83 points for BAM! This is insane….

Just saw a professor come out of their office crying and clutching Karl Marx’s Capital….. 🤔 that’s like a knives out type mystery right there.

While it’s still February I wanna talk about Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly which in my opinion is one of the greatest music albums period! Jazz, rap, r&b, soul, rock, it’s fused with so many genres and it does everything well. Punchy bars, heartbreaking themes, and perspective on the hood.

A big proofs day!!! I worked on this chapter for a long time and it’s so exciting to finally see it in this form! This is part of a wonderful volume edited by @chrissieplastow.bsky.social and @hilarylehmann. Shoutout to @dominicmachado.bsky.social @antiquethought.bsky.social

It’s so funny to me that people are more worried about being accused of being racist rather than worrying about if they are actually being racist. It’s like the accusation is worse than the fact that they are racist.

Gonna be sharing some of my favorite music albums this month. I’ll start with one that’s in my top ten. 2 Pac’s All Eyez on Me.

That point in the dissertation where you…

Come on now it’s from @caperry.bsky.social need I say more!??

This guy is brilliant!

Last week on Ancient Office Hours, Dr. @egarcmol.bsky.social, an Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, discussed specializing in the Seleucid Empire, challenges of working with limited historical records, and his course on gaming and ancient history.

Today was “syllabus day” for my ancient slavery course. On Thursday we will be discussing the definitional issue. Very much looking forward to that conversation with my students!

This book is excellent and is written by a fantastic scholar!! 👏👏. Congratulations @tiamopatata.bsky.social on a great accomplishment.

Well as a cowboys fan let me go ahead and get this over with. My summary of the season.

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🎉 Today I defended my dissertation and passed with summa cum laude. The title is "Dependent Lives In and Beyond Archives: Enslaved People in Sephardic Jewish Households in Early Modern Bridgetown, Barbados (1654-1800)." The abstract is below, and I hope to publish it soon.

Do y’all prefer long footnotes or long endnotes? I’ll admit that I tend to prefer the former though am often distracted by them 🤣🤣.

The dissertation is dissertating. ‘Nough said.

We still reviewing this dude’s stuff in big 2025???

Why are we even seeing dude’s name pop up? I shouldn’t even see dude’s name in my email notifications. Why is dude still being published? How does dude still have a platform? We really separating the scholar from the scholarship in 2025? What a joke.

Shout out to @dominicmachado.bsky.social for making my visit to Holy Cross so enjoyable and enriching!

Well. It’s official. You can now submit your proposals to the New Perspectives on Ancient Greek Religion book series, published by Edinburgh University Press! #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

Assistant Professor job with University of Maryland - College Park | 37879935 jobs.chronicle.com/job/37879935...

My conversation with @javalac.bsky.social on his chapter from Ancient Slavery and It’s New TestamentContexts is available now for $5 a month on Patreon. Look for it to drop everywhere else next Wednesday!

the ole grind

David Cornswet is Superman. He just is.

Please see the new episode of this podcast featuring yours truly! Talking about Roman slavery and slavery in the New Testament. youtu.be/qcs91KA-Azg?...

"A review written in transparent prose can be translated via Google or Deepl with great accuracy" Not sure whether forcing your colleagues to use AI just because language skills among Anlophones is collapsing is really a good look. bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.05...

My fellow academics, do y’all ever move around your house to get a change of pace while working? For example, I’ll go from working at my actually office at home to the table in the dining room or to the couch. Though the couch is dangerous sometimes 😂

I 100000% recommend watching this movie. It’s easily a 9.5/10. I would say it’s almost as good as Get Out (if you haven’t seen Get Out I cannot help you). Ryan Coogler’s best film to date!

woo hoo! This is such an amazing program. Taking applications now!

Man this guy talks with hands a lot. 😂😂

Along with re-branding their EDIB Office as a capitulation to segregationists, Harvard’s also not funding affinity group celebrations preceding graduation for Arab, Black, Indigenous, Latine, FGLI, Asian American/Pacific Islander, and Desi students www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Proofs! Excited for this to appear in the forthcoming volume “Writing, Enslavement, and Power”

Going to be a very important book. Mark my words.

It is my immense privilege to share this particular proofs day! For @platanoclassics.bsky.social and I’s chapter! Will be happy to share when it’s appropriate to do so!

I have now finished all of my PhD exams and can finally turn fully to the dissertation stage. 8 exams later we are finally here!!! 😭😭😭🥃

So I am working over the Easter weekend....but frankly it is a real pleasure to review this book on #Women and the #RomanArmy for the #TRAJ. Brilliant scholarship and highly readable. Congratulations. #ancientbluesky

Guys if you write about slavery don’t write about it like this…

AABB welcomes authors who have published academic books as well! We've even got an affinity group for you. The Trump administration is attacking all aspects of the book world, so we have to mobilize together to fight back.

It’s here! So immensely proud of this volume and privileged to have worked alongside some fantastic scholars. Thanks so much to @christycobb.bsky.social @katherineshaner for inviting me to do this!!

Paging all my biblical and religious studies scholars. Has there been any more recent treatment on slavery in the Hebrew Bible?

Got the copy edits….. can’t wait to share this chapter when it’s time.

I miss when Springbreak was actually a break 😂

500 words a day. I can do this….

Tomorrow is the WCC’s virtual conference! Should be good! The program looks great! www.wccclassics.org/wcc-virtual-...

Random question but dear fellow academics… do you prefer working from home, working from the office, or working at a tertiary location (coffee shop, library, etc.) please feel free to comment!

Does anyone know of a list of all jurists mentioned (*not* just those excerpted) in the Digest?

Catch @chancebonar.bsky.social and I here: www.eerdmans.com/978080288413...

Anyone know of a good general treatment on the Siete Partidas?

Now I’ve got to complete anti DEI training. Wooo I love Texas……