Typing “I have a soul” in Word and printing it out and getting scared

okay, finally deciphered the smiley face line (greek and translation in alt-text) and think it might be... an angel???

This won’t come as much of a surprise, but it’s now clear that any source of funding tied to the State Department will almost certainly not fund projects related to queer/trans people.

Fellow profs, they're trying to ruin our industry, so why not?

Am I remembering right that there’s an article or chapter on the Bacchae that reads the fragmentary state of the text with the fragmentation of the characters and their psyches? Completely blanking on what I read in undergrad, since it doesn’t seem to be in Masks of Dionysus.

Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process

In November 1999, the Zombo dot com website was created as a parody of the creative, but, largely pointless flash intros, which were trending at the end of the 1990s. Welcome... to ZomboCom. #WebDesignHistory

For #MosaicMonday a charming duck. Found in Trier, dating 4th century AD 📷 me On display at Museum am Dom, Trier 🏺 #archaeology

We're #hiring! PUP seeks a Publishing Manager (US – Remote or Hybrid) to oversee the full lifecycle of book projects, working closely with leaders & staff to ensure optimal publishing workflows, accurate data & schedules, & effective collaboration. Apply today: www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...

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.

🗣️ PLEASE SHARE 🗣️ I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator! spot.fund/dn8t744sc

Today I published a new section of my website with resources for those who wish to learn, study, and/or teach ancient languages using braille. It rests on work we did over the past year to expand screen reader access to these languages through the LibLouis library. Check it out and share around!

Is anyone who’s familiar with SBL citation style interested in a small copy editing gig? A dissertating friend of mine needs some help going through footnotes to keep her sanity.

I posted the wrong link when I shared my new article yesterday, so here it is again. Now available online, "Asclepius, Jesus, and Healing by Touch: A Reevaluation." www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/article/a...

God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is out in the real world with @universitypress.cambridge.org! I have some extra, so retweet this by the end of Oct. 19 if you’re interested in receiving a copy! Book info here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

Halloween is near! It's time to post this marvellous articulated Roman skeleton, presumably meant to be a reminder to enjoy life to the fullest, since pleasure ends irrevocably with death. In Petronius’ Satyricon, the host of a dinner party brings out a small skeleton with moveable...🧵1/2

We become embodied exhibits of moral rot. And the genuine moral depravity of the cruel systems we live in gets displaced onto our bodies and minds. As with, for example, this dissertation I'm working with for the first chapter of my book: 5/

Also, it and its fellow neurodivergences (notably ADHD) are disabilities whose associated behaviors are DEEPLY entwined with regnant narratives of who's a good person or a bad one. 1/

At the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies we are offering 10 fellowships for scholars at any stage in their careers to stay with us for up to 6 months (PhD candidates and senior academics) or 12 months (postdocs) to complete a research project: www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/images/pdf-f...

Azeen Ghorayshi at the NYT has moved on from going after trans people and is now pushing the leasing question that autism diagnoses are too common because of its expansion of it to a spectrum. archive.ph/Whji1

Some bad news for STEM PhDs today regarding the eligibility for one of the biggest fellowships—only first-year graduate students and undergrads are able to apply to the NSF GRFP, no second-years. This will hurt a lot of graduate training and research, especially at less wealthy schools

Haven’t had any time to update this lately, but with fellowships season and a new academic year upon us, take a look for yourself and/or your students.

people helpfully replying "Trump doesn't have the power to do that" in response to discussions about Trump literally in the process of doing those things

The classic

Conference announcement/call for papers! You’ll note that there’s no theme beyond “new research on apocryphal Christian literature.” We truly just want to hear about whatever interests you most in apocryphal Christian literature right now. More info here: www.nasscal.com/meetings/

joining the war on autism on the side of autism

The digital version of God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is officially out! If you're interested in ancient Mediterranean slavery's effects on Christian thought and practice, this is for you. www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

The Erich S. Gruen Prize | Society for Classical Studies www.classicalstudies.org/awards-and-f...

We are looking for a one-year full-time Research Associate to work on Coptic manuscripts in Manchester as part of a wonderful project that connects mss with local communities. Requires strong skills in Coptic, English, & Arabic. Deadline 31/10. Please share! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Good recs for a _cultural_ history of "the alpha"? From evobio to its reception in pop culture, how ideologies about "biologically innate" "leadership" structures everyday social life for _humans_, and back to how evobio studies pack animals?

It really disturbs me that so many people in higher education seem to think that students are trying to get one over on them or wasting their time because they aren’t strong enough at particular skills.

My cat Bruno is definitely living up to his namesake all snuggled up in bed in a monkish way.

Newsom has backstabbed trans people and homeless people repeatedly, but you’re fine with that because you’re not affected. People like you demand one-way coalitions. Morally and strategically bankrupt.

Science is effectively dead in the US for at least the next 3½ years, and will then take another several years to even get started again. Canceled research doesn’t just uncancel itself, and scientists who find opportunity elsewhere won’t just come flocking back. The damage is generational.

Finally hung up this very cool sculpture by @oddoblivion.bsky.social that reminds me of my dissertation topic

the most recent attempt to control education: Section 4.b.(i): "Discretionary awards must, where applicable, demonstrably advance the President’s policy priorities."

Let's not use "hallucinate" or "lie" when we talk about ChatGPT. It can't make decisions, it doesn't have a conscious thought, it's not having a conversation with you. It's regurgitating false information based on stolen content without context or nuance.

they’re here! i only need like 3 of these. CUP sent me 10. so, how about this: i’ll mail the others to the first 7 contingent faculty and/or grad students who email me their mailing address.

Apparently, it's #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay! Here is my favourite #owl, depicted on a #Roman mosaic found in Uzès southern France, dating second half of the 1st century BC. 📷 Denis Gliksman, Inrap

Pliny the Younger apparently thought sports were very stupid but it's funny that it's for the exact reason laid out in Seinfeld s6e12 ("The Label Maker")

This is religion for depressed and bored psuedo-intellectual oafs trying to find meaning because spiritual stuff is girly and introspection is scary. They'd rather spend half their lives writing Sephiroth speeches about universities and grift off of other people experiencing the void

Thank you to @logeiongklat.bsky.social for making translation in a power outage possible

I found a 30 Rock easter egg on the official Fulbright website 👀

this is getting next to no media attention and it’s horrifying. transphobes weren’t going to stop at bathrooms, no hormones for minors, they are going to keep pushing until it’s entirely illegal and no one is standing up for us other than trans people

I did my MA and PhD at UChicago, and typically I feel proud of that. But today, I am beyond disappointed in my alma mater. www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/...

We're not "descending into" fascism in the U.S. We are living under a fascist regime already. I wonder when most people will catch up to this reality and what that might portend.