hi from snowy paris where 2026 is treating me pretty alright so far✌🏽

2026 commence très fort avec l'enterrement définitif du droit international.

leaving for paris today to hang out with some sources because a couple of the choices i made in my early 20s weren't totally self-destructive please clap

my desi muslim mom fully losing her mind right now as we watch this awesomeness together remotely

Enjoying the holidays with friends and family in Glasgow, but also found some time to ride around a bit.

for the knitters in the chat: heated ravelry

It was easy to remember Joshua‘s birthday every year because it was the day after mine. Fuck the past tense sometimes. Happy Birthday. We miss you.

having a birthday that falls between xmas & new year’s isn’t always great, but it’s nothing a good haircut, a cute dress & some chocolate cake can’t fix… this 70s baby thanks so many of you out there for making the past year bearable & even fun despite the garbage state of the world.♥️

i only eat tuna melts now

Merry Christmas! My state of the field essay on the history of sexuality in Modern France was published in open access yesterday by @frenchhistory.bsky.social. Check it out at academic.oup.com/fh/advance-a...

as both a montrealer & a concordia alum i did cackle

the graduation of a cohort of gaza’s new medical professionals in front of the ruins of al shifa hospital. No words, really.

late to the party but only 10 mins into the first episode of heated rivalry & already OBSESSED 🏒🥅❤️🎄

George Michael died on Christmas Day in 2016. He will be remembered for his incredible songwriting talent, his gorgeous vocals and for the greatest non-apology video of all time, following his arrest for cottaging.

In what could plausibly represent a Christmas miracle* SFU Geography has two (2) new tenure track hires. One is urban/climate, which I will repost below. The other is a Landscape Ecologist. Please share ... #academicsky *actually just the good decisions of our new Dean www.sfu.ca/geography/ab...

RIP Mohammad Bakri: www.middleeasteye.net/news/mohamma...

Nollaig Shona Daoibh

it’s crazy how little time most characters with babies in movies/tv spend actually taking care of those babies

We need a position that's extremely anti AI but also very anti academics making a fetish out of 19th/20th century knowledge infrastructures & practices.

Art Spiegelman et Joe Sacco réunis à Paris pour la cause palestinienne : face à Gaza, les deux géants de la BD se sont alliés pour publier “Plus jamais ça”. Ils en vendent des planches et crayonnés dans une galerie parisienne au bénéfice d’ONG. www.telerama.fr/livre/art-sp...

I’ve had the pleasure to contribute to the last Mixtape of the @jwsfh.bsky.social by putting together 5 of my best reads of the year in Early Modern History. Here is my list as well as the great ones by @jean23bean.bsky.social and Emily Marker !

Upcoming two-part graduate student conference at Princeton and Sciences-Po on "The French Revolution and the Sacred." Call for papers here: fit.princeton.edu/events/frenc...

For years I’ve used this activity, created by @rpanchasi.bsky.social, that asks students to reconstruct an entire monograph from the endnotes. It’s a fun and brilliant way to show them that citations are entire scholarly conversations in themselves.

no we didn’t watch “harold & kumar go to white castle” a couple of nights ago why would you even think that

some personal news…

As archaeologists we can often feel detached from contemporary politics and powerless to act when we see wrongdoing but we are not and we should not sit back. Here are some clear steps that can be taken to try to halt the theft of Sebastia. everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/i...

The real story: with decreased opportunity, these white men experience the success of people of color as symbolic. When humanities jobs cratered, I was told I wasn't getting hired because I was white. The disappearance of hundreds of jobs, reinterpreted as the fault of a small handful of people.

When Israel arbitrarily and consistently frames security interests ahead of human rights, we have an unacceptable backsliding on international human rights obligations.

wish danielle smith would just ship herself to the pacific via the u.s. northwest…

Omar Hamad and Ibrahim are gathering donations to create a public library in Gaza after Israel’s genocidal war destroyed nearly all its existing libraries, schools, and universities. lithub.com/you-can-help...

"To these detectives of digital inauthenticity, I say: Friend, welcome to a typical Tuesday in a Kenyan classroom, boardroom, or intra-office Teams chat. The very things you identify as the fingerprints of the machine are, in fact, the fossil records of our education."

it is sometimes true that when you return to a draft after having to step away for a few months, it doesn’t suck quite as much as you remembered #winning #acadecawriteathon

People often forget that Daeninckx’s first novel (& the first appearance of Inspecteur Cadin), “Mort au premier tour” (1982; then almost completely rewritten & republished in 1997) was about the murder of an environmental activist at a nuclear power plant in Alsace in 1977.

Sorry, servers of AI. We are a human-powered organization. #CdnMedia #GenerativeAI

got a note letting me know it’s time to submit materials for another biennial review. have half a mind to send in my own assessment of the joint’s shenanigans the past couple years & just be like ohhhhh you wanted to review me…my bad…

Statement: CJPME condemns Israel’s decision to block a delegation of Canadian Parliamentarians from entering the occupied West Bank. Israel is an illegitimate occupying power in Palestine, and simply does not have the right to bar entry to Canadian lawmakers into the country.

Exhibition is closed, but the button sets are still available bookmachine.ca/updates/oh-f...

after seeing this lee miller shot of colette at work in a show at the polygon gallery this weekend, my habit of writing in bed feels way less lazy ass

just used slop in an essay draft & feel so validated right now 💅🏽

a lot of death in the timeline today but there’s a brand new baby down the hall who needs warming and that’s a blessing

✔️ Thanks Audain Gallery & @scasfu.bsky.social! #KayHiggins

but will there be a hamnilton musical or not

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

decided to take up yoga in my early 20s, probably wouldn’t have made it this far otherwise

Eurovision winner Nemo to return trophy in protest at Israel taking part in 2026

My father, Muhammad Abul Kalam “Mak” Panchasi, would’ve been 92 today. He died in 1995, when I was in grad school. This photo of him in Central Park c. 1955 has long been my fave, reminds me of my own travels & bad but so good habits. My kid never met him but knows his record collection well.🖤

Rachid Bouchareb Unveils ‘Reggane,’ Algeria-Set Drama on France’s Nuclear Tests: ‘What Interests Me Is to Bring That to Light’ (EXCLUSIVE) Oscar-nominated Franco-Algerian director Rachid Bouchareb (“Days of Glory”) is preparing his next feature, “Reggane,” a fiction film set … #media #news #variety

Scholars at Risk’s most recent Free to Think report highlights the threats to academic freedom around the world, documenting 328 verified incidents of attacks on higher education in 49 countries and territories from July 2024 to June 2025. Learn more in the latest Bulletin: buff.ly/ucPlxWM

flames...on the side of my face...

there I fixed it for them