Post-doc position at the University of Warsaw in a project on #earlymodern protestant printing centres operating in Poland-Lithuania and Prussia konkursydlanauczycieli.uw.edu.pl/api/document... (English version starts at page 7). Applications are accepted until 9 March 2026. #history

Watching these thugs take pratfalls exposes the hokey theatricality of their whole enterprise. Remember how important aesthetics are to this and other authoritarian movements.

5yo, asking about the dog with the keys in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies: that dog is very well trained. How did they do that? Me: I don't know 5yo: I bet they used cheese.

Pirate Imperialism is now officially published. Probably of interest to anyone who wants to understand, well, everything that is going on today. #bskyhistorians #skyhistorians Here: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

My 3 year old is reading Foucault and asked me, tears in his eyes, "why is power in society only reified through force and surveillance?" I told him to read more Fanon

"Love and Protect your Neighbors Don't Trust the Feds" seen on a Minneapolis middle school. South Minneapolis, January 2026

syllabus writing like, “but what if i don’t want to have any assessments? what if i just want to meet my students twice a week to learn about some cool stuff, to give them *some* space where what they learn isn’t immediately commodified?”

This! The Smithsonian has a long history of responding the wrong way to political pressure. If you don’t know about the Enola Gay controversy, there is a huge literature (which I used in my museum Anthro courses). It isn’t unique although the politics may be the clearest there. 1/

I co-wrote a piece with @profgabriele.com for @historians.org about how we communicate history while doing justice both to our research ethics and the needs of different audiences. bsky.app/profile/hist...

Thurgood Marshall: My wiiiife

#AcademicSky might you teach a future course using THE INTERMEDIARIES? Even if it is just proposed, not presently on the books. I am working on materials to share for teaching, and also hoping to get this out in a paperback to that end. #LGBTQ fighting Nazis, #science #history. Please drop me a line

This is why those of us who live here keep telling you he cannot be our president. For every fun “anti-Trump post” there’s something like this.

It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

SCAM WARNING: this one almost got me, be careful! apparently most businesses and news outlets are owned by something called a "ruling class" and they're using our money to consolidate power

This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.

A third aspect, which is less toxic but nonetheless terrible is that by attributing grand things to aliens, von Däniken has contributed to the disabling of wonder by making people blind to the marvel of human creativity that is a defining aspect of our species.

Grad school.

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12 Jan 1519: d. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor since 1508 #otd He expanded the influence of the Hapsburg dynasty especially in #Spain by marriage of his son Philip the Handsome to eventual queen Joanna of Castile in 1498, which allowed Charles V hold Aragon & Castile (GCI)

Academic and Native friends, please share this CFP and/or consider submitting a proposal! The organizers would love perspectives from outside the academy as well. www.historic-deerfield.org/call-for-pro...

a body of liturgical poetry

Also lol: religion reporting, 2026.

Welcome new followers! Here are a few tips for succeeding on Bluesky from the Speculum principis, c. 1512:

The problem with the Great Man theory of history is a crippling shortage of great men

We have to play the Seahawks again?? 🤦

Murderbot is becoming a comfort read/listen up there with La Austen and Cold Comfort Farm.

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If you see this, post an Archer.

IME, faculty who are going to say difficult things in public don’t wait for tenure; plenty of profs talk a good game in private all the way to retirement. Unions need active memberships because when execs are recycled they become a private space that reproduces rather than changing this dynamic.

I love Jim.

Very taken by this c. 1530 painting of the cloth market in s'Hertogenbosch. The (anonymous) artist seems to have heard of perspective, but not quite to have got the hang of it. Apparently it was commissioned by the cloth-sellers guild, and Hieronymus Bosch lives in the 7th house from the right.

This is a stunning resource, beautifully presented - congratulations to Ros Smith Kathy Acheson and their team emwmlibrary.com

#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 Happy Sunday, Blueskiis Renoir probably painted this during the early weeks of 1868, when temps were so low they froze the Seine. Among a remarkable variety of figures, the gray dog who stands alert for the arrival of a gold dog is especially charming. More in the ALT...

Hail and farewell, Edith Renfrow Smith, age 111, Grinnell College's only Black student when she attended in the 1930s, and in 1937, the first Black woman graduate in the college's history. www.npr.org/2026/01/06/g...

The Cardiff Lions do an annual Drag Rugby charity match for children’s charities and it’s as beautiful as you imagined

Almost every academic cost-benefit analysis of policing compares a monetized measure of reduced crime to JUST the fiscal cost of policing: “$1 on police prevents $1.60 in crime” or such. The SOCIAL costs of policing do not get included. Our core analyses are inherently dehumanizing in this way.

cry havoc! and release the moms of wine

One of my old professors told us about how he and other political communication scholars had gotten hyped about satellite imagery + global cable news making it nearly impossible for genocides to happen without intervention, only to see that hypothesis fail in real time. A humbling experience.

I haven’t (and most likely won’t) watch the recently released video but I swear I can hear that “fucking bitch” in my head clear as day. The snarling hate and disgust. Every woman has heard it.

During these challenging times, we could all benefit from a smile, so I would like to present the oldest smile in the world: the Mannetje van Willemstad (the little man from Willemstad, Netherlands). The Mesolithic figurine, dating about 5400 BC, was carved in oak wood. 🧵 1/2 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

And that the real cost, adjusted for inflation, of a college education is the same now as decades ago, the difference is that now much more of that cost is placed on the individual student. Not counting for interest and fees from predatory lenders.

Sorry, but this just has tremendous meme potential.

Attention Bluesky elders: The artist behind the ANIMORPHS covers is here!

"The texts suggest a degree of involvement by the governor’s administration in university operations that is atypical in modern Virginia history, according to multiple former board members." My alma mater is the gift that keeps on giving.

“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.” 📚 | Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

This is the same problem I've seen in the church. If you commit to the idea "monsters don't come from here, monsters are outsiders that were always monsters" that means that when you find monsters emerging in your group (say, child abusers) you have to cover it up to maintain that idea