I'm at the deli. I'm at the central intelligence agency. I'm at the combination deli & cental intelligence agency.

This is more than legislation. This work is personal to me. theonion.com/illinois-bec...

My latest column is an interview with renowned historian of higher ed, Eddie Cole. Come for learning about HBCUs and stay for his thoughts on why accreditation is the biggest issue we're not talking enough about in higher ed. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Today’s just not been good, huh

Drop your crime fighting Catholics

The PR guy at DoorDash is having a bit of a crash out

Oh no

lol at my just in case alarm going off. That was ambitious, I’ve been up since 6:30

I had a Day on the Lawn (in Old Cabel)

Congratulations, @bakerdphd.bsky.social ! As always, read everything Dominique writes

Pope Leo: "To put my message on the same plane as what the president has attempted to do here I think is not understanding what the message of the gospel is."

Our Lt Gov is a PHD in English and ran a Center for teaching and learning!

Hire religion reporters.

That was a fun post to do a dramatic read of for Geoff

Magyar’s speech is powered. From a contact in the audience: “He’s basically just asked all the puppets, all the supreme justices, all the heads of media, all the heads of the ministries to leave their jobs tomorrow and not wait to be fired.”

Join us for this, our second Scholar-Advisor book talk of the year, featuring the inimitable @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social in conversation with @tkennyfountain.bsky.social and hosted by @drewjakeprof.bsky.social !

The problem with waking up when you have a cold is waking up when you have a cold

was once New Amsterdam.

Orbán has conceded. Péter Magyar said on FB: “Viktor Orbán just called me on the phone and congraulated us on our victory."

Yes, one

Well, this is what Geoff and I would be arguing about at the Pacers game

We’ve been paying even closer attention than usual this week to Harmeet Dhillon, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights division chief who, reports suggest, could soon be in line for a promotion. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I’m not ready

I love this photo of Saint Luke with piles of manuscripts in his lap from the Gospel Book of Otto III (c. 1000 CE) (Manuscript (Clm. 4453), Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich). Probably projection, but he looks traumatized by all the reading he still needs to do before the end of the semester.

Maybe I’m an ethicist after all

We had the honor of seeing Herbie Hancock play three years ago at the @universityofiowa.bsky.social’s amazing Hancher Auditorium. What a legend.

Alright, I filed our taxes

Well that was an unexpectedly direct fortune cookie

Counterpoint: everyone who makes it through a full week of work deserves a party at the end of the

Him Straight of Hormuz 🤝 Refuses to open up to you

Writing something good this morning

Early team, look how far we’ve come

Just a reminder that it costs you absolutely nothing to be kind or neutral in an email

Whether as an advisor, professor, or mentor, I have really loved or really love helping people see things in themselves

This imposter is not me

First-Year Experience with some truly excellent colleagues

Big day on grounds, get psyched!

Everything is the nineteenth century

Days on the Lawn surprise

Obviously

My hovercraft is full of bees

Swollen RFK Jr. Warns Americans Not Eating Enough Bees https://theonion.com/swollen-rfk-jr-warns-americans-not-eating-enough-bees/

Joining the Crusades to fight the False Pope for Pope Leo because Deus Vult

What we are doing at the University of Virginia is exceptional. We have made an extraordinary investment in undergraduate excellence and the liberal arts. We have doubled down on the critical transformation of human mentorship.

Is this a good day to read a Katabasis, I ask myself for no reason

Everyone send positive vibes as we try to make it through first year enrollment tomorrow and Thursday

Would murder a bowl of pasta right now

Hearing that the splendid Dame @averilcam.bsky.social has passed. She was an amazing scholar. She will be missed. Please note her memoir and remember to cite her as one of the pivotal founders of the field we now call Late Antiquity. www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.