Hegseth's repeal of universal flu vaccines is nonsense on so many levels, but his claim vaccine mandates were an "era of betrayal" irked me as a historian. Here's my response, in @thebulwark.com this morning; www.thebulwark.com/p/george-was...

"Adjuncts are essential to Liberty University's mission of training Champions for Christ" because there's nothing Jesus loved more than exploited labor

Next episode is edited and will appear on your podcatching platform on May 1!!! Get ready to listen to me and @isisnaucratis.bsky.social discuss violence to memory (her phrase, not mine) and how the US-Israeli Axis is destroying cultural heritage in Palestine and in Iran.

Ari Bryen's new book is a remarkable historical sociology of Roman law *and* a compelling diachronic account of its transformation from a lively site for the telling of stories and making of meaning to a cold instrument of state power & social control. And the writing is sharp. Highly recommended.

More than 70 vessels and over 1,000 participants from all over the world have joined a second Global Sumud Flotilla en route to Gaza in order to challenge Israel’s ongoing maritime blockade of aid.

Hey late antiquarians congrats to Patricia Cox Miller! (Several folks in religious studies)

BREAKING: A Virginia judge just temporarily halted the implementation of the state's new voter-approved redistricting measure. Election officials cannot move forward now unless the ruling is overturned by a higher court. Virginia's AG has vowed to appeal the ruling.

Looks like a cool book. Might read it sometime.

Hey, it’s @chancebonar.bsky.social

Nice to see so many wonderful colleagues in American Studies, Black Studies, and Religious Studies among the newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Also, now I can say that Dawn Staley and I are members of the same organization!

🔥 hell yeah 🔥 New book incoming: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk

I have the utmost respect for Senator Kaine and Senator Warner but we do not need “coaching” on redistricting coming from a cuck chair in the corner. How about you all stay focused on the fascist in the White House and let us handle redistricting in Virginia. 10-1

it’s the same exact thinking you see from these nitwits with the Iran war. they think they hold all the cards and cannot even conceive of their enemy retaliating, whether it’s by closing the strait of Hormuz or the CA/VA redistricting ballot measures

Public universities in Ohio eliminate a large number of programs I hope that students will consider Butler University in the next state over, where we highly value the things state universities are abandoning…

There's something about this white-supremacy-coded-as-reason that drives me up a fucking wall. We're here because we DID NOT stand up for leftist principles of universal education. NOT because we didn't teach enough Western Civilization, or condemn anti-genocide protestors. You jackass.

Holy crap. "Paul Within Paganism," the book I co-edited w/ Paula Fredriksen & @alexichantz.bsky.social, got a long review essay in The New Yorker! Still sifting through the disparate threads Gopnik tries to tie together. Well earned shout-outs in it to @ryancollman.bsky.social @zafulotus.bsky.social

@philharland.bsky.social ‘s book has arrived!

There's actually a tradition of Roman emperors being depicted in Egyptian art during the period when Egypt was part of Rome. More on that in this article. #Classics #AncientBlueSky #Rome #history www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/w...

Out of many great papers at the Assoc.Anc.Hist conference, 1 moment sticking with me is Bill Owens' talk about slavery in the Apocryphal Acts of Peter, & esp a moment where a rich matron asks Peter to raise her son from the dead. Peter notes that various enslaved men had been freed in his will. 1/2

“Today, the average professor in higher education is a contract worker without benefits or job security. They are often paid miserably to teach double or even triple the number of students as their tenure-track counterparts.” + lareviewofbooks.org/article/disa...

If you want a book that has thousands of years of things to say about this topic, that isn’t Eurocentric, and that ends with scathing thoughts about today’s sovereigns of code, may I suggest mine? US preorders: tinyurl.com/DataEmpireUS UK/Commonwealth: tinyurl.com/DataEmpireUK

📢 Not just a new SCS Blog Post, but an entirely new blog series: engagements with/responses to select articles in our association's official journal, TAPA. First up: Michael Taylor on Duncan MacRae's "Capitoline Futures." Please pitch us if you'd like to spotlight a piece in TAPA! 👍

"The hot take that AI will transform education is running about 780 papers ahead of the evidence. Why? Marketing. Buzz. FOMO. Yep. Evidence that it does anything unique to help kids? Not much."

*me getting scooped by a skeleton with an amulet* god DAMNIT

The Yale report but it’s 10 people from New Haven telling you Yale sucks

Was asked to fill in today to give a brief intro to Gnosticism & the Apocryphon of John Apologies in advance to students

Are you a student? Do you have students? The Theological Librarianship Student Essay Contest deadline is June 1! serials.atla.com/theolib/anno...

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Honestly “how did a surveilling God solve the despotic problem of the absentee enslaver” was one of the big breakthroughs for me

My contribution to @acls1919.bsky.social 's "Talk about the Humanities" campaign this week. More here, not too late to do yours! www.acls.org/TalkAboutHum...

"God becomes what elite Roman villa owners only dreamed of becoming: the panoptic enslaver" some real banger lines in @chancebonar.bsky.social's book, folks... www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

So proud of @sarahebond.bsky.social for her amazing commentary on Trump’s arch for @nytimes.com and @cnn.com

UVA/Charlottesville folks: Come out to hear about how early Christians conceptualized God as their enslaver & how possession by the holy spirit was part of the equation! www.virginia.edu/calendar/?tr...

Rights advocates hail 'historic' shift as 40 out of 47 Democratic senators vote to block military bulldozers to Israel.

Life is a gamble but I took a Chance! Happy Jesus/Schapps Birthday @chancebonar.bsky.social and may you roll doubles always. #33

I'm in favor of this because of all the Marxists the business school is going to hire.

Come listen to me talk about the uncontroversial topic of Jesus and slavery on the Bible & Archaeology podcast! youtu.be/_H7IivvTn8E?...

This would fix Harvard’s current viewpoint diversity, which ranges from “close friends of Epstein” to “defenders of close friends of Epstein”

If Harvard is looking for professors who will provide "viewpoint diversity" in exchange for $10 million, I'll happily preach communism at Harvard Business School or teach courses on anarchy at the Law School. Hell, throw in a 3BR2BA and I'll be the creationist in your Biology Department as well.

"Please give us money so we can hire people who make Adrian Vermeule look sane"

what’s funny about this is that tarantino wrote this “ezekiel 25:17“ for the film. it isn‘t actually in the bible. publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

Come listen to me talk about the uncontroversial topic of Jesus and slavery on the Bible & Archaeology podcast! youtu.be/_H7IivvTn8E?...

External funding is rapidly reaching crazy levels of competition. Good luck, folks. www.gf.org/stories/anno...

Saving the English department by relabelling our chronological survey course "the eras tour"

It's pub day for GOD BLESS THE PILL: he Surprising History of Contraception and Sexuality in American Religion by @samirakmehta.bsky.social 🎉 🙌 uncpress.org/978146969343...

This is NUTS www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...