The fact that the "fight antisemitism on campus" movement has in practice become a smokescreen to both promote Islamophobia and shut down higher education more broadly, is going to have such deleterious long-term effects on the safety of both Jews AND Muslims in this country.

ok who did this? ☹️

#EarlyModern meme! #BookHistory

Sending off an article to the editors for the peer review process to begin. Pray for me!

*screaming* (This is US distributor. The Concordia UP pre-order page AND DISCOUNT CODE go live next month, when I'll start up the promo machine. But lookee that covvvver 🤤)

A new Early Medieval Europe virtual issue on Travel and Mobility in the Early Middle Ages, featuring five brilliant articles published over the past 20 years by Andy Merrills, Paul Dutton, Frank Riess, Ben Allport and Rebecca Thomas: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

My article is due on Friday. #amwriting #nobodywantstoreadthis

OMG! Just look at that headline! "Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border"!!!

I wish that folks celebrating the attack in Manchester on the grounds that The Jews(tm) are killing Palestinians were able to appreciate this difference.

Hmm… I wrote a piece about the epistemic erasure of Jews & my institution posted about it in a manner that doesn’t mention Jews—should I be happy they proved my point or upset…? 🤔

Muslims and Jews have a parallel problem: they both have religious concepts of unified global communities, “umma” and “am yisrael,” which do not map onto any empirical reality. Even accounting for the radical disparity in numbers, with Muslims a far greater percentage of humanity, both communities

As a visibly Jewish person, I always know that going to a synagogue means assuming a certain degree of risk. But now I know that if something were to happen to me, it wouldn't just be sad for my family, but people would try to exploit my death to push policies I deplore.

I really hope I can get this article published because, my god, the humanists of 1400s Rome were SO GLORIOUSLY petty and I love them all so much. "I'm going to call your work awful and just like putting a sewer in front of a Greek temple. No, I won't refer to you by name, but EVERYBODY KNOWS."

In sincerity I did log on for a reason. A new issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies is out, edited by colleague/friend Marcel Elias. It's about how to do postcolonial medieval studies bigger and better. You'll like it. (I'm in there). Go read. read.dukeupress.edu/jmems/issue/...

But none of that changes the fact Jewish peoplehood has always been at the center of Jewish identity, and that there was always an overarching concept of Am Yisrael that encompassed Jews in Minsk, Salonika, Baghdad, Cairo. Criticizing the state of Israel doesn't require rewriting Jewish history.

May 5786 be the year we free ourselves—may it be a year of interdependence and community—may the genocide end—may our children know the sweetness of freedom—may we remember that all the children are always ours. L’shana tova, fam.

Maimonides on “wokeness”: www.sefaria.org/Mishneh_Tora...

This Rosh Hashanah, I don’t pray to be “better". I pray to be more whole. More honest. More connected. More ready to see revelation in places I used to ignore.

This source sheet is on the idea of Shofar as both a cry and a wake up call: www.sefaria.org/sheets/43316...

Rosh Hashanah blessings be like 🍎 🍯

#Proofs !! Happy that this piece is finally coming out soon, on #earlymodern 'Books for Greeks and Books for non-Greeks in Sixteenth-Century Venice' #skystorians #bookhistory #classicalreception

#Writers and #Scriveners of BlueSky! I'm using an image in my article that I'm working on - a beautiful front page of a book. Is it possible to add a caption to an image in #Scrivener? Or will I need to export the file to Word (as if for submission) and add it there?

1 question to ask about "debate" is whether or not one shares a goal with the opposing view. You might argue about how to house people - public housing, upzoning, deregulation etc. - but you at least share a similar goal. It's that overlap in a desired outcome that underpins the ideal of "debate."

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

This is apropros of nothing, but I learned today that noted cultural historian Philippe Ariès was not a professional historian; he worked for most of his life at a "documentation center for international commerce in tropical fruit."

Really excited to see this medieval Hebrew manuscript and talk at the Morgan Library: www.themorgan.org/programs/gal... 📜📚💕

in the 23rd century historians are going to need have their Routledge Handbook of 21st-Century Internet Memes, their Cambridge Companion to 4Chan, and their Oxford Guidebook to Computer Gaming Culture handy to make sense of the rise of American fascism and the fall of the United States

I am thrilled to share that my article, “Hoc Saxsum: History as Conversation inside the Tomb of the Scipios” is now available on the Journal of Roman Studies website via FirstView. (It’s also open access!)

I just got hate crimed in the stupidest way possible. I was driving home - my car has a lovely pride flag on it that I need to replace - and the guy in a truck next to me honks at me. He makes sure he has my attention, but my car window is closed.

yes i am sure

A cute, little dog from the late-thirteenth-century Huth Psalter. British Library, Add MS 38116, f. 73r.

Yesterday at our event we got a question about “hope” and history. Here’s the answer I gave, with help from James Baldwin, Frederick Douglass, and Natalie Zemon Davis. Free to read and share #medievalsky buttondown.com/ModernMediev...

Why does having a cover for your book make it feel more official? Thrilled to share mine for Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy out Nov 15 with @cornellupress.bsky.social This book has some things to say about the intersections between violence and statecraft.

Delighted to share that my second monograph, The Living Judas in Medieval Text and Image (working title), is now under contract with Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social! I am so grateful to @leverhulme.ac.uk & @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social for the time & support to work on this.

The wedge, oversimplified for skeet purposes, is between those who are tied to Judaism: 1) primarily by trauma/scarcity/conservation 2) primarily by hope/abundance/exploration We all hold some of each, but those starting places lead to vastly different Jewish outlooks. Israel is 1 piece of that

BlueSky, please tell me I absolutely do not need a single page of a Giovanni Bussi printed book to frame and hang up in my household. Please tell me I do not need this, because it is FAR outside of my budget right now (but its SO PRETTY)

{New book} Social Network Analysis and Medieval History Ed by Matthew Hammond - With leading researchers from across Europe, this book announces the arrival of an exciting new subdiscipline in Medieval Studies. www.arc-humanities.org/978180270128...

A thing to say right now is this: I have faith in the Jewish people. We are in crisis. It’s been building for a while. It will likely get worse before it gets better. We are going to have to journey as a people. Many of us will. The journey will hurt. And we’re gonna cross this sea together.

Jewsky: for full effectiveness by Rosh HaShannah, you need to get your flu and COVID shots by September 9. Put it on the calendar and spread the word. Pikuach nefesh is a great way to start the year!

The Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes has just published a new article from its upcoming 2025 edition! ‘Gems, Ambers and Plaquettes. Cyriac’s Gifts and Theodore Gaza’s Verse’ by Filippomaria Pontani www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏 The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes. www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...

At the risk of quoting myself, a sentence I wrote and published in 2020: “Radical, ahistorical, uncompassionate right-wing revisionism is a problem; but so, too, is radical, ahistorical, uncompassionate left-wing revisionism.”

The beginning of Eicha (Lamentations) which will be read on Tisha B'av, 9th of Av, which starts at sundown on 2nd August. BL Or 2091; Former & Latter Prophets & Hagiographa; 13th century; Germany; f.343r

Zuckerberg farted out some nonsense today, and since most media outlets refuse to report critically any time a tech CEO offers them some a pseudoserious press release, I've decided to do it for them. sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/7/30/how-to-read-an-ai-press-release

When it comes to writing #history articles and essays, is there still a desire to read narrative? Or is the focus more on good historical #analysis and what can be “new.” Is there a want for a story among other academics? #amwriting

The Roman Girl Rediscovered During the Renaissance www.medievalists.net/2025/07/roma... #history

I had to read this twice to believe it...Meloni, who ran for office on an anti-immigration platform, has now announced plans to let in hundreds of thousands of immigrants, in order to deal with the Italian labor shortage www.reuters.com/world/italy-...

I am once again coming to @jstor.bsky.social with my hat in my hands, begging for Jstor merch so I can support them more. The redbubble “JSTOR and chill” shirts don’t help them, and I absolutely would wear Jstor merchandise. #JSTOR #historymerch