I’m ethical! For another year, anyway, having completed my uni’s annual ethics training.

I'm guessing Knowledge Commons servers are overwhelmed! Hence, the sluggishness. Goodbye to Academia.edu.

My middle years of life: struggles with memory recall, morning lower back stiffness, nightly acid reflux. Who’s with me? What else ya got? 😭😭😭

I am working on my syllabus today. I have accepted defeat, that the summer is over.

Ugh, the August Inbox monster has reared its ugly head. Summer, where did you go???

Curse you August! You are not welcome here!

This is all kinds of amazing.

las.uic.edu/news-stories... My thoughts on what I do and why I love my work.

With hat tip to @curtisdozier.bsky.social, I need this. We must play this at NAPS! The anachronistic cover art is so tantalizing! www.chaosium.com/blogtoday-on...

Unhinged response to an unhinged review makes fascinating academic reading.

He's disappointed the new pope didn't take his name. #FeastDaySaintEpiphanius

Whew! Dodged a bullet with Leo not Epiphanius. Missed opportunity though to talking head with @drewjakeprof.bsky.social

Cue up Chicago pizza, hotdogs, Cubs, Bulls jokes.

Augustine scholars, get ready!

Whoa! Heads are exploding right now. NPR hosts should have studied Latin. Another Leo!

Will be glad if we don’t have a Pope Epiphanius. Wouldn’t want someone who would choose that name 😎

Can I really start deleting the publisher's city from my bibliographies? I'm scared, like when i stopped hitting space twice after a period. Change is hard, but I think I can do this!

Gee, I wonder how many people are making a crap ton of money, knowing what was coming from the top.

Dae Han freaking Mingook. Doing the right thing. Manseh! 대한민국 만세!

You know what sucks? Serving on an NEH application review committee and selecting terrific projects to fund, and then hearing that letters had to be sent to the awardees informing them that their grants were canceled.

I still stand by my belief that NCAA football and basketball coaches should as part of their contract negotiations be required to endow chairs in the arts and the humanities with their bloated salaries. I accept your offer to assume the Deion Sanders Chair in the History of Late Antiquity.

My scholar friends: have any of you ever received a request to publish a translation in a journal of an article you've published? If so, what permissions did you acquire and/or procedures did you follow?

I work here. A beautifully painful piece to read.

hey the #NAPS2025 program is uuuuuup! www.patristics.org/wp-content/u...

Brady commentating kinda sucks.

What Pete Buttigieg said.

go.bsky.app/9uS3a2b Newcomers! This starter pack is terrific!

Pet peeve, entirely of my own making: when I leave my phone downstairs to charge, and I'm upstairs and have to 2FA.

When I was a graduate student, I was a TA for my advisor’s Roman history survey, which went from the Gracchi to Charlemagne.

Waiting for a friend at a restaurant and The Smiths’ “There is a light that Never Goes Out” starts playing and I’m immediately transported to eighth grade,

Let’s go Irish, I guess.

#AIA/SCS25 @mountaintopclas.bsky.social panel dinner!

More #AIA/SCS25 highlights! Hearts!

So many highlights from this year’s #AIA/SCS25! One of the top was meeting the incomparable @nakhthor.bsky.social!

Can’t wait for the Wes Anderson adaptation of the Aeneid with Owen Wilson playing the titular role.

Currently sitting in a wicker chair at a suburban mall, reading a novel, so my eldest, who doesn’t have his driver’s license yet, can hang with his boo. Snorted myself awake a little earlier. I am winning in this thing called life 😝

Why is there no hot key combo in Word for Mac to accept a Track Change? Am I missing something? So annoying.

Except Denzel. He never disappoints.

Did not realize that Gladiator II was a comedy.

Sometimes what we watch in life echoes in mediocrity. Holy cow that was bad.

Hill to die on: just use "how" instead of "ways in which." Also, raising my hand for the ways in which I've used the latter in the past.

At the University of Minnesota Twin Cities for a week to talk about Late Antiquity! Requisite cheese photo taken.

I made one. Fun! Let me know if you want to be added (or subtracted)! go.bsky.app/9uS3a2b

I made one of these for late antiquity. I definitely don't have everyone, so feel free to comment and I'll add you or other people you suggest. go.bsky.app/KP1nQVP

The Blue Sky mass move has commenced, I see. Deactivating and deleting that hellscape was so good for my mental health. I hope this place is more vivifying!

The Starter Pack idea is terrific!

I too would like my own Javier Bardem Stilgar who yells Lisan al Gaib every time I accomplish something. Just made dinner: Lisan al Gaib! Finished reading a book: Lisan al Gaib! Taught a class: Lisan al Gaib!

friends! The 2024 NAPS call for papers is ~out~! Share your brilliance with the world! You must be a member to present but anyone can submit a paper (and join in 2024)! Exclamation point!! www.patristics.org/annual-meeti...

Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity conference! My first ever conference paper was at SF5, twenty years ago at UCSB. Now a little grayer, a little heavier, a little more wrinkly, but hopefully a little wiser.