“That is the temporal wound: the adjunct helps students build futures inside an institution that grants their future one term at a time. Continuity exists for others first.”

Bari Weiss not beating the bootlicking propagandist allegations here:

jesus christ book of enoch spoilers on my tl

if faculty don’t control curriculum, it’s not actually a university. it’s just expensive high school for adults

We don’t need to study religion! It is just a small factor. Evidence contradicting such a statement #10,042

When @chancebonar.bsky.social tells you there is a giant chicken sculpture on the side of the I94, you stop at it.

this week i officially passed out of my probationary period at work so looks like UVA and @meirazk.bsky.social are stuck with me!

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “A Project 2029 cannot be a collection of Democratic Party agenda items,” our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes. “It must articulate a broad new conception of the nation’s political order — one that will guide the way a future Democratic-led government might wield power.”

Transition to a new shared office means my colleague and I putting up new Syriac on the whiteboards: ܡܥܪܬܐ ܦܪܚܕܘܕܐ (“cave of the bat”)

My bestie emailed me again today to remind me I’m wrong for noting that the Romans didn’t invent the term Palestine. To prove it, he sent a screenshot from a scholar who would agree with me that Hadrian didn’t coin the term. Why am I being reminded of something I already agree with

it’s BOV official now, so hey friends, i’m tenured! many thanks to the many, many of you who helped along the way (and are still helping). i have never believed any of us do this job alone. y’all stay proving me right. 💜

We at EO are sharing part 1 of our primer on ancient & medieval Palestine written by a stellar lineup of experts. Today: "The Role and Problems of 'Biblical Archaeology' in Writing the History of Israel-Palestine" by @chancebonar.bsky.social 🔗 everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/eopalestine/ 1/

okay, early Christianity/late antiquity pals: you're teaching a 7-week course to brand new first year college students in which they will be reading a selection (8-10?) of premodern saints lives: which do you choose? go!

In celebration of #PrideMonth, we're offering a 30% discount on dozens of books, from queer literature to poetry to memoir. Use code PRIDE26UWISC at uwpress.wisc.edu. Learn more about Juda Bennett's new book, QTOPIA: A MEMOIR OF LOVE, LAND, AND LIBERATION, here: uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/Q/Qtopia

Hey fellow DOGED-friends: did you get the message from the NEH that they're setting up a process for reinstatement? This seems like significant progress. Thanks to the staff at NEH who are doing the work behind the scenes to address the mistakes others imposed on their agency

Every time I bike by Dick's House of Sport at 5th Street Station, I feel like I'm being gaslit into believing that it wasn't Dick's Sporting Goods my entire life

black people electing black people to congress in districts where they form a plurality or majority? potentially invidious racial discrimination. the only way to escape constitutional scrutiny is to elect a white conservative, then we know dr. king's dream of colorblindness has been achieved

All of this could've been avoided by a commitment to a democratic process. I'll never get over how many folks would prefer to torch their careers, their organizations, in defense of a genocide.

Literally how my former employer chastised me for “hijacking” a meeting for 3 minutes and lacking “civility” — and then, on the spot, retroactively making up and applying new rules about meeting procedures to avoid allowing others to express their deep sense of betrayal

I know a lot of people in academia who have heard similar rhetoric to the first two paragraphs in meetings and in emails. Criticism of power as incivility

The Public Scholar | Stop Letting Trolls Keep You Off the Op-Ed Page Historian David Perry, who has written hundreds of op-eds, discusses out-of-proportion fears, what he does with hate mail and how your class preparation skills transfer to the page. By Susan D’Agostino: https://bit.ly/4u42UEV

"... the UC system shared data collected by automated license plate readers at multiple campuses with U.S. Customs and Border Protection and other federal agencies, in apparent violation of state law [and] could incur fines of up to $2,500 per instance." www.dailycal.org/news/uc/reco...

the next meteor that hits boston had better kill me

Gotta love literally being on an airplane leaving Boston as this happened 🫡

Hooded, Caped, Doctored

Being an American during the 250th Aniversary of the United States feels a lot like if the terrorists in Die Hard demanded that the hostages continue having their Christmas party.

While the US and international press are focused on the terms of negotiations between the Trump administration and Iran, Israel is massively expanding its rampage across the Middle East—moving to permanently occupy Gaza and escalating its bombardment of Lebanon. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

my latest (!): "The invention of blackness in Ovid's Metamorphoses" - is now out with postmedieval #OpenAccess link.springer.com/article/10.1...

It’s the last Pasts Imperfect before a break! ☀️ The amazing @taramulder.bsky.social discusses her new book on Roman childbirth. Then, Qin era beer, ancient infants wrapped in Tyrian purple; attacks on faculty free speech; new ancient world journals from @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social; & much more.

bookmark it now! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

It's good that universities are making six-figure payouts to people who got fired for their comments about Charlie Kirk, but now the universities need to do some new firing, of administrators who carried out those illegal actions. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/u...

They left out the part where Chieng reminded them (satirically, of course, I swear, just a joke) that many Ivy grads will go on to do evil things and ruin the lives of so many people

Sure, why not, I’ll teach about “the economic order” for $420k annually

Does MIT know the lifespans of most of our digital storage or

MIT (endowment: $27B) shuttering three of its four main libraries is one of those news items that just knocks you off balance, auguring, as it does, profound and permanent changes to the entire institutional apparatus of higher education in this country.

Murder. Theft. Tischendorf. Codex Alexandrinus. GA 81. What brings those together? A journey to Alexandria, a trail of manuscripts, and a mystery with more twists than expected, hidden in the story of a grieving library: futureofthepastlab.com/2026/05/27/c...

very pleased to share that my achtemeier award paper, “the politics of paul’s image parodies,” was published in the new issue of NTS today! even more pleased to have my work on jewish image parodies appear alongside @isaactsoon.bsky.social’s work on christian self-parody.

Out in the world! Congratulations, @philharland.bsky.social !

glad @chancebonar.bsky.social was able to get this gripe out into the world

God: In my book I invented the Tower of Babel as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Tower of Babel from the biblical story Don't Create the Tower of Babel

Hey so as the grandson of a trucker this is very very bad

One thing that I think is really valuable about the AHA's academic job reports and their data-driven nature is that while everyone reports that the academic job market was bad when they got a PhD, we can actually put some data to those recollections.

"Would you have been against the industrial revolution?" is not the gotcha that you think it is. IR led to an era of unchecked corporate greed, robber barons, immense wealth inequality, environmental disasters, & worker deaths. It was only reined in by union power and government regulation 1/2

Ya'll. I am shook. In a good way. Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing Slavery

In Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo apologizes for the Doctrine of Discovery, which sanctioned colonialism & slavery, to talk about AI. Here, I thought I went off the rails in Data Empire, where I insist the Doctrine of Discovery is critical to the history of data’s power www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

When your best friend texts you “wake up, new encyclical dropped.

I wish all academics banded together to create an employment insurance fund—matched by MLA, AHA, AIA, SCS, CAA, etc—that provides legal counsel, Cobra funding, and unemployment benefits for any academic laid off from a closing college or university. We have to protect & support each other more.

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