. Find a full explainer video on our exhibition website: history.rcp.ac.uk/exhibitions/... #BodyofKnowledge

What are some story games that have very complex rules? Curious to see what the edges of the landscape are. Rules could be formal instructions or implied ones; I am thinking of complexity along the lines of "mental load to navigate the gameplay loop" but I also welcome other definitions.

I’m just noting (as a total outsider) that the proposed salary threshold is higher than the advertised salaries for most GLAM and academic positions — to say nothing of other expertise-heavy fields.

THIS IS IT! You have until 11.59pm TONIGHT to submit your proposals for #BSECS2026 Ease yourself into the New Year by joining us @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026 #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

This is a teaching post. This is a post about criticism. This is a post about moving in public(s). Behind (free) subscriber wall — now more than ever, it’s a meaningful bit of friction to avoid the worst of… well, if you don’t know what’s happening to academics right now, it ain’t great.

Finally in a mood to get back into some solo games! Playing these in the same morning is wild. Hard pivot from classical music to the Tenet OST

#DigitalHumanities @ucc.ie has a two-year postdoc suited to researchers from broad range of disciplines. my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru... Key tasks include coordinating a national survey of digital heritage practices & assisting with prototype development for communit archives. Deadline: Oct 3rd.

i reference Dream Askew / Dream Apart SO frequently when editing, giving design feedback, etc. & it's such a shame how few have played it relative to other indie games. it's such a groundbreaking set of systems & is upstream of basically every narrative TTRPG since it released. you GOTTA know it.

Happy Autumn Eve! What are you symbolically sending into the earth to be composted, broken down, and dispelled in the coming season? #Equinox

Stevie Wonder pays tribute to Earth, Wind and Fire's "September" during tonight's "A Grammy Salute to Earth, Wind & Fire Live"

I think about this a lot.

Next weekend is the first time in years I’ve had to consider Auburn football, because a victory against the Aggies (even as an away game) will cause a real traffic situation…

Luis is doing some interesting stuff with this AP.

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

As I've seen it come up, no, authors don't get paid for writing blurbs for other authors. We do it (mostly) to pay it forward and to bring attention to work we think is good. Also, if an editor/publisher tried to bribe me for a blurb, that email would go up here and on my personal site SO FAST

Now available for preorders! My book, "Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A History of Punk Fanzines in Washington, DC," comes out October 1 via @georgetownup.bsky.social. A 100k word history of the D.C. punk zine community with 130+ full color images. press.georgetown.edu/Book/Keep-Yo...

some folks are still out there doing the work! toss a coin to your Catholic Worker www.southbendcatholicworker.org

so "the common good" is actually a v powerful framework in social justice/social gospel Catholicism, which in its inception meant things like "what if everybody had enough to eat and a place to live, no matter what religion they are" it's not the idea's fault that Douhat is a theocratic asshat

Getting close to 50k views and I'm wondering is it just everybody is scared to say this and pleased I did? Because if there's so many of us who agree, trust me I'd know if 1k people disagreed with me let alone 50k, why are we letting AI ruin our universities? Together we can turn back the tide.

Do you remember.... m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs06...

📢 'In the Shadow of the Georgians' online conference tickets now live - international speakers explore many aspects of dress 1714-1815 Full details of the conference programme costumesociety.org.uk/conference Tickets at eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-the-shado…#fashionhistory#cossoc2525

I’m very excited to share this. My first time co-writing with a student who won a year-long fellowship to help compile the data. Many thanks owed to those who read, edited, and supported along the way. Please share widely!!

Busy parents and convention demo GMs salute this

I’m currently in the midst of meeting with all my students about their adopted games (& play reports), & their UnEssays — & I’m SO tempted to encourage them to craft reviews, esp given the semester started with @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social & @jdragsky.bsky.social & ends with @itsquinns.bsky.social

One thing about karaoke in Opelika, Alabama is someone is going to tear it up on "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia"

The 100K fee for H-1B visas (yearly!) is reported as a hit on tech -- but it is a hit on universities. It will make it impossible for us to hire foreign visitors, or foreign scholars into tenure track positions--I think almost 40% of H-1Bs go to universities and university hospitals.

BW: 'Treating teaching as solely the work of cultivating individual intellects, we actually create conditions hostile to collective flourishing. Instead of burnt-out teachers+students in competition w/one another, we should be working toward teaching+learning grounded as communal, lived activities'+

hi what are some analog games (ttrpgs or board games) that released in 2025 that i might not have read & really should read

Please consider this an invitation to post your go-to karaoke song.

Even though I'm now a social scientist, I am forever grateful that I was an English major as an undergraduate. I am on a daily basis reminded of the limits of the scientific method in explaining the human condition.

Random question for my mutuals with TTRPG graphic design and layout chops: if you could give only one piece of advice about the visual presentation of a rulebook to someone WITH ABSOLUTELY NO GRAPHIC DESIGN OR LAYOUT EXPERIENCE, what would you tell them?

The Deluxe Edition of What Dust Remains is now out! 52 haunting pages for a game of legacy and sacrifice. In this sweeping narrative game, build the life of a Pioneer struggling to achieve meaning in their life. momatoes.itch.io/what-dust-re...

This Game of the Year Box Edition has everything you need to start SLUGBLASTING! Get it now on our website! 🛹🔫 #ttrpgs #ttrpg #beggartok

If someone, say me, were to organise a year of guided book groups with creative/critical task on the early Gothic... would anyone be interested in that? With a small fee for 'living' purposes?

Younger people won't believe this, but during the Second World War, Disney put out cartoons about how it was your patriotic duty to stand up to fascists, even noting that we'd each have to take a financial hit if we wanted to win that struggle. No, really!

If there is anything better to the soul than a tiny voice saying “oh goodness” or “oh good job” I have yet to find it — this! video! has! everything!

Our fall 2025 issue is out! Featuring three articles, a forum on women in wartime, a review essay, a performance review, two exhibition reviews, and 22 book reviews www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/curr... #EarlyModern

just wrote my first real discursive footnote in, like, a decade. I don't know if you guys have heard about this thing called scholarly writing but it is the jam. everyone focuses on its supposedly oppressive, exclusionary elements but do you know what you can do with scholarly apparatus?! amazing!