If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.

If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?

When asked about presidents from Ohio, JD Vance couldn't remember William Howard Taft despite living on William Howard Taft Road. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

Here’s how a 50-year mortgage would work

For anyone affiliated with the University of Cincinnati, here's the link to sign the petition demanding the university reject Trump's compact and loyalty oath. actionnetwork.org/petitions/sa...

This is the food distribution line at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas 11/7/25. This is what Trump doesn't want you to see.

Maybe it's not as visible outside of Cincinnati, but did anyone else notice that Cory Bowman became JD Vance's HALF brother as soon as the results came in?

The Bodlein Library is now accepting applications for the Bahari Visiting Fellowship in the Persian Arts of the Book www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...

“They were careless people … they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."

🚨🚨🚨 Major announcement!!! I am extremely pleased to announce that HAA is searching for a senior, endowed position in premodern art or architecture. The subfield is wide open. Please spread the word and encourage curious scholars to write to me with questions! 🚨🚨🚨 cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

NEW: Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state. By @dougbockclark.bsky.social

Literal perfection. ;) www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...

Applications are now open for the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk's Bahari Visiting Fellowship, supporting research in its Persian and Islamic Collections. For more information visit bit.ly/BahariFellowship. Please note that applications close Friday 28 November. #persian #bodleianlibrary #oxforduniversity

Re: today's discourse on Mamdani: Did you know Bilbo isn't actually Frodo's uncle? They are, in fact, first cousins once removed (they are also second cousins, again once removed). The fact he is called "Uncle Bilbo" did not bother Tolkien, who helped write the Oxford English Dictionary.

One of my colleagues and her students are installing historic markers commemorating the removal of the Wyandot from Ohio. www.wyso.org/indigenous-a...

Want to get even more local? Donate to an #Ohio food pantry! www.foodpantries.org/st/ohio

Got to see the largest surviving fragment of the 17th century Chehel Sotoun rug today. Marketed as the largest rug ever produced when it was cut up and sold off in pieces. Legend has it that it took 2 elephants to carry it from the Deccan to Isfahan. Who knew this was at the Cincinnati Art Museum?

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

Went to the Cincinnati Observatory for their Halloween event and my niece would not leave the car until I took my costume off.

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

Let's check in on how things are going at my alma mater. www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...

Good summary of the Louvre heist and a little history of stealing the crown jewels of France.

My department is hiring a tenure track position in Early American History with a Digital History methodological focus. Please come join us so I don't have to teach the DH methodology course to our grad students with my skills honed during the Clinton administration. jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinna...

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking? Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

NEW: I uncovered new information about individuals, donor networks, and businesses helping Canary Mission, a pro-Israel organization serving the U.S.'s deportation and repression efforts. From a Long Island interior design store to the Baltics / www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-mis...

Job Announcement: Provost’s Distinguished Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor in the history of the Persianate World, Department of History, Georgetown University apply.interfolio.com/174364

Has anyone else noticed that the latest #Google #Chrome has lost the ability to restore tabs? My laptop rebooted after an update and I lost all my tabs. Time to look for a new browser. I've heard good things about @kagi.com Anyone used it?

Anyone studying the History of human-water interactions? We're hiring a tenure track position opened to anyone whose work addresses water in the Humanities, chronology and geography are open. jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinna...

via @marydudziak.bsky.social The Germans are basically funding 3 year asylum professorships for US academics seeking to flee the country for the remainder of the Trump Administration.

“Cease” fire www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance. If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵 Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

My Representative @repgreglandsman.bsky.social voted to thank ICE agents for locking away American citizens and veterans based on the color of their skin.

Anyone who was paying attention during Gamergate recognizes these tactics. “Oh *we’re* against doxxing, of course, but that person who got doxxed totally deserved it, and yeah, sure we’ve been calling for them to be fired and their lives ruined, but *we* didn’t personally do it.”

Stravinsky saw Charlie Parker play at Birdland

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

New legislation just dropped

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The Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University invites applications for a position in the field Modern Iranian History, with a particular emphasis on the period spanning 1700 CE to the present. cipgs.princeton.edu/about/positi...

RIP to an absolute legend.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Here’s part 1 of our four-part Better Offline case against generative AI. I walk you through how generative AI is sold through a complete misunderstanding of the concept of labor - and myth-building by companies like NVIDIA and OpenAI. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

My Representative @repgreglandsman.bsky.social voted to thank ICE for separating this family who was following every rule.