Looking forward to some reading about the Qajars #Iran Making and Remaking Empire in Early Qajar Iran, by Assef Ashraf

And so I offered Google Gemini a scenario: I'm executor of my uncle's estate and I need to know what to do with his personal records (old files, correspondence, research notes, photographs)

LEBANON. “Jesus told us to forgive our killers, but this is too much” Heartbreaking moments from funeral of Theodosia Karam, her brother Tony and their father James in Qlayaa, Lebanon. James was driving his children home from their exams when an Israeli drone targeted them. -Hadi Nasrallah on X.

Is there something out in the ether right now that tells executors of estates to place people's records with archives, like as a condition of the will

Had a chance last month to talk with Jess Cook, a Presbyterian minister in Richmond, about photography, ceramics, and the ghost of Izzie Rogers speaking pcusa.org/news-storyte...

A perfect example of the kind of collection that clogs our processes. An old Bible, clippings and postcards, collected about a guy. None of his writing or creative work. No indication about what makes him unique. Some photographs though

Reading Sweeny et al (2010) and cackling: "As valuable and important as knowledge is, people do not always seek it and sometimes appear to take great pains to avoid it" www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Along with everything else, we saw more students embargoing their dissertations this year, a further sign that the pendulum is swinging away from the open access movement. Not helped by all the bots scraping the web for training data. I ramble about this and so much more in my annual roundup 👇

The next Prime Minister of Israel appears to claim that Gaza and Lebanon are parts of Israel, or at the very least that Israel has the right to do to them as it pleases.

What is very cool about the UOregon emails events is that the furore about "records and the law" totally obscured what was at issue, which was administrators hatching a plan in 2012 to abolish the faculty Senate

Appraisal should not have to happen on the file level

They're throwing time and labor at the correspondence and it's going to make the collection less useful to researchers

Former director of the archives, Bill Miller, expressing disgust at (and learning it's not his job to police) pamphlets put out at General Assembly by Presbyterians for Gay and Lesbian Concerns

Thanks to everybody in the Presbytery of Northeast New Jersey for having me in your midst today

Powerful statement calling out the AHA exec committee's unethical electioneering. "We do not agree the AHA needs to be more cautious since it was created by an act of Congress. If anything, that means the AHA has a greater responsibility to speak out." 💯 www.historiansforpeace.org/2026/05/29/h...

I will point out that MESA, MERIP, and several other academic associations and non-profits are c3 orgs and have no problem speaking up for academic freedom when it comes to Palestine. If you’re afraid of your status for joining us, that’s a skill issue, as the kids say.

Somebody has written about 21st century ecological guilt and expiating it by giving junk to "a good cause" right?

Church World Service newsletter, 1949 "Save Protestant DPs". Has a special focus on displaced Protestants in Ukraine

Hey Copilot, can you sign a peace treaty with Iran and open up the Strait of Hormuz

Amazing (vote HPAD) 🗃📦

Update from the National Evangelical Synod of Syria and Lebanon: static1.squarespace.com/static/56c27...

Treating the patient in front of me

ICE's treatment of detainees at Delaney Hall in New Jersey is the latest in a long line of abuses we've seen across the country.

When @kim.senate.gov stood up & called out these abuses, they pepper sprayed him.

Not another dime for this lawless agency.

What I saw at Delaney Hall reinforced what we already know: we can't continue to write a blank check to ICE while their violence and lawlessness continue.

Next Month, I'm moving to Providence and starting a job at Brown. The big reason for this is that on the advice of my neurologist, I'm no longer driving. Please send me your best advice for e-bikes, bike safety, and carting around preschoolers & groceries without a car! @thewaroncars.bsky.social

"Our Sisters In Egypt" about 1914, by the UPCNA Women's General Missionary Society, "Our Moslem Sister Is A Giantess" 👀

It's true, the chapters are like loam, or clay loam, for archives

I am going to become the Joker

Thinking about PW Botha personally ordering the bombing of the South Africa Council of Churches in 1988 sacc.org.za/history/, ordering assassinations of ministers If your church is really political, the state will try to kill you

I am going to become the Joker

Deeply alienating to get email from colleagues that has the chatbot output still in it "Here's an email you can send to David"

Now up -- the National Council of Churches filmstrip "War Crimes," chiefly on the US wars in Southeast Asia digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/28...

All I'm going to say is, go take a class at The Ceramics Department www.theceramicsdept.com/our-studio

Today is Nakba Day. Below is a camp in Rafah, UNRWA photo, 1951

Today is Nakba Day. Below is a camp in Rafah, UNRWA photo, 1951

The bots found our newly launched ASpace PUI and it’s basically unusable for researchers now 🫠

In solidarity with the resignation of the entire 2026 Venice Biennale voting jury, fifty-four individual artists and twenty-two teams affiliated with national pavilions have now withdrawn from consideration for the Visitors’ Lion awards. www.artforum.com/news/venice-...

Mom pick me up they're fighting about automation in the GLAM sector again

Just landed at Community PC Brigantine NJ and immediately did a quick 5 minutes on the Katie Geneva Cannon digital collection for the Presbytery for Southern New Jersey

Just landed at Community PC Brigantine NJ and immediately did a quick 5 minutes on the Katie Geneva Cannon digital collection for the Presbytery for Southern New Jersey

Ex Libris has unique vulnerabilities (product of technology transfer & early govt support from an international pariah state) ✌️

It's true, the chapters are like loam, or clay loam, for archives

If you're interested in institutionalist, open-hearted, realistic archival administration, @boxreceiver.bsky.social and I wrote this! digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/libr_pubs/78/

Last of my writing on the 20th-century transition away from centralized mission to co-work and accompaniment -- David and Elisabeth Gelzer getting kicked out of Taiwan by the KMT pcusa.org/news-storyte...

Now up -- the National Council of Churches filmstrip "War Crimes," chiefly on the US wars in Southeast Asia digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/28...

I think I taught a constituent how to do archival sampling, holy snap

Today I learned that demosioi, the public slaves of Athens, were the archivists (and clerks, book-keepers, writing-checkers)

Records of the Sunday school at Benton Presbyterian Church (Benton, Pa.) 7 December 1941

Made it ma!

"Accessioners and processors, like Walter Benjamin's Angel of History, were valiantly trying to get a handle on their collections, but a wind was blowing into their arms, the wind called Acquisitions"