Please help spread the word about our open position for a history editor in the @uncpress.bsky.social acquisitions department! This person will be overseeing exciting, key lists for the publishing program.

Look at IN, leading the way for a change!

I have a Cyber Monday deal for you: a one-click download of 10 books (a so-called "Dakota Dozen"). No email, sign-up, sign-in, or other information required. Click. Download. Unzip. Read. Free. #OpenAccess #CyberMonday #FreeBooks mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/c...

Colleagues: please reach out if you're working on a book that might be a fit for Eisenbrauns and planning to attend ASOR or SBL in Boston. I'd be happy to meet with you to talk about your project over coffee or a drink!

The Late Bronze Age collapse plunged the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East into a period of chaos and starvation, but 300 hundred years later, the region emerged stronger and more prosperous than ever. Could the same thing happen here in the United States?

Great energy at No Kings in Evansville, IN!

This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

Friends of ASOR present the next webinar of the season on Oct. 8, at 7:00 pm EDT, presented by Kevin McGeough with panelists Jennie Ebeling and Bill Caraher. This webinar will be free and open to the public. Registration through Zoom (with a valid email address) is required: tinyurl.com/bdet3w97

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If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

Israel isn't in control of the United States. This is just who the US is and has always been. Saying we're controlled is just a way of saying we're victims. We're not. We're an imperial power that likes war because it's profitable and enriches our oligarchs. That's it.

'ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.”...ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay, often resorting to copy-and-paste by the end of the study.' time.com/7295195/ai-c...

applying for jobs again

This headline is misleading in so many ways

Pediatricians say that childhood vaccines are safe. A heroin-addled nepo baby with a brain worm says they may not be. For busy voters, it can be hard to know who to believe.

If it wasn't clear already: "A.I. is the tool of and the prevailing aesthetic of fascists."

This is Clint Eastwood-bantering-with-an-empty-chair levels of friendly fire.

The fact that the government is using charges of antisemitism to justify sending people to concentration camps is the most enraging manipulation of discourse that the current fascists have engaged in thus far. They’ll live out their Nazi fantasies all while claiming they are doing it for the Jews.

Cognitive dissonance is the humanities being at the same time both a useless waste of time and an imminent threat to the government.

Florida officials are demanding that universities send lists of all research that faculty/staff have published or publicly shared in the last 6 years, even if it wasn't publicly funded. It's not clear what they'll do with the lists, but my bet is on nothing good. www.tampabay.com/news/educati...

Media challenge: try writing headlines without using the word "antisemitism". Stop using Trump's framing for his authoritarian actions. "Trump administration now monitoring immigrant social media" would be shorter and more accurate, since no-one really believes this is about anti-semitism.

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Please repost wide. Jim Banks must be sued and lose his own job. This type of callous cruelty cannot be tolerated. www.thedailybeast.com/watch-republ...

Brien Garnand presents "How to Re-Place Carthaginian Votive Dedications into Context" on Wed April 2 at 2:00 Eastern. Registration is free.

This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

Here is a sitting Democratic Congressmember pointing out that the US bombing Yemen is a war crime. This is possible! It is a thing you can do, if you're an elected official.

The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again. This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.

From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

“Todd Wolfson, the president of the American Association of University Professors, a nat’l faculty rights group, described the move as the greatest incursion into academic freedom & free speech since Sen Joseph R. McCarthy’s crusade against communism in the 1950s.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/n...

Israel just committed *the largest child massacre in its history*, according to Haaretz. Two hundred Palestinian children murdered in a single day, with direct support from the US and UK, and zero outrage from Western media. What stage of barbarism is this...

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Thank you for this reminder about the need to continually improve our healthcare system. On behalf of many, could I ask that you and the former presidents be more public and vocal about how the Trump administration is tearing down our institutions and ruining the lives of tens of 1000s of people.

every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

Terrific turnout in front of absent Rep Messmer's office today in Evansville!

Any academic institution that does this under political pressure discredits itself as a place of free inquiry and legitimates the strong-arming of other institutions

Messmer's Missing, But We're Here: A People's Town Hall this Sat March 22 in Evansville, IN

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.

Collaborators with the fascists.

We condemn in the strongest possible terms any university that would sacrifice its own students to the demands of an authoritarian government. This is absolute cowardice & capitulation to an administration hellbent on the destruction of American higher education. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...

I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”

In this Indiana diner, everyone has three questions: How’s the breaded tenderloin? Is the quarry hiring? And when will Elon make a gas-powered Tesla so that I can support him?

Update from Jerusalem: the Educational Bookshop was once again raided by Israeli Police about an hour ago. Police confiscated books, arrested an employee and shut down the bookshop.

Trump takes credit for Mahmoud Khalil's arrest by ICE:

They disappeared a man right off the streets just like Putin for exercising his free speech. They won’t stop at immigrants. We are all targets now. open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

As far as I can tell, Khalil has still not been charged & his attorney/family still don’t know where he is. Any Jew who thinks this is going to start and stop with a few Palestinian activists is fooling themselves. Our community should not be used as an excuse to upend democracy & the rule of law.

“The American military is so back tip of the spear warfighter lethality” Also “Lemme put on my makeup on my entire face first.”