My book, "The Middle Ages in Computer Games" is out in paperback tomorrow (2 Jun). If you've been waiting to get hold of it, now could be a good time! boydellandbrewer.com/book/the-mid...

First of the season! Welcome back, summer

All of my new Assistant Directors and Lead Fellows start tomorrow! This means I can go on vacation, right?

I don't care what chatgpt told you, babe, I'm in my medieval mystics era 💅

Sure did read this

Happy birthday to one of the best

Having drinks with @anypersons.bsky.social and Matt to celebrate their recent triumphs!

On Youtube today: Prof. Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social talks us through the vision of Hell (with two L’s) in early Old Norse texts, with a focus on the unique syncretism of pagan and Christian elements in the Icelandic treatment of some deeply weird apocrypha. youtu.be/fvhbnJSvSwI

Spent 12 hours+ in the car over the last three days

Legendary

New from Johns Hopkins UP. Timely.

Have made it to our final destination and we are all exhausted and I’m fairly sure my travel companions are sick of me

Have drunk a lot of soju

wake up babe the white house is a six flags

Going on a business trip means setting your alarm for 5 am

Pope Leo XIV: "GET IN LOSERS, WE'RE CRUSHING THE POWERFUL UNDERFOOT" www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Worth a listen for how this episode points out when/why students turn to AI for emotional & intellectual support, esp when people & institutions that are supposed to help them (e.g. professors, advisors, admin with endless “austerity” measures) fail to build relationships

Got to have coffee before I can read the Encyclical

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

Spent the afternoon texting with three different close friends in various parts of North America. It’s not a bad way to spend a Sunday

One of my favorite professors had a heart attack and I wound up in a Religion class instead of hers

Will it be a four part anthology series with four different directors

Live footage from the negotiations

An audience member asked me about leftist pronatalism.

Am drinking a $9 latte and I regret to inform you that it is very good

"[No] tax on returns from its $36.4 billion endowment...after a recent expansion of its undergrad faid program left [it] below a 3,000 tuition-paying student threshold to qualify for taxation...would have cost Princeton roughly $180 million" www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026...

Moving my team into this building in Jan

Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...

Nailed it

Beaver news

@drewjakeprof.bsky.social has been gone for like two days and I’m already a wreck

@janetspittler.bsky.social is FIFTY! We have known each other for 27 years!

Today I did not even cry one time!

the problem with capitalism is eventually other people run out of your money

This might be Tobo’s best shot

the fuck it will

Today was challenging

AJ get in the game and blast Sean Paul from your phone

Ladies! If your man: *​has a burning passion... for hell *speaks mostly in dead languages *is peer-reviewed (so you know he’s worth the commitment) *​has a robust index *is dense, yet actually makes sense when you open him up ​That’s not your man: that’s Translating Hell, my new book!

Hot as hell

Our AJR #forum honoring the work of Elizabeth Castelli continues with an essay from Christine Shepardson www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/5/...

Journathan holy shit

Saw some Calder

this would make a great exclamation

Congratulations to me for not correcting the docent on Egyptian mythology

Greetings from Philadelphia, where the first thing my in-laws wanted to talk about was the ADVISING BUS

A man finds a friend

A good day