Up next: manuscriptevidence.org//wpme/2025-r... "Break-Up Books and Make-Up Books", 21-23 November (hybrid at Princeton and online). Experts, students, collectors, lovers of books look at fragments. Join us!

If you know anyone who works on medieval Judaism, please send them this! Binghamton is hiring a Talmud/Rabbinics assistant prof: half in Judaic Studies, half in the Med/Ren center. A killer R1 job for the right person, and not a ton of applicants so far....

An incredibly macabre irony that at the same moment mass language archives are being looted to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars, our own public access to our preeminent form of archiving language is being slowly strangled to death.

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“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...

A piece about me in my high school alum bulletin :) exeter.edu/annette-yosh...

66117.01 Ginkgo biloba #Ginkgobiloba #Ginkgo #leaves #fallcolor #fallfoliage #gold #pattern #mosaic

In the name of "fighting antisemitism," Indiana University appointed a Christian scholar to tell Jewish scholars what they can and cannot say - all while they invited Tucker Carlson to speak on campus. www.jta.org/2025/11/07/u...

We are now accepting applications for the 2026-2027 Shohet Scholars Grant for research on the Ancient Mediterranean! Awards range from $2,000-$30,000. Deadline is Feburary 1, 2026. More information: www.catacombsociety.org/shohet-schol...

Today’s #FragmentFriday is from the binding of LJS 470, which is a 16th century Italian collection, written in Hebrew, of medical and magical texts. The fragments are deep in the spine, and haven’t been cataloged or identified. Can you tell what this is? #medievalsky 🔗: https://bit.ly/43GkrIS

I think it's live---I just downloaded a chapter from my new book, Things Unseen, to test the OA link, and it worked deprime, lege luminosoa.org/chapters/m/1...

These courses have not been ‘suspended’ at all; such language only minimises what is actually happening at Nottingham: a systemic gutting out of the arts and humanities with no clear business case. These cuts affect us all; please, join UCU in fighting for our future www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I have been very busy ruining, whew!

'Music and modern foreign languages degrees are among courses being suspended at the University of Nottingham, with the institution saying it “cannot rely on additional income” from the coming tuition fee rises.' 1/3

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Maybe nobody in the great big world cares about this. But the public libraries in tiny Jefferson County in Northern Appalachia were in danger of losing their tax funding thanks to right-wing book banners. And we won. The library's funding is safe!!!!!

Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow. — Kurt Vonnegut writingforwellbeing.co.uk

Working on some aspect of clothing in #LateAntiquity? Going to NAPS? Submit a proposal to the @catacombsociety.bsky.social organized panel!

Disturbing news out of Auburn University, where the admin is pressuring professors to sign a statement saying they're complying with an "anti-DEI" law and TPUSA is holding a rally and trying to record classes. I hear faculty are terrified to sign, worried this is a pretense for mass firings.

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

🧠 Learn the basics of Old High German in just one day—perfect for students, linguists, and medievalists! medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/german #oldhighgerman

New job: Instructional Professor (Open Rank) in Modern Hebrew The University of Chicago jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69442

shiny and new and all mine! thanks to @emuehlbe.bsky.social & @ucpress.bsky.social! get yours (open access link!) luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1...

today’s the day!!

The top of my desk is visible. Those who know me know this can only mean one thing…

PS: i'm one of these very lucky scholars whose FIRST BOOK EVER was edited by andrew; check it out. also: who gets to work with their intellectual heroes so closely on their first project? sometimes the cosmos gives wonderful gifts, truly. 3/ www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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🚨🚨TT job in Greek or Roman Art History at Temple, specialty in archaeology and/or emerging technologies and ethical issues related to collections. 🚨 🚨 tyler.temple.edu/about-tyler/... #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics 🏺

Coming up this Thursday, October 30, 6:30PM at the PSCO: A (👻seasonally-appropriate👻) talk by me: "Haunting Houses: Property as Evidence for the Unseen in Late Ancient Christianity" There's a Zoom if you're interested---write me at emuehlbe at umich.edu and I'll shoot you the link!

These "Teaching the Codex" blog posts introducing collation formulas from Dr. Sian Witherden @sianwitherden.bsky.social have particularly good illustrations that make it clear for students learning about it for the first time. 📜 teachingthecodex.com/author/teach...

What’s better than Nancy Partner in History & Theory reflecting on Philology? Open access too! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

“What is the holiest part of a tallit? It’s the fringes. Those that are on the fringes in a committed way bring a sacred aspect to Judaism.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

"But maximizing teacher ratings is very different from providing quality instruction. In fact, those aims are largely opposed." archive.ph/Hap5C

He earned a reputation as a radical on the forefront of movements for equality and justice. Many thought of him as a prophet. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...

Open Access Cornucopia for scholars of late antique Judaism today! (1) William Smelik, “A New Aramaic Fragment of Toledot Yeshu as Targum Yerushalmi Isaiah 66.17” in Aramaic Studies = brill.com/view/journal... +

This is gone now. The East Wing lobby two years ago.

TCU to end stand-alone departments focused on women and gender, race and ethnic studies fortworthreport.org/2025/10/22/t...

The Wayback Machine’s snapshots of news homepages have dropped off in recent months. Our analysis shows that since May 16, the number of captures available for 100 top news sites declined by 87%. @hanaatameez.bsky.social and I report for @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/the-...

Medical texts were transmitted in various forms in #Syriac literature well into the modern period—for example, manuscript DFM 00696, located in Iraq. Take a closer look with Dr. James Walters, lead cataloger of Eastern Christian collections at HMML from 2020 to 2024: hmml.org/stories/seri...

your higher ed thread of the day (and while the extreme splashiness of UNC's choices may not be replicated in other schools the incentives-from-nowhere certainly are)

This is a really bad sign for Jewish Studies as an academic field, and if we do not stand up against this, we will not maintain our integrity as a discipline. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Mind-numbing how many layers of history there can be to a single manuscript page: Syriac upper text (10th c.), Armenian undertext (pre-10th c.), Arabic material used for binding (11-12th c.?), Coptic foliation in the margin (date?), modern foliation at the bottom. Image: Leiden UL Or. 14236, link ⬇️

So with death of academic twitter and academia. edu, I have several things (I hesitate to say "publications") that don't really live anywhere. I'll be sharing them here for now, starting with this old thread about Quran manuscripts found in a synagogue in Cairo: threadreaderapp.com/thread/15519...

“Can History Absolve? Can History Judge?” Martin Jay in History and Theory - OPEN ACCESS :)

My latest: "Numerous studies show that majors in the humanities—typically, in departments of English, history, philosophy, religious studies, classics and languages—lead students to employment and life satisfaction outcomes as positive as those for majors traditionally championed as 'practical.'”

NAPS! Call for papers! 13 (!!) amazing looking thematic sessions to apply to, plus the general call for papers! www.patristics.org/annual-meeti...

Science and religion folks: Check out this job posting at one of the most storied religious studies departments in the country--and share with our junior colleagues! unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...