Setting aside all the privacy violations it is perfect that the thought patterns and mannerisms of a bunch of failed and useless ventures are being fed into the slop machine to be regurgitated. What, it’s not working? Let’s double down.

For the cost of one Harvard Professor of the Constitution Only Applies to White People, you could endow 10 professorships of any less commonly taught language at any university in the USA

post-Vatican II expert sought

wonderful middle-grade book with an Iranian American heroine in a tale of present-day ornithology and Sufi tradition. can't recommend this enough, and it won some prizes from other folks too: www.wildlingpress.com/laleh-and-th... officially out today

Holy heck if you haven't taken a look at this just launched project and resources from the @historians.org _American Historical Review_, it's incredible. Of course I went to the 1665 Mass Bay petition about royal authoritarianism. Excellent! www.historians.org/news-publica...

wonderful middle-grade book with an Iranian American heroine in a tale of present-day ornithology and Sufi tradition. can't recommend this enough, and it won some prizes from other folks too: www.wildlingpress.com/laleh-and-th... officially out today

Oh please sign! The East Asia museum is one of the world's greatest.

Today I got to live the dream and handle a Jacquard silk book! This is a 19th-century prayer book made on looms that used punch cards and I’ve long wanted to feel its pages. More info on the copy that’s in the Walters (not the one I saw today) here. thewalters.org/exhibitions/...

I really want to attend this and can't, eager to hear about it from someone who can. thanks to @commiedharma.bsky.social for making me aware of it

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

imo the single biggest cause of collapsing institutional trust is not just elite impunity, but impunitive *regularity* where horrors & misdeeds are communicated to the non-elite as a sort of lightly esoteric normal outcome everyone in the know is aware of & apathetic about

If you are a colonial Latin Americanist and don’t know what to do with your digital docs from old projects, please consider donating them to the Iberian Colonial Repository, where MA or PhD student can give these docs a second life in their own research projects! DM me for questions.

Here's something good for early career scholars in history and area studies! Submissions close in a week! Tell your frens! #academicsky 🗃 #histsci #earlymodern #ancient #medieval

JAXA, the Japanese space program, runs a whole poetry program with their astronauts they send to the ISS! iss.jaxa.jp/utiliz/rensh...

Every single paragraph from this story contains worse news than the one that preceded it. apnews.com/article/news...

was it always normal for everyone and all the companies to wish everyone a happy Easter? I started to do it in Old Church Slavonic when my bro started going to that church bc I loved him but now I feel weird for being part of a trend culminating in the pervasive experience of fascist pseudotheocracy

“In [2023], we thought things were bad: we were having conversations around safety for our children. This is another level that we haven’t ever seen before.” New from @kitoconnell.com: Fathers gather together to protect their trans and nonbinary kids in this doc that premiered at SXSW.

Reminder that conversion therapy is so *obviously* harmful that there are Orthodox rabbis (usually not great fans of queerness) ruling that it is strictly forbidden. (If anyone wants to read about this in English: Judaism and Homosexuality: An Authentic Orthodox View by R' Chaim Rapoport)

teachers should assign books in schools

So so pleased to see that my book ‘Body Size in Early Modern Germany’ is now available on Oxford Academic ahead of its print publication later this month: academic.oup.com/book/62409 🎉🎉🎉 To mark its online publication, I thought I’d share a bit more about the book and its contents...

Getting home, I toyed a bit with Bladesong, an early access sword design game (with RPG elements) on steam and the 'creative' mode that lets you free-design swords is very neat: it has a lot of final detail so you can create complete fantasy swords, or recreate historical styles.

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

The SRS invites applications for its Postdoctoral Fellowships, ŵ a stipend worth £15,000. SRS Fellows can hold jobs alongside their fellowship provided they do not take up more than the equivalent of 3 days a week over the course of the academic year. Apply by 30 April rensoc.org.uk/apply/postdo...

New York! I am reading tonight at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn at 7 pm with Erin Perez, Elizabeth Zuba, and @donyorty.bsky.social, who made this flyer. there will be music this balmy eve provided by the Other Arc Ensemble. free! come if you can!

Talked a lot in recent work about the idea that we exist in the 'chemocene', an era that started in the nineteenth century and that involves the mixing up of what I term the 'molecular commons' of smells in which all creatures live. The evidence keeps mounting... www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

I’ve been out of the game for a while and lost track of people in the move to this place, so if you’re an adjunct/VAP/postdoc in history, can you reply and let me know what you work on? I am an editor at @contingent-mag.bsky.social and we are often looking for book reviewers etc.

Enjoying reading this book 'Deflating Mental Representation' by @francesegan.bsky.social together with the @compcogsci.bsky.social lab 🙂 🪨🟰🧮❓🤔💭

The first 14 days of the U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran assault released over 5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions. This is more than the annual emissions of mid-sized economies like Iceland or Kuwait, and roughly the same as dozens of the lowest emitters together.

So delighted to have the closing poem from DEAR DEAR in this brilliant journal alongside friends with stunning web design. Except below after Bach's MUSICAL OFFERING and Oliveros's concept of deep listening

For people who are concerned about having their devices seized at US airports starting Monday when ICE "assists" the TSA, EFF has this guide: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Issue 01 is live!! An absolutely stacked lineup with astounding poetry, fiction, and hybrid expanded field poetics. I'm still in awe. Give this a read! www.ghostharmonics.com/magazine/issue-01 Cover featuring artwork by S.H. Yan Featuring Paige Taggart, @danikastegeman.bsky.social ...

I can't believe my good fortune to be part of this publication

appalling mismanagement of public resources "chop from the top" means no gazillionaire salaries for upper admin, who should be educators, and it means no $15M fees to grifter consultants and oafing marketers

Check out this new report published today providing the first in-depth, industry-wide examination of how #academicfreedom has been written into collective bargaining agreements across American higher ed. 👀 This report is useful for anyone hoping to collectively bargain meaningful AF protections.

wellcomecollection.org/stories/medi... Examples!

These people will read Gilgamesh and come to the conclusion that they have to find that plant that gives you immortality

OK so this young trans gentleman was cut off by his parents, has been unable to get MIT to up his financial aid, has been working multiple jobs while maintaining an A- average AT MIT (no one does this), but he is gonna need to actually pay his tuition to graduate: www.gofundme.com/f/help-matth...

I guess there wasn’t enough room to fit Greenland in the other claw?

on bot activity's disabling digital infrastructures

Is there a good article on this lawsuit and this deposition?

On the one hand, this is massively dystopian, foretelling an end to all of our livelihoods. But on the other (more important) hand, I could not have invented a better anecdote to illustrate my book’s thesis.

NEWS: Grammarly tells me it will let "experts" like me opt out of having their names used against their will and for no compensation as part of its "expert review" feature www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

just ordered a copy of this and am excited to read

I see this attitude a lot among disabled people in the west, and I think the issue of gAI demands critical thinking and choice from disabled people, too. We aren’t exempt from doing so because of our access needs, all the more so because disability is so often used to justify tech monstrosities

As a professor, providing accommodations doesn’t impact me at all, and it helps students out. The fact that anyone cares about this is baffling to me. But then I remember that the country is currently run by eugenicist freaks and they’ve just found a new group to hound.

some no doubt problematic data but still a study on the train wreck I've been watching for the last couple years

Administration at DePaul in Chicago has unilaterally decided to permanently close the DePaul Museum as a cost-cutting measure. Please consider signing this letter opposing this short-sighted decision openletter.earth/letter-oppos...