Earliest Latin translation of 'Tao Te Ching' published news.cgtn.com/news/2025-11...

First 10k in three years, after a major foot injury and new baby together took me off of running for the long term. Was it on a treadmill and was my pace basically a crawl? Sure. I’ve a long way to go from here to get back to where I was, but it feels good to be on my way

All the scrolls in the Library at Alexandria could probably have fit on a 16 GB hard drive, how important could it have been, honestly

Mar Awa III, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, also born in Chicago, gave Pope Leo a Cubs jersey.

This is such a tragedy. Danya was a once-in-a-generation teacher whose knowledge and passion helped make his sport accessible to everyone. I owe my love for chess in part to him, and will miss him terribly.

I don't think students should be asked to rhetorically analyze poetry in a class before they get practice experiencing poetry without imagining it as a rhetorical structure. Like, cooking is so much better if you begin by first developing a relationship to the pleasure of food.

UVA says no to the compact

UVA says NO to the "compact"

BREAKING: UVA rejects the Trump Administration's Compact.

WAHOOOWA www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

And now UVa rejects the compact.

Mind-numbing how many layers of history there can be to a single manuscript page: Syriac upper text (10th c.), Armenian undertext (pre-10th c.), Arabic material used for binding (11-12th c.?), Coptic foliation in the margin (date?), modern foliation at the bottom. Image: Leiden UL Or. 14236, link ⬇️

how it feels to inquire about the status of your manuscript

do you want a picture of the human future? imagine someone posting this at their friends about a third person who isn't even in the room, forever.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it; it brings about consent and reconciliation with things as they really are. —Hannah Arendt, Men in Dark Times

Extremely normal!

🚨THIS BOOK IS ALMOST REAL!!!🚨 @manchesterup.bsky.social out here making dreams come true!

[ancient egyptian standup comic] see guys from the upper kingdom, they observe funerary rites like THIS. but us guys from the lower kingdom, we observe funerary rites like THIS. See this guy knows what I’m talking about [pointing at man with the head of a bird]

what if journal loyalty rewards program where your 5th submission automatically gets published

🚨Medievalist job alert! 🚨

This failed because a local jury decided not to indict. We tend to think juries should be blank slates, impartial and uninformed. But when the jury began it was trusted specifically because it was informed and partial. A medieval story time on the jury!

What makes a Classic? Homer, Gilgamesh, and the Hebrew Bible are all rooted in a time and region--the Iron Age Mediterranean--but does any shared magic make them "canonical"? Because these famed works come to us from a space whose western parts are notoriously blank in terms of textual evidence. 🧵

Wendell Berry, "The Peace of Wild Things"

My book is out! Medieval Responses to Ovid's Exile, with Cambridge UP @universitypress.cambridge.org. I am so grateful to the friends, family, colleagues, librarians and archivists who helped along the way. Nervous and excited to see it in the world! www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...

my new AI powered lamp is trained on millions of lamp interactions so it understands that 50% of chain pulls are to turn it on and the other 50% are to turn it off. and honestly, it's a little spooky how it knows exactly what i want almost half of the time

there are several, but the big one would be cormac mccarthy

Goodreads but for academic articles

Re: the "Stomp clap hey" movement -Lumineers were corny but mostly inoffensive -Mumford & Sons have some legitimate jams and are a quite good live show -Avett Brothers ruled once and now they're Dave Matthews Band for Millennials (not a judgment) -That Avicii "Wake Me Up" song sucks

This book is amazing Yes I know I’m over two decades late but in my defense I was six when this hit the shelves

For the first time since the Princeton Geniza Project began in 1986, we have published our metadata collated from over 30,000 Geniza documents and the People, Places, and histories of the Middle East and premodern Jewish communities found therein! zenodo.org/records/1583...

In my experience there are three kinds of fantasy magic novels:

I hadn't been aware of this recording of 11 Early Irish poems, read by Myles Dillon around 1956. Kindly made available by the School of Celtic in University College Cork. www.youtube.com/watch?v=45WU... (I am pleased to note that my own pronunciation of those poems isn't far off Dyllon's.)

Lordy. I’m trying to describe how palaeographers label scripts. This was my swotting-sheet as an undergrad. That was one system. Adding in Parkes, Derolez, Lieftinck… it becomes incomprehensible. Bah. And Latin no longer a lingua franca…

Exactly what I said after reading this

Fuck you Petrarch

New book — Reading Across Cultures: Translating Romances, Fables, and Poetry in Medieval Ashkenaz, by Caroline Gruenbaum. #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/18229

CFP: New Work by Early-Career Scholars in Celtic Studies 2026 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies May 14–16, 2026, Kalamazoo, MI This session seeks proposals for twenty-minute presentations by early-career scholars working in medieval Celtic Studies.

New article out with Studies in Philology! “Translating Vernacular Theological Theory from Robert Grosseteste’s Château d’Amour to the Castle of Love and the Myrour of Lewed Men” muse.jhu.edu/pub/12/artic...

Me and my article projects

Monumental three-volume Handbook of Epigraphic Cultures to be published by De Gruyter, early next year hopefully. Open Access eBook! Includes chapters on Khitan and Tangut epigraphy.

1/ Ever received a random text or DM from a stranger looking to befriend you? Here's how a simple message could be a small piece of a global fraud machine that exploits some of the world's largest banks. THREAD 🧵

How I look at an article rejection email when both reviewers recommended a revise and resubmit

Hey kids, I heard you all enjoy the filmography of John Carpenter! Well if you like that, let me tell you about someone else with the initials J.C. who also often dealt with the supernatural in his work-

Very excited to be presenting my paper “Meir of Norwich and the Formation of an Insular Hebrew Poetics” at next summer’s New Chaucer Society Congress in Freiburg! Did Meir of Norwich know any French or English poetry? Probably! And I’ve got the Hebrew metrical evidence to strongly suggest it!

It never ceases to amaze me how we have culturally memory-holed the fact that before c. 1920 it was perfectly normal to believe seriously that intelligent life existed on other planets in the Solar System

Nothing but disdain for my colleagues selling out the field, their colleagues, and their students from their Ivy endowed chairs

Did you know that English has no future tense? In order to mark it they have to use a separate tense marker /wɪɫ/ before the verb! This is why English speaking countries have such high national debt

Hell yeah they digitized the Longleat House Grammar

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